<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp2466524cyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>The binary wheels are being built and deployed at the moment.</div><div><br></div><div>https://github.com/kyamagu/skia-python/releases/tag/v120.0b5<br></div><div><br></div><div>The combination of OT-SVG on-by-default for freetype and directwrite, and the option to use freetype to load fonts on non-linux, should imply that OT-SVG fonts should "just work" on Linux, Windows and Mac OS, somehow. I'll like to see windows users try to load OT-SVG fonts normally - I.e. via DirectWrite, to see whether that works or not, or figure out why it doesn't, before switching to the non-host font loader path. (AFAIC it should work with directwrite, but doesn't, according to github CI - I don't use windows so am just relying on writing pytests and throwing the tests at CI...)</div><div><br></div><div>It is still beta, as the pytest pass rate was quite low for the m11x's and gradually climbing, currently at 2072 / 2193 for m120. C.f pytest pass rate for the last release m87 was 2171 / 2206. I.e. some 5% of old functionality (even if those are **extremely** rarely used) is still missing.</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Noto Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji; margin-top: 0px !important;">New to this release:</p><p style="margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Noto Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji; margin-top: 0px !important;">New in m120:</p><ul style="padding-left: 2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(31, 35, 40); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Noto Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji;"><li><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px;">Rudimentary support (TextBlob::MakeFromShapedText) of text-shaping via upstream's libSkShaper module. Intially this was added to support emoji's with skin-tone modifiers (#195), but has the fortunate side-effect that now LTR languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Tibetan ...) work as desired in skia-python's drawing. Note libSkShaper is buggy on windows. ( <a href="https://issues.skia.org/issues/310510988" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://issues.skia.org/issues/310510988</a> )</p></li><li style="margin-top: 0.25em;"><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px;">Option to use freetype as fontmgr on non-linux (#213) - using skia.FontMgr.New_Custom_Empty() (upstream's SkFontMgr_New_Custom_Empty). This allows Windows/Mac users to use some font formats not supported by DirectWrite/CoreText (see #195); and also work around bug in CoreText (#138, <a href="https://issues.skia.org/310510989" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://issues.skia.org/310510989</a> ).</p></li><li style="margin-top: 0.25em;"><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px;">OT-SVG font support is on by default now (#212, also see #195).</p></li><li style="margin-top: 0.25em;"><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px;">Vulkan is enabled for Linux/Windows. Most of the APIs were in m87 (stubs?) but were made optional in m98+, and dependent on GPU backend compiled in. For Mac OS X users, upstream removed MoltenVK support in m83, and recommend using Metal backend (TODO).</p></li></ul></div></div></body></html>