[Fontconfig] fontconfig-2.11.0 has been released

Akira TAGOH akira at tagoh.org
Thu Oct 10 23:58:09 PDT 2013


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Greetings,

After spending about 10 months for development since the latest stable
release 2.10.2 had been released, we can finally announce 2.11.0 here
that contains a lot of bug fixes, enhancements, and new features.

The released tarballs are available here as usual place:
  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/

sha256sum:
cb0e0ef6f03bc8568e95653840bb07d5859dc89d7ce2cade9d94fcccf8c1a467
fontconfig-2.11.0.tar.bz2
274c047487b90dacbaa55f4d70b8cdcd556944e7251ce9cf1de442c00a16343b
fontconfig-2.11.0.tar.gz
d8ba2e7e9fec61bdbdb6e48783ef67af84fb31ba38e00474722c7c96593a11f1
ChangeLog-2.11.0

Here is the summary of changes since 2.10.2:
- Make fontconfig thread-safe
- Use O_CLOEXEC to open a file
- Fix/improve portability issues
- new tool, fc-validate to check the glyph coverage against the language
- Deprecation:
  - FcName(Un)RegisterObjectTypes()
  - FcName(Un)RegisterConstants()
  - FC_RASTERIZER
- User-defined numerical expressions support in the matrix element
  - See conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf for example
- Add new rule to scale the bitmap font and enabled by default
- New objects support in FcPattern
  - FC_FONT_FEATURES
  - FC_PRGNAME
  - FC_HASH
  - FC_POSTSCRIPT_NAME
- The cache version bumped to 4
- Support intermixed edit and test elements
- Support delete and delete_all mode in edit element
- Add --sysroot option to fc-cache
- Fix the parser to ignore the leading whitespaces in the parameter
- Auto migration for XDG Base Directory Specification
- Match on FC_SCALABLE and FC_FONTFORMAT
- Add quz.orth
- Improve 30-metric-aliases.conf
- Workaround the race condition issue on updating cache

Thanks all who got involved with this release and please file a bug to
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=fontconfig when you
have any issues on this release.


Enjoy,
-- 
Akira TAGOH
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