Overview of changes leading to 2.7.0
Saturday, July 25, 2020
- Use an implementation for round that always rounds up, some minor fluctuations
are expected on var font specially when hb-ot callback is used. - Fix an AAT's
kerx
issue on broken rendering of Devanagari Sangam MN. - Remove AAT's
lcar
table support from _get_ligature_carets API, not even much
use on macOS installed fonts (only two files). GDEF support is the recommended
one and expected to work properly after issues fixed two releases ago. - Minor memory fixes to handle OOM better specially in hb-ft.
- Minor .so files versioning scheme change and remove stable/unstable scheme
differences, was never used in practice (always default to stable scheme). - We are now suggesting careful packaging of the library using meson,
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/wiki/Notes-on-migration-to-meson
for more information. - Distribution package URL is changed, either use GitHub generated tarballs,
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz
or, even more preferably use commit hash of the release and git checkouts like,
git+https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz#commit=$commit