2 Font configuration and customization library
3 Version 2.4.91 (2.5 RC1)
7 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
8 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
13 Update CaseFolding.txt to Unicode 5.1.0
16 Add/fix *.orth files for South African languages
19 Handle Japanese fonts better. (debian bug #435971)
22 rehash increment could be zero, causing rehash infinite loop.
23 Work around FreeType bug when glyph name buffer is too small.
24 Free temporary string in FcDirCacheUnlink (Bug #11758)
25 Fix ChangeLog generation to avoid circular make dependency
26 Store font directory mtime in cache file.
27 Comment about mmaping cache files was misleading.
28 Make FC_FULLNAME include all fullname entries, elide nothing. [bug 12827]
29 Remove unneeded call to access(2) in fc-cache.
30 Improve verbose messages from fc-cache.
31 Verbose message about cleaning directories was imprecise
32 Don't use X_OK bit when checking for writable directories (bug 12438)
33 Have fc-cache remove invalid cache files from cache directories.
34 FcConfigParseAndLoad doc was missing the last param.
35 Place language name in constant array instead of pointer.
36 Must not insert cache into hash table before completely validating.
37 Eliminate relocations for glyph name table.
38 Eliminate relocations from FcCodePageRange structure (bug 10982).
39 Leave generated headers out of distribution (bug 12734).
40 Move <cachedir> elements to the end of fonts.conf.
41 Add BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK to list of blank glyphs.
42 Replace makealias pattern with something supported by POSIX grep (bug 11083)
43 FcInit should return FcFalse when FcInitLoadConfigAndFonts fails. (bug 10976)
44 There is no U+1257 (bug 10899).
45 Spelling errors in documentation. (bug 10879).
46 Oops. Left debugging printf in previous commit.
47 Handle UltraBlack weight.
48 Fix parallel build in fontconfig/docs (bug 10481).
49 Distribute man source files for command line programs (bug 9678).
50 Ensure weight/slant values present even when style is supplied (bug 9313).
51 fontconfig needs configure option to use gnu iconv (bug 4083).
52 Match 'ultra' on word boundaries to detect ultra bold fonts. (bug 2511)
53 Build fix for Solaris 10 with GCC.
56 Avoid crashes if config files contain junk.
59 Make FcPatternDuplicate copy the binding instead of always using Strong.
62 Store FcNoticeFoundries in read-only memory.
63 Store FcVendorFoundries in read-only memory.
68 FcStrCanonFileName buggy for mingw. (bug 8311)
69 More fixes for Win32 building (bug 8311)
72 Don't use varargs CPP macros in fccache.c. (bug 8733)
75 Remove documentation for non-existant FcConfigNormalizeFontDir.
76 Build fontconfig.def from header files when needed.
77 Detect and use available random number generator (bug 8308)
78 Add sparc64 architecture string.
79 FcStrCanonAbsoluteFilename should be static.
80 Use explicit platform/nameid order when scanning ttf files.
81 Warn (and recover) from config file without <cachedir> elements.
82 Avoid writing uninitialized structure pad bytes to cache files.
83 Fix grep pattern in makealias to work on non-Gnu grep (bug 8368).
84 Add FcFreeTypeQueryFace external API. Bug #7311.
85 Segfault scanning non-font files. Disallow scan edit of user vars. (#8767)
86 Add space between type and formal in devel man pages (bug 8935)
89 Do not clean cache files for different architectures
92 A VPATH build of fontconfig-2.4.1 fails for various reasons. Bug 8933.
93 Use <literal> instead of <sgmltag> when documenting fonts.conf. Bug 8935.
94 Fix fc-cat documentation (bug 8935).
100 Update installation notes for 2.4 base.
101 Add ppc64 signature. Bug 8227
102 Add signatures for m68k and mipsel (thanks debian buildd)
103 Add warning flags to fc-cache build. Clean up warnings in fc-cache.
104 Reimplement FcConfigAppFontAddDir; function was lost in 2.4.0.
109 Replace character discovery loop with simpler, faster version.
112 Move files from conf.d to conf.avail
113 Standardize conf.avail number prefixing convention
114 Support all five possibilities for sub-pixel
115 Move user and local conf file loading into conf.avail files
116 Number the remaining conf.avail files
117 Update Makefile.am to match conf.avail changes
118 Replace load of conf.d in fonts.conf.in
119 Make room for chunks from fonts.conf in conf.avail
120 Re-order old conf.d files
121 Move some section from fonts.conf into conf.avail files
122 Update Makefile.am files
123 Make conf.avail and conf.d work
126 Create fc_cachedir at install time. Bug 8157.
127 Reference patterns in FcCacheCopySet.
128 Replace gnu-specific sed command with simple grep.
129 Attempt to fix makealias usage for build on Mac OS X.
130 Accept locale environment variables that do not contain territory.
131 Merge branch 'jhcloos'
132 Insert newly created caches into reference data structure.
133 Add XML headers to new conf files. Move link make commands to conf.avail dir
134 Rename conf.avail to conf.d
135 Fix conf.d directory sorting.
136 Include cachedir in fonts.dtd.
137 Don't display tests for DESTDIR on make install.
138 Split much of the configuration into separate files. Renumber files
143 Rename FcPatternThawAll to FcPatternFini.
144 Add a configuration file that disables hinting for the Lohit Gujarati font
147 Various GCC 4 cleanups for signed vs unsigned char
148 Finish INSTALL changes. .gitignore ChangeLog
149 Merge branch 'fc-2_4_branch' to master
150 Remove all .cvsignore files
151 Hide private functions in shared library. Export functionality for utilities.
152 Hide FreeType glue code from library ABI.
153 Can't typecheck values for objects with no known type.
154 Leave cache files mapped permanently.
155 Reference count cache objects.
156 Make cache reference counting more efficient.
157 Oops, fc-lang broke when I added cache referencing.
158 Correct reference count when sharing cache file objects.
159 Eliminate .so PLT entries for local symbols. (thanks to Arjan van de Ven)
160 Update architecture signatures for x86-64 and ppc.
161 Parallel build fix for fcalias.h and fcaliastail.h
162 Charset hashing depended on uniqueness of leaves.
165 file Makefile.am was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
166 Modify config file to use Greek fonts before Asian fonts with Greek glyphs.
167 Use libtool -no-undefined flag on all platforms.
168 file ftglue.c was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
169 2005-11-23 Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@mandriva.com>: reviewed by: plam
170 file 10-fonts-persian.conf was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
171 Sort directory entries while scanning them from disk; prevents Heisenbugs
172 file ln.orth was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
173 Fix typos in orth files. Reported by Denis Jacquerye.
174 On Windows, unlink before rename. Reported by Tim Evans.
175 file fc-match.sgml was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
180 Make path names in cache files absolute (NB, cache format change) Stop
181 Eliminate pattern freezing
183 Construct short architecture name from architecture signature.
184 Write caches to first directory with permission. Valid cache in FcDirCacheOpen.
185 Eliminate NormalizeDir. Eliminate gratuitous stat/access calls per dir.
186 Add architecture to cache filename.
187 Eliminate global cache. Eliminate multi-arch cache code.
188 Fix up fc-cache and fc-cat for no global cache changes.
189 Eliminate ./ and ../ elements from font directory names when scanning.
190 Regenerate x86 line in fcarch.tmpl.h to match change in cache data.
191 Add x86-64 architecture and signature.
192 During test run, remove cache directory to avoid stale cache usage.
194 Revert to original FcFontSetMatch algorithm to avoid losing fonts.
195 Rework cache files to use offsets for all data structures.
196 Fix build problems caused by cache rework.
197 FcCharSetSerialize was using wrong offset for leaves. Make fc-cat work.
198 Rework Object name database to unify typechecking and object lookup.
199 Skip broken caches. Cache files are auto-written, don't rewrite in fc-cache.
200 Fix fc-cat again. Sigh.
201 Use intptr_t instead of off_t inside FcCache structure.
202 Serialized value lists were only including one value.
203 Automatically remove invalid cache files.
204 With no args, fc-cat now dumps all directories.
205 Revert ABI changes from version 2.3
206 Change $(pkgcachedir) to $(fc_cachedir) in fc-cat and fc-cache Makefile.am
207 Allow FcTypeLangSet to match either FcTypeLangSet or FcTypeString.
208 Remove stale architecture signatures.
209 Pass directory information around in FcCache structure. Freeze charsets.
210 Fix fc-lang to use new charset freezer API.
211 Fontset pattern references are relative to fontset, not array.
213 Only rebuild caches for system fonts at make install time.
214 Fix memory leaks in fc-cache directory cleaning code.
215 Add @EXPAT_LIBS@ to Libs.private in fontconfig.pc (bug 7683)
216 Avoid #warning directives on non-GCC compilers. (bug 7683)
217 Chinese/Macau needs the Hong Kong orthography instead of Taiwan (bug 7884)
218 Add Assamese orthography (as.orth). Bug #8050
219 Really only rebuild caches for system fonts at make install time.
220 Fonts matching lang not territory should satisfy sort pattern lang.
221 Prefer Bitstream Vera to DejaVu families.
222 Guess that mac roman names with lots of high bits are actually SJIS.
223 Document FC_DEBUG values (bug 6393). Document name \ escape syntax.
224 Move Free family names to bottom of respective aliases. (bug 7429)
225 Unify directory canonicalization into FcStrAddFilename.
226 Allow font caches to contain newer version numbers
227 Add FcMatchScan to resolve Delicious font matching issues (bug #6769)
228 Fix missing initialization/destruction of new 'scan' target subst list.
229 Don't segfault when string values can't be parsed as charsets or langsets.
230 Using uninitialized (and wrong) variable in FcStrCopyFilename.
231 Oops; missed the 60-delicious.conf file.
234 Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
235 2006-04-27 Paolo Borelli (pborelli@katamail.com) reviewed by: plam
236 2006-05-31 Yong Li (rigel863@gmail.com) reviewed by: plam, Bedhad Esfahbod
237 2006-07-19 Jon Burgess (jburgess@uklinux.net) reviewed by: plam
238 2006-08-04 Keith Packard (keithp@keithp.com) reviewed by: plam
242 Match 'Standard Symbols L' for 'Symbol'. Add URW fonts as aliases for
243 all of the PostScript fonts. (reported by Miguel Rodriguez). Fix a
244 number of Coverity defects (Frederic Crozat). Speed up FcFontSort
245 (fix suggested by Kenichi Handa). Fix error with charsets. Survive
246 missing docbook2pdf. Compile on HP-UX, AIX, SGI and Windows (Cygwin,
247 MinGW). Fix intel compiler warnings. Fix multiarch support (don't
248 destroy multiarch files!) Require pkg-config. (Thanks Behdad; better
249 solution wanted for libxml2 detection!) Fix typos in orth files and
250 add orth for Lingala (reported by Denis Jacquerye). Remove debian/
251 directory. Add a configuration file that disables hinting for the
252 Lohit Gujarati font (since the hinting distorts some glyphs quite
253 badly). Sort directory entries while scanning them from disk;
254 prevents Heisenbugs due to file ordering in a directory (due to Egmont
255 Koblinger). Fix Wine's problem with finding fonts. (Reported by
256 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.) Fix the issues with GNU libiconv vs. libc
257 iconv (which especially appear on Solarii); patch by Behdad Esfahbod,
258 approach suggested by Tim Mooney.
262 fc-cat can take directories as input and creates old-style fonts.cache
264 fc-cache takes -r --really-force which blows away all old caches and
266 Robustness fixes, integer overflow fixes (notably to cache handling
267 code), toast broken global cache files.
268 Change binary format to make it compatible with static langset
269 information (thanks to Takashi Iwai).
270 Open hashed caches before fonts.cache-2 (Takashi Iwai).
271 Fix FcFontSetMatch's algorithm, which used to unjustly kill fonts for
272 not declaring certain elements (Takashi Iwai).
273 Fix matching bug when multiple elements match; don't use
274 the sum of all scores, but the best score (James Su).
275 Make fc-lang more friendly to Windows systems.
276 Remove archaic chars from Georgian charset; add Euro character to
277 charsets for European languages.
278 Fix treatment of broken PCF fonts that don't declare family names.
279 Pass O_BINARY to open if appropriate (reported by Doodle).
280 Normalize font directories to the form in which they appear in
282 Add a record of the cached directory to the cache file.
283 Perf optimizations (Dirk Mueller; some reported by Michael Meeks.)
284 Don't loop infinitely on recursive symlinks.
285 Make 'make distcheck' work with automake 1.6.3.
286 Replace 'stamp' target with mkinstalldirs.
287 Don't stop scanning if a directory in fonts.conf doesn't exist,
288 because subsequent directories might exist.
289 Put directory names into global cache (reported by Ronny V. Vindenes).
290 Treat zh-hk fonts differently from zh-tw fonts. This patch may cause
291 fontconfig to treat A-X fonts differently from A-Y fonts; please mail
292 the fontconfig list if this causes any problems.
293 Fix for unaligned memory accesses (Andreas Schwab).
294 Fix treatment of cache directory as read from cache file; don't use
295 string equality to determine if we have the right file, use inode
297 Properly skip past dir caches that contain zero fonts, as occurs
298 in global caches (reported by Mike Fabian).
299 Print out full pathname in fc-match -v (reported by Frederic Crozat).
300 Fix bug where fc-match crashes when given __DUMMY__ property to
305 Create cache files in /var/cache/fontconfig with hashed filenames, if
306 possible, for added FHS compliance.
307 Make fc-cat read both per-directory and global cache files.
308 Add config file for Persian fonts from Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc.
309 Major performance improvements by Dirk Mueller, Stephen Kulow, and Michael Matz at SuSE: in particular, speed up FcFontSetMatch, and inline many functions.
310 Fix treatment of globs in config files, broken since 2.3.2 and discovered by Mathias Clasen.
311 Don't use freetype internal headers (patch by Matthias Clasen).
312 Further space improvements: create langsets statically, so that they can live in .rodata.
313 Properly align mmapped data structures to make e.g. ia64 happy.
318 Fix corrupted caches bugs from 2.3.91 (reported by Mike Fabian).
319 Store only basename in the cache, reconstitute on demand
320 (reported by James Cloos).
321 Change the rule for artificial emboldening in fonts.conf.in. This
322 enables the support for artificial emboldening included in cairo
324 Add FC_EMBEDDED_BITMAP object type to tell Xft/Cairo whether
325 to load embedded bitmaps or not (patch by Jinghua Luo).
326 Fix GCC4 warnings (some by Behdad Esfahbod).
327 Support localized font family and style names; this has been reported
328 to break old apps like xfd, but modern (gtk+/qt/mozilla) apps work
329 fine (patch by Zhe Su).
330 Prevent fc-list from escaping strings when printing them (reported by
332 Add valist sentinel markup for FcObjectSetBuild and
333 FcPatternBuild (patch by Marcus Meissner).
334 Add consts to variables so as to move arrays into .rodata (patch by
336 Modify config file to use Greek fonts before Asian fonts with
337 Greek glyphs. (patch by Simos Xenitellis).
338 Use libtool -no-undefined flag on all platforms (patch by Christian
343 Use libxml2 if requested or if expat not available. (Mathias Hasselmann)
344 Fix multi-arch cache files: compute the position for the
345 block to be added using info from OrigFile, not NewFile. (plam)
346 Cast results of sizeof() to unsigned int to get rid of
347 warnings on x86_64 (reported by Matthias Clasen).
348 Use FcAtomic to rewrite cache files; don't unlink the fonts.cache-2
349 file even if there's no data to write; just write an empty cache file.
350 (Reported by Lubos Lunak)
351 Allocate room for the subdirectory names in each directory cache.
352 (Reported by James Cloos)
356 Development release of mmap patch: load pattern information
357 directly from cache files. (Patrick Lam)
361 Patch memory leaks in using iconv. (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
362 Patch memory leaks in fc-cache. (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
363 Fetch bitmap glyphs to get widths during font evaluation. (keithp)
364 Share strings through FcObjectStaticName (Ross Burton)
365 Windows build updates (Tor Lillqvist)
369 Be more careful about broken GSUB/GPOS tables (Manish Singh)
370 Include debian packaging stuff in CVS (Josselin Mouette)
371 Add more conf.d examples (Keith Packard)
372 Make manuals build again (Keith Packard)
373 Johap -> Johab (Funda Wang)
377 Fix memory leak of patterns rejected by configuration (#2518)
379 Create prototype /etc/fonts/conf.d directory and populate it with a few
380 sample files. These samples are unused as the file names don't start with
383 Update documentation.
387 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
389 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
391 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
393 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
395 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
399 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
401 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
403 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
405 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
406 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
408 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
410 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
413 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
417 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
420 Added Punjai orthography.
422 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now. Too many problems.
424 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
425 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
427 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory. Files
428 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
430 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
432 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
433 function in newer versions of FreeType.
435 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
438 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
439 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
443 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
444 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
447 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
451 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
453 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
454 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
458 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
459 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
463 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3. Significant changes from
466 o Use new FreeType #include syntax
467 o use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
468 FreeType changed the semantics. Still uses height for
469 older versions of FreeType
470 o Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
474 o make distcheck work
478 o Switch to SGML manuals
479 o Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
480 o Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
484 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
485 customization library. Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
486 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
488 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
489 rasterization library on the application. The X-specific library
490 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.