[cairo] [cairo-announce] ANN: pycairo release 1.8.0 now available

[Steve]

Pycairo is a set of Python bindings for the multi-platform 2D graphics
library cairo.
 http://cairographics.org
 http://cairographics.org/pycairo

A new pycairo release 1.8.0 is now available from:

	http://cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.8.0.tar.gz
	http://cairographics.org/releases/pycairo-1.8.0.tar.gz.md5

	847f5377c32228a656819f5bd18eb6b4  pycairo-1.8.0.tar.gz

Overview of changes from pycairo 1.6.4 to pycairo 1.8.0
=======================================================
General Changes:
    Pycairo 1.8.0 requires cairo 1.8.0 (or later).
    Add documentation (available separately)

Bug Fixes:
    18101: Add support for threading
    18947: cairo.SurfacePattern should INCREF the used surface

New Methods:
    ScaledFont.get_scale_matrix
    Surface.mark_dirty_rectangle
    Surface.set_fallback_resolution

New Constants:
    cairo.EXTEND_PAD
    cairo.HAS_IMAGE_SURFACE
    cairo.HAS_USER_FONT

API Changes:
    Surface.mark_dirty: no longer accepts keyword arguments with default
    values.
    PycairoPattern_FromPattern (C API): has a new 'base' argument -
    to fix #18947.

Other Changes:
    Allow unknown cairo Pattern/Surface types to use the pycairo base
    Pattern/Surface type.


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