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+Snapshot 1.5.14 (2008-03-20 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
+===========================================================
+This is the seventh snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes
+3 weeks after the 1.5.12 snapshot. This snapshot includes support for
+arbitrary X server visuals, (including PseudoColor), which was the
+final remaining cairo-specific item on the cairo 1.6 roadmap. It also
+includes a huge number of improvements to the cairo-quartz backend. So
+this is effectively a cairo 1.6 release candidate. We expect very few
+changes from now until 1.6 and only for specific bug fixes.
+
+API Change
+----------
+Rename ATSUI font backend to Quartz font backend. This affects the
+following usage:
+
+	--enable-atsui		-> --enable-quartz-font
+	CAIRO_HAS_ATSUI_FONT 	-> CAIRO_HAS_QUARTZ_FONT
+	CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_ATSUI	-> CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_QUARTZ
+
+	cairo_atsui_font_face_create_for_atsu_font_id ->
+	cairo_quartz_font_font_create_for_atsu_font_id
+
+This API change is justified by the cairo-quartz backend still be
+marked as "experimental" rather than "supported", (though this is one
+step toward making the change to "supported" before 1.6). Cairo will
+still provide ABI compatibility with the old symbol name, however.
+
+paginated (all of ps, pdf, svg, and win32-printing)
+---------------------------------------------------
+Optimize by not analyzing an image surface for transparency more than
+once, (previously all images were analyzed twice).
+
+cairo-ps and cairo-pdf
+----------------------
+Avoiding emitting a matrix into the stroke output when unnecessary,
+(making output size more efficient).
+
+Reduce rounding error of path shapes by factoring large scale factors
+out of the path matrix, (ensuring that a fixed-number of printed
+digits for path coordinates contains as much information as possible).
+
+Reduce excess digits for text position coordinates. This makes the
+output file size much smaller without making the result any less
+correct.
+
+cairo-ps
+--------
+Eliminate bug causing extraneous text repetition on Linux PostScript
+output in some cases.
+
+	See: Mozilla Bug 419917 – Printed page contents are reflected
+	inside bordered tables (Linux-only)
+
+	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419917
+
+Optimize output when EXTEND_PAD is used.
+
+cairo-pdf
+---------
+Fix to not use fill-stroke operator with transparent fill, (else PDF
+output doesn't match the cairo-defined correct result). See:
+
+	https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/202096
+
+cairo-svg
+---------
+Fix stroke of path with a non-solid-color source pattern:
+
+	http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14556
+
+cairo-quartz
+------------
+Fix text rendering with gradient or image source pattern.
+
+Handling antialiasing correctly for cairo_stroke(), cairo_clip(), and
+cairo_show_text()/cairo_show_glyphs().
+
+Correctly handle gradients with non-identity transformations:
+
+	Fixes http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14248
+
+Add native implementation of REPEAT and REFLECT extend modes for
+gradients.
+
+Fix implementation for the "unbounded" operators, (CAIRO_OPERATOR_OUT,
+_IN, _DEST_IN, and _DEST_ATOP).
+
+Correctly handle endiannees in multi-architecture compiles on Mac OS
+X.
+
+Avoid behavior which would cause Core Graphics to print warnings to
+the console in some cases.
+
+cairo-win32
+-----------
+Fix handling of miter limit.
+
+cairo-win32-printing
+--------------------
+Fix to not use a 1bpp temporary surface in some cases while printing,
+(so grayscale data is preserved rather than just becoming black and
+white).
+
+cairo-xlib
+----------
+Add support for rendering to arbitrary TrueColor X server
+visuals. This fixes at least the following bugs:
+
+	cairo doesn't support 8-bit truecolor visuals
+	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7735
+
+	cairo doesn't support 655 xlib format
+	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9719
+
+Add support for rendering to 8-bit PseudoColor X server visuals. This
+fixes the following bug:
+
+	Cairo doesn't support 8-bit pseudocolor visuals
+	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4945
+
+Unresolved issues (must be fixed before cairo 1.6)
+--------------------------------------------------
+XXX: Need to decide if cairo_image_surface_create_for_data should be
+documented and tested as supporting an image with a negative
+stride. Also need to decide the correct return value for
+cairo_format_stride_for_width in case of any error.
+
 Snapshot 1.5.12 (2008-02-28 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
 ===========================================================
-This is the sixth snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.6 series. It comes 1
+This is the sixth snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes 1
 week after the 1.5.10 snapshot. This snapshot includes the
 long-awaited change from 16.16 to 24.8 fixed-point values, (see below
 for why you should care).  It also includes several backend-specific