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Release 1.7.4 (2008-08-11 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>)
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Snapshot 1.7.6 (2008-09-17 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
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The cairo community is happy to announce the 1.7.6 snapshot of the
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cairo graphics library. This is a "release candidate" for the upcoming
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1.8.0 release, so we will greatly appreciate any reports of problems
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in this release, and no major changes are currently planned before
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Notable changes in 1.7.6
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The largest number of changes since 1.7.4 did not change the
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implementation of cairo itself, but instead revamped cairo's build
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system. The primary goal of the revamp is to make the build system
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less fragile, (particularly for non-Linux platforms). For example, now
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people building on win32 will no longer need to maintain a
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platform-specific list of files to be built. Also, the .so file will
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now be installed with a different naming scheme, (for example, 1.7.6
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will install with a .10706 suffix). Much thanks, Behdad!
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And, as usual, Chris Wilson has made another large round of robustness
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improvements, (eliminating dead code, fixing propagation of error
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status values, test suite improvements, etc. etc.). Thanks as always,
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API changes since 1.7.4
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There have been a few changes of API that was new during the 1.7
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* Remove cairo_font_options_set_lcd_filter
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and cairo_font_options_get_lcd_filter
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Motivation: At the Cairo Summit, this API was determined to be too
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specific to the freetype font backend to be in the general
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API. A similar API with a cairo_ft prefix might be introduced
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in the future. Note that cairo will still respect the
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corresponding fontconfig settings for these options.
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* Replace cairo_has_show_glyphs
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with cairo_surface_has_show_glyphs
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Motivation: This really is a surface-specific interface, and the
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convenience function on the cairo_t is not obviously
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necessary. An application can easily call:
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cairo_surface_has_show_glyphs (cairo_get_target (cr));
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* Add cairo_text_cluster_flags_t
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to cairo_show_text_glyphs
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cairo_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs
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cairo_user_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs_func_t
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Motivation: This flag, (and specifically the
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CAIRO_TEXT_CLUSTER_FLAG_BACKWARD value), replaces the
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cairo_bool_t backward argument in each of the above
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interfaces. This leads to more readable user code, and also
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allows future extensibility.
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As always, there are no changes to any API from any major cairo
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release, (1.0.x, 1.2.x, 1.4.x, 1.6.x). Cairo maintains the same
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compatibility promise it always has.
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xlib: Faster bookkeeping (Karl Tomlinson)
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453199#c5
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PS: Fix gradients with non-constant alpha (Chris Wilson)
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Fix deadlock in user-font code (Richard Hughes and Behdad Esfahbod)
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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16819
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Several other minor fixes.
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Snapshot 1.7.4 (2008-08-11 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>)
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The cairo community is embarrassed to announce availability of the 1.7.4
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snapshot of the cairo graphics library. This is a followup release to the
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1.7.2 snapshot to ship a tarball that can actually be built. The only
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change since 1.7.4 is including the missing header file
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cairo-user-font-private.h in the distribution.
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Release 1.7.2 (2008-08-11 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>)
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Snapshot 1.7.2 (2008-08-11 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>)
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The cairo community is finally ready to announce availability of the 1.7.2
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snapshot of the cairo graphics library. This is embarrissingly the first
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snapshot in the 1.7 unstable series of cairo, leading to the eventual release
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