I'm afraid yes, cairo is a base library for all gtk2/3 apps. We cannot do such a big version bump now.
2012/3/26 JA Magallón <jamagal...@ono.com>: > http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.12.0/ > > -- > J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Winter is > coming...