[cairo] [cairo-announce] [ANNOUNCE] pixman release 0.27.2 now available

[Søren Sandmann]

A new pixman release 0.27.2 is now available. This is a development
snapshot leading up to a stable 0.28.0 release.

News:
   * Support sRGB images and gamma aware compositing [Antti Lankila]
   * Improvement to the MMX and SSE2 backends [Matt Turner]
   * New bilinear fast path for MIPS DSP-ASE [Nemanja Lukic]
   * Faster bilinear filtering for SSE2 [Siarhei Siamashka]
   * New API For fast compositing of glyphs [Soren Sandmann]

Plus a number of other bug and performance fixes.

Soren


tar.gz:
	http://cairographics.org/snapshots/pixman-0.27.2.tar.gz
	http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/lib/pixman-0.27.2.tar.gz

tar.bz2:
	http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/lib/pixman-0.27.2.tar.bz2

Hashes:
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	(signed by Søren Sandmann Pedersen <soren.sandmann at gmail.com>)

Git:
	git://git.freedesktop.org/git/pixman
	tag: pixman-0.27.2

Log:
	Andrea Canciani (1):
	      build: Fix compilation on win32
	
	Antti S. Lankila (5):
	      Faster unorm_to_unorm for wide processing.
	      Remove unnecessary dst initialization
	      Add support for sRGB surfaces
	      Add sRGB blending demo program
	      Add tests to validate new sRGB behavior
	
	Matt Turner (19):
	      mmx: add and use expand_4xpacked565 function
	      mmx: implement expand_4x565 in terms of expand_4xpacked565
	      fast: add add_0565_0565 function
	      mmx: add add_0565_0565
	      mmx: add over_reverse_n_8888
	      mmx: add missing _mm_empty calls
	      autotools: use custom build rule to build iwMMXt code
	      configure.ac: add iwmmxt2 configure flag
	      .gitignore: add test/glyph-test
	      sse2: enable over_n_0565 for b5g6r5
	      sse2: add src_x888_0565
	      Fix distcheck due to custom iwMMXt rules
	      mmx: Use expand_alpha instead of mask/shift
	      mmx: add scaled bilinear src_8888_8888
	      mmx: add scaled bilinear over_8888_8888
	      mmx: add scaled bilinear over_8888_8_8888
	      mmx: optimize bilinear function when using 7-bit precision
	      loongson: optimize _mm_set_pi* functions with shuffle instructions
	      sse2: add missing ABGR entires for bilinear src_8888_8888
	
	Nemanja Lukic (2):
	      MIPS: DSPr2: Added several bilinear fast paths with a8 mask
	      MIPS: DSPr2: Added more bilinear fast paths (without mask)
	
	Sebastian Bauer (4):
	      Qualify the static variables in pixman_f_transform_invert() with the cons
	      Changed the style of two function headers
	      Added HAVE_CONFIG_H check before including config.h
	      Use angle brackets form of including config.h
	
	Siarhei Siamashka (8):
	      test: OpenMP 2.5 requires signed loop iteration variables
	      test: fix bisecting issue in fuzzer-find-diff.pl
	      test: Fix for strict aliasing issue in 'get_random_seed'
	      test: support nearest/bilinear scaling in lowlevel-blt-bench
	      sse2: faster bilinear scaling (use _mm_loadl_epi64)
	      Bilinear interpolation precision is now configurable at compile time
	      sse2: _mm_madd_epi16 for faster bilinear scaling with 7-bit precision
	      Change default bilinear interpolation precision to 7 bits
	
	Søren Sandmann Pedersen (32):
	      Post-release version bump to 0.27.1
	      Pass the full image flags to iterators
	      Make use of image flags in mmx and sse2 iterators
	      Add doubly linked lists
	      Add pixman_glyph_cache_t API
	      Move CRC32 computation from blitters-test.c into utils.c
	      Add support for alpha maps to compute_crc32_for_image().
	      test: Add glyph-test
	      Speed up pixman_composite_glyphs()
	      Speed up _pixman_composite_glyphs_no_mask()
	      Speed up _pixman_image_get_solid() in common cases
	      bits-image: Turn all the fetchers into iterator getters
	      test: Make glyph test pass on big endian
	      test: Add missing break in stress-test.c
	      test: Make stress-test more likely to actually composite something
	      In fast_composite_tiled_repeat() don't clone images with a palette
	      Use a compile-time constant for the "K" constraint in the MMX detection.
	      pixman-cpu.c: Rename disabled to _pixman_disabled() and export it
	      Move x86 specific CPU detection to a new file pixman-x86.c
	      Move ARM specific CPU detection to a new file pixman-arm.c
	      Move PowerPC specific CPU detection to its own file pixman-ppc.c
	      Move MIPS specific CPU detection to its own file, pixman-mips.c
	      Move the remaining bits of pixman-cpu into pixman-implementation.c
	      Simplify MIPS CPU detection
	      Simplifications to ARM CPU detection
	      Simplify CPU detection on PPC.
	      Cleanups and simplifications in x86 CPU feature detection
	      Make pixman-mmx.c compile on x86-32 without optimization
	      Add make-srgb.pl to EXTRA_DIST
	      stress-test: Avoid overflows in clip rectangles
	      glyph-test: Avoid setting solid images as alpha maps.
	      Pre-release version bump to 0.27.2
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