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authorCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2005-07-28 11:51:38 +0000
committerCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2005-07-28 11:51:38 +0000
commitb9861b3e877776c5fe5b8b30fe76ced8ff846923 (patch)
treebc964b21956a4e2eb81ffefb82f400d69b2fbd99
parent0e0f2571a4e6a1d99f8a3fe6e357cb49a51c30e2 (diff)
Added notes for snapshot 0.6.0
Increment CAIRO_VERSION to 0.6.0
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--NEWS146
-rw-r--r--configure.in2
3 files changed, 153 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index af3e5980..25f8a8f7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
2005-07-28 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
+ * NEWS: Added notes for snapshot 0.6.0
+
+ * configure.in: Increment CAIRO_VERSION to 0.6.0
+
+2005-07-28 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
+
* src/cairo-ft-font.c: (_move_to), (_line_to), (_conic_to),
(_cubic_to): Remove const qualifiers that only make things happy
with a from-cvs version of freetype. Now we should be back to
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d8444d30..e39f9574 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,7 +2,153 @@ Snapshot 0.6.0 (2005-07-28 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
API changes
-----------
+* The prototypes of the following functions have changed:
+ cairo_xlib_surface_create_with_xrender_format
+ cairo_xlib_surface_create_for_bitmap
+
+ A Screen* parameter has been added to each. This allows the cairo
+ xlib backend to work correctly with multi-head X servers.
+
+* The following function has been modified:
+
+ cairo_scaled_font_create
+
+ to accept a cairo_font_options_t*. See below fore more details.
+
+* All opaque, reference-counted cairo objects have now been moved to a
+ standard error-handling scheme. The new objects to receive this
+ treatment are cairo_font_face_t, cairo_scaled_font_t, and
+ cairo_surface_t. (Previous snapshots already provided this scheme
+ for cairo_t, cairo_path_t, and cairo_pattern_t.)
+
+ This changes two functions to have a return type of void rather than
+ cairo_status_t:
+
+ cairo_scaled_font_extent
+ cairo_surface_finish
+
+ And significantly, none of the create functions for any of the
+ objects listed above will return NULL. The pointer returned from any
+ function will now always be a valid pointer and should always be
+ passed to the corresponding destroy function when finished
+
+ The simplest strategy for porting code is to switch from:
+
+ object = cairo_<object>_create ();
+ if (object == NULL)
+ goto BAILOUT;
+
+ /* act on object */
+
+ cairo_<object>_destroy (object);
+
+ to:
+
+ object = cairo_<object>_create ();
+ if (cairo_<object>_status (object))
+ goto BAILOUT;
+
+ /* act on object */
+
+ cairo_<object>_destroy (object);
+
+ But significantly, it is not required to check for an error status
+ before the "act on object" portions of the code above. All
+ operations on an object with an error status are, by definition,
+ no-ops without side effect. So new code might be written in an
+ easier-to-read style of:
+
+ object = cairo_<object>_create ();
+
+ /* act on object */
+
+ cairo_<object>_destroy (object);
+
+ with cairo_<object>_status checks placed only at strategic
+ locations. For example, passing an error object to another object,
+ (eg. cairo_set_source with an in-error pattern), will propagate the
+ error to the subsequent object (eg. the cairo_t). This means that
+ error checking can often be deferred even beyond the destruction of
+ a temporary object.
+
+API additions
+-------------
+* New functions for checking the status of objects that have been
+ switched to the common error-handling scheme:
+
+ cairo_font_face_status
+ cairo_scaled_font_status
+ cairo_surface_status
+
+* The _cairo_error function which was added in 0.5.1 has now been made
+ much more useful. In 0.5.1 only errors on cairo_t objects passed
+ through _cairo_error. Now, an error on any object should pass
+ through _cairo_error making it much more reliable as a debugging
+ mechanism for finding when an error first occurs.
+
+* Added new font options support with a myriad of functions:
+
+ cairo_font_options_create
+ cairo_font_options_copy
+ cairo_font_options_destroy
+
+ cairo_font_options_status
+
+ cairo_font_options_merge
+ cairo_font_options_equal
+ cairo_font_options_hash
+
+ cairo_font_options_set_antialias
+ cairo_font_options_get_antialias
+ cairo_font_options_set_subpixel_order
+ cairo_font_options_get_subpixel_order
+ cairo_font_options_set_hint_style
+ cairo_font_options_get_hint_style
+ cairo_font_options_set_hint_metrics
+ cairo_font_options_get_hint_metrics
+
+ cairo_surface_get_font_options
+
+ cairo_ft_font_options_substitute
+
+ cairo_set_font_options
+ cairo_get_font_options
+
+ This new font options support allows the application to have much
+ more fine-grained control over how fonts are rendered.
+ Significantly, it also allows surface backends to have some
+ influence over the process. For example, the xlib backend now
+ queries existing Xft properties to set font option defaults.
+
+* New function:
+
+ cairo_xlib_surface_set_drawable
+
+ which allos the target drawable for an xlib cairo_surface_t to be
+ changed to another with the same format, screen, and display. This
+ is necessary in certain double-buffering techniques.
+
+New features
+------------
+* Sub-pixel text antialiasing is now supported.
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+* Fixed assertion failure in cairo_surface_create_similar when
+ application commits an error by passing a cairo_format_t rather than
+ a cairo_content_t.
+
+* Avoid division by zero in various places (cairo-ft).
+
+* Fix infinite loop when using non-default visuals (cairo-xlib).
+
+* Eliminate segfault in cairo_image_surface_create_from_png_stream.
+
+* Prevent errant sign-extension of masks on 64-bit architectures
+ (cairo-xlib and cairo-xcb).
+
+* Other miscellaneous fixes.
Snapshot 0.5.2 (2005-07-18 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 7c9502ce..27fe96fa 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AC_INIT(src/cairo.h)
dnl ===========================================================================
# Package version number, (as distinct from shared library version)
-CAIRO_VERSION=0.5.2-head
+CAIRO_VERSION=0.6.0
# libtool shared library version