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Description
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FreeType 2.3.6 has been released.
It is available from
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/
or
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157
The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library.
See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file; all users
should upgrade.
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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.6 and 2.3.5
I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
- A bunch of potential security problems have been found. All
users should update.
- Microsoft Unicode cmaps in TrueType fonts are now always
preferred over Apple cmaps. This is not a bug per se, but there
exist some buggy fonts created for MS which have broken Apple
cmaps. This affects only the automatic selection of FreeType;
it's always possible to manually select an Apple Unicode cmap if
desired.
- Many bug fixes to the TrueType bytecode interpreter.
- Improved Mac support.
- Subsetted CID-keyed CFFs are now supported correctly.
- CID-keyed CFFs with subfonts which are scaled in a non-standard
way are now handled correctly.
- A call to FT_Open_Face with `face_index' < 0 crashed FreeType if
the font was a Windows (bitmap) FNT/FON.
II. IMPORTANT CHANGES
- The new function `FT_Get_CID_Registry_Ordering_Supplement' gives
access to those fields in a CID-keyed font. The code has been
contributed by Derek Clegg.
- George Williams contributed code to validate the new `MATH'
OpenType table (within the `otvalid' module). The `ftvalid'
demo program has been extended accordingly.
- An API for cmap 14 support (for Unicode Variant Selectors, UVS)
has been contributed by George Williams.
- A new face flag FT_FACE_FLAG_CID_KEYED has been added, together
with a macro FT_IS_CID_KEYED which evaluates to 1 if the font is
CID-keyed.
III. MISCELLANEOUS
- Build support for symbian has been contributed.
- Better WGL4 glyph name support, contributed by Sergey Tolstov.
- Debugging output of the various FT_TRACEX macros is now sent to
stderr.
- The `ftview' demo program now provides artificial slanting too.
- The `ftvalid' demo program has a new option `-f' to select the
font index.
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