Re: Bumping versions used for Cairo and fontconfig for 2.21.x

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

to., 06.12.2007 kl. 09.33 +0100, skrev Frederic Crozat:
> Hi guys,
> 
> while I was preparing 2.21.3 release yesterday, I bumped into a bug
> which was preventing all Bold fonts to be displayed by pango.
> 
> With Bedhad help, we tracked this problem to fontconfig cache which
> wasn't up to date. And I discovered we are still shipping fontconfig
> 2.4.1 by default with 2.21.x jhbuild releases.
> 
> Bedhad suggested (and I agree with him) that we bumped fontconfig
> recommended version to 2.5.0 (which is stable) and cairo to 1.5.4 (since
> cairo 1.6 is scheduled for January (in time for Firefox 3).
> 
> Any objection ?

Not from me at least. I've been running the 2.5.0 release of fontconfig
and 1.5.2 release of cairo here without any visible problems and the
more testing we give them the better.

Cheers
Kjartan