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

[Carl Worth]

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commit 417e00a465ca3ac913a6dd18862e9c6d3148ab9a
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 14 15:21:53 2008 +0100

    Add news item for cairo 1.8.4

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+[[meta title="cairo 1.8.4 release available"]]
+[[meta date="2008-11-14"]]
+
+	From: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
+	Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:19:24 +0100
+	To: cairo-announce at cairographics.org
+	Cc: gnome-announce-list at gnome.org, ftp-release at lists.freedesktop.org, pr at lwn.net
+	Subject: cairo release 1.8.4 now available
+
+	A new cairo release 1.8.4 is now available from:
+
+	  http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.4.tar.gz
+
+	    which can be verified with:
+
+	    http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.4.tar.gz.sha1
+	    57fd2c7e0af16bee7cd53436d7c9dc526784f1da  cairo-1.8.4.tar.gz
+
+	    http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.4.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 1.8.4 tag which points to a commit named:
+	    66e8f142e381501d114888c2d1fc1e7f6d6a9857
+
+	    which can be verified with:
+	    git verify-tag 1.8.4
+
+	    and can be checked out with a command such as:
+	    git checkout -b build 1.8.4
+
+	The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.4 release of the
+	cairo graphics library. This is the second update to cairo's stable
+	1.8 series and contains a small number of bug fixes, (in particular a
+	few fixes for build failures of cairo 1.8.2 on various systems). This
+	is being released just over two weeks after cairo 1.8.2.
+
+	We recommend that everyone using cairo upgrade to 1.8.4.
+
+	-Carl
+
+	Build fixes
+	-----------
+	Fix build with older XRender that doesn't define RepeatNone:
+
+	   Build of xlib backend fails against old XRender (RepeatNone undeclared)
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18385
+
+	Fix build with bash version <= 3.0:
+
+	   doltlibtool broken on linux with bash 3.00.0
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18363
+
+	Bug fixes
+	---------
+	Avoid triggering a bug in X.org server 6.9 resulting in a hung machine
+	requiring a reboot:
+
+	    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15628#c2
+
+	Fix display of user fonts as exercised by proposed support for type3
+	fonts in poppler (unsigned promotion fixes):
+
+	    Use cairo user-font for Type 3 fonts
+	    http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-October/004181.html
+
+	Avoid miscomputing size of fallback images required when rendering
+	with CLEAR, IN, or SOURCE operator to vector surfaces, (PS, PDF, SVG,
+	etc.).
+
+	Be more tolerant of broken fonts when subsetting type1 fonts:
+
+	   Error handling in cairo_type1_font_subset_get_glyph_names_and_widths
+	   http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-October/015569.html
+
+	Fix cairo_fill_extents, cairo_stroke_extents, cairo_path_extents, to
+	correctly allow NULL parameters as documented.
+
+	Fix potential crash on emitting a type3 glyph after having drawn text
+	paths from the same font, (for example with cairo_text_path).