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   1                         Fontconfig
   2         Font configuration and customization library
   3                       Version 2.3.95
   4                          2006-04-26
   5
   6
   7 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
   8 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
   9
  10 2.3.95
  11
  12 Match 'Standard Symbols L' for 'Symbol'.  Add URW fonts as aliases for
  13 all of the PostScript fonts.  (reported by Miguel Rodriguez).  Fix a
  14 number of Coverity defects (Frederic Crozat).  Speed up FcFontSort
  15 (fix suggested by Kenichi Handa).  Fix error with charsets.  Survive
  16 missing docbook2pdf.  Compile on HP-UX, AIX, SGI and Windows (Cygwin,
  17 MinGW).  Fix intel compiler warnings.  Fix multiarch support (don't
  18 destroy multiarch files!)  Require pkg-config.  (Thanks Behdad; better
  19 solution wanted for libxml2 detection!)  Fix typos in orth files and
  20 add orth for Lingala (reported by Denis Jacquerye).  Remove debian/
  21 directory.  Add a configuration file that disables hinting for the
  22 Lohit Gujarati font (since the hinting distorts some glyphs quite
  23 badly).  Sort directory entries while scanning them from disk;
  24 prevents Heisenbugs due to file ordering in a directory (due to Egmont
  25 Koblinger).  Fix Wine's problem with finding fonts.  (Reported by
  26 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.)  Fix the issues with GNU libiconv vs. libc
  27 iconv (which especially appear on Solarii); patch by Behdad Esfahbod,
  28 approach suggested by Tim Mooney.
  29
  30 2.3.94
  31
  32 fc-cat can take directories as input and creates old-style fonts.cache
  33 listings.
  34 fc-cache takes -r --really-force which blows away all old caches and
  35 regenerates.
  36 Robustness fixes, integer overflow fixes (notably to cache handling
  37 code), toast broken global cache files.
  38 Change binary format to make it compatible with static langset
  39 information (thanks to Takashi Iwai).
  40 Open hashed caches before fonts.cache-2 (Takashi Iwai).
  41 Fix FcFontSetMatch's algorithm, which used to unjustly kill fonts for
  42 not declaring certain elements (Takashi Iwai).
  43 Fix matching bug when multiple elements match; don't use
  44 the sum of all scores, but the best score (James Su).
  45 Make fc-lang more friendly to Windows systems.
  46 Remove archaic chars from Georgian charset; add Euro character to
  47 charsets for European languages.
  48 Fix treatment of broken PCF fonts that don't declare family names.
  49 Pass O_BINARY to open if appropriate (reported by Doodle).
  50 Normalize font directories to the form in which they appear in
  51 config files.
  52 Add a record of the cached directory to the cache file.
  53 Perf optimizations (Dirk Mueller; some reported by Michael Meeks.)
  54 Don't loop infinitely on recursive symlinks.
  55 Make 'make distcheck' work with automake 1.6.3.
  56 Replace 'stamp' target with mkinstalldirs.
  57 Don't stop scanning if a directory in fonts.conf doesn't exist,
  58 because subsequent directories might exist.
  59 Put directory names into global cache (reported by Ronny V. Vindenes).
  60 Treat zh-hk fonts differently from zh-tw fonts.  This patch may cause
  61 fontconfig to treat A-X fonts differently from A-Y fonts; please mail
  62 the fontconfig list if this causes any problems.
  63 Fix for unaligned memory accesses (Andreas Schwab).
  64 Fix treatment of cache directory as read from cache file; don't use
  65 string equality to determine if we have the right file, use inode
  66 equality.
  67 Properly skip past dir caches that contain zero fonts, as occurs
  68 in global caches (reported by Mike Fabian).
  69 Print out full pathname in fc-match -v (reported by Frederic Crozat).
  70 Fix bug where fc-match crashes when given __DUMMY__ property to
  71 match on.
  72
  73 2.3.93
  74
  75 Create cache files in /var/cache/fontconfig with hashed filenames, if
  76 possible, for added FHS compliance.
  77 Make fc-cat read both per-directory and global cache files.
  78 Add config file for Persian fonts from Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc.
  79 Major performance improvements by Dirk Mueller, Stephen Kulow, and Michael Matz at SuSE: in particular, speed up FcFontSetMatch, and inline many functions.
  80 Fix treatment of globs in config files, broken since 2.3.2 and discovered by Mathias Clasen.
  81 Don't use freetype internal headers (patch by Matthias Clasen).
  82 Further space improvements: create langsets statically, so that they can live in .rodata.
  83 Properly align mmapped data structures to make e.g. ia64 happy.
  84 Bug fixes.
  85
  86 2.3.92
  87
  88 Fix corrupted caches bugs from 2.3.91 (reported by Mike Fabian).
  89 Store only basename in the cache, reconstitute on demand
  90 (reported by James Cloos).
  91 Change the rule for artificial emboldening in fonts.conf.in.  This
  92 enables the support for artificial emboldening included in cairo
  93 (patch by Zhe Su).
  94 Add FC_EMBEDDED_BITMAP object type to tell Xft/Cairo whether
  95 to load embedded bitmaps or not (patch by Jinghua Luo).
  96 Fix GCC4 warnings (some by Behdad Esfahbod).
  97 Support localized font family and style names; this has been reported
  98 to break old apps like xfd, but modern (gtk+/qt/mozilla) apps work
  99 fine (patch by Zhe Su).
 100 Prevent fc-list from escaping strings when printing them (reported by
 101 Matthias Clasen).
 102 Add valist sentinel markup for FcObjectSetBuild and
 103 FcPatternBuild (patch by Marcus Meissner).
 104 Add consts to variables so as to move arrays into .rodata (patch by
 105 Ross Burton).
 106 Modify config file to use Greek fonts before Asian fonts with
 107 Greek glyphs. (patch by Simos Xenitellis).
 108 Use libtool -no-undefined flag on all platforms (patch by Christian
 109 Biesinger).
 110
 111 2.3.91
 112
 113 Use libxml2 if requested or if expat not available. (Mathias Hasselmann)
 114 Fix multi-arch cache files: compute the position for the
 115 block to be added using info from OrigFile, not NewFile. (plam)
 116 Cast results of sizeof() to unsigned int to get rid of
 117 warnings on x86_64 (reported by Matthias Clasen).
 118 Use FcAtomic to rewrite cache files; don't unlink the fonts.cache-2
 119 file even if there's no data to write; just write an empty cache file.
 120 (Reported by Lubos Lunak)
 121 Allocate room for the subdirectory names in each directory cache.
 122 (Reported by James Cloos)
 123
 124 2.3.90
 125
 126 Development release of mmap patch: load pattern information
 127 directly from cache files.  (Patrick Lam)
 128
 129 2.3.2
 130
 131 Patch memory leaks in using iconv.  (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
 132 Patch memory leaks in fc-cache. (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
 133 Fetch bitmap glyphs to get widths during font evaluation. (keithp)
 134 Share strings through FcObjectStaticName (Ross Burton)
 135 Windows build updates (Tor Lillqvist)
 136
 137 2.3.1
 138
 139 Be more careful about broken GSUB/GPOS tables (Manish Singh)
 140 Include debian packaging stuff in CVS (Josselin Mouette)
 141 Add more conf.d examples (Keith Packard)
 142 Make manuals build again (Keith Packard)
 143 Johap -> Johab (Funda Wang)
 144
 145 2.3.0
 146
 147 Fix memory leak of patterns rejected by configuration (#2518)
 148
 149 Create prototype /etc/fonts/conf.d directory and populate it with a few
 150 sample files.  These samples are unused as the file names don't start with
 151 numbers.
 152
 153 Update documentation.
 154
 155 2.2.99
 156
 157 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
 158
 159 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
 160
 161 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
 162
 163 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
 164
 165 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
 166
 167 2.2.98
 168
 169 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
 170
 171 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
 172
 173 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
 174
 175 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
 176 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
 177
 178 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
 179
 180 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
 181 (Keith Packard)
 182
 183 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
 184
 185 2.2.97
 186
 187 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
 188 ordered.
 189
 190 Added Punjai orthography.
 191
 192 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now.  Too many problems.
 193
 194 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
 195 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
 196
 197 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory.  Files
 198 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
 199
 200 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
 201
 202 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
 203 function in newer versions of FreeType.
 204
 205 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
 206 files.
 207
 208 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
 209 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
 210
 211 2.2.96
 212
 213 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
 214 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
 215 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
 216
 217 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
 218
 219 2.2.95
 220
 221 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
 222
 223 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
 224 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
 225
 226 2.2.94
 227
 228 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
 229 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
 230
 231 2.2.93
 232
 233 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3.  Significant changes from
 234 2.2.92 are:
 235
 236  o      Use new FreeType #include syntax
 237  o      use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
 238         FreeType changed the semantics.  Still uses height for
 239         older versions of FreeType
 240  o      Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
 241
 242 2.2.92
 243
 244  o      make distcheck work
 245
 246 2.2.91
 247
 248  o      Switch to SGML manuals
 249  o      Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
 250  o      Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
 251
 252 2.2
 253
 254 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
 255 customization library.  Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
 256 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
 257
 258 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
 259 rasterization library on the application.  The X-specific library
 260 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
 261
 262 Keith Packard
 263 keithp@keithp.com