[cairo-commit] [cairo-www] src/news
Carl Worth
cworth at freedesktop.org
Fri Apr 11 15:09:44 PDT 2008
src/news/cairo-1.6.4.mdwn | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 69 insertions(+)
New commits:
commit 1cfa9cb34251819e366b120542486bba4945c819
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date: Fri Apr 11 15:09:26 2008 -0700
Add news for cairo 1.6.4
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+[[meta title="cairo 1.6.4 release available"]]
+[[meta date="2008-04-11"]]
+
+ From: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
+ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:08:04 -0700
+ To: cairo-announce at cairographics.org
+ CC: gnome-announce-list at gnome.org
+ Subject: cairo release 1.6.4 now available
+
+ The cairo community is wildly embarrassed to announce the 1.6.4
+ release of the cairo graphics library. This release reverts the xlib
+ locking change introduced in 1.6.4, (and the application crashes that
+ it caused). The community would be glad to sack its current release
+ manager and is accepting applications for someone who could do the job
+ with more discipline.
+
+ We do hope you'll have fun with cairo, and we also hope that the
+ recent spike in traffic on the cairo-announce mailing list is now
+ officially over.
+
+ -Carl
+
+ Release 1.6.4 (2008-04-11 Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>)
+ =========================================================
+ A new cairo release 1.6.4 is now available from:
+
+ http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz
+
+ which can be verified with:
+
+ http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz.sha1
+ 9d990fe39a125ceb07221623c237cd7015855d5c cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz
+
+ http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.6.4.tar.gz.sha1.asc
+ (signed by Carl Worth)
+
+ Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
+
+ git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo
+
+ will include a signed 1.6.4 tag which points to a commit named:
+ 08a804806355d99d7968976d6afb98bbc0f2613d
+
+ which can be verified with:
+ git verify-tag 1.6.4
+
+ and can be checked out with a command such as:
+ git checkout -b build 1.6.4
+
+ Revert 'add missing locking in cairo-xlib'
+ ------------------------------------------
+ This change was introduced in cairo 1.6.2, but also introduced a bug
+ which causes many cairo-xlib applications to crash, (with a
+ segmentation fault inside of XSetClipMask). Instead of attempting
+ another fix for the broken fix, the change in 1.6.2 has been
+ reverted. The original bug which the change was addressing has been
+ present since at least cairo 1.4, so it is not expected that leaving
+ this bug unfixed will cause any new problems for applications moving
+ from cairo 1.4 to cairo 1.6.
+
+ At this point, the code of cairo 1.6.4 differs from cairo 1.6.0 only
+ in the fix for the PostScript-printer crashes.
+
+ Tweak build to avoid linking with g++
+ -------------------------------------
+ Cairo 1.6.4 avoids a quirk in automake that was causing the cairo
+ library to be linked with g++ and linked against libstdc++ even when
+ only C source files were compiled for the library.
+
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