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

[Chris Wilson]

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commit fde406e2bcd7b951aaaa49f2c100e5522cf67886
Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Jun 16 14:35:53 2009 +0100

    news: Add notes for 1.8.8 release

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+[[!meta title="cairo 1.8.8 release available"]]
+[[!meta date="2009-06-16"]]
+
+	From: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
+	Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:26:29 +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 1.8.8 now available
+
+	A new cairo release 1.8.8 is now available from:
+	
+		http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.8.tar.gz
+	
+	which can be verified with:
+	
+		http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.8.tar.gz.sha1
+		e4b8b219427d1ca3dc95f5f44914dce1ae0c3766  cairo-1.8.8.tar.gz
+	
+		http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.8.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 1.8.8 tag which points to a commit named:
+		7dd89ff7a1e04930045d9726f5f21330f54d3f24
+	
+	which can be verified with:
+		git verify-tag 1.8.8
+	
+	and can be checked out with a command such as:
+		git checkout -b build 1.8.8
+	
+	
+	The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.8 release of the
+	cairo graphics library. This is the fourth update to cairo's stable
+	1.8 series and contains a small number of bug fixes (in particular a
+	few corrections to the documentation and a few fixes in the FreeType font
+	backend). This is being released just over six months after cairo 1.8.6.
+	
+	We recommend that everyone using cairo upgrade to 1.8.8.
+	
+	-Chris
+	
+	Build fixes
+	-----------
+	There were reports of incompatibilities with the autotools bundled in with
+	the 1.8.6 tarball.  This release has been built with automake-1.10.2 and
+	autoconf-2.63.
+	
+	The configure check for FreeType has been improved:
+	
+	   typo in check for version of freetype in configure script
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19283
+	
+	Compilation on 64-bit MacOS/X fixes:
+	
+	  Cannot build cairo_quartz_font_face_create_for_atsu_font_id on 64-bit Mac OS X
+	  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15702
+	
+	Bug fixes
+	---------
+	Uninitialised status return within _cairo_clip_intersect_mask(). This caused
+	random crashes and general mayhem as an error could be generated causing all
+	rendering to the context to stop.
+	
+	Avoid transforming nearly-degenerate matrices into degenerate matrices:
+	
+	   Painting stops in this case, using -moz-transform: scale, rotate and video
+	   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467423
+	
+	A few FreeType font handling bugs were fixed:
+	
+	   Rendering with PANGO_GRAVITY_EAST leads to different results with image and pdf
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21985
+	
+	   Don't call FT_Done_Face() on faces we did not create
+	
+	   zombie ft_font_face / ft_unscaled_font mutual referencing problems
+	   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21706
+	
+	Ensure win32 font backend sets the return value to -1 (indicating the absent
+	glyph) if the font index lookup for the unicode character fails. And
+	similarly fix a bug where a fatal error was raised for an invalid glyph.
+	
+	   cairo_scaled_font_glyph_extents breaks with invalid glyph id
+	   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20255
+	
+	Various improvements to the documentation, reported by Truc Troung:
+	
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20095
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20154
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20180
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20183
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20182
+	   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20441
+