[ft-announce] Announcing FreeType 2.11.1

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.11.1 has been released.

It is available from

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/

or

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/

The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library.

See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file.

Enjoy!


   Werner


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FreeType 2  is a software  font engine that  is designed to  be small,
efficient,  highly   customizable,  and  portable   while  capable  of
producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap
font formats.

Note that  FreeType 2 is  a font service  and doesn't provide  APIs to
perform higher-level features, like text layout or graphics processing
(e.g.,  colored  text  rendering,  `hollowing',  etc.).   However,  it
greatly simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use, and
uniform interface to access the content of font files.

FreeType  2  is  released  under  two open-source  licenses:  our  own
BSD-like FreeType  License and the  GPL.  It can  thus be used  by any
kind of projects, be they proprietary or not.


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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.11.0 and 2.11.1

  I. IMPORTANT CHANGES

    - Some  fields  in  the  `CID_FaceDictRec`, `CID_FaceInfoRec`, and
      `FT_Data` structures  have been changed  from signed to unsigned
      type,  which  better reflects  the actual usage.  It is also  an
      additional means to protect against malformed input.


  II. MISCELLANEOUS

    - Cmake support  has been  further improved.   To do  that various
      backward-incompatible  changes were  necessary; please  see file
      `CMakeLists.txt` for more details.

    - Since version  2.11.0, a  C99 compiler  is necessary  to compile
      FreeType.

    - The experimental  'COLR' v1 API  has been updated to  the latest
      OpenType standard 1.9.

    - The `apinames` tool got a new  option `-wV` to output an OpenVMS
      Linker Option File.

    - VMS support was updated.

    - MS Visual Studio support was added to build the demo programs.