Pango-1.15.5 released [unstable]

[Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo redhat com>]

Pango-1.15.5 is now available for download at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.15/
or
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.15

c9f9e2a9d8bbca303e3a110cecb77089  pango-1.15.5.tar.bz2
8d57c9df0de3f95498f8e5a1060d9f4a  pango-1.15.5.tar.gz

This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.16.0, which
will be released just in time for GNOME-2.18.  The major change in this
release is addition of lots of new, useful, public API.  For details,
scroll down.

Notes:

 * This is unstable development release. While it has had
   fairly extensive testing, there are likely bugs
   remaining to be found. This release should not be used
   in production.

 * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
   copy of Pango. If you have problems, you'll need
   to reinstall Pango-1.14.x

 * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

About Pango
===========

Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in
the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text
and font handling for GTK+-2.x.

Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout engine can
be used with different font backends. There are three basic backends,
with multiple options for rendering with each.

 - Client side fonts using the FreeType and fontconfig libraries.
   Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or directly
   to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries.

 - Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe for
   complex-text handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or
   directly using the native Win32 API.

 - Native fonts on MacOS X, rendering via Cairo.

The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org)
provides a complete solution with high quality text handling
and graphics rendering.

Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango ships with a wide
selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic,
Hangul, Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all of the
world's major scripts are supported.

As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,
and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.

More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/.
Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

Pango 1.15 depends on version 2.12.0 or newer of the GLib
library and version 1.2.2 or newer of the cairo library (if the
cairo backend is desired); more information about GLib and cairo
can be found at http://www.gtk.org/ and http://cairographics.org/
respectively.

Overview of changes between 1.15.4 and 1.15.5
==============================================
- Fix the "menu accels are two chars wide" bug that was introduced in 1.15.4
- Respect FC_HINT_STYLE in the ft2 backend.  Patch has been in Fedora for ages.
- Require automake 1.9
Bugs fixed in this release:
        Bug 398238 â pangorc file missing from tests directory

Behdad Esfahbod
22 January 2007