• [subset] Keep CPAL table and don't attempt to prune unused color indices if OT-SVG table is present even if COLR table was subsetted away; OT-SVG may be referencing the CPAL table; for now we assume that's the case (#2814, #2815).
• [varLib.instancer] Downgrade GPOS/GSUB version if there are no more FeatureVariations after instancing (#2812).
• [subset] Added --no-lazy to optionally load fonts eagerly (mostly to ease debugging of table lazy loading, no practical effects) (#2807).
• [varLib] Avoid building empty COLR.DeltaSetIndexMap with only identity mappings (#2803).
• [feaLib] Allow multiple value record types (by promoting to the most general format) within the same PairPos subtable; e.g. this allows variable and non variable kerning rules to share the same subtable. This also fixes a bug whereby some kerning pairs would become unreachable while shapiong because of premature subtable splitting (#2772, #2776).
• [feaLib] Speed up VarScalar by caching models for recurring master locations (#2798).
• [feaLib] Optionally cythonize feaLib.lexer, speeds up parsing FEA a bit (#2799).
• [designspaceLib] Avoid crash when handling unbounded rule conditions (#2797).
• [post] Don't crash if post legacy format 1 is malformed/improperly used (#2786)
• [gvar] Don't be "lazy" (load all glyph variations up front) when TTFont.lazy=False (#2771).
• [TTFont] Added normalizeLocation method to normalize a location dict from the font's defined axes space (also known as "user space") into the normalized (-1..+1) space. It applies avar mapping if the font contains an avar table (#2789).
• [TTVarGlyphSet] Support drawing glyph instances from CFF2 variable glyph set (#2784).
• [fontBuilder] Do not error when building cmap if there are zero code points (#2785).
• [varLib.plot] Added ability to plot a variation model and set of accompaning master values corresponding to the model's master locations into a pyplot figure (#2767).
• [Snippets] Added statShape.py script to draw statistical shape of a glyph as an ellips (requires pycairo) (baecd88).
• [TTVarGlyphSet] implement drawPoints natively, avoiding going through SegmentToPointPen (#2778).
• [TTVarGlyphSet] Fixed bug whereby drawing a composite glyph multiple times, its components would shif; needed an extra copy (#2774).