Overview of changes between 1.20.4 and 1.20.5
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- Fix libtool versioning which was broken in 1.20.4
Overview of changes between 1.20.3 and 1.20.4
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- Fix OpenType GSUB lookup type 8 crash.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 540592 Crash in HB_GSUB_Apply_String with Linux-Libertine font
the package is compiled with X11 support doesn't work anymore. Don't try
to disable it because it doesn't seem to break the X11 backend anymore
(tested with XChat). Bump package revision because of package list changes
under Mac OS X.
Overview of changes between 1.18.3 and 1.18.4
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- Ship a default win32 pango.aliases file.
- Minor win32 alias handling improvement.
- Doc improvements.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 502926 pango-1.16.4 configure bug: can fail to accept cairo
Bug 492504 Enable pango.aliases entries also for fonts with spaces
in name
Bug 490661 Pango Markup: Link to font_desc syntax explanation
Overview of changes between 1.18.2 and 1.18.3
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- Two OpenType engine fixes. Makes Nafees Nastaliq font
work great, and avoids warnings with some other fonts.
- Fix minor leak in win32 backend.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 483600 – Leak of font family name in
pango_win32_font_description_from_logfont(w)
Patch from Daniel Atallah
Overview of changes between 1.18.0 and 1.18.1
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- Misc bug fixes, including fix for an infinite-loop bug.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 470042 – missing Macedonian OT tag
Patch from Denis Jacquerye
Bug 468953 – pango-renderer.c: using function without prototype
Bug 463430 – Gets stuck while "formatting message"
Overview of changes between 1.17.5 and 1.18.0
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- Make pango_script_for_unichar() just call g_unichar_get_script(),
and document that PangoScript and GUnicodeScript are interchangeable
enumerations.
- Misc bug fixes
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 348348 – Add a way to get the script name of a gunichar
Bug 451682 – Cursor positioning for Sinhala is broken
Based on patch from Harshula
Bug 462137 – memory corruption in pango_default_break
Bug 462420 – Clicking on pixbuf should move the cursor to the position
nearest to the click point
Bug 462630 – pango_cairo_context_set_font_options() and some others
don't have a Since: tag
Bug 464183 – Minimum tab width enforcement in pango-layout breaks
TabArray positions
Patch by David Trowbridge
Bug 464270 – ellipsize doesn't work consistent
Bug 465174 – TextView is ignoring multiple consecutive \t's
Bug 466755 – pango hangul is crashing in gnome-about because it is
failing to retrieve a font.
Bug 467056 – Shape attribute handling is not consistent
Bug 467077 – Remove special-case for shape attribute in
pango_layout_line_index_to_x()
Overview of changes between 1.17.4 and 1.17.5
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- Export PangoCairoFont and cleanup various standard macros.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 150883 – Unicode LRO defect
Bug 449482 – Build error when xft not present
Part of Bug 347236 – provide pango_cairo_font_get_scaled_font
Overview of changes between 1.17.3 and 1.17.4
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- Refactored the ATSUI font backend and install pangoatsui.h
that has a single function pango_atsui_font_get_atsu_font_id() and
a couple of types.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 451547 – FAIL: runtests.sh
Bug 449543 - Ship pangoatsui.h
Overview of changes between 1.17.2 and 1.17.3
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- Extensive pangocairo internal code refactoring and cleanup
- New public API:
pango_font_face_is_synthesized()
pango_cairo_font_get_scaled_font()
pango_cairo_font_map_new_for_font_type()
pango_cairo_font_map_get_font_type()
- New engine macros:
PANGO_OT_TAG_MAKE()
PANGO_OT_TAG_MAKE_FROM_STRING()
- New PangoFontFace method is_synthesized.
- Misc bug fixes
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 337593 – move glyph extents code (and cache) from
pangocairo-*font.c into pangocairo-font.c
Bug 347235 – Add pango_cairo_font_map_get_font_type
Bug 347236 – provide pango_cairo_font_get_scaled_font
Bug 353291 – Provide pango_cairo_font_map_new_for_font_type
Bug 438801 – underline should add "error" type.
Bug 440588 – Add pango_font_face_is_synthesized()
Bug 445832 – pango_cairo_update_layout() always invalidates layout
Bug 446018 – Bus error in the pango_ot_tag_from_language()
Bug 446355 – the parsing with pango_parse_markup is not coherent
Bug 447189 – fonts.c: pango_font_face_is_synthesized returns NULL
Bug 447568 – improve docs on what absolute size means
Bug 448342 – pango_layout_index_to_line_x() counts lines from 1
Overview of changes between 1.17.1 and 1.17.2
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- Rename recently added pango_ot_ruleset_get_for() to
pango_ot_ruleset_get_for_description().
- New engine API: pango_ot_ruleset_new_from_description().
- Treat Unknown script like Common and other non-"real" scripts.
[Martin Hosken]
- Misc typo fixes [Peter Moulder]
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 443206 – PANGO_SCRIPT_UNKNOWN should not cause a run break
Patch from Martin Hosken
Overview of changes between 1.17.0 and 1.17.1
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- Ported the rest of OpenType shapers to the new OpenType APIs and
added standard features to them: Hebrew, Indic, Khmer, Thai, and Tibetan.
- Added N'Ko support to the Arabic module. [Eugeniy Meshcheryakov]
- Small Indic module fix for Malayalam.
- Fixed font metrics returned by the ATSUI backend. [Richard Hult]
- Make itemization use pango_language_get_default() if context has no
language set on it. Ditto for pango_context_get_metrics() if both
input language and context language are NULL.
- Improved documentation on vertical text, also added stability note
to those parts of Pango API that are not indefinitely stable (shaper
and language engine APIs).
- Misc bug fixes.
- New OpenType engine API:
pango_ot_ruleset_get_feature_count()
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 357790 – Rendering problem for malayalam consonant RA (U+0D30)
Bug 385168 – indic, khmer, and tibetan modules don't apply ccmp
Bug 385477 – kern feature is not supported in OpenType layout for Tibetan.
Bug 433805 - [Atsui] Approximate char/digit width width often 0
Bug 436699 – N'Ko support
Bug 438705 – Test runs non-existent "/bin/bash" on HP-UX 11.11
Bug 438814 – synaptic crash with pango 1.17.0
Bug 440603 – Minor ABI change
Overview of changes between 1.16.4 and 1.16.5
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- ATSUI backend now lists synthesized italic faces like other
- Misc optimizations and fixes.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 443206 – PANGO_SCRIPT_UNKNOWN should not cause a run break
Patch from Martin Hosken
Bug 416515 – Time is not aligned with date on vertical panel
Bug 436154 – Error building the pango.modules file while cross compiling
Bug 434160 - [atsui] Italic versions of some faces can't be created
Overview of changes between 1.16.3 and 1.16.4
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- Add new configure option --disable-doc-cross-references and make
sure releases are made using it. Distributions are encouraged to
build with --enable-gtk-doc such that their Pango docs correctly
cross reference glib and cairo docs.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 432991 – developer docs for libpango are broken
Overview of changes between 1.16.2 and 1.16.3
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- Quantize kerning value if metrics hinting is on. This greatly improves
screen text rendering with certain fonts like DejaVu Sans.
See: http://behdad.org/blog/mces/image/metricshinting-kerning.png
- Improved hex-box positioning in the cairo backend
changes:
- Spell-checked docs.
- Fix various bugs that could cause ellipsization to stop prematurely.
- Fix rendering of background color being off in presence of rise attribute.
-bugfixes
changes:
* Improved thread-safety. Pango is still NOT thread-safe, but this fixes
lots of crashes using pangocairo from multiple threads.
* Fix out-of-bounds array access.
* Improved Indic shaper.
* Improved Arabic language engine.
* Choose shaper/font for unassigned Unicode codepoints.
* Build fixes.
considered volatile as that. Build it at install time and remove it
during deinstallation. This also allows DESTDIR use, as it could find
the modules directly before. Ignore the duplicate run in the non-DESTDIR
case, as it is fast enough. Bump revision. Discussed with wiz.
Overview of changes between 1.14.6 and 1.14.7
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* Fixed broken build with included lang modules.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 361938 - Can't include *-lang modules (./configure
--with-included-modules fails)
Overview of changes between 1.14.5 and 1.14.6
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* Backport language-engine handling fixes from HEAD.
* Add simple Arabic and Indic language engines.
* Indic shaper fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 353877 – Sinhala is_cursor_position and
backspace_deletes_character issues
Patch from Akira TAGOH
Bug 358224 – Telugu Character U+0C31 does not render its below-base
form.
Patch from Rahul Bhalerao
Bug 358174 – Reph and Vattu forms of Assamese character RA(U+09F0)
are not rendered.
Patch from Rahul Bhalerao
Overview of changes between 1.14.4 and 1.14.5
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* Indic shaper fixes.
* Misc bug fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 356685 – [or_IN] Rendering of consonant+0x0B4D+0x0B2F is wrong
Patch from Rahul Bhalerao
Bug 357790 – Rendering problem for malayalam consonant RA (U+0D30)
Patch from Rahul Bhalerao
Bug 349813 – typo in docs for pango_layout_move_cursor_visually
Bug 357686 – pangocairo-font.c: illegal g_object_unref in
pango_cairo_font_get_hex_box_info
Overview of changes between 1.14.3 and 1.14.4
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* Indic shaper fixes.
* Misc bug fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 351223 – the conjuction of Con + 0x0d4d +0x0d31 of Malayalam is
wrong
Patch from LingNing Zhang
Bug 355750 – The glyphs of the conjuctions about Cons+0x0d4d+0x0d32 of
Malayalm are wrong.
Patch from LingNing Zhang
Bug 349876 – U+0x0904 of Devanagari need be "independent vowel", but
it is "reserved" in Pango
Patch from LingNing Zhang
Bug 355550 – Miscalculation of logical attributes in
pango_get_log_attrs()
Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Bug 355697 – The IndicOTClassTable of Oriya has a error.
Bug 355782 – Misaligned extents in pango
Bug 355605 – hexbox with 0000 in it
Bug 355435 – Invalid calls to pango_map_get_engine()
Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Bug 347146 – underline/overstrike spaces
Bug 352535 – Ink extents of empty glyph
Overview of changes between 1.14.1 and 1.14.2
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* Find shaper/font for Private Use and space characters.
Part of Bug 145275 – Font selection for space characters
Overview of changes between 1.14.0 and 1.14.1
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* Increased fontset cache size from 16 to 64. This should make
firefox+pango A LOT faster.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 352114 – pango-1.14: generated docs still contain old example code
Part of Bug 348825 – pango should optimize away calls to FcFontSort as
much as possible
Bug 351585 – API documentation issues with 2.15 release
Overview of changes between 1.13.5 and 1.14.0
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* Make pango-view accept non-ASCII --text.
* Require cairo-1.2.2 for the important bug fixes it has.
Overview of changes between 1.13.4 and 1.13.5
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* Indic shaper improvements.
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 121672 – Ra (vattu) not rendered properly in Malayalam
Patch from LingNing Zhang
Bug 335811 – Some conjugates of Malayalam are wrong.
Patch from LingNing Zhang
Overview of changes between 1.13.3 and 1.13.4
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* Update to Unicode Character Database 5.0.0.
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 336282 – Update to Unicode Character Database 5.0.0
Bug 347073 – Allow empty GPOS table
Bug 347021 – atsui crash when a matching font cannot be found.
Patch from Brian Tarricone.
Overview of changes between 1.13.2 and 1.13.3
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* Improved build system. Using gnome-autogen.sh now.
(gnome-common needed for bootstrapping)
* Improved documentation. Docs now include list of new API for
each stable version of Pango.
* New public API:
- pango_glyph_string_get_width
* Little performance improvement.
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 330603 – pango_scan_int invokes undefined behaviour
Bug 315599 – PangoAttribute remains in wrong context.
Bug 163677 – pango_attr_list_splice: inconsistent docs
Patch from Morten Welinder
Bug 345070 – [ml_IN] not render for combination with ZWJ
Patch from LingNing Zhang
Bug 345274 – list of new symbols for each version is missing in docs
Patch from Priit Laes
Bug 346297 – autogen doesn't work with automake-1.6
Patch from Priit Laes
Bug 135683 – Cache glyphstring extents
Bug 344766 – Memory leak in get_ruleset() in modules/basic/basic-fc.c
Bug 345600 – cvs build error in pango/opentype/Makefile
Bug 345511 – -no-undefined problem with new libtool
Overview of changes between 1.13.1 and 1.13.2
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* Improved hexbox drawing, and font metrics calculations.
* Synthesize italic variants on win32 [Hans Breuer]
* New public API:
- pango_cairo_show_error_underline
- pango_cairo_error_underline_path
- pango_font_describe_with_absolute_size
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 326960 – hex box drawing for win32 and atsui backends of cairo
Bug 343717 – License information in unclear.
Bug 343355 – Add pango_cairo_show_error_underline &
pango_cairo_error_underline_path
Bug 343966 – pango Cygwin build fixes
Patch from Cygwin Ports maintainer.
Bug 343796 – Italic Chinese character can't be show correctly in
Win32.
Bug 314114 – max_x_advance not appropriate for
approximate_(char|digit)_width
Bug 341138 – Using TTC font, Gtk2 programs begin to eating big memory
and have many cpu usage.
Patch from Yong Li.
Bug 336153 – Mark to mark positioning (Lookup Type 6) isn't correct
when using MarkAttchmentType
Patch from Tin Myo Htet.
Bug 333984 – pango_language_from_string improvements
Bug 125378 – Better underline thickness handling
Bug 339730 – Pango needlessly falls back away from a Type 1 font into
a TTF font
Bug 342562 – Support absolute sizes in
pango_font_description_to/from_string
Bug 341922 – pango should handle more characters as zero width
Patch from Roozbeh Pournader
Bug 342525 – With PangoFc and PangoWin32, approximate digit width is
not what it says
Bug 342079 – pangoatsui-private.h missing from release
Overview of changes between 1.13.0 and 1.13.1
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* Increased robustness against broken pango.modules
* Improved build infrastructure:
- Remove CAIRO_CFLAGS from pangocairo.pc.in, as it Require's cairo already.
- Use -no-undefined on Unix too.
* Improved documentation.
* Misc fixes.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 307196 – Unhinted fonts are measured incorrectly and drawing
problems occur as a result
Bug 329547 – pango_layout_get_pixel_extents and
pango_layout_get_pixel_size cause off-by-one metrics
Bug 339747 – pango_font_metrics_get_approximate_digit_width docs
Bug 339749 – pango_language_from_string issues
Patch from Morten Welinder.
Bug 333771 – Use gmodule-no-export-2.0 instead of gmodule-2.0 in
pango-uninstalled.pc.in
Bug 337594 – pango_glyph_string_extents_range possible bug
Bug 329664 – Move gunichar_to_glyph cache from PangoCairoFcFont to
PangoFcFont
Patch from LingNing Zhang.
Bug 322374 – Examples does not build on MacOS X
Bug 340229 – pango_font_description_from_string does not do bound
checking
Bug 329483 – hinting hexbox in cairo backend doesn't handle absolute
font size
Bug 340040 – pangocairo hex box hinting falls apart with PS/PDF
backends
Bug 71033 – make size 0 fonts work
Overview of changes between 1.12.0 and 1.13.0
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* Fix incorrect rendering when in x86 64-bit precision mode
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5200
* Fix non-OpenType fonts losing kerning in 1.12.0 [#336026, Denis Jacquerye]
* Fix blurred underlines on Win32 [#332656, Tor Lillqvist]
* Build fix when having both Win32 and FreeType cairo backends available
[#337502, Alexander Larsson]
* Moved the OpenType Layout code into a new project called HarfBuzz:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz
* Improved documentation.
* Misc bug fixes.
* Fixed many compiler warnings.
* Bugs fixed in this release:
332656,335840,334802,337029,337821,338343
and add a new helper target and script, "show-buildlink3", that outputs
a listing of the buildlink3.mk files included as well as the depth at
which they are included.
For example, "make show-buildlink3" in fonts/Xft2 displays:
zlib
fontconfig
iconv
zlib
freetype2
expat
freetype2
Xrender
renderproto
