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   initialisation of the xlib backend (reduce the cairo overhead of
   render_bench by ~80%).
 
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+Release 1.8.8 (2009-06-16 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
+==================================================================
+The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.8 release of the
+cairo graphics library. This is the fourth update to cairo's stable
+1.8 series and contains a small number of bug fixes (in particular a
+few corrections to the documentation and a few fixes in the FreeType font
+backend). This is being released just over six months after cairo 1.8.6.
+
+We recommend that everyone using cairo upgrade to 1.8.8.
+
+-Chris
+
+Build fixes
+-----------
+There were reports of incompatibilities with the autotools bundled in with
+the 1.8.6 tarball.  This release has been built with automake-1.10.2 and
+autoconf-2.63.
+
+The configure check for FreeType has been improved:
+
+   typo in check for version of freetype in configure script
+   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19283
+
+Compilation on 64-bit MacOS/X fixes:
+
+  Cannot build cairo_quartz_font_face_create_for_atsu_font_id on 64-bit Mac OS X
+  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15702
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+Uninitialised status return within _cairo_clip_intersect_mask(). This caused
+random crashes and general mayhem as an error could be generated causing all
+rendering to the context to stop.
+
+Avoid transforming nearly-degenerate matrices into degenerate matrices:
+
+   Painting stops in this case, using -moz-transform: scale, rotate and video
+   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467423
+
+A few FreeType font handling bugs were fixed:
+
+   Rendering with PANGO_GRAVITY_EAST leads to different results with image and pdf
+   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21985
+
+   Don't call FT_Done_Face() on faces we did not create
+
+   zombie ft_font_face / ft_unscaled_font mutual referencing problems
+   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21706
+
+Ensure win32 font backend sets the return value to -1 (indicating the absent
+glyph) if the font index lookup for the unicode character fails. And
+similarly fix a bug where a fatal error was raised for an invalid glyph.
+
+   cairo_scaled_font_glyph_extents breaks with invalid glyph id
+   http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20255
+
+Various improvements to the documentation, reported by Truc Troung:
+
+   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20095
+   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20154
+   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20180
+   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20183
+   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20182
+   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20441
+
+
 Release 1.8.6 (2008-12-13 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
-=========================================================
+==================================================================
 The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.6 release of the
 cairo graphics library. This is the third update to cairo's stable
 1.8 series and contains a small number of bug fixes (in particular a