[cairo-announce] cairomm stable release 1.2.0 now available

[Jonathon Jongsma]

cairomm is the C++ API for the cairo graphics library.  For more
information, see http://cairographics.org/cairomm

A new cairomm release 1.2.0 (API/ABI stable) is now available from:

        http://cairographics.org/releases/cairomm-1.2.0.tar.gz

    which can be verified with:

        http://cairographics.org/releases/cairomm-1.2.0.tar.gz.sha1
        54b6eee68facfd3b40818c6f7cd58d24c4a9ce7b  cairomm-1.2.0.tar.gz

        http://cairographics.org/releases/cairomm-1.2.0.tar.gz.sha1.asc
        (signed by Jonathon Jongsma)

NOTE 1: Two functions changed in this version of cairomm, so any
applications using these functions will need to be updated (see
"Changed API" section below).

NOTE 2: As of this release, cairomm is now API / ABI stable.
Applications will not need to be updated when future versions of
cairomm are released.


What's new:
-----------------
* This is the first release that guarantees API and ABI stability
* Changed API:
  - Context::clear_path() is now Context::begin_new_path()
  - Context::new_sub_path() is now Context::begin_new_sub_path()
* new API:
  - Win32Surface::get_dc()
  - Win32Surface::create() for device-independent bitmaps
* Bugfixes
  - fixed a memory leak where C++ wrapper objects were not being destroyed
* Fixes for compiling with MSVC (also includes project and resource files for
  Visual Studio 2005.  See the MSVC/ directory)

-- 
jonner