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