[cairo-announce] cairo release 1.12.0 now available [resend]

[Chris Wilson]

A new cairo release 1.12.0 is now available from:

	http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.0.tar.gz

    which can be verified with:

	http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.0.tar.gz.sha1
	63e0d1372a7919956b6d959709dfdf35d3cecc02  cairo-1.12.0.tar.gz

	http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.0.tar.gz.sha1.asc
	(signed by Chris Wilson)

  Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

	git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo

    will include a signed 1.12.0 tag which points to a commit named:
	a0bf6d25b5b68c897d63580d1ca9ee182f04cce1

    which can be verified with:
	git verify-tag 1.12.0

    and can be checked out with a command such as:
	git checkout -b build 1.12.0

Release 1.12.0 (2012-03-23 Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
It's taken over 18 months, but the wait is finally over. A new cairo release!
We are pleased to annouce a new stable release of Cairo that brings many
new features and performance improvements, all whilst maintaining
compatibility with cairo-1.0 and all releases since. We recommend anyone
using a previous release of Cairo to upgrade to 1.12.0.

The major feature of this release is the introduction of a new procedural
pattern; the mesh gradient. This, albeit complex, gradient is constructed
from a set of cubic Bezier patches and is a superset of all other gradient
surfaces which allows for the construction of incredibily detailed patterns.
In PDF parlance, the mesh gradient corresponds with type 7 patterns. Many
thanks to Andrea Canciani for bringing this to Cairo, and for his work on
making gradient handling robust.

Not content with just adding another procedural pattern, Cairo 1.12 also
adds new API to create a callback pattern,
cairo_pattern_create_raster_source, that allows the application to
provide the pixel data for the region of interest at the time of
rendering. This can be used for instance, by an application to decode
compressed images on demand and to keep a cache of those decompressed
images, independently of Cairo. When combined with the recording
surface, it should form a useful basis for a deferred renderer.

With the release of cairo-1.12, we also introduce a new supported
backend for interoperating with X using XCB. Uli Schlachter, also
w available

maintainer of awesome and contributor to libxcb, has volunteered to
maintain cairo-xcb for us. Thanks Uli!

For cairo-1.12, we have also added some common API to address any
surface as an image and so allow direct modification of the raster data.
Previously, only the Quartz and Win32 backends supported a very narrow
interface to allow for efficient pixel upload. Now with
cairo_surface_create_similar_image, cairo_surface_map_to_image, and
cairo_surface_unmap_image, Cairo exports a consistent method for
treating those surfaces as an image and so allow modification inplace.
These are the same routines used internally, and should support
efficient transfer or direct mapping of the target surfaces as
applicable.

Another focus over the past year has been to address many performance
issues, without sacrificing the composition model. To accomplish the
goal, once again the rasterisation pipeline was overhauled and made
explicit, giving the backends the freedom to implement their own
specific pipeline whilst also providing a library of common routines
from which to build the pipeline. For instance, this allows the image
backend and the gl backend to composite scan line primitives inplace,
and to then implement custom fallbacks to catch the corner cases that do
not map onto their fastest paths. Similarly, this allows for the Xlib
backend to implement trapezoidation without compromising the other
backends, yet still allow for the pipeline to be used elsewhere for
testing and fallbacks. Clipping was once again overhauled, so that the
common cases for the raster pipelines could be captured and processed
with fast paths with the emphasis on performing geometric clipping to
reduce the frequency of using multi-pass clipmasks. Stroking was made
faster, both by providing specialised fast-paths for simple, yet frequent,
cases (such as stroking around a rectangle) and by reducing the number
of edges generated by the general stroker.

As part of the focus on performance, Cairo 1.12 introduces some
antialias hints (NONE,FAST, GOOD, BEST) that are interpolated by the
raserisers to fine tune their performance versus quality. Cairo 1.12
also introduces a new observation architecture,
cairo_surface_observer_t, which can be used to analyse the amount of
time consumed by drawing commands and help identify inefficiencies in
both Cairo and the application.

Last, but by no means least, the OpenGL backend has seen significant
work including the port to GLESv2 and the exploitation of advanced
hardware features. Interesting times.

As always, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to Cairo,
not only through writing code, but also submitting documentation, bug
reports, suggestions and generally having fun with Cairo! In particular
though this release could not have happened without the efforts of
Adrian Johnson, Alexandros Frantiz, Andrea Canicani, Martin Robinson,
Nis Martensen, and Uli Schlachter. Thanks.
-Chris

What is cairo
=============
Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output
devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window
System, quartz, win32, and image buffers, as well as PDF, PostScript,
and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, XCB, BeOS,
OS/2, and DirectFB.

Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media
while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available
(for example, through the X Render Extension).

The cairo API provides operations similar to the drawing operators of
PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo include stroking and filling
cubic Bézier splines, transforming and compositing translucent images,
and antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be
transformed by any affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear,
etc.).

Cairo has been designed to let you draw anything you want in a modern
2D graphical user interface.  At the same time, the cairo API has been
designed to be as fun and easy to learn as possible. If you're not
having fun while programming with cairo, then we have failed
somewhere---let us know and we'll try to fix it next time around.

Cairo is free software and is available to be redistributed and/or
modified under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) version 2.1 or the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version
1.1.

Where to get more information about cairo
=========================================
The primary source of information about cairo is:

	http://cairographics.org/

The latest versions of cairo can always be found at:

	http://cairographics.org/download

Documentation on using cairo and frequently-asked questions:

	http://cairographics.org/documentation
	http://cairographics.org/FAQ

Mailing lists for contacting cairo users and developers:

	http://cairographics.org/lists

Roadmap and unscheduled things to do, (please feel free to help out):

	http://cairographics.org/roadmap
	http://cairographics.org/todo

List of changes since 1.11.4
-----------------------------

Chris Wilson (21):
      version: Post-release version bump to 1.11.5
      skia: Setup opacity for cairo_paint_with_alpha()
      image: Support SRC compositing with in the inline span-compositor
      clip: Intialise polygon fill-rule prior to use
      spans-compositor: Only destroy the clip if we made the copy
      trace: Add breadcrumb for cairo_image_surface_get_data()
      gl: Manually invert images without MESA_pack_invert extension
      stroke: Adapt rectilinear stroker to handle separable non-unity scaling
      win32: Check for damage before blitting
      compositor: Add tracing for damage
      damage: Fix memcpy size
      win32: Fix damage flushing
      win32: Hook up glyph creation again
      win32: Remove obsolete font rendering routines
      directfb: Tweak, tweak, tweak.
      image: Fix leak of white solid color for masked composition of CLEAR
      test: Tweak the results summary
      win32: Copy back the fallback damage to the right location
      win32: mark-dirty cannot assume the fallback has been discarded
      cairo: Add some missing doc entries for cairo_raster_source_pattern_t
      version: bump for 1.12.0 release!

Chuanbo Weng (1):
      subsurface: Avoid potential crash when subsurface's size is less than 0

Dongyeon Kim (1):
      trace: Wrap GL surfaces

Henry (Yu) Song (2):
      scaled-font: Ignore empty glyphs when checking for potential overlap
      boilerplate/gl: set width and height to be at least 1

Henry Song (1):
      gl: use direct mode for uploading gradient texture

Igor Oliveira (1):
      gl: GL_UNPACK_ROW_LENGTH does not accept negative values

Kouhei Sutou (1):
      skia: add a missing header into archive

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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