1### Prior Release Notes 2 3Noto Sans CJK 2.003 Release Notes 4April 8, 2021 5 6Release Date: April 8, 2021. 7Listed below are the changes that were made in this release: 8 9* The copyright year was changed from “2014–2020” to “2014–2021.” 10* All fonts have been built as variable fonts. 11* The following JP glyphs have been adjusted to work better with the variable font format: 僎, 噵, 庚, 惺, 意, 摝, 摹, 撰, 暒, 栁, 樚, 漉, 潠, 煋, 牃, 猩, 瑆, 疲, 瘒, 瘼, 盬, 眔, 睲, 腥, 舞, 苨, 菫, 菷, 蔓, 蕁, 蕐, 蕒, 薑, 薥, 薨, 薯, 薰, 蘙, 虂, 蟇, 蟤, 譔, 蹙, 鄜, 醒, 鐉, 饌, 驀, 鬃, 鹿, 隆, 巽, 攇, 葺, 選, 櫶, 靌, 讒, 亴, 舞 12* The scale of glyphs in the intermediate weights (Light, Normal, Regular, Medium, Bold) has been adjusted slightly. 13* Fixed TW mapping for �� U+30EDE Issue [#280](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/280) 14* Fixed incorrect mappings for 請 U+8ACB Issue [#276](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/276) 15* Fixed Heavy weight for �� U+25C4A Issue [#283](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/283) 16* Fixed the Heavy weight for 丈 U+4E08 from Issue [#207](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/207) which was not updated as previously noted. 17 18 19Noto Sans CJK 2.002 Release Notes 20 21November 3, 2020 22 23Version 2.002 24 25Release Date: Nov 3, 2020. 26Listed below are the changes that were made in this release: 27* The copyright year was changed from “2014–2019” to “2014–2020.” 28 29* Addressed Issue [#207](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/207) including glyph changes to U+4E08 and U+5C83. Extension G encodings were added for U+30729, U+30EDD, U+30EDE, and U+3106C and the previous GSUB rules were removed. 30 31* Updated Korean glyph for U+58C4 as reported in Source Han Serif Issue [#87](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/87) 32 33* Addressed Issue [#204](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/204) for U+50E7, U+89E6, U+8FD0, U+9EA4, U+25C4A 34 35* Mapped HK U+5C13 尓 to JP glyph 36 37* Fixed U+21B9 as reported in Issue [#260](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/260) 38 39* Changed Korean mapping for U+51A4 as reported in Issue [#202](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/202) 40 41* The weights for Kanbun glyphs U+3191–U+319F have been adjusted as mentioned in the table at the beginning of Issue [#205](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/205). 42 43* Fixed Korean IVS mapping for U+8ACB as reported in Issue [#276](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/276) 44 45 46Noto Sans CJK 2.001 Release Notes 47 48April 9, 2019 49 50This is an update to Noto Sans CJK. 51 52Changes 53 54Version 2.001 55 56Build Date: April 4, 2019. Built By: Dr. Ken Lunde (小林劍��). Release Date: April 9, 2019. 57 58Listed below are the changes that were made in this release: 59 60* The copyright year was changed from “2014, 2015, 2018” to the range “2014–2019.” 61 62* The placeholder (aka blank) glyphs for U+32FF ㋿, uni32FF-JP (CID+2184) and uni32FF-JP-V (CID+65359), 63which is the code point that represents the two-ideograph square ligature form of the name of Japan’s 64forthcoming new era, 令和 (reiwa), that takes effect on 2019-05-01, are now the actual glyphs. U+32FF will 65be included in Unicode Version 12.1 (2019-05-07). 66 67* All of the mapping changes that were made to the fonts in this release are provided in the table at the beginning of Issue [#202](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/202). 68 69* All of the glyph corrections that were made to the fonts in this release are provided in the table at the beginning of Issue [#204](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/204). 70 71* All of the glyphs that were redesigned in this release are provided in the table at the beginning of Issue [#205](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/205). 72 73* The 45 glyphs that were added in this release, which replaced 45 of the 50 reserved glyphs, are provided in 74 75the table at the beginning of Issue [#206](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/206). The glyphs are at CIDs 65485 through 65529. Two of the new glyphs 76are mapped from code points that are now supported. 77 78* Miscellaneous changes that were made in this release are provided in the table at the beginning of Issue [#207](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/issues/207). 79 80* The following 33 glyphs for ideographs are no longer used, and are expected to be removed in Version 3.000 81(currently unplanned and unscheduled): uni58A6-TW (CID+13852), uni5B0F-TW (CID+15204), uni5B38-TW 82(CID+15300), uni5D45-TW (CID+16313), uni5D93-TW (CID+16476), uni5E61-TW (CID+16819), uni61BE-TW 83(CID+18366), uni64BC-TW (CID+19658), uni6937-TW (CID+21605), uni69F9-CN (CID+21965), uni7158-TW 84(CID+25284), uni71D4-TW (CID+25554), uni720B-JP (CID+25667), uni756A-TW (CID+27154), uni7690-CN 85(CID+27719), uni78FB-TW (CID+28713), uni7BB4-TW (CID+30074), uni7C53-TW (CID+30421), uni7DD8-TW 86(CID+31252), uni7E59-TW (CID+31534), uni7FB3-TW (CID+32075), uni81B0-TW (CID+33147), uni8543-TW 87(CID+35181), uni85E9-TW (CID+35584), uni87E0-TW (CID+36504), uni8B52-TW (CID+38257), uni8B85-TW 88(CID+38372), uni8E6F-TW (CID+39481), uni8F53-TW (CID+39883), uni8F57-TW (CID+39895), uni9407-TW 89(CID+42337), uni9C55-TW (CID+45975), and u24A01-KR (CID+60576). 90 91* The seven per-weight glyph synopsis PDFs now include 2,090 pages, with the first 132 pages showing all 9265,535 glyphs indexed by CID. 93 94 95### Noto Sans CJK 2.000 Release Notes 96 9719 November 2018 98 99This is an update to Noto Sans CJK. 100 101Changes 102 103Version 2.000 104 105Build Date: November 2, 2018. Built By: Dr. Ken Lunde (小林劍��). Release Date: November 19, 2018. 106 107Compared to the previous release—Version 1.004 that was released on 2015-06-16 a large number of changes were made, 108far too many to list here. Listed below are some of the more significant changes that were made in this release: 109 110* A second flavor of Traditional Chinese, for Hong Kong and supporting the HKSCS-2016 standard, was added, 111which increased the total number of font resources by 16, from 72 to 88. 112 113* 155 new mappings have been added to the CMap resources. 66 are from BMP code points, 22 are from Plane 1 code points, 114and the remaining 67 are from Plane 2 code points. Among the 67 new Plane 2 code points, 57 are from Extension B, 115two are from Extension C, three are from Extension E, and the remaining five are from Extension F. 116 117* As a result of removing approximately 1,750 glyphs in order to make room for approximately 1,750 new glyphs, the CID 118assignments of the glyphs necessarily and drastically changed. The CID assignments of exactly 200 glyphs are unchanged 119from Version 1.004: 0–107, 2570–2633, 47223–47232, 47262–47272, 47281–47286, and 65484. 120 121* The Traditional Chinese form of the Radical #162 辶 component was improved. 122 123* The URO is complete up through U+9FEF (Unicode Version 11.0). 124 125* The glyphs for some of the kana were tweaked. 126 127* The glyphs and support for bopomofo, along with their tone marks, were improved. This involved adding the 'GDEF' (Glyph Definition) 128table, the 'mark' (Mark Positioning) GPOS feature, and the 'ruby' (Ruby Notation Forms) GSUB feature. 129 130* The language and script declarations in the 'locl' and 'vert' GSUB features were improved. 131 132* The 13-page glyph synopsis PDFs for the 500 pre-composed high-frequency hangul syllables have been incorporated into the 133Unicode-base glyph synopsis PDFs, and are bookmarked under the “Korean” bookmark. 134 135* Placeholder glyphs for U+32FF, uni32FF (CID+2184) and uni32FF-V (CID+65359), are included. This character has 136been reserved for the two-ideograph square ligature that represents the name of Japan’s forthcoming new era which 137starts on 2019-05-01, and will be the only character added in Unicode Version 12.1. 138 139* Like Source Han Serif, the CIDFont and CMap resources do not include XUID arrays. 140 141* Like Source Han Serif, there are no mappings for the range U+0000 through U+001F. 142 143* Like Source Han Serif, the code points that correspond to Halfwidth Jamo variants map to glyphs that 144correspond to code points in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block. In other words, the glyphs for half-width jamo have been removed. 145 146* Like Source Han Serif, the 'name' table does not includes any Macintosh (PlatformID=1) strings. 147 148* Like Source Han Serif, the Regular weight is now style-linked to the Bold weight. This means that the Bold 149weight may not appear in the font menu, particularly when using applications that support style-linking as a way to make text bold. 150 151* Like Source Han Serif, the 'vert' GPOS feature is included. 152 153* Like Source Han Serif, the deprecated 'hngl' (Hangul) GSUB feature is not included in the Korean fonts and font instances. 154 155 156Known Issues 157 158Please report all issues in the GitHub repository so that they can be properly tracked and addressed, and for greater 159visibility among the user community. The Wiki also conveys some useful information about upcoming releases. Also, be sure 160to thoroughly check the closed issues prior to submitting a new issue, being sure to exercise the search feature. 161 162Because these fonts exercise several architectural limits, particularly the ones that include 65,535 glyphs, some 163environments may have difficulties using them properly, sometimes due to implementation limits or poor assumptions. 164If this is the case, please report such issues so that they can be recorded and tracked. You are also strongly encouraged 165to contact the developer of such environments to report the same. 166 167General 168 169* While not an issue per se, all of the fonts include placeholder (aka blank) glyphs for U+32FF, uni32FF (CID+2184) and 170uni32FF-V (CID+65359), which is the code point that has been reserved for the two-ideograph square ligature form of the 171name of Japan’s forthcoming new era that takes effect on 2019-05-01. U+32FF is expected to be included in Unicode 172Version 12.1. The purpose of including the placeholder glyphs is to facilitate a dot-release shortly after the official 173announcement of the era name is made. 174 175* The glyphs for the four CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G ideographs, which are made accessible via the 'ccmp' GSUB 176feature using their IDSes, will be mapped from the appropriate Plane 3 code points as soon as their code points have been 177deemed stable enough to implement. 178 179 180####General Notes 181 182* The OS/2.usWeightClass value for ExtraLight was changed from 250 to 200. 183See Issue [#86](https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk/issues/86). 184 185* Mappings for U+3164 and U+2D544 (Extension F) were added to all CMap resources, 186and the Adobe-Japan1 IVS <U+2D544,U+E0100> was added to the Japanese IVS definition 187file, SourceHanSerif_JP_sequences.txt. 188See Issue [#37](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/37). 189 190* The glyphs for U+2EC1 ⻁, U+2EEA ⻪, U+2F2C 屮, and U+4EBD 亽 now map to 191uni864EuE0101-JP, uni9EFE-CN, uni5C6E-CN, and uni4EBD-CN, respectively, in 192all CMap resources. 193See Issue [#37](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/37). 194 195* The glyphs for the 52 half-width jamo—U+FFA0 through U+FFBE, U+FFC2 through U+FFC7, 196U+FFCA through U+FFCF, U+FFD2 through U+FFD7, and U+FFDA through U+FFDC—now map to 197the glyphs for compatibility jamo (U+3131 through U+3164). 198 199* The alternate proportional digits and punctuation, along with the alternate 200half-width punctuation, were added to the scope of the ‘fwid’, ‘hwid’, and ‘pwid’ GSUB features. 201 202####Simplified Chinese 203 204* CN glyphs for U+35EB 㗫, U+385C 㡜, U+5015 倕, U+57F5 埵, U+618F 憏, U+63EF 揯, U+6456 摖, U+6660 晠, 205U+66A9 暩, U+68B1 梱, U+6F08 漈, U+76E4 盤, U+7808 砈, U+78DC 磜, U+7A07 稇, U+7A44 穄, U+7BA0 箠, 206U+83D9 菙, U+92EE 鋮, U+9318 錘, U+969B 際, U+9BCE 鯎, and U+9C36 鰶 were added. 207See Issue [#40](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/40). 208 209* The glyphs for U+2F22 夊, U+2F58 爻, U+4F8D 侍, U+62FF 拿, U+6301 持, U+6641 晁, U+6C35 氵, U+6DE6 淦, 210U+6DFC 淼, U+6EB4 溴, and U+81EC 臬 now map to uni590A-CN, uni723B-CN, uni4F8D-JP, uni62FF-JP, 211uni6301-JP, uni6641-JP, uni6C35-JP, uni6DE6-JP, uni6DFC-JP, uni6EB4-JP, and uni81EC-JP, respectively. 212See [#37](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/37). 213 214* The CN glyphs uni3E76-CN, uni414D-CN, uni4A60-CN, uni4BD5-CN, uni4C53-CN, uni4F5B-CN, uni4FB9-CN, 215uni596E-CN, uni5957-CN, uni5A17-CN, uni5EAD-CN, uni5EF7-CN, uni5F73-CN, uni602B-CN, uni62C2-CN, 216uni633A-CN, uni6883-CN, uni6C11-CN, uni6C1F-CN, uni6CB8-CN, uni6D8F-CN, uni6E88-CN, uni70F6-CN, 217uni73FD-CN, uni7829-CN, uni7D8E-CN, uni7ECB-CN, uni8121-CN, uni8247-CN, uni8713-CN, uni8A94-CN, 218uni8B04-CN, uni92CC-CN, uni94E4-CN, uni95AE-CN, uni9F2E-CN, uniFF1B-CN, uniFE14-CN, and u2CD9F-CN 219were tweaked or corrected. 220See Issue [#36](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/36) and 221[#39](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/39). 222 223####Traditional Chinese—TW 224 225* TW glyphs for U+4FB9 侹, U+5EAD 庭, U+5EF7 廷, U+633A 挺, U+6883 梃, U+6D8F 涏, U+6DEB 淫, U+73FD 珽, 226U+7D8E 綎, U+7F54 罔, U+8713 蜓, U+8DA3 趣, U+92CC 鋌, U+95AE 閮, and U+9832 頲 were added. 227See [#40](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/40). 228 229* The glyphs for U+2F61 瓦, U+2FCC 黽, U+504F 偏, U+5553 啓, U+555F 啟, U+58F3 壳, U+58FE 壾, U+591A 多, 230U+61DC 懜, U+627F 承, U+6902 椂, U+6903 椃, U+6947 楇, U+7171 煱, U+76EC 盬, U+77A2 瞢, U+77D2 矒, 231U+8019 耙, U+803B 耻, U+8B04 謄, and U+9BF1 鯱 now map to uni74E6-JP, uni9EFD-JP, uni504FuE0101-JP, 232uni5553uE0101-JP, uni555F-JP, uni58F3-JP, uni58FE-JP, uni591A-JP, uni61DC-JP, uni627F-JP, uni6902-JP, 233uni6903-JP, uni6947-JP, uni7171-JP, uni76EC-CN, uni77A2uE0101-JP, uni77D2-JP, uni8019-JP, uni803B-JP, 234uni8B04-CN, and uni9BF1-JP, respectively. 235See [#37](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/37). 236 237* The glyphs uni511A-TW, uni5922-TW, uni5A6C-TW, uni5FB5-TW, uni61F5-TW, uni750B-TW, uni750D-TW, 238uni7AC5-TW, uni7D73-TW, uni83E1-TW, uni858E-TW, uni85A8-TW, uni8609-TW, uni9138-TW, uni91C5-TW, and 239uniFF0C-TW were tweaked or corrected. 240See [#36](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/36) and 241[#39](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/39). 242 243####Japanese 244 245* The JP glyphs uni3CDA-JP, uni3D93-JP, uni507D-JP, uni5316uE0101-JP, uni595C-JP, uni6C2B-JP, uni70BA-JP, 246uni7669-JP, uni81F7-JP, uni8285-JP, uni82B1uE0101-JP, and uni9B58-JP were tweaked or corrected. 247See [#36](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/36) and 248[#39](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/39). 249 250* The glyphs for a small number of kana, to include annotated versions thereof, were tweaked in very minor 251ways. 252 253####Korean 254 255* The glyphs for U+5173 关 and U+5BE7 寧 now map to uni5173-CN and uni5BE7uE0100-JP, respectively. 256See [#37](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/37). 257 258* The glyphs uniC625, uniC73D, uni1178, uni118C.vjmo01, uni1190.vjmo01, uni1192.vjmo01, uni11ED, 259uni11ED.tjmo01, uni11ED.tjmo02, uni11ED.tjmo03, uni11ED.tjmo04, uniD7B5, uniD7B5.vjmo01, 260uniD7F5, uniD7F5.tjmo01, uniD7F5.tjmo02, uniD7F5.tjmo03, uniD7F5.tjmo04, uniD7F6, uniD7F6.tjmo01, 261uniD7F6.tjmo02, uniD7F6.tjmo03, uniD7F6.tjmo04, uni1112uni119Euni11D9, uni1140uni1175uni11D9, and 262uni114Cuni116Funi11D9 were corrected. 263See [#39](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/issues/39). 264 265* The no-op uni115F to uni115F substitutions were removed from the six “ljmo_0n” lookups, referenc- 266es to uni115F were removed from the six “ljmo_xxxxxx” lookups, and glyph classes are now used for the 267“ljmo_xxxxxx,” “vjmo_xxxxxx,” and “tjmo_xxxxxx” lookups. 268 269 270###Noto Sans CJK 1.004 Release Notes 271 272June 15, 2015 273 274* Restore correct vertical Japanese Kana forms 275 276The vertical kana glyphs that are made accessible via the 'vert' GSUB feature were 277inadvertently reverted to their Version 1.000 forms (except for those that were added in 278Version 1.002, meaning CIDs 65496 through 65505) in Version 1.002, which affected CIDs 27965166 through 65251, 65256 through 65258, 65260 through 65352, 65354 through 65369, and 28065471 through 65484. The correct forms, which were present in Version 1.001, are now 281included. 282 283 284###Noto Sans CJK 1.003 Release Notes 285 286June 8, 2015 287 288- Regularized the vertical metrics across all weights by setting the O/2.uWinAscent and 289 O/2.uWinDescent values to 1160 and 320 respectively and using those sames values in the 290 horizontal header (hhea) table. 291- The ‘locl’ GSUB feature was reconfigured to be usable in a broader range of contexts. 292 293 294###Noto Sans CJK 1.002 Release Notes 295 296April 20, 2015 297 298This release includes a license change, the addition of several new font instances, and a 299number of bug fixes. 300 301---------------------- 302License Change 303---------------------- 304The open source license is changed from Apache License, Version 2.0 to SIL Open Font 305License, Version 1.1. 306 307--------------------------- 308New Font Instances 309--------------------------- 310In total eight (4 languages x 2 weights) monospaced half-width OTF fonts were added, in 311regular and bold weights. 312 313 - Noto Sans Mono CJK SC Regular and Bold 314 - Noto Sans Mono CJK JP Regular and Bold 315 - Noto Sans Mono CJK KR Regular and Bold 316 - Noto Sans Mono CJK TC Regular and Bold 317 318The monospace fonts differ from the existing ones only in that the default (encoded) 319glyphs for ASCII (U+0020 to U+007E), U+00A0 ( ), U+00A5 (¥), U+2011 (‑), and U+20A9 (₩) 320are half-width instead of proportional. 321 322The new monospace fonts can be found in: 323 - All-in-one CJK super OTC font (now includes 36 font instances) 324 - CJK OTF fonts with different default language (two additional font instances for each 325 language) 326 - NotoSansCJK-Regular.ttc and NotoSansCJK-Bold.ttc (four additional font instances in 327 each) 328 329Although eight new font instances were added, the footprint of the super OTC only 330increased by 1M or so, mainly due to the four additional 'cmap' tables. Two of the seven 331OTC now contain eight font instances. 332 333-------------- 334Bug Fixes 335-------------- 336The Noto issues that have been fixed include: 337 338 - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=74 339 - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=126 340 - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=136 341 - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=151 342 - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=182 343 - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=193 344 - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=266 345 346In addition to the issues tracked at code.google.com/p/noto/issues, there are also a 347number of fixes to issues tracked at https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans. 348Please find the details in the release notes for Source Han Sans. 349 350 351Noto Sans CJK 1.001 Release Notes 352================================= 353 354September 12, 2014 355 356With this release there have been a number of bug fixes and some 357reorganization of the packages. The package reorganization carries with it 358a small name change that affects the name of the file, menu name, and the 359internal PostScript name of the original OTF format font. This is a one 360time name change only and names will be stable going forward. 361 362Bug Fixes 363--------- 364There have been a number of fixes but the two most obvious ones are the fix 365in the alignment of the traditional Chinese punctuation and adjustment of 366the designs used for traditional Chinese to align better for usage in Hong 367Kong. 368 369https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=38 370https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=54 371 372Package Reorganization 373---------------------- 374With this release there was an expansion in the number of file formats and 375combinations in which the fonts are being made available. 376 377There are now four major groups of font files by package in this release. 378These are: 379 380* Super OpenType Collection (Super OTC) 381 - This is a new format this release that bundles all 7 weights for all 4 382 languages into one large font resource. It is smaller overall than 383 the combination of the 28 fonts that would be used otherwise because 384 of resource sharing and it is much easier to install. 385 386* OpenType Collection (OTC) 387 - Each OTC fully supports each of the four languages. There are 7 of these 388 with one for each weight. 389 390* Language Specific OTF 391 - Each font file supports each of the four languages by using the OpenType 392 ‘locl’ feature. However, by default, when the ‘locl’ feature is not 393 used, each font file supports a specific language. That means that 394 there are 28 font files - 4 languages x 7 weights. 395 - This format of 4 language specific variants is new with this release and 396 replaces the previous single language variant that required the use of 397 the ‘locl’ feature. This is where the name change occurred as we now 398 tag the various versions with the name of the default language. 399 400* Region Specific OTF subsets 401 - Each font file supports a region specific subset of the full fonts. 402 These contain only the glyphs needed for the specific region. There 403 are 28 of these font files - 4 languages x 7 weights. 404