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| author | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2008-12-14 14:06:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> | 2008-12-14 14:54:35 +0000 |
| commit | ef7c42a7d390064b2a5b08e14d5f65b8ea4628e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 142bc09271199d9529c252377638e0b1527213ca | |
| parent | ce91e6ac360e1dbe57a4e729b68d84499603e9ae (diff) | |
[NEWS] Add notes for 1.8.6
Add the historical blurb for 1.8.6.
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@@ -1,3 +1,53 @@ +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 +few fixes for failures of cairo 1.8.4 on Quartz and PDF, and build fixes for +a couple of backends). This is being released just under a month after +cairo 1.8.4. + +We recommend that everyone using cairo upgrade to 1.8.6. + +-Chris + +Build fixes +----------- +Fix build of DirectFB backend with debugging enabled: + + Bug in _cairo_directfb_surface_release_source_image function + http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322 + +Fix build on OS/2. + +Bug fixes +--------- +Workaround a mis-compilation of cairo_matrix_invert() that generated invalid +matrices and triggered assertion failures later. The issue was reported by +Peter Hercek. + +Invalid computation of the modulus: + + https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466258 + +Invalid referencing of patterns in the Quartz backend: + + Failed assertion `CAIRO_REFERENCE_COUNT_HAS_REFERENCE + (&pattern->ref_count)' when using cairo quartz backend + http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18632 + +Invalid references to glyphs after early culling, causing segmentation faults +in the PDF backend: + + http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-December/015976.html + +Check for XRender in the XCB backend, or else we may attempt an invalid memory +access: + + XCB backend fails with missing render. + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18588 + + Release 1.8.4 (2008-11-14 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>) ========================================================= The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.4 release of the |