[cairo-commit] [cairo-www] src/news

[Carl Worth]

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commit ba04c5846cae4f3cdc567f1ef83e215b2eb11e0f
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 14 16:57:43 2008 -0800

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+[[meta title="cairo 1.4.14 release available"]]
+[[meta date="2008-01-14"]]
+
+	From: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
+	Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:55:00 -0800
+	To: cairo-announce at cairographics.org
+	Cc: gnome-announce-list at gnome.org
+	Subject: cairo release 1.4.14 now available
+	
+	A new cairo release 1.4.14 is now available from:
+	
+	        http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.14.tar.gz
+	
+	    which can be verified with:
+	
+	        http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.14.tar.gz.sha1
+	        63310243ba8af949060b06c01fc28ee5471ed5a4  cairo-1.4.14.tar.gz
+	
+	        http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.14.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 1.4.14 tag which points to a commit named:
+	        bdd93f5e8eb5726315cca396240afe7a084348ae
+	
+	    which can be verified with:
+	        git verify-tag 1.4.14
+	
+	    and can be checked out with a command such as:
+	        git checkout -b build 1.4.14
+	
+	This is the seventh update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes
+	little more than a month after the 1.4.12 release. Compared to 1.4.12,
+	this release adds only a handful of bug fixes all of which were
+	cherry-picked from the 1.5 series. One of these fixes a miter-join
+	regression introduced during the 1.4.12 series. See below for details.
+	
+	It would not be surprising if this were the last release in the 1.4
+	series. We're working hard on getting 1.6 out soon, and unless some
+	new, big bugs are discovered in 1.4.14, this will be the end of a good
+	run. We do recommend that anybody running any 1.4.x release, (and
+	particularly 1.4.12), consider upgrading to 1.4.14.
+	
+	Have fun with cairo!
+	
+	-Carl
+	
+	Bugs fixed between cairo 1.4.12 and 1.4.14
+	==========================================
+	Fix a regression (which first appeared in 1.4.12) where stroking under
+	a large scale would sometimes incorrectly replace a miter join with a
+	bevel join. (Thanks to Keith Packard.)
+	
+	Fix handling of fonts that contain a mixture of outline and bitmapped
+	glyphs. There was a change in this handling in 1.4.12 that improved
+	some cases and also regressed other cases. Now, all cases should be
+	handled quite well.
+	
+	Fix xlib backend to not consider recent X server release as having a
+	buggy repeat implementation in the Render extension. (Thanks to
+	Bernardo Innocenti.)
+	
+	Fix several bugs in cairo's PostScript output. These include making
+	the PostScript output more compatible with recent versions of
+	ghostscript that are more strict about Type 3 fonts, for
+	example. (Many thanks to Adrian Johnson.)
+