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1Overview of changes leading to 6.0.0
2Friday, December 16, 2022
3====================================
4- A new API have been added to pre-process the face and speed up future
5  subsetting operations on that face. Provides up to a 95% reduction in
6  subsetting times when the same face is subset more than once.
7
8  For more details and benchmarks, see:
9  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/subset-preprocessing.md
10
11  (Garret Rieger, Behdad Esfahbod)
12
13- Shaping have been speedup by skipping entire lookups when the buffer contents
14  don't intersect with the lookup. Shows up to a 10% speedup in shaping some
15  fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
16
17- A new experimental feature, “Variable Composites” (enabled by passing
18  -Dexperimental_api=true to meson), is also featured in this release.
19  This technology enables drastic compression of fonts in the Chinese,
20  Japanese, Korean, and other writing systems, by reusing the OpenType Font
21  Variations technology for encoding “smart components” into the font.
22
23  The specification for these  extensions to the font format can be found in:
24  https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/blob/glyf1/glyf1.md
25
26  A test variable-font with ~7160 Hangul syllables derived from the
27  NotoSerifKR-VF font has been built, with existing OpenType technology, as
28  well as with the new Variable Composites (VarComposites) technology. The
29  VarComposites font is over 90% smaller than the OpenType version of the font!
30  Both fonts can be obtained from the “smarties” repository:
31  https://github.com/behdad/smarties/tree/3.0/fonts/hangul/serif
32
33  When building HarfBuzz with experimental features enabled, you can test
34  the “smarties” font with a sample character like this:
35
36  $ hb-view butchered-hangul-serif-smarties-variable.ttf -u AE01 --variations=wght=700
37
38  (Behdad Esfahbod)
39
40- The HarfBuzz subsetter can now drop axes by pinning them to specific values
41  (also referred to as instancing). There are a couple of restrictions
42  currently:
43
44  - Only works with TrueType (“glyf”) based fonts. “CFF2” fonts are not yet
45    supported.
46  - Only supports the case where all axes in a font are pinned.
47
48  (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
49
50- Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
51
52  (Behdad Esfahbod, Christoph Reiter, David Corbett, Eli Schwartz, Garret
53   Rieger, Joel Auterson, Jordan Petridis, Khaled Hosny, Lorenz Wildberg,
54   Marco Rebhan, Martin Storsjö, Matthias Clasen, Qunxin Liu, Satadru Pramanik)
55
56
57- New API
58+hb_subset_input_pin_axis_location()
59+hb_subset_input_pin_axis_to_default()
60+hb_subset_preprocess()
61
62
63Overview of changes leading to 5.3.1
64Wednesday, October 19, 2022
65====================================
66- Subsetter repacker fixes. (Garret Rieger)
67- Adjust Grapheme clusters for Katakana voiced sound marks. (Behdad Esfahbod)
68- New “hb-subset” option “--preprocess-face”. (Garret Rieger)
69
70
71Overview of changes leading to 5.3.0
72Saturday, October 8, 2022
73"Women, Life, Freedom" #MahsaAmini
74====================================
75- Don’t add glyphs from dropped MATH or COLR tables to the subset glyphs.
76  (Khaled Hosny)
77- Map “rlig” to appropriate AAT feature selectors. (Jonathan Kew)
78- Update USE data files to latest version. (David Corbett)
79- Check “CBDT” extents first before outline tables, to help with fonts that
80  also include an empty “glyf” table. (Khaled Hosny)
81- More work towards variable font instancing in the subsetter. (Qunxin Liu)
82- Subsetter repacker improvements. (Garret Rieger)
83- New API:
84+hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_optical_bound()
85+hb_face_builder_sort_tables()
86
87
88Overview of changes leading to 5.2.0
89Saturday, September 17, 2022
90====================================
91- Fix regressions in hb-ft font functions for FT_Face’s with transformation
92  matrix. (Behdad Esfahbod)
93- The experimental hb-repacker API now supports splitting several GPOS subtable
94  types when needed. (Garret Rieger)
95- The HarfBuzz extensions to OpenType font format are now opt-in behind
96  build-time flags. (Behdad Esfahbod)
97- The experimental hb-subset variable fonts instantiation API can now
98  instantiate more font tables and arbitrary axis locations. (Qunxin Liu)
99- Unicode 15 support. (David Corbett)
100- Various documentation improvements. (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
101- The hb-view command line tool now detects WezTerm inline images support.
102  (Wez Furlong)
103- Fix FreeType and ICU dependency lookup with meson. (Xavier Claessens)
104
105- New API:
106+HB_SCRIPT_KAWI
107+HB_SCRIPT_NAG_MUNDARI
108
109
110Overview of changes leading to 5.1.0
111Sunday, July 31, 2022
112====================================
113- More extensive buffer tracing messages. (Behdad Esfahbod)
114- Fix hb-ft regression in bitmap fonts rendering. (Behdad Esfahbod)
115- Support extension promotion of lookups in hb-subset-repacker. (Garret Rieger)
116- A new HB_GLYPH_FLAG_SAFE_TO_INSERT_TATWEEL for scripts that use elongation
117  (e.g. Arabic) to signify where it is safe to insert tatweel glyph without
118  interrupting shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
119- Add “--safe-to-insert-tatweel” to “hb-shape” tool. (Behdad Esfahbod)
120
121- New API
122+HB_GLYPH_FLAG_SAFE_TO_INSERT_TATWEEL
123+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRODUCE_SAFE_TO_INSERT_TATWEEL
124
125
126Overview of changes leading to 5.0.1
127Saturday, July 23, 2022
128====================================
129- Fix version 2 “avar” table with hb-ft. (Behdad Esfahbod)
130
131
132Overview of changes leading to 5.0.0
133Saturday, July 23, 2022
134====================================
135- Support fonts with more than 65535 glyphs in “GDEF”, “GSUB”, and “GPOS”
136  tables. This is part of https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec to
137  extend OpenType in a backward-compatible way.
138  (Behdad Esfahbod, Garret Rieger)
139- Complete support for more than 65535 glyphs in “glyf” table that started in
140  4.0.0 release. Part of boring-expansion-spec. (Behdad Esfahbod)
141- Support version 2 of “avar” table. Part of boring-expansion-spec.
142  (Behdad Esfahbod)
143- Fix mark attachment on multiple substitutions in some cases.
144  (Behdad Esfahbod)
145- Fix application of “calt”, “rclt”, and “ccmp” features to better match
146  Uniscribe behaviour with some Arabic fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
147- Improvement to interaction between multiple cursive attachments.
148  (Behdad Esfahbod)
149- Improve multiple mark interactions in Hebrew. (Behdad Esfahbod)
150- Implement language-specific forms in AAT shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
151- Fix variation of “VORG” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
152- Support for specific script tags to be retained in the subsetter, and add
153  “--layout-scripts” option to “hb-subset” tool. (Garret Rieger)
154- Accept space as delimiter for --features/--variations in command line tools.
155- Improve subsetting of “COLR” table. (Qunxin Liu)
156- Improved fuzzing coverage for ot-math API. (Frédéric Wang)
157- Fix “kern” table version 2 (AAT) sanitization on 32-bit systems.
158  (Behdad Esfahbod)
159- Allow negative glyph advances from “graphite2” shaper. (Stephan Bergmann)
160- Implement loading (color) bitmap fonts with hb-ft. (Behdad Esfahbod)
161- Fix regression in hb-ft when changing font size. (Behdad Esfahbod)
162- Fix build on GCC < 7. (Kleis Auke Wolthuizen)
163- Dynamically load dwrite.dll on windows if “directwrite” shaper is enabled.
164  (Luca Bacci)
165- Provide a single-file harfbuzz-subset.cc file for easier alternate building
166  of hb-subset library, similar to harfbuzz.cc. (Khaled Hosny)
167
168- New API
169+HB_SUBSET_SETS_LAYOUT_SCRIPT_TAG
170+hb_language_matches()
171
172
173Overview of changes leading to 4.4.1
174Wednesday, June 29, 2022
175====================================
176- Fix test failure with some compilers.
177- Fix Telugu and Kannada kerning regression.
178
179
180Overview of changes leading to 4.4.0
181Monday, June 27, 2022
182====================================
183- Caching of variable fonts shaping, in particular when using HarfBuzz’s own
184  font loading functions (ot). Bringing performance of variable shaping in par
185  with non-variable fonts shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
186- Caching of format 2 “Contextual Substitution” and “Chained Contexts
187  Substitution” lookups. Resulting in up to 20% speedup of lookup-heavy fonts
188  like Gulzar or Noto Nastaliq Urdu. (Behdad Esfahbod)
189- Improved ANSI output from hb-view. (Behdad Esfahbod)
190- Support for shaping legacy, pre-OpenType Windows 3.1-era, Arabic fonts that
191  relied on a fixed PUA encoding. (Khaled Hosny, Behdad Esfahbod)
192- Sinhala script is now shaped by the USE shaper instead of “indic” one.
193  (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
194- Thai shaper improvements. (David Corbett)
195- hb-ot-name API supports approximate BCP-47 language matching, for example
196  asking for “en_US” in a font that has only “en” names will return them.
197  (Behdad Esfahbod)
198- Optimized TrueType glyph shape loading. (Behdad Esfahbod)
199- Fix subsetting of HarfBuzz faces created via hb_face_create_for_tables().
200  (Garret Rieger)
201- Add 32 bit var store support to the subsetter. (Garret Rieger)
202
203- New API
204+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DEFINED
205+HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_DEFINED
206+hb_font_changed()
207+hb_font_get_serial()
208+hb_ft_hb_font_changed()
209+hb_set_hash()
210+hb_map_copy()
211+hb_map_hash()
212
213
214Overview of changes leading to 4.3.0
215Friday, May 20, 2022
216====================================
217- Major speed up in loading and subsetting fonts, especially in
218  handling CFF table. Subsetting some fonts is now 3 times faster.
219  (Behdad Esfahbod, Garret Rieger)
220- Speed up blending CFF2 table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
221- Speed up hb_ot_tags_from_language(). (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
222- Fix USE classification of U+10A38 to fix multiple marks on single Kharoshthi
223  base. (David Corbett)
224- Fix parsing of empty CFF Index. (Behdad Esfahbod)
225- Fix subsetting CPAL table with partial palette overlaps. (Garret Rieger)
226
227- New API
228+hb_map_is_equal() (Behdad Esfahbod)
229
230
231Overview of changes leading to 4.2.1
232Sunday, April 24, 2022
233====================================
234- Make sure hb_blob_create_from_file_or_fail() always returns nullptr in case
235  of failure and not empty blob sometimes. (Khaled Hosny)
236- Add --passthrough-tables option to hb-subset. (Cosimo Lupo)
237- Reinstate a pause after basic features in Khmer shaper, fixing a regression
238  introduced in previous release. (Behdad Esfahbod)
239- Better handling of Regional_Indicator when shaped with RTL-native scripts,
240  reverting earlier fix that caused regressions in AAT shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
241
242
243Overview of changes leading to 4.2.0
244Wednesday, March 30, 2022
245====================================
246- Source code reorganization, splitting large hb-ot-layout files into smaller,
247  per-subtable ones under OT/Layout/*. Code for more tables will follow suit in
248  later releases. (Garret Rieger, Behdad Esfahbod)
249- Revert Indic shaper change in previous release that broke some fonts and
250  instead make per-syllable restriction of “GSUB” application limited to
251  script-specific Indic features, while applying them and discretionary
252  features in one go. (Behdad Esfahbod)
253- Fix decoding of private in gvar table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
254- Fix handling of contextual lookups that delete too many glyphs. (Behdad Esfahbod)
255- Make “morx” deleted glyphs don’t block “GPOS” application. (Behdad Esfahbod)
256- Various build fixes. (Chun-wei Fan, Khaled Hosny)
257
258- New API
259+hb_set_next_many() (Andrew John)
260
261
262Overview of changes leading to 4.1.0
263Wednesday, March 23, 2022
264====================================
265- Various OSS-Fuzz fixes. (Behdad Esfahbod)
266- Make fallback vertical-origin match FreeType’s. (Behdad Esfahbod)
267- Treat visible viramas like dependent vowels in USE shaper. (David Corbett)
268- Apply presentation forms features and discretionary features in one go in
269  Indic shaper, which seems to match Uniscribe and CoreText behaviour.
270  (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
271- Various bug fixes.
272
273- New API
274+hb_set_add_sorted_array() (Andrew John)
275
276
277Overview of changes leading to 4.0.1
278Friday, March 11, 2022
279====================================
280- Update OpenType to AAT mappings for “hist” and “vrtr” features.
281  (Florian Pircher)
282- Update IANA Language Subtag Registry to 2022-03-02. (David Corbett)
283- Update USE shaper to allow any non-numeric tail in a symbol cluster, and
284  remove obsolete data overrides. (David Corbett)
285- Fix handling of baseline variations to return correctly scaled values.
286  (Matthias Clasen)
287- A new experimental hb_subset_repack_or_fail() to repack an array of objects,
288  eliminating offset overflows. The API is not available unless HarfBuzz is
289  built with experimental APIs enabled. (Qunxin Liu)
290
291- New experimental API
292+hb_link_t
293+hb_object_t
294+hb_subset_repack_or_fail()
295
296
297Overview of changes leading to 4.0.0
298Tuesday, March 1, 2022
299====================================
300- New public API to create subset plan and gather information on things like
301  glyph mappings in the final subset. The plan can then be passed on to perform
302  the subsetting operation. (Garret Rieger)
303- Draw API for extracting glyph shapes have been extended and finalized and is
304  no longer an experimental API. The draw API supports glyf, CFF and CFF2
305  glyph outlines tables, and applies variation settings set on the font as well
306  as synthetic slant. The new public API is not backward compatible with the
307  previous, non-public, experimental API. (Behdad Esfahbod)
308- The hb-view tool will use HarfBuzz draw API to render the glyphs instead of
309  cairo-ft when compiled with Cairo 1.17.5 or newer, setting HB_DRAW
310  environment variable to 1 or 0 will force using or not use the draw API,
311  respectively. (Behdad Esfahbod)
312- The hb-shape and hb-view tools now default to using HarfBuzz’s own font
313  loading functions (ot) instead of FreeType ones (ft). They also have a new
314  option, --font-slant, to apply synthetic slant to the font. (Behdad Esfahbod)
315- HarfBuzz now supports more than 65535 (the OpenType limit) glyph shapes and
316  metrics. See https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec/issues/6 and
317  https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec/issues/7 for details.
318  (Behdad Esfahbod)
319- New API to get the dominant horizontal baseline tag for a given script.
320  (Behdad Esfahbod)
321- New API to get the baseline positions from the font, and synthesize missing
322  ones. As well as new API to get font metrics and synthesize missing ones.
323  (Matthias Clasen)
324- Improvements to finding dependencies on Windows when building with Visual
325  Studio. (Chun-wei Fan)
326- New buffer flag, HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRODUCE_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT, that must be set
327  during shaping for HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT flag to be reliably
328  produced. This is to limit the performance hit of producing this flag to when
329  it is actually needed. (Behdad Esfahbod)
330- Documentation improvements. (Matthias Clasen)
331
332- New API
333 - General:
334   +HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRODUCE_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT
335   +hb_var_num_t
336
337 - Draw:
338   +hb_draw_funcs_t
339   +hb_draw_funcs_create()
340   +hb_draw_funcs_reference()
341   +hb_draw_funcs_destroy()
342   +hb_draw_funcs_is_immutable()
343   +hb_draw_funcs_make_immutable()
344   +hb_draw_move_to_func_t
345   +hb_draw_funcs_set_move_to_func()
346   +hb_draw_line_to_func_t
347   +hb_draw_funcs_set_line_to_func()
348   +hb_draw_quadratic_to_func_t
349   +hb_draw_funcs_set_quadratic_to_func()
350   +hb_draw_cubic_to_func_t
351   +hb_draw_funcs_set_cubic_to_func()
352   +hb_draw_close_path_func_t
353   +hb_draw_funcs_set_close_path_func()
354   +hb_draw_state_t
355   +HB_DRAW_STATE_DEFAULT
356   +hb_draw_move_to()
357   +hb_draw_line_to()
358   +hb_draw_quadratic_to()
359   +hb_draw_cubic_to()
360   +hb_draw_close_path()
361   +hb_font_get_glyph_shape_func_t
362   +hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_shape_func()
363   +hb_font_get_glyph_shape()
364
365 - OpenType layout
366   +HB_OT_LAYOUT_BASELINE_TAG_IDEO_FACE_CENTRAL
367   +HB_OT_LAYOUT_BASELINE_TAG_IDEO_EMBOX_CENTRAL
368   +hb_ot_layout_get_horizontal_baseline_tag_for_script()
369   +hb_ot_layout_get_baseline_with_fallback()
370
371 - Metrics:
372   +hb_ot_metrics_get_position_with_fallback()
373
374 - Subset:
375   +hb_subset_plan_t
376   +hb_subset_plan_create_or_fail()
377   +hb_subset_plan_reference()
378   +hb_subset_plan_destroy()
379   +hb_subset_plan_set_user_data()
380   +hb_subset_plan_get_user_data()
381   +hb_subset_plan_execute_or_fail()
382   +hb_subset_plan_unicode_to_old_glyph_mapping()
383   +hb_subset_plan_new_to_old_glyph_mapping()
384   +hb_subset_plan_old_to_new_glyph_mapping()
385
386
387Overview of changes leading to 3.4.0
388Sunday, February 13, 2022
389====================================
390- Perform sanity checks on shaping results is now part of “harfbuzz” library
391  and can be enabled by setting the buffer flag HB_BUFFER_FLAG_VERIFY.
392  (Behdad Esfahbod)
393- Arabic Mark Transient Reordering Algorithm have been updated to revision 6.
394  (Khaled Hosny)
395- ISO 15924 code for mathematical notation, ‘Zmth’, now maps to the OpenType
396  ‘math’ tag. (Alexis King)
397- It is now possible to get at once all math kerning values for a given glyph
398  at a given corner. (Alexis King)
399- Fix locale_t portability issues on systems the typedef’s it to a void
400  pointer. (Behdad Esfahbod)
401
402- New API:
403+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_VERIFY
404+HB_OT_TAG_MATH_SCRIPT
405+HB_SCRIPT_MATH
406+hb_ot_math_kern_entry_t
407+hb_ot_math_get_glyph_kernings()
408
409- Deprecated API
410+HB_OT_MATH_SCRIPT
411
412
413Overview of changes leading to 3.3.2
414Sunday, February 6, 2022
415====================================
416- Revert splitting of pair positioning values introduced in 3.3.0 as it proved
417  problematic. (Behdad Esfahbod)
418
419
420Overview of changes leading to 3.3.1
421Monday, January 31, 2022
422====================================
423- Fix heap-use-after-free in harfbuzz-subset introduced in previous release.
424  (Garret Rieger)
425
426
427Overview of changes leading to 3.3.0
428Monday, January 31, 2022
429====================================
430- Improved documentation. (Matthias Clasen)
431- Internal code cleanup, using C++ standard library more. (Behdad Esfahbod)
432- The low 16-bits of face index will be used by hb_face_create() to select a
433  face inside a font collection file format, while the high 16-bits will be
434  used by hb_font_create() to load the named instance. (Behdad Esfahbod)
435- Glyph positions and other font metrics now apply synthetic slant set by
436  hb_font_set_synthetic_slant(), for improved positioning for synthetically
437  slanted fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
438- Fixed unintentional locale dependency in hb_variation_to_string() for decimal
439  point representation. (Matthias Clasen)
440- When applying pair positioning (kerning) the positioning value is split
441  between the two sides of the pair for improved cursor positioning between
442  such pairs. (Behdad Esfahbod)
443- Introduced new HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT, to be used in conjunction
444  with HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_BREAK for optimizing re-shaping during line
445  breaking. Check the documentation for further details. (Behdad Esfahbod)
446- Improved handling of macrolanguages when mapping BCP 47 codes to OpenType
447  tags. (David Corbett)
448
449- New API:
450+HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT
451+hb_segment_properties_overlay()
452+hb_buffer_create_similar()
453+hb_font_set_synthetic_slant()
454+hb_font_get_synthetic_slant()
455+hb_font_get_var_coords_design()
456
457
458Overview of changes leading to 3.2.0
459Friday, November 26, 2021
460====================================
461“harfbuzz” library improvements:
462- Fixed shaping of Apple Color Emoji flags in right-to-left context. (Behdad Esfahbod)
463- Fixed positioning of CFF fonts in HB_TINY profile. (Behdad Esfahbod)
464- OpenType 1.9 language tags update. (David Corbett)
465- Add HB_NO_VERTICAL config option.
466- Add HB_CONFIG_OVERRIDE_H for easier configuration. (Behdad Esfahbod)
467
468“harfbuzz-subset” library improvements:
469- Improved packing of cmap, loca, and Ligature tables. (Garret Rieger)
470- Significantly improved overflow-resolution strategy in the repacker. (Garret Rieger)
471
472
473Overview of changes leading to 3.1.2
474Friday, November 26, 2021
475====================================
476- hb-shape / hb-view: revert treating text on the commandline as single
477  paragraph (was introduced in 3.0.0); add new --single-par to do that.
478  (Behdad Esfahbod)
479- Subsetter bug fixes. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu, Behdad Esfahbod)
480
481
482Overview of changes leading to 3.1.1
483Wednesday, November 8, 2021
484====================================
485- Work around GCC cast-align error/warning on some platforms. (Behdad Esfahbod)
486- Documentation improvements. (Matthias Clasen)
487
488
489Overview of changes leading to 3.1.0
490Wednesday, November 3, 2021
491====================================
492- Better offset-overflow handling in the subsetter library. (Garret Rieger)
493- Improved Unicode 14 properties in the USE shaper, and various other USE
494  shaper fixes. (David Corbett)
495- MATH and COLR v1 tables subsetting support, and various other subsetter fixes.
496  (Qunxin Liu)
497- Support for Pwo Karen / Ason Chin medial la. (Simon Cozens)
498- Apply GPOS positioning when substituting with morx table, if kerx is missing.
499  (Behdad Esfahbod)
500- Apply calt and clig features across syllable boundaries in Indic shaper.
501  (Behdad Esfahbod)
502- meson option for enabling Graphite 2 has been renamed to graphite2.
503- Build and documentation fixes.
504
505- New API:
506+hb_buffer_set_not_found_glyph()
507+hb_buffer_get_not_found_glyph()
508
509
510Overview of changes leading to 3.0.0
511Friday, September 17, 2021
512====================================
513- Unicode 14.0 support (David Corbett).
514- The hb-subset API and the harfbuzz-subset library's ABI are now declared
515  stable. The harfbuzz-subset library would not have been possible without the
516  work of Garret Rieger and Qunxin Liu from Google Fonts, and the earlier work
517  of Michiharu Ariza from Adobe.
518- The hb-style API is now stable and no longer experimental.
519
520- New API:
521+hb_style_tag_t
522+hb_style_get_value()
523+hb_subset_input_t
524+hb_subset_flags_t
525+hb_subset_sets_t
526+hb_subset_input_create_or_fail()
527+hb_subset_input_reference()
528+hb_subset_input_destroy()
529+hb_subset_input_set_user_data()
530+hb_subset_input_get_user_data()
531+hb_subset_input_unicode_set()
532+hb_subset_input_glyph_set()
533+hb_subset_input_set()
534+hb_subset_input_get_flags()
535+hb_subset_input_set_flags()
536+hb_subset_or_fail()
537
538- Removed old unstable harfbuzz-subset API:
539-hb_subset_input_nameid_set()
540-hb_subset_input_namelangid_set()
541-hb_subset_input_layout_features_set()
542-hb_subset_input_no_subset_tables_set()
543-hb_subset_input_drop_tables_set()
544-hb_subset_input_set_drop_hints()
545-hb_subset_input_get_drop_hints()
546-hb_subset_input_set_desubroutinize()
547-hb_subset_input_get_desubroutinize()
548-hb_subset_input_set_retain_gids()
549-hb_subset_input_get_retain_gids()
550-hb_subset_input_set_name_legacy()
551-hb_subset_input_get_name_legacy()
552-hb_subset_input_set_overlaps_flag()
553-hb_subset_input_get_overlaps_flag()
554-hb_subset_input_set_notdef_outline()
555-hb_subset_input_get_notdef_outline()
556-hb_subset_input_set_no_prune_unicode_ranges()
557-hb_subset_input_get_no_prune_unicode_ranges()
558-hb_subset()
559
560
561Overview of changes leading to 2.9.1
562Tuesday, September 7, 2021
563====================================
564- Final subset API is in place and if no issues are discovered, it will be the
565  stable subset API of HarfBuzz 3.0.0. Old API is kept to ease transition, but
566  will be removed in 3.0.0.
567- Various fuzzer-found bug fixes.
568- hb_buffer_append() now handles the pre- and post-context which previously
569  were left unchanged in the destination buffer.
570- hb-view / hb-shape now accept following new arguments:
571  o --unicodes-before/after: takes a list of hex numbers that represent Unicode
572    codepoints.
573- Undeprecated API:
574  hb_set_invert()
575
576
577Overview of changes leading to 2.9.0
578Wednesday, August 18, 2021
579History Repeats Itself (Afghanistan)
580====================================
581- Subsetter API is being stabilized, with the first stable API to happen in
582  3.0.0 release (https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/3078).
583- Support multiple variation axes with same tag, aka HOI.
584- The “coretext” testing shaper now passes font variations to CoreText.
585- hb-shape/hb-view does not break line at new lines unless text is read from
586  file.
587- hb-view and hb-subset has a --batch now, similar to hb-shape.
588- The --batch mode now uses ; as argument separator instead of : used previously.
589- The --batch in hb-shape does not expect 0th argument anymore. That is, the
590  lines read are interpreted as argv[1:], instead of argv[0:].
591- The --batch option has been undocumented. We are ready to document it; send
592  feedback if you find it useful.
593- hb-subset got arguments revamps. Added much-requested --gids-file, --glyphs,
594  --glyphs-file, --unicodes-file, supporting ranges in --unicodes.
595- Various bug fixes.
596
597
598Overview of changes leading to 2.8.2
599Tuesday, July 8, 2021
600====================================
601- Shaping LTR digits for RTL scripts now makes the native direction of the
602  digits LTR, applying shaping and positioning rules on the same glyph order as
603  Uniscribe. (Jonathan Kew, Khaled Hosny).
604- Subsetting COLR v1 and CPAL tables is now supported. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
605- Various fixes and improvements to the subsetter. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu, Behdad)
606- When applying morx table, mark glyph widths should not be zeroed. (Jonathan Kew)
607- GPOS is preferred over kerx, if GSUB was applied. (Behdad)
608- Regional_Indicator pairs are grouped together when clustering. (Behdad)
609- New API:
610+hb_blob_create_or_fail()
611+hb_blob_create_from_file_or_fail()
612+hb_set_copy()
613
614
615Overview of changes leading to 2.8.1
616Tuesday, May 4, 2021
617====================================
618- Subsetter now fully supports GSUB/GPOS/GDEF tables (including variations); as
619  such, layout tables are retained by subsetter by default. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
620- Build scripts no longer check for FontConfig as HarfBuzz does not use it.
621- hb-view supports iTerm2 and kitty inline image protocols (Khaled Hosny),
622  it can also use Chafa for terminal graphics if available (Hans Petter Jansson).
623
624Overview of changes leading to 2.8.0
625Tuesday, March 16, 2021
626====================================
627- Shape joining scripts other than Arabic/Syriac using the Universal Shaping Engine.
628  Previously these were shaped using the generalized Arabic shaper. (David Corbett)
629- Fix regression in shaping of U+0B55 ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE. (David Corbett)
630- Update language tags. (David Corbett)
631- Variations: reduce error: do not round each interpolated delta. (Just van Rossum)
632- Documentation improvements. (Khaled Hosny, Nathan Willis)
633- Subsetter improvements: subsets most, if not all, lookup types now. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
634- Fuzzer-found fixes and other improvements when memory failures happen. (Behdad)
635- Removed most atomic implementations now that we have C++11 atomic impl. (Behdad)
636- General codebase upkeep; using more C++11 features: constexpr constructors, etc. (Behdad)
637
638
639Overview of changes leading to 2.7.4
640Sunday, December 27, 2020
641====================================
642- Fix missing --enable-introspection configure option from previous release
643  tarball.
644- Documentation updates.
645
646
647Overview of changes leading to 2.7.3
648Wednesday, December 23, 2020
649====================================
650- Update USE shaper to 2020-08-13 specification, and other improvements.
651- Don’t disable liga feature in myanmar shaper, to match Uniscribe.
652- Improvements to language and script tags handling.
653- Update language system tag registry to OpenType 1.8.4
654- Support for serializing and deserializing Unicode buffers. Serialized buffers
655  are now delimited with `<>` or `[]` based on whether it is a Unicode or
656  glyphs buffer.
657- Increase buffer work limits to handle fonts with many complex lookups.
658- Handle more shaping operations in trace output.
659- Memory access fixes.
660- More OOM fixes.
661- Improved documentation.
662- Build system improvements.
663- New API:
664+hb_buffer_has_positions()
665+hb_buffer_serialize()
666+hb_buffer_serialize_unicode()
667+hb_buffer_deserialize_unicode()
668
669
670Overview of changes leading to 2.7.2
671Saturday, August 29, 2020
672====================================
673- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused a crash with Kaithi.
674- More OOM fixes.
675
676
677Overview of changes leading to 2.7.1
678Thursday, August 13, 2020
679====================================
680- ot-funcs now handles variable empty glyphs better when hvar/vvar isn't present.
681- Reverted a GDEF processing regression.
682- A couple of fixes to handle OOM better.
683
684
685Overview of changes leading to 2.7.0
686Saturday, July 25, 2020
687====================================
688- Use an implementation for round that always rounds up, some minor fluctuations
689  are expected on var font specially when hb-ot callback is used.
690- Fix an AAT's `kerx` issue on broken rendering of Devanagari Sangam MN.
691- Remove AAT's `lcar` table support from _get_ligature_carets API, not even much
692  use on macOS installed fonts (only two files).  GDEF support is the recommended
693  one and expected to work properly after issues fixed two releases ago.
694- Minor memory fixes to handle OOM better specially in hb-ft.
695- Minor .so files versioning scheme change and remove stable/unstable scheme
696  differences, was never used in practice (always default to stable scheme).
697- We are now suggesting careful packaging of the library using meson,
698  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/wiki/Notes-on-migration-to-meson
699  for more information.
700- Distribution package URL is changed, either use GitHub generated tarballs,
701  `https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz`
702  or, even more preferably use commit hash of the release and git checkouts like,
703  `git+https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz#commit=$commit`
704
705
706Overview of changes leading to 2.6.8
707Monday, June 22, 2020
708====================================
709- New API to fetch glyph alternates from GSUB table.
710- hb-coretext build fix for macOS < 10.10.
711- Meson build fixes, cmake port removal is postponed but please prepare for
712  it and give us feedback.
713  Autotools is still our main build system however please consider
714  experimenting with meson also for packaging the library.
715- New API:
716+hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_glyph_alternates()
717
718
719Overview of changes leading to 2.6.7
720Wednesday, June 3, 2020
721====================================
722- Update to Unicode 13.0.0.
723- Fix hb_ot_layout_get_ligature_carets for fonts without lcar table, it was
724  completely broken for all the other fonts since 2.1.2.
725- As a part of our migration to meson, this release will be the last one
726  to provide cmake port files but autotools still is our main build system.
727  There is a possibility that the next version or the after be released
728  using meson.
729
730
731Overview of changes leading to 2.6.6
732Tuesday, May 12, 2020
733====================================
734- A fix in AAT kerning for Geeza Pro.
735- Better support for resource fork fonts on macOS.
736
737
738Overview of changes leading to 2.6.5
739Friday, April 17, 2020
740====================================
741- Add experimental meson build system.  Autotools is still the primary
742  and supported build system.
743- AAT is now always preferred for horizontal scripts when both AAT and OT
744  layout tables exist at the same time.
745- Subsetter improvements.
746- New API:
747+hb_ft_font_lock_face()
748+hb_ft_font_unlock_face()
749
750
751Overview of changes leading to 2.6.4
752Monday, October 29, 2019
753====================================
754- Small bug fix.
755- Build fixes.
756
757
758Overview of changes leading to 2.6.3
759Monday, October 28, 2019
760====================================
761- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
762- New API:
763+hb_font_get_nominal_glyphs()
764
765
766Overview of changes leading to 2.6.2
767Monday, September 30, 2019
768====================================
769- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
770
771
772Overview of changes leading to 2.6.1
773Thursday, August 22, 2019
774====================================
775- Fix regression with hb_font_create_sub_font scaling introduced in 2.6.0.
776- Change interpretation of font PTEM size / CoreText font size handling.
777  See https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/1484
778- hb-ot-font: Prefer symbol cmap subtable if present.
779- Apply 'dist'/'abvm'/'blwm' features to all scripts.
780- Drop experimental DirectWrite API.
781
782
783Overview of changes leading to 2.6.0
784Tuesday, August 13, 2019
785====================================
786- New OpenType metrics, baseline, and metadata table access APIs.
787- New API to set font variations to a named-instance.
788- New hb-gdi.h header and API for creating hb_face_t from HFONT.
789- Amalgam: Provide a single-file harfbuzz.cc file for easier alternate building.
790- More size-reduction configurable options, enabled by HB_TINY.
791- New API:
792+hb_font_set_var_named_instance()
793+hb_gdi_face_create()
794+hb_ot_layout_baseline_tag_t
795+hb_ot_layout_get_baseline()
796+hb_ot_meta_tag_t
797+hb_ot_meta_get_entry_tags()
798+hb_ot_meta_reference_entry()
799+hb_ot_metrics_tag_t
800+hb_ot_metrics_get_position()
801+hb_ot_metrics_get_variation()
802+hb_ot_metrics_get_x_variation()
803+hb_ot_metrics_get_y_variation()
804
805
806Overview of changes leading to 2.5.3
807Wednesday, June 26, 2019
808====================================
809- Fix UCD script data for Unicode 10+ scripts.  This was broken since 2.5.0.
810- More optimizations for HB_TINY.
811
812
813Overview of changes leading to 2.5.2
814Thursday, June 20, 2019
815====================================
816- More hb-config.hh facilities to shrink library size, namely when built as
817  HB_TINY.
818- New documentation of custom configurations in CONFIG.md.
819- Fix build on gcc 4.8.  That's supported again.
820- Universal Shaping Engine improvements thanks to David Corbett.
821- API Changes: Undeprecate some horizontal-kerning API and re-enable in hb-ft,
822  such that Type1 fonts will continue kerning.
823
824
825Overview of changes leading to 2.5.1
826Friday, May 31, 2019
827====================================
828- Fix build with various versions of Visual Studio.
829- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
830- Bugfix in subsetting glyf table.
831- Improved scripts for cross-compiling for Windows using mingw.
832- Rename HB_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER to HB_OT_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER.
833  A deprecated macro is added for backwards-compatibility.
834
835
836Overview of changes leading to 2.5.0
837Friday, May 24, 2019
838====================================
839- This release does not include much functional changes, but includes major internal
840  code-base changes.  We now require C++11.  Support for gcc 4.8 and earlier has been
841  dropped.
842- New hb-config.hh facility for compiling smaller library for embedded and web usecases.
843- New Unicode Character Database implementation that is half the size of previously-used
844  UCDN.
845- Subsetter improvements.
846- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
847- Misc shaping fixes.
848
849
850Overview of changes leading to 2.4.0
851Monday, March 25, 2019
852====================================
853- Unicode 12.
854- Misc fixes.
855- Subsetter improvements.
856- New API:
857HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DO_NOT_INSERT_DOTTED_CIRCLE
858hb_directwrite_face_create()
859
860
861Overview of changes leading to 2.3.1
862Wednesday, January 30, 2019
863====================================
864- AAT bug fixes.
865- Misc internal housekeeping cleanup.
866
867
868Overview of changes leading to 2.3.0
869Thursday, December 20, 2018
870====================================
871- Fix regression on big-endian architectures.  Ouch!
872- Misc bug and build fixes.
873- Fix subsetting of simple GSUB/GDEF.
874- Merge CFF / CFF2 support contributed by Adobe.  This mostly involves
875  the subsetter, but also get_glyph_extents on CFF fonts.
876
877New API in hb-aat.h:
878+hb_aat_layout_has_substitution()
879+hb_aat_layout_has_positioning()
880+hb_aat_layout_has_tracking()
881
882
883Overview of changes leading to 2.2.0
884Thursday, November 29, 2018
885====================================
886- Misc shaping bug fixes.
887- Add font variations named-instance API.
888- Deprecate font variations axis enumeration API and add replacement.
889- AAT shaping improvements:
890  o Fixed 'kern' table Format 2 implementation.
891  o Implement 'feat' table API for feature detection.
892  o Blacklist 'GSUB' table of fonts from 'MUTF' foundry that also have 'morx'.
893
894New API:
895+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_t
896+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_t
897+hb_aat_layout_get_feature_types()
898+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_name_id
899+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_info_t
900+HB_AAT_LAYOUT_NO_SELECTOR_INDEX
901+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_selector_infos()
902+hb_ot_var_axis_flags_t
903+hb_ot_var_axis_info_t
904+hb_ot_var_get_axis_infos()
905+hb_ot_var_find_axis_info()
906+hb_ot_var_get_named_instance_count()
907+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_subfamily_name_id()
908+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_postscript_name_id()
909+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_design_coords()
910
911Deprecated API:
912+HB_OT_VAR_NO_AXIS_INDEX
913+hb_ot_var_axis_t
914+hb_ot_var_get_axes()
915+hb_ot_var_find_axis()
916
917
918Overview of changes leading to 2.1.3
919Friday, November 16, 2018
920====================================
921- Fix AAT 'mort' shaping, which was broken in 2.1.2
922
923
924Overview of changes leading to 2.1.2
925Friday, November 16, 2018
926====================================
927- Various internal changes.
928- AAT shaping improvements:
929  o Implement kern table Format 1 state-machine-based kerning.
930  o Implement cross-stream kerning (cursive positioning, etc).
931  o Ignore emptyish GSUB tables (zero scripts) if morx present.
932  o Don't apply GPOS if morx is being applied.  Matches Apple.
933
934
935-Overview of changes leading to 2.1.1
936Monday, November 5, 2018
937====================================
938- AAT improvements:
939  o Implement 'mort' table.
940  o Implement 'kern' subtables Format 1 and Format 3.
941
942
943Overview of changes leading to 2.1.0
944Tuesday, October 30, 2018
945====================================
946- AAT shaping improvements:
947  o Allow user controlling AAT features, for whole buffer only currently.
948  o Several 'morx' fixes.
949  o Implement tuple-kerns in 'kerx'; Fixes kerning with Apple default
950    San Francisco fonts.
951- Support for color fonts:
952  o COLR/CPAL API to fetch color layers.
953  o SVG table to fetch SVG documents.
954  o CBDT/sbix API to fetch PNG images.
955- New 'name' table API.
956- hb-ot-font now uses 'VORG' table to correctly position CFF glyphs
957  in vertical layout.
958- Various fuzzer-found bug fixes.
959
960Changed API:
961
962A type and a macro added in 2.0.0 were renamed:
963
964hb_name_id_t -> hb_ot_name_id_t
965HB_NAME_ID_INVALID -> HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
966
967New API:
968
969+hb_color_t
970+HB_COLOR
971+hb_color_get_alpha()
972+hb_color_get_red()
973+hb_color_get_green()
974+hb_color_get_blue()
975+hb_ot_color_has_palettes()
976+hb_ot_color_palette_get_count()
977+hb_ot_color_palette_get_name_id()
978+hb_ot_color_palette_color_get_name_id()
979+hb_ot_color_palette_flags_t
980+hb_ot_color_palette_get_flags()
981+hb_ot_color_palette_get_colors()
982+hb_ot_color_has_layers()
983+hb_ot_color_layer_t
984+hb_ot_color_glyph_get_layers()
985+hb_ot_color_has_svg()
986+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_svg()
987+hb_ot_color_has_png()
988+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_png()
989
990+hb_ot_name_id_t
991+HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
992+HB_OT_NAME_ID_COPYRIGHT
993+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_FAMILY
994+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_SUBFAMILY
995+HB_OT_NAME_ID_UNIQUE_ID
996+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FULL_NAME
997+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VERSION_STRING
998+HB_OT_NAME_ID_POSTSCRIPT_NAME
999+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TRADEMARK
1000+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MANUFACTURER
1001+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER
1002+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESCRIPTION
1003+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VENDOR_URL
1004+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER_URL
1005+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE
1006+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE_URL
1007+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_FAMILY
1008+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_SUBFAMILY
1009+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MAC_FULL_NAME
1010+HB_OT_NAME_ID_SAMPLE_TEXT
1011+HB_OT_NAME_ID_CID_FINDFONT_NAME
1012+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_FAMILY
1013+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_SUBFAMILY
1014+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LIGHT_BACKGROUND
1015+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DARK_BACKGROUND
1016+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VARIATIONS_PS_PREFIX
1017+hb_ot_name_entry_t
1018+hb_ot_name_list_names()
1019+hb_ot_name_get_utf8()
1020+hb_ot_name_get_utf16()
1021+hb_ot_name_get_utf32()
1022
1023
1024Overview of changes leading to 2.0.2
1025Saturday, October 20, 2018
1026====================================
1027- Fix two minor memory access issues in AAT tables.
1028
1029
1030Overview of changes leading to 2.0.1
1031Friday, October 19, 2018
1032====================================
1033- Fix hb-version.h reported release version that went wrong (1.8.0)
1034  with previous release.
1035- Fix extrapolation in 'trak' table.
1036- Fix hb-font infinite-recursion issue with some font funcs and
1037  subclassed fonts.
1038- Implement variation-kerning format in kerx table, although without
1039  variation.
1040- Fix return value of hb_map_is_empty().
1041
1042
1043Overview of changes leading to 2.0.0
1044Thursday, October 18, 2018
1045====================================
1046- Added AAT shaping support (morx/kerx/trak).
1047  Automatically used if GSUB/GPOS are not available respectively.
1048  Set HB_OPTIONS=aat env var to have morx/kerx preferred over
1049  GSUB/GPOS.
1050- Apply TrueType kern table internally, instead of relying on
1051  hb_font_t callbacks.
1052- Khmer shaper significantly rewritten to better match Uniscribe.
1053- Indic3 tags ('dev3', etc) are passed to USE shaper.
1054- .dfont Mac font containers implemented.
1055- Script- and language-mapping revamped to better use BCP 47.
1056- Misc USE and Indic fixes.
1057- Misc everything fixes.
1058- Too many things to list.  Biggest release since 0.9.1, with
1059  over 500 commits in just over 5 weeks!  Didn't intend it to
1060  be a big release.  Just happened to become.
1061- hb-ft now locks underlying FT_Face during use.
1062
1063API changes:
1064
1065- Newly-created hb_font_t's now have our internal "hb-ot-font"
1066  callbacks set on them, so they should work out of the box
1067  without any callbacks set.  If callbacks are set, everything
1068  is back to what it was before, the fallback callbacks are
1069  null.  If you to get the internal implementation modified,
1070  sub_font it.
1071
1072- New hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func() allows speeding
1073  up character to glyph mapping.
1074
1075New API:
1076+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_START
1077+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_END
1078+hb_buffer_set_invisible_glyph()
1079+hb_buffer_get_invisible_glyph()
1080+hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func()
1081+hb_ot_layout_table_select_script()
1082+hb_ot_layout_script_select_language()
1083+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_name_ids()
1084+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_characters()
1085+hb_name_id_t
1086+HB_NAME_ID_INVALID
1087+HB_OT_MAX_TAGS_PER_SCRIPT
1088+hb_ot_tags_from_script_and_language()
1089+hb_ot_tags_to_script_and_language()
1090
1091Deprecated API:
1092-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
1093-hb_unicode_eastasian_width_func_t
1094-hb_unicode_funcs_set_eastasian_width_func()
1095-hb_unicode_eastasian_width()
1096-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility_func_t
1097-HB_UNICODE_MAX_DECOMPOSITION_LEN
1098-hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func()
1099-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility()
1100-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func()
1101-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func()
1102-hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning()
1103-hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning()
1104-hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction()
1105-hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script()
1106-hb_ot_layout_script_find_language()
1107-hb_ot_tags_from_script()
1108-hb_ot_tag_from_language()
1109
1110
1111Overview of changes leading to 1.9.0
1112Monday, September 10, 2018
1113====================================
1114- Added 'cmap' API to hb_face_t.
1115- Face-builder API.
1116- hb-ot-font re-creation should be much leaner now, as the
1117  font tables it uses are cached on hb_face_t now.
1118- Internal source header file name changes:
1119  hb-*-private.hh is renamed to hb-*.hh.
1120
1121New API:
1122+HB_UNICODE_MAX
1123+hb_face_collect_unicodes()
1124+hb_face_collect_variation_selectors()
1125+hb_face_collect_variation_unicodes()
1126+hb_face_builder_create()
1127+hb_face_builder_add_table()
1128
1129
1130Overview of changes leading to 1.8.8
1131Tuesday, August 14, 2018
1132====================================
1133- Fix hb-icu crash on architectures where compare_exchange_weak() can
1134  fail falsely.  This bug was introduced in 1.8.4.
1135  https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=873568
1136- More internal refactoring of atomic operations and singletons.
1137- API changes:
1138  The following functions do NOT reference their return value before
1139  returning:
1140  * hb_unicode_funcs_get_default()
1141  * hb_glib_get_unicode_funcs()
1142  * hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs()
1143  This is consistent with their naming ("get", instead of "reference")
1144  as well as how they are used in the wild (ie. no one calls destroy()
1145  on their return value.)
1146
1147
1148Overview of changes leading to 1.8.7
1149Wednesday, August 8, 2018
1150====================================
1151- Fix assertion failure with GDEF-blacklisted fonts.
1152
1153
1154Overview of changes leading to 1.8.6
1155Tuesday, August 7, 2018
1156====================================
1157- Internal code shuffling.
1158- New API to speed up getting advance widths for implementations
1159  that have heavy overhead in get_h_advance callback:
1160+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advances_func
1161+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advances_func
1162+hb_font_get_glyph_advances_for_direction
1163+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances
1164+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances_func_t
1165+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances
1166+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances_func_t
1167
1168
1169Overview of changes leading to 1.8.5
1170Wednesday, August 1, 2018
1171====================================
1172- Major Khmer shaper improvements to better match Microsoft.
1173- Indic bug fixes.
1174- Internal improvements to atomic operations.
1175
1176
1177Overview of changes leading to 1.8.4
1178Tuesday, July 17, 2018
1179====================================
1180- Fix build on non-C++11.
1181- Use C++-style GCC atomics and C++11 atomics.
1182
1183
1184Overview of changes leading to 1.8.3
1185Wednesday, July 11, 2018
1186====================================
1187- A couple of Indic / USE bug fixes.
1188- Disable vectorization, as it was causing unaligned access bus error on
1189  certain 32bit architectures.
1190
1191
1192Overview of changes leading to 1.8.2
1193Tuesday, July 3, 2018
1194====================================
1195- Fix infinite loop in Khmer shaper.
1196- Improve hb_blob_create_from_file() for streams.
1197
1198
1199Overview of changes leading to 1.8.1
1200Tuesday, June 12, 2018
1201====================================
1202- Fix hb-version.h file generation; last two releases went out with wrong ones.
1203- Add correctness bug in hb_set_t operations, introduced in 1.7.7.
1204- Remove HB_SUBSET_BUILTIN build option.  Not necessary.
1205
1206
1207Overview of changes leading to 1.8.0
1208Tuesday, June 5, 2018
1209====================================
1210- Update to Unicode 11.0.0.
1211
1212
1213Overview of changes leading to 1.7.7
1214Tuesday, June 5, 2018
1215====================================
1216- Lots of internal changes, but not yet exposed externally.
1217- All HarfBuzz objects are significantly smaller in size now.
1218- Sinhala: Position repha on top of post-consonant, not base.
1219  This better matches Windows 10 behavior, which was changed
1220  from previous Windows versions.
1221- New build options:
1222  o New cpp macro HB_NO_ATEXIT
1223  o New cpp macro HB_SUBSET_BUILTIN
1224- Significant libharfbuzz-subset changes. API subject to change.
1225- New API in libharfbuzz:
1226
1227+hb_blob_create_from_file()
1228+hb_face_count()
1229
1230A hashmap implementation:
1231+hb-map.h
1232+HB_MAP_VALUE_INVALID
1233+hb_map_t
1234+hb_map_create()
1235+hb_map_get_empty()
1236+hb_map_reference()
1237+hb_map_destroy()
1238+hb_map_set_user_data()
1239+hb_map_get_user_data()
1240+hb_map_allocation_successful()
1241+hb_map_clear()
1242+hb_map_is_empty()
1243+hb_map_get_population()
1244+hb_map_set()
1245+hb_map_get()
1246+hb_map_del()
1247+hb_map_has()
1248
1249
1250Overview of changes leading to 1.7.6
1251Wednesday, March 7, 2018
1252====================================
1253
1254- Fix to hb_set_t binary operations. Ouch.
1255- New experimental harfbuzz-subset library. All of hb-subset.h
1256  is experimental right now and API WILL change.
1257
1258- New API:
1259hb_blob_copy_writable_or_fail()
1260HB_OT_TAG_BASE
1261hb_set_previous()
1262hb_set_previous_range()
1263
1264
1265Overview of changes leading to 1.7.5
1266Tuesday, January 30, 2018
1267====================================
1268
1269- Separate Khmer shaper from Indic.
1270- First stab at AAT morx. Not hooked up.
1271- Misc bug fixes.
1272
1273
1274Overview of changes leading to 1.7.4
1275Wednesday, December 20, 2017
1276====================================
1277
1278- Fix collect_glyphs() regression caused by hb_set_t changes.
1279
1280
1281Overview of changes leading to 1.7.3
1282Monday, December 18, 2017
1283====================================
1284
1285- hb_set_t performance tuning and optimizations.
1286- Speed up collect_glyphs() and reject garbage data.
1287- In hb_coretext_font_create() set font point-size (ptem).
1288- Misc fixes.
1289
1290
1291Overview of changes leading to 1.7.2
1292Monday, December 4, 2017
1293====================================
1294
1295- Optimize hb_set_add_range().
1296- Misc fixes.
1297- New API:
1298hb_coretext_font_create()
1299
1300
1301Overview of changes leading to 1.7.1
1302Tuesday, November 14, 2017
1303====================================
1304
1305- Fix atexit object destruction regression.
1306- Fix minor integer-overflow.
1307
1308
1309Overview of changes leading to 1.7.0
1310Monday, November 13, 2017
1311====================================
1312
1313- Minor Indic fixes.
1314- Implement kerning and glyph names in hb-ot-font.
1315- Various DSO optimization re .data and .bss sizes.
1316- Make C++11 optional; build fixes.
1317- Mark all other backends "unsafe-to-break".
1318- Graphite fix.
1319
1320
1321Overview of changes leading to 1.6.3
1322Thursday, October 26th, 2017
1323====================================
1324
1325- Fix hb_set_t some more.  Should be solid now.
1326- Implement get_glyph_name() for hb-ot-font.
1327- Misc fixes.
1328
1329
1330Overview of changes leading to 1.6.2
1331Monday, October 23nd, 2017
1332====================================
1333
1334- Yesterday's release had a bad crasher; don't use it.  That's what
1335  happens when one works on Sunday...
1336  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/578
1337- Build fixes for FreeBSD and Chrome Android.
1338
1339
1340Overview of changes leading to 1.6.1
1341Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
1342====================================
1343
1344- Don't skip over COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER when ligating, etc.
1345  To be refined: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/554
1346- Faster hb_set_t implementation.
1347- Don't use deprecated ICU API.
1348- Fix undefined-behavior in Myanmar shaper, introduced in 1.6.0
1349- Deprecated API:
1350  hb_set_invert()
1351
1352
1353Overview of changes leading to 1.6.0
1354Friday, October the 13th, 2017
1355====================================
1356
1357- Update to Unicode 10.
1358
1359- Various Indic and Universal Shaping Engine fixes as a result of
1360  HarfBuzz Hackfest with Jonathan Kew at Web Engines Hackfest at
1361  the Igalia offices in A Coruña, Spain.  Thanks Igalia for having
1362  us!
1363
1364- Implement Unicode Arabic Mark Ordering Algorithm UTR#53.
1365
1366- Implement optical sizing / tracking in CoreText backend, using
1367  new API hb_font_set_ptem().
1368
1369- Allow notifying hb_font_t that underlying FT_Face changed sizing,
1370  using new API hb_ft_font_changed().
1371
1372- More Graphite backend RTL fixes.
1373
1374- Fix caching of variable font shaping plans.
1375
1376- hb-view / hb-shape now accept following new arguments:
1377
1378  o --unicodes: takes a list of hex numbers that represent Unicode
1379    codepoints.
1380
1381New API:
1382+hb_face_get_table_tags()
1383+hb_font_set_ptem()
1384+hb_font_get_ptem()
1385+hb_ft_font_changed()
1386
1387
1388Overview of changes leading to 1.5.1
1389Tuesday, September 5, 2017
1390====================================
1391
1392- Fix "unsafe-to-break" in fallback shaping and other corner cases.
1393  All our tests pass with --verify now, meaning unsafe-to-break API
1394  works as expected.
1395- Add --unicodes to hb-view / hb-shape.
1396- [indic] Treat Consonant_With_Stacker as consonant.  This will need
1397  further tweaking.
1398- hb_buffer_diff() tweaks.
1399
1400
1401Overview of changes leading to 1.5.0
1402Wednesday, August 23, 2017
1403====================================
1404
1405- Misc new API, for appending a buffer to another, and for comparing
1406  contents of two buffers for types of differences.
1407
1408- New "unsafe-to-break" API.  Can be used to speed up reshaping
1409  in line-breaking situations.  Essentially, after shaping, it returns
1410  positions in the input string (some of the cluster boundaries) that
1411  are "safe to break" in that if the text is segmented at that position
1412  and two sides reshaped and concatenated, the shaping result is
1413  exactly the same as shaping the text in one piece.
1414
1415  hb-view and hb-shape and hb-shape now take --verify, which verifies
1416  the above property.
1417
1418  Some corner cases of the implementation are still not quite working.
1419  Those will be fixed in subsequent releases.
1420
1421- New API:
1422
1423hb_buffer_append()
1424
1425hb_glyph_flags_t
1426HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_BREAK
1427HB_GLYPH_FLAG_DEFINED
1428hb_glyph_info_get_glyph_flags()
1429
1430HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS
1431
1432hb_buffer_diff_flags_t
1433HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_EQUAL
1434HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CONTENT_TYPE_MISMATCH
1435HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_LENGTH_MISMATCH
1436HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_NOTDEF_PRESENT
1437HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_DOTTED_CIRCLE_PRESENT
1438HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CODEPOINT_MISMATCH
1439HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CLUSTER_MISMATCH
1440HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS_MISMATCH
1441HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_POSITION_MISMATCH
1442hb_buffer_diff
1443
1444
1445Overview of changes leading to 1.4.8
1446Tuesday, August 8, 2017
1447====================================
1448
1449- Major fix to avar table handling.
1450- Rename hb-shape --show-message to --trace.
1451- Build fixes.
1452
1453
1454Overview of changes leading to 1.4.7
1455Tuesday, July 18, 2017
1456====================================
1457
1458- Multiple Indic, Tibetan, and Cham fixes.
1459- CoreText: Allow disabling kerning.
1460- Adjust Arabic feature order again.
1461- Misc build fixes.
1462
1463
1464Overview of changes leading to 1.4.6
1465Sunday, April 23, 2017
1466====================================
1467
1468- Graphite2: Fix RTL positioning issue.
1469- Backlist GDEF of more versions of Padauk and Tahoma.
1470- New, experimental, cmake alternative build system.
1471
1472
1473Overview of changes leading to 1.4.5
1474Friday, March 10, 2017
1475====================================
1476
1477- Revert "Fix Context lookup application when moving back after a glyph..."
1478  This introduced memory access problems.  To be fixed properly soon.
1479
1480
1481Overview of changes leading to 1.4.4
1482Sunday, March 5, 2017
1483====================================
1484
1485- Fix Context lookup application when moving back after a glyph deletion.
1486- Fix buffer-overrun in Bengali.
1487
1488
1489Overview of changes leading to 1.4.3
1490Saturday, February 25, 2017
1491====================================
1492
1493- Route Adlam script to Arabic shaper.
1494- Misc fixes.
1495- New API:
1496  hb_font_set_face()
1497- Deprecate API:
1498  hb_graphite2_font_get_gr_font()
1499
1500
1501Overview of changes leading to 1.4.2
1502Monday, January 23, 2017
1503====================================
1504
1505- Implement OpenType Font Variation tables avar/fvar/HVAR/VVAR.
1506- hb-shape and hb-view now accept --variations.
1507- New API:
1508
1509hb_variation_t
1510hb_variation_from_string()
1511hb_variation_to_string()
1512
1513hb_font_set_variations()
1514hb_font_set_var_coords_design()
1515hb_font_get_var_coords_normalized()
1516
1517hb-ot-var.h:
1518hb_ot_var_axis_t
1519hb_ot_var_has_data()
1520hb_ot_var_get_axis_count()
1521hb_ot_var_get_axes()
1522hb_ot_var_find_axis()
1523hb_ot_var_normalize_variations()
1524hb_ot_var_normalize_coords()
1525
1526- MVAR to be implemented later.  Access to named instances to be
1527  implemented later as well.
1528
1529- Misc fixes.
1530
1531
1532Overview of changes leading to 1.4.1
1533Thursday, January 5, 2017
1534====================================
1535
1536- Always build and use UCDN for Unicode data by default.
1537  Reduces dependence on version of Unicode data in glib,
1538  specially in the Windows bundles we are shipping, which
1539  have very old glib.
1540
1541
1542Overview of changes leading to 1.4.0
1543Thursday, January 5, 2017
1544====================================
1545
1546- Merged "OpenType GX" branch which adds core of support for
1547  OpenType 1.8 Font Variations.  To that extent, the relevant
1548  new API is:
1549
1550New API:
1551hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
1552
1553  with supporting API:
1554
1555New API:
1556HB_OT_LAYOUT_NO_VARIATIONS_INDEX
1557hb_ot_layout_table_find_feature_variations()
1558hb_ot_layout_feature_with_variations_get_lookups()
1559hb_shape_plan_create2()
1560hb_shape_plan_create_cached2()
1561
1562  Currently variations in GSUB/GPOS/GDEF are fully supported,
1563  and no other tables are supported.  In particular, fvar/avar
1564  are NOT supported, hence the hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
1565  taking normalized coordinates.  API to take design coordinates
1566  will be added in the future.
1567
1568  HVAR/VVAR/MVAR support will also be added to hb-ot-font in the
1569  future.
1570
1571- Fix regression in GDEF glyph class processing.
1572- Add decompositions for Chakma, Limbu, and Balinese in USE shaper.
1573- Misc fixes.
1574
1575
1576Overview of changes leading to 1.3.4
1577Monday, December 5, 2016
1578====================================
1579
1580- Fix vertical glyph origin in hb-ot-font.
1581- Implement CBDT/CBLC color font glyph extents in hb-ot-font.
1582
1583
1584Overview of changes leading to 1.3.3
1585Wednesday, September 28, 2016
1586====================================
1587
1588- Implement parsing of OpenType MATH table.
1589New API:
1590HB_OT_TAG_MATH
1591HB_OT_MATH_SCRIPT
1592hb_ot_math_constant_t
1593hb_ot_math_kern_t
1594hb_ot_math_glyph_variant_t
1595hb_ot_math_glyph_part_flags_t
1596hb_ot_math_glyph_part_t
1597hb_ot_math_has_data
1598hb_ot_math_get_constant
1599hb_ot_math_get_glyph_italics_correction
1600hb_ot_math_get_glyph_top_accent_attachment
1601hb_ot_math_get_glyph_kerning
1602hb_ot_math_is_glyph_extended_shape
1603hb_ot_math_get_glyph_variants
1604hb_ot_math_get_min_connector_overlap
1605hb_ot_math_get_glyph_assembly
1606
1607
1608Overview of changes leading to 1.3.2
1609Wednesday, September 27, 2016
1610====================================
1611
1612- Fix build of hb-coretext on older OS X versions.
1613
1614
1615Overview of changes leading to 1.3.1
1616Wednesday, September 7, 2016
1617====================================
1618
1619- Blacklist bad GDEF of more fonts (Padauk).
1620- More CoreText backend crash fixes with OS X 10.9.5.
1621- Misc fixes.
1622
1623
1624Overview of changes leading to 1.3.0
1625Thursday, July 21, 2016
1626====================================
1627
1628- Update to Unicode 9.0.0
1629- Move Javanese from Indic shaper to Universal Shaping Engine.
1630- Allow MultipleSubst to delete a glyph (matching Windows engine).
1631- Update Universal Shaping Engine to latest draft from Microsoft.
1632- DirectWrite backend improvements.  Note: this backend is for testing ONLY.
1633- CoreText backend improvements with unreachable fonts.
1634- Implement symbol fonts (cmap 3.0.0) in hb-ft and hb-ot-font.
1635- Blacklist bad GDEF of more fonts (Tahoma & others).
1636- Misc fixes.
1637
1638
1639Overview of changes leading to 1.2.7
1640Monday, May 2, 2016
1641====================================
1642
1643- Blacklist another version of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic from Windows 7.
1644- Fix Mongolian Free Variation Selectors shaping with certain fonts.
1645- Fix Tibetan shorthand contractions shaping.
1646- Improved list of language tag mappings.
1647- Unbreak build on Windows CE.
1648- Make 'glyf' table loading lazy in hb-ot-font.
1649
1650
1651Overview of changes leading to 1.2.6
1652Friday, April 8, 2016
1653====================================
1654
1655- Blacklist GDEF table of another set of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic.
1656- DirectWrite backend improvements.  Note: DirectWrite backend is
1657  exclusively for our internal testing and should NOT be used in any
1658  production system whatsoever.
1659
1660
1661Overview of changes leading to 1.2.5
1662Monday, April 4, 2016
1663====================================
1664
1665- Fix GDEF mark-filtering-set, which was broken in 1.2.3.
1666
1667
1668Overview of changes leading to 1.2.4
1669Thursday, March 17, 2016
1670====================================
1671
1672- Synthesize GDEF glyph class for any glyph that does not have one in GDEF.
1673  I really hope we don't discover broken fonts that shape badly with this
1674  change.
1675- Misc build and other minor fixes.
1676- API changes:
1677  - Added HB_NDEBUG.  It's fine for production systems to define this to
1678    disable high-overhead debugging checks.  However, I also reduced the
1679    overhead of those checks, so it's a non-issue right now.  You can
1680    forget it.  Just not defining anything at all is fine.
1681
1682
1683Overview of changes leading to 1.2.3
1684Thursday, February 25, 2016
1685====================================
1686
1687- Blacklist GDEF table of certain versions of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic,
1688  due to bug in glyph class of ASCII double-quote character.  This should
1689  address "regression" introduced in 1.2.0 when we switched mark zeroing
1690  in most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to BY_GDEF_LATE.
1691  This fourth release in a week should finally stabilize things...
1692
1693- hb-ot-font's get_glyph() implementation saw some optimizations.  Though,
1694  might be really hard to measure in real-world situations.
1695
1696- Also, two rather small API changes:
1697
1698We now disable some time-consuming internal bookkeeping if built with NDEBUG
1699defined.  This is a first time that we use NDEBUG to disable debug code.  If
1700there exist production systems that do NOT want to enable NDEBUG, please let
1701me know and I'll add HB_NDEBUG.
1702
1703Added get_nominal_glyph() and get_variation_glyph() instead of get_glyph()
1704
1705New API:
1706- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph_func_t
1707- hb_font_get_variation_glyph_func_t
1708- hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyph_func()
1709- hb_font_funcs_set_variation_glyph_func()
1710- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph()
1711- hb_font_get_variation_glyph()
1712
1713Deprecated API:
1714- hb_font_get_glyph_func_t
1715- hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
1716
1717Clients that implement their own font-funcs are encouraged to replace
1718their get_glyph() implementation with a get_nominal_glyph() and
1719get_variation_glyph() pair.  The variation version can assume that
1720variation_selector argument is not zero.  Old (deprecated) functions
1721will continue working indefinitely using internal gymnastics; it is
1722just more efficient to use the new functions.
1723
1724
1725Overview of changes leading to 1.2.2
1726Wednesday, February 24, 2016
1727====================================
1728
1729- Fix regression with mark positioning with fonts that have
1730  non-zero mark advances.  This was introduced in 1.2.0 while
1731  trying to make mark and cursive attachments to work together.
1732  I have partially reverted that, so this version is much more
1733  like what we had before.  All clients who updated to 1.2.0
1734  should update to this version.
1735
1736
1737Overview of changes leading to 1.2.1
1738Tuesday, February 23, 2016
1739====================================
1740
1741- CoreText: Fix bug with wrong scale if font scale was changed later.
1742  https://github.com/libass/libass/issues/212
1743- CoreText: Drastically speed up font initialization.
1744- CoreText: Fix tiny leak.
1745- Group ZWJ/ZWNJ with previous syllable under cluster-level=0.
1746  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/217
1747- Add test/shaping/README.md about how to add tests to the suite.
1748
1749
1750Overview of changes leading to 1.2.0
1751Friday, February 19, 2016
1752====================================
1753
1754- Fix various issues (hangs mostly) in case of memory allocation failure.
1755- Change mark zeroing types of most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to
1756  BY_GDEF_LATE.  This seems to be what Uniscribe does.
1757- Change mark zeroing of USE shaper from NONE to BY_GDEF_EARLY.  That's
1758  what Windows does.
1759- Allow GPOS cursive connection on marks, and fix the interaction with
1760  mark attachment.  This work resulted in some changes to how mark
1761  attachments work.  See:
1762  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/211
1763  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/commit/86c68c7a2c971efe8e35b1f1bd99401dc8b688d2
1764- Graphite2 shaper: improved negative advance handling (eg. Nastaliq).
1765- Add nmake-based build system for Windows.
1766- Minor speedup.
1767- Misc. improvements.
1768
1769
1770Overview of changes leading to 1.1.3
1771Monday, January 11, 2016
1772====================================
1773
1774- Ported Indic shaper to Unicode 8.0 data.
1775- Universal Shaping Engine fixes.
1776- Speed up CoreText shaper when font fallback happens in CoreText.
1777- Documentation improvements, thanks to Khaled Hosny.
1778- Very rough directwrite shaper for testing, thanks to Ebrahim Byagowi.
1779- Misc bug fixes.
1780- New API:
1781
1782  * Font extents:
1783      hb_font_extents_t
1784      hb_font_get_font_extents_func_t
1785      hb_font_get_font_h_extents_func_t
1786      hb_font_get_font_v_extents_func_t
1787      hb_font_funcs_set_font_h_extents_func
1788      hb_font_funcs_set_font_v_extents_func
1789      hb_font_get_h_extents
1790      hb_font_get_v_extents
1791      hb_font_get_extents_for_direction
1792
1793  * Buffer message (aka debug):
1794      hb_buffer_message_func_t
1795      hb_buffer_set_message_func()
1796    Actual message protocol to be fleshed out later.
1797
1798
1799Overview of changes leading to 1.1.2
1800Wednesday, November 26, 2015
1801====================================
1802
1803- Fix badly-broken fallback shaper that affected terminology.
1804  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/187
1805- Fix y_scaling in Graphite shaper.
1806- API changes:
1807  * An unset glyph_h_origin() function in font-funcs now (sensibly)
1808    implies horizontal origin at 0,0.  Ie, the nil callback returns
1809    true instead of false.  As such, implementations that have a
1810    glyph_h_origin() that simply returns true, can remove that function
1811    with HarfBuzz >= 1.1.2.  This results in a tiny speedup.
1812
1813
1814Overview of changes leading to 1.1.1
1815Wednesday, November 24, 2015
1816====================================
1817
1818- Build fixes, specially for hb-coretext.
1819
1820
1821Overview of changes leading to 1.1.0
1822Wednesday, November 18, 2015
1823====================================
1824
1825- Implement 'stch' stretch feature for Syriac Abbreviation Mark.
1826  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/141
1827- Disable use of decompose_compatibility() callback.
1828- Implement "shaping" of various Unicode space characters, even
1829  if the font does not support them.
1830  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/153
1831- If font does not support U+2011 NO-BREAK HYPHEN, fallback to
1832  U+2010 HYPHEN.
1833- Changes resulting from libFuzzer continuous fuzzing:
1834  * Reject font tables that need more than 8 edits,
1835  * Bound buffer growth during shaping to 32x,
1836  * Fix assertions and other issues at OOM / buffer max-growth.
1837- Misc fixes and optimizations.
1838- API changes:
1839  * All fonts created with hb_font_create() now inherit from
1840    (ie. have parent) hb_font_get_empty().
1841
1842
1843Overview of changes leading to 1.0.6
1844Thursday, October 15, 2015
1845====================================
1846
1847- Reduce max nesting level in OT lookups from 8 to 6.
1848  Should not affect any real font as far as I know.
1849- Fix memory access issue in ot-font.
1850- Revert default load-flags of fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
1851  back to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.  This was changed in
1852  last release (1.0.5), but caused major issues, so revert.
1853  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/143
1854
1855
1856Overview of changes leading to 1.0.5
1857Tuesday, October 13, 2015
1858====================================
1859
1860- Fix multiple memory access bugs discovered using libFuzzer.
1861  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/139
1862  Everyone should upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
1863  We now have continuous fuzzing set up, to avoid issues like
1864  these creeping in again.
1865- Misc fixes.
1866
1867- New API:
1868  * hb_font_set_parent().
1869  * hb_ft_font_[sg]et_load_flags()
1870    The default flags for fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
1871    has changed to default to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT now.  Previously it
1872    was defaulting to FT_LOAD_DFEAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.
1873
1874- API changes:
1875  * Fonts now default to units-per-EM as their scale, instead of 0.
1876  * hb_font_create_sub_font() does NOT make parent font immutable
1877    anymore.  hb_font_make_immutable() does.
1878
1879
1880Overview of changes leading to 1.0.4
1881Wednesday, September 30, 2015
1882====================================
1883
1884- Fix minor out-of-bounds read error.
1885
1886
1887Overview of changes leading to 1.0.3
1888Tuesday, September 1, 2015
1889====================================
1890
1891- Start of user documentation, from Simon Cozens!
1892- Implement glyph_extents() for TrueType fonts in hb-ot-font.
1893- Improve GPOS cursive attachments with conflicting lookups.
1894- More fixes for cluster-level = 1.
1895- Uniscribe positioning fix.
1896
1897
1898Overview of changes leading to 1.0.2
1899Wednesday, August 19, 2015
1900====================================
1901
1902- Fix shaping with cluster-level > 0.
1903- Fix Uniscribe backend font-size scaling.
1904- Declare dependencies in harfbuzz.pc.
1905  FreeType is not declared though, to avoid bugs in pkg-config
1906  0.26 with recursive dependencies.
1907- Slightly improved debug infrastructure.  More to come later.
1908- Misc build fixes.
1909
1910
1911Overview of changes leading to 1.0.1
1912Monday, July 27, 2015
1913====================================
1914
1915- Fix out-of-bounds access in USE shaper.
1916
1917
1918Overview of changes leading to 1.0.0
1919Sunday, July 26, 2015
1920====================================
1921
1922- Implement Universal Shaping Engine:
1923  https://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/USE/intro.htm
1924  http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/02/23/windows-shapes-the-worlds-languages/
1925- Bump version to 1.0.0.  The soname was NOT bumped.
1926
1927
1928Overview of changes leading to 0.9.42
1929Thursday, July 26, 2015
1930=====================================
1931
1932- New API to allow for retrieving finer-grained cluster
1933  mappings if the client desires to handle them.  Default
1934  behavior is unchanged.
1935- Fix cluster merging when removing default-ignorables.
1936- Update to Unicode 8.0
1937- hb-graphite2 fixes.
1938- Misc fixes.
1939- Removed HB_NO_MERGE_CLUSTERS hack.
1940- New API:
1941  hb_buffer_cluster_level_t enum
1942  hb_buffer_get_cluster_level()
1943  hb_buffer_set_cluster_level()
1944  hb-shape / hb-view --cluster-level
1945
1946
1947Overview of changes leading to 0.9.41
1948Thursday, June 18, 2015
1949=====================================
1950
1951- Fix hb-coretext with trailing whitespace in right-to-left.
1952- New API: hb_buffer_reverse_range().
1953- Allow implementing atomic ops in config.h.
1954- Fix hb_language_t in language bindings.
1955- Misc fixes.
1956
1957
1958Overview of changes leading to 0.9.40
1959Friday, March 20, 2015
1960=====================================
1961
1962- Another hb-coretext crasher fix.  Ouch!
1963- Happy Norouz!
1964
1965
1966Overview of changes leading to 0.9.39
1967Wednesday, March 4, 2015
1968=====================================
1969
1970- Critical hb-coretext fixes.
1971- Optimizations and refactoring; no functional change
1972  expected.
1973- Misc build fixes.
1974
1975
1976Overview of changes leading to 0.9.38
1977Friday, January 23, 2015
1978=====================================
1979
1980- Fix minor out-of-bounds access in Indic shaper.
1981- Change New Tai Lue shaping engine from South-East Asian to default,
1982  reflecting change in Unicode encoding model.
1983- Add hb-shape --font-size.  Can take up to two numbers for separate
1984  x / y size.
1985- Fix CoreText and FreeType scale issues with negative scales.
1986- Reject blobs larger than 2GB.  This might break some icu-le-hb clients
1987  that need security fixes.  See:
1988  http://www.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11450
1989- Avoid accessing font tables during face destruction, in casce rogue
1990  clients released face data already.
1991- Fix up gobject-introspection a bit.  Python bindings kinda working.
1992  See README.python.
1993- Misc fixes.
1994- API additions:
1995  hb_ft_face_create_referenced()
1996  hb_ft_font_create_referenced()
1997
1998
1999Overview of changes leading to 0.9.37
2000Wednesday, December 17, 2014
2001=====================================
2002
2003- Fix out-of-bounds access in Context lookup format 3.
2004- Indic: Allow ZWJ/ZWNJ before syllable modifiers.
2005
2006
2007Overview of changes leading to 0.9.36
2008Thursday, November 20, 2014
2009=====================================
2010
2011- First time that three months went by without a release since
2012  0.9.2 was released on August 10, 2012!
2013- Fix performance bug in hb_ot_collect_glyphs():
2014  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090869
2015- Add basic vertical-text support to hb-ot-font.
2016- Misc build fixes.
2017
2018
2019Overview of changes leading to 0.9.35
2020Saturday, August 13, 2014
2021=====================================
2022
2023- Fix major shape-plan caching bug when more than one shaper were
2024  provided to hb_shape_full() (as exercised by XeTeX).
2025  http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1246370.html
2026- Fix Arabic fallback shaping regression.  This was broken in 0.9.32.
2027- Major hb-coretext fixes.  That backend is complete now, including
2028  respecing buffer direction and language, down to vertical writing.
2029- Build fixes for Windows CE.  Should build fine now.
2030- Misc fixes:
2031  Use atexit() only if it's safe to call from shared library
2032  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82246
2033  Mandaic had errors in its Unicode Joining_Type
2034  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82306
2035- API changes:
2036
2037  * hb_buffer_clear_contents() does not reset buffer flags now.
2038
2039    After 763e5466c0a03a7c27020e1e2598e488612529a7, one doesn't
2040    need to set flags for different pieces of text.  The flags now
2041    are something the client sets up once, depending on how it
2042    actually uses the buffer.  As such, don't clear it in
2043    clear_contents().
2044
2045    I don't expect any changes to be needed to any existing client.
2046
2047
2048Overview of changes leading to 0.9.34
2049Saturday, August 2, 2014
2050=====================================
2051
2052- hb_feature_from_string() now accepts CSS font-feature-settings format.
2053- As a result, hb-shape / hb-view --features also accept CSS-style strings.
2054  Eg, "'liga' off" is accepted now.
2055- Add old-spec Myanmar shaper:
2056  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81775
2057- Don't apply 'calt' in Hangul shaper.
2058- Fix mark advance zeroing for Hebrew shaper:
2059  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76767
2060- Implement Windows-1256 custom Arabic shaping.  Only built on Windows,
2061  and requires help from get_glyph().  Used by Firefox.
2062  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045139
2063- Disable 'liga' in vertical text.
2064- Build fixes.
2065- API changes:
2066
2067  * Make HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT/EOT easier to use.
2068
2069    Previously, we expected users to provide BOT/EOT flags when the
2070    text *segment* was at paragraph boundaries.  This meant that for
2071    clients that provide full paragraph to HarfBuzz (eg. Pango), they
2072    had code like this:
2073
2074      hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
2075                           (item_offset == 0 ? HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT : 0) |
2076                           (item_offset + item_length == paragraph_length ?
2077                            HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT : 0));
2078
2079      hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
2080                          paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
2081                          item_offset, item_length);
2082
2083    After this change such clients can simply say:
2084
2085      hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
2086                           HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT | HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT);
2087
2088      hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
2089                          paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
2090                          item_offset, item_length);
2091
2092    Ie, HarfBuzz itself checks whether the segment is at the beginning/end
2093    of the paragraph.  Clients that only pass item-at-a-time to HarfBuzz
2094    continue not setting any flags whatsoever.
2095
2096    Another way to put it is: if there's pre-context text in the buffer,
2097    HarfBuzz ignores the BOT flag.  If there's post-context, it ignores
2098    EOT flag.
2099
2100
2101Overview of changes leading to 0.9.33
2102Tuesday, July 22, 2014
2103=====================================
2104
2105- Turn off ARabic 'cswh' feature that was accidentally turned on.
2106- Add HB_TAG_MAX_SIGNED.
2107- Make hb_face_make_immutable() really make face immutable!
2108- Windows build fixes.
2109
2110
2111Overview of changes leading to 0.9.32
2112Thursday, July 17, 2014
2113=====================================
2114
2115- Apply Arabic shaping features in spec order exactly.
2116- Another fix for Mongolian free variation selectors.
2117- For non-Arabic scripts in Arabic shaper apply 'rlig' and 'calt'
2118  together.
2119- Minor adjustment to U+FFFD logic.
2120- Fix hb-coretext build.
2121
2122
2123Overview of changes leading to 0.9.31
2124Wednesday, July 16, 2014
2125=====================================
2126
2127- Only accept valid UTF-8/16/32; we missed many cases before.
2128- Better shaping of invalid UTF-8/16/32.  Falls back to
2129  U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER now.
2130- With all changes in this release, the buffer will contain fully
2131  valid Unicode after hb_buffer_add_utf8/16/32 no matter how
2132  broken the input is.  This can be overridden though.  See below.
2133- Fix Mongolian Variation Selectors for fonts without GDEF.
2134- Fix minor invalid buffer access.
2135- Accept zh-Hant and zh-Hans language tags.  hb_ot_tag_to_language()
2136  now uses these instead of private tags.
2137- Build fixes.
2138- New API:
2139  * hb_buffer_add_codepoints().  This does what hb_buffer_add_utf32()
2140    used to do, ie. no validity check on the input at all.  add_utf32
2141    now replaces invalid Unicode codepoints with the replacement
2142    character (see below).
2143  * hb_buffer_set_replacement_codepoint()
2144  * hb_buffer_get_replacement_codepoint()
2145    Previously, in hb_buffer_add_utf8 and hb_buffer_add_utf16, when
2146    we detected broken input, we replaced that with (hb_codepoint_t)-1.
2147    This has changed to use U+FFFD now, but can be changed using these
2148    new API.
2149
2150
2151Overview of changes leading to 0.9.30
2152Wednesday, July 9, 2014
2153=====================================
2154
2155- Update to Unicode 7.0.0:
2156  * New scripts Manichaean and Psalter Pahlavi are shaped using
2157    Arabic shaper.
2158  * All the other new scripts to through the generic shaper for
2159    now.
2160- Minor Indic improvements.
2161- Fix graphite2 backend cluster mapping [crasher!]
2162- API changes:
2163  * New HB_SCRIPT_* values for Unicode 7.0 scripts.
2164  * New function hb_ot_layout_language_get_required_feature().
2165- Build fixes.
2166
2167
2168Overview of changes leading to 0.9.29
2169Thursday, May 29, 2014
2170=====================================
2171
2172- Implement cmap in hb-ot-font.h.  No variation-selectors yet.
2173- Myanmar: Allow MedialYa+Asat.
2174- Various Indic fixes:
2175  * Support most characters in Extended Devanagary and Vedic
2176    Unicode blocks.
2177  * Allow digits and a some punctuation as consonant placeholders.
2178- Build fixes.
2179
2180
2181Overview of changes leading to 0.9.28
2182Monday, April 28, 2014
2183=====================================
2184
2185- Unbreak old-spec Indic shaping. (bug 76705)
2186- Fix shaping of U+17DD and U+0FC6.
2187- Add HB_NO_MERGE_CLUSTERS build option.  NOT to be enabled by default
2188  for shipping libraries.  It's an option for further experimentation
2189  right now.  When we are sure how to do it properly, we will add
2190  public run-time API for the functionality.
2191- Build fixes.
2192
2193
2194Overview of changes leading to 0.9.27
2195Tuesday, March 18, 2014
2196=====================================
2197
2198- Don't use "register" storage class specifier
2199- Wrap definition of free_langs() with HAVE_ATEXIT
2200- Add coretext_aat shaper and hb_coretext_face_create() constructor
2201- If HAVE_ICU_BUILTIN is defined, use hb-icu Unicode callbacks
2202- Add Myanmar test case from OpenType Myanmar spec
2203- Only do fallback Hebrew composition if no GPOS 'mark' available
2204- Allow bootstrapping without gtk-doc
2205- Use AM_MISSING_PROG for ragel and git
2206- Typo in ucdn's Makefile.am
2207- Improve MemoryBarrier() implementation
2208
2209
2210Overview of changes leading to 0.9.26
2211Thursday, January 30, 2014
2212=====================================
2213
2214- Misc fixes.
2215- Fix application of 'rtlm' feature.
2216- Automatically apply frac/numr/dnom around U+2044 FRACTION SLASH.
2217- New header: hb-ot-shape.h
2218- Uniscribe: fix scratch-buffer accounting.
2219- Reorder Tai Tham SAKOT to after tone-marks.
2220- Add Hangul shaper.
2221- New files:
2222  hb-ot-shape-complex-hangul.cc
2223  hb-ot-shape-complex-hebrew.cc
2224  hb-ot-shape-complex-tibetan.cc
2225- Disable 'cswh' feature in Arabic shaper.
2226- Coretext: better handle surrogate pairs.
2227- Add HB_TAG_MAX and _HB_SCRIPT_MAX_VALUE.
2228
2229
2230Overview of changes leading to 0.9.25
2231Wednesday, December 4, 2013
2232=====================================
2233
2234- Myanmar shaper improvements.
2235- Avoid font fallback in CoreText backend.
2236- Additional OpenType language tag mappiongs.
2237- More aggressive shape-plan caching.
2238- Build with / require automake 1.13.
2239- Build with libtool 2.4.2.418 alpha to support ppc64le.
2240
2241
2242Overview of changes leading to 0.9.24
2243Tuesday, November 13, 2013
2244=====================================
2245
2246- Misc compiler warning fixes with clang.
2247- No functional changes.
2248
2249
2250Overview of changes leading to 0.9.23
2251Monday, October 28, 2013
2252=====================================
2253
2254- "Udupi HarfBuzz Hackfest", Paris, October 14..18 2013.
2255- Fix (Chain)Context recursion with non-monotone lookup positions.
2256- Misc Indic bug fixes.
2257- New Javanese / Buginese shaping, similar to Windows 8.1.
2258
2259
2260Overview of changes leading to 0.9.22
2261Thursday, October 3, 2013
2262=====================================
2263
2264- Fix use-after-end-of-scope in hb_language_from_string().
2265- Fix hiding of default_ignorables if font doesn't have space glyph.
2266- Protect against out-of-range lookup indices.
2267
2268- API Changes:
2269
2270  * Added hb_ot_layout_table_get_lookup_count()
2271
2272
2273Overview of changes leading to 0.9.21
2274Monday, September 16, 2013
2275=====================================
2276
2277- Rename gobject-introspection library name from harfbuzz to HarfBuzz.
2278- Remove (long disabled) hb-old and hb-icu-le test shapers.
2279- Misc gtk-doc and gobject-introspection annotations.
2280- Misc fixes.
2281- API changes:
2282
2283  * Add HB_SET_VALUE_INVALID
2284
2285Overview of changes leading to 0.9.20
2286Thursday, August 29, 2013
2287=====================================
2288
2289General:
2290- Misc substitute_closure() fixes.
2291- Build fixes.
2292
2293Documentation:
2294- gtk-doc boilerplate integrated.  Docs are built now, but
2295  contain no contents.  By next release hopefully we have
2296  some content in.  Enable using --enable-gtk-doc.
2297
2298GObject and Introspection:
2299- Added harfbuzz-gobject library (hb-gobject.h) that has type
2300  bindings for all HarfBuzz objects and enums.  Enable using
2301  --with-gobject.
2302- Added gobject-introspection boilerplate.  Nothing useful
2303  right now.  Work in progress.  Gets enabled automatically if
2304  --with-gobject is used.  Override with --disable-introspection.
2305
2306OpenType shaper:
2307- Apply 'mark' in Myanmar shaper.
2308- Don't apply 'dlig' by default.
2309
2310Uniscribe shaper:
2311- Support user features.
2312- Fix loading of fonts that are also installed on the system.
2313- Fix shaping of Arabic Presentation Forms.
2314- Fix build with wide chars.
2315
2316CoreText shaper:
2317- Support user features.
2318
2319Source changes:
2320- hb_face_t code moved to hb-face.h / hb-face.cc.
2321- Added hb-deprecated.h.
2322
2323API changes:
2324- Added HB_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.
2325- Deprecated HB_SCRIPT_CANADIAN_ABORIGINAL; replaced by
2326  HB_SCRIPT_CANADIAN_SYLLABICS.
2327- Deprecated HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT; replaced by
2328  HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DEFAULT.
2329- Deprecated HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAGS_DEFAULT; replaced by
2330  HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_DEFAULT.
2331
2332
2333Overview of changes leading to 0.9.19
2334Tuesday, July 16, 2013
2335=====================================
2336
2337- Build fixes.
2338- Better handling of multiple variation selectors in a row.
2339- Pass on variation selector to GSUB if not consumed by cmap.
2340- Fix undefined memory access.
2341- Add Javanese config to Indic shaper.
2342- Misc bug fixes.
2343
2344Overview of changes leading to 0.9.18
2345Tuesday, May 28, 2013
2346=====================================
2347
2348New build system:
2349
2350- All unneeded code is all disabled by default,
2351
2352- Uniscribe and CoreText shapers can be enabled with their --with options,
2353
2354- icu_le and old shapers cannot be enabled for now,
2355
2356- glib, freetype, and cairo will be detected automatically.
2357  They can be force on/off'ed with their --with options,
2358
2359- icu and graphite2 are default off, can be enabled with their --with
2360  options,
2361
2362Moreover, ICU support is now build into a separate library:
2363libharfbuzz-icu.so, and a new harfbuzz-icu.pc is shipped for it.
2364Distros can enable ICU now without every application on earth
2365getting linked to via libharfbuzz.so.
2366
2367For distros I recommend that they make sure they are building --with-glib
2368--with-freetype --with-cairo, --with-icu, and optionally --with-graphite2;
2369And package harfbuzz and harfbuzz-icu separately.
2370
2371
2372Overview of changes leading to 0.9.17
2373Monday, May 20, 2013
2374=====================================
2375
2376- Build fixes.
2377- Fix bug in hb_set_get_min().
2378- Fix regression with Arabic mark positioning / width-zeroing.
2379
2380Overview of changes leading to 0.9.16
2381Friday, April 19, 2013
2382=====================================
2383
2384- Major speedup in OpenType lookup processing.  With the Amiri
2385  Arabic font, this release is over 3x faster than previous
2386  release.  All scripts / languages should see this speedup.
2387
2388- New --num-iterations option for hb-shape / hb-view; useful for
2389  profiling.
2390
2391Overview of changes leading to 0.9.15
2392Friday, April 05, 2013
2393=====================================
2394
2395- Build fixes.
2396- Fix crasher in graphite2 shaper.
2397- Fix Arabic mark width zeroing regression.
2398- Don't compose Hangul jamo into Unicode syllables.
2399
2400
2401Overview of changes leading to 0.9.14
2402Thursday, March 21, 2013
2403=====================================
2404
2405- Build fixes.
2406- Fix time-consuming sanitize with malicious fonts.
2407- Implement hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs() for both json and text.
2408- Do not ignore Hangul filler characters.
2409- Indic fixes:
2410  * Fix Malayalam pre-base reordering interaction with post-forms.
2411  * Further adjust ZWJ handling.  Should fix known regressions from
2412    0.9.13.
2413
2414
2415Overview of changes leading to 0.9.13
2416Thursday, February 25, 2013
2417=====================================
2418
2419- Build fixes.
2420- Ngapi HarfBuzz Hackfest in London (February 2013):
2421  * Fixed all known Indic bugs,
2422  * New Win8-style Myanmar shaper,
2423  * New South-East Asian shaper for Tai Tham, Cham, and New Tai Lue,
2424  * Smartly ignore Default_Ignorable characters (joiners, etc) wheb
2425    matching GSUB/GPOS lookups,
2426  * Fix 'Phags-Pa U+A872 shaping,
2427  * Fix partial disabling of default-on features,
2428  * Allow disabling of TrueType kerning.
2429- Fix possible crasher with broken fonts with overlapping tables.
2430- Removed generated files from git again.  So, one needs ragel to
2431  bootstrap from the git tree.
2432
2433API changes:
2434- hb_shape() and related APIs now abort if buffer direction is
2435  HB_DIRECTION_INVALID.  Previously, hb_shape() was calling
2436  hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties() on the buffer before
2437  shaping.  The heuristics in that function are fragile.  If the
2438  user really wants the old behvaior, they can call that function
2439  right before calling hb_shape() to get the old behavior.
2440- hb_blob_create_sub_blob() always creates sub-blob with
2441  HB_MEMORY_MODE_READONLY.  See comments for the reason.
2442
2443
2444Overview of changes leading to 0.9.12
2445Thursday, January 18, 2013
2446=====================================
2447
2448- Build fixes for Sun compiler.
2449- Minor bug fix.
2450
2451Overview of changes leading to 0.9.11
2452Thursday, January 10, 2013
2453=====================================
2454
2455- Build fixes.
2456- Fix GPOS mark attachment with null Anchor offsets.
2457- [Indic] Fix old-spec reordering of viramas if sequence ends in one.
2458- Fix multi-threaded shaper data creation crash.
2459- Add atomic ops for Solaris.
2460
2461API changes:
2462- Rename hb_buffer_clear() to hb_buffer_clear_contents().
2463
2464
2465Overview of changes leading to 0.9.10
2466Thursday, January 3, 2013
2467=====================================
2468
2469- [Indic] Fixed rendering of Malayalam dot-reph
2470- Updated OT language tags.
2471- Updated graphite2 backend.
2472- Improved hb_ot_layout_get_size_params() logic.
2473- Improve hb-shape/hb-view help output.
2474- Fixed hb-set.h implementation to not crash.
2475- Fixed various issues with hb_ot_layout_collect_lookups().
2476- Various build fixes.
2477
2478New API:
2479
2480hb_graphite2_face_get_gr_face()
2481hb_graphite2_font_get_gr_font()
2482hb_coretext_face_get_cg_font()
2483
2484Modified API:
2485
2486hb_ot_layout_get_size_params()
2487
2488
2489Overview of changes leading to 0.9.9
2490Wednesday, December 5, 2012
2491====================================
2492
2493- Fix build on Windows.
2494- Minor improvements.
2495
2496
2497Overview of changes leading to 0.9.8
2498Tuesday, December 4, 2012
2499====================================
2500
2501
2502- Actually implement hb_shape_plan_get_shaper ().
2503- Make UCDB data tables const.
2504- Lots of internal refactoring in OTLayout tables.
2505- Flesh out hb_ot_layout_lookup_collect_glyphs().
2506
2507New API:
2508
2509hb_ot_layout_collect_lookups()
2510hb_ot_layout_get_size_params()
2511
2512
2513Overview of changes leading to 0.9.7
2514Sunday, November 21, 2012
2515====================================
2516
2517
2518HarfBuzz "All-You-Can-Eat-Sushi" (aka Vancouver) Hackfest and follow-on fixes.
2519
2520- Fix Arabic contextual joining using pre-context text.
2521- Fix Sinhala "split matra" mess.
2522- Fix Khmer shaping with broken fonts.
2523- Implement Thai "PUA" shaping for old fonts.
2524- Do NOT route Kharoshthi script through the Indic shaper.
2525- Disable fallback positioning for Indic and Thai shapers.
2526- Misc fixes.
2527
2528
2529hb-shape / hb-view changes:
2530
2531- Add --text-before and --text-after
2532- Add --bot / --eot / --preserve-default-ignorables
2533- hb-shape --output-format=json
2534
2535
2536New API:
2537
2538hb_buffer_clear()
2539
2540hb_buffer_flags_t
2541
2542HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT
2543HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT
2544HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT
2545HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRESERVE_DEFAULT_IGNORABLES
2546
2547hb_buffer_set_flags()
2548hb_buffer_get_flags()
2549
2550HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAGS
2551hb_buffer_serialize_glyphs()
2552hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs()
2553hb_buffer_serialize_list_formats()
2554
2555hb_set_add_range()
2556hb_set_del_range()
2557hb_set_get_population()
2558hb_set_next_range()
2559
2560hb_face_[sg]et_glyph_count()
2561
2562hb_segment_properties_t
2563HB_SEGMENT_PROPERTIES_DEFAULT
2564hb_segment_properties_equal()
2565hb_segment_properties_hash()
2566
2567hb_buffer_set_segment_properties()
2568hb_buffer_get_segment_properties()
2569
2570hb_ot_layout_glyph_class_t
2571hb_ot_layout_get_glyph_class()
2572hb_ot_layout_get_glyphs_in_class()
2573
2574hb_shape_plan_t
2575hb_shape_plan_create()
2576hb_shape_plan_create_cached()
2577hb_shape_plan_get_empty()
2578hb_shape_plan_reference()
2579hb_shape_plan_destroy()
2580hb_shape_plan_set_user_data()
2581hb_shape_plan_get_user_data()
2582hb_shape_plan_execute()
2583hb_shape_plan_get_shaper()
2584
2585hb_ot_shape_plan_collect_lookups()
2586
2587
2588API changes:
2589
2590- Remove "mask" parameter from hb_buffer_add().
2591- Rename hb_ot_layout_would_substitute_lookup() and hb_ot_layout_substitute_closure_lookup().
2592- hb-set.h API const correction.
2593- Renamed hb_set_min/max() to hb_set_get_min/max().
2594- Rename hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookup_indexes() to hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookups().
2595- Rename hb_buffer_guess_properties() to hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties().
2596
2597
2598
2599Overview of changes leading to 0.9.6
2600Sunday, November 13, 2012
2601====================================
2602
2603- Don't clear pre-context text if no new context is provided.
2604- Fix ReverseChainingSubstLookup, which was totally borked.
2605- Adjust output format of hb-shape a bit.
2606- Include config.h.in in-tree.  Makes it easier for alternate build systems.
2607- Fix hb_buffer_set_length(buffer, 0) invalid memory allocation.
2608- Use ICU LayoutEngine's C API instead of C++.  Avoids much headache.
2609- Drop glyphs for all of Unicode Default_Ignorable characters.
2610- Misc build fixes.
2611
2612Arabic shaper:
2613- Enable 'dlig' and 'mset' features in Arabic shaper.
2614- Implement 'Phags-pa shaping, improve Mongolian.
2615
2616Indic shaper:
2617- Decompose Sinhala split matras the way old HarfBuzz / Pango did.
2618- Initial support for Consonant Medials.
2619- Start adding new-style Myanmar shaping.
2620- Make reph and 'pref' logic introspect the font.
2621- Route Meetei-Mayek through the Indic shaper.
2622- Don't apply 'liga' in Indic shaper.
2623- Improve Malayalam pre-base reordering Ra interaction with Chillus.
2624
2625
2626
2627Overview of changes leading to 0.9.5
2628Sunday, October 14, 2012
2629====================================
2630
2631- Synthetic-GSUB Arabic fallback shaping.
2632
2633- Misc Indic improvements.
2634
2635- Add build system support for pthread.
2636
2637- Imported UCDN for in-tree Unicode callbacks implementation.
2638
2639- Context-aware Arabic joining.
2640
2641- Misc other fixes.
2642
2643- New API:
2644
2645  hb_feature_to/from-string()
2646  hb_buffer_[sg]et_content_type()
2647
2648
2649
2650Overview of changes leading to 0.9.4
2651Tuesday, Sep 03, 2012
2652====================================
2653
2654- Indic improvements with old-spec Malayalam.
2655
2656- Better fallback glyph positioning, specially with Thai / Lao marks.
2657
2658- Implement dotted-circle insertion.
2659
2660- Better Arabic fallback shaping / ligation.
2661
2662- Added ICU LayoutEngine backend for testing.  Call it by the 'icu_le' name.
2663
2664- Misc fixes.
2665
2666
2667
2668Overview of changes leading to 0.9.3
2669Friday, Aug 18, 2012
2670====================================
2671
2672- Fixed fallback mark positioning for left-to-right text.
2673
2674- Improve mark positioning for the remaining combining classes.
2675
2676- Unbreak Thai and fallback Arabic shaping.
2677
2678- Port Arabic shaper to shape-plan caching.
2679
2680- Use new ICU normalizer functions.
2681
2682
2683
2684Overview of changes leading to 0.9.2
2685Friday, Aug 10, 2012
2686====================================
2687
2688- Over a thousand commits!  This is the first major release of HarfBuzz.
2689
2690- HarfBuzz is feature-complete now!  It should be in par, or better, than
2691  both Pango's shapers and old HarfBuzz / Qt shapers.
2692
2693- New Indic shaper, supporting main Indic scripts, Sinhala, and Khmer.
2694
2695- Improved Arabic shaper, with fallback Arabic shaping, supporting Arabic,
2696  Sinhala, N'ko, Mongolian, and Mandaic.
2697
2698- New Thai / Lao shaper.
2699
2700- Tibetan / Hangul support in the generic shaper.
2701
2702- Synthetic GDEF support for fonts without a GDEF table.
2703
2704- Fallback mark positioning for fonts without a GPOS table.
2705
2706- Unicode normalization shaping heuristic during glyph mapping.
2707
2708- New experimental Graphite2 backend.
2709
2710- New Uniscribe backend (primarily for testing).
2711
2712- New CoreText backend (primarily for testing).
2713
2714- Major optimization and speedup.
2715
2716- Test suites and testing infrastructure (work in progress).
2717
2718- Greatly improved hb-view cmdline tool.
2719
2720- hb-shape cmdline tool.
2721
2722- Unicode 6.1 support.
2723
2724Summary of API changes:
2725
2726o Changed API:
2727
2728  - Users are expected to only include main header files now (ie. hb.h,
2729    hb-glib.h, hb-ft.h, ...)
2730
2731  - All struct tag names had their initial underscore removed.
2732    Ie. "struct _hb_buffer_t" is "struct hb_buffer_t" now.
2733
2734  - All set_user_data() functions now take a "replace" boolean parameter.
2735
2736  - hb_buffer_create() takes zero arguments now.
2737    Use hb_buffer_pre_allocate() to pre-allocate.
2738
2739  - hb_buffer_add_utf*() now accept -1 for length parameters,
2740    meaning "nul-terminated".
2741
2742  - hb_direction_t enum values changed.
2743
2744  - All *_from_string() APIs now take a length parameter to allow for
2745    non-nul-terminated strings. A -1 length means "nul-terminated".
2746
2747  - Typedef for hb_language_t changed.
2748
2749  - hb_get_table_func_t renamed to hb_reference_table_func_t.
2750
2751  - hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script()
2752
2753  - Various renames in hb-unicode.h.
2754
2755o New API:
2756
2757  - hb_buffer_guess_properties()
2758    Automatically called by hb_shape().
2759
2760  - hb_buffer_normalize_glyphs()
2761
2762  - hb_tag_from_string()
2763
2764  - hb-coretext.h
2765
2766  - hb-uniscribe.h
2767
2768  - hb_face_reference_blob()
2769  - hb_face_[sg]et_index()
2770  - hb_face_set_upem()
2771
2772  - hb_font_get_glyph_name_func_t
2773    hb_font_get_glyph_from_name_func_t
2774    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_name_func()
2775    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_from_name_func()
2776    hb_font_get_glyph_name()
2777    hb_font_get_glyph_from_name()
2778    hb_font_glyph_to_string()
2779    hb_font_glyph_from_string()
2780
2781  - hb_font_set_funcs_data()
2782
2783  - hb_ft_font_set_funcs()
2784  - hb_ft_font_get_face()
2785
2786  - hb-gobject.h (work in progress)
2787
2788  - hb_ot_shape_glyphs_closure()
2789    hb_ot_layout_substitute_closure_lookup()
2790
2791  - hb-set.h
2792
2793  - hb_shape_full()
2794
2795  - hb_unicode_combining_class_t
2796
2797  - hb_unicode_compose_func_t
2798    hb_unicode_decompose_func_t
2799    hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility_func_t
2800    hb_unicode_funcs_set_compose_func()
2801    hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_func()
2802    hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func()
2803    hb_unicode_compose()
2804    hb_unicode_decompose()
2805    hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility()
2806
2807o Removed API:
2808
2809  - hb_ft_get_font_funcs()
2810
2811  - hb_ot_layout_substitute_start()
2812    hb_ot_layout_substitute_lookup()
2813    hb_ot_layout_substitute_finish()
2814    hb_ot_layout_position_start()
2815    hb_ot_layout_position_lookup()
2816    hb_ot_layout_position_finish()
2817
2818
2819
2820Overview of changes leading to 0.6.0
2821Friday, May 27, 2011
2822====================================
2823
2824- Vertical text support in GPOS
2825- Almost all API entries have unit tests now, under test/
2826- All thread-safety issues are fixed
2827
2828Summary of API changes follows.
2829
2830
2831* Simple Types API:
2832
2833  o New API:
2834    HB_LANGUAGE_INVALID
2835    hb_language_get_default()
2836    hb_direction_to_string()
2837    hb_direction_from_string()
2838    hb_script_get_horizontal_direction()
2839    HB_UNTAG()
2840
2841  o Renamed API:
2842    hb_category_t renamed to hb_unicode_general_category_t
2843
2844  o Changed API:
2845    hb_language_t is a typed pointers now
2846
2847  o Removed API:
2848    HB_TAG_STR()
2849
2850
2851* Use ISO 15924 tags for hb_script_t:
2852
2853  o New API:
2854    hb_script_from_iso15924_tag()
2855    hb_script_to_iso15924_tag()
2856    hb_script_from_string()
2857
2858  o Changed API:
2859    HB_SCRIPT_* enum members changed value.
2860
2861
2862* Buffer API streamlined:
2863
2864  o New API:
2865    hb_buffer_reset()
2866    hb_buffer_set_length()
2867    hb_buffer_allocation_successful()
2868
2869  o Renamed API:
2870    hb_buffer_ensure() renamed to hb_buffer_pre_allocate()
2871    hb_buffer_add_glyph() renamed to hb_buffer_add()
2872
2873  o Removed API:
2874    hb_buffer_clear()
2875    hb_buffer_clear_positions()
2876
2877  o Changed API:
2878    hb_buffer_get_glyph_infos() takes an out length parameter now
2879    hb_buffer_get_glyph_positions() takes an out length parameter now
2880
2881
2882* Blob API streamlined:
2883
2884  o New API:
2885    hb_blob_get_data()
2886    hb_blob_get_data_writable()
2887
2888  o Renamed API:
2889    hb_blob_create_empty() renamed to hb_blob_get_empty()
2890
2891  o Removed API:
2892    hb_blob_lock()
2893    hb_blob_unlock()
2894    hb_blob_is_writable()
2895    hb_blob_try_writable()
2896
2897  o Changed API:
2898    hb_blob_create() takes user_data before destroy now
2899
2900
2901* Unicode functions API:
2902
2903  o Unicode function vectors can subclass other unicode function vectors now.
2904    Unimplemented callbacks in the subclass automatically chainup to the parent.
2905
2906  o All hb_unicode_funcs_t callbacks take a user_data now.  Their setters
2907    take a user_data and its respective destroy callback.
2908
2909  o New API:
2910    hb_unicode_funcs_get_empty()
2911    hb_unicode_funcs_get_default()
2912    hb_unicode_funcs_get_parent()
2913
2914  o Changed API:
2915    hb_unicode_funcs_create() now takes a parent_funcs.
2916
2917  o Removed func getter functions:
2918    hb_unicode_funcs_get_mirroring_func()
2919    hb_unicode_funcs_get_general_category_func()
2920    hb_unicode_funcs_get_script_func()
2921    hb_unicode_funcs_get_combining_class_func()
2922    hb_unicode_funcs_get_eastasian_width_func()
2923
2924
2925* Face API:
2926
2927  o Renamed API:
2928    hb_face_get_table() renamed to hb_face_reference_table()
2929    hb_face_create_for_data() renamed to hb_face_create()
2930
2931  o Changed API:
2932    hb_face_create_for_tables() takes user_data before destroy now
2933    hb_face_reference_table() returns empty blob instead of NULL
2934    hb_get_table_func_t accepts the face as first parameter now
2935
2936* Font API:
2937
2938  o Fonts can subclass other fonts now.  Unimplemented callbacks in the
2939    subclass automatically chainup to the parent.  When chaining up,
2940    scale is adjusted if the parent font has a different scale.
2941
2942  o All hb_font_funcs_t callbacks take a user_data now.  Their setters
2943    take a user_data and its respective destroy callback.
2944
2945  o New API:
2946    hb_font_get_parent()
2947    hb_font_funcs_get_empty()
2948    hb_font_create_sub_font()
2949
2950  o Removed API:
2951    hb_font_funcs_copy()
2952    hb_font_unset_funcs()
2953
2954  o Removed func getter functions:
2955    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_func()
2956    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_advance_func()
2957    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_extents_func()
2958    hb_font_funcs_get_contour_point_func()
2959    hb_font_funcs_get_kerning_func()
2960
2961  o Changed API:
2962    hb_font_create() takes a face and references it now
2963    hb_font_set_funcs() takes user_data before destroy now
2964    hb_font_set_scale() accepts signed integers now
2965    hb_font_get_contour_point_func_t now takes glyph first, then point_index
2966    hb_font_get_glyph_func_t returns a success boolean now
2967
2968
2969* Changed object model:
2970
2971  o All object types have a _get_empty() now:
2972    hb_blob_get_empty()
2973    hb_buffer_get_empty()
2974    hb_face_get_empty()
2975    hb_font_get_empty()
2976    hb_font_funcs_get_empty()
2977    hb_unicode_funcs_get_empty()
2978
2979  o Added _set_user_data() and _get_user_data() for all object types:
2980    hb_blob_get_user_data()
2981    hb_blob_set_user_data()
2982    hb_buffer_get_user_data()
2983    hb_buffer_set_user_data()
2984    hb_face_get_user_data()
2985    hb_face_set_user_data()
2986    hb_font_funcs_get_user_data()
2987    hb_font_funcs_set_user_data()
2988    hb_font_get_user_data()
2989    hb_font_set_user_data()
2990    hb_unicode_funcs_get_user_data()
2991    hb_unicode_funcs_set_user_data()
2992
2993  o Removed the _get_reference_count() from all object types:
2994    hb_blob_get_reference_count()
2995    hb_buffer_get_reference_count()
2996    hb_face_get_reference_count()
2997    hb_font_funcs_get_reference_count()
2998    hb_font_get_reference_count()
2999    hb_unicode_funcs_get_reference_count()
3000
3001  o Added _make_immutable() and _is_immutable() for all object types except for buffer:
3002    hb_blob_make_immutable()
3003    hb_blob_is_immutable()
3004    hb_face_make_immutable()
3005    hb_face_is_immutable()
3006
3007
3008* Changed API for vertical text support
3009
3010  o The following callbacks where removed:
3011    hb_font_get_glyph_advance_func_t
3012    hb_font_get_kerning_func_t
3013
3014  o The following new callbacks added instead:
3015    hb_font_get_glyph_h_advance_func_t
3016    hb_font_get_glyph_v_advance_func_t
3017    hb_font_get_glyph_h_origin_func_t
3018    hb_font_get_glyph_v_origin_func_t
3019    hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning_func_t
3020    hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning_func_t
3021
3022  o The following API removed as such:
3023    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_advance_func()
3024    hb_font_funcs_set_kerning_func()
3025    hb_font_get_glyph_advance()
3026    hb_font_get_kerning()
3027
3028  o New API added instead:
3029    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advance_func()
3030    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advance_func()
3031    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_origin_func()
3032    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_origin_func()
3033    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func()
3034    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func()
3035    hb_font_get_glyph_h_advance()
3036    hb_font_get_glyph_v_advance()
3037    hb_font_get_glyph_h_origin()
3038    hb_font_get_glyph_v_origin()
3039    hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning()
3040    hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning()
3041
3042  o The following higher-leve API added for convenience:
3043    hb_font_get_glyph_advance_for_direction()
3044    hb_font_get_glyph_origin_for_direction()
3045    hb_font_add_glyph_origin_for_direction()
3046    hb_font_subtract_glyph_origin_for_direction()
3047    hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction()
3048    hb_font_get_glyph_extents_for_origin()
3049    hb_font_get_glyph_contour_point_for_origin()
3050
3051
3052* OpenType Layout API:
3053
3054  o New API:
3055    hb_ot_layout_position_start()
3056    hb_ot_layout_substitute_start()
3057    hb_ot_layout_substitute_finish()
3058
3059
3060* Glue code:
3061
3062  o New API:
3063    hb_glib_script_to_script()
3064    hb_glib_script_from_script()
3065    hb_icu_script_to_script()
3066    hb_icu_script_from_script()
3067
3068
3069* Version API added:
3070
3071  o New API:
3072    HB_VERSION_MAJOR
3073    HB_VERSION_MINOR
3074    HB_VERSION_MICRO
3075    HB_VERSION_STRING
3076    HB_VERSION_CHECK()
3077    hb_version()
3078    hb_version_string()
3079    hb_version_check()
3080
3081
3082