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[Chris Wilson]

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Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date:   Mon Jul 12 12:49:48 2010 +0100

    News for 1.9.12

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+[[!meta title="cairo 1.9.12 snapshot available"]]
+[[!meta date="2010-07-12"]]
+
+	From: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
+	Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:48:33 +0100
+	To: cairo-announce at cairographics.org
+	Subject: cairo snapshot 1.9.12 now available
+
+	A new cairo snapshot 1.9.12 is now available from:
+
+		http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz
+
+	    which can be verified with:
+
+		http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz.sha1
+		486a0b6855aa63bcb333f6ac63307ae8647035ba  cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz
+
+		http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.12.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 1.9.12 tag which points to a commit named:
+		aa4cd8287f47b4538e765e1b48dcbac19813a8a2
+
+	    which can be verified with:
+		git verify-tag 1.9.12
+
+	    and can be checked out with a command such as:
+		git checkout -b build 1.9.12
+
+	Snapshot 1.9.12 (2010-07-12)
+	============================
+
+	  A couple of weeks spent fixing those annoying bugs and cleaning up the build
+	  system; the list of outstanding tasks to complete for the stable release is
+	  finally shrinking. The chief bug fixer has been Benjamin Otte who not only
+	  made sure that the public API is consistent and being tested for its
+	  consistency, but also ensured that the documentation was up-to-date and
+	  spent time clarifying cases where even the Cairo developers have come
+	  unstuck in the past. Many thanks, Benjamin. However, he was not alone,
+	  as Andrea Canciani continued his fine work in isolating broken corner cases
+	  and proceeding to fix them, and tidying up the quartz backend. And last, but
+	  definitely not least, M Joonas Pihlaja tried building Cairo across a
+	  perverse range of systems and fixed up all the loose bits of code that came
+	  unravelled. Thanks everybody!
+
+	-Chris
+
+	API Changes
+	-----------
+
+	  cairo_surface_set_mime_data, cairo_surface_get_mime_data:
+
+	    The length parameter is now an unsigned long (as opposed to an unsigned
+	    int). The parameter is intended to be an equivalent to a size_t without
+	    requiring POSIX types and be large enough to store the size of the
+	    largest possible allocation.
+
+	  cairo_gl_surface_create_for_texture:
+
+	    This a new surface constructor for cairo-gl that explicitly enables
+	    render-to-texture for foreign, i.e. application, textures.
+
+	  cairo_region_xor, cairo_region_xor_rectangle
+
+	    A couple of utility routines add to the region handling interface for
+	    the purpose of replacing existing GdkRegion functionality.
+
+	Bugs fixes
+	----------
+
+	  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/600622
+
+	    Inkscape was caught in the act of attempting to modify a finished surface.
+	    Unfortunately, we had the ordering of our guards and assertions wrong and
+	    so an ordinary application error was triggering an assert in Cairo. This
+	    lead Benjamin to add a test case to ensure that the entire public API
+	    could handle erroneous input and then proceeded to fix a whole slew of
+	    uncovered bugs.
+
+
+	  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28888
+
+	    A regression introduced by the special casing of uploading images to an
+	    xlib surface in-place which was ignoring the translation applied to the
+	    image.