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1Overview of changes leading to 10.1.0
2Tuesday, November 5, 2024
3====================================
4- Fix the sign of fallback vertical glyph advance (used when font has no
5  vertical advance data).
6- Increase maximum “CFF” operands limit 20 times to support more complex fonts.
7- Add “--face-loader” option to command line utilities.
8- Support “COLR” v0 table in hb_font_get_glyph_extents().
9- Add support for font functions that use Core Text APIs, similar to FreeType
10  font functions. This allows, for example, using drawing fonts that use the new
11  (and undocumented) “hvgl” table.
12- Update IANA and OT language registries, as well ase USE data files.
13- Fix build with ICU 76.
14- Various compiler warnings and build fixes.
15- Various subsetter fixes.
16
17- New API:
18+hb_face_create_or_fail()
19+hb_face_create_from_file_or_fail()
20+hb_coretext_face_create_from_file_or_fail()
21+hb_coretext_font_set_funcs()
22+hb_ft_face_create_from_file_or_fail()
23
24Overview of changes leading to 10.0.1
25Tuesday, September 24, 2024
26====================================
27- Relax sanitization checks for “morx” subtables to fix broken AAT shaping of
28  macOS 15.0 version of GeezaPro.
29
30
31Overview of changes leading to 10.0.0
32Monday, September 23, 2024
33====================================
34- Unicode 16.0.0 support.
35- Various documentation fixes.
36- Various build fixes.
37- Add API to allow HarfBuzz client to set what glyph to use when a Unicode
38  Variation Selector is not supported by the font, which would allow the client
39  to customize what happens in this case, by using a different font for example.
40- Add a callback to for “hb_face_t” for getting the list of table tags. This is
41  now used to make calling “hb_face_get_table_tags()” work on a faces created by
42  “hb_face_create_for_tables()” (e.g. faces returned by “hb_subset_or_fail()”).
43- CGJ and Mongolian Variation Selectors are now ignored during glyph
44  positioning, previously they would block both glyph substitution and
45  positioning across them.
46- Support cairo script as an output format for “hb-view” command line tool.
47- Drop an optimization that would cause HarfBuzz not apply pair positioning
48  lookup subtables under certain circumstances, for compatibility with other
49  implementations that do apply these subtables.
50- Subsetting will now fail if source font has no glyphs, so feeding the subsetter
51  invalid data will not silently return an empty face.
52- If after partially instancing a font no variation data is left (the instance
53  is fully static), don’t consider this a failure.
54- Workaround a Firefox bug in displaying SVGs generated be “hb-view” command
55  line tool under certain circumstances.
56- Fix bug in macroman mapping for “cmap” table.
57- Fix difference shaping output when HarfBuzz is built with with
58  “HB_NO_OT_RULESETS_FAST_PATH” enabled.
59- Various subsetting and instancing fixes.
60- Various fuzzing fixes.
61- Add “with_libstdcxx” meson build option.
62
63
64- New API:
65+HB_SCRIPT_GARAY
66+HB_SCRIPT_GURUNG_KHEMA
67+HB_SCRIPT_KIRAT_RAI
68+HB_SCRIPT_OL_ONAL
69+HB_SCRIPT_SUNUWAR
70+HB_SCRIPT_TODHRI
71+HB_SCRIPT_TULU_TIGALARI
72+hb_buffer_set_not_found_variation_selector_glyph()
73+hb_buffer_get_not_found_variation_selector_glyph()
74+hb_get_table_tags_func_t
75+hb_face_set_get_table_tags_func()
76
77
78Overview of changes leading to 9.0.0
79Thursday, Jun 27, 2024
80====================================
81- HarfBuzz now the supports the proposed new OpenType “VARC” table. This
82  replaces the previously supported “Variable Composites” experimental feature.
83  “VARC” support is still experimental and it is not enabled unless HarfBuzz is
84  built with experimental APIs enabled:
85  https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/blob/main/VARC.md
86- Autotools build system have been dropped. Meson is the only supported build
87  system in HarfBuzz going forward.
88- Speed up “AAT” shaping for short words by up to 4%.
89- Ignore unknown “CFF” operators.
90- “hb_subset_input_keep_everything()” now keeps also non-unicode “name” table
91  records.
92- Update the IANA and OpenType language tag registries.
93- Support composite glyphs with very large number of points in hb-draw API.
94- Various build fixes.
95
96
97Overview of changes leading to 8.5.0
98Monday, May 13, 2024
99====================================
100- API for partial instancing is now stable and have been promoted out of
101  experimental APIs.
102- Support instancing “BASE” table.
103- Speedup AAT shaping by 13–30%.
104- Various build fixes.
105- Various subsetter and instancer fixes.
106
107- New API:
108+HB_SUBSET_FLAGS_OPTIMIZE_IUP_DELTAS
109+hb_subset_input_get_axis_range()
110+hb_subset_input_pin_axis_location()
111
112Overview of changes leading to 8.4.0
113Saturday, March 29, 2024
114====================================
115- Add /bigobj to MSVC compiler flags in meson build, to fix building hb-subset.cc
116- Specify minimum versions of various dependencies in meson and autotools build.
117- When subsetting, place variation store at the end of “GDEF” table  to fix
118  shaping issues with some versions of Adobe InDesign.
119- Various build fixes.
120
121- New API:
122+hb_buffer_set_random_state()
123+hb_buffer_get_random_state()
124
125Overview of changes leading to 8.3.1
126Saturday, March 16, 2024
127====================================
128- hb_blob_create_from_file_or_fail() on Windows will now try to interpret the
129  file name as UTF-8 first, and as system code page if it is not valid UTF-8.
130- Fix hb_style_get_value() in fonts with “STAT” table.
131- Properly handle negative offsets in CFF table.
132- Update IANA Language Subtag Registry to 2024-03-07.
133- Subsetter now supports subsetting “BASE” table.
134- Subsetter will update “hhea” font metrics in sync with “OS/2” ones.
135- “--variations” option of “hb-subset” now supports leaving out values that
136  should be unchanged, e.g. “wght=:500:” will change the default and keep max
137  and min unchanged. It also supports “*=drop” to to pin all axes to default
138  location.
139- Fix hb_ot_math_get_glyph_kerning() to match updated “MATH” table spec.
140- Support legacy MacRoman encoding in “cmap” table.
141- Various build fixes.
142- Various subsetting and instancing fixes.
143
144- New API:
145hb_subset_input_pin_all_axes_to_default()
146
147Overview of changes leading to 8.3.0
148Saturday, November 11, 2023
149====================================
150- Improve memory barrier to fix potential segfaults.
151- Various build fixes.
152- Various subsetting and instancing fixes.
153- Rename “hb-subset” option “--instance” to “--variations” to match the other
154  tools. Old option is kept as an alias.
155
156- New API:
157HB_AAT_LAYOUT_FEATURE_TYPE_CURSIVE_CONNECTION
158
159- Deprecated API:
160HB_AAT_LAYOUT_FEATURE_TYPE_CURISVE_CONNECTION
161
162Overview of changes leading to 8.2.2
163Wednesday, October 18, 2023
164“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”
165====================================
166- Fix regression from 8.1.0 in shaping fonts with duplicate feature tags.
167- Fix regression from 8.2.0 in parsing CSS-style feature strings.
168- Variable fonts instanciation now handles more tables.
169- Various CMake build improvements.
170- various fixes to build without errors with gcc 4.9.2.
171
172
173Overview of changes leading to 8.2.1
174Monday, September 18, 2023
175====================================
176- Unicode 15.1 support.
177
178
179Overview of changes leading to 8.2.0
180Friday, September 8, 2023
181====================================
182- Various build and fuzzing fixes
183- Improvements to COLRv1 painting.
184
185- New API:
186+hb_paint_color_glyph_func_t
187+hb_paint_funcs_set_color_glyph_func
188+hb_paint_color_glyph
189
190
191Overview of changes leading to 8.1.1
192Wednesday, August 2, 2023
193====================================
194- Fix shaping of contextual rules at the end of string, introduced in 8.1.0
195- Fix stack-overflow in repacker with malicious fonts.
196- 30% speed up loading Noto Duployan font.
197
198
199Overview of changes leading to 8.1.0
200Tuesday, August 1, 2023
201====================================
202- Fix long-standing build issue with the AIX compiler and older Apple clang.
203
204- Revert optimization that could cause timeout during subsetting with malicious fonts.
205
206- More optimization work:
207  - 45% speed up in shaping Noto Duployan font.
208  - 10% speed up in subsetting Noto Duployan font.
209  - Another 8% speed up in shaping Gulzar.
210  - 5% speed up in loading Roboto.
211
212- New API:
213+hb_ot_layout_collect_features_map()
214
215
216Overview of changes leading to 8.0.1
217Wednesday, July 12, 2023
218====================================
219- Build fix on 32-bit ARM.
220
221- More speed optimizations:
222  - 60% speed up in retain-gid (used for IFT) subsetting of SourceHanSans-VF.
223  - 16% speed up in retain-gid (used for IFT) subsetting of NotoSansCJKkr.
224  - 38% speed up in subsetting (beyond-64k) mega-merged Noto.
225
226
227Overview of changes leading to 8.0.0
228Sunday, July 9, 2023
229====================================
230- New, experimental, WebAssembly (WASM) shaper, that provides greater
231  flexibility over OpenType/AAT/Graphite shaping, using WebAssembly embedded
232  inside the font file. Currently WASM shaper is disabled by default and needs
233  to be enabled at build time. For details, see:
234
235    https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-shaper.md
236
237  For example fonts making use of the WASM shaper, see:
238
239    https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples
240
241- Improvements to Experimental features introduced in earlier releases:
242  - Support for subsetting beyond-64k and VarComposites fonts.
243  - Support for instancing variable fonts with cubic “glyf” table.
244
245- Many big speed optimizations:
246  - Up to 89% speedup loading variable fonts for shaping.
247  - Up to 88% speedup in small subsets of large (eg. CJK) fonts (both TTF and
248    OTF), essential for Incremental Font Transfer (IFT).
249  - Over 50% speedup in loading Roboto font for shaping.
250  - Up to 40% speed up in loading (sanitizing) complex fonts.
251  - 30% speed up in shaping Gulzar font.
252  - Over 25% speedup in glyph loading Roboto font.
253  - 10% speed up loading glyph shapes in VarComposite Hangul font.
254  - hb-hashmap optimizations & hashing improvements.
255
256- New macro HB_ALWAYS_INLINE. HarfBuzz now inlines functions more aggressively,
257  which results in some speedup at the expense of bigger code size. To disable
258  this feature define the macro to just inline.
259
260- New API:
261+HB_CODEPOINT_INVALID
262+hb_ot_layout_get_baseline2()
263+hb_ot_layout_get_baseline_with_fallback2()
264+hb_ot_layout_get_font_extents()
265+hb_ot_layout_get_font_extents2()
266+hb_subset_input_set_axis_range()
267
268
269Overview of changes leading to 7.3.0
270Tuesday, May 9, 2023
271====================================
272- Speedup applying glyph variation in VarComposites fonts (over 40% speedup).
273  (Behdad Esfahbod)
274- Speedup instancing some fonts (over 20% speedup in instancing RobotoFlex).
275  (Behdad Esfahbod)
276- Speedup shaping some fonts (over 30% speedup in shaping Roboto).
277  (Behdad Esfahbod)
278- Support subsetting VarComposites and beyond-64k fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
279- New configuration macro HB_MINIMIZE_MEMORY_USAGE to favor optimizing memory
280  usage over speed. (Behdad Esfahbod)
281- Supporting setting the mapping between old and new glyph indices during
282  subsetting. (Garret Rieger)
283- Various fixes and improvements.
284  (Behdad Esfahbod, Denis Rochette, Garret Rieger, Han Seung Min, Qunxin Liu)
285
286- New API:
287+hb_subset_input_old_to_new_glyph_mapping()
288
289
290Overview of changes leading to 7.2.0
291Thursday, April 27, 2023
292====================================
293- Add Tifinagh to the list of scripts that can natively be either right-to-left
294  or left-to-right, to improve handling of its glyph positioning.
295  (Simon Cozens)
296- Return also single substitution from hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_glyph_alternates()
297  (Behdad Esfahbod)
298- Fix 4.2.0 regression in applying across syllables in syllabic scripts.
299  (Behdad Esfahbod)
300- Add flag to avoid glyph substitution closure during subsetting, and the
301  corresponding “--no-layout-closure” option to “hb-subset” command line tool.
302  (Garret Rieger)
303- Support instancing COLRv1 table. (Qunxin Liu)
304- Don’t drop used user-defined name table entries during subsetting.
305  (Qunxin Liu)
306- Optimize handling of “gvar” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
307- Various subsetter bug fixes and improvements. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
308- Various documentation improvements. (Behdad Esfahbod, Josef Friedrich)
309
310- New API:
311+HB_SUBSET_FLAGS_NO_LAYOUT_CLOSURE
312+HB_UNICODE_COMBINING_CLASS_CCC132
313
314- Deprecated API:
315+HB_UNICODE_COMBINING_CLASS_CCC133
316
317
318Overview of changes leading to 7.1.0
319Friday, March 3, 2023
320====================================
321- New experimental hb_shape_justify() API that uses font variations to expand
322  or shrink the text to a given advance. (Behdad Esfahbod)
323- Various build and bug fixes. (Behdad Esfahbod, Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
324
325- New API:
326+hb_font_set_variation()
327
328
329Overview of changes leading to 7.0.1
330Monday, February 20, 2023
331====================================
332- Various build and bug fixes.
333
334
335Overview of changes leading to 7.0.0
336Saturday, February 11, 2023
337====================================
338- New hb-paint API that is designed mainly to paint “COLRv1” glyphs, but can be
339  also used as a unified API to paint any of the glyph representations
340  supported by HarfBuzz (B/W outlines, color layers, or color bitmaps).
341  (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
342- New hb-cairo API for integrating with cairo graphics library. This is provided
343  as a separate harfbuzz-cairo library. (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
344- Support for instancing “CFF2” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
345- Support font emboldening. (Behdad Esfahbod)
346- Support feature ranges with AAT shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
347- Experimental support to cubic curves in “glyf” table, see
348  https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/blob/main/glyf1-cubicOutlines.md
349  for spec. (Behdad Esfahbod)
350- Various subsetter improvements. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu, Behdad Esfahbod)
351- Various documentation improvements.
352  (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen, Khaled Hosny)
353- Significantly reduced memory use during shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
354- Greatly reduced memory use during subsetting “CFF” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
355- New command line utility, hb-info, for querying various font information.
356  (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
357- New hb-shape/hb-view options: --glyphs, --color-palette, --font-bold,
358  --font-grade, and --named-instance. (Behdad Esfahbod)
359- Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
360  (Amir Masoud Abdol, Andres Salomon, Behdad Esfahbod, Chun-wei Fan,
361  Garret Rieger, Jens Kutilek, Khaled Hosny, Konstantin Käfer, Matthias Clasen,
362  Nirbheek Chauhan, Pedro J. Estébanez, Qunxin Liu, Sergei Trofimovich)
363
364- New API:
365+HB_FONT_NO_VAR_NAMED_INSTANCE
366+HB_PAINT_IMAGE_FORMAT_BGRA
367+HB_PAINT_IMAGE_FORMAT_PNG
368+HB_PAINT_IMAGE_FORMAT_SVG
369+hb_cairo_font_face_create_for_face
370+hb_cairo_font_face_create_for_font
371+hb_cairo_font_face_get_face
372+hb_cairo_font_face_get_font
373+hb_cairo_font_face_get_scale_factor
374+hb_cairo_font_face_set_font_init_func
375+hb_cairo_font_face_set_scale_factor
376+hb_cairo_font_init_func_t
377+hb_cairo_glyphs_from_buffer
378+hb_cairo_scaled_font_get_font
379+hb_color_line_get_color_stops
380+hb_color_line_get_color_stops_func_t
381+hb_color_line_get_extend
382+hb_color_line_get_extend_func_t
383+hb_color_line_t
384+hb_color_stop_t
385+hb_draw_funcs_get_empty
386+hb_draw_funcs_get_user_data
387+hb_draw_funcs_set_user_data
388+hb_face_collect_nominal_glyph_mapping
389+hb_font_draw_glyph
390+hb_font_draw_glyph_func_t
391+hb_font_funcs_set_draw_glyph_func
392+hb_font_funcs_set_paint_glyph_func
393+hb_font_get_synthetic_bold
394+hb_font_get_var_named_instance
395+hb_font_paint_glyph
396+hb_font_paint_glyph_func_t
397+hb_font_set_synthetic_bold
398+hb_map_keys
399+hb_map_next
400+hb_map_update
401+hb_map_values
402+hb_ot_color_glyph_has_paint
403+hb_ot_color_has_paint
404+hb_ot_layout_script_select_language2
405+hb_ot_name_id_predefined_t
406+hb_paint_color
407+hb_paint_color_func_t
408+hb_paint_composite_mode_t
409+hb_paint_custom_palette_color
410+hb_paint_custom_palette_color_func_t
411+hb_paint_extend_t
412+hb_paint_funcs_create
413+hb_paint_funcs_destroy
414+hb_paint_funcs_get_empty
415+hb_paint_funcs_get_user_data
416+hb_paint_funcs_is_immutable
417+hb_paint_funcs_make_immutable
418+hb_paint_funcs_reference
419+hb_paint_funcs_set_color_func
420+hb_paint_funcs_set_custom_palette_color_func
421+hb_paint_funcs_set_image_func
422+hb_paint_funcs_set_linear_gradient_func
423+hb_paint_funcs_set_pop_clip_func
424+hb_paint_funcs_set_pop_group_func
425+hb_paint_funcs_set_pop_transform_func
426+hb_paint_funcs_set_push_clip_glyph_func
427+hb_paint_funcs_set_push_clip_rectangle_func
428+hb_paint_funcs_set_push_group_func
429+hb_paint_funcs_set_push_transform_func
430+hb_paint_funcs_set_radial_gradient_func
431+hb_paint_funcs_set_sweep_gradient_func
432+hb_paint_funcs_set_user_data
433+hb_paint_funcs_t
434+hb_paint_image
435+hb_paint_image_func_t
436+hb_paint_linear_gradient
437+hb_paint_linear_gradient_func_t
438+hb_paint_pop_clip
439+hb_paint_pop_clip_func_t
440+hb_paint_pop_group
441+hb_paint_pop_group_func_t
442+hb_paint_pop_transform
443+hb_paint_pop_transform_func_t
444+hb_paint_push_clip_glyph
445+hb_paint_push_clip_glyph_func_t
446+hb_paint_push_clip_rectangle
447+hb_paint_push_clip_rectangle_func_t
448+hb_paint_push_group
449+hb_paint_push_group_func_t
450+hb_paint_push_transform
451+hb_paint_push_transform_func_t
452+hb_paint_radial_gradient
453+hb_paint_radial_gradient_func_t
454+hb_paint_sweep_gradient
455+hb_paint_sweep_gradient_func_t
456+hb_set_is_inverted
457+hb_subset_input_keep_everything
458
459- Deprecated API:
460+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_shape_func
461+hb_font_get_glyph_shape_func_t
462+hb_font_get_glyph_shape
463
464
465Overview of changes leading to 6.0.0
466Friday, December 16, 2022
467====================================
468- A new API have been added to pre-process the face and speed up future
469  subsetting operations on that face. Provides up to a 95% reduction in
470  subsetting times when the same face is subset more than once.
471
472  For more details and benchmarks, see:
473  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/subset-preprocessing.md
474
475  (Garret Rieger, Behdad Esfahbod)
476
477- Shaping have been speedup by skipping entire lookups when the buffer contents
478  don't intersect with the lookup. Shows up to a 10% speedup in shaping some
479  fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
480
481- A new experimental feature, “Variable Composites” (enabled by passing
482  -Dexperimental_api=true to meson), is also featured in this release.
483  This technology enables drastic compression of fonts in the Chinese,
484  Japanese, Korean, and other writing systems, by reusing the OpenType Font
485  Variations technology for encoding “smart components” into the font.
486
487  The specification for these  extensions to the font format can be found in:
488  https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/blob/glyf1/glyf1.md
489
490  A test variable-font with ~7160 Hangul syllables derived from the
491  NotoSerifKR-VF font has been built, with existing OpenType technology, as
492  well as with the new Variable Composites (VarComposites) technology. The
493  VarComposites font is over 90% smaller than the OpenType version of the font!
494  Both fonts can be obtained from the “smarties” repository:
495  https://github.com/behdad/smarties/tree/3.0/fonts/hangul/serif
496
497  When building HarfBuzz with experimental features enabled, you can test
498  the “smarties” font with a sample character like this:
499
500  $ hb-view butchered-hangul-serif-smarties-variable.ttf -u AE01 --variations=wght=700
501
502  (Behdad Esfahbod)
503
504- The HarfBuzz subsetter can now drop axes by pinning them to specific values
505  (also referred to as instancing). There are a couple of restrictions
506  currently:
507
508  - Only works with TrueType (“glyf”) based fonts. “CFF2” fonts are not yet
509    supported.
510  - Only supports the case where all axes in a font are pinned.
511
512  (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
513
514- Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
515
516  (Behdad Esfahbod, Christoph Reiter, David Corbett, Eli Schwartz, Garret
517   Rieger, Joel Auterson, Jordan Petridis, Khaled Hosny, Lorenz Wildberg,
518   Marco Rebhan, Martin Storsjö, Matthias Clasen, Qunxin Liu, Satadru Pramanik)
519
520
521- New API
522+hb_subset_input_pin_axis_location()
523+hb_subset_input_pin_axis_to_default()
524+hb_subset_preprocess()
525
526
527Overview of changes leading to 5.3.1
528Wednesday, October 19, 2022
529====================================
530- Subsetter repacker fixes. (Garret Rieger)
531- Adjust Grapheme clusters for Katakana voiced sound marks. (Behdad Esfahbod)
532- New “hb-subset” option “--preprocess-face”. (Garret Rieger)
533
534
535Overview of changes leading to 5.3.0
536Saturday, October 8, 2022
537"Women, Life, Freedom" #MahsaAmini
538====================================
539- Don’t add glyphs from dropped MATH or COLR tables to the subset glyphs.
540  (Khaled Hosny)
541- Map “rlig” to appropriate AAT feature selectors. (Jonathan Kew)
542- Update USE data files to latest version. (David Corbett)
543- Check “CBDT” extents first before outline tables, to help with fonts that
544  also include an empty “glyf” table. (Khaled Hosny)
545- More work towards variable font instancing in the subsetter. (Qunxin Liu)
546- Subsetter repacker improvements. (Garret Rieger)
547- New API:
548+hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_optical_bound()
549+hb_face_builder_sort_tables()
550
551
552Overview of changes leading to 5.2.0
553Saturday, September 17, 2022
554====================================
555- Fix regressions in hb-ft font functions for FT_Face’s with transformation
556  matrix. (Behdad Esfahbod)
557- The experimental hb-repacker API now supports splitting several GPOS subtable
558  types when needed. (Garret Rieger)
559- The HarfBuzz extensions to OpenType font format are now opt-in behind
560  build-time flags. (Behdad Esfahbod)
561- The experimental hb-subset variable fonts instantiation API can now
562  instantiate more font tables and arbitrary axis locations. (Qunxin Liu)
563- Unicode 15 support. (David Corbett)
564- Various documentation improvements. (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
565- The hb-view command line tool now detects WezTerm inline images support.
566  (Wez Furlong)
567- Fix FreeType and ICU dependency lookup with meson. (Xavier Claessens)
568
569- New API:
570+HB_SCRIPT_KAWI
571+HB_SCRIPT_NAG_MUNDARI
572
573
574Overview of changes leading to 5.1.0
575Sunday, July 31, 2022
576====================================
577- More extensive buffer tracing messages. (Behdad Esfahbod)
578- Fix hb-ft regression in bitmap fonts rendering. (Behdad Esfahbod)
579- Support extension promotion of lookups in hb-subset-repacker. (Garret Rieger)
580- A new HB_GLYPH_FLAG_SAFE_TO_INSERT_TATWEEL for scripts that use elongation
581  (e.g. Arabic) to signify where it is safe to insert tatweel glyph without
582  interrupting shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
583- Add “--safe-to-insert-tatweel” to “hb-shape” tool. (Behdad Esfahbod)
584
585- New API
586+HB_GLYPH_FLAG_SAFE_TO_INSERT_TATWEEL
587+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRODUCE_SAFE_TO_INSERT_TATWEEL
588
589
590Overview of changes leading to 5.0.1
591Saturday, July 23, 2022
592====================================
593- Fix version 2 “avar” table with hb-ft. (Behdad Esfahbod)
594
595
596Overview of changes leading to 5.0.0
597Saturday, July 23, 2022
598====================================
599- Support fonts with more than 65535 glyphs in “GDEF”, “GSUB”, and “GPOS”
600  tables. This is part of https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec to
601  extend OpenType in a backward-compatible way.
602  (Behdad Esfahbod, Garret Rieger)
603- Complete support for more than 65535 glyphs in “glyf” table that started in
604  4.0.0 release. Part of boring-expansion-spec. (Behdad Esfahbod)
605- Support version 2 of “avar” table. Part of boring-expansion-spec.
606  (Behdad Esfahbod)
607- Fix mark attachment on multiple substitutions in some cases.
608  (Behdad Esfahbod)
609- Fix application of “calt”, “rclt”, and “ccmp” features to better match
610  Uniscribe behaviour with some Arabic fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
611- Improvement to interaction between multiple cursive attachments.
612  (Behdad Esfahbod)
613- Improve multiple mark interactions in Hebrew. (Behdad Esfahbod)
614- Implement language-specific forms in AAT shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
615- Fix variation of “VORG” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
616- Support for specific script tags to be retained in the subsetter, and add
617  “--layout-scripts” option to “hb-subset” tool. (Garret Rieger)
618- Accept space as delimiter for --features/--variations in command line tools.
619- Improve subsetting of “COLR” table. (Qunxin Liu)
620- Improved fuzzing coverage for ot-math API. (Frédéric Wang)
621- Fix “kern” table version 2 (AAT) sanitization on 32-bit systems.
622  (Behdad Esfahbod)
623- Allow negative glyph advances from “graphite2” shaper. (Stephan Bergmann)
624- Implement loading (color) bitmap fonts with hb-ft. (Behdad Esfahbod)
625- Fix regression in hb-ft when changing font size. (Behdad Esfahbod)
626- Fix build on GCC < 7. (Kleis Auke Wolthuizen)
627- Dynamically load dwrite.dll on windows if “directwrite” shaper is enabled.
628  (Luca Bacci)
629- Provide a single-file harfbuzz-subset.cc file for easier alternate building
630  of hb-subset library, similar to harfbuzz.cc. (Khaled Hosny)
631
632- New API
633+HB_SUBSET_SETS_LAYOUT_SCRIPT_TAG
634+hb_language_matches()
635
636
637Overview of changes leading to 4.4.1
638Wednesday, June 29, 2022
639====================================
640- Fix test failure with some compilers.
641- Fix Telugu and Kannada kerning regression.
642
643
644Overview of changes leading to 4.4.0
645Monday, June 27, 2022
646====================================
647- Caching of variable fonts shaping, in particular when using HarfBuzz’s own
648  font loading functions (ot). Bringing performance of variable shaping in par
649  with non-variable fonts shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
650- Caching of format 2 “Contextual Substitution” and “Chained Contexts
651  Substitution” lookups. Resulting in up to 20% speedup of lookup-heavy fonts
652  like Gulzar or Noto Nastaliq Urdu. (Behdad Esfahbod)
653- Improved ANSI output from hb-view. (Behdad Esfahbod)
654- Support for shaping legacy, pre-OpenType Windows 3.1-era, Arabic fonts that
655  relied on a fixed PUA encoding. (Khaled Hosny, Behdad Esfahbod)
656- Sinhala script is now shaped by the USE shaper instead of “indic” one.
657  (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
658- Thai shaper improvements. (David Corbett)
659- hb-ot-name API supports approximate BCP-47 language matching, for example
660  asking for “en_US” in a font that has only “en” names will return them.
661  (Behdad Esfahbod)
662- Optimized TrueType glyph shape loading. (Behdad Esfahbod)
663- Fix subsetting of HarfBuzz faces created via hb_face_create_for_tables().
664  (Garret Rieger)
665- Add 32 bit var store support to the subsetter. (Garret Rieger)
666
667- New API
668+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DEFINED
669+HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_DEFINED
670+hb_font_changed()
671+hb_font_get_serial()
672+hb_ft_hb_font_changed()
673+hb_set_hash()
674+hb_map_copy()
675+hb_map_hash()
676
677
678Overview of changes leading to 4.3.0
679Friday, May 20, 2022
680====================================
681- Major speed up in loading and subsetting fonts, especially in
682  handling CFF table. Subsetting some fonts is now 3 times faster.
683  (Behdad Esfahbod, Garret Rieger)
684- Speed up blending CFF2 table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
685- Speed up hb_ot_tags_from_language(). (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
686- Fix USE classification of U+10A38 to fix multiple marks on single Kharoshthi
687  base. (David Corbett)
688- Fix parsing of empty CFF Index. (Behdad Esfahbod)
689- Fix subsetting CPAL table with partial palette overlaps. (Garret Rieger)
690
691- New API
692+hb_map_is_equal() (Behdad Esfahbod)
693
694
695Overview of changes leading to 4.2.1
696Sunday, April 24, 2022
697====================================
698- Make sure hb_blob_create_from_file_or_fail() always returns nullptr in case
699  of failure and not empty blob sometimes. (Khaled Hosny)
700- Add --passthrough-tables option to hb-subset. (Cosimo Lupo)
701- Reinstate a pause after basic features in Khmer shaper, fixing a regression
702  introduced in previous release. (Behdad Esfahbod)
703- Better handling of Regional_Indicator when shaped with RTL-native scripts,
704  reverting earlier fix that caused regressions in AAT shaping. (Behdad Esfahbod)
705
706
707Overview of changes leading to 4.2.0
708Wednesday, March 30, 2022
709====================================
710- Source code reorganization, splitting large hb-ot-layout files into smaller,
711  per-subtable ones under OT/Layout/*. Code for more tables will follow suit in
712  later releases. (Garret Rieger, Behdad Esfahbod)
713- Revert Indic shaper change in previous release that broke some fonts and
714  instead make per-syllable restriction of “GSUB” application limited to
715  script-specific Indic features, while applying them and discretionary
716  features in one go. (Behdad Esfahbod)
717- Fix decoding of private in gvar table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
718- Fix handling of contextual lookups that delete too many glyphs. (Behdad Esfahbod)
719- Make “morx” deleted glyphs don’t block “GPOS” application. (Behdad Esfahbod)
720- Various build fixes. (Chun-wei Fan, Khaled Hosny)
721
722- New API
723+hb_set_next_many() (Andrew John)
724
725
726Overview of changes leading to 4.1.0
727Wednesday, March 23, 2022
728====================================
729- Various OSS-Fuzz fixes. (Behdad Esfahbod)
730- Make fallback vertical-origin match FreeType’s. (Behdad Esfahbod)
731- Treat visible viramas like dependent vowels in USE shaper. (David Corbett)
732- Apply presentation forms features and discretionary features in one go in
733  Indic shaper, which seems to match Uniscribe and CoreText behaviour.
734  (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
735- Various bug fixes.
736
737- New API
738+hb_set_add_sorted_array() (Andrew John)
739
740
741Overview of changes leading to 4.0.1
742Friday, March 11, 2022
743====================================
744- Update OpenType to AAT mappings for “hist” and “vrtr” features.
745  (Florian Pircher)
746- Update IANA Language Subtag Registry to 2022-03-02. (David Corbett)
747- Update USE shaper to allow any non-numeric tail in a symbol cluster, and
748  remove obsolete data overrides. (David Corbett)
749- Fix handling of baseline variations to return correctly scaled values.
750  (Matthias Clasen)
751- A new experimental hb_subset_repack_or_fail() to repack an array of objects,
752  eliminating offset overflows. The API is not available unless HarfBuzz is
753  built with experimental APIs enabled. (Qunxin Liu)
754
755- New experimental API
756+hb_link_t
757+hb_object_t
758+hb_subset_repack_or_fail()
759
760
761Overview of changes leading to 4.0.0
762Tuesday, March 1, 2022
763====================================
764- New public API to create subset plan and gather information on things like
765  glyph mappings in the final subset. The plan can then be passed on to perform
766  the subsetting operation. (Garret Rieger)
767- Draw API for extracting glyph shapes have been extended and finalized and is
768  no longer an experimental API. The draw API supports glyf, CFF and CFF2
769  glyph outlines tables, and applies variation settings set on the font as well
770  as synthetic slant. The new public API is not backward compatible with the
771  previous, non-public, experimental API. (Behdad Esfahbod)
772- The hb-view tool will use HarfBuzz draw API to render the glyphs instead of
773  cairo-ft when compiled with Cairo 1.17.5 or newer, setting HB_DRAW
774  environment variable to 1 or 0 will force using or not use the draw API,
775  respectively. (Behdad Esfahbod)
776- The hb-shape and hb-view tools now default to using HarfBuzz’s own font
777  loading functions (ot) instead of FreeType ones (ft). They also have a new
778  option, --font-slant, to apply synthetic slant to the font. (Behdad Esfahbod)
779- HarfBuzz now supports more than 65535 (the OpenType limit) glyph shapes and
780  metrics. See https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec/issues/6 and
781  https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec/issues/7 for details.
782  (Behdad Esfahbod)
783- New API to get the dominant horizontal baseline tag for a given script.
784  (Behdad Esfahbod)
785- New API to get the baseline positions from the font, and synthesize missing
786  ones. As well as new API to get font metrics and synthesize missing ones.
787  (Matthias Clasen)
788- Improvements to finding dependencies on Windows when building with Visual
789  Studio. (Chun-wei Fan)
790- New buffer flag, HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRODUCE_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT, that must be set
791  during shaping for HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT flag to be reliably
792  produced. This is to limit the performance hit of producing this flag to when
793  it is actually needed. (Behdad Esfahbod)
794- Documentation improvements. (Matthias Clasen)
795
796- New API
797 - General:
798   +HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRODUCE_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT
799   +hb_var_num_t
800
801 - Draw:
802   +hb_draw_funcs_t
803   +hb_draw_funcs_create()
804   +hb_draw_funcs_reference()
805   +hb_draw_funcs_destroy()
806   +hb_draw_funcs_is_immutable()
807   +hb_draw_funcs_make_immutable()
808   +hb_draw_move_to_func_t
809   +hb_draw_funcs_set_move_to_func()
810   +hb_draw_line_to_func_t
811   +hb_draw_funcs_set_line_to_func()
812   +hb_draw_quadratic_to_func_t
813   +hb_draw_funcs_set_quadratic_to_func()
814   +hb_draw_cubic_to_func_t
815   +hb_draw_funcs_set_cubic_to_func()
816   +hb_draw_close_path_func_t
817   +hb_draw_funcs_set_close_path_func()
818   +hb_draw_state_t
819   +HB_DRAW_STATE_DEFAULT
820   +hb_draw_move_to()
821   +hb_draw_line_to()
822   +hb_draw_quadratic_to()
823   +hb_draw_cubic_to()
824   +hb_draw_close_path()
825   +hb_font_get_glyph_shape_func_t
826   +hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_shape_func()
827   +hb_font_get_glyph_shape()
828
829 - OpenType layout
830   +HB_OT_LAYOUT_BASELINE_TAG_IDEO_FACE_CENTRAL
831   +HB_OT_LAYOUT_BASELINE_TAG_IDEO_EMBOX_CENTRAL
832   +hb_ot_layout_get_horizontal_baseline_tag_for_script()
833   +hb_ot_layout_get_baseline_with_fallback()
834
835 - Metrics:
836   +hb_ot_metrics_get_position_with_fallback()
837
838 - Subset:
839   +hb_subset_plan_t
840   +hb_subset_plan_create_or_fail()
841   +hb_subset_plan_reference()
842   +hb_subset_plan_destroy()
843   +hb_subset_plan_set_user_data()
844   +hb_subset_plan_get_user_data()
845   +hb_subset_plan_execute_or_fail()
846   +hb_subset_plan_unicode_to_old_glyph_mapping()
847   +hb_subset_plan_new_to_old_glyph_mapping()
848   +hb_subset_plan_old_to_new_glyph_mapping()
849
850
851Overview of changes leading to 3.4.0
852Sunday, February 13, 2022
853====================================
854- Perform sanity checks on shaping results is now part of “harfbuzz” library
855  and can be enabled by setting the buffer flag HB_BUFFER_FLAG_VERIFY.
856  (Behdad Esfahbod)
857- Arabic Mark Transient Reordering Algorithm have been updated to revision 6.
858  (Khaled Hosny)
859- ISO 15924 code for mathematical notation, ‘Zmth’, now maps to the OpenType
860  ‘math’ tag. (Alexis King)
861- It is now possible to get at once all math kerning values for a given glyph
862  at a given corner. (Alexis King)
863- Fix locale_t portability issues on systems the typedef’s it to a void
864  pointer. (Behdad Esfahbod)
865
866- New API:
867+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_VERIFY
868+HB_OT_TAG_MATH_SCRIPT
869+HB_SCRIPT_MATH
870+hb_ot_math_kern_entry_t
871+hb_ot_math_get_glyph_kernings()
872
873- Deprecated API
874+HB_OT_MATH_SCRIPT
875
876
877Overview of changes leading to 3.3.2
878Sunday, February 6, 2022
879====================================
880- Revert splitting of pair positioning values introduced in 3.3.0 as it proved
881  problematic. (Behdad Esfahbod)
882
883
884Overview of changes leading to 3.3.1
885Monday, January 31, 2022
886====================================
887- Fix heap-use-after-free in harfbuzz-subset introduced in previous release.
888  (Garret Rieger)
889
890
891Overview of changes leading to 3.3.0
892Monday, January 31, 2022
893====================================
894- Improved documentation. (Matthias Clasen)
895- Internal code cleanup, using C++ standard library more. (Behdad Esfahbod)
896- The low 16-bits of face index will be used by hb_face_create() to select a
897  face inside a font collection file format, while the high 16-bits will be
898  used by hb_font_create() to load the named instance. (Behdad Esfahbod)
899- Glyph positions and other font metrics now apply synthetic slant set by
900  hb_font_set_synthetic_slant(), for improved positioning for synthetically
901  slanted fonts. (Behdad Esfahbod)
902- Fixed unintentional locale dependency in hb_variation_to_string() for decimal
903  point representation. (Matthias Clasen)
904- When applying pair positioning (kerning) the positioning value is split
905  between the two sides of the pair for improved cursor positioning between
906  such pairs. (Behdad Esfahbod)
907- Introduced new HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT, to be used in conjunction
908  with HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_BREAK for optimizing re-shaping during line
909  breaking. Check the documentation for further details. (Behdad Esfahbod)
910- Improved handling of macrolanguages when mapping BCP 47 codes to OpenType
911  tags. (David Corbett)
912
913- New API:
914+HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_CONCAT
915+hb_segment_properties_overlay()
916+hb_buffer_create_similar()
917+hb_font_set_synthetic_slant()
918+hb_font_get_synthetic_slant()
919+hb_font_get_var_coords_design()
920
921
922Overview of changes leading to 3.2.0
923Friday, November 26, 2021
924====================================
925“harfbuzz” library improvements:
926- Fixed shaping of Apple Color Emoji flags in right-to-left context. (Behdad Esfahbod)
927- Fixed positioning of CFF fonts in HB_TINY profile. (Behdad Esfahbod)
928- OpenType 1.9 language tags update. (David Corbett)
929- Add HB_NO_VERTICAL config option.
930- Add HB_CONFIG_OVERRIDE_H for easier configuration. (Behdad Esfahbod)
931
932“harfbuzz-subset” library improvements:
933- Improved packing of cmap, loca, and Ligature tables. (Garret Rieger)
934- Significantly improved overflow-resolution strategy in the repacker. (Garret Rieger)
935
936
937Overview of changes leading to 3.1.2
938Friday, November 26, 2021
939====================================
940- hb-shape / hb-view: revert treating text on the commandline as single
941  paragraph (was introduced in 3.0.0); add new --single-par to do that.
942  (Behdad Esfahbod)
943- Subsetter bug fixes. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu, Behdad Esfahbod)
944
945
946Overview of changes leading to 3.1.1
947Wednesday, November 8, 2021
948====================================
949- Work around GCC cast-align error/warning on some platforms. (Behdad Esfahbod)
950- Documentation improvements. (Matthias Clasen)
951
952
953Overview of changes leading to 3.1.0
954Wednesday, November 3, 2021
955====================================
956- Better offset-overflow handling in the subsetter library. (Garret Rieger)
957- Improved Unicode 14 properties in the USE shaper, and various other USE
958  shaper fixes. (David Corbett)
959- MATH and COLR v1 tables subsetting support, and various other subsetter fixes.
960  (Qunxin Liu)
961- Support for Pwo Karen / Ason Chin medial la. (Simon Cozens)
962- Apply GPOS positioning when substituting with morx table, if kerx is missing.
963  (Behdad Esfahbod)
964- Apply calt and clig features across syllable boundaries in Indic shaper.
965  (Behdad Esfahbod)
966- meson option for enabling Graphite 2 has been renamed to graphite2.
967- Build and documentation fixes.
968
969- New API:
970+hb_buffer_set_not_found_glyph()
971+hb_buffer_get_not_found_glyph()
972
973
974Overview of changes leading to 3.0.0
975Friday, September 17, 2021
976====================================
977- Unicode 14.0 support (David Corbett).
978- The hb-subset API and the harfbuzz-subset library's ABI are now declared
979  stable. The harfbuzz-subset library would not have been possible without the
980  work of Garret Rieger and Qunxin Liu from Google Fonts, and the earlier work
981  of Michiharu Ariza from Adobe.
982- The hb-style API is now stable and no longer experimental.
983
984- New API:
985+hb_style_tag_t
986+hb_style_get_value()
987+hb_subset_input_t
988+hb_subset_flags_t
989+hb_subset_sets_t
990+hb_subset_input_create_or_fail()
991+hb_subset_input_reference()
992+hb_subset_input_destroy()
993+hb_subset_input_set_user_data()
994+hb_subset_input_get_user_data()
995+hb_subset_input_unicode_set()
996+hb_subset_input_glyph_set()
997+hb_subset_input_set()
998+hb_subset_input_get_flags()
999+hb_subset_input_set_flags()
1000+hb_subset_or_fail()
1001
1002- Removed old unstable harfbuzz-subset API:
1003-hb_subset_input_nameid_set()
1004-hb_subset_input_namelangid_set()
1005-hb_subset_input_layout_features_set()
1006-hb_subset_input_no_subset_tables_set()
1007-hb_subset_input_drop_tables_set()
1008-hb_subset_input_set_drop_hints()
1009-hb_subset_input_get_drop_hints()
1010-hb_subset_input_set_desubroutinize()
1011-hb_subset_input_get_desubroutinize()
1012-hb_subset_input_set_retain_gids()
1013-hb_subset_input_get_retain_gids()
1014-hb_subset_input_set_name_legacy()
1015-hb_subset_input_get_name_legacy()
1016-hb_subset_input_set_overlaps_flag()
1017-hb_subset_input_get_overlaps_flag()
1018-hb_subset_input_set_notdef_outline()
1019-hb_subset_input_get_notdef_outline()
1020-hb_subset_input_set_no_prune_unicode_ranges()
1021-hb_subset_input_get_no_prune_unicode_ranges()
1022-hb_subset()
1023
1024
1025Overview of changes leading to 2.9.1
1026Tuesday, September 7, 2021
1027====================================
1028- Final subset API is in place and if no issues are discovered, it will be the
1029  stable subset API of HarfBuzz 3.0.0. Old API is kept to ease transition, but
1030  will be removed in 3.0.0.
1031- Various fuzzer-found bug fixes.
1032- hb_buffer_append() now handles the pre- and post-context which previously
1033  were left unchanged in the destination buffer.
1034- hb-view / hb-shape now accept following new arguments:
1035  o --unicodes-before/after: takes a list of hex numbers that represent Unicode
1036    codepoints.
1037- Undeprecated API:
1038  hb_set_invert()
1039
1040
1041Overview of changes leading to 2.9.0
1042Wednesday, August 18, 2021
1043History Repeats Itself (Afghanistan)
1044====================================
1045- Subsetter API is being stabilized, with the first stable API to happen in
1046  3.0.0 release (https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/3078).
1047- Support multiple variation axes with same tag, aka HOI.
1048- The “coretext” testing shaper now passes font variations to CoreText.
1049- hb-shape/hb-view does not break line at new lines unless text is read from
1050  file.
1051- hb-view and hb-subset has a --batch now, similar to hb-shape.
1052- The --batch mode now uses ; as argument separator instead of : used previously.
1053- The --batch in hb-shape does not expect 0th argument anymore. That is, the
1054  lines read are interpreted as argv[1:], instead of argv[0:].
1055- The --batch option has been undocumented. We are ready to document it; send
1056  feedback if you find it useful.
1057- hb-subset got arguments revamps. Added much-requested --gids-file, --glyphs,
1058  --glyphs-file, --unicodes-file, supporting ranges in --unicodes.
1059- Various bug fixes.
1060
1061
1062Overview of changes leading to 2.8.2
1063Tuesday, July 8, 2021
1064====================================
1065- Shaping LTR digits for RTL scripts now makes the native direction of the
1066  digits LTR, applying shaping and positioning rules on the same glyph order as
1067  Uniscribe. (Jonathan Kew, Khaled Hosny).
1068- Subsetting COLR v1 and CPAL tables is now supported. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
1069- Various fixes and improvements to the subsetter. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu, Behdad)
1070- When applying morx table, mark glyph widths should not be zeroed. (Jonathan Kew)
1071- GPOS is preferred over kerx, if GSUB was applied. (Behdad)
1072- Regional_Indicator pairs are grouped together when clustering. (Behdad)
1073- New API:
1074+hb_blob_create_or_fail()
1075+hb_blob_create_from_file_or_fail()
1076+hb_set_copy()
1077
1078
1079Overview of changes leading to 2.8.1
1080Tuesday, May 4, 2021
1081====================================
1082- Subsetter now fully supports GSUB/GPOS/GDEF tables (including variations); as
1083  such, layout tables are retained by subsetter by default. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
1084- Build scripts no longer check for FontConfig as HarfBuzz does not use it.
1085- hb-view supports iTerm2 and kitty inline image protocols (Khaled Hosny),
1086  it can also use Chafa for terminal graphics if available (Hans Petter Jansson).
1087
1088Overview of changes leading to 2.8.0
1089Tuesday, March 16, 2021
1090====================================
1091- Shape joining scripts other than Arabic/Syriac using the Universal Shaping Engine.
1092  Previously these were shaped using the generalized Arabic shaper. (David Corbett)
1093- Fix regression in shaping of U+0B55 ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE. (David Corbett)
1094- Update language tags. (David Corbett)
1095- Variations: reduce error: do not round each interpolated delta. (Just van Rossum)
1096- Documentation improvements. (Khaled Hosny, Nathan Willis)
1097- Subsetter improvements: subsets most, if not all, lookup types now. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
1098- Fuzzer-found fixes and other improvements when memory failures happen. (Behdad)
1099- Removed most atomic implementations now that we have C++11 atomic impl. (Behdad)
1100- General codebase upkeep; using more C++11 features: constexpr constructors, etc. (Behdad)
1101
1102
1103Overview of changes leading to 2.7.4
1104Sunday, December 27, 2020
1105====================================
1106- Fix missing --enable-introspection configure option from previous release
1107  tarball.
1108- Documentation updates.
1109
1110
1111Overview of changes leading to 2.7.3
1112Wednesday, December 23, 2020
1113====================================
1114- Update USE shaper to 2020-08-13 specification, and other improvements.
1115- Don’t disable liga feature in myanmar shaper, to match Uniscribe.
1116- Improvements to language and script tags handling.
1117- Update language system tag registry to OpenType 1.8.4
1118- Support for serializing and deserializing Unicode buffers. Serialized buffers
1119  are now delimited with `<>` or `[]` based on whether it is a Unicode or
1120  glyphs buffer.
1121- Increase buffer work limits to handle fonts with many complex lookups.
1122- Handle more shaping operations in trace output.
1123- Memory access fixes.
1124- More OOM fixes.
1125- Improved documentation.
1126- Build system improvements.
1127- New API:
1128+hb_buffer_has_positions()
1129+hb_buffer_serialize()
1130+hb_buffer_serialize_unicode()
1131+hb_buffer_deserialize_unicode()
1132
1133
1134Overview of changes leading to 2.7.2
1135Saturday, August 29, 2020
1136====================================
1137- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused a crash with Kaithi.
1138- More OOM fixes.
1139
1140
1141Overview of changes leading to 2.7.1
1142Thursday, August 13, 2020
1143====================================
1144- ot-funcs now handles variable empty glyphs better when hvar/vvar isn't present.
1145- Reverted a GDEF processing regression.
1146- A couple of fixes to handle OOM better.
1147
1148
1149Overview of changes leading to 2.7.0
1150Saturday, July 25, 2020
1151====================================
1152- Use an implementation for round that always rounds up, some minor fluctuations
1153  are expected on var font specially when hb-ot callback is used.
1154- Fix an AAT's `kerx` issue on broken rendering of Devanagari Sangam MN.
1155- Remove AAT's `lcar` table support from _get_ligature_carets API, not even much
1156  use on macOS installed fonts (only two files).  GDEF support is the recommended
1157  one and expected to work properly after issues fixed two releases ago.
1158- Minor memory fixes to handle OOM better specially in hb-ft.
1159- Minor .so files versioning scheme change and remove stable/unstable scheme
1160  differences, was never used in practice (always default to stable scheme).
1161- We are now suggesting careful packaging of the library using meson,
1162  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/wiki/Notes-on-migration-to-meson
1163  for more information.
1164- Distribution package URL is changed, either use GitHub generated tarballs,
1165  `https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz`
1166  or, even more preferably use commit hash of the release and git checkouts like,
1167  `git+https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz#commit=$commit`
1168
1169
1170Overview of changes leading to 2.6.8
1171Monday, June 22, 2020
1172====================================
1173- New API to fetch glyph alternates from GSUB table.
1174- hb-coretext build fix for macOS < 10.10.
1175- Meson build fixes, cmake port removal is postponed but please prepare for
1176  it and give us feedback.
1177  Autotools is still our main build system however please consider
1178  experimenting with meson also for packaging the library.
1179- New API:
1180+hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_glyph_alternates()
1181
1182
1183Overview of changes leading to 2.6.7
1184Wednesday, June 3, 2020
1185====================================
1186- Update to Unicode 13.0.0.
1187- Fix hb_ot_layout_get_ligature_carets for fonts without lcar table, it was
1188  completely broken for all the other fonts since 2.1.2.
1189- As a part of our migration to meson, this release will be the last one
1190  to provide cmake port files but autotools still is our main build system.
1191  There is a possibility that the next version or the after be released
1192  using meson.
1193
1194
1195Overview of changes leading to 2.6.6
1196Tuesday, May 12, 2020
1197====================================
1198- A fix in AAT kerning for Geeza Pro.
1199- Better support for resource fork fonts on macOS.
1200
1201
1202Overview of changes leading to 2.6.5
1203Friday, April 17, 2020
1204====================================
1205- Add experimental meson build system.  Autotools is still the primary
1206  and supported build system.
1207- AAT is now always preferred for horizontal scripts when both AAT and OT
1208  layout tables exist at the same time.
1209- Subsetter improvements.
1210- New API:
1211+hb_ft_font_lock_face()
1212+hb_ft_font_unlock_face()
1213
1214
1215Overview of changes leading to 2.6.4
1216Monday, October 29, 2019
1217====================================
1218- Small bug fix.
1219- Build fixes.
1220
1221
1222Overview of changes leading to 2.6.3
1223Monday, October 28, 2019
1224====================================
1225- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
1226- New API:
1227+hb_font_get_nominal_glyphs()
1228
1229
1230Overview of changes leading to 2.6.2
1231Monday, September 30, 2019
1232====================================
1233- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
1234
1235
1236Overview of changes leading to 2.6.1
1237Thursday, August 22, 2019
1238====================================
1239- Fix regression with hb_font_create_sub_font scaling introduced in 2.6.0.
1240- Change interpretation of font PTEM size / CoreText font size handling.
1241  See https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/1484
1242- hb-ot-font: Prefer symbol cmap subtable if present.
1243- Apply 'dist'/'abvm'/'blwm' features to all scripts.
1244- Drop experimental DirectWrite API.
1245
1246
1247Overview of changes leading to 2.6.0
1248Tuesday, August 13, 2019
1249====================================
1250- New OpenType metrics, baseline, and metadata table access APIs.
1251- New API to set font variations to a named-instance.
1252- New hb-gdi.h header and API for creating hb_face_t from HFONT.
1253- Amalgam: Provide a single-file harfbuzz.cc file for easier alternate building.
1254- More size-reduction configurable options, enabled by HB_TINY.
1255- New API:
1256+hb_font_set_var_named_instance()
1257+hb_gdi_face_create()
1258+hb_ot_layout_baseline_tag_t
1259+hb_ot_layout_get_baseline()
1260+hb_ot_meta_tag_t
1261+hb_ot_meta_get_entry_tags()
1262+hb_ot_meta_reference_entry()
1263+hb_ot_metrics_tag_t
1264+hb_ot_metrics_get_position()
1265+hb_ot_metrics_get_variation()
1266+hb_ot_metrics_get_x_variation()
1267+hb_ot_metrics_get_y_variation()
1268
1269
1270Overview of changes leading to 2.5.3
1271Wednesday, June 26, 2019
1272====================================
1273- Fix UCD script data for Unicode 10+ scripts.  This was broken since 2.5.0.
1274- More optimizations for HB_TINY.
1275
1276
1277Overview of changes leading to 2.5.2
1278Thursday, June 20, 2019
1279====================================
1280- More hb-config.hh facilities to shrink library size, namely when built as
1281  HB_TINY.
1282- New documentation of custom configurations in CONFIG.md.
1283- Fix build on gcc 4.8.  That's supported again.
1284- Universal Shaping Engine improvements thanks to David Corbett.
1285- API Changes: Undeprecate some horizontal-kerning API and re-enable in hb-ft,
1286  such that Type1 fonts will continue kerning.
1287
1288
1289Overview of changes leading to 2.5.1
1290Friday, May 31, 2019
1291====================================
1292- Fix build with various versions of Visual Studio.
1293- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
1294- Bugfix in subsetting glyf table.
1295- Improved scripts for cross-compiling for Windows using mingw.
1296- Rename HB_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER to HB_OT_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER.
1297  A deprecated macro is added for backwards-compatibility.
1298
1299
1300Overview of changes leading to 2.5.0
1301Friday, May 24, 2019
1302====================================
1303- This release does not include much functional changes, but includes major internal
1304  code-base changes.  We now require C++11.  Support for gcc 4.8 and earlier has been
1305  dropped.
1306- New hb-config.hh facility for compiling smaller library for embedded and web usecases.
1307- New Unicode Character Database implementation that is half the size of previously-used
1308  UCDN.
1309- Subsetter improvements.
1310- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
1311- Misc shaping fixes.
1312
1313
1314Overview of changes leading to 2.4.0
1315Monday, March 25, 2019
1316====================================
1317- Unicode 12.
1318- Misc fixes.
1319- Subsetter improvements.
1320- New API:
1321HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DO_NOT_INSERT_DOTTED_CIRCLE
1322hb_directwrite_face_create()
1323
1324
1325Overview of changes leading to 2.3.1
1326Wednesday, January 30, 2019
1327====================================
1328- AAT bug fixes.
1329- Misc internal housekeeping cleanup.
1330
1331
1332Overview of changes leading to 2.3.0
1333Thursday, December 20, 2018
1334====================================
1335- Fix regression on big-endian architectures.  Ouch!
1336- Misc bug and build fixes.
1337- Fix subsetting of simple GSUB/GDEF.
1338- Merge CFF / CFF2 support contributed by Adobe.  This mostly involves
1339  the subsetter, but also get_glyph_extents on CFF fonts.
1340
1341New API in hb-aat.h:
1342+hb_aat_layout_has_substitution()
1343+hb_aat_layout_has_positioning()
1344+hb_aat_layout_has_tracking()
1345
1346
1347Overview of changes leading to 2.2.0
1348Thursday, November 29, 2018
1349====================================
1350- Misc shaping bug fixes.
1351- Add font variations named-instance API.
1352- Deprecate font variations axis enumeration API and add replacement.
1353- AAT shaping improvements:
1354  o Fixed 'kern' table Format 2 implementation.
1355  o Implement 'feat' table API for feature detection.
1356  o Blacklist 'GSUB' table of fonts from 'MUTF' foundry that also have 'morx'.
1357
1358New API:
1359+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_t
1360+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_t
1361+hb_aat_layout_get_feature_types()
1362+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_name_id
1363+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_info_t
1364+HB_AAT_LAYOUT_NO_SELECTOR_INDEX
1365+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_selector_infos()
1366+hb_ot_var_axis_flags_t
1367+hb_ot_var_axis_info_t
1368+hb_ot_var_get_axis_infos()
1369+hb_ot_var_find_axis_info()
1370+hb_ot_var_get_named_instance_count()
1371+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_subfamily_name_id()
1372+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_postscript_name_id()
1373+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_design_coords()
1374
1375Deprecated API:
1376+HB_OT_VAR_NO_AXIS_INDEX
1377+hb_ot_var_axis_t
1378+hb_ot_var_get_axes()
1379+hb_ot_var_find_axis()
1380
1381
1382Overview of changes leading to 2.1.3
1383Friday, November 16, 2018
1384====================================
1385- Fix AAT 'mort' shaping, which was broken in 2.1.2
1386
1387
1388Overview of changes leading to 2.1.2
1389Friday, November 16, 2018
1390====================================
1391- Various internal changes.
1392- AAT shaping improvements:
1393  o Implement kern table Format 1 state-machine-based kerning.
1394  o Implement cross-stream kerning (cursive positioning, etc).
1395  o Ignore emptyish GSUB tables (zero scripts) if morx present.
1396  o Don't apply GPOS if morx is being applied.  Matches Apple.
1397
1398
1399-Overview of changes leading to 2.1.1
1400Monday, November 5, 2018
1401====================================
1402- AAT improvements:
1403  o Implement 'mort' table.
1404  o Implement 'kern' subtables Format 1 and Format 3.
1405
1406
1407Overview of changes leading to 2.1.0
1408Tuesday, October 30, 2018
1409====================================
1410- AAT shaping improvements:
1411  o Allow user controlling AAT features, for whole buffer only currently.
1412  o Several 'morx' fixes.
1413  o Implement tuple-kerns in 'kerx'; Fixes kerning with Apple default
1414    San Francisco fonts.
1415- Support for color fonts:
1416  o COLR/CPAL API to fetch color layers.
1417  o SVG table to fetch SVG documents.
1418  o CBDT/sbix API to fetch PNG images.
1419- New 'name' table API.
1420- hb-ot-font now uses 'VORG' table to correctly position CFF glyphs
1421  in vertical layout.
1422- Various fuzzer-found bug fixes.
1423
1424Changed API:
1425
1426A type and a macro added in 2.0.0 were renamed:
1427
1428hb_name_id_t -> hb_ot_name_id_t
1429HB_NAME_ID_INVALID -> HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
1430
1431New API:
1432
1433+hb_color_t
1434+HB_COLOR
1435+hb_color_get_alpha()
1436+hb_color_get_red()
1437+hb_color_get_green()
1438+hb_color_get_blue()
1439+hb_ot_color_has_palettes()
1440+hb_ot_color_palette_get_count()
1441+hb_ot_color_palette_get_name_id()
1442+hb_ot_color_palette_color_get_name_id()
1443+hb_ot_color_palette_flags_t
1444+hb_ot_color_palette_get_flags()
1445+hb_ot_color_palette_get_colors()
1446+hb_ot_color_has_layers()
1447+hb_ot_color_layer_t
1448+hb_ot_color_glyph_get_layers()
1449+hb_ot_color_has_svg()
1450+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_svg()
1451+hb_ot_color_has_png()
1452+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_png()
1453
1454+hb_ot_name_id_t
1455+HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
1456+HB_OT_NAME_ID_COPYRIGHT
1457+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_FAMILY
1458+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_SUBFAMILY
1459+HB_OT_NAME_ID_UNIQUE_ID
1460+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FULL_NAME
1461+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VERSION_STRING
1462+HB_OT_NAME_ID_POSTSCRIPT_NAME
1463+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TRADEMARK
1464+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MANUFACTURER
1465+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER
1466+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESCRIPTION
1467+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VENDOR_URL
1468+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER_URL
1469+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE
1470+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE_URL
1471+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_FAMILY
1472+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_SUBFAMILY
1473+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MAC_FULL_NAME
1474+HB_OT_NAME_ID_SAMPLE_TEXT
1475+HB_OT_NAME_ID_CID_FINDFONT_NAME
1476+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_FAMILY
1477+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_SUBFAMILY
1478+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LIGHT_BACKGROUND
1479+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DARK_BACKGROUND
1480+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VARIATIONS_PS_PREFIX
1481+hb_ot_name_entry_t
1482+hb_ot_name_list_names()
1483+hb_ot_name_get_utf8()
1484+hb_ot_name_get_utf16()
1485+hb_ot_name_get_utf32()
1486
1487
1488Overview of changes leading to 2.0.2
1489Saturday, October 20, 2018
1490====================================
1491- Fix two minor memory access issues in AAT tables.
1492
1493
1494Overview of changes leading to 2.0.1
1495Friday, October 19, 2018
1496====================================
1497- Fix hb-version.h reported release version that went wrong (1.8.0)
1498  with previous release.
1499- Fix extrapolation in 'trak' table.
1500- Fix hb-font infinite-recursion issue with some font funcs and
1501  subclassed fonts.
1502- Implement variation-kerning format in kerx table, although without
1503  variation.
1504- Fix return value of hb_map_is_empty().
1505
1506
1507Overview of changes leading to 2.0.0
1508Thursday, October 18, 2018
1509====================================
1510- Added AAT shaping support (morx/kerx/trak).
1511  Automatically used if GSUB/GPOS are not available respectively.
1512  Set HB_OPTIONS=aat env var to have morx/kerx preferred over
1513  GSUB/GPOS.
1514- Apply TrueType kern table internally, instead of relying on
1515  hb_font_t callbacks.
1516- Khmer shaper significantly rewritten to better match Uniscribe.
1517- Indic3 tags ('dev3', etc) are passed to USE shaper.
1518- .dfont Mac font containers implemented.
1519- Script- and language-mapping revamped to better use BCP 47.
1520- Misc USE and Indic fixes.
1521- Misc everything fixes.
1522- Too many things to list.  Biggest release since 0.9.1, with
1523  over 500 commits in just over 5 weeks!  Didn't intend it to
1524  be a big release.  Just happened to become.
1525- hb-ft now locks underlying FT_Face during use.
1526
1527API changes:
1528
1529- Newly-created hb_font_t's now have our internal "hb-ot-font"
1530  callbacks set on them, so they should work out of the box
1531  without any callbacks set.  If callbacks are set, everything
1532  is back to what it was before, the fallback callbacks are
1533  null.  If you to get the internal implementation modified,
1534  sub_font it.
1535
1536- New hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func() allows speeding
1537  up character to glyph mapping.
1538
1539New API:
1540+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_START
1541+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_END
1542+hb_buffer_set_invisible_glyph()
1543+hb_buffer_get_invisible_glyph()
1544+hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func()
1545+hb_ot_layout_table_select_script()
1546+hb_ot_layout_script_select_language()
1547+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_name_ids()
1548+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_characters()
1549+hb_name_id_t
1550+HB_NAME_ID_INVALID
1551+HB_OT_MAX_TAGS_PER_SCRIPT
1552+hb_ot_tags_from_script_and_language()
1553+hb_ot_tags_to_script_and_language()
1554
1555Deprecated API:
1556-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
1557-hb_unicode_eastasian_width_func_t
1558-hb_unicode_funcs_set_eastasian_width_func()
1559-hb_unicode_eastasian_width()
1560-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility_func_t
1561-HB_UNICODE_MAX_DECOMPOSITION_LEN
1562-hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func()
1563-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility()
1564-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func()
1565-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func()
1566-hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning()
1567-hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning()
1568-hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction()
1569-hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script()
1570-hb_ot_layout_script_find_language()
1571-hb_ot_tags_from_script()
1572-hb_ot_tag_from_language()
1573
1574
1575Overview of changes leading to 1.9.0
1576Monday, September 10, 2018
1577====================================
1578- Added 'cmap' API to hb_face_t.
1579- Face-builder API.
1580- hb-ot-font re-creation should be much leaner now, as the
1581  font tables it uses are cached on hb_face_t now.
1582- Internal source header file name changes:
1583  hb-*-private.hh is renamed to hb-*.hh.
1584
1585New API:
1586+HB_UNICODE_MAX
1587+hb_face_collect_unicodes()
1588+hb_face_collect_variation_selectors()
1589+hb_face_collect_variation_unicodes()
1590+hb_face_builder_create()
1591+hb_face_builder_add_table()
1592
1593
1594Overview of changes leading to 1.8.8
1595Tuesday, August 14, 2018
1596====================================
1597- Fix hb-icu crash on architectures where compare_exchange_weak() can
1598  fail falsely.  This bug was introduced in 1.8.4.
1599  https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=873568
1600- More internal refactoring of atomic operations and singletons.
1601- API changes:
1602  The following functions do NOT reference their return value before
1603  returning:
1604  * hb_unicode_funcs_get_default()
1605  * hb_glib_get_unicode_funcs()
1606  * hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs()
1607  This is consistent with their naming ("get", instead of "reference")
1608  as well as how they are used in the wild (ie. no one calls destroy()
1609  on their return value.)
1610
1611
1612Overview of changes leading to 1.8.7
1613Wednesday, August 8, 2018
1614====================================
1615- Fix assertion failure with GDEF-blacklisted fonts.
1616
1617
1618Overview of changes leading to 1.8.6
1619Tuesday, August 7, 2018
1620====================================
1621- Internal code shuffling.
1622- New API to speed up getting advance widths for implementations
1623  that have heavy overhead in get_h_advance callback:
1624+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advances_func
1625+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advances_func
1626+hb_font_get_glyph_advances_for_direction
1627+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances
1628+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances_func_t
1629+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances
1630+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances_func_t
1631
1632
1633Overview of changes leading to 1.8.5
1634Wednesday, August 1, 2018
1635====================================
1636- Major Khmer shaper improvements to better match Microsoft.
1637- Indic bug fixes.
1638- Internal improvements to atomic operations.
1639
1640
1641Overview of changes leading to 1.8.4
1642Tuesday, July 17, 2018
1643====================================
1644- Fix build on non-C++11.
1645- Use C++-style GCC atomics and C++11 atomics.
1646
1647
1648Overview of changes leading to 1.8.3
1649Wednesday, July 11, 2018
1650====================================
1651- A couple of Indic / USE bug fixes.
1652- Disable vectorization, as it was causing unaligned access bus error on
1653  certain 32bit architectures.
1654
1655
1656Overview of changes leading to 1.8.2
1657Tuesday, July 3, 2018
1658====================================
1659- Fix infinite loop in Khmer shaper.
1660- Improve hb_blob_create_from_file() for streams.
1661
1662
1663Overview of changes leading to 1.8.1
1664Tuesday, June 12, 2018
1665====================================
1666- Fix hb-version.h file generation; last two releases went out with wrong ones.
1667- Add correctness bug in hb_set_t operations, introduced in 1.7.7.
1668- Remove HB_SUBSET_BUILTIN build option.  Not necessary.
1669
1670
1671Overview of changes leading to 1.8.0
1672Tuesday, June 5, 2018
1673====================================
1674- Update to Unicode 11.0.0.
1675
1676
1677Overview of changes leading to 1.7.7
1678Tuesday, June 5, 2018
1679====================================
1680- Lots of internal changes, but not yet exposed externally.
1681- All HarfBuzz objects are significantly smaller in size now.
1682- Sinhala: Position repha on top of post-consonant, not base.
1683  This better matches Windows 10 behavior, which was changed
1684  from previous Windows versions.
1685- New build options:
1686  o New cpp macro HB_NO_ATEXIT
1687  o New cpp macro HB_SUBSET_BUILTIN
1688- Significant libharfbuzz-subset changes. API subject to change.
1689- New API in libharfbuzz:
1690
1691+hb_blob_create_from_file()
1692+hb_face_count()
1693
1694A hashmap implementation:
1695+hb-map.h
1696+HB_MAP_VALUE_INVALID
1697+hb_map_t
1698+hb_map_create()
1699+hb_map_get_empty()
1700+hb_map_reference()
1701+hb_map_destroy()
1702+hb_map_set_user_data()
1703+hb_map_get_user_data()
1704+hb_map_allocation_successful()
1705+hb_map_clear()
1706+hb_map_is_empty()
1707+hb_map_get_population()
1708+hb_map_set()
1709+hb_map_get()
1710+hb_map_del()
1711+hb_map_has()
1712
1713
1714Overview of changes leading to 1.7.6
1715Wednesday, March 7, 2018
1716====================================
1717
1718- Fix to hb_set_t binary operations. Ouch.
1719- New experimental harfbuzz-subset library. All of hb-subset.h
1720  is experimental right now and API WILL change.
1721
1722- New API:
1723hb_blob_copy_writable_or_fail()
1724HB_OT_TAG_BASE
1725hb_set_previous()
1726hb_set_previous_range()
1727
1728
1729Overview of changes leading to 1.7.5
1730Tuesday, January 30, 2018
1731====================================
1732
1733- Separate Khmer shaper from Indic.
1734- First stab at AAT morx. Not hooked up.
1735- Misc bug fixes.
1736
1737
1738Overview of changes leading to 1.7.4
1739Wednesday, December 20, 2017
1740====================================
1741
1742- Fix collect_glyphs() regression caused by hb_set_t changes.
1743
1744
1745Overview of changes leading to 1.7.3
1746Monday, December 18, 2017
1747====================================
1748
1749- hb_set_t performance tuning and optimizations.
1750- Speed up collect_glyphs() and reject garbage data.
1751- In hb_coretext_font_create() set font point-size (ptem).
1752- Misc fixes.
1753
1754
1755Overview of changes leading to 1.7.2
1756Monday, December 4, 2017
1757====================================
1758
1759- Optimize hb_set_add_range().
1760- Misc fixes.
1761- New API:
1762hb_coretext_font_create()
1763
1764
1765Overview of changes leading to 1.7.1
1766Tuesday, November 14, 2017
1767====================================
1768
1769- Fix atexit object destruction regression.
1770- Fix minor integer-overflow.
1771
1772
1773Overview of changes leading to 1.7.0
1774Monday, November 13, 2017
1775====================================
1776
1777- Minor Indic fixes.
1778- Implement kerning and glyph names in hb-ot-font.
1779- Various DSO optimization re .data and .bss sizes.
1780- Make C++11 optional; build fixes.
1781- Mark all other backends "unsafe-to-break".
1782- Graphite fix.
1783
1784
1785Overview of changes leading to 1.6.3
1786Thursday, October 26th, 2017
1787====================================
1788
1789- Fix hb_set_t some more.  Should be solid now.
1790- Implement get_glyph_name() for hb-ot-font.
1791- Misc fixes.
1792
1793
1794Overview of changes leading to 1.6.2
1795Monday, October 23nd, 2017
1796====================================
1797
1798- Yesterday's release had a bad crasher; don't use it.  That's what
1799  happens when one works on Sunday...
1800  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/578
1801- Build fixes for FreeBSD and Chrome Android.
1802
1803
1804Overview of changes leading to 1.6.1
1805Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
1806====================================
1807
1808- Don't skip over COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER when ligating, etc.
1809  To be refined: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/554
1810- Faster hb_set_t implementation.
1811- Don't use deprecated ICU API.
1812- Fix undefined-behavior in Myanmar shaper, introduced in 1.6.0
1813- Deprecated API:
1814  hb_set_invert()
1815
1816
1817Overview of changes leading to 1.6.0
1818Friday, October the 13th, 2017
1819====================================
1820
1821- Update to Unicode 10.
1822
1823- Various Indic and Universal Shaping Engine fixes as a result of
1824  HarfBuzz Hackfest with Jonathan Kew at Web Engines Hackfest at
1825  the Igalia offices in A Coruña, Spain.  Thanks Igalia for having
1826  us!
1827
1828- Implement Unicode Arabic Mark Ordering Algorithm UTR#53.
1829
1830- Implement optical sizing / tracking in CoreText backend, using
1831  new API hb_font_set_ptem().
1832
1833- Allow notifying hb_font_t that underlying FT_Face changed sizing,
1834  using new API hb_ft_font_changed().
1835
1836- More Graphite backend RTL fixes.
1837
1838- Fix caching of variable font shaping plans.
1839
1840- hb-view / hb-shape now accept following new arguments:
1841
1842  o --unicodes: takes a list of hex numbers that represent Unicode
1843    codepoints.
1844
1845New API:
1846+hb_face_get_table_tags()
1847+hb_font_set_ptem()
1848+hb_font_get_ptem()
1849+hb_ft_font_changed()
1850
1851
1852Overview of changes leading to 1.5.1
1853Tuesday, September 5, 2017
1854====================================
1855
1856- Fix "unsafe-to-break" in fallback shaping and other corner cases.
1857  All our tests pass with --verify now, meaning unsafe-to-break API
1858  works as expected.
1859- Add --unicodes to hb-view / hb-shape.
1860- [indic] Treat Consonant_With_Stacker as consonant.  This will need
1861  further tweaking.
1862- hb_buffer_diff() tweaks.
1863
1864
1865Overview of changes leading to 1.5.0
1866Wednesday, August 23, 2017
1867====================================
1868
1869- Misc new API, for appending a buffer to another, and for comparing
1870  contents of two buffers for types of differences.
1871
1872- New "unsafe-to-break" API.  Can be used to speed up reshaping
1873  in line-breaking situations.  Essentially, after shaping, it returns
1874  positions in the input string (some of the cluster boundaries) that
1875  are "safe to break" in that if the text is segmented at that position
1876  and two sides reshaped and concatenated, the shaping result is
1877  exactly the same as shaping the text in one piece.
1878
1879  hb-view and hb-shape and hb-shape now take --verify, which verifies
1880  the above property.
1881
1882  Some corner cases of the implementation are still not quite working.
1883  Those will be fixed in subsequent releases.
1884
1885- New API:
1886
1887hb_buffer_append()
1888
1889hb_glyph_flags_t
1890HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_BREAK
1891HB_GLYPH_FLAG_DEFINED
1892hb_glyph_info_get_glyph_flags()
1893
1894HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS
1895
1896hb_buffer_diff_flags_t
1897HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_EQUAL
1898HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CONTENT_TYPE_MISMATCH
1899HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_LENGTH_MISMATCH
1900HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_NOTDEF_PRESENT
1901HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_DOTTED_CIRCLE_PRESENT
1902HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CODEPOINT_MISMATCH
1903HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CLUSTER_MISMATCH
1904HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS_MISMATCH
1905HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_POSITION_MISMATCH
1906hb_buffer_diff
1907
1908
1909Overview of changes leading to 1.4.8
1910Tuesday, August 8, 2017
1911====================================
1912
1913- Major fix to avar table handling.
1914- Rename hb-shape --show-message to --trace.
1915- Build fixes.
1916
1917
1918Overview of changes leading to 1.4.7
1919Tuesday, July 18, 2017
1920====================================
1921
1922- Multiple Indic, Tibetan, and Cham fixes.
1923- CoreText: Allow disabling kerning.
1924- Adjust Arabic feature order again.
1925- Misc build fixes.
1926
1927
1928Overview of changes leading to 1.4.6
1929Sunday, April 23, 2017
1930====================================
1931
1932- Graphite2: Fix RTL positioning issue.
1933- Backlist GDEF of more versions of Padauk and Tahoma.
1934- New, experimental, cmake alternative build system.
1935
1936
1937Overview of changes leading to 1.4.5
1938Friday, March 10, 2017
1939====================================
1940
1941- Revert "Fix Context lookup application when moving back after a glyph..."
1942  This introduced memory access problems.  To be fixed properly soon.
1943
1944
1945Overview of changes leading to 1.4.4
1946Sunday, March 5, 2017
1947====================================
1948
1949- Fix Context lookup application when moving back after a glyph deletion.
1950- Fix buffer-overrun in Bengali.
1951
1952
1953Overview of changes leading to 1.4.3
1954Saturday, February 25, 2017
1955====================================
1956
1957- Route Adlam script to Arabic shaper.
1958- Misc fixes.
1959- New API:
1960  hb_font_set_face()
1961- Deprecate API:
1962  hb_graphite2_font_get_gr_font()
1963
1964
1965Overview of changes leading to 1.4.2
1966Monday, January 23, 2017
1967====================================
1968
1969- Implement OpenType Font Variation tables avar/fvar/HVAR/VVAR.
1970- hb-shape and hb-view now accept --variations.
1971- New API:
1972
1973hb_variation_t
1974hb_variation_from_string()
1975hb_variation_to_string()
1976
1977hb_font_set_variations()
1978hb_font_set_var_coords_design()
1979hb_font_get_var_coords_normalized()
1980
1981hb-ot-var.h:
1982hb_ot_var_axis_t
1983hb_ot_var_has_data()
1984hb_ot_var_get_axis_count()
1985hb_ot_var_get_axes()
1986hb_ot_var_find_axis()
1987hb_ot_var_normalize_variations()
1988hb_ot_var_normalize_coords()
1989
1990- MVAR to be implemented later.  Access to named instances to be
1991  implemented later as well.
1992
1993- Misc fixes.
1994
1995
1996Overview of changes leading to 1.4.1
1997Thursday, January 5, 2017
1998====================================
1999
2000- Always build and use UCDN for Unicode data by default.
2001  Reduces dependence on version of Unicode data in glib,
2002  specially in the Windows bundles we are shipping, which
2003  have very old glib.
2004
2005
2006Overview of changes leading to 1.4.0
2007Thursday, January 5, 2017
2008====================================
2009
2010- Merged "OpenType GX" branch which adds core of support for
2011  OpenType 1.8 Font Variations.  To that extent, the relevant
2012  new API is:
2013
2014New API:
2015hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
2016
2017  with supporting API:
2018
2019New API:
2020HB_OT_LAYOUT_NO_VARIATIONS_INDEX
2021hb_ot_layout_table_find_feature_variations()
2022hb_ot_layout_feature_with_variations_get_lookups()
2023hb_shape_plan_create2()
2024hb_shape_plan_create_cached2()
2025
2026  Currently variations in GSUB/GPOS/GDEF are fully supported,
2027  and no other tables are supported.  In particular, fvar/avar
2028  are NOT supported, hence the hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
2029  taking normalized coordinates.  API to take design coordinates
2030  will be added in the future.
2031
2032  HVAR/VVAR/MVAR support will also be added to hb-ot-font in the
2033  future.
2034
2035- Fix regression in GDEF glyph class processing.
2036- Add decompositions for Chakma, Limbu, and Balinese in USE shaper.
2037- Misc fixes.
2038
2039
2040Overview of changes leading to 1.3.4
2041Monday, December 5, 2016
2042====================================
2043
2044- Fix vertical glyph origin in hb-ot-font.
2045- Implement CBDT/CBLC color font glyph extents in hb-ot-font.
2046
2047
2048Overview of changes leading to 1.3.3
2049Wednesday, September 28, 2016
2050====================================
2051
2052- Implement parsing of OpenType MATH table.
2053New API:
2054HB_OT_TAG_MATH
2055HB_OT_MATH_SCRIPT
2056hb_ot_math_constant_t
2057hb_ot_math_kern_t
2058hb_ot_math_glyph_variant_t
2059hb_ot_math_glyph_part_flags_t
2060hb_ot_math_glyph_part_t
2061hb_ot_math_has_data
2062hb_ot_math_get_constant
2063hb_ot_math_get_glyph_italics_correction
2064hb_ot_math_get_glyph_top_accent_attachment
2065hb_ot_math_get_glyph_kerning
2066hb_ot_math_is_glyph_extended_shape
2067hb_ot_math_get_glyph_variants
2068hb_ot_math_get_min_connector_overlap
2069hb_ot_math_get_glyph_assembly
2070
2071
2072Overview of changes leading to 1.3.2
2073Wednesday, September 27, 2016
2074====================================
2075
2076- Fix build of hb-coretext on older OS X versions.
2077
2078
2079Overview of changes leading to 1.3.1
2080Wednesday, September 7, 2016
2081====================================
2082
2083- Blacklist bad GDEF of more fonts (Padauk).
2084- More CoreText backend crash fixes with OS X 10.9.5.
2085- Misc fixes.
2086
2087
2088Overview of changes leading to 1.3.0
2089Thursday, July 21, 2016
2090====================================
2091
2092- Update to Unicode 9.0.0
2093- Move Javanese from Indic shaper to Universal Shaping Engine.
2094- Allow MultipleSubst to delete a glyph (matching Windows engine).
2095- Update Universal Shaping Engine to latest draft from Microsoft.
2096- DirectWrite backend improvements.  Note: this backend is for testing ONLY.
2097- CoreText backend improvements with unreachable fonts.
2098- Implement symbol fonts (cmap 3.0.0) in hb-ft and hb-ot-font.
2099- Blacklist bad GDEF of more fonts (Tahoma & others).
2100- Misc fixes.
2101
2102
2103Overview of changes leading to 1.2.7
2104Monday, May 2, 2016
2105====================================
2106
2107- Blacklist another version of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic from Windows 7.
2108- Fix Mongolian Free Variation Selectors shaping with certain fonts.
2109- Fix Tibetan shorthand contractions shaping.
2110- Improved list of language tag mappings.
2111- Unbreak build on Windows CE.
2112- Make 'glyf' table loading lazy in hb-ot-font.
2113
2114
2115Overview of changes leading to 1.2.6
2116Friday, April 8, 2016
2117====================================
2118
2119- Blacklist GDEF table of another set of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic.
2120- DirectWrite backend improvements.  Note: DirectWrite backend is
2121  exclusively for our internal testing and should NOT be used in any
2122  production system whatsoever.
2123
2124
2125Overview of changes leading to 1.2.5
2126Monday, April 4, 2016
2127====================================
2128
2129- Fix GDEF mark-filtering-set, which was broken in 1.2.3.
2130
2131
2132Overview of changes leading to 1.2.4
2133Thursday, March 17, 2016
2134====================================
2135
2136- Synthesize GDEF glyph class for any glyph that does not have one in GDEF.
2137  I really hope we don't discover broken fonts that shape badly with this
2138  change.
2139- Misc build and other minor fixes.
2140- API changes:
2141  - Added HB_NDEBUG.  It's fine for production systems to define this to
2142    disable high-overhead debugging checks.  However, I also reduced the
2143    overhead of those checks, so it's a non-issue right now.  You can
2144    forget it.  Just not defining anything at all is fine.
2145
2146
2147Overview of changes leading to 1.2.3
2148Thursday, February 25, 2016
2149====================================
2150
2151- Blacklist GDEF table of certain versions of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic,
2152  due to bug in glyph class of ASCII double-quote character.  This should
2153  address "regression" introduced in 1.2.0 when we switched mark zeroing
2154  in most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to BY_GDEF_LATE.
2155  This fourth release in a week should finally stabilize things...
2156
2157- hb-ot-font's get_glyph() implementation saw some optimizations.  Though,
2158  might be really hard to measure in real-world situations.
2159
2160- Also, two rather small API changes:
2161
2162We now disable some time-consuming internal bookkeeping if built with NDEBUG
2163defined.  This is a first time that we use NDEBUG to disable debug code.  If
2164there exist production systems that do NOT want to enable NDEBUG, please let
2165me know and I'll add HB_NDEBUG.
2166
2167Added get_nominal_glyph() and get_variation_glyph() instead of get_glyph()
2168
2169New API:
2170- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph_func_t
2171- hb_font_get_variation_glyph_func_t
2172- hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyph_func()
2173- hb_font_funcs_set_variation_glyph_func()
2174- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph()
2175- hb_font_get_variation_glyph()
2176
2177Deprecated API:
2178- hb_font_get_glyph_func_t
2179- hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
2180
2181Clients that implement their own font-funcs are encouraged to replace
2182their get_glyph() implementation with a get_nominal_glyph() and
2183get_variation_glyph() pair.  The variation version can assume that
2184variation_selector argument is not zero.  Old (deprecated) functions
2185will continue working indefinitely using internal gymnastics; it is
2186just more efficient to use the new functions.
2187
2188
2189Overview of changes leading to 1.2.2
2190Wednesday, February 24, 2016
2191====================================
2192
2193- Fix regression with mark positioning with fonts that have
2194  non-zero mark advances.  This was introduced in 1.2.0 while
2195  trying to make mark and cursive attachments to work together.
2196  I have partially reverted that, so this version is much more
2197  like what we had before.  All clients who updated to 1.2.0
2198  should update to this version.
2199
2200
2201Overview of changes leading to 1.2.1
2202Tuesday, February 23, 2016
2203====================================
2204
2205- CoreText: Fix bug with wrong scale if font scale was changed later.
2206  https://github.com/libass/libass/issues/212
2207- CoreText: Drastically speed up font initialization.
2208- CoreText: Fix tiny leak.
2209- Group ZWJ/ZWNJ with previous syllable under cluster-level=0.
2210  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/217
2211- Add test/shaping/README.md about how to add tests to the suite.
2212
2213
2214Overview of changes leading to 1.2.0
2215Friday, February 19, 2016
2216====================================
2217
2218- Fix various issues (hangs mostly) in case of memory allocation failure.
2219- Change mark zeroing types of most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to
2220  BY_GDEF_LATE.  This seems to be what Uniscribe does.
2221- Change mark zeroing of USE shaper from NONE to BY_GDEF_EARLY.  That's
2222  what Windows does.
2223- Allow GPOS cursive connection on marks, and fix the interaction with
2224  mark attachment.  This work resulted in some changes to how mark
2225  attachments work.  See:
2226  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/211
2227  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/commit/86c68c7a2c971efe8e35b1f1bd99401dc8b688d2
2228- Graphite2 shaper: improved negative advance handling (eg. Nastaliq).
2229- Add nmake-based build system for Windows.
2230- Minor speedup.
2231- Misc. improvements.
2232
2233
2234Overview of changes leading to 1.1.3
2235Monday, January 11, 2016
2236====================================
2237
2238- Ported Indic shaper to Unicode 8.0 data.
2239- Universal Shaping Engine fixes.
2240- Speed up CoreText shaper when font fallback happens in CoreText.
2241- Documentation improvements, thanks to Khaled Hosny.
2242- Very rough directwrite shaper for testing, thanks to Ebrahim Byagowi.
2243- Misc bug fixes.
2244- New API:
2245
2246  * Font extents:
2247      hb_font_extents_t
2248      hb_font_get_font_extents_func_t
2249      hb_font_get_font_h_extents_func_t
2250      hb_font_get_font_v_extents_func_t
2251      hb_font_funcs_set_font_h_extents_func
2252      hb_font_funcs_set_font_v_extents_func
2253      hb_font_get_h_extents
2254      hb_font_get_v_extents
2255      hb_font_get_extents_for_direction
2256
2257  * Buffer message (aka debug):
2258      hb_buffer_message_func_t
2259      hb_buffer_set_message_func()
2260    Actual message protocol to be fleshed out later.
2261
2262
2263Overview of changes leading to 1.1.2
2264Wednesday, November 26, 2015
2265====================================
2266
2267- Fix badly-broken fallback shaper that affected terminology.
2268  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/187
2269- Fix y_scaling in Graphite shaper.
2270- API changes:
2271  * An unset glyph_h_origin() function in font-funcs now (sensibly)
2272    implies horizontal origin at 0,0.  Ie, the nil callback returns
2273    true instead of false.  As such, implementations that have a
2274    glyph_h_origin() that simply returns true, can remove that function
2275    with HarfBuzz >= 1.1.2.  This results in a tiny speedup.
2276
2277
2278Overview of changes leading to 1.1.1
2279Wednesday, November 24, 2015
2280====================================
2281
2282- Build fixes, specially for hb-coretext.
2283
2284
2285Overview of changes leading to 1.1.0
2286Wednesday, November 18, 2015
2287====================================
2288
2289- Implement 'stch' stretch feature for Syriac Abbreviation Mark.
2290  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/141
2291- Disable use of decompose_compatibility() callback.
2292- Implement "shaping" of various Unicode space characters, even
2293  if the font does not support them.
2294  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/153
2295- If font does not support U+2011 NO-BREAK HYPHEN, fallback to
2296  U+2010 HYPHEN.
2297- Changes resulting from libFuzzer continuous fuzzing:
2298  * Reject font tables that need more than 8 edits,
2299  * Bound buffer growth during shaping to 32x,
2300  * Fix assertions and other issues at OOM / buffer max-growth.
2301- Misc fixes and optimizations.
2302- API changes:
2303  * All fonts created with hb_font_create() now inherit from
2304    (ie. have parent) hb_font_get_empty().
2305
2306
2307Overview of changes leading to 1.0.6
2308Thursday, October 15, 2015
2309====================================
2310
2311- Reduce max nesting level in OT lookups from 8 to 6.
2312  Should not affect any real font as far as I know.
2313- Fix memory access issue in ot-font.
2314- Revert default load-flags of fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
2315  back to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.  This was changed in
2316  last release (1.0.5), but caused major issues, so revert.
2317  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/143
2318
2319
2320Overview of changes leading to 1.0.5
2321Tuesday, October 13, 2015
2322====================================
2323
2324- Fix multiple memory access bugs discovered using libFuzzer.
2325  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/139
2326  Everyone should upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
2327  We now have continuous fuzzing set up, to avoid issues like
2328  these creeping in again.
2329- Misc fixes.
2330
2331- New API:
2332  * hb_font_set_parent().
2333  * hb_ft_font_[sg]et_load_flags()
2334    The default flags for fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
2335    has changed to default to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT now.  Previously it
2336    was defaulting to FT_LOAD_DFEAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.
2337
2338- API changes:
2339  * Fonts now default to units-per-EM as their scale, instead of 0.
2340  * hb_font_create_sub_font() does NOT make parent font immutable
2341    anymore.  hb_font_make_immutable() does.
2342
2343
2344Overview of changes leading to 1.0.4
2345Wednesday, September 30, 2015
2346====================================
2347
2348- Fix minor out-of-bounds read error.
2349
2350
2351Overview of changes leading to 1.0.3
2352Tuesday, September 1, 2015
2353====================================
2354
2355- Start of user documentation, from Simon Cozens!
2356- Implement glyph_extents() for TrueType fonts in hb-ot-font.
2357- Improve GPOS cursive attachments with conflicting lookups.
2358- More fixes for cluster-level = 1.
2359- Uniscribe positioning fix.
2360
2361
2362Overview of changes leading to 1.0.2
2363Wednesday, August 19, 2015
2364====================================
2365
2366- Fix shaping with cluster-level > 0.
2367- Fix Uniscribe backend font-size scaling.
2368- Declare dependencies in harfbuzz.pc.
2369  FreeType is not declared though, to avoid bugs in pkg-config
2370  0.26 with recursive dependencies.
2371- Slightly improved debug infrastructure.  More to come later.
2372- Misc build fixes.
2373
2374
2375Overview of changes leading to 1.0.1
2376Monday, July 27, 2015
2377====================================
2378
2379- Fix out-of-bounds access in USE shaper.
2380
2381
2382Overview of changes leading to 1.0.0
2383Sunday, July 26, 2015
2384====================================
2385
2386- Implement Universal Shaping Engine:
2387  https://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/USE/intro.htm
2388  http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/02/23/windows-shapes-the-worlds-languages/
2389- Bump version to 1.0.0.  The soname was NOT bumped.
2390
2391
2392Overview of changes leading to 0.9.42
2393Thursday, July 26, 2015
2394=====================================
2395
2396- New API to allow for retrieving finer-grained cluster
2397  mappings if the client desires to handle them.  Default
2398  behavior is unchanged.
2399- Fix cluster merging when removing default-ignorables.
2400- Update to Unicode 8.0
2401- hb-graphite2 fixes.
2402- Misc fixes.
2403- Removed HB_NO_MERGE_CLUSTERS hack.
2404- New API:
2405  hb_buffer_cluster_level_t enum
2406  hb_buffer_get_cluster_level()
2407  hb_buffer_set_cluster_level()
2408  hb-shape / hb-view --cluster-level
2409
2410
2411Overview of changes leading to 0.9.41
2412Thursday, June 18, 2015
2413=====================================
2414
2415- Fix hb-coretext with trailing whitespace in right-to-left.
2416- New API: hb_buffer_reverse_range().
2417- Allow implementing atomic ops in config.h.
2418- Fix hb_language_t in language bindings.
2419- Misc fixes.
2420
2421
2422Overview of changes leading to 0.9.40
2423Friday, March 20, 2015
2424=====================================
2425
2426- Another hb-coretext crasher fix.  Ouch!
2427- Happy Norouz!
2428
2429
2430Overview of changes leading to 0.9.39
2431Wednesday, March 4, 2015
2432=====================================
2433
2434- Critical hb-coretext fixes.
2435- Optimizations and refactoring; no functional change
2436  expected.
2437- Misc build fixes.
2438
2439
2440Overview of changes leading to 0.9.38
2441Friday, January 23, 2015
2442=====================================
2443
2444- Fix minor out-of-bounds access in Indic shaper.
2445- Change New Tai Lue shaping engine from South-East Asian to default,
2446  reflecting change in Unicode encoding model.
2447- Add hb-shape --font-size.  Can take up to two numbers for separate
2448  x / y size.
2449- Fix CoreText and FreeType scale issues with negative scales.
2450- Reject blobs larger than 2GB.  This might break some icu-le-hb clients
2451  that need security fixes.  See:
2452  http://www.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11450
2453- Avoid accessing font tables during face destruction, in casce rogue
2454  clients released face data already.
2455- Fix up gobject-introspection a bit.  Python bindings kinda working.
2456  See README.python.
2457- Misc fixes.
2458- API additions:
2459  hb_ft_face_create_referenced()
2460  hb_ft_font_create_referenced()
2461
2462
2463Overview of changes leading to 0.9.37
2464Wednesday, December 17, 2014
2465=====================================
2466
2467- Fix out-of-bounds access in Context lookup format 3.
2468- Indic: Allow ZWJ/ZWNJ before syllable modifiers.
2469
2470
2471Overview of changes leading to 0.9.36
2472Thursday, November 20, 2014
2473=====================================
2474
2475- First time that three months went by without a release since
2476  0.9.2 was released on August 10, 2012!
2477- Fix performance bug in hb_ot_collect_glyphs():
2478  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090869
2479- Add basic vertical-text support to hb-ot-font.
2480- Misc build fixes.
2481
2482
2483Overview of changes leading to 0.9.35
2484Saturday, August 13, 2014
2485=====================================
2486
2487- Fix major shape-plan caching bug when more than one shaper were
2488  provided to hb_shape_full() (as exercised by XeTeX).
2489  http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg1246370.html
2490- Fix Arabic fallback shaping regression.  This was broken in 0.9.32.
2491- Major hb-coretext fixes.  That backend is complete now, including
2492  respecing buffer direction and language, down to vertical writing.
2493- Build fixes for Windows CE.  Should build fine now.
2494- Misc fixes:
2495  Use atexit() only if it's safe to call from shared library
2496  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82246
2497  Mandaic had errors in its Unicode Joining_Type
2498  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82306
2499- API changes:
2500
2501  * hb_buffer_clear_contents() does not reset buffer flags now.
2502
2503    After 763e5466c0a03a7c27020e1e2598e488612529a7, one doesn't
2504    need to set flags for different pieces of text.  The flags now
2505    are something the client sets up once, depending on how it
2506    actually uses the buffer.  As such, don't clear it in
2507    clear_contents().
2508
2509    I don't expect any changes to be needed to any existing client.
2510
2511
2512Overview of changes leading to 0.9.34
2513Saturday, August 2, 2014
2514=====================================
2515
2516- hb_feature_from_string() now accepts CSS font-feature-settings format.
2517- As a result, hb-shape / hb-view --features also accept CSS-style strings.
2518  Eg, "'liga' off" is accepted now.
2519- Add old-spec Myanmar shaper:
2520  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81775
2521- Don't apply 'calt' in Hangul shaper.
2522- Fix mark advance zeroing for Hebrew shaper:
2523  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76767
2524- Implement Windows-1256 custom Arabic shaping.  Only built on Windows,
2525  and requires help from get_glyph().  Used by Firefox.
2526  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045139
2527- Disable 'liga' in vertical text.
2528- Build fixes.
2529- API changes:
2530
2531  * Make HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT/EOT easier to use.
2532
2533    Previously, we expected users to provide BOT/EOT flags when the
2534    text *segment* was at paragraph boundaries.  This meant that for
2535    clients that provide full paragraph to HarfBuzz (eg. Pango), they
2536    had code like this:
2537
2538      hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
2539                           (item_offset == 0 ? HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT : 0) |
2540                           (item_offset + item_length == paragraph_length ?
2541                            HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT : 0));
2542
2543      hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
2544                          paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
2545                          item_offset, item_length);
2546
2547    After this change such clients can simply say:
2548
2549      hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
2550                           HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT | HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT);
2551
2552      hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
2553                          paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
2554                          item_offset, item_length);
2555
2556    Ie, HarfBuzz itself checks whether the segment is at the beginning/end
2557    of the paragraph.  Clients that only pass item-at-a-time to HarfBuzz
2558    continue not setting any flags whatsoever.
2559
2560    Another way to put it is: if there's pre-context text in the buffer,
2561    HarfBuzz ignores the BOT flag.  If there's post-context, it ignores
2562    EOT flag.
2563
2564
2565Overview of changes leading to 0.9.33
2566Tuesday, July 22, 2014
2567=====================================
2568
2569- Turn off ARabic 'cswh' feature that was accidentally turned on.
2570- Add HB_TAG_MAX_SIGNED.
2571- Make hb_face_make_immutable() really make face immutable!
2572- Windows build fixes.
2573
2574
2575Overview of changes leading to 0.9.32
2576Thursday, July 17, 2014
2577=====================================
2578
2579- Apply Arabic shaping features in spec order exactly.
2580- Another fix for Mongolian free variation selectors.
2581- For non-Arabic scripts in Arabic shaper apply 'rlig' and 'calt'
2582  together.
2583- Minor adjustment to U+FFFD logic.
2584- Fix hb-coretext build.
2585
2586
2587Overview of changes leading to 0.9.31
2588Wednesday, July 16, 2014
2589=====================================
2590
2591- Only accept valid UTF-8/16/32; we missed many cases before.
2592- Better shaping of invalid UTF-8/16/32.  Falls back to
2593  U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER now.
2594- With all changes in this release, the buffer will contain fully
2595  valid Unicode after hb_buffer_add_utf8/16/32 no matter how
2596  broken the input is.  This can be overridden though.  See below.
2597- Fix Mongolian Variation Selectors for fonts without GDEF.
2598- Fix minor invalid buffer access.
2599- Accept zh-Hant and zh-Hans language tags.  hb_ot_tag_to_language()
2600  now uses these instead of private tags.
2601- Build fixes.
2602- New API:
2603  * hb_buffer_add_codepoints().  This does what hb_buffer_add_utf32()
2604    used to do, ie. no validity check on the input at all.  add_utf32
2605    now replaces invalid Unicode codepoints with the replacement
2606    character (see below).
2607  * hb_buffer_set_replacement_codepoint()
2608  * hb_buffer_get_replacement_codepoint()
2609    Previously, in hb_buffer_add_utf8 and hb_buffer_add_utf16, when
2610    we detected broken input, we replaced that with (hb_codepoint_t)-1.
2611    This has changed to use U+FFFD now, but can be changed using these
2612    new API.
2613
2614
2615Overview of changes leading to 0.9.30
2616Wednesday, July 9, 2014
2617=====================================
2618
2619- Update to Unicode 7.0.0:
2620  * New scripts Manichaean and Psalter Pahlavi are shaped using
2621    Arabic shaper.
2622  * All the other new scripts to through the generic shaper for
2623    now.
2624- Minor Indic improvements.
2625- Fix graphite2 backend cluster mapping [crasher!]
2626- API changes:
2627  * New HB_SCRIPT_* values for Unicode 7.0 scripts.
2628  * New function hb_ot_layout_language_get_required_feature().
2629- Build fixes.
2630
2631
2632Overview of changes leading to 0.9.29
2633Thursday, May 29, 2014
2634=====================================
2635
2636- Implement cmap in hb-ot-font.h.  No variation-selectors yet.
2637- Myanmar: Allow MedialYa+Asat.
2638- Various Indic fixes:
2639  * Support most characters in Extended Devanagary and Vedic
2640    Unicode blocks.
2641  * Allow digits and a some punctuation as consonant placeholders.
2642- Build fixes.
2643
2644
2645Overview of changes leading to 0.9.28
2646Monday, April 28, 2014
2647=====================================
2648
2649- Unbreak old-spec Indic shaping. (bug 76705)
2650- Fix shaping of U+17DD and U+0FC6.
2651- Add HB_NO_MERGE_CLUSTERS build option.  NOT to be enabled by default
2652  for shipping libraries.  It's an option for further experimentation
2653  right now.  When we are sure how to do it properly, we will add
2654  public run-time API for the functionality.
2655- Build fixes.
2656
2657
2658Overview of changes leading to 0.9.27
2659Tuesday, March 18, 2014
2660=====================================
2661
2662- Don't use "register" storage class specifier
2663- Wrap definition of free_langs() with HAVE_ATEXIT
2664- Add coretext_aat shaper and hb_coretext_face_create() constructor
2665- If HAVE_ICU_BUILTIN is defined, use hb-icu Unicode callbacks
2666- Add Myanmar test case from OpenType Myanmar spec
2667- Only do fallback Hebrew composition if no GPOS 'mark' available
2668- Allow bootstrapping without gtk-doc
2669- Use AM_MISSING_PROG for ragel and git
2670- Typo in ucdn's Makefile.am
2671- Improve MemoryBarrier() implementation
2672
2673
2674Overview of changes leading to 0.9.26
2675Thursday, January 30, 2014
2676=====================================
2677
2678- Misc fixes.
2679- Fix application of 'rtlm' feature.
2680- Automatically apply frac/numr/dnom around U+2044 FRACTION SLASH.
2681- New header: hb-ot-shape.h
2682- Uniscribe: fix scratch-buffer accounting.
2683- Reorder Tai Tham SAKOT to after tone-marks.
2684- Add Hangul shaper.
2685- New files:
2686  hb-ot-shape-complex-hangul.cc
2687  hb-ot-shape-complex-hebrew.cc
2688  hb-ot-shape-complex-tibetan.cc
2689- Disable 'cswh' feature in Arabic shaper.
2690- Coretext: better handle surrogate pairs.
2691- Add HB_TAG_MAX and _HB_SCRIPT_MAX_VALUE.
2692
2693
2694Overview of changes leading to 0.9.25
2695Wednesday, December 4, 2013
2696=====================================
2697
2698- Myanmar shaper improvements.
2699- Avoid font fallback in CoreText backend.
2700- Additional OpenType language tag mappiongs.
2701- More aggressive shape-plan caching.
2702- Build with / require automake 1.13.
2703- Build with libtool 2.4.2.418 alpha to support ppc64le.
2704
2705
2706Overview of changes leading to 0.9.24
2707Tuesday, November 13, 2013
2708=====================================
2709
2710- Misc compiler warning fixes with clang.
2711- No functional changes.
2712
2713
2714Overview of changes leading to 0.9.23
2715Monday, October 28, 2013
2716=====================================
2717
2718- "Udupi HarfBuzz Hackfest", Paris, October 14..18 2013.
2719- Fix (Chain)Context recursion with non-monotone lookup positions.
2720- Misc Indic bug fixes.
2721- New Javanese / Buginese shaping, similar to Windows 8.1.
2722
2723
2724Overview of changes leading to 0.9.22
2725Thursday, October 3, 2013
2726=====================================
2727
2728- Fix use-after-end-of-scope in hb_language_from_string().
2729- Fix hiding of default_ignorables if font doesn't have space glyph.
2730- Protect against out-of-range lookup indices.
2731
2732- API Changes:
2733
2734  * Added hb_ot_layout_table_get_lookup_count()
2735
2736
2737Overview of changes leading to 0.9.21
2738Monday, September 16, 2013
2739=====================================
2740
2741- Rename gobject-introspection library name from harfbuzz to HarfBuzz.
2742- Remove (long disabled) hb-old and hb-icu-le test shapers.
2743- Misc gtk-doc and gobject-introspection annotations.
2744- Misc fixes.
2745- API changes:
2746
2747  * Add HB_SET_VALUE_INVALID
2748
2749Overview of changes leading to 0.9.20
2750Thursday, August 29, 2013
2751=====================================
2752
2753General:
2754- Misc substitute_closure() fixes.
2755- Build fixes.
2756
2757Documentation:
2758- gtk-doc boilerplate integrated.  Docs are built now, but
2759  contain no contents.  By next release hopefully we have
2760  some content in.  Enable using --enable-gtk-doc.
2761
2762GObject and Introspection:
2763- Added harfbuzz-gobject library (hb-gobject.h) that has type
2764  bindings for all HarfBuzz objects and enums.  Enable using
2765  --with-gobject.
2766- Added gobject-introspection boilerplate.  Nothing useful
2767  right now.  Work in progress.  Gets enabled automatically if
2768  --with-gobject is used.  Override with --disable-introspection.
2769
2770OpenType shaper:
2771- Apply 'mark' in Myanmar shaper.
2772- Don't apply 'dlig' by default.
2773
2774Uniscribe shaper:
2775- Support user features.
2776- Fix loading of fonts that are also installed on the system.
2777- Fix shaping of Arabic Presentation Forms.
2778- Fix build with wide chars.
2779
2780CoreText shaper:
2781- Support user features.
2782
2783Source changes:
2784- hb_face_t code moved to hb-face.h / hb-face.cc.
2785- Added hb-deprecated.h.
2786
2787API changes:
2788- Added HB_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.
2789- Deprecated HB_SCRIPT_CANADIAN_ABORIGINAL; replaced by
2790  HB_SCRIPT_CANADIAN_SYLLABICS.
2791- Deprecated HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT; replaced by
2792  HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DEFAULT.
2793- Deprecated HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAGS_DEFAULT; replaced by
2794  HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_DEFAULT.
2795
2796
2797Overview of changes leading to 0.9.19
2798Tuesday, July 16, 2013
2799=====================================
2800
2801- Build fixes.
2802- Better handling of multiple variation selectors in a row.
2803- Pass on variation selector to GSUB if not consumed by cmap.
2804- Fix undefined memory access.
2805- Add Javanese config to Indic shaper.
2806- Misc bug fixes.
2807
2808Overview of changes leading to 0.9.18
2809Tuesday, May 28, 2013
2810=====================================
2811
2812New build system:
2813
2814- All unneeded code is all disabled by default,
2815
2816- Uniscribe and CoreText shapers can be enabled with their --with options,
2817
2818- icu_le and old shapers cannot be enabled for now,
2819
2820- glib, freetype, and cairo will be detected automatically.
2821  They can be force on/off'ed with their --with options,
2822
2823- icu and graphite2 are default off, can be enabled with their --with
2824  options,
2825
2826Moreover, ICU support is now build into a separate library:
2827libharfbuzz-icu.so, and a new harfbuzz-icu.pc is shipped for it.
2828Distros can enable ICU now without every application on earth
2829getting linked to via libharfbuzz.so.
2830
2831For distros I recommend that they make sure they are building --with-glib
2832--with-freetype --with-cairo, --with-icu, and optionally --with-graphite2;
2833And package harfbuzz and harfbuzz-icu separately.
2834
2835
2836Overview of changes leading to 0.9.17
2837Monday, May 20, 2013
2838=====================================
2839
2840- Build fixes.
2841- Fix bug in hb_set_get_min().
2842- Fix regression with Arabic mark positioning / width-zeroing.
2843
2844Overview of changes leading to 0.9.16
2845Friday, April 19, 2013
2846=====================================
2847
2848- Major speedup in OpenType lookup processing.  With the Amiri
2849  Arabic font, this release is over 3x faster than previous
2850  release.  All scripts / languages should see this speedup.
2851
2852- New --num-iterations option for hb-shape / hb-view; useful for
2853  profiling.
2854
2855Overview of changes leading to 0.9.15
2856Friday, April 05, 2013
2857=====================================
2858
2859- Build fixes.
2860- Fix crasher in graphite2 shaper.
2861- Fix Arabic mark width zeroing regression.
2862- Don't compose Hangul jamo into Unicode syllables.
2863
2864
2865Overview of changes leading to 0.9.14
2866Thursday, March 21, 2013
2867=====================================
2868
2869- Build fixes.
2870- Fix time-consuming sanitize with malicious fonts.
2871- Implement hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs() for both json and text.
2872- Do not ignore Hangul filler characters.
2873- Indic fixes:
2874  * Fix Malayalam pre-base reordering interaction with post-forms.
2875  * Further adjust ZWJ handling.  Should fix known regressions from
2876    0.9.13.
2877
2878
2879Overview of changes leading to 0.9.13
2880Thursday, February 25, 2013
2881=====================================
2882
2883- Build fixes.
2884- Ngapi HarfBuzz Hackfest in London (February 2013):
2885  * Fixed all known Indic bugs,
2886  * New Win8-style Myanmar shaper,
2887  * New South-East Asian shaper for Tai Tham, Cham, and New Tai Lue,
2888  * Smartly ignore Default_Ignorable characters (joiners, etc) wheb
2889    matching GSUB/GPOS lookups,
2890  * Fix 'Phags-Pa U+A872 shaping,
2891  * Fix partial disabling of default-on features,
2892  * Allow disabling of TrueType kerning.
2893- Fix possible crasher with broken fonts with overlapping tables.
2894- Removed generated files from git again.  So, one needs ragel to
2895  bootstrap from the git tree.
2896
2897API changes:
2898- hb_shape() and related APIs now abort if buffer direction is
2899  HB_DIRECTION_INVALID.  Previously, hb_shape() was calling
2900  hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties() on the buffer before
2901  shaping.  The heuristics in that function are fragile.  If the
2902  user really wants the old behvaior, they can call that function
2903  right before calling hb_shape() to get the old behavior.
2904- hb_blob_create_sub_blob() always creates sub-blob with
2905  HB_MEMORY_MODE_READONLY.  See comments for the reason.
2906
2907
2908Overview of changes leading to 0.9.12
2909Thursday, January 18, 2013
2910=====================================
2911
2912- Build fixes for Sun compiler.
2913- Minor bug fix.
2914
2915Overview of changes leading to 0.9.11
2916Thursday, January 10, 2013
2917=====================================
2918
2919- Build fixes.
2920- Fix GPOS mark attachment with null Anchor offsets.
2921- [Indic] Fix old-spec reordering of viramas if sequence ends in one.
2922- Fix multi-threaded shaper data creation crash.
2923- Add atomic ops for Solaris.
2924
2925API changes:
2926- Rename hb_buffer_clear() to hb_buffer_clear_contents().
2927
2928
2929Overview of changes leading to 0.9.10
2930Thursday, January 3, 2013
2931=====================================
2932
2933- [Indic] Fixed rendering of Malayalam dot-reph
2934- Updated OT language tags.
2935- Updated graphite2 backend.
2936- Improved hb_ot_layout_get_size_params() logic.
2937- Improve hb-shape/hb-view help output.
2938- Fixed hb-set.h implementation to not crash.
2939- Fixed various issues with hb_ot_layout_collect_lookups().
2940- Various build fixes.
2941
2942New API:
2943
2944hb_graphite2_face_get_gr_face()
2945hb_graphite2_font_get_gr_font()
2946hb_coretext_face_get_cg_font()
2947
2948Modified API:
2949
2950hb_ot_layout_get_size_params()
2951
2952
2953Overview of changes leading to 0.9.9
2954Wednesday, December 5, 2012
2955====================================
2956
2957- Fix build on Windows.
2958- Minor improvements.
2959
2960
2961Overview of changes leading to 0.9.8
2962Tuesday, December 4, 2012
2963====================================
2964
2965
2966- Actually implement hb_shape_plan_get_shaper ().
2967- Make UCDB data tables const.
2968- Lots of internal refactoring in OTLayout tables.
2969- Flesh out hb_ot_layout_lookup_collect_glyphs().
2970
2971New API:
2972
2973hb_ot_layout_collect_lookups()
2974hb_ot_layout_get_size_params()
2975
2976
2977Overview of changes leading to 0.9.7
2978Sunday, November 21, 2012
2979====================================
2980
2981
2982HarfBuzz "All-You-Can-Eat-Sushi" (aka Vancouver) Hackfest and follow-on fixes.
2983
2984- Fix Arabic contextual joining using pre-context text.
2985- Fix Sinhala "split matra" mess.
2986- Fix Khmer shaping with broken fonts.
2987- Implement Thai "PUA" shaping for old fonts.
2988- Do NOT route Kharoshthi script through the Indic shaper.
2989- Disable fallback positioning for Indic and Thai shapers.
2990- Misc fixes.
2991
2992
2993hb-shape / hb-view changes:
2994
2995- Add --text-before and --text-after
2996- Add --bot / --eot / --preserve-default-ignorables
2997- hb-shape --output-format=json
2998
2999
3000New API:
3001
3002hb_buffer_clear()
3003
3004hb_buffer_flags_t
3005
3006HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT
3007HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT
3008HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT
3009HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRESERVE_DEFAULT_IGNORABLES
3010
3011hb_buffer_set_flags()
3012hb_buffer_get_flags()
3013
3014HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAGS
3015hb_buffer_serialize_glyphs()
3016hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs()
3017hb_buffer_serialize_list_formats()
3018
3019hb_set_add_range()
3020hb_set_del_range()
3021hb_set_get_population()
3022hb_set_next_range()
3023
3024hb_face_[sg]et_glyph_count()
3025
3026hb_segment_properties_t
3027HB_SEGMENT_PROPERTIES_DEFAULT
3028hb_segment_properties_equal()
3029hb_segment_properties_hash()
3030
3031hb_buffer_set_segment_properties()
3032hb_buffer_get_segment_properties()
3033
3034hb_ot_layout_glyph_class_t
3035hb_ot_layout_get_glyph_class()
3036hb_ot_layout_get_glyphs_in_class()
3037
3038hb_shape_plan_t
3039hb_shape_plan_create()
3040hb_shape_plan_create_cached()
3041hb_shape_plan_get_empty()
3042hb_shape_plan_reference()
3043hb_shape_plan_destroy()
3044hb_shape_plan_set_user_data()
3045hb_shape_plan_get_user_data()
3046hb_shape_plan_execute()
3047hb_shape_plan_get_shaper()
3048
3049hb_ot_shape_plan_collect_lookups()
3050
3051
3052API changes:
3053
3054- Remove "mask" parameter from hb_buffer_add().
3055- Rename hb_ot_layout_would_substitute_lookup() and hb_ot_layout_substitute_closure_lookup().
3056- hb-set.h API const correction.
3057- Renamed hb_set_min/max() to hb_set_get_min/max().
3058- Rename hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookup_indexes() to hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookups().
3059- Rename hb_buffer_guess_properties() to hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties().
3060
3061
3062
3063Overview of changes leading to 0.9.6
3064Sunday, November 13, 2012
3065====================================
3066
3067- Don't clear pre-context text if no new context is provided.
3068- Fix ReverseChainingSubstLookup, which was totally borked.
3069- Adjust output format of hb-shape a bit.
3070- Include config.h.in in-tree.  Makes it easier for alternate build systems.
3071- Fix hb_buffer_set_length(buffer, 0) invalid memory allocation.
3072- Use ICU LayoutEngine's C API instead of C++.  Avoids much headache.
3073- Drop glyphs for all of Unicode Default_Ignorable characters.
3074- Misc build fixes.
3075
3076Arabic shaper:
3077- Enable 'dlig' and 'mset' features in Arabic shaper.
3078- Implement 'Phags-pa shaping, improve Mongolian.
3079
3080Indic shaper:
3081- Decompose Sinhala split matras the way old HarfBuzz / Pango did.
3082- Initial support for Consonant Medials.
3083- Start adding new-style Myanmar shaping.
3084- Make reph and 'pref' logic introspect the font.
3085- Route Meetei-Mayek through the Indic shaper.
3086- Don't apply 'liga' in Indic shaper.
3087- Improve Malayalam pre-base reordering Ra interaction with Chillus.
3088
3089
3090
3091Overview of changes leading to 0.9.5
3092Sunday, October 14, 2012
3093====================================
3094
3095- Synthetic-GSUB Arabic fallback shaping.
3096
3097- Misc Indic improvements.
3098
3099- Add build system support for pthread.
3100
3101- Imported UCDN for in-tree Unicode callbacks implementation.
3102
3103- Context-aware Arabic joining.
3104
3105- Misc other fixes.
3106
3107- New API:
3108
3109  hb_feature_to/from-string()
3110  hb_buffer_[sg]et_content_type()
3111
3112
3113
3114Overview of changes leading to 0.9.4
3115Tuesday, Sep 03, 2012
3116====================================
3117
3118- Indic improvements with old-spec Malayalam.
3119
3120- Better fallback glyph positioning, specially with Thai / Lao marks.
3121
3122- Implement dotted-circle insertion.
3123
3124- Better Arabic fallback shaping / ligation.
3125
3126- Added ICU LayoutEngine backend for testing.  Call it by the 'icu_le' name.
3127
3128- Misc fixes.
3129
3130
3131
3132Overview of changes leading to 0.9.3
3133Friday, Aug 18, 2012
3134====================================
3135
3136- Fixed fallback mark positioning for left-to-right text.
3137
3138- Improve mark positioning for the remaining combining classes.
3139
3140- Unbreak Thai and fallback Arabic shaping.
3141
3142- Port Arabic shaper to shape-plan caching.
3143
3144- Use new ICU normalizer functions.
3145
3146
3147
3148Overview of changes leading to 0.9.2
3149Friday, Aug 10, 2012
3150====================================
3151
3152- Over a thousand commits!  This is the first major release of HarfBuzz.
3153
3154- HarfBuzz is feature-complete now!  It should be in par, or better, than
3155  both Pango's shapers and old HarfBuzz / Qt shapers.
3156
3157- New Indic shaper, supporting main Indic scripts, Sinhala, and Khmer.
3158
3159- Improved Arabic shaper, with fallback Arabic shaping, supporting Arabic,
3160  Sinhala, N'ko, Mongolian, and Mandaic.
3161
3162- New Thai / Lao shaper.
3163
3164- Tibetan / Hangul support in the generic shaper.
3165
3166- Synthetic GDEF support for fonts without a GDEF table.
3167
3168- Fallback mark positioning for fonts without a GPOS table.
3169
3170- Unicode normalization shaping heuristic during glyph mapping.
3171
3172- New experimental Graphite2 backend.
3173
3174- New Uniscribe backend (primarily for testing).
3175
3176- New CoreText backend (primarily for testing).
3177
3178- Major optimization and speedup.
3179
3180- Test suites and testing infrastructure (work in progress).
3181
3182- Greatly improved hb-view cmdline tool.
3183
3184- hb-shape cmdline tool.
3185
3186- Unicode 6.1 support.
3187
3188Summary of API changes:
3189
3190o Changed API:
3191
3192  - Users are expected to only include main header files now (ie. hb.h,
3193    hb-glib.h, hb-ft.h, ...)
3194
3195  - All struct tag names had their initial underscore removed.
3196    Ie. "struct _hb_buffer_t" is "struct hb_buffer_t" now.
3197
3198  - All set_user_data() functions now take a "replace" boolean parameter.
3199
3200  - hb_buffer_create() takes zero arguments now.
3201    Use hb_buffer_pre_allocate() to pre-allocate.
3202
3203  - hb_buffer_add_utf*() now accept -1 for length parameters,
3204    meaning "nul-terminated".
3205
3206  - hb_direction_t enum values changed.
3207
3208  - All *_from_string() APIs now take a length parameter to allow for
3209    non-nul-terminated strings. A -1 length means "nul-terminated".
3210
3211  - Typedef for hb_language_t changed.
3212
3213  - hb_get_table_func_t renamed to hb_reference_table_func_t.
3214
3215  - hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script()
3216
3217  - Various renames in hb-unicode.h.
3218
3219o New API:
3220
3221  - hb_buffer_guess_properties()
3222    Automatically called by hb_shape().
3223
3224  - hb_buffer_normalize_glyphs()
3225
3226  - hb_tag_from_string()
3227
3228  - hb-coretext.h
3229
3230  - hb-uniscribe.h
3231
3232  - hb_face_reference_blob()
3233  - hb_face_[sg]et_index()
3234  - hb_face_set_upem()
3235
3236  - hb_font_get_glyph_name_func_t
3237    hb_font_get_glyph_from_name_func_t
3238    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_name_func()
3239    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_from_name_func()
3240    hb_font_get_glyph_name()
3241    hb_font_get_glyph_from_name()
3242    hb_font_glyph_to_string()
3243    hb_font_glyph_from_string()
3244
3245  - hb_font_set_funcs_data()
3246
3247  - hb_ft_font_set_funcs()
3248  - hb_ft_font_get_face()
3249
3250  - hb-gobject.h (work in progress)
3251
3252  - hb_ot_shape_glyphs_closure()
3253    hb_ot_layout_substitute_closure_lookup()
3254
3255  - hb-set.h
3256
3257  - hb_shape_full()
3258
3259  - hb_unicode_combining_class_t
3260
3261  - hb_unicode_compose_func_t
3262    hb_unicode_decompose_func_t
3263    hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility_func_t
3264    hb_unicode_funcs_set_compose_func()
3265    hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_func()
3266    hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func()
3267    hb_unicode_compose()
3268    hb_unicode_decompose()
3269    hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility()
3270
3271o Removed API:
3272
3273  - hb_ft_get_font_funcs()
3274
3275  - hb_ot_layout_substitute_start()
3276    hb_ot_layout_substitute_lookup()
3277    hb_ot_layout_substitute_finish()
3278    hb_ot_layout_position_start()
3279    hb_ot_layout_position_lookup()
3280    hb_ot_layout_position_finish()
3281
3282
3283
3284Overview of changes leading to 0.6.0
3285Friday, May 27, 2011
3286====================================
3287
3288- Vertical text support in GPOS
3289- Almost all API entries have unit tests now, under test/
3290- All thread-safety issues are fixed
3291
3292Summary of API changes follows.
3293
3294
3295* Simple Types API:
3296
3297  o New API:
3298    HB_LANGUAGE_INVALID
3299    hb_language_get_default()
3300    hb_direction_to_string()
3301    hb_direction_from_string()
3302    hb_script_get_horizontal_direction()
3303    HB_UNTAG()
3304
3305  o Renamed API:
3306    hb_category_t renamed to hb_unicode_general_category_t
3307
3308  o Changed API:
3309    hb_language_t is a typed pointers now
3310
3311  o Removed API:
3312    HB_TAG_STR()
3313
3314
3315* Use ISO 15924 tags for hb_script_t:
3316
3317  o New API:
3318    hb_script_from_iso15924_tag()
3319    hb_script_to_iso15924_tag()
3320    hb_script_from_string()
3321
3322  o Changed API:
3323    HB_SCRIPT_* enum members changed value.
3324
3325
3326* Buffer API streamlined:
3327
3328  o New API:
3329    hb_buffer_reset()
3330    hb_buffer_set_length()
3331    hb_buffer_allocation_successful()
3332
3333  o Renamed API:
3334    hb_buffer_ensure() renamed to hb_buffer_pre_allocate()
3335    hb_buffer_add_glyph() renamed to hb_buffer_add()
3336
3337  o Removed API:
3338    hb_buffer_clear()
3339    hb_buffer_clear_positions()
3340
3341  o Changed API:
3342    hb_buffer_get_glyph_infos() takes an out length parameter now
3343    hb_buffer_get_glyph_positions() takes an out length parameter now
3344
3345
3346* Blob API streamlined:
3347
3348  o New API:
3349    hb_blob_get_data()
3350    hb_blob_get_data_writable()
3351
3352  o Renamed API:
3353    hb_blob_create_empty() renamed to hb_blob_get_empty()
3354
3355  o Removed API:
3356    hb_blob_lock()
3357    hb_blob_unlock()
3358    hb_blob_is_writable()
3359    hb_blob_try_writable()
3360
3361  o Changed API:
3362    hb_blob_create() takes user_data before destroy now
3363
3364
3365* Unicode functions API:
3366
3367  o Unicode function vectors can subclass other unicode function vectors now.
3368    Unimplemented callbacks in the subclass automatically chainup to the parent.
3369
3370  o All hb_unicode_funcs_t callbacks take a user_data now.  Their setters
3371    take a user_data and its respective destroy callback.
3372
3373  o New API:
3374    hb_unicode_funcs_get_empty()
3375    hb_unicode_funcs_get_default()
3376    hb_unicode_funcs_get_parent()
3377
3378  o Changed API:
3379    hb_unicode_funcs_create() now takes a parent_funcs.
3380
3381  o Removed func getter functions:
3382    hb_unicode_funcs_get_mirroring_func()
3383    hb_unicode_funcs_get_general_category_func()
3384    hb_unicode_funcs_get_script_func()
3385    hb_unicode_funcs_get_combining_class_func()
3386    hb_unicode_funcs_get_eastasian_width_func()
3387
3388
3389* Face API:
3390
3391  o Renamed API:
3392    hb_face_get_table() renamed to hb_face_reference_table()
3393    hb_face_create_for_data() renamed to hb_face_create()
3394
3395  o Changed API:
3396    hb_face_create_for_tables() takes user_data before destroy now
3397    hb_face_reference_table() returns empty blob instead of NULL
3398    hb_get_table_func_t accepts the face as first parameter now
3399
3400* Font API:
3401
3402  o Fonts can subclass other fonts now.  Unimplemented callbacks in the
3403    subclass automatically chainup to the parent.  When chaining up,
3404    scale is adjusted if the parent font has a different scale.
3405
3406  o All hb_font_funcs_t callbacks take a user_data now.  Their setters
3407    take a user_data and its respective destroy callback.
3408
3409  o New API:
3410    hb_font_get_parent()
3411    hb_font_funcs_get_empty()
3412    hb_font_create_sub_font()
3413
3414  o Removed API:
3415    hb_font_funcs_copy()
3416    hb_font_unset_funcs()
3417
3418  o Removed func getter functions:
3419    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_func()
3420    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_advance_func()
3421    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_extents_func()
3422    hb_font_funcs_get_contour_point_func()
3423    hb_font_funcs_get_kerning_func()
3424
3425  o Changed API:
3426    hb_font_create() takes a face and references it now
3427    hb_font_set_funcs() takes user_data before destroy now
3428    hb_font_set_scale() accepts signed integers now
3429    hb_font_get_contour_point_func_t now takes glyph first, then point_index
3430    hb_font_get_glyph_func_t returns a success boolean now
3431
3432
3433* Changed object model:
3434
3435  o All object types have a _get_empty() now:
3436    hb_blob_get_empty()
3437    hb_buffer_get_empty()
3438    hb_face_get_empty()
3439    hb_font_get_empty()
3440    hb_font_funcs_get_empty()
3441    hb_unicode_funcs_get_empty()
3442
3443  o Added _set_user_data() and _get_user_data() for all object types:
3444    hb_blob_get_user_data()
3445    hb_blob_set_user_data()
3446    hb_buffer_get_user_data()
3447    hb_buffer_set_user_data()
3448    hb_face_get_user_data()
3449    hb_face_set_user_data()
3450    hb_font_funcs_get_user_data()
3451    hb_font_funcs_set_user_data()
3452    hb_font_get_user_data()
3453    hb_font_set_user_data()
3454    hb_unicode_funcs_get_user_data()
3455    hb_unicode_funcs_set_user_data()
3456
3457  o Removed the _get_reference_count() from all object types:
3458    hb_blob_get_reference_count()
3459    hb_buffer_get_reference_count()
3460    hb_face_get_reference_count()
3461    hb_font_funcs_get_reference_count()
3462    hb_font_get_reference_count()
3463    hb_unicode_funcs_get_reference_count()
3464
3465  o Added _make_immutable() and _is_immutable() for all object types except for buffer:
3466    hb_blob_make_immutable()
3467    hb_blob_is_immutable()
3468    hb_face_make_immutable()
3469    hb_face_is_immutable()
3470
3471
3472* Changed API for vertical text support
3473
3474  o The following callbacks where removed:
3475    hb_font_get_glyph_advance_func_t
3476    hb_font_get_kerning_func_t
3477
3478  o The following new callbacks added instead:
3479    hb_font_get_glyph_h_advance_func_t
3480    hb_font_get_glyph_v_advance_func_t
3481    hb_font_get_glyph_h_origin_func_t
3482    hb_font_get_glyph_v_origin_func_t
3483    hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning_func_t
3484    hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning_func_t
3485
3486  o The following API removed as such:
3487    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_advance_func()
3488    hb_font_funcs_set_kerning_func()
3489    hb_font_get_glyph_advance()
3490    hb_font_get_kerning()
3491
3492  o New API added instead:
3493    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advance_func()
3494    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advance_func()
3495    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_origin_func()
3496    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_origin_func()
3497    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func()
3498    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func()
3499    hb_font_get_glyph_h_advance()
3500    hb_font_get_glyph_v_advance()
3501    hb_font_get_glyph_h_origin()
3502    hb_font_get_glyph_v_origin()
3503    hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning()
3504    hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning()
3505
3506  o The following higher-leve API added for convenience:
3507    hb_font_get_glyph_advance_for_direction()
3508    hb_font_get_glyph_origin_for_direction()
3509    hb_font_add_glyph_origin_for_direction()
3510    hb_font_subtract_glyph_origin_for_direction()
3511    hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction()
3512    hb_font_get_glyph_extents_for_origin()
3513    hb_font_get_glyph_contour_point_for_origin()
3514
3515
3516* OpenType Layout API:
3517
3518  o New API:
3519    hb_ot_layout_position_start()
3520    hb_ot_layout_substitute_start()
3521    hb_ot_layout_substitute_finish()
3522
3523
3524* Glue code:
3525
3526  o New API:
3527    hb_glib_script_to_script()
3528    hb_glib_script_from_script()
3529    hb_icu_script_to_script()
3530    hb_icu_script_from_script()
3531
3532
3533* Version API added:
3534
3535  o New API:
3536    HB_VERSION_MAJOR
3537    HB_VERSION_MINOR
3538    HB_VERSION_MICRO
3539    HB_VERSION_STRING
3540    HB_VERSION_CHECK()
3541    hb_version()
3542    hb_version_string()
3543    hb_version_check()
3544
3545
3546