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

[Carl Worth]

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commit 60ebed6e4754a434e31ccb5557babf2c081ca7ff
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 28 08:42:20 2007 -0800

    Add release notes for 1.4.12

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+[[meta title="cairo 1.4.12 release available"]]
+[[meta date="2007-11-27"]]
+
+	From: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
+	Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:15:50 -0700
+	To: cairo-announce at cairographics.org
+	Cc: gnome-announce-list at gnome.org
+	Subject: cairo release 1.4.12 now available
+	
+	A new cairo release 1.4.12 is now available from:
+	
+	        http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.12.tar.gz
+	
+	    which can be verified with:
+	
+	        http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.12.tar.gz.sha1
+	        45d5257e5a0c1524bcc25660a96b2c79d012ad3f  cairo-1.4.12.tar.gz
+	
+	        http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.12.tar.gz.sha1.asc
+	        (signed by Carl Worth)
+	
+	  Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
+	
+	        git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo
+	
+	    will include a signed 1.4.12 tag which points to a commit named:
+	        442fa9a106b01f17699397dcc95298071a50fd6d
+	
+	    which can be verified with:
+	        git verify-tag 1.4.12
+	
+	    and can be checked out with a command such as:
+	        git checkout -b build 1.4.12
+	
+	This is the sixth update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes five
+	months after the 1.4.10 release. This fix includes various bug fixes
+	originally developed during the 1.5.x development and backported to
+	1.4.
+	
+	We hope that this is a nice release, of similar robustness to 1.4.10
+	but with many additional fixes. Distributions might choose to use the
+	new 1.4.12 directly. Or the most conservative distributions might use
+	the 1.4.12 branch as a starting point for looking for the most
+	significant bug fixes to patch onto 1.4.10.
+	
+	Have fun with cairo!
+	
+	-Carl
+	
+	Summary of changes in cairo 1.4.12 since 1.4.10
+	===============================================
+	Some of the most significant bug fixes prevent crashes:
+	
+	  * Avoid overflow when allocating large buffers (Vladimir Vukicevic)
+	
+	  * Fix crash with cairo_pattern_set_user_data (Carl Worth)
+	
+	  * Fix broken locking in cairo-ft error path (Chris Wilson)
+	
+	  * Avoid crash when cleaning up after Render extension (Carl Worth)
+	
+	  * Avoid crash for zero-sized bitmap glyph (Chris Wilson)
+	
+	  * Avoid crash with type-1 fonts and ft and atsui enabled (Brian Ewins)
+	
+	  * Fix many error-handling cases in the Quartz/ATSUI code (Brian Ewins)
+	
+	  * Eliminate cairo_stroke crash with scaling near zero (Carl Worth)
+	
+	Other fixes address rendering problems:
+	
+	  * Fix PDF linear gradients without stops at 0.0 and 1.0 (Adrian Johnson)
+	
+	  * Fix PDF CFF subsetting to work with Apple Preview (Adrian Johnson)
+	
+	  * Report proper errors on out-of-memory on win32 (Vladimir Vukicevic)
+	
+	  * Fix EXTEND_NONE gradients for cairo-quartz (Brian Ewins)
+	
+	  * Fix odd-number-of-dashes dashing for cairo-quartz (Brian Ewins)
+	
+	  * Fix erroneous results from cairo_stroke_extents (Carl Worth)
+	
+	  * Force non-AA text when bitmap strikes are available (Keith Packard)
+	
+	  * Fix cairo-atsui font metrics (Richard Hult)
+	
+	And some avoid raising cairo errors for innocent problems:
+	
+	  * Avoid drawing shutdown for glyph-not-found in font (Behdad Esfahbod)
+	
+	  * Don't raise an error for creating an empty path (Chris Wilson)
+	
+	At least one optimization managed to sneak in:
+	
+	  * Free glyph surfaces after uploading to X server cache (Behdad Esfahbod)
+	
+	And there are a few very minor fixes, (such as build fixes).
+	
+	Note: For anyone attempting to backport these fixes to 1.4.10, please
+	take care since several of the fixes are spread across multiple
+	commits in cairo's history. And the related commits are not always
+	adjacent to each other. Please don't hesitate to ask for help or
+	review of anything you might do.