Cairo

Building with older bash and XRender was fixed. Triggering of a bug in X.org server 6.9 is now avoided. A bug in the computation of user-font glyph bounding boxes of Type3 fonts was fixed. A miscomputation of the size of fallback images was fixed. Cairo is now more tolerant of broken fonts when subsetting Type1 fonts. Several further bugs were fixed.

It is now possible to build Cairo without any font backend, which is most useful when the application provides custom font rendering through the user-font API. A failsafe fallback font is provided, though. Several compilation speed-ups and optimizations were made. Many bugs were fixed.

Many improvements were made to Cairo's ability to handle text, including a new "user fonts" feature as well as allowing glyphs to be embedded in PDF output along with their original text (for searching, selection, and copy-and-paste). A major revamp of the build system makes it much easier to build Cairo on various platforms. The performance on remote X servers without the Render extension was improved. The output of cairo-ps and cairo-pdf was made more efficient. Completions were made to the API. Many bugs were fixed.

In this development release, several robustness
improvements and code cleanups were made. Recent
beta changes to the API were modified. The dynamic
library file naming scheme was changed. Several
bugs were fixed.

The dominant theme of this release is improvements
around the Cairo text API. The new features
include a new user font API, show_text_glyphs(),
LCD subpixel filtering using FreeType, a toy font
face constructor and getter, FreeType respecting
FC_FT_FACE, more efficient output of PS and PDF,
avoidance of rendering glyphs out of surface
bounds in the Xlib backend, improved performance
with Xrender-less X servers in the Xlib backend,
Directfb backend improvements, countless bugfixes,
and other optimizations.