Re: Pango-1.17.1 released [unstable]

["Mathieu Pellerin" <nirvn asia gmail com>]

A million thanks for the constant work on Pango, and specially the
time spent on fixing bug 385168.

Cheers,
Matt

On 5/31/07, Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo redhat com> wrote:
> Pango-1.17.1 is now available for download at:
>
>   http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.17/
> or
>   ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.17
>
> 65861273a8e777f125ebfb4cc4d7acfe  pango-1.17.1.tar.bz2
> 54b756fb073d496d079becf8ae3eb2cf  pango-1.17.1.tar.gz
>
> This is the a development release in a series leading to
> Pango-1.18.0, which will be released just in time for
> GNOME-2.20.
>
>
> 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-1.16.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 1.17 depends on version 2.12.0 or newer of the GLib
> library and version 1.2.6 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 1.17.0 and 1.17.1
> ==============================================
>
> - Ported the rest of OpenType shapers to the new OpenType APIs and
>   added standard features to them: Hebrew, Indic, Khmer, Thai, and Tibetan.
>
> - Added N'Ko support to the Arabic module. [Eugeniy Meshcheryakov]
>
> - Small Indic module fix for Malayalam.
>
> - Fixed font metrics returned by the ATSUI backend. [Richard Hult]
>
> - Make itemization use pango_language_get_default() if context has no
>   language set on it.  Ditto for pango_context_get_metrics() if both
>   input language and context language are NULL.
>
> - Improved documentation on vertical text, also added stability note
>   to those parts of Pango API that are not indefinitely stable (shaper
>   and language engine APIs).
>
> - Misc bug fixes.
>
> - New OpenType engine API:
>
>         pango_ot_ruleset_get_feature_count()
>
> - Bugs fixed in this release:
>
>         Bug 357790 – Rendering problem for malayalam consonant RA (U+0D30)
>         Bug 385168 – indic, khmer, and tibetan modules don't apply ccmp
>         Bug 385477 – kern feature is not supported in OpenType layout for Tibetan.
>         Bug 433805 - [Atsui] Approximate char/digit width width often 0
>         Bug 436699 – N'Ko support
>         Bug 438705 – Test runs non-existent "/bin/bash" on HP-UX 11.11
>         Bug 438814 – synaptic crash with pango 1.17.0
>         Bug 440603 – Minor ABI change
>
> 30 May 2007
> Behdad Esfahbod
>
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