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Overview of changes from pycairo 1.8.8 to pycairo 1.8.10
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General Changes:
    Pycairo 1.8.10 requires cairo 1.8.10 (or later).

New Classes/Types:
    Win32PrintingSurface
    XCBSurface - add XCB support using xpyb

Bug Fixes:
    Fix for libtool 2.2 (#27974).
    Mingw32 and pypy fixes (#25203).

Other Changes:
    Tests updated.

The Win32PrintingSurface and XCBSurface changes mean that pycairo 1.8.10 is
not binary compatible with pycairo 1.8.8. So modules that use the pycairo C
API (like pygtk) will need to be recompiled to use pycairo 1.8.10.


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.8.6 to pycairo 1.8.8
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General Changes:
    Pycairo 1.8.8 requires cairo 1.8.8 (or later).
    Move from CVS to git.
    Add support for the waf build tool.

Updated Methods:
    The PDF/PS/SVGSurface constructors now accept None as a filename.


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.8.4 to pycairo 1.8.6
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General Changes:
    Pycairo 1.8.6 requires cairo 1.8.6 (or later)

Bug Fixes:
    ImageSurface.create_from_png _read_func fix
    ToyFontFace type fix
    19221: restore cairo.Matrix '*' operator to the way it originally worked.

Other Changes:
    Documentation completed.


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.8.2 to pycairo 1.8.4
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General Changes:
    Pycairo 1.8.4 requires cairo 1.8.4 (or later) and Python 2.6

Bug Fixes:
    20674: Add get/set_extend for Gradient Patterns

New Classes:
    cairo.ToyFontFace

New Methods:
    Pattern.get_extend
    Pattern.set_extend
    ToyFontFace.get_family
    ToyFontFace.get_slant
    ToyFontFace.get_weight

Deleted Methods:
    SurfacePattern.get_extend
    SurfacePattern.set_extend

Other Changes:
    Threading for surfaces with stream functions has been reenabled.
    Documentation updates.


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.8.0 to pycairo 1.8.2
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Pycairo 1.8.0 resulted in crashes for some applications using threads. So
upgrading to 1.8.2 is recommended for threaded applications.

Bug Fixes: #19287: Threading support results in crashes in cairo.ImageSurface

New Methods:
    Context.set_scaled_font

API Changes:
    Matrix multiplication:
    old code: matrix3 = matrix1 * matrix2
    new equivalent code: matrix3 = matrix1.multiply(matrix2)
    matrix3 = matrix1 * matrix2
    is now equivalent to matrix3 = matrix2.multiply(matrix1)
    which is consistent with standard matrix multiplication.


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.6.4 to pycairo 1.8.0
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General Changes:
    Pycairo 1.8.0 requires cairo 1.8.0 (or later).
    Add documentation (available separately)

Bug Fixes:
    18101: Add support for threading
    18947: cairo.SurfacePattern should INCREF the used surface

New Methods:
    ScaledFont.get_scale_matrix
    Surface.mark_dirty_rectangle
    Surface.set_fallback_resolution

New Constants:
    cairo.EXTEND_PAD
    cairo.HAS_IMAGE_SURFACE
    cairo.HAS_USER_FONT

API Changes:
    Surface.mark_dirty: no longer accepts keyword arguments with default
    values.
    PycairoPattern_FromPattern (C API): has a new 'base' argument - to fix
    #18947.

Other Changes:
    Allow unknown cairo Pattern/Surface types to use the pycairo base
    Pattern/Surface type.


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.4.12 to pycairo 1.6.4
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General changes:
    Pycairo 1.6.4 requires cairo 1.6.4 (or later).
                  requires Python 2.5 (or later).

Bug fixes:
    16112: Fix win32 'python setup.py ...' build -- use double quotes

New Methods:
    Context.has_current_point
    Context.path_extents
    ImageSurface.format_stride_for_width
    PSSurface.get_eps
    PSSurface.set_eps
    PSSurface.ps_level_to_string
    PSSurface.restrict_to_level
    Surface.copy_page
    Surface.show_page

New Constants:
    cairo.PS_LEVEL_2, cairo.PS_LEVEL_3

Other changes:
    test/pygame-test1.py, test/pygame-test2.py : pygame tests

    examples/cairo_snippets/snippets/ellipse.py : Update
    so line-width is a constant width in device-space not user-space


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.4.0 to pycairo 1.4.12
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General changes:
    Pycairo 1.4.12 requires cairo 1.4.12 (or later).
                   requires Python 2.4 (or later).

Bug fixes:
    10006: update autogen.sh to support automake >= 1.10
    13460: use python-config to get python includes

Other changes:
    - allow cairo.Context to be subclassed
    - create a 'doc' subdirectory and start a FAQ file


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.2.6 to pycairo 1.4.0
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General changes:
Pycairo 1.4.0 requires cairo 1.4.0 (or later).

New methods:
    Context.clip_extents
    Context.copy_clip_rectangles
    Context.get_dash
    Context.get_dash_count
    Context.get_scaled_font
    Context.glyph_extents
    Context.glyph_path
    Context.show_glyphs
    LinearGradient.get_linear_points
    RadialGradient.get_radial_circles
    SolidPattern.get_rgba
    SurfacePattern.get_surface

Deleted methods:
    ImageSurface.create_for_array
    Remove Numeric Python support, since Numeric has been made obsolete by
    numpy, and numpy data can be read using ImageSurface.create_for_data.

Other changes:
    the module cairo.gtk has been removed (pygtk 2.7.0 onwards has cairo
    support built in).


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.2.2 to pycairo 1.2.6
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* Pycairo 1.2.6 requires cairo 1.2.6 (or later).

* mingw32 compiler fixes (Cedric Gustin)

* setup.py improvements  (Cedric Gustin)

* ImageSurface.get_data() new method added
  ImageSurface.get_data_as_rgba() method removed


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.2.0 to pycairo 1.2.2
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* Pycairo requires cairo 1.2.2 (or later).

* setup.py has been updated to allow installation by executing
  $ python setup.py install

* examples/cairo_snippets/snippets/gradient_mask.py
  A new example to demonstrate pattern masks.

* The cairo.svg module has been removed because:
  1) Cairo does not include SVG parsing, so this module does not belong
     in pycairo.
  2) libsvg-cairo (the underlying C library) is unmaintained.


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.1.6 to pycairo 1.2.0
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General changes:
Pycairo has been updated to work with cairo 1.2.0.

New methods:
    Surface.set_fallback_resolution
    Surface_get_content
    ImageSurface_get_format
    Image_surface_get_stride

Deleted methods:
    PDFSurface.set_dpi, PSSurface.set_dpi, SVGSurface.set_dpi
     - replaced by Surface.set_fallback_resolution

Other changes:
    cairo.FORMAT_RGB16_565 added


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.0.2 to pycairo 1.1.6
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General changes:
Pycairo has been updated to work with cairo 1.1.6.

New objects:
    SVGSurface

New methods:
    Context.get_group_target
    Context.new_sub_path
    Context.pop_group
    Context.pop_group_to_source
    Context.push_group
    Context.push_group_with_content
    FontOptions.get_antialias
    FontOptions.get_hint_metrics
    FontOptions.get_hint_style
    FontOptions.get_subpixel_order
    FontOptions.set_antialias
    FontOptions.set_hint_metrics
    FontOptions.set_hint_style
    FontOptions.set_subpixel_order
    PDFSurface.set_size
    PSSurface.dsc_begin_page_setup
    PSSurface.dsc_begin_setup
    PSSurface.dsc_comment
    PSSurface.set_size
    ScaledFont.get_font_face
    ScaledFont.text_extents
    Surface.get_device_offset
    XlibSurface.get_depth

Updated methods:
    PDFSurface()/PSSurface() - can now write to file-like objects (like
    StringIO).

    surface.write_to_png() and ImageSurface.create_from_png() can now write to
    file-like objects (like StringIO).

    select_font_face, show_text, text_extents and text_path now accept unicode
    objects.

Other changes:
    misc bug fixes.

New examples:
    examples/cairo_snippets/snippets_svg.py
    examples/cairo_snippets/snippets/ellipse.py
    examples/cairo_snippets/snippets/group.py
    examples/svg/svgconvert.py


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.0.0 to pycairo 1.0.2
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General changes:
Pycairo has been updated to work with cairo 1.0.2.

New cairo functions supported:
    cairo.ImageSurface.create_for_data()

Updated functions:
    ctx.set_source_rgba (r, g, b, a=1.0) now supports a default alpha argument

Other changes:
    cairo.Matrix now supports the Python sequence protocol, so you can do:
    xx, yx, xy, yy, x0, y0 = matrix


Overview of changes from pycairo 0.9.0 to pycairo 1.0.0
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General changes:
Pycairo has been updated to work with cairo 1.0.0.

New cairo functions supported:
    cairo.cairo_version()
    cairo.cairo_version_string()
    PSSurface.set_dpi()

Patterns are now implemented in a class hierarchy, the new constructors are:
    cairo.SolidPattern (r, g, b, a=1.0)
    cairo.SurfacePattern (surface)
    cairo.LinearGradient (x0, y0, x1, y1)
    cairo.RadialGradient (cx0, cy0, radius0, cx1, cy1, radius1)

Updated functions:
    Surface.write_to_png() now accepts a file object as well as a filename

Updated examples:
    The gtk examples now work with pygtk >= 2.7.0 without requiring the
    cairo.gtk module

Bug Fixes
    fix "initializer element is not constant" compiler warnings


Overview of changes from pycairo 0.6.0 to pycairo 0.9.0
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General changes:
Pycairo has been updated to work with cairo 0.9.0.

New cairo functions supported:
	cairo_get_antialias
	cairo_set_antialias
	cairo_surface_mark_dirty_rectangle
	cairo_surface_flush

Bug Fixes
- double buffering now works with the cairo.gtk module


Overview of changes from pycairo 0.5.1 to pycairo 0.6.0
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General changes:
 Pycairo has been updated to work with cairo 0.6.0, including using cairo's new
 error handling scheme.

New features:
 cairo.CONTENT_COLOR, cairo.ALPHA, cairo.COLOR_ALPHA have been added for
 working with surfaces.

 A new class cairo.FontOptions has been added.

 cairo.ImageSurface.create_from_png() now accepts a filename string or a file
 object

 New wrapper functions have been added for cairo_get_font_options,
 cairo_set_font_options and cairo_surface_get_font_options.


Overview of changes from pycairo 0.5.0 to pycairo 0.5.1
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New features:
- new class cairo.Win32Surface (Niki Spahiev)
- cairo.HAS_WIN32_SURFACE, cairo.HAS_PS_SURFACE etc are defined to give access
  to the values from cairo-features.h

Fixes:
- fix cairo_mask, cairo_mask_surface and cairo_stroke_preserve wrappers
- compile properly against GTK+ 2.7 (Gustavo Carneiro)
- other small fixes, including fixes for gcc 4.0 warnings


Overview of changes from pycairo 0.5.1 to pycairo 0.6.0
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This version has many changes which update Pycairo to the new cairo API. The
change list is not duplicated here, instead see the cairo/NEWS file for full
details of all these API changes.

Pycairo method names that were different from the underlying cairo function
names have been changed to make Pycairo more closely follow cairo and so
enable the cairo documentation to be used for writing Pycairo programs.
NOTES has been updated to list the differences between the C API and the
Pycairo API.

Context.copy_path() has been implemented, it returns a Path instance which
supports the iterator protocol.

Python 2.3 is now required.

New examples:
examples/warpedtext.py
	shows usage of the Path iterator

examples/cairo_snippets/
	shows many of the 'cairo-demo/cairo_snippets' examples

examples/gtk/png_view.py
	example using cairo.ImageSurface.create_from_png()


Overview of changes from pycairo 0.1.4 to pycairo 0.4.0
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New cairo bindings:
	cairo_font_extents

Bindings removed:
	cairo_font_set_transform
	cairo_font_current_transform

New examples:
	gtk/hangman.py

Other:
	Changed version numbering to correspond directly with the Cairo
	version Pycairo was developed to work with. So, for example,
	Pycairo version 0.4.0 represents the Pycairo version that has been
	developed and tested with Cairo 0.4.0.

Overview of changes from pycairo 0.1.3 to pycairo 0.1.4
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The Pycairo license has changed so that it is now dual-licensed under the LGPL
and the MPL, the same as Cairo itself. For details see the COPYING file as
well as COPYING-LGPL-2.1 and COPYING-MPL-1.1.

New cairo bindings:
	cairo_pdf_surface_create
	cairo_set_target_pdf

New libsvg-cairo bindings:
	svg_cairo_parse
	svg_cairo_parse_buffer
	svg_cairo_render
	svg_cairo_get_size

Other:
	Added --without-pygtk configure option.
	Renamed the Pycairo API _new() functions to _wrap() to allow _new() to
	be used for python __new__ functions.
	New examples: svg2png.py and svgview.py.


Overview of changes for pycairo 0.1.3
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After the recent server compromise we discarded all unsigned
snapshots. That left us without a pycairo snapshot.

Additionally, there were no tags in the source repository so I
couldn't recreate the 0.1.2 snapshot, so here's a new 0.1.3 snapshot.

I apologize if I botched the version number or left something
significant out of this announcement---I'm not the one who will
usually be doing pycairo maintenance.

New bindings:
	current_path
	current_path_flat
	current_font_extents

Changes:
	fill_extents,stroke_extents: Remove unnecessary args and
	change from a method to an attribute.

Other:
	Added two new examples: context-subclass.py and warpedtext.py