Changelog:
2.7.4
Fix missing --enable-introspection configure option from previous release tarball.
Documentation updates.
2.7.3
Update USE shaper to 2020-08-13 specification, and other improvements.
Don't disable liga feature in myanmar shaper, to match Uniscribe.
Improvements to language and script tags handling.
Update language system tag registry to OpenType 1.8.4
Support for serializing and deserializing Unicode buffers. Serialized buffers
are now delimited with <> or [] based on whether it is a Unicode or
glyphs buffer.
Increase buffer work limits to handle fonts with many complex lookups.
Handle more shaping operations in trace output.
Memory access fixes.
More OOM fixes.
Improved documentation.
Build system improvements.
New API:
+hb_buffer_has_positions()
+hb_buffer_serialize()
+hb_buffer_serialize_unicode()
+hb_buffer_deserialize_unicode()
> In file included from ../test/api/test-aat-layout.c:25:0:
> ../test/api/hb-test.h: In function 'hb_test_assert_blobs_equal':
> ../test/api/hb-test.h:178:5: error: 'for' loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 or C11 mode
> for (unsigned int i = 0; i < expected_length; i++)
> ^
> ../test/api/hb-test.h:178:5: note: use option -std=c99, -std=gnu99, -std=c11 or -std=gnu11 to compile your code
Only a few pieces of software are using the ICU integration library,
these aren't the big harfbuzz users (i.e. gtk). this is intended to lessen
the impact of icu's frequent ABI breaks.
Add introspection option defaulting to ON as new pango needs this.
Overview of changes leading to 2.7.2
Saturday, August 29, 2020
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- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused a crash with Kaithi.
- More OOM fixes.
The `doc' option still had the issue that gtk-doc - if already installed - will
be accidentally picked up also if the option was disabled.
Be explicit in enabling/disabling it.
ot-funcs now handles variable empty glyphs better when hvar/vvar isn't present.
Reverted a GDEF processing regression.
A couple of fixes to handle OOM better.
Overview of changes leading to 2.7.0
Saturday, July 25, 2020
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- Use an implementation for round that always rounds up, some minor fluctuations
are expected on var font specially when hb-ot callback is used.
- Fix an AAT's `kerx` issue on broken rendering of Devanagari Sangam MN.
- Remove AAT's `lcar` table support from _get_ligature_carets API, not even much
use on macOS installed fonts (only two files). GDEF support is the recommended
one and expected to work properly after issues fixed two releases ago.
- Minor memory fixes to handle OOM better specially in hb-ft.
- Minor .so files versioning scheme change and remove stable/unstable scheme
differences, was never used in practice (always default to stable scheme).
- We are now suggesting careful packaging of the library using meson,
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/wiki/Notes-on-migration-to-meson
for more information.
- Distribution package URL is changed, either use GitHub generated tarballs,
`https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz`
or, even more preferably use commit hash of the release and git checkouts like,
`git+https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz#commit=$commit`
Overview of changes leading to 2.6.8
Monday, June 22, 2020
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- New API to fetch glyph alternates from GSUB table.
- hb-coretext build fix for macOS < 10.10.
- Meson build fixes, cmake port removal is postponed but please prepare for
it and give us feedback.
Autotools is still our main build system however please consider
experimenting with meson also for packaging the library.
- New API:
+hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_glyph_alternates()
Overview of changes leading to 2.6.7
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
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- Update to Unicode 13.0.0.
- Fix hb_ot_layout_get_ligature_carets for fonts without lcar table, it was
completely broken for all the other fonts since 2.1.2.
- As a part of our migration to meson, this release will be the last one
to provide cmake port files but autotools still is our main build system.
There is a possibility that the next version or the after be released
using meson.
Overview of changes leading to 2.6.6
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
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- A fix in AAT kerning for Geeza Pro.
- Better support for resource fork fonts on macOS.
Overview of changes leading to 2.6.5
Friday, April 17, 2020
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- Add experimental meson build system. Autotools is still the primary
and supported build system.
- AAT is now always preferred for horizontal scripts when both AAT and OT
layout tables exist at the same time.
- Subsetter improvements.
- New API:
+hb_ft_font_lock_face()
+hb_ft_font_unlock_face()
Overview of changes leading to 2.6.4
Monday, October 29, 2019
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- Small bug fix.
- Build fixes.
Overview of changes leading to 2.6.3
Monday, October 28, 2019
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- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
- New API:
+hb_font_get_nominal_glyphs()
Overview of changes leading to 2.6.2
Monday, September 30, 2019
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- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
Overview of changes leading to 2.6.1
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Fix regression with hb_font_create_sub_font scaling introduced in 2.6.0.
Change interpretation of font PTEM size / CoreText font size handling.
See #1484
hb-ot-font: Prefer symbol cmap subtable if present.
Apply 'dist'/'abvm'/'blwm' features to all scripts.
Drop experimental DirectWrite API.
Overview of changes leading to 2.6.0
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
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- New OpenType metrics, baseline, and metadata table access APIs.
- New API to set font variations to a named-instance.
- New hb-gdi.h header and API for creating hb_face_t from HFONT.
- Amalgam: Provide a single-file harfbuzz.cc file for easier alternate building.
- More size-reduction configurable options, enabled by HB_TINY.
- New API:
+hb_font_set_var_named_instance()
+hb_gdi_face_create()
+hb_ot_layout_baseline_tag_t
+hb_ot_layout_get_baseline()
+hb_ot_meta_tag_t
+hb_ot_meta_get_entry_tags()
+hb_ot_meta_reference_entry()
+hb_ot_metrics_tag_t
+hb_ot_metrics_get_position()
+hb_ot_metrics_get_variation()
+hb_ot_metrics_get_x_variation()
+hb_ot_metrics_get_y_variation()
Changelog:
Overview of changes leading to 2.5.3
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
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- Fix UCD script data for Unicode 10+ scripts. This was broken since 2.5.0.
- More optimizations for HB_TINY.
Overview of changes leading to 2.5.2
Thursday, June 20, 2019
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- More hb-config.hh facilities to shrink library size, namely when built as
HB_TINY.
- New documentation of custom configurations in CONFIG.md.
- Fix build on gcc 4.8. That's supported again.
- Universal Shaping Engine improvements thanks to David Corbett.
- API Changes: Undeprecate some horizontal-kerning API and re-enable in hb-ft,
such that Type1 fonts will continue kerning.
Overview of changes leading to 2.5.1
Friday, May 31, 2019
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- Fix build with various versions of Visual Studio.
- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
- Bugfix in subsetting glyf table.
- Improved scripts for cross-compiling for Windows using mingw.
- Rename HB_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER to HB_OT_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER.
A deprecated macro is added for backwards-compatibility.
Overview of changes leading to 2.5.0
Friday, May 24, 2019
====================================
- This release does not include much functional changes, but includes major internal
code-base changes. We now require C++11. Support for gcc 4.8 and earlier has been
dropped.
- New hb-config.hh facility for compiling smaller library for embedded and web usecases.
- New Unicode Character Databse implementation that is half the size of previously-used
UCDN.
- Subsetter improvements.
- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
- Misc shaping fixes.
librsvg with pango and harfbuzz with graphite2 is required for libreoffice.
librsvg-c has the problem on NetBSD and libreoffice uses internal static
harfbuzz library. Rust-based librsvg has no problem and libreoffice use
dynamic harfbuzz from fonts/harfbuzz.
Bump PKGREVISIONs.
Overview of changes leading to 2.4.0
Monday, March 25, 2019
====================================
- Unicode 12.
- Misc fixes.
- Subsetter improvements.
- New API:
HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DO_NOT_INSERT_DOTTED_CIRCLE
hb_directwrite_face_create()
Overview of changes leading to 2.3.1
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
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- AAT bug fixes.
- Misc internal housekeeping cleanup.
- Fix regression on big-endian architectures. Ouch!
- Misc bug and build fixes.
- Fix subsetting of simple GSUB/GDEF.
- Merge CFF / CFF2 support contributed by Adobe. This mostly involves
the subsetter, but also get_glyph_extents on CFF fonts.
Overview of changes leading to 2.2.0
Thursday, November 29, 2018
====================================
- Misc shaping bug fixes.
- Add font variations named-instance API.
- Deprecate font variations axis enumeration API and add replacement.
- AAT shaping improvements:
o Fixed 'kern' table Format 2 implementation.
o Implement 'feat' table API for feature detection.
o Blacklist 'GSUB' table of fonts from 'MUTF' foundry that also have 'morx'.
New API:
+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_t
+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_t
+hb_aat_layout_get_feature_types()
+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_name_id
+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_info_t
+HB_AAT_LAYOUT_NO_SELECTOR_INDEX
+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_selector_infos()
+hb_ot_var_axis_flags_t
+hb_ot_var_axis_info_t
+hb_ot_var_get_axis_infos()
+hb_ot_var_find_axis_info()
+hb_ot_var_get_named_instance_count()
+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_subfamily_name_id()
+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_postscript_name_id()
+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_design_coords()
Deprecated API:
+HB_OT_VAR_NO_AXIS_INDEX
+hb_ot_var_axis_t
+hb_ot_var_get_axes()
+hb_ot_var_find_axis()
Overview of changes leading to 2.1.3
Friday, November 16, 2018
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- Fix AAT 'mort' shaping, which was broken in 2.1.2
Overview of changes leading to 2.1.2
Friday, November 16, 2018
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- Various internal changes.
- AAT shaping improvements:
o Implement kern table Format 1 state-machine-based kerning.
o Implement cross-stream kerning (cursive positioning, etc).
o Ignore emptyish GSUB tables (zero scripts) if morx present.
o Don't apply GPOS if morx is being applied. Matches Apple.
Changelog:
Overview of changes leading to 2.1.1
Monday, November 5, 2018
====================================
- AAT improvements:
o Implement 'mort' table.
o Implement 'kern' subtables Format 1 and Format 3.
Overview of changes leading to 2.1.0
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
====================================
- AAT shaping improvements:
o Allow user controlling AAT features, for whole buffer only currently.
o Several 'morx' fixes.
o Implement tuple-kerns in 'kerx'; Fixes kerning with Apple default
San Francisco fonts.
- Support for color fonts:
o COLR/CPAL API to fetch color layers.
o SVG table to fetch SVG documents.
o CBDT/sbix API to fetch PNG images.
- New 'name' table API.
- hb-ot-font now uses 'VORG' table to correctly position CFF glyphs
in vertical layout.
- Various fuzzer-found bug fixes.
Changed API:
A type and a macro added in 2.0.0 were renamed:
hb_name_id_t -> hb_ot_name_id_t
HB_NAME_ID_INVALID -> HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
New API:
+hb_color_t
+HB_COLOR
+hb_color_get_alpha()
+hb_color_get_red()
+hb_color_get_green()
+hb_color_get_blue()
+hb_ot_color_has_palettes()
+hb_ot_color_palette_get_count()
+hb_ot_color_palette_get_name_id()
+hb_ot_color_palette_color_get_name_id()
+hb_ot_color_palette_flags_t
+hb_ot_color_palette_get_flags()
+hb_ot_color_palette_get_colors()
+hb_ot_color_has_layers()
+hb_ot_color_layer_t
+hb_ot_color_glyph_get_layers()
+hb_ot_color_has_svg()
+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_svg()
+hb_ot_color_has_png()
+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_png()
+hb_ot_name_id_t
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_COPYRIGHT
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_FAMILY
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_SUBFAMILY
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_UNIQUE_ID
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FULL_NAME
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VERSION_STRING
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_POSTSCRIPT_NAME
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TRADEMARK
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MANUFACTURER
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESCRIPTION
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VENDOR_URL
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER_URL
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE_URL
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_FAMILY
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_SUBFAMILY
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MAC_FULL_NAME
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_SAMPLE_TEXT
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_CID_FINDFONT_NAME
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_FAMILY
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_SUBFAMILY
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LIGHT_BACKGROUND
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DARK_BACKGROUND
+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VARIATIONS_PS_PREFIX
+hb_ot_name_entry_t
+hb_ot_name_list_names()
+hb_ot_name_get_utf8()
+hb_ot_name_get_utf16()
+hb_ot_name_get_utf32()
Overview of changes leading to 2.0.2
Saturday, October 20, 2018
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- Fix two minor memory access issues in AAT tables.
Overview of changes leading to 2.0.1
Friday, October 19, 2018
====================================
- Fix hb-version.h reported release version that went wrong (1.8.0)
with previous release.
- Fix extrapolation in 'trak' table.
- Fix hb-font infinite-recursion issue with some font funcs and
subclassed fonts.
- Implement variation-kerning format in kerx table, although without
variation.
- Fix return value of hb_map_is_empty().
Overview of changes leading to 2.0.0
Thursday, October 18, 2018
====================================
- Added AAT shaping support (morx/kerx/trak).
Automatically used if GSUB/GPOS are not available respectively.
Set HB_OPTIONS=aat env var to have morx/kerx preferred over
GSUB/GPOS.
- Apply TrueType kern table internally, instead of relying on
hb_font_t callbacks.
- Khmer shaper significantly rewritten to better match Uniscribe.
- Indic3 tags ('dev3', etc) are passed to USE shaper.
- .dfont Mac font containers implemented.
- Script- and language-mapping revamped to better use BCP 47.
- Misc USE and Indic fixes.
- Misc everything fixes.
- Too many things to list. Biggest release since 0.9.1, with
over 500 commits in just over 5 weeks! Didn't intend it to
be a big release. Just happened to become.
- hb-ft now locks underlying FT_Face during use.
API changes:
- Newly-created hb_font_t's now have our internal "hb-ot-font"
callbacks set on them, so they should work out of the box
without any callbacks set. If callbacks are set, everything
is back to what it was before, the fallback callbacks are
null. If you to get the internal implementation modified,
sub_font it.
- New hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func() allows speeding
up character to glyph mapping.
New API:
+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_START
+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_END
+hb_buffer_set_invisible_glyph()
+hb_buffer_get_invisible_glyph()
+hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func()
+hb_ot_layout_table_select_script()
+hb_ot_layout_script_select_language()
+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_name_ids()
+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_characters()
+hb_name_id_t
+HB_NAME_ID_INVALID
+HB_OT_MAX_TAGS_PER_SCRIPT
+hb_ot_tags_from_script_and_language()
+hb_ot_tags_to_script_and_language()
Deprecated API:
-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
-hb_unicode_eastasian_width_func_t
-hb_unicode_funcs_set_eastasian_width_func()
-hb_unicode_eastasian_width()
-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility_func_t
-HB_UNICODE_MAX_DECOMPOSITION_LEN
-hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func()
-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility()
-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func()
-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func()
-hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning()
-hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning()
-hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction()
-hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script()
-hb_ot_layout_script_find_language()
-hb_ot_tags_from_script()
-hb_ot_tag_from_language()
Overview of changes leading to 1.9.0
Monday, September 10, 2018
====================================
- Added 'cmap' API to hb_face_t.
- Face-builder API.
- hb-ot-font re-creation should be much leaner now, as the
font tables it uses are cached on hb_face_t now.
- Internal source header file name changes:
hb-*-private.hh is renamed to hb-*.hh.
New API:
+HB_UNICODE_MAX
+hb_face_collect_unicodes()
+hb_face_collect_variation_selectors()
+hb_face_collect_variation_unicodes()
+hb_face_builder_create()
+hb_face_builder_add_table()
Overview of changes leading to 1.8.8
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
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- Fix hb-icu crash on architectures where compare_exchange_weak() can
fail falsely. This bug was introduced in 1.8.4.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=873568
- More internal refactoring of atomic operations and singletons.
- API changes:
The following functions do NOT reference their return value before
returning:
* hb_unicode_funcs_get_default()
* hb_glib_get_unicode_funcs()
* hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs()
This is consistent with their naming ("get", instead of "reference")
as well as how they are used in the wild (ie. no one calls destroy()
on their return value.)
Overview of changes leading to 1.8.7
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
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- Fix assertion failure with GDEF-blacklisted fonts.
Overview of changes leading to 1.8.6
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
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- Internal code shuffling.
- New API to speed up getting advance widths for implementations
that have heavy overhead in get_h_advance callback:
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advances_func
+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advances_func
+hb_font_get_glyph_advances_for_direction
+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances
+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances_func_t
+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances
+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances_func_t
Overview of changes leading to 1.8.5
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
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- Major Khmer shaper improvements to better match Microsoft.
- Indic bug fixes.
- Internal improvements to atomic operations.
Overview of changes leading to 1.8.4
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
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- Fix build on non-C++11.
- Use C++-style GCC atomics and C++11 atomics.
Overview of changes leading to 1.8.3
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
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- A couple of Indic / USE bug fixes.
- Disable vectorization, as it was causing unaligned access bus error on
certain 32bit architectures.
Overview of changes leading to 1.8.2
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
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- Fix infinite loop in Khmer shaper.
- Improve hb_blob_create_from_file() for streams.
