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1Overview of changes leading to 8.2.2
2Wednesday, October 18, 2023
3“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”
4====================================
5- Fix regression from 8.1.0 in shaping fonts with duplicate feature tags.
6- Fix regression from 8.2.0 in parsing CSS-style feature strings.
7- Variable fonts instanciation now handles more tables.
8- Various CMake build improvements.
9- various fixes to build without errors with gcc 4.9.2.
10
11
12Overview of changes leading to 8.2.1
13Monday, September 18, 2023
14====================================
15- Unicode 15.1 support.
16
17
18Overview of changes leading to 8.2.0
19Friday, September 8, 2023
20====================================
21- Various build and fuzzing fixes
22- Improvements to COLRv1 painting.
23
24- New API:
25+hb_paint_color_glyph_func_t
26+hb_paint_funcs_set_color_glyph_func
27+hb_paint_color_glyph
28
29
30Overview of changes leading to 8.1.1
31Wednesday, August 2, 2023
32====================================
33- Fix shaping of contextual rules at the end of string, introduced in 8.1.0
34- Fix stack-overflow in repacker with malicious fonts.
35- 30% speed up loading Noto Duployan font.
36
37
38Overview of changes leading to 8.1.0
39Tuesday, August 1, 2023
40====================================
41- Fix long-standing build issue with the AIX compiler and older Apple clang.
42
43- Revert optimization that could cause timeout during subsetting with malicious fonts.
44
45- More optimization work:
46  - 45% speed up in shaping Noto Duployan font.
47  - 10% speed up in subsetting Noto Duployan font.
48  - Another 8% speed up in shaping Gulzar.
49  - 5% speed up in loading Roboto.
50
51- New API:
52+hb_ot_layout_collect_features_map()
53
54
55Overview of changes leading to 8.0.1
56Wednesday, July 12, 2023
57====================================
58- Build fix on 32-bit ARM.
59
60- More speed optimizations:
61  - 60% speed up in retain-gid (used for IFT) subsetting of SourceHanSans-VF.
62  - 16% speed up in retain-gid (used for IFT) subsetting of NotoSansCJKkr.
63  - 38% speed up in subsetting (beyond-64k) mega-merged Noto.
64
65
66Overview of changes leading to 8.0.0
67Sunday, July 9, 2023
68====================================
69- New, experimental, WebAssembly (WASM) shaper, that provides greater
70  flexibility over OpenType/AAT/Graphite shaping, using WebAssembly embedded
71  inside the font file. Currently WASM shaper is disabled by default and needs
72  to be enabled at build time. For details, see:
73
74    https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-shaper.md
75
76  For example fonts making use of the WASM shaper, see:
77
78    https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples
79
80- Improvements to Experimental features introduced in earlier releases:
81  - Support for subsetting beyond-64k and VarComposites fonts.
82  - Support for instancing variable fonts with cubic “glyf” table.
83
84- Many big speed optimizations:
85  - Up to 89% speedup loading variable fonts for shaping.
86  - Up to 88% speedup in small subsets of large (eg. CJK) fonts (both TTF and
87    OTF), essential for Incremental Font Transfer (IFT).
88  - Over 50% speedup in loading Roboto font for shaping.
89  - Up to 40% speed up in loading (sanitizing) complex fonts.
90  - 30% speed up in shaping Gulzar font.
91  - Over 25% speedup in glyph loading Roboto font.
92  - 10% speed up loading glyph shapes in VarComposite Hangul font.
93  - hb-hashmap optimizations & hashing improvements.
94
95- New macro HB_ALWAYS_INLINE. HarfBuzz now inlines functions more aggressively,
96  which results in some speedup at the expense of bigger code size. To disable
97  this feature define the macro to just inline.
98
99- New API:
100+HB_CODEPOINT_INVALID
101+hb_ot_layout_get_baseline2()
102+hb_ot_layout_get_baseline_with_fallback2()
103+hb_ot_layout_get_font_extents()
104+hb_ot_layout_get_font_extents2()
105+hb_subset_input_set_axis_range()
106
107
108Overview of changes leading to 7.3.0
109Tuesday, May 9, 2023
110====================================
111- Speedup applying glyph variation in VarComposites fonts (over 40% speedup).
112  (Behdad Esfahbod)
113- Speedup instancing some fonts (over 20% speedup in instancing RobotoFlex).
114  (Behdad Esfahbod)
115- Speedup shaping some fonts (over 30% speedup in shaping Roboto).
116  (Behdad Esfahbod)
117- Support subsetting VarComposites and beyond-64k fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
118- New configuration macro HB_MINIMIZE_MEMORY_USAGE to favor optimizing memory
119  usage over speed. (Behdad Esfahbod)
120- Supporting setting the mapping between old and new glyph indices during
121  subsetting. (Garret Rieger)
122- Various fixes and improvements.
123  (Behdad Esfahbod, Denis Rochette, Garret Rieger, Han Seung Min, Qunxin Liu)
124
125- New API:
126+hb_subset_input_old_to_new_glyph_mapping()
127
128
129Overview of changes leading to 7.2.0
130Thursday, April 27, 2023
131====================================
132- Add Tifinagh to the list of scripts that can natively be either right-to-left
133  or left-to-right, to improve handling of its glyph positioning.
134  (Simon Cozens)
135- Return also single substitution from hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_glyph_alternates()
136  (Behdad Esfahbod)
137- Fix 4.2.0 regression in applying across syllables in syllabic scripts.
138  (Behdad Esfahbod)
139- Add flag to avoid glyph substitution closure during subsetting, and the
140  corresponding “--no-layout-closure” option to “hb-subset” command line tool.
141  (Garret Rieger)
142- Support instancing COLRv1 table. (Qunxin Liu)
143- Don’t drop used user-defined name table entries during subsetting.
144  (Qunxin Liu)
145- Optimize handling of “gvar” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
146- Various subsetter bug fixes and improvements. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
147- Various documentation improvements. (Behdad Esfahbod, Josef Friedrich)
148
149- New API:
150+HB_SUBSET_FLAGS_NO_LAYOUT_CLOSURE
151+HB_UNICODE_COMBINING_CLASS_CCC132
152
153- Deprecated API:
154+HB_UNICODE_COMBINING_CLASS_CCC133
155
156
157Overview of changes leading to 7.1.0
158Friday, March 3, 2023
159====================================
160- New experimental hb_shape_justify() API that uses font variations to expand
161  or shrink the text to a given advance. (Behdad Esfahbod)
162- Various build and bug fixes. (Behdad Esfahbod, Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
163
164- New API:
165+hb_font_set_variation()
166
167
168Overview of changes leading to 7.0.1
169Monday, February 20, 2023
170====================================
171- Various build and bug fixes.
172
173
174Overview of changes leading to 7.0.0
175Saturday, February 11, 2023
176====================================
177- New hb-paint API that is designed mainly to paint “COLRv1” glyphs, but can be
178  also used as a unified API to paint any of the glyph representations
179  supported by HarfBuzz (B/W outlines, color layers, or color bitmaps).
180  (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
181- New hb-cairo API for integrating with cairo graphics library. This is provided
182  as a separate harfbuzz-cairo library. (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
183- Support for instancing “CFF2” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
184- Support font emboldening. (Behdad Esfahbod)
185- Support feature ranges with AAT shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
186- Experimental support to cubic curves in “glyf” table, see
187  https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/blob/main/glyf1-cubicOutlines.md
188  for spec. (Behdad Esfahbod)
189- Various subsetter improvements. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu, Behdad Esfahbod)
190- Various documentation improvements.
191  (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen, Khaled Hosny)
192- Significantly reduced memory use during shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
193- Greatly reduced memory use during subsetting “CFF” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
194- New command line utility, hb-info, for querying various font information.
195  (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
196- New hb-shape/hb-view options: --glyphs, --color-palette, --font-bold,
197  --font-grade, and --named-instance. (Behdad Esfahbod)
198- Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
199  (Amir Masoud Abdol, Andres Salomon, Behdad Esfahbod, Chun-wei Fan,
200  Garret Rieger, Jens Kutilek, Khaled Hosny, Konstantin Käfer, Matthias Clasen,
201  Nirbheek Chauhan, Pedro J. Estébanez, Qunxin Liu, Sergei Trofimovich)
202
203- New API:
204+HB_FONT_NO_VAR_NAMED_INSTANCE
205+HB_PAINT_IMAGE_FORMAT_BGRA
206+HB_PAINT_IMAGE_FORMAT_PNG
207+HB_PAINT_IMAGE_FORMAT_SVG
208+hb_cairo_font_face_create_for_face
209+hb_cairo_font_face_create_for_font
210+hb_cairo_font_face_get_face
211+hb_cairo_font_face_get_font
212+hb_cairo_font_face_get_scale_factor
213+hb_cairo_font_face_set_font_init_func
214+hb_cairo_font_face_set_scale_factor
215+hb_cairo_font_init_func_t
216+hb_cairo_glyphs_from_buffer
217+hb_cairo_scaled_font_get_font
218+hb_color_line_get_color_stops
219+hb_color_line_get_color_stops_func_t
220+hb_color_line_get_extend
221+hb_color_line_get_extend_func_t
222+hb_color_line_t
223+hb_color_stop_t
224+hb_draw_funcs_get_empty
225+hb_draw_funcs_get_user_data
226+hb_draw_funcs_set_user_data
227+hb_face_collect_nominal_glyph_mapping
228+hb_font_draw_glyph
229+hb_font_draw_glyph_func_t
230+hb_font_funcs_set_draw_glyph_func
231+hb_font_funcs_set_paint_glyph_func
232+hb_font_get_synthetic_bold
233+hb_font_get_var_named_instance
234+hb_font_paint_glyph
235+hb_font_paint_glyph_func_t
236+hb_font_set_synthetic_bold
237+hb_map_keys
238+hb_map_next
239+hb_map_update
240+hb_map_values
241+hb_ot_color_glyph_has_paint
242+hb_ot_color_has_paint
243+hb_ot_layout_script_select_language2
244+hb_ot_name_id_predefined_t
245+hb_paint_color
246+hb_paint_color_func_t
247+hb_paint_composite_mode_t
248+hb_paint_custom_palette_color
249+hb_paint_custom_palette_color_func_t
250+hb_paint_extend_t
251+hb_paint_funcs_create
252+hb_paint_funcs_destroy
253+hb_paint_funcs_get_empty
254+hb_paint_funcs_get_user_data
255+hb_paint_funcs_is_immutable
256+hb_paint_funcs_make_immutable
257+hb_paint_funcs_reference
258+hb_paint_funcs_set_color_func
259+hb_paint_funcs_set_custom_palette_color_func
260+hb_paint_funcs_set_image_func
261+hb_paint_funcs_set_linear_gradient_func
262+hb_paint_funcs_set_pop_clip_func
263+hb_paint_funcs_set_pop_group_func
264+hb_paint_funcs_set_pop_transform_func
265+hb_paint_funcs_set_push_clip_glyph_func
266+hb_paint_funcs_set_push_clip_rectangle_func
267+hb_paint_funcs_set_push_group_func
268+hb_paint_funcs_set_push_transform_func
269+hb_paint_funcs_set_radial_gradient_func
270+hb_paint_funcs_set_sweep_gradient_func
271+hb_paint_funcs_set_user_data
272+hb_paint_funcs_t
273+hb_paint_image
274+hb_paint_image_func_t
275+hb_paint_linear_gradient
276+hb_paint_linear_gradient_func_t
277+hb_paint_pop_clip
278+hb_paint_pop_clip_func_t
279+hb_paint_pop_group
280+hb_paint_pop_group_func_t
281+hb_paint_pop_transform
282+hb_paint_pop_transform_func_t
283+hb_paint_push_clip_glyph
284+hb_paint_push_clip_glyph_func_t
285+hb_paint_push_clip_rectangle
286+hb_paint_push_clip_rectangle_func_t
287+hb_paint_push_group
288+hb_paint_push_group_func_t
289+hb_paint_push_transform
290+hb_paint_push_transform_func_t
291+hb_paint_radial_gradient
292+hb_paint_radial_gradient_func_t
293+hb_paint_sweep_gradient
294+hb_paint_sweep_gradient_func_t
295+hb_set_is_inverted
296+hb_subset_input_keep_everything
297
298- Deprecated API:
299+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_shape_func
300+hb_font_get_glyph_shape_func_t
301+hb_font_get_glyph_shape
302
303
304Overview of changes leading to 6.0.0
305Friday, December 16, 2022
306====================================
307- A new API have been added to pre-process the face and speed up future
308  subsetting operations on that face. Provides up to a 95% reduction in
309  subsetting times when the same face is subset more than once.
310
311  For more details and benchmarks, see:
312  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/subset-preprocessing.md
313
314  (Garret Rieger, Behdad Esfahbod)
315
316- Shaping have been speedup by skipping entire lookups when the buffer contents
317  don't intersect with the lookup. Shows up to a 10% speedup in shaping some
318  fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
319
320- A new experimental feature, “Variable Composites” (enabled by passing
321  -Dexperimental_api=true to meson), is also featured in this release.
322  This technology enables drastic compression of fonts in the Chinese,
323  Japanese, Korean, and other writing systems, by reusing the OpenType Font
324  Variations technology for encoding “smart components” into the font.
325
326  The specification for these  extensions to the font format can be found in:
327  https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/blob/glyf1/glyf1.md
328
329  A test variable-font with ~7160 Hangul syllables derived from the
330  NotoSerifKR-VF font has been built, with existing OpenType technology, as
331  well as with the new Variable Composites (VarComposites) technology. The
332  VarComposites font is over 90% smaller than the OpenType version of the font!
333  Both fonts can be obtained from the “smarties” repository:
334  https://github.com/behdad/smarties/tree/3.0/fonts/hangul/serif
335
336  When building HarfBuzz with experimental features enabled, you can test
337  the “smarties” font with a sample character like this:
338
339  $ hb-view butchered-hangul-serif-smarties-variable.ttf -u AE01 --variations=wght=700
340
341  (Behdad Esfahbod)
342
343- The HarfBuzz subsetter can now drop axes by pinning them to specific values
344  (also referred to as instancing). There are a couple of restrictions
345  currently:
346
347  - Only works with TrueType (“glyf”) based fonts. “CFF2” fonts are not yet
348    supported.
349  - Only supports the case where all axes in a font are pinned.
350
351  (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
352
353- Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
354
355  (Behdad Esfahbod, Christoph Reiter, David Corbett, Eli Schwartz, Garret
356   Rieger, Joel Auterson, Jordan Petridis, Khaled Hosny, Lorenz Wildberg,
357   Marco Rebhan, Martin Storsjö, Matthias Clasen, Qunxin Liu, Satadru Pramanik)
358
359
360- New API
361+hb_subset_input_pin_axis_location()
362+hb_subset_input_pin_axis_to_default()
363+hb_subset_preprocess()
364
365
366Overview of changes leading to 5.3.1
367Wednesday, October 19, 2022
368====================================
369- Subsetter repacker fixes. (Garret Rieger)
370- Adjust Grapheme clusters for Katakana voiced sound marks. (Behdad Esfahbod)
371- New “hb-subset” option “--preprocess-face”. (Garret Rieger)
372
373
374Overview of changes leading to 5.3.0
375Saturday, October 8, 2022
376"Women, Life, Freedom" #MahsaAmini
377====================================
378- Don’t add glyphs from dropped MATH or COLR tables to the subset glyphs.
379  (Khaled Hosny)
380- Map “rlig” to appropriate AAT feature selectors. (Jonathan Kew)
381- Update USE data files to latest version. (David Corbett)
382- Check “CBDT” extents first before outline tables, to help with fonts that
383  also include an empty “glyf” table. (Khaled Hosny)
384- More work towards variable font instancing in the subsetter. (Qunxin Liu)
385- Subsetter repacker improvements. (Garret Rieger)
386- New API:
387+hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_optical_bound()
388+hb_face_builder_sort_tables()
389
390
391Overview of changes leading to 5.2.0
392Saturday, September 17, 2022
393====================================
394- Fix regressions in hb-ft font functions for FT_Face’s with transformation
395  matrix. (Behdad Esfahbod)
396- The experimental hb-repacker API now supports splitting several GPOS subtable
397  types when needed. (Garret Rieger)
398- The HarfBuzz extensions to OpenType font format are now opt-in behind
399  build-time flags. (Behdad Esfahbod)
400- The experimental hb-subset variable fonts instantiation API can now
401  instantiate more font tables and arbitrary axis locations. (Qunxin Liu)
402- Unicode 15 support. (David Corbett)
403- Various documentation improvements. (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
404- The hb-view command line tool now detects WezTerm inline images support.
405  (Wez Furlong)
406- Fix FreeType and ICU dependency lookup with meson. (Xavier Claessens)
407
408- New API:
409+HB_SCRIPT_KAWI
410+HB_SCRIPT_NAG_MUNDARI
411
412
413Overview of changes leading to 5.1.0
414Sunday, July 31, 2022
415====================================
416- More extensive buffer tracing messages. (Behdad Esfahbod)
417- Fix hb-ft regression in bitmap fonts rendering. (Behdad Esfahbod)
418- Support extension promotion of lookups in hb-subset-repacker. (Garret Rieger)
419- A new HB_GLYPH_FLAG_SAFE_TO_INSERT_TATWEEL for scripts that use elongation
420  (e.g. Arabic) to signify where it is safe to insert tatweel glyph without
421  interrupting shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
422- Add “--safe-to-insert-tatweel” to “hb-shape” tool. (Behdad Esfahbod)
423
424- New API
425+HB_GLYPH_FLAG_SAFE_TO_INSERT_TATWEEL
426+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRODUCE_SAFE_TO_INSERT_TATWEEL
427
428
429Overview of changes leading to 5.0.1
430Saturday, July 23, 2022
431====================================
432- Fix version 2 “avar” table with hb-ft. (Behdad Esfahbod)
433
434
435Overview of changes leading to 5.0.0
436Saturday, July 23, 2022
437====================================
438- Support fonts with more than 65535 glyphs in “GDEF”, “GSUB”, and “GPOS”
439  tables. This is part of https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec to
440  extend OpenType in a backward-compatible way.
441  (Behdad Esfahbod, Garret Rieger)
442- Complete support for more than 65535 glyphs in “glyf” table that started in
443  4.0.0 release. Part of boring-expansion-spec. (Behdad Esfahbod)
444- Support version 2 of “avar” table. Part of boring-expansion-spec.
445  (Behdad Esfahbod)
446- Fix mark attachment on multiple substitutions in some cases.
447  (Behdad Esfahbod)
448- Fix application of “calt”, “rclt”, and “ccmp” features to better match
449  Uniscribe behaviour with some Arabic fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
450- Improvement to interaction between multiple cursive attachments.
451  (Behdad Esfahbod)
452- Improve multiple mark interactions in Hebrew. (Behdad Esfahbod)
453- Implement language-specific forms in AAT shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
454- Fix variation of “VORG” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
455- Support for specific script tags to be retained in the subsetter, and add
456  “--layout-scripts” option to “hb-subset” tool. (Garret Rieger)
457- Accept space as delimiter for --features/--variations in command line tools.
458- Improve subsetting of “COLR” table. (Qunxin Liu)
459- Improved fuzzing coverage for ot-math API. (Frédéric Wang)
460- Fix “kern” table version 2 (AAT) sanitization on 32-bit systems.
461  (Behdad Esfahbod)
462- Allow negative glyph advances from “graphite2” shaper. (Stephan Bergmann)
463- Implement loading (color) bitmap fonts with hb-ft. (Behdad Esfahbod)
464- Fix regression in hb-ft when changing font size. (Behdad Esfahbod)
465- Fix build on GCC < 7. (Kleis Auke Wolthuizen)
466- Dynamically load dwrite.dll on windows if “directwrite” shaper is enabled.
467  (Luca Bacci)
468- Provide a single-file harfbuzz-subset.cc file for easier alternate building
469  of hb-subset library, similar to harfbuzz.cc. (Khaled Hosny)
470
471- New API
472+HB_SUBSET_SETS_LAYOUT_SCRIPT_TAG
473+hb_language_matches()
474
475
476Overview of changes leading to 4.4.1
477Wednesday, June 29, 2022
478====================================
479- Fix test failure with some compilers.
480- Fix Telugu and Kannada kerning regression.
481
482
483Overview of changes leading to 4.4.0
484Monday, June 27, 2022
485====================================
486- Caching of variable fonts shaping, in particular when using HarfBuzz’s own
487  font loading functions (ot). Bringing performance of variable shaping in par
488  with non-variable fonts shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
489- Caching of format 2 “Contextual Substitution” and “Chained Contexts
490  Substitution” lookups. Resulting in up to 20% speedup of lookup-heavy fonts
491  like Gulzar or Noto Nastaliq Urdu. (Behdad Esfahbod)
492- Improved ANSI output from hb-view. (Behdad Esfahbod)
493- Support for shaping legacy, pre-OpenType Windows 3.1-era, Arabic fonts that
494  relied on a fixed PUA encoding. (Khaled Hosny, Behdad Esfahbod)
495- Sinhala script is now shaped by the USE shaper instead of “indic” one.
496  (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
497- Thai shaper improvements. (David Corbett)
498- hb-ot-name API supports approximate BCP-47 language matching, for example
499  asking for “en_US” in a font that has only “en” names will return them.
500  (Behdad Esfahbod)
501- Optimized TrueType glyph shape loading. (Behdad Esfahbod)
502- Fix subsetting of HarfBuzz faces created via hb_face_create_for_tables().
503  (Garret Rieger)
504- Add 32 bit var store support to the subsetter. (Garret Rieger)
505
506- New API
507+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DEFINED
508+HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_DEFINED
509+hb_font_changed()
510+hb_font_get_serial()
511+hb_ft_hb_font_changed()
512+hb_set_hash()
513+hb_map_copy()
514+hb_map_hash()
515
516
517Overview of changes leading to 4.3.0
518Friday, May 20, 2022
519====================================
520- Major speed up in loading and subsetting fonts, especially in
521  handling CFF table. Subsetting some fonts is now 3 times faster.
522  (Behdad Esfahbod, Garret Rieger)
523- Speed up blending CFF2 table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
524- Speed up hb_ot_tags_from_language(). (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
525- Fix USE classification of U+10A38 to fix multiple marks on single Kharoshthi
526  base. (David Corbett)
527- Fix parsing of empty CFF Index. (Behdad Esfahbod)
528- Fix subsetting CPAL table with partial palette overlaps. (Garret Rieger)
529
530- New API
531+hb_map_is_equal() (Behdad Esfahbod)
532
533
534Overview of changes leading to 4.2.1
535Sunday, April 24, 2022
536====================================
537- Make sure hb_blob_create_from_file_or_fail() always returns nullptr in case
538  of failure and not empty blob sometimes. (Khaled Hosny)
539- Add --passthrough-tables option to hb-subset. (Cosimo Lupo)
540- Reinstate a pause after basic features in Khmer shaper, fixing a regression
541  introduced in previous release. (Behdad Esfahbod)
542- Better handling of Regional_Indicator when shaped with RTL-native scripts,
543  reverting earlier fix that caused regressions in AAT shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
544
545
546Overview of changes leading to 4.2.0
547Wednesday, March 30, 2022
548====================================
549- Source code reorganization, splitting large hb-ot-layout files into smaller,
550  per-subtable ones under OT/Layout/*. Code for more tables will follow suit in
551  later releases. (Garret Rieger, Behdad Esfahbod)
552- Revert Indic shaper change in previous release that broke some fonts and
553  instead make per-syllable restriction of “GSUB” application limited to
554  script-specific Indic features, while applying them and discretionary
555  features in one go. (Behdad Esfahbod)
556- Fix decoding of private in gvar table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
557- Fix handling of contextual lookups that delete too many glyphs. (Behdad Esfahbod)
558- Make “morx” deleted glyphs don’t block “GPOS” application. (Behdad Esfahbod)
559- Various build fixes. (Chun-wei Fan, Khaled Hosny)
560
561- New API
562+hb_set_next_many() (Andrew John)
563
564
565Overview of changes leading to 4.1.0
566Wednesday, March 23, 2022
567====================================
568- Various OSS-Fuzz fixes. (Behdad Esfahbod)
569- Make fallback vertical-origin match FreeType’s. (Behdad Esfahbod)
570- Treat visible viramas like dependent vowels in USE shaper. (David Corbett)
571- Apply presentation forms features and discretionary features in one go in
572  Indic shaper, which seems to match Uniscribe and CoreText behaviour.
573  (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
574- Various bug fixes.
575
576- New API
577+hb_set_add_sorted_array() (Andrew John)
578
579
580Overview of changes leading to 4.0.1
581Friday, March 11, 2022
582====================================
583- Update OpenType to AAT mappings for “hist” and “vrtr” features.
584  (Florian Pircher)
585- Update IANA Language Subtag Registry to 2022-03-02. (David Corbett)
586- Update USE shaper to allow any non-numeric tail in a symbol cluster, and
587  remove obsolete data overrides. (David Corbett)
588- Fix handling of baseline variations to return correctly scaled values.
589  (Matthias Clasen)
590- A new experimental hb_subset_repack_or_fail() to repack an array of objects,
591  eliminating offset overflows. The API is not available unless HarfBuzz is
592  built with experimental APIs enabled. (Qunxin Liu)
593
594- New experimental API
595+hb_link_t
596+hb_object_t
597+hb_subset_repack_or_fail()
598
599
600Overview of changes leading to 4.0.0
601Tuesday, March 1, 2022
602====================================
603- New public API to create subset plan and gather information on things like
604  glyph mappings in the final subset. The plan can then be passed on to perform
605  the subsetting operation. (Garret Rieger)
606- Draw API for extracting glyph shapes have been extended and finalized and is
607  no longer an experimental API. The draw API supports glyf, CFF and CFF2
608  glyph outlines tables, and applies variation settings set on the font as well
609  as synthetic slant. The new public API is not backward compatible with the
610  previous, non-public, experimental API. (Behdad Esfahbod)
611- The hb-view tool will use HarfBuzz draw API to render the glyphs instead of
612  cairo-ft when compiled with Cairo 1.17.5 or newer, setting HB_DRAW
613  environment variable to 1 or 0 will force using or not use the draw API,
614  respectively. (Behdad Esfahbod)
615- The hb-shape and hb-view tools now default to using HarfBuzz’s own font
616  loading functions (ot) instead of FreeType ones (ft). They also have a new
617  option, --font-slant, to apply synthetic slant to the font. (Behdad Esfahbod)
618- HarfBuzz now supports more than 65535 (the OpenType limit) glyph shapes and
619  metrics. See https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec/issues/6 and
620  https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec/issues/7 for details.
621  (Behdad Esfahbod)
622- New API to get the dominant horizontal baseline tag for a given script.
623  (Behdad Esfahbod)
624- New API to get the baseline positions from the font, and synthesize missing
625  ones. As well as new API to get font metrics and synthesize missing ones.
626  (Matthias Clasen)
627- Improvements to finding dependencies on Windows when building with Visual
628  Studio. (Chun-wei Fan)
629- New buffer flag, HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRODUCE_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT, that must be set
630  during shaping for HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT flag to be reliably
631  produced. This is to limit the performance hit of producing this flag to when
632  it is actually needed. (Behdad Esfahbod)
633- Documentation improvements. (Matthias Clasen)
634
635- New API
636 - General:
637   +HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRODUCE_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT
638   +hb_var_num_t
639
640 - Draw:
641   +hb_draw_funcs_t
642   +hb_draw_funcs_create()
643   +hb_draw_funcs_reference()
644   +hb_draw_funcs_destroy()
645   +hb_draw_funcs_is_immutable()
646   +hb_draw_funcs_make_immutable()
647   +hb_draw_move_to_func_t
648   +hb_draw_funcs_set_move_to_func()
649   +hb_draw_line_to_func_t
650   +hb_draw_funcs_set_line_to_func()
651   +hb_draw_quadratic_to_func_t
652   +hb_draw_funcs_set_quadratic_to_func()
653   +hb_draw_cubic_to_func_t
654   +hb_draw_funcs_set_cubic_to_func()
655   +hb_draw_close_path_func_t
656   +hb_draw_funcs_set_close_path_func()
657   +hb_draw_state_t
658   +HB_DRAW_STATE_DEFAULT
659   +hb_draw_move_to()
660   +hb_draw_line_to()
661   +hb_draw_quadratic_to()
662   +hb_draw_cubic_to()
663   +hb_draw_close_path()
664   +hb_font_get_glyph_shape_func_t
665   +hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_shape_func()
666   +hb_font_get_glyph_shape()
667
668 - OpenType layout
669   +HB_OT_LAYOUT_BASELINE_TAG_IDEO_FACE_CENTRAL
670   +HB_OT_LAYOUT_BASELINE_TAG_IDEO_EMBOX_CENTRAL
671   +hb_ot_layout_get_horizontal_baseline_tag_for_script()
672   +hb_ot_layout_get_baseline_with_fallback()
673
674 - Metrics:
675   +hb_ot_metrics_get_position_with_fallback()
676
677 - Subset:
678   +hb_subset_plan_t
679   +hb_subset_plan_create_or_fail()
680   +hb_subset_plan_reference()
681   +hb_subset_plan_destroy()
682   +hb_subset_plan_set_user_data()
683   +hb_subset_plan_get_user_data()
684   +hb_subset_plan_execute_or_fail()
685   +hb_subset_plan_unicode_to_old_glyph_mapping()
686   +hb_subset_plan_new_to_old_glyph_mapping()
687   +hb_subset_plan_old_to_new_glyph_mapping()
688
689
690Overview of changes leading to 3.4.0
691Sunday, February 13, 2022
692====================================
693- Perform sanity checks on shaping results is now part of “harfbuzz” library
694  and can be enabled by setting the buffer flag HB_BUFFER_FLAG_VERIFY.
695  (Behdad Esfahbod)
696- Arabic Mark Transient Reordering Algorithm have been updated to revision 6.
697  (Khaled Hosny)
698- ISO 15924 code for mathematical notation, ‘Zmth’, now maps to the OpenType
699  ‘math’ tag. (Alexis King)
700- It is now possible to get at once all math kerning values for a given glyph
701  at a given corner. (Alexis King)
702- Fix locale_t portability issues on systems the typedef’s it to a void
703  pointer. (Behdad Esfahbod)
704
705- New API:
706+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_VERIFY
707+HB_OT_TAG_MATH_SCRIPT
708+HB_SCRIPT_MATH
709+hb_ot_math_kern_entry_t
710+hb_ot_math_get_glyph_kernings()
711
712- Deprecated API
713+HB_OT_MATH_SCRIPT
714
715
716Overview of changes leading to 3.3.2
717Sunday, February 6, 2022
718====================================
719- Revert splitting of pair positioning values introduced in 3.3.0 as it proved
720  problematic. (Behdad Esfahbod)
721
722
723Overview of changes leading to 3.3.1
724Monday, January 31, 2022
725====================================
726- Fix heap-use-after-free in harfbuzz-subset introduced in previous release.
727  (Garret Rieger)
728
729
730Overview of changes leading to 3.3.0
731Monday, January 31, 2022
732====================================
733- Improved documentation. (Matthias Clasen)
734- Internal code cleanup, using C++ standard library more. (Behdad Esfahbod)
735- The low 16-bits of face index will be used by hb_face_create() to select a
736  face inside a font collection file format, while the high 16-bits will be
737  used by hb_font_create() to load the named instance. (Behdad Esfahbod)
738- Glyph positions and other font metrics now apply synthetic slant set by
739  hb_font_set_synthetic_slant(), for improved positioning for synthetically
740  slanted fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
741- Fixed unintentional locale dependency in hb_variation_to_string() for decimal
742  point representation. (Matthias Clasen)
743- When applying pair positioning (kerning) the positioning value is split
744  between the two sides of the pair for improved cursor positioning between
745  such pairs. (Behdad Esfahbod)
746- Introduced new HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT, to be used in conjunction
747  with HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_BREAK for optimizing re-shaping during line
748  breaking. Check the documentation for further details. (Behdad Esfahbod)
749- Improved handling of macrolanguages when mapping BCP 47 codes to OpenType
750  tags. (David Corbett)
751
752- New API:
753+HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT
754+hb_segment_properties_overlay()
755+hb_buffer_create_similar()
756+hb_font_set_synthetic_slant()
757+hb_font_get_synthetic_slant()
758+hb_font_get_var_coords_design()
759
760
761Overview of changes leading to 3.2.0
762Friday, November 26, 2021
763====================================
764“harfbuzz” library improvements:
765- Fixed shaping of Apple Color Emoji flags in right-to-left context. (Behdad Esfahbod)
766- Fixed positioning of CFF fonts in HB_TINY profile. (Behdad Esfahbod)
767- OpenType 1.9 language tags update. (David Corbett)
768- Add HB_NO_VERTICAL config option.
769- Add HB_CONFIG_OVERRIDE_H for easier configuration. (Behdad Esfahbod)
770
771“harfbuzz-subset” library improvements:
772- Improved packing of cmap, loca, and Ligature tables. (Garret Rieger)
773- Significantly improved overflow-resolution strategy in the repacker. (Garret Rieger)
774
775
776Overview of changes leading to 3.1.2
777Friday, November 26, 2021
778====================================
779- hb-shape / hb-view: revert treating text on the commandline as single
780  paragraph (was introduced in 3.0.0); add new --single-par to do that.
781  (Behdad Esfahbod)
782- Subsetter bug fixes. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu, Behdad Esfahbod)
783
784
785Overview of changes leading to 3.1.1
786Wednesday, November 8, 2021
787====================================
788- Work around GCC cast-align error/warning on some platforms. (Behdad Esfahbod)
789- Documentation improvements. (Matthias Clasen)
790
791
792Overview of changes leading to 3.1.0
793Wednesday, November 3, 2021
794====================================
795- Better offset-overflow handling in the subsetter library. (Garret Rieger)
796- Improved Unicode 14 properties in the USE shaper, and various other USE
797  shaper fixes. (David Corbett)
798- MATH and COLR v1 tables subsetting support, and various other subsetter fixes.
799  (Qunxin Liu)
800- Support for Pwo Karen / Ason Chin medial la. (Simon Cozens)
801- Apply GPOS positioning when substituting with morx table, if kerx is missing.
802  (Behdad Esfahbod)
803- Apply calt and clig features across syllable boundaries in Indic shaper.
804  (Behdad Esfahbod)
805- meson option for enabling Graphite 2 has been renamed to graphite2.
806- Build and documentation fixes.
807
808- New API:
809+hb_buffer_set_not_found_glyph()
810+hb_buffer_get_not_found_glyph()
811
812
813Overview of changes leading to 3.0.0
814Friday, September 17, 2021
815====================================
816- Unicode 14.0 support (David Corbett).
817- The hb-subset API and the harfbuzz-subset library's ABI are now declared
818  stable. The harfbuzz-subset library would not have been possible without the
819  work of Garret Rieger and Qunxin Liu from Google Fonts, and the earlier work
820  of Michiharu Ariza from Adobe.
821- The hb-style API is now stable and no longer experimental.
822
823- New API:
824+hb_style_tag_t
825+hb_style_get_value()
826+hb_subset_input_t
827+hb_subset_flags_t
828+hb_subset_sets_t
829+hb_subset_input_create_or_fail()
830+hb_subset_input_reference()
831+hb_subset_input_destroy()
832+hb_subset_input_set_user_data()
833+hb_subset_input_get_user_data()
834+hb_subset_input_unicode_set()
835+hb_subset_input_glyph_set()
836+hb_subset_input_set()
837+hb_subset_input_get_flags()
838+hb_subset_input_set_flags()
839+hb_subset_or_fail()
840
841- Removed old unstable harfbuzz-subset API:
842-hb_subset_input_nameid_set()
843-hb_subset_input_namelangid_set()
844-hb_subset_input_layout_features_set()
845-hb_subset_input_no_subset_tables_set()
846-hb_subset_input_drop_tables_set()
847-hb_subset_input_set_drop_hints()
848-hb_subset_input_get_drop_hints()
849-hb_subset_input_set_desubroutinize()
850-hb_subset_input_get_desubroutinize()
851-hb_subset_input_set_retain_gids()
852-hb_subset_input_get_retain_gids()
853-hb_subset_input_set_name_legacy()
854-hb_subset_input_get_name_legacy()
855-hb_subset_input_set_overlaps_flag()
856-hb_subset_input_get_overlaps_flag()
857-hb_subset_input_set_notdef_outline()
858-hb_subset_input_get_notdef_outline()
859-hb_subset_input_set_no_prune_unicode_ranges()
860-hb_subset_input_get_no_prune_unicode_ranges()
861-hb_subset()
862
863
864Overview of changes leading to 2.9.1
865Tuesday, September 7, 2021
866====================================
867- Final subset API is in place and if no issues are discovered, it will be the
868  stable subset API of HarfBuzz 3.0.0. Old API is kept to ease transition, but
869  will be removed in 3.0.0.
870- Various fuzzer-found bug fixes.
871- hb_buffer_append() now handles the pre- and post-context which previously
872  were left unchanged in the destination buffer.
873- hb-view / hb-shape now accept following new arguments:
874  o --unicodes-before/after: takes a list of hex numbers that represent Unicode
875    codepoints.
876- Undeprecated API:
877  hb_set_invert()
878
879
880Overview of changes leading to 2.9.0
881Wednesday, August 18, 2021
882History Repeats Itself (Afghanistan)
883====================================
884- Subsetter API is being stabilized, with the first stable API to happen in
885  3.0.0 release (https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/3078).
886- Support multiple variation axes with same tag, aka HOI.
887- The “coretext” testing shaper now passes font variations to CoreText.
888- hb-shape/hb-view does not break line at new lines unless text is read from
889  file.
890- hb-view and hb-subset has a --batch now, similar to hb-shape.
891- The --batch mode now uses ; as argument separator instead of : used previously.
892- The --batch in hb-shape does not expect 0th argument anymore. That is, the
893  lines read are interpreted as argv[1:], instead of argv[0:].
894- The --batch option has been undocumented. We are ready to document it; send
895  feedback if you find it useful.
896- hb-subset got arguments revamps. Added much-requested --gids-file, --glyphs,
897  --glyphs-file, --unicodes-file, supporting ranges in --unicodes.
898- Various bug fixes.
899
900
901Overview of changes leading to 2.8.2
902Tuesday, July 8, 2021
903====================================
904- Shaping LTR digits for RTL scripts now makes the native direction of the
905  digits LTR, applying shaping and positioning rules on the same glyph order as
906  Uniscribe. (Jonathan Kew, Khaled Hosny).
907- Subsetting COLR v1 and CPAL tables is now supported. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
908- Various fixes and improvements to the subsetter. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu, Behdad)
909- When applying morx table, mark glyph widths should not be zeroed. (Jonathan Kew)
910- GPOS is preferred over kerx, if GSUB was applied. (Behdad)
911- Regional_Indicator pairs are grouped together when clustering. (Behdad)
912- New API:
913+hb_blob_create_or_fail()
914+hb_blob_create_from_file_or_fail()
915+hb_set_copy()
916
917
918Overview of changes leading to 2.8.1
919Tuesday, May 4, 2021
920====================================
921- Subsetter now fully supports GSUB/GPOS/GDEF tables (including variations); as
922  such, layout tables are retained by subsetter by default. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
923- Build scripts no longer check for FontConfig as HarfBuzz does not use it.
924- hb-view supports iTerm2 and kitty inline image protocols (Khaled Hosny),
925  it can also use Chafa for terminal graphics if available (Hans Petter Jansson).
926
927Overview of changes leading to 2.8.0
928Tuesday, March 16, 2021
929====================================
930- Shape joining scripts other than Arabic/Syriac using the Universal Shaping Engine.
931  Previously these were shaped using the generalized Arabic shaper. (David Corbett)
932- Fix regression in shaping of U+0B55 ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE. (David Corbett)
933- Update language tags. (David Corbett)
934- Variations: reduce error: do not round each interpolated delta. (Just van Rossum)
935- Documentation improvements. (Khaled Hosny, Nathan Willis)
936- Subsetter improvements: subsets most, if not all, lookup types now. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
937- Fuzzer-found fixes and other improvements when memory failures happen. (Behdad)
938- Removed most atomic implementations now that we have C++11 atomic impl. (Behdad)
939- General codebase upkeep; using more C++11 features: constexpr constructors, etc. (Behdad)
940
941
942Overview of changes leading to 2.7.4
943Sunday, December 27, 2020
944====================================
945- Fix missing --enable-introspection configure option from previous release
946  tarball.
947- Documentation updates.
948
949
950Overview of changes leading to 2.7.3
951Wednesday, December 23, 2020
952====================================
953- Update USE shaper to 2020-08-13 specification, and other improvements.
954- Don’t disable liga feature in myanmar shaper, to match Uniscribe.
955- Improvements to language and script tags handling.
956- Update language system tag registry to OpenType 1.8.4
957- Support for serializing and deserializing Unicode buffers. Serialized buffers
958  are now delimited with `<>` or `[]` based on whether it is a Unicode or
959  glyphs buffer.
960- Increase buffer work limits to handle fonts with many complex lookups.
961- Handle more shaping operations in trace output.
962- Memory access fixes.
963- More OOM fixes.
964- Improved documentation.
965- Build system improvements.
966- New API:
967+hb_buffer_has_positions()
968+hb_buffer_serialize()
969+hb_buffer_serialize_unicode()
970+hb_buffer_deserialize_unicode()
971
972
973Overview of changes leading to 2.7.2
974Saturday, August 29, 2020
975====================================
976- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused a crash with Kaithi.
977- More OOM fixes.
978
979
980Overview of changes leading to 2.7.1
981Thursday, August 13, 2020
982====================================
983- ot-funcs now handles variable empty glyphs better when hvar/vvar isn't present.
984- Reverted a GDEF processing regression.
985- A couple of fixes to handle OOM better.
986
987
988Overview of changes leading to 2.7.0
989Saturday, July 25, 2020
990====================================
991- Use an implementation for round that always rounds up, some minor fluctuations
992  are expected on var font specially when hb-ot callback is used.
993- Fix an AAT's `kerx` issue on broken rendering of Devanagari Sangam MN.
994- Remove AAT's `lcar` table support from _get_ligature_carets API, not even much
995  use on macOS installed fonts (only two files).  GDEF support is the recommended
996  one and expected to work properly after issues fixed two releases ago.
997- Minor memory fixes to handle OOM better specially in hb-ft.
998- Minor .so files versioning scheme change and remove stable/unstable scheme
999  differences, was never used in practice (always default to stable scheme).
1000- We are now suggesting careful packaging of the library using meson,
1001  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/wiki/Notes-on-migration-to-meson
1002  for more information.
1003- Distribution package URL is changed, either use GitHub generated tarballs,
1004  `https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz`
1005  or, even more preferably use commit hash of the release and git checkouts like,
1006  `git+https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz#commit=$commit`
1007
1008
1009Overview of changes leading to 2.6.8
1010Monday, June 22, 2020
1011====================================
1012- New API to fetch glyph alternates from GSUB table.
1013- hb-coretext build fix for macOS < 10.10.
1014- Meson build fixes, cmake port removal is postponed but please prepare for
1015  it and give us feedback.
1016  Autotools is still our main build system however please consider
1017  experimenting with meson also for packaging the library.
1018- New API:
1019+hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_glyph_alternates()
1020
1021
1022Overview of changes leading to 2.6.7
1023Wednesday, June 3, 2020
1024====================================
1025- Update to Unicode 13.0.0.
1026- Fix hb_ot_layout_get_ligature_carets for fonts without lcar table, it was
1027  completely broken for all the other fonts since 2.1.2.
1028- As a part of our migration to meson, this release will be the last one
1029  to provide cmake port files but autotools still is our main build system.
1030  There is a possibility that the next version or the after be released
1031  using meson.
1032
1033
1034Overview of changes leading to 2.6.6
1035Tuesday, May 12, 2020
1036====================================
1037- A fix in AAT kerning for Geeza Pro.
1038- Better support for resource fork fonts on macOS.
1039
1040
1041Overview of changes leading to 2.6.5
1042Friday, April 17, 2020
1043====================================
1044- Add experimental meson build system.  Autotools is still the primary
1045  and supported build system.
1046- AAT is now always preferred for horizontal scripts when both AAT and OT
1047  layout tables exist at the same time.
1048- Subsetter improvements.
1049- New API:
1050+hb_ft_font_lock_face()
1051+hb_ft_font_unlock_face()
1052
1053
1054Overview of changes leading to 2.6.4
1055Monday, October 29, 2019
1056====================================
1057- Small bug fix.
1058- Build fixes.
1059
1060
1061Overview of changes leading to 2.6.3
1062Monday, October 28, 2019
1063====================================
1064- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
1065- New API:
1066+hb_font_get_nominal_glyphs()
1067
1068
1069Overview of changes leading to 2.6.2
1070Monday, September 30, 2019
1071====================================
1072- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
1073
1074
1075Overview of changes leading to 2.6.1
1076Thursday, August 22, 2019
1077====================================
1078- Fix regression with hb_font_create_sub_font scaling introduced in 2.6.0.
1079- Change interpretation of font PTEM size / CoreText font size handling.
1080  See https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/1484
1081- hb-ot-font: Prefer symbol cmap subtable if present.
1082- Apply 'dist'/'abvm'/'blwm' features to all scripts.
1083- Drop experimental DirectWrite API.
1084
1085
1086Overview of changes leading to 2.6.0
1087Tuesday, August 13, 2019
1088====================================
1089- New OpenType metrics, baseline, and metadata table access APIs.
1090- New API to set font variations to a named-instance.
1091- New hb-gdi.h header and API for creating hb_face_t from HFONT.
1092- Amalgam: Provide a single-file harfbuzz.cc file for easier alternate building.
1093- More size-reduction configurable options, enabled by HB_TINY.
1094- New API:
1095+hb_font_set_var_named_instance()
1096+hb_gdi_face_create()
1097+hb_ot_layout_baseline_tag_t
1098+hb_ot_layout_get_baseline()
1099+hb_ot_meta_tag_t
1100+hb_ot_meta_get_entry_tags()
1101+hb_ot_meta_reference_entry()
1102+hb_ot_metrics_tag_t
1103+hb_ot_metrics_get_position()
1104+hb_ot_metrics_get_variation()
1105+hb_ot_metrics_get_x_variation()
1106+hb_ot_metrics_get_y_variation()
1107
1108
1109Overview of changes leading to 2.5.3
1110Wednesday, June 26, 2019
1111====================================
1112- Fix UCD script data for Unicode 10+ scripts.  This was broken since 2.5.0.
1113- More optimizations for HB_TINY.
1114
1115
1116Overview of changes leading to 2.5.2
1117Thursday, June 20, 2019
1118====================================
1119- More hb-config.hh facilities to shrink library size, namely when built as
1120  HB_TINY.
1121- New documentation of custom configurations in CONFIG.md.
1122- Fix build on gcc 4.8.  That's supported again.
1123- Universal Shaping Engine improvements thanks to David Corbett.
1124- API Changes: Undeprecate some horizontal-kerning API and re-enable in hb-ft,
1125  such that Type1 fonts will continue kerning.
1126
1127
1128Overview of changes leading to 2.5.1
1129Friday, May 31, 2019
1130====================================
1131- Fix build with various versions of Visual Studio.
1132- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
1133- Bugfix in subsetting glyf table.
1134- Improved scripts for cross-compiling for Windows using mingw.
1135- Rename HB_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER to HB_OT_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER.
1136  A deprecated macro is added for backwards-compatibility.
1137
1138
1139Overview of changes leading to 2.5.0
1140Friday, May 24, 2019
1141====================================
1142- This release does not include much functional changes, but includes major internal
1143  code-base changes.  We now require C++11.  Support for gcc 4.8 and earlier has been
1144  dropped.
1145- New hb-config.hh facility for compiling smaller library for embedded and web usecases.
1146- New Unicode Character Database implementation that is half the size of previously-used
1147  UCDN.
1148- Subsetter improvements.
1149- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
1150- Misc shaping fixes.
1151
1152
1153Overview of changes leading to 2.4.0
1154Monday, March 25, 2019
1155====================================
1156- Unicode 12.
1157- Misc fixes.
1158- Subsetter improvements.
1159- New API:
1160HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DO_NOT_INSERT_DOTTED_CIRCLE
1161hb_directwrite_face_create()
1162
1163
1164Overview of changes leading to 2.3.1
1165Wednesday, January 30, 2019
1166====================================
1167- AAT bug fixes.
1168- Misc internal housekeeping cleanup.
1169
1170
1171Overview of changes leading to 2.3.0
1172Thursday, December 20, 2018
1173====================================
1174- Fix regression on big-endian architectures.  Ouch!
1175- Misc bug and build fixes.
1176- Fix subsetting of simple GSUB/GDEF.
1177- Merge CFF / CFF2 support contributed by Adobe.  This mostly involves
1178  the subsetter, but also get_glyph_extents on CFF fonts.
1179
1180New API in hb-aat.h:
1181+hb_aat_layout_has_substitution()
1182+hb_aat_layout_has_positioning()
1183+hb_aat_layout_has_tracking()
1184
1185
1186Overview of changes leading to 2.2.0
1187Thursday, November 29, 2018
1188====================================
1189- Misc shaping bug fixes.
1190- Add font variations named-instance API.
1191- Deprecate font variations axis enumeration API and add replacement.
1192- AAT shaping improvements:
1193  o Fixed 'kern' table Format 2 implementation.
1194  o Implement 'feat' table API for feature detection.
1195  o Blacklist 'GSUB' table of fonts from 'MUTF' foundry that also have 'morx'.
1196
1197New API:
1198+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_t
1199+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_t
1200+hb_aat_layout_get_feature_types()
1201+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_name_id
1202+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_info_t
1203+HB_AAT_LAYOUT_NO_SELECTOR_INDEX
1204+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_selector_infos()
1205+hb_ot_var_axis_flags_t
1206+hb_ot_var_axis_info_t
1207+hb_ot_var_get_axis_infos()
1208+hb_ot_var_find_axis_info()
1209+hb_ot_var_get_named_instance_count()
1210+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_subfamily_name_id()
1211+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_postscript_name_id()
1212+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_design_coords()
1213
1214Deprecated API:
1215+HB_OT_VAR_NO_AXIS_INDEX
1216+hb_ot_var_axis_t
1217+hb_ot_var_get_axes()
1218+hb_ot_var_find_axis()
1219
1220
1221Overview of changes leading to 2.1.3
1222Friday, November 16, 2018
1223====================================
1224- Fix AAT 'mort' shaping, which was broken in 2.1.2
1225
1226
1227Overview of changes leading to 2.1.2
1228Friday, November 16, 2018
1229====================================
1230- Various internal changes.
1231- AAT shaping improvements:
1232  o Implement kern table Format 1 state-machine-based kerning.
1233  o Implement cross-stream kerning (cursive positioning, etc).
1234  o Ignore emptyish GSUB tables (zero scripts) if morx present.
1235  o Don't apply GPOS if morx is being applied.  Matches Apple.
1236
1237
1238-Overview of changes leading to 2.1.1
1239Monday, November 5, 2018
1240====================================
1241- AAT improvements:
1242  o Implement 'mort' table.
1243  o Implement 'kern' subtables Format 1 and Format 3.
1244
1245
1246Overview of changes leading to 2.1.0
1247Tuesday, October 30, 2018
1248====================================
1249- AAT shaping improvements:
1250  o Allow user controlling AAT features, for whole buffer only currently.
1251  o Several 'morx' fixes.
1252  o Implement tuple-kerns in 'kerx'; Fixes kerning with Apple default
1253    San Francisco fonts.
1254- Support for color fonts:
1255  o COLR/CPAL API to fetch color layers.
1256  o SVG table to fetch SVG documents.
1257  o CBDT/sbix API to fetch PNG images.
1258- New 'name' table API.
1259- hb-ot-font now uses 'VORG' table to correctly position CFF glyphs
1260  in vertical layout.
1261- Various fuzzer-found bug fixes.
1262
1263Changed API:
1264
1265A type and a macro added in 2.0.0 were renamed:
1266
1267hb_name_id_t -> hb_ot_name_id_t
1268HB_NAME_ID_INVALID -> HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
1269
1270New API:
1271
1272+hb_color_t
1273+HB_COLOR
1274+hb_color_get_alpha()
1275+hb_color_get_red()
1276+hb_color_get_green()
1277+hb_color_get_blue()
1278+hb_ot_color_has_palettes()
1279+hb_ot_color_palette_get_count()
1280+hb_ot_color_palette_get_name_id()
1281+hb_ot_color_palette_color_get_name_id()
1282+hb_ot_color_palette_flags_t
1283+hb_ot_color_palette_get_flags()
1284+hb_ot_color_palette_get_colors()
1285+hb_ot_color_has_layers()
1286+hb_ot_color_layer_t
1287+hb_ot_color_glyph_get_layers()
1288+hb_ot_color_has_svg()
1289+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_svg()
1290+hb_ot_color_has_png()
1291+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_png()
1292
1293+hb_ot_name_id_t
1294+HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
1295+HB_OT_NAME_ID_COPYRIGHT
1296+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_FAMILY
1297+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_SUBFAMILY
1298+HB_OT_NAME_ID_UNIQUE_ID
1299+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FULL_NAME
1300+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VERSION_STRING
1301+HB_OT_NAME_ID_POSTSCRIPT_NAME
1302+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TRADEMARK
1303+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MANUFACTURER
1304+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER
1305+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESCRIPTION
1306+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VENDOR_URL
1307+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER_URL
1308+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE
1309+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE_URL
1310+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_FAMILY
1311+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_SUBFAMILY
1312+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MAC_FULL_NAME
1313+HB_OT_NAME_ID_SAMPLE_TEXT
1314+HB_OT_NAME_ID_CID_FINDFONT_NAME
1315+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_FAMILY
1316+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_SUBFAMILY
1317+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LIGHT_BACKGROUND
1318+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DARK_BACKGROUND
1319+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VARIATIONS_PS_PREFIX
1320+hb_ot_name_entry_t
1321+hb_ot_name_list_names()
1322+hb_ot_name_get_utf8()
1323+hb_ot_name_get_utf16()
1324+hb_ot_name_get_utf32()
1325
1326
1327Overview of changes leading to 2.0.2
1328Saturday, October 20, 2018
1329====================================
1330- Fix two minor memory access issues in AAT tables.
1331
1332
1333Overview of changes leading to 2.0.1
1334Friday, October 19, 2018
1335====================================
1336- Fix hb-version.h reported release version that went wrong (1.8.0)
1337  with previous release.
1338- Fix extrapolation in 'trak' table.
1339- Fix hb-font infinite-recursion issue with some font funcs and
1340  subclassed fonts.
1341- Implement variation-kerning format in kerx table, although without
1342  variation.
1343- Fix return value of hb_map_is_empty().
1344
1345
1346Overview of changes leading to 2.0.0
1347Thursday, October 18, 2018
1348====================================
1349- Added AAT shaping support (morx/kerx/trak).
1350  Automatically used if GSUB/GPOS are not available respectively.
1351  Set HB_OPTIONS=aat env var to have morx/kerx preferred over
1352  GSUB/GPOS.
1353- Apply TrueType kern table internally, instead of relying on
1354  hb_font_t callbacks.
1355- Khmer shaper significantly rewritten to better match Uniscribe.
1356- Indic3 tags ('dev3', etc) are passed to USE shaper.
1357- .dfont Mac font containers implemented.
1358- Script- and language-mapping revamped to better use BCP 47.
1359- Misc USE and Indic fixes.
1360- Misc everything fixes.
1361- Too many things to list.  Biggest release since 0.9.1, with
1362  over 500 commits in just over 5 weeks!  Didn't intend it to
1363  be a big release.  Just happened to become.
1364- hb-ft now locks underlying FT_Face during use.
1365
1366API changes:
1367
1368- Newly-created hb_font_t's now have our internal "hb-ot-font"
1369  callbacks set on them, so they should work out of the box
1370  without any callbacks set.  If callbacks are set, everything
1371  is back to what it was before, the fallback callbacks are
1372  null.  If you to get the internal implementation modified,
1373  sub_font it.
1374
1375- New hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func() allows speeding
1376  up character to glyph mapping.
1377
1378New API:
1379+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_START
1380+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_END
1381+hb_buffer_set_invisible_glyph()
1382+hb_buffer_get_invisible_glyph()
1383+hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func()
1384+hb_ot_layout_table_select_script()
1385+hb_ot_layout_script_select_language()
1386+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_name_ids()
1387+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_characters()
1388+hb_name_id_t
1389+HB_NAME_ID_INVALID
1390+HB_OT_MAX_TAGS_PER_SCRIPT
1391+hb_ot_tags_from_script_and_language()
1392+hb_ot_tags_to_script_and_language()
1393
1394Deprecated API:
1395-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
1396-hb_unicode_eastasian_width_func_t
1397-hb_unicode_funcs_set_eastasian_width_func()
1398-hb_unicode_eastasian_width()
1399-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility_func_t
1400-HB_UNICODE_MAX_DECOMPOSITION_LEN
1401-hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func()
1402-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility()
1403-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func()
1404-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func()
1405-hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning()
1406-hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning()
1407-hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction()
1408-hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script()
1409-hb_ot_layout_script_find_language()
1410-hb_ot_tags_from_script()
1411-hb_ot_tag_from_language()
1412
1413
1414Overview of changes leading to 1.9.0
1415Monday, September 10, 2018
1416====================================
1417- Added 'cmap' API to hb_face_t.
1418- Face-builder API.
1419- hb-ot-font re-creation should be much leaner now, as the
1420  font tables it uses are cached on hb_face_t now.
1421- Internal source header file name changes:
1422  hb-*-private.hh is renamed to hb-*.hh.
1423
1424New API:
1425+HB_UNICODE_MAX
1426+hb_face_collect_unicodes()
1427+hb_face_collect_variation_selectors()
1428+hb_face_collect_variation_unicodes()
1429+hb_face_builder_create()
1430+hb_face_builder_add_table()
1431
1432
1433Overview of changes leading to 1.8.8
1434Tuesday, August 14, 2018
1435====================================
1436- Fix hb-icu crash on architectures where compare_exchange_weak() can
1437  fail falsely.  This bug was introduced in 1.8.4.
1438  https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=873568
1439- More internal refactoring of atomic operations and singletons.
1440- API changes:
1441  The following functions do NOT reference their return value before
1442  returning:
1443  * hb_unicode_funcs_get_default()
1444  * hb_glib_get_unicode_funcs()
1445  * hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs()
1446  This is consistent with their naming ("get", instead of "reference")
1447  as well as how they are used in the wild (ie. no one calls destroy()
1448  on their return value.)
1449
1450
1451Overview of changes leading to 1.8.7
1452Wednesday, August 8, 2018
1453====================================
1454- Fix assertion failure with GDEF-blacklisted fonts.
1455
1456
1457Overview of changes leading to 1.8.6
1458Tuesday, August 7, 2018
1459====================================
1460- Internal code shuffling.
1461- New API to speed up getting advance widths for implementations
1462  that have heavy overhead in get_h_advance callback:
1463+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advances_func
1464+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advances_func
1465+hb_font_get_glyph_advances_for_direction
1466+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances
1467+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances_func_t
1468+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances
1469+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances_func_t
1470
1471
1472Overview of changes leading to 1.8.5
1473Wednesday, August 1, 2018
1474====================================
1475- Major Khmer shaper improvements to better match Microsoft.
1476- Indic bug fixes.
1477- Internal improvements to atomic operations.
1478
1479
1480Overview of changes leading to 1.8.4
1481Tuesday, July 17, 2018
1482====================================
1483- Fix build on non-C++11.
1484- Use C++-style GCC atomics and C++11 atomics.
1485
1486
1487Overview of changes leading to 1.8.3
1488Wednesday, July 11, 2018
1489====================================
1490- A couple of Indic / USE bug fixes.
1491- Disable vectorization, as it was causing unaligned access bus error on
1492  certain 32bit architectures.
1493
1494
1495Overview of changes leading to 1.8.2
1496Tuesday, July 3, 2018
1497====================================
1498- Fix infinite loop in Khmer shaper.
1499- Improve hb_blob_create_from_file() for streams.
1500
1501
1502Overview of changes leading to 1.8.1
1503Tuesday, June 12, 2018
1504====================================
1505- Fix hb-version.h file generation; last two releases went out with wrong ones.
1506- Add correctness bug in hb_set_t operations, introduced in 1.7.7.
1507- Remove HB_SUBSET_BUILTIN build option.  Not necessary.
1508
1509
1510Overview of changes leading to 1.8.0
1511Tuesday, June 5, 2018
1512====================================
1513- Update to Unicode 11.0.0.
1514
1515
1516Overview of changes leading to 1.7.7
1517Tuesday, June 5, 2018
1518====================================
1519- Lots of internal changes, but not yet exposed externally.
1520- All HarfBuzz objects are significantly smaller in size now.
1521- Sinhala: Position repha on top of post-consonant, not base.
1522  This better matches Windows 10 behavior, which was changed
1523  from previous Windows versions.
1524- New build options:
1525  o New cpp macro HB_NO_ATEXIT
1526  o New cpp macro HB_SUBSET_BUILTIN
1527- Significant libharfbuzz-subset changes. API subject to change.
1528- New API in libharfbuzz:
1529
1530+hb_blob_create_from_file()
1531+hb_face_count()
1532
1533A hashmap implementation:
1534+hb-map.h
1535+HB_MAP_VALUE_INVALID
1536+hb_map_t
1537+hb_map_create()
1538+hb_map_get_empty()
1539+hb_map_reference()
1540+hb_map_destroy()
1541+hb_map_set_user_data()
1542+hb_map_get_user_data()
1543+hb_map_allocation_successful()
1544+hb_map_clear()
1545+hb_map_is_empty()
1546+hb_map_get_population()
1547+hb_map_set()
1548+hb_map_get()
1549+hb_map_del()
1550+hb_map_has()
1551
1552
1553Overview of changes leading to 1.7.6
1554Wednesday, March 7, 2018
1555====================================
1556
1557- Fix to hb_set_t binary operations. Ouch.
1558- New experimental harfbuzz-subset library. All of hb-subset.h
1559  is experimental right now and API WILL change.
1560
1561- New API:
1562hb_blob_copy_writable_or_fail()
1563HB_OT_TAG_BASE
1564hb_set_previous()
1565hb_set_previous_range()
1566
1567
1568Overview of changes leading to 1.7.5
1569Tuesday, January 30, 2018
1570====================================
1571
1572- Separate Khmer shaper from Indic.
1573- First stab at AAT morx. Not hooked up.
1574- Misc bug fixes.
1575
1576
1577Overview of changes leading to 1.7.4
1578Wednesday, December 20, 2017
1579====================================
1580
1581- Fix collect_glyphs() regression caused by hb_set_t changes.
1582
1583
1584Overview of changes leading to 1.7.3
1585Monday, December 18, 2017
1586====================================
1587
1588- hb_set_t performance tuning and optimizations.
1589- Speed up collect_glyphs() and reject garbage data.
1590- In hb_coretext_font_create() set font point-size (ptem).
1591- Misc fixes.
1592
1593
1594Overview of changes leading to 1.7.2
1595Monday, December 4, 2017
1596====================================
1597
1598- Optimize hb_set_add_range().
1599- Misc fixes.
1600- New API:
1601hb_coretext_font_create()
1602
1603
1604Overview of changes leading to 1.7.1
1605Tuesday, November 14, 2017
1606====================================
1607
1608- Fix atexit object destruction regression.
1609- Fix minor integer-overflow.
1610
1611
1612Overview of changes leading to 1.7.0
1613Monday, November 13, 2017
1614====================================
1615
1616- Minor Indic fixes.
1617- Implement kerning and glyph names in hb-ot-font.
1618- Various DSO optimization re .data and .bss sizes.
1619- Make C++11 optional; build fixes.
1620- Mark all other backends "unsafe-to-break".
1621- Graphite fix.
1622
1623
1624Overview of changes leading to 1.6.3
1625Thursday, October 26th, 2017
1626====================================
1627
1628- Fix hb_set_t some more.  Should be solid now.
1629- Implement get_glyph_name() for hb-ot-font.
1630- Misc fixes.
1631
1632
1633Overview of changes leading to 1.6.2
1634Monday, October 23nd, 2017
1635====================================
1636
1637- Yesterday's release had a bad crasher; don't use it.  That's what
1638  happens when one works on Sunday...
1639  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/578
1640- Build fixes for FreeBSD and Chrome Android.
1641
1642
1643Overview of changes leading to 1.6.1
1644Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
1645====================================
1646
1647- Don't skip over COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER when ligating, etc.
1648  To be refined: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/554
1649- Faster hb_set_t implementation.
1650- Don't use deprecated ICU API.
1651- Fix undefined-behavior in Myanmar shaper, introduced in 1.6.0
1652- Deprecated API:
1653  hb_set_invert()
1654
1655
1656Overview of changes leading to 1.6.0
1657Friday, October the 13th, 2017
1658====================================
1659
1660- Update to Unicode 10.
1661
1662- Various Indic and Universal Shaping Engine fixes as a result of
1663  HarfBuzz Hackfest with Jonathan Kew at Web Engines Hackfest at
1664  the Igalia offices in A Coruña, Spain.  Thanks Igalia for having
1665  us!
1666
1667- Implement Unicode Arabic Mark Ordering Algorithm UTR#53.
1668
1669- Implement optical sizing / tracking in CoreText backend, using
1670  new API hb_font_set_ptem().
1671
1672- Allow notifying hb_font_t that underlying FT_Face changed sizing,
1673  using new API hb_ft_font_changed().
1674
1675- More Graphite backend RTL fixes.
1676
1677- Fix caching of variable font shaping plans.
1678
1679- hb-view / hb-shape now accept following new arguments:
1680
1681  o --unicodes: takes a list of hex numbers that represent Unicode
1682    codepoints.
1683
1684New API:
1685+hb_face_get_table_tags()
1686+hb_font_set_ptem()
1687+hb_font_get_ptem()
1688+hb_ft_font_changed()
1689
1690
1691Overview of changes leading to 1.5.1
1692Tuesday, September 5, 2017
1693====================================
1694
1695- Fix "unsafe-to-break" in fallback shaping and other corner cases.
1696  All our tests pass with --verify now, meaning unsafe-to-break API
1697  works as expected.
1698- Add --unicodes to hb-view / hb-shape.
1699- [indic] Treat Consonant_With_Stacker as consonant.  This will need
1700  further tweaking.
1701- hb_buffer_diff() tweaks.
1702
1703
1704Overview of changes leading to 1.5.0
1705Wednesday, August 23, 2017
1706====================================
1707
1708- Misc new API, for appending a buffer to another, and for comparing
1709  contents of two buffers for types of differences.
1710
1711- New "unsafe-to-break" API.  Can be used to speed up reshaping
1712  in line-breaking situations.  Essentially, after shaping, it returns
1713  positions in the input string (some of the cluster boundaries) that
1714  are "safe to break" in that if the text is segmented at that position
1715  and two sides reshaped and concatenated, the shaping result is
1716  exactly the same as shaping the text in one piece.
1717
1718  hb-view and hb-shape and hb-shape now take --verify, which verifies
1719  the above property.
1720
1721  Some corner cases of the implementation are still not quite working.
1722  Those will be fixed in subsequent releases.
1723
1724- New API:
1725
1726hb_buffer_append()
1727
1728hb_glyph_flags_t
1729HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_BREAK
1730HB_GLYPH_FLAG_DEFINED
1731hb_glyph_info_get_glyph_flags()
1732
1733HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS
1734
1735hb_buffer_diff_flags_t
1736HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_EQUAL
1737HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CONTENT_TYPE_MISMATCH
1738HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_LENGTH_MISMATCH
1739HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_NOTDEF_PRESENT
1740HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_DOTTED_CIRCLE_PRESENT
1741HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CODEPOINT_MISMATCH
1742HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CLUSTER_MISMATCH
1743HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS_MISMATCH
1744HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_POSITION_MISMATCH
1745hb_buffer_diff
1746
1747
1748Overview of changes leading to 1.4.8
1749Tuesday, August 8, 2017
1750====================================
1751
1752- Major fix to avar table handling.
1753- Rename hb-shape --show-message to --trace.
1754- Build fixes.
1755
1756
1757Overview of changes leading to 1.4.7
1758Tuesday, July 18, 2017
1759====================================
1760
1761- Multiple Indic, Tibetan, and Cham fixes.
1762- CoreText: Allow disabling kerning.
1763- Adjust Arabic feature order again.
1764- Misc build fixes.
1765
1766
1767Overview of changes leading to 1.4.6
1768Sunday, April 23, 2017
1769====================================
1770
1771- Graphite2: Fix RTL positioning issue.
1772- Backlist GDEF of more versions of Padauk and Tahoma.
1773- New, experimental, cmake alternative build system.
1774
1775
1776Overview of changes leading to 1.4.5
1777Friday, March 10, 2017
1778====================================
1779
1780- Revert "Fix Context lookup application when moving back after a glyph..."
1781  This introduced memory access problems.  To be fixed properly soon.
1782
1783
1784Overview of changes leading to 1.4.4
1785Sunday, March 5, 2017
1786====================================
1787
1788- Fix Context lookup application when moving back after a glyph deletion.
1789- Fix buffer-overrun in Bengali.
1790
1791
1792Overview of changes leading to 1.4.3
1793Saturday, February 25, 2017
1794====================================
1795
1796- Route Adlam script to Arabic shaper.
1797- Misc fixes.
1798- New API:
1799  hb_font_set_face()
1800- Deprecate API:
1801  hb_graphite2_font_get_gr_font()
1802
1803
1804Overview of changes leading to 1.4.2
1805Monday, January 23, 2017
1806====================================
1807
1808- Implement OpenType Font Variation tables avar/fvar/HVAR/VVAR.
1809- hb-shape and hb-view now accept --variations.
1810- New API:
1811
1812hb_variation_t
1813hb_variation_from_string()
1814hb_variation_to_string()
1815
1816hb_font_set_variations()
1817hb_font_set_var_coords_design()
1818hb_font_get_var_coords_normalized()
1819
1820hb-ot-var.h:
1821hb_ot_var_axis_t
1822hb_ot_var_has_data()
1823hb_ot_var_get_axis_count()
1824hb_ot_var_get_axes()
1825hb_ot_var_find_axis()
1826hb_ot_var_normalize_variations()
1827hb_ot_var_normalize_coords()
1828
1829- MVAR to be implemented later.  Access to named instances to be
1830  implemented later as well.
1831
1832- Misc fixes.
1833
1834
1835Overview of changes leading to 1.4.1
1836Thursday, January 5, 2017
1837====================================
1838
1839- Always build and use UCDN for Unicode data by default.
1840  Reduces dependence on version of Unicode data in glib,
1841  specially in the Windows bundles we are shipping, which
1842  have very old glib.
1843
1844
1845Overview of changes leading to 1.4.0
1846Thursday, January 5, 2017
1847====================================
1848
1849- Merged "OpenType GX" branch which adds core of support for
1850  OpenType 1.8 Font Variations.  To that extent, the relevant
1851  new API is:
1852
1853New API:
1854hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
1855
1856  with supporting API:
1857
1858New API:
1859HB_OT_LAYOUT_NO_VARIATIONS_INDEX
1860hb_ot_layout_table_find_feature_variations()
1861hb_ot_layout_feature_with_variations_get_lookups()
1862hb_shape_plan_create2()
1863hb_shape_plan_create_cached2()
1864
1865  Currently variations in GSUB/GPOS/GDEF are fully supported,
1866  and no other tables are supported.  In particular, fvar/avar
1867  are NOT supported, hence the hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
1868  taking normalized coordinates.  API to take design coordinates
1869  will be added in the future.
1870
1871  HVAR/VVAR/MVAR support will also be added to hb-ot-font in the
1872  future.
1873
1874- Fix regression in GDEF glyph class processing.
1875- Add decompositions for Chakma, Limbu, and Balinese in USE shaper.
1876- Misc fixes.
1877
1878
1879Overview of changes leading to 1.3.4
1880Monday, December 5, 2016
1881====================================
1882
1883- Fix vertical glyph origin in hb-ot-font.
1884- Implement CBDT/CBLC color font glyph extents in hb-ot-font.
1885
1886
1887Overview of changes leading to 1.3.3
1888Wednesday, September 28, 2016
1889====================================
1890
1891- Implement parsing of OpenType MATH table.
1892New API:
1893HB_OT_TAG_MATH
1894HB_OT_MATH_SCRIPT
1895hb_ot_math_constant_t
1896hb_ot_math_kern_t
1897hb_ot_math_glyph_variant_t
1898hb_ot_math_glyph_part_flags_t
1899hb_ot_math_glyph_part_t
1900hb_ot_math_has_data
1901hb_ot_math_get_constant
1902hb_ot_math_get_glyph_italics_correction
1903hb_ot_math_get_glyph_top_accent_attachment
1904hb_ot_math_get_glyph_kerning
1905hb_ot_math_is_glyph_extended_shape
1906hb_ot_math_get_glyph_variants
1907hb_ot_math_get_min_connector_overlap
1908hb_ot_math_get_glyph_assembly
1909
1910
1911Overview of changes leading to 1.3.2
1912Wednesday, September 27, 2016
1913====================================
1914
1915- Fix build of hb-coretext on older OS X versions.
1916
1917
1918Overview of changes leading to 1.3.1
1919Wednesday, September 7, 2016
1920====================================
1921
1922- Blacklist bad GDEF of more fonts (Padauk).
1923- More CoreText backend crash fixes with OS X 10.9.5.
1924- Misc fixes.
1925
1926
1927Overview of changes leading to 1.3.0
1928Thursday, July 21, 2016
1929====================================
1930
1931- Update to Unicode 9.0.0
1932- Move Javanese from Indic shaper to Universal Shaping Engine.
1933- Allow MultipleSubst to delete a glyph (matching Windows engine).
1934- Update Universal Shaping Engine to latest draft from Microsoft.
1935- DirectWrite backend improvements.  Note: this backend is for testing ONLY.
1936- CoreText backend improvements with unreachable fonts.
1937- Implement symbol fonts (cmap 3.0.0) in hb-ft and hb-ot-font.
1938- Blacklist bad GDEF of more fonts (Tahoma & others).
1939- Misc fixes.
1940
1941
1942Overview of changes leading to 1.2.7
1943Monday, May 2, 2016
1944====================================
1945
1946- Blacklist another version of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic from Windows 7.
1947- Fix Mongolian Free Variation Selectors shaping with certain fonts.
1948- Fix Tibetan shorthand contractions shaping.
1949- Improved list of language tag mappings.
1950- Unbreak build on Windows CE.
1951- Make 'glyf' table loading lazy in hb-ot-font.
1952
1953
1954Overview of changes leading to 1.2.6
1955Friday, April 8, 2016
1956====================================
1957
1958- Blacklist GDEF table of another set of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic.
1959- DirectWrite backend improvements.  Note: DirectWrite backend is
1960  exclusively for our internal testing and should NOT be used in any
1961  production system whatsoever.
1962
1963
1964Overview of changes leading to 1.2.5
1965Monday, April 4, 2016
1966====================================
1967
1968- Fix GDEF mark-filtering-set, which was broken in 1.2.3.
1969
1970
1971Overview of changes leading to 1.2.4
1972Thursday, March 17, 2016
1973====================================
1974
1975- Synthesize GDEF glyph class for any glyph that does not have one in GDEF.
1976  I really hope we don't discover broken fonts that shape badly with this
1977  change.
1978- Misc build and other minor fixes.
1979- API changes:
1980  - Added HB_NDEBUG.  It's fine for production systems to define this to
1981    disable high-overhead debugging checks.  However, I also reduced the
1982    overhead of those checks, so it's a non-issue right now.  You can
1983    forget it.  Just not defining anything at all is fine.
1984
1985
1986Overview of changes leading to 1.2.3
1987Thursday, February 25, 2016
1988====================================
1989
1990- Blacklist GDEF table of certain versions of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic,
1991  due to bug in glyph class of ASCII double-quote character.  This should
1992  address "regression" introduced in 1.2.0 when we switched mark zeroing
1993  in most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to BY_GDEF_LATE.
1994  This fourth release in a week should finally stabilize things...
1995
1996- hb-ot-font's get_glyph() implementation saw some optimizations.  Though,
1997  might be really hard to measure in real-world situations.
1998
1999- Also, two rather small API changes:
2000
2001We now disable some time-consuming internal bookkeeping if built with NDEBUG
2002defined.  This is a first time that we use NDEBUG to disable debug code.  If
2003there exist production systems that do NOT want to enable NDEBUG, please let
2004me know and I'll add HB_NDEBUG.
2005
2006Added get_nominal_glyph() and get_variation_glyph() instead of get_glyph()
2007
2008New API:
2009- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph_func_t
2010- hb_font_get_variation_glyph_func_t
2011- hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyph_func()
2012- hb_font_funcs_set_variation_glyph_func()
2013- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph()
2014- hb_font_get_variation_glyph()
2015
2016Deprecated API:
2017- hb_font_get_glyph_func_t
2018- hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
2019
2020Clients that implement their own font-funcs are encouraged to replace
2021their get_glyph() implementation with a get_nominal_glyph() and
2022get_variation_glyph() pair.  The variation version can assume that
2023variation_selector argument is not zero.  Old (deprecated) functions
2024will continue working indefinitely using internal gymnastics; it is
2025just more efficient to use the new functions.
2026
2027
2028Overview of changes leading to 1.2.2
2029Wednesday, February 24, 2016
2030====================================
2031
2032- Fix regression with mark positioning with fonts that have
2033  non-zero mark advances.  This was introduced in 1.2.0 while
2034  trying to make mark and cursive attachments to work together.
2035  I have partially reverted that, so this version is much more
2036  like what we had before.  All clients who updated to 1.2.0
2037  should update to this version.
2038
2039
2040Overview of changes leading to 1.2.1
2041Tuesday, February 23, 2016
2042====================================
2043
2044- CoreText: Fix bug with wrong scale if font scale was changed later.
2045  https://github.com/libass/libass/issues/212
2046- CoreText: Drastically speed up font initialization.
2047- CoreText: Fix tiny leak.
2048- Group ZWJ/ZWNJ with previous syllable under cluster-level=0.
2049  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/217
2050- Add test/shaping/README.md about how to add tests to the suite.
2051
2052
2053Overview of changes leading to 1.2.0
2054Friday, February 19, 2016
2055====================================
2056
2057- Fix various issues (hangs mostly) in case of memory allocation failure.
2058- Change mark zeroing types of most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to
2059  BY_GDEF_LATE.  This seems to be what Uniscribe does.
2060- Change mark zeroing of USE shaper from NONE to BY_GDEF_EARLY.  That's
2061  what Windows does.
2062- Allow GPOS cursive connection on marks, and fix the interaction with
2063  mark attachment.  This work resulted in some changes to how mark
2064  attachments work.  See:
2065  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/211
2066  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/commit/86c68c7a2c971efe8e35b1f1bd99401dc8b688d2
2067- Graphite2 shaper: improved negative advance handling (eg. Nastaliq).
2068- Add nmake-based build system for Windows.
2069- Minor speedup.
2070- Misc. improvements.
2071
2072
2073Overview of changes leading to 1.1.3
2074Monday, January 11, 2016
2075====================================
2076
2077- Ported Indic shaper to Unicode 8.0 data.
2078- Universal Shaping Engine fixes.
2079- Speed up CoreText shaper when font fallback happens in CoreText.
2080- Documentation improvements, thanks to Khaled Hosny.
2081- Very rough directwrite shaper for testing, thanks to Ebrahim Byagowi.
2082- Misc bug fixes.
2083- New API:
2084
2085  * Font extents:
2086      hb_font_extents_t
2087      hb_font_get_font_extents_func_t
2088      hb_font_get_font_h_extents_func_t
2089      hb_font_get_font_v_extents_func_t
2090      hb_font_funcs_set_font_h_extents_func
2091      hb_font_funcs_set_font_v_extents_func
2092      hb_font_get_h_extents
2093      hb_font_get_v_extents
2094      hb_font_get_extents_for_direction
2095
2096  * Buffer message (aka debug):
2097      hb_buffer_message_func_t
2098      hb_buffer_set_message_func()
2099    Actual message protocol to be fleshed out later.
2100
2101
2102Overview of changes leading to 1.1.2
2103Wednesday, November 26, 2015
2104====================================
2105
2106- Fix badly-broken fallback shaper that affected terminology.
2107  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/187
2108- Fix y_scaling in Graphite shaper.
2109- API changes:
2110  * An unset glyph_h_origin() function in font-funcs now (sensibly)
2111    implies horizontal origin at 0,0.  Ie, the nil callback returns
2112    true instead of false.  As such, implementations that have a
2113    glyph_h_origin() that simply returns true, can remove that function
2114    with HarfBuzz >= 1.1.2.  This results in a tiny speedup.
2115
2116
2117Overview of changes leading to 1.1.1
2118Wednesday, November 24, 2015
2119====================================
2120
2121- Build fixes, specially for hb-coretext.
2122
2123
2124Overview of changes leading to 1.1.0
2125Wednesday, November 18, 2015
2126====================================
2127
2128- Implement 'stch' stretch feature for Syriac Abbreviation Mark.
2129  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/141
2130- Disable use of decompose_compatibility() callback.
2131- Implement "shaping" of various Unicode space characters, even
2132  if the font does not support them.
2133  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/153
2134- If font does not support U+2011 NO-BREAK HYPHEN, fallback to
2135  U+2010 HYPHEN.
2136- Changes resulting from libFuzzer continuous fuzzing:
2137  * Reject font tables that need more than 8 edits,
2138  * Bound buffer growth during shaping to 32x,
2139  * Fix assertions and other issues at OOM / buffer max-growth.
2140- Misc fixes and optimizations.
2141- API changes:
2142  * All fonts created with hb_font_create() now inherit from
2143    (ie. have parent) hb_font_get_empty().
2144
2145
2146Overview of changes leading to 1.0.6
2147Thursday, October 15, 2015
2148====================================
2149
2150- Reduce max nesting level in OT lookups from 8 to 6.
2151  Should not affect any real font as far as I know.
2152- Fix memory access issue in ot-font.
2153- Revert default load-flags of fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
2154  back to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.  This was changed in
2155  last release (1.0.5), but caused major issues, so revert.
2156  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/143
2157
2158
2159Overview of changes leading to 1.0.5
2160Tuesday, October 13, 2015
2161====================================
2162
2163- Fix multiple memory access bugs discovered using libFuzzer.
2164  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/139
2165  Everyone should upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
2166  We now have continuous fuzzing set up, to avoid issues like
2167  these creeping in again.
2168- Misc fixes.
2169
2170- New API:
2171  * hb_font_set_parent().
2172  * hb_ft_font_[sg]et_load_flags()
2173    The default flags for fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
2174    has changed to default to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT now.  Previously it
2175    was defaulting to FT_LOAD_DFEAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.
2176
2177- API changes:
2178  * Fonts now default to units-per-EM as their scale, instead of 0.
2179  * hb_font_create_sub_font() does NOT make parent font immutable
2180    anymore.  hb_font_make_immutable() does.
2181
2182
2183Overview of changes leading to 1.0.4
2184Wednesday, September 30, 2015
2185====================================
2186
2187- Fix minor out-of-bounds read error.
2188
2189
2190Overview of changes leading to 1.0.3
2191Tuesday, September 1, 2015
2192====================================
2193
2194- Start of user documentation, from Simon Cozens!
2195- Implement glyph_extents() for TrueType fonts in hb-ot-font.
2196- Improve GPOS cursive attachments with conflicting lookups.
2197- More fixes for cluster-level = 1.
2198- Uniscribe positioning fix.
2199
2200
2201Overview of changes leading to 1.0.2
2202Wednesday, August 19, 2015
2203====================================
2204
2205- Fix shaping with cluster-level > 0.
2206- Fix Uniscribe backend font-size scaling.
2207- Declare dependencies in harfbuzz.pc.
2208  FreeType is not declared though, to avoid bugs in pkg-config
2209  0.26 with recursive dependencies.
2210- Slightly improved debug infrastructure.  More to come later.
2211- Misc build fixes.
2212
2213
2214Overview of changes leading to 1.0.1
2215Monday, July 27, 2015
2216====================================
2217
2218- Fix out-of-bounds access in USE shaper.
2219
2220
2221Overview of changes leading to 1.0.0
2222Sunday, July 26, 2015
2223====================================
2224
2225- Implement Universal Shaping Engine:
2226  https://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/USE/intro.htm
2227  http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/02/23/windows-shapes-the-worlds-languages/
2228- Bump version to 1.0.0.  The soname was NOT bumped.
2229
2230
2231Overview of changes leading to 0.9.42
2232Thursday, July 26, 2015
2233=====================================
2234
2235- New API to allow for retrieving finer-grained cluster
2236  mappings if the client desires to handle them.  Default
2237  behavior is unchanged.
2238- Fix cluster merging when removing default-ignorables.
2239- Update to Unicode 8.0
2240- hb-graphite2 fixes.
2241- Misc fixes.
2242- Removed HB_NO_MERGE_CLUSTERS hack.
2243- New API:
2244  hb_buffer_cluster_level_t enum
2245  hb_buffer_get_cluster_level()
2246  hb_buffer_set_cluster_level()
2247  hb-shape / hb-view --cluster-level
2248
2249
2250Overview of changes leading to 0.9.41
2251Thursday, June 18, 2015
2252=====================================
2253
2254- Fix hb-coretext with trailing whitespace in right-to-left.
2255- New API: hb_buffer_reverse_range().
2256- Allow implementing atomic ops in config.h.
2257- Fix hb_language_t in language bindings.
2258- Misc fixes.
2259
2260
2261Overview of changes leading to 0.9.40
2262Friday, March 20, 2015
2263=====================================
2264
2265- Another hb-coretext crasher fix.  Ouch!
2266- Happy Norouz!
2267
2268
2269Overview of changes leading to 0.9.39
2270Wednesday, March 4, 2015
2271=====================================
2272
2273- Critical hb-coretext fixes.
2274- Optimizations and refactoring; no functional change
2275  expected.
2276- Misc build fixes.
2277
2278
2279Overview of changes leading to 0.9.38
2280Friday, January 23, 2015
2281=====================================
2282
2283- Fix minor out-of-bounds access in Indic shaper.
2284- Change New Tai Lue shaping engine from South-East Asian to default,
2285  reflecting change in Unicode encoding model.
2286- Add hb-shape --font-size.  Can take up to two numbers for separate
2287  x / y size.
2288- Fix CoreText and FreeType scale issues with negative scales.
2289- Reject blobs larger than 2GB.  This might break some icu-le-hb clients
2290  that need security fixes.  See:
2291  http://www.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11450
2292- Avoid accessing font tables during face destruction, in casce rogue
2293  clients released face data already.
2294- Fix up gobject-introspection a bit.  Python bindings kinda working.
2295  See README.python.
2296- Misc fixes.
2297- API additions:
2298  hb_ft_face_create_referenced()
2299  hb_ft_font_create_referenced()
2300
2301
2302Overview of changes leading to 0.9.37
2303Wednesday, December 17, 2014
2304=====================================
2305
2306- Fix out-of-bounds access in Context lookup format 3.
2307- Indic: Allow ZWJ/ZWNJ before syllable modifiers.
2308
2309
2310Overview of changes leading to 0.9.36
2311Thursday, November 20, 2014
2312=====================================
2313
2314- First time that three months went by without a release since
2315  0.9.2 was released on August 10, 2012!
2316- Fix performance bug in hb_ot_collect_glyphs():
2317  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090869
2318- Add basic vertical-text support to hb-ot-font.
2319- Misc build fixes.
2320
2321
2322Overview of changes leading to 0.9.35
2323Saturday, August 13, 2014
2324=====================================
2325
2326- Fix major shape-plan caching bug when more than one shaper were
2327  provided to hb_shape_full() (as exercised by XeTeX).
2328  http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1246370.html
2329- Fix Arabic fallback shaping regression.  This was broken in 0.9.32.
2330- Major hb-coretext fixes.  That backend is complete now, including
2331  respecing buffer direction and language, down to vertical writing.
2332- Build fixes for Windows CE.  Should build fine now.
2333- Misc fixes:
2334  Use atexit() only if it's safe to call from shared library
2335  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82246
2336  Mandaic had errors in its Unicode Joining_Type
2337  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82306
2338- API changes:
2339
2340  * hb_buffer_clear_contents() does not reset buffer flags now.
2341
2342    After 763e5466c0a03a7c27020e1e2598e488612529a7, one doesn't
2343    need to set flags for different pieces of text.  The flags now
2344    are something the client sets up once, depending on how it
2345    actually uses the buffer.  As such, don't clear it in
2346    clear_contents().
2347
2348    I don't expect any changes to be needed to any existing client.
2349
2350
2351Overview of changes leading to 0.9.34
2352Saturday, August 2, 2014
2353=====================================
2354
2355- hb_feature_from_string() now accepts CSS font-feature-settings format.
2356- As a result, hb-shape / hb-view --features also accept CSS-style strings.
2357  Eg, "'liga' off" is accepted now.
2358- Add old-spec Myanmar shaper:
2359  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81775
2360- Don't apply 'calt' in Hangul shaper.
2361- Fix mark advance zeroing for Hebrew shaper:
2362  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76767
2363- Implement Windows-1256 custom Arabic shaping.  Only built on Windows,
2364  and requires help from get_glyph().  Used by Firefox.
2365  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045139
2366- Disable 'liga' in vertical text.
2367- Build fixes.
2368- API changes:
2369
2370  * Make HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT/EOT easier to use.
2371
2372    Previously, we expected users to provide BOT/EOT flags when the
2373    text *segment* was at paragraph boundaries.  This meant that for
2374    clients that provide full paragraph to HarfBuzz (eg. Pango), they
2375    had code like this:
2376
2377      hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
2378                           (item_offset == 0 ? HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT : 0) |
2379                           (item_offset + item_length == paragraph_length ?
2380                            HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT : 0));
2381
2382      hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
2383                          paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
2384                          item_offset, item_length);
2385
2386    After this change such clients can simply say:
2387
2388      hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
2389                           HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT | HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT);
2390
2391      hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
2392                          paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
2393                          item_offset, item_length);
2394
2395    Ie, HarfBuzz itself checks whether the segment is at the beginning/end
2396    of the paragraph.  Clients that only pass item-at-a-time to HarfBuzz
2397    continue not setting any flags whatsoever.
2398
2399    Another way to put it is: if there's pre-context text in the buffer,
2400    HarfBuzz ignores the BOT flag.  If there's post-context, it ignores
2401    EOT flag.
2402
2403
2404Overview of changes leading to 0.9.33
2405Tuesday, July 22, 2014
2406=====================================
2407
2408- Turn off ARabic 'cswh' feature that was accidentally turned on.
2409- Add HB_TAG_MAX_SIGNED.
2410- Make hb_face_make_immutable() really make face immutable!
2411- Windows build fixes.
2412
2413
2414Overview of changes leading to 0.9.32
2415Thursday, July 17, 2014
2416=====================================
2417
2418- Apply Arabic shaping features in spec order exactly.
2419- Another fix for Mongolian free variation selectors.
2420- For non-Arabic scripts in Arabic shaper apply 'rlig' and 'calt'
2421  together.
2422- Minor adjustment to U+FFFD logic.
2423- Fix hb-coretext build.
2424
2425
2426Overview of changes leading to 0.9.31
2427Wednesday, July 16, 2014
2428=====================================
2429
2430- Only accept valid UTF-8/16/32; we missed many cases before.
2431- Better shaping of invalid UTF-8/16/32.  Falls back to
2432  U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER now.
2433- With all changes in this release, the buffer will contain fully
2434  valid Unicode after hb_buffer_add_utf8/16/32 no matter how
2435  broken the input is.  This can be overridden though.  See below.
2436- Fix Mongolian Variation Selectors for fonts without GDEF.
2437- Fix minor invalid buffer access.
2438- Accept zh-Hant and zh-Hans language tags.  hb_ot_tag_to_language()
2439  now uses these instead of private tags.
2440- Build fixes.
2441- New API:
2442  * hb_buffer_add_codepoints().  This does what hb_buffer_add_utf32()
2443    used to do, ie. no validity check on the input at all.  add_utf32
2444    now replaces invalid Unicode codepoints with the replacement
2445    character (see below).
2446  * hb_buffer_set_replacement_codepoint()
2447  * hb_buffer_get_replacement_codepoint()
2448    Previously, in hb_buffer_add_utf8 and hb_buffer_add_utf16, when
2449    we detected broken input, we replaced that with (hb_codepoint_t)-1.
2450    This has changed to use U+FFFD now, but can be changed using these
2451    new API.
2452
2453
2454Overview of changes leading to 0.9.30
2455Wednesday, July 9, 2014
2456=====================================
2457
2458- Update to Unicode 7.0.0:
2459  * New scripts Manichaean and Psalter Pahlavi are shaped using
2460    Arabic shaper.
2461  * All the other new scripts to through the generic shaper for
2462    now.
2463- Minor Indic improvements.
2464- Fix graphite2 backend cluster mapping [crasher!]
2465- API changes:
2466  * New HB_SCRIPT_* values for Unicode 7.0 scripts.
2467  * New function hb_ot_layout_language_get_required_feature().
2468- Build fixes.
2469
2470
2471Overview of changes leading to 0.9.29
2472Thursday, May 29, 2014
2473=====================================
2474
2475- Implement cmap in hb-ot-font.h.  No variation-selectors yet.
2476- Myanmar: Allow MedialYa+Asat.
2477- Various Indic fixes:
2478  * Support most characters in Extended Devanagary and Vedic
2479    Unicode blocks.
2480  * Allow digits and a some punctuation as consonant placeholders.
2481- Build fixes.
2482
2483
2484Overview of changes leading to 0.9.28
2485Monday, April 28, 2014
2486=====================================
2487
2488- Unbreak old-spec Indic shaping. (bug 76705)
2489- Fix shaping of U+17DD and U+0FC6.
2490- Add HB_NO_MERGE_CLUSTERS build option.  NOT to be enabled by default
2491  for shipping libraries.  It's an option for further experimentation
2492  right now.  When we are sure how to do it properly, we will add
2493  public run-time API for the functionality.
2494- Build fixes.
2495
2496
2497Overview of changes leading to 0.9.27
2498Tuesday, March 18, 2014
2499=====================================
2500
2501- Don't use "register" storage class specifier
2502- Wrap definition of free_langs() with HAVE_ATEXIT
2503- Add coretext_aat shaper and hb_coretext_face_create() constructor
2504- If HAVE_ICU_BUILTIN is defined, use hb-icu Unicode callbacks
2505- Add Myanmar test case from OpenType Myanmar spec
2506- Only do fallback Hebrew composition if no GPOS 'mark' available
2507- Allow bootstrapping without gtk-doc
2508- Use AM_MISSING_PROG for ragel and git
2509- Typo in ucdn's Makefile.am
2510- Improve MemoryBarrier() implementation
2511
2512
2513Overview of changes leading to 0.9.26
2514Thursday, January 30, 2014
2515=====================================
2516
2517- Misc fixes.
2518- Fix application of 'rtlm' feature.
2519- Automatically apply frac/numr/dnom around U+2044 FRACTION SLASH.
2520- New header: hb-ot-shape.h
2521- Uniscribe: fix scratch-buffer accounting.
2522- Reorder Tai Tham SAKOT to after tone-marks.
2523- Add Hangul shaper.
2524- New files:
2525  hb-ot-shape-complex-hangul.cc
2526  hb-ot-shape-complex-hebrew.cc
2527  hb-ot-shape-complex-tibetan.cc
2528- Disable 'cswh' feature in Arabic shaper.
2529- Coretext: better handle surrogate pairs.
2530- Add HB_TAG_MAX and _HB_SCRIPT_MAX_VALUE.
2531
2532
2533Overview of changes leading to 0.9.25
2534Wednesday, December 4, 2013
2535=====================================
2536
2537- Myanmar shaper improvements.
2538- Avoid font fallback in CoreText backend.
2539- Additional OpenType language tag mappiongs.
2540- More aggressive shape-plan caching.
2541- Build with / require automake 1.13.
2542- Build with libtool 2.4.2.418 alpha to support ppc64le.
2543
2544
2545Overview of changes leading to 0.9.24
2546Tuesday, November 13, 2013
2547=====================================
2548
2549- Misc compiler warning fixes with clang.
2550- No functional changes.
2551
2552
2553Overview of changes leading to 0.9.23
2554Monday, October 28, 2013
2555=====================================
2556
2557- "Udupi HarfBuzz Hackfest", Paris, October 14..18 2013.
2558- Fix (Chain)Context recursion with non-monotone lookup positions.
2559- Misc Indic bug fixes.
2560- New Javanese / Buginese shaping, similar to Windows 8.1.
2561
2562
2563Overview of changes leading to 0.9.22
2564Thursday, October 3, 2013
2565=====================================
2566
2567- Fix use-after-end-of-scope in hb_language_from_string().
2568- Fix hiding of default_ignorables if font doesn't have space glyph.
2569- Protect against out-of-range lookup indices.
2570
2571- API Changes:
2572
2573  * Added hb_ot_layout_table_get_lookup_count()
2574
2575
2576Overview of changes leading to 0.9.21
2577Monday, September 16, 2013
2578=====================================
2579
2580- Rename gobject-introspection library name from harfbuzz to HarfBuzz.
2581- Remove (long disabled) hb-old and hb-icu-le test shapers.
2582- Misc gtk-doc and gobject-introspection annotations.
2583- Misc fixes.
2584- API changes:
2585
2586  * Add HB_SET_VALUE_INVALID
2587
2588Overview of changes leading to 0.9.20
2589Thursday, August 29, 2013
2590=====================================
2591
2592General:
2593- Misc substitute_closure() fixes.
2594- Build fixes.
2595
2596Documentation:
2597- gtk-doc boilerplate integrated.  Docs are built now, but
2598  contain no contents.  By next release hopefully we have
2599  some content in.  Enable using --enable-gtk-doc.
2600
2601GObject and Introspection:
2602- Added harfbuzz-gobject library (hb-gobject.h) that has type
2603  bindings for all HarfBuzz objects and enums.  Enable using
2604  --with-gobject.
2605- Added gobject-introspection boilerplate.  Nothing useful
2606  right now.  Work in progress.  Gets enabled automatically if
2607  --with-gobject is used.  Override with --disable-introspection.
2608
2609OpenType shaper:
2610- Apply 'mark' in Myanmar shaper.
2611- Don't apply 'dlig' by default.
2612
2613Uniscribe shaper:
2614- Support user features.
2615- Fix loading of fonts that are also installed on the system.
2616- Fix shaping of Arabic Presentation Forms.
2617- Fix build with wide chars.
2618
2619CoreText shaper:
2620- Support user features.
2621
2622Source changes:
2623- hb_face_t code moved to hb-face.h / hb-face.cc.
2624- Added hb-deprecated.h.
2625
2626API changes:
2627- Added HB_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.
2628- Deprecated HB_SCRIPT_CANADIAN_ABORIGINAL; replaced by
2629  HB_SCRIPT_CANADIAN_SYLLABICS.
2630- Deprecated HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT; replaced by
2631  HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DEFAULT.
2632- Deprecated HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAGS_DEFAULT; replaced by
2633  HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_DEFAULT.
2634
2635
2636Overview of changes leading to 0.9.19
2637Tuesday, July 16, 2013
2638=====================================
2639
2640- Build fixes.
2641- Better handling of multiple variation selectors in a row.
2642- Pass on variation selector to GSUB if not consumed by cmap.
2643- Fix undefined memory access.
2644- Add Javanese config to Indic shaper.
2645- Misc bug fixes.
2646
2647Overview of changes leading to 0.9.18
2648Tuesday, May 28, 2013
2649=====================================
2650
2651New build system:
2652
2653- All unneeded code is all disabled by default,
2654
2655- Uniscribe and CoreText shapers can be enabled with their --with options,
2656
2657- icu_le and old shapers cannot be enabled for now,
2658
2659- glib, freetype, and cairo will be detected automatically.
2660  They can be force on/off'ed with their --with options,
2661
2662- icu and graphite2 are default off, can be enabled with their --with
2663  options,
2664
2665Moreover, ICU support is now build into a separate library:
2666libharfbuzz-icu.so, and a new harfbuzz-icu.pc is shipped for it.
2667Distros can enable ICU now without every application on earth
2668getting linked to via libharfbuzz.so.
2669
2670For distros I recommend that they make sure they are building --with-glib
2671--with-freetype --with-cairo, --with-icu, and optionally --with-graphite2;
2672And package harfbuzz and harfbuzz-icu separately.
2673
2674
2675Overview of changes leading to 0.9.17
2676Monday, May 20, 2013
2677=====================================
2678
2679- Build fixes.
2680- Fix bug in hb_set_get_min().
2681- Fix regression with Arabic mark positioning / width-zeroing.
2682
2683Overview of changes leading to 0.9.16
2684Friday, April 19, 2013
2685=====================================
2686
2687- Major speedup in OpenType lookup processing.  With the Amiri
2688  Arabic font, this release is over 3x faster than previous
2689  release.  All scripts / languages should see this speedup.
2690
2691- New --num-iterations option for hb-shape / hb-view; useful for
2692  profiling.
2693
2694Overview of changes leading to 0.9.15
2695Friday, April 05, 2013
2696=====================================
2697
2698- Build fixes.
2699- Fix crasher in graphite2 shaper.
2700- Fix Arabic mark width zeroing regression.
2701- Don't compose Hangul jamo into Unicode syllables.
2702
2703
2704Overview of changes leading to 0.9.14
2705Thursday, March 21, 2013
2706=====================================
2707
2708- Build fixes.
2709- Fix time-consuming sanitize with malicious fonts.
2710- Implement hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs() for both json and text.
2711- Do not ignore Hangul filler characters.
2712- Indic fixes:
2713  * Fix Malayalam pre-base reordering interaction with post-forms.
2714  * Further adjust ZWJ handling.  Should fix known regressions from
2715    0.9.13.
2716
2717
2718Overview of changes leading to 0.9.13
2719Thursday, February 25, 2013
2720=====================================
2721
2722- Build fixes.
2723- Ngapi HarfBuzz Hackfest in London (February 2013):
2724  * Fixed all known Indic bugs,
2725  * New Win8-style Myanmar shaper,
2726  * New South-East Asian shaper for Tai Tham, Cham, and New Tai Lue,
2727  * Smartly ignore Default_Ignorable characters (joiners, etc) wheb
2728    matching GSUB/GPOS lookups,
2729  * Fix 'Phags-Pa U+A872 shaping,
2730  * Fix partial disabling of default-on features,
2731  * Allow disabling of TrueType kerning.
2732- Fix possible crasher with broken fonts with overlapping tables.
2733- Removed generated files from git again.  So, one needs ragel to
2734  bootstrap from the git tree.
2735
2736API changes:
2737- hb_shape() and related APIs now abort if buffer direction is
2738  HB_DIRECTION_INVALID.  Previously, hb_shape() was calling
2739  hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties() on the buffer before
2740  shaping.  The heuristics in that function are fragile.  If the
2741  user really wants the old behvaior, they can call that function
2742  right before calling hb_shape() to get the old behavior.
2743- hb_blob_create_sub_blob() always creates sub-blob with
2744  HB_MEMORY_MODE_READONLY.  See comments for the reason.
2745
2746
2747Overview of changes leading to 0.9.12
2748Thursday, January 18, 2013
2749=====================================
2750
2751- Build fixes for Sun compiler.
2752- Minor bug fix.
2753
2754Overview of changes leading to 0.9.11
2755Thursday, January 10, 2013
2756=====================================
2757
2758- Build fixes.
2759- Fix GPOS mark attachment with null Anchor offsets.
2760- [Indic] Fix old-spec reordering of viramas if sequence ends in one.
2761- Fix multi-threaded shaper data creation crash.
2762- Add atomic ops for Solaris.
2763
2764API changes:
2765- Rename hb_buffer_clear() to hb_buffer_clear_contents().
2766
2767
2768Overview of changes leading to 0.9.10
2769Thursday, January 3, 2013
2770=====================================
2771
2772- [Indic] Fixed rendering of Malayalam dot-reph
2773- Updated OT language tags.
2774- Updated graphite2 backend.
2775- Improved hb_ot_layout_get_size_params() logic.
2776- Improve hb-shape/hb-view help output.
2777- Fixed hb-set.h implementation to not crash.
2778- Fixed various issues with hb_ot_layout_collect_lookups().
2779- Various build fixes.
2780
2781New API:
2782
2783hb_graphite2_face_get_gr_face()
2784hb_graphite2_font_get_gr_font()
2785hb_coretext_face_get_cg_font()
2786
2787Modified API:
2788
2789hb_ot_layout_get_size_params()
2790
2791
2792Overview of changes leading to 0.9.9
2793Wednesday, December 5, 2012
2794====================================
2795
2796- Fix build on Windows.
2797- Minor improvements.
2798
2799
2800Overview of changes leading to 0.9.8
2801Tuesday, December 4, 2012
2802====================================
2803
2804
2805- Actually implement hb_shape_plan_get_shaper ().
2806- Make UCDB data tables const.
2807- Lots of internal refactoring in OTLayout tables.
2808- Flesh out hb_ot_layout_lookup_collect_glyphs().
2809
2810New API:
2811
2812hb_ot_layout_collect_lookups()
2813hb_ot_layout_get_size_params()
2814
2815
2816Overview of changes leading to 0.9.7
2817Sunday, November 21, 2012
2818====================================
2819
2820
2821HarfBuzz "All-You-Can-Eat-Sushi" (aka Vancouver) Hackfest and follow-on fixes.
2822
2823- Fix Arabic contextual joining using pre-context text.
2824- Fix Sinhala "split matra" mess.
2825- Fix Khmer shaping with broken fonts.
2826- Implement Thai "PUA" shaping for old fonts.
2827- Do NOT route Kharoshthi script through the Indic shaper.
2828- Disable fallback positioning for Indic and Thai shapers.
2829- Misc fixes.
2830
2831
2832hb-shape / hb-view changes:
2833
2834- Add --text-before and --text-after
2835- Add --bot / --eot / --preserve-default-ignorables
2836- hb-shape --output-format=json
2837
2838
2839New API:
2840
2841hb_buffer_clear()
2842
2843hb_buffer_flags_t
2844
2845HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT
2846HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT
2847HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT
2848HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRESERVE_DEFAULT_IGNORABLES
2849
2850hb_buffer_set_flags()
2851hb_buffer_get_flags()
2852
2853HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAGS
2854hb_buffer_serialize_glyphs()
2855hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs()
2856hb_buffer_serialize_list_formats()
2857
2858hb_set_add_range()
2859hb_set_del_range()
2860hb_set_get_population()
2861hb_set_next_range()
2862
2863hb_face_[sg]et_glyph_count()
2864
2865hb_segment_properties_t
2866HB_SEGMENT_PROPERTIES_DEFAULT
2867hb_segment_properties_equal()
2868hb_segment_properties_hash()
2869
2870hb_buffer_set_segment_properties()
2871hb_buffer_get_segment_properties()
2872
2873hb_ot_layout_glyph_class_t
2874hb_ot_layout_get_glyph_class()
2875hb_ot_layout_get_glyphs_in_class()
2876
2877hb_shape_plan_t
2878hb_shape_plan_create()
2879hb_shape_plan_create_cached()
2880hb_shape_plan_get_empty()
2881hb_shape_plan_reference()
2882hb_shape_plan_destroy()
2883hb_shape_plan_set_user_data()
2884hb_shape_plan_get_user_data()
2885hb_shape_plan_execute()
2886hb_shape_plan_get_shaper()
2887
2888hb_ot_shape_plan_collect_lookups()
2889
2890
2891API changes:
2892
2893- Remove "mask" parameter from hb_buffer_add().
2894- Rename hb_ot_layout_would_substitute_lookup() and hb_ot_layout_substitute_closure_lookup().
2895- hb-set.h API const correction.
2896- Renamed hb_set_min/max() to hb_set_get_min/max().
2897- Rename hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookup_indexes() to hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookups().
2898- Rename hb_buffer_guess_properties() to hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties().
2899
2900
2901
2902Overview of changes leading to 0.9.6
2903Sunday, November 13, 2012
2904====================================
2905
2906- Don't clear pre-context text if no new context is provided.
2907- Fix ReverseChainingSubstLookup, which was totally borked.
2908- Adjust output format of hb-shape a bit.
2909- Include config.h.in in-tree.  Makes it easier for alternate build systems.
2910- Fix hb_buffer_set_length(buffer, 0) invalid memory allocation.
2911- Use ICU LayoutEngine's C API instead of C++.  Avoids much headache.
2912- Drop glyphs for all of Unicode Default_Ignorable characters.
2913- Misc build fixes.
2914
2915Arabic shaper:
2916- Enable 'dlig' and 'mset' features in Arabic shaper.
2917- Implement 'Phags-pa shaping, improve Mongolian.
2918
2919Indic shaper:
2920- Decompose Sinhala split matras the way old HarfBuzz / Pango did.
2921- Initial support for Consonant Medials.
2922- Start adding new-style Myanmar shaping.
2923- Make reph and 'pref' logic introspect the font.
2924- Route Meetei-Mayek through the Indic shaper.
2925- Don't apply 'liga' in Indic shaper.
2926- Improve Malayalam pre-base reordering Ra interaction with Chillus.
2927
2928
2929
2930Overview of changes leading to 0.9.5
2931Sunday, October 14, 2012
2932====================================
2933
2934- Synthetic-GSUB Arabic fallback shaping.
2935
2936- Misc Indic improvements.
2937
2938- Add build system support for pthread.
2939
2940- Imported UCDN for in-tree Unicode callbacks implementation.
2941
2942- Context-aware Arabic joining.
2943
2944- Misc other fixes.
2945
2946- New API:
2947
2948  hb_feature_to/from-string()
2949  hb_buffer_[sg]et_content_type()
2950
2951
2952
2953Overview of changes leading to 0.9.4
2954Tuesday, Sep 03, 2012
2955====================================
2956
2957- Indic improvements with old-spec Malayalam.
2958
2959- Better fallback glyph positioning, specially with Thai / Lao marks.
2960
2961- Implement dotted-circle insertion.
2962
2963- Better Arabic fallback shaping / ligation.
2964
2965- Added ICU LayoutEngine backend for testing.  Call it by the 'icu_le' name.
2966
2967- Misc fixes.
2968
2969
2970
2971Overview of changes leading to 0.9.3
2972Friday, Aug 18, 2012
2973====================================
2974
2975- Fixed fallback mark positioning for left-to-right text.
2976
2977- Improve mark positioning for the remaining combining classes.
2978
2979- Unbreak Thai and fallback Arabic shaping.
2980
2981- Port Arabic shaper to shape-plan caching.
2982
2983- Use new ICU normalizer functions.
2984
2985
2986
2987Overview of changes leading to 0.9.2
2988Friday, Aug 10, 2012
2989====================================
2990
2991- Over a thousand commits!  This is the first major release of HarfBuzz.
2992
2993- HarfBuzz is feature-complete now!  It should be in par, or better, than
2994  both Pango's shapers and old HarfBuzz / Qt shapers.
2995
2996- New Indic shaper, supporting main Indic scripts, Sinhala, and Khmer.
2997
2998- Improved Arabic shaper, with fallback Arabic shaping, supporting Arabic,
2999  Sinhala, N'ko, Mongolian, and Mandaic.
3000
3001- New Thai / Lao shaper.
3002
3003- Tibetan / Hangul support in the generic shaper.
3004
3005- Synthetic GDEF support for fonts without a GDEF table.
3006
3007- Fallback mark positioning for fonts without a GPOS table.
3008
3009- Unicode normalization shaping heuristic during glyph mapping.
3010
3011- New experimental Graphite2 backend.
3012
3013- New Uniscribe backend (primarily for testing).
3014
3015- New CoreText backend (primarily for testing).
3016
3017- Major optimization and speedup.
3018
3019- Test suites and testing infrastructure (work in progress).
3020
3021- Greatly improved hb-view cmdline tool.
3022
3023- hb-shape cmdline tool.
3024
3025- Unicode 6.1 support.
3026
3027Summary of API changes:
3028
3029o Changed API:
3030
3031  - Users are expected to only include main header files now (ie. hb.h,
3032    hb-glib.h, hb-ft.h, ...)
3033
3034  - All struct tag names had their initial underscore removed.
3035    Ie. "struct _hb_buffer_t" is "struct hb_buffer_t" now.
3036
3037  - All set_user_data() functions now take a "replace" boolean parameter.
3038
3039  - hb_buffer_create() takes zero arguments now.
3040    Use hb_buffer_pre_allocate() to pre-allocate.
3041
3042  - hb_buffer_add_utf*() now accept -1 for length parameters,
3043    meaning "nul-terminated".
3044
3045  - hb_direction_t enum values changed.
3046
3047  - All *_from_string() APIs now take a length parameter to allow for
3048    non-nul-terminated strings. A -1 length means "nul-terminated".
3049
3050  - Typedef for hb_language_t changed.
3051
3052  - hb_get_table_func_t renamed to hb_reference_table_func_t.
3053
3054  - hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script()
3055
3056  - Various renames in hb-unicode.h.
3057
3058o New API:
3059
3060  - hb_buffer_guess_properties()
3061    Automatically called by hb_shape().
3062
3063  - hb_buffer_normalize_glyphs()
3064
3065  - hb_tag_from_string()
3066
3067  - hb-coretext.h
3068
3069  - hb-uniscribe.h
3070
3071  - hb_face_reference_blob()
3072  - hb_face_[sg]et_index()
3073  - hb_face_set_upem()
3074
3075  - hb_font_get_glyph_name_func_t
3076    hb_font_get_glyph_from_name_func_t
3077    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_name_func()
3078    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_from_name_func()
3079    hb_font_get_glyph_name()
3080    hb_font_get_glyph_from_name()
3081    hb_font_glyph_to_string()
3082    hb_font_glyph_from_string()
3083
3084  - hb_font_set_funcs_data()
3085
3086  - hb_ft_font_set_funcs()
3087  - hb_ft_font_get_face()
3088
3089  - hb-gobject.h (work in progress)
3090
3091  - hb_ot_shape_glyphs_closure()
3092    hb_ot_layout_substitute_closure_lookup()
3093
3094  - hb-set.h
3095
3096  - hb_shape_full()
3097
3098  - hb_unicode_combining_class_t
3099
3100  - hb_unicode_compose_func_t
3101    hb_unicode_decompose_func_t
3102    hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility_func_t
3103    hb_unicode_funcs_set_compose_func()
3104    hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_func()
3105    hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func()
3106    hb_unicode_compose()
3107    hb_unicode_decompose()
3108    hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility()
3109
3110o Removed API:
3111
3112  - hb_ft_get_font_funcs()
3113
3114  - hb_ot_layout_substitute_start()
3115    hb_ot_layout_substitute_lookup()
3116    hb_ot_layout_substitute_finish()
3117    hb_ot_layout_position_start()
3118    hb_ot_layout_position_lookup()
3119    hb_ot_layout_position_finish()
3120
3121
3122
3123Overview of changes leading to 0.6.0
3124Friday, May 27, 2011
3125====================================
3126
3127- Vertical text support in GPOS
3128- Almost all API entries have unit tests now, under test/
3129- All thread-safety issues are fixed
3130
3131Summary of API changes follows.
3132
3133
3134* Simple Types API:
3135
3136  o New API:
3137    HB_LANGUAGE_INVALID
3138    hb_language_get_default()
3139    hb_direction_to_string()
3140    hb_direction_from_string()
3141    hb_script_get_horizontal_direction()
3142    HB_UNTAG()
3143
3144  o Renamed API:
3145    hb_category_t renamed to hb_unicode_general_category_t
3146
3147  o Changed API:
3148    hb_language_t is a typed pointers now
3149
3150  o Removed API:
3151    HB_TAG_STR()
3152
3153
3154* Use ISO 15924 tags for hb_script_t:
3155
3156  o New API:
3157    hb_script_from_iso15924_tag()
3158    hb_script_to_iso15924_tag()
3159    hb_script_from_string()
3160
3161  o Changed API:
3162    HB_SCRIPT_* enum members changed value.
3163
3164
3165* Buffer API streamlined:
3166
3167  o New API:
3168    hb_buffer_reset()
3169    hb_buffer_set_length()
3170    hb_buffer_allocation_successful()
3171
3172  o Renamed API:
3173    hb_buffer_ensure() renamed to hb_buffer_pre_allocate()
3174    hb_buffer_add_glyph() renamed to hb_buffer_add()
3175
3176  o Removed API:
3177    hb_buffer_clear()
3178    hb_buffer_clear_positions()
3179
3180  o Changed API:
3181    hb_buffer_get_glyph_infos() takes an out length parameter now
3182    hb_buffer_get_glyph_positions() takes an out length parameter now
3183
3184
3185* Blob API streamlined:
3186
3187  o New API:
3188    hb_blob_get_data()
3189    hb_blob_get_data_writable()
3190
3191  o Renamed API:
3192    hb_blob_create_empty() renamed to hb_blob_get_empty()
3193
3194  o Removed API:
3195    hb_blob_lock()
3196    hb_blob_unlock()
3197    hb_blob_is_writable()
3198    hb_blob_try_writable()
3199
3200  o Changed API:
3201    hb_blob_create() takes user_data before destroy now
3202
3203
3204* Unicode functions API:
3205
3206  o Unicode function vectors can subclass other unicode function vectors now.
3207    Unimplemented callbacks in the subclass automatically chainup to the parent.
3208
3209  o All hb_unicode_funcs_t callbacks take a user_data now.  Their setters
3210    take a user_data and its respective destroy callback.
3211
3212  o New API:
3213    hb_unicode_funcs_get_empty()
3214    hb_unicode_funcs_get_default()
3215    hb_unicode_funcs_get_parent()
3216
3217  o Changed API:
3218    hb_unicode_funcs_create() now takes a parent_funcs.
3219
3220  o Removed func getter functions:
3221    hb_unicode_funcs_get_mirroring_func()
3222    hb_unicode_funcs_get_general_category_func()
3223    hb_unicode_funcs_get_script_func()
3224    hb_unicode_funcs_get_combining_class_func()
3225    hb_unicode_funcs_get_eastasian_width_func()
3226
3227
3228* Face API:
3229
3230  o Renamed API:
3231    hb_face_get_table() renamed to hb_face_reference_table()
3232    hb_face_create_for_data() renamed to hb_face_create()
3233
3234  o Changed API:
3235    hb_face_create_for_tables() takes user_data before destroy now
3236    hb_face_reference_table() returns empty blob instead of NULL
3237    hb_get_table_func_t accepts the face as first parameter now
3238
3239* Font API:
3240
3241  o Fonts can subclass other fonts now.  Unimplemented callbacks in the
3242    subclass automatically chainup to the parent.  When chaining up,
3243    scale is adjusted if the parent font has a different scale.
3244
3245  o All hb_font_funcs_t callbacks take a user_data now.  Their setters
3246    take a user_data and its respective destroy callback.
3247
3248  o New API:
3249    hb_font_get_parent()
3250    hb_font_funcs_get_empty()
3251    hb_font_create_sub_font()
3252
3253  o Removed API:
3254    hb_font_funcs_copy()
3255    hb_font_unset_funcs()
3256
3257  o Removed func getter functions:
3258    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_func()
3259    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_advance_func()
3260    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_extents_func()
3261    hb_font_funcs_get_contour_point_func()
3262    hb_font_funcs_get_kerning_func()
3263
3264  o Changed API:
3265    hb_font_create() takes a face and references it now
3266    hb_font_set_funcs() takes user_data before destroy now
3267    hb_font_set_scale() accepts signed integers now
3268    hb_font_get_contour_point_func_t now takes glyph first, then point_index
3269    hb_font_get_glyph_func_t returns a success boolean now
3270
3271
3272* Changed object model:
3273
3274  o All object types have a _get_empty() now:
3275    hb_blob_get_empty()
3276    hb_buffer_get_empty()
3277    hb_face_get_empty()
3278    hb_font_get_empty()
3279    hb_font_funcs_get_empty()
3280    hb_unicode_funcs_get_empty()
3281
3282  o Added _set_user_data() and _get_user_data() for all object types:
3283    hb_blob_get_user_data()
3284    hb_blob_set_user_data()
3285    hb_buffer_get_user_data()
3286    hb_buffer_set_user_data()
3287    hb_face_get_user_data()
3288    hb_face_set_user_data()
3289    hb_font_funcs_get_user_data()
3290    hb_font_funcs_set_user_data()
3291    hb_font_get_user_data()
3292    hb_font_set_user_data()
3293    hb_unicode_funcs_get_user_data()
3294    hb_unicode_funcs_set_user_data()
3295
3296  o Removed the _get_reference_count() from all object types:
3297    hb_blob_get_reference_count()
3298    hb_buffer_get_reference_count()
3299    hb_face_get_reference_count()
3300    hb_font_funcs_get_reference_count()
3301    hb_font_get_reference_count()
3302    hb_unicode_funcs_get_reference_count()
3303
3304  o Added _make_immutable() and _is_immutable() for all object types except for buffer:
3305    hb_blob_make_immutable()
3306    hb_blob_is_immutable()
3307    hb_face_make_immutable()
3308    hb_face_is_immutable()
3309
3310
3311* Changed API for vertical text support
3312
3313  o The following callbacks where removed:
3314    hb_font_get_glyph_advance_func_t
3315    hb_font_get_kerning_func_t
3316
3317  o The following new callbacks added instead:
3318    hb_font_get_glyph_h_advance_func_t
3319    hb_font_get_glyph_v_advance_func_t
3320    hb_font_get_glyph_h_origin_func_t
3321    hb_font_get_glyph_v_origin_func_t
3322    hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning_func_t
3323    hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning_func_t
3324
3325  o The following API removed as such:
3326    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_advance_func()
3327    hb_font_funcs_set_kerning_func()
3328    hb_font_get_glyph_advance()
3329    hb_font_get_kerning()
3330
3331  o New API added instead:
3332    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advance_func()
3333    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advance_func()
3334    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_origin_func()
3335    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_origin_func()
3336    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func()
3337    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func()
3338    hb_font_get_glyph_h_advance()
3339    hb_font_get_glyph_v_advance()
3340    hb_font_get_glyph_h_origin()
3341    hb_font_get_glyph_v_origin()
3342    hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning()
3343    hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning()
3344
3345  o The following higher-leve API added for convenience:
3346    hb_font_get_glyph_advance_for_direction()
3347    hb_font_get_glyph_origin_for_direction()
3348    hb_font_add_glyph_origin_for_direction()
3349    hb_font_subtract_glyph_origin_for_direction()
3350    hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction()
3351    hb_font_get_glyph_extents_for_origin()
3352    hb_font_get_glyph_contour_point_for_origin()
3353
3354
3355* OpenType Layout API:
3356
3357  o New API:
3358    hb_ot_layout_position_start()
3359    hb_ot_layout_substitute_start()
3360    hb_ot_layout_substitute_finish()
3361
3362
3363* Glue code:
3364
3365  o New API:
3366    hb_glib_script_to_script()
3367    hb_glib_script_from_script()
3368    hb_icu_script_to_script()
3369    hb_icu_script_from_script()
3370
3371
3372* Version API added:
3373
3374  o New API:
3375    HB_VERSION_MAJOR
3376    HB_VERSION_MINOR
3377    HB_VERSION_MICRO
3378    HB_VERSION_STRING
3379    HB_VERSION_CHECK()
3380    hb_version()
3381    hb_version_string()
3382    hb_version_check()
3383
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