[poppler] Poppler 0.5.9 (0.6 Release Candidate 1) released

[Jeff Muizelaar]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:58:11PM +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> El sáb, 28-07-2007 a las 20:29 +1000, Brad Hards escribió:
> > On Saturday 28 July 2007 17:42, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> > > I think we are waiting for the write support patch which Julien is
> > > working on right now. I also think we need another release, however
> > > there are still some bugs that, in my opinion, are blockers for 0.6:
> > I can't speak to this, but if there is no schedule for write support, then it 
> > probably can go into a later version.
> 
> Well, that's what Albert said, he wanted to release 0.6 with writing
> support. 
> 
> > > Bug 7856 Transparent boxes are rendered opaque, making text unreadable
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7856
> > >
> > > Bug 5589 image scaling with cairo is poor quality
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5589
> > Those both (now) look to be cairo backend specific, and were known when 0.5.4 
> > was released. I don't think that counts as "blocker" for 0.6.
> 
> Yes they are cairo specific, that's why I said *in my opinion* and I
> understand they are not "blocker" for splash users. 

I've committed fixes for both of these. It'd be nice if we could get
another release candidate out. I'd prefer that to releasing 0.6
immediately, because it would be good to get more testing of the fixes.

-Jeff