1Overview of changes leading to 2.8.1
2Tuesday, May 4, 2021
3====================================
4- Subsetter now fully supports GSUB/GPOS/GDEF tables (including variations); as
5  such, layout tables are retained by subsetter by default. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
6- Build scripts no longer check for FontConfig as HarfBuzz does not use it.
7- hb-view supports iTerm2 and kitty inline image protocols (Khaled Hosny),
8  it can also use Chafa for terminal graphics if available (Hans Petter Jansson).
9
10Overview of changes leading to 2.8.0
11Tuesday, March 16, 2021
12====================================
13- Shape joining scripts other than Arabic/Syriac using the Universal Shaping Engine.
14  Previously these were shaped using the generalized Arabic shaper. (David Corbett)
15- Fix regression in shaping of U+0B55 ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE. (David Corbett)
16- Update language tags. (David Corbett)
17- Variations: reduce error: do not round each interpolated delta. (Just van Rossum)
18- Documentation improvements. (Khaled Hosny, Nathan Willis)
19- Subsetter improvements: subsets most, if not all, lookup types now. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)
20- Fuzzer-found fixes and other improvements when memory failures happen. (Behdad)
21- Removed most atomic implementations now that we have C++11 atomic impl. (Behdad)
22- General codebase upkeep; using more C++11 features: constexpr constructors, etc. (Behdad)
23
24
25Overview of changes leading to 2.7.4
26Sunday, December 27, 2020
27====================================
28- Fix missing --enable-introspection configure option from previous release
29  tarball.
30- Documentation updates.
31
32Overview of changes leading to 2.7.3
33Wednesday, December 23, 2020
34====================================
35- Update USE shaper to 2020-08-13 specification, and other improvements.
36- Don’t disable liga feature in myanmar shaper, to match Uniscribe.
37- Improvements to language and script tags handling.
38- Update language system tag registry to OpenType 1.8.4
39- Support for serializing and deserializing Unicode buffers. Serialized buffers
40  are now delimited with `<>` or `[]` based on whether it is a Unicode or
41  glyphs buffer.
42- Increase buffer work limits to handle fonts with many complex lookups.
43- Handle more shaping operations in trace output.
44- Memory access fixes.
45- More OOM fixes.
46- Improved documentation.
47- Build system improvements.
48- New API:
49+hb_buffer_has_positions()
50+hb_buffer_serialize()
51+hb_buffer_serialize_unicode()
52+hb_buffer_deserialize_unicode()
53
54
55Overview of changes leading to 2.7.2
56Saturday, August 29, 2020
57====================================
58- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused a crash with Kaithi.
59- More OOM fixes.
60
61
62Overview of changes leading to 2.7.1
63Thursday, August 13, 2020
64====================================
65- ot-funcs now handles variable empty glyphs better when hvar/vvar isn't present.
66- Reverted a GDEF processing regression.
67- A couple of fixes to handle OOM better.
68
69
70Overview of changes leading to 2.7.0
71Saturday, July 25, 2020
72====================================
73- Use an implementation for round that always rounds up, some minor fluctuations
74  are expected on var font specially when hb-ot callback is used.
75- Fix an AAT's `kerx` issue on broken rendering of Devanagari Sangam MN.
76- Remove AAT's `lcar` table support from _get_ligature_carets API, not even much
77  use on macOS installed fonts (only two files).  GDEF support is the recommended
78  one and expected to work properly after issues fixed two releases ago.
79- Minor memory fixes to handle OOM better specially in hb-ft.
80- Minor .so files versioning scheme change and remove stable/unstable scheme
81  differences, was never used in practice (always default to stable scheme).
82- We are now suggesting careful packaging of the library using meson,
83  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/wiki/Notes-on-migration-to-meson
84  for more information.
85- Distribution package URL is changed, either use GitHub generated tarballs,
86  `https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz`
87  or, even more preferably use commit hash of the release and git checkouts like,
88  `git+https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz#commit=$commit`
89
90
91Overview of changes leading to 2.6.8
92Monday, June 22, 2020
93====================================
94- New API to fetch glyph alternates from GSUB table.
95- hb-coretext build fix for macOS < 10.10.
96- Meson build fixes, cmake port removal is postponed but please prepare for
97  it and give us feedback.
98  Autotools is still our main build system however please consider
99  experimenting with meson also for packaging the library.
100- New API:
101+hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_glyph_alternates()
102
103
104Overview of changes leading to 2.6.7
105Wednesday, June 3, 2020
106====================================
107- Update to Unicode 13.0.0.
108- Fix hb_ot_layout_get_ligature_carets for fonts without lcar table, it was
109  completely broken for all the other fonts since 2.1.2.
110- As a part of our migration to meson, this release will be the last one
111  to provide cmake port files but autotools still is our main build system.
112  There is a possibility that the next version or the after be released
113  using meson.
114
115
116Overview of changes leading to 2.6.6
117Tuesday, May 12, 2020
118====================================
119- A fix in AAT kerning for Geeza Pro.
120- Better support for resource fork fonts on macOS.
121
122
123Overview of changes leading to 2.6.5
124Friday, April 17, 2020
125====================================
126- Add experimental meson build system.  Autotools is still the primary
127  and supported build system.
128- AAT is now always preferred for horizontal scripts when both AAT and OT
129  layout tables exist at the same time.
130- Subsetter improvements.
131- New API:
132+hb_ft_font_lock_face()
133+hb_ft_font_unlock_face()
134
135
136Overview of changes leading to 2.6.4
137Monday, October 29, 2019
138====================================
139- Small bug fix.
140- Build fixes.
141
142
143Overview of changes leading to 2.6.3
144Monday, October 28, 2019
145====================================
146- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
147- New API:
148+hb_font_get_nominal_glyphs()
149
150
151Overview of changes leading to 2.6.2
152Monday, September 30, 2019
153====================================
154- Misc small fixes, mostly to build-related issues.
155
156
157Overview of changes leading to 2.6.1
158Thursday, August 22, 2019
159====================================
160- Fix regression with hb_font_create_sub_font scaling introduced in 2.6.0.
161- Change interpretation of font PTEM size / CoreText font size handling.
162  See https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/1484
163- hb-ot-font: Prefer symbol cmap subtable if present.
164- Apply 'dist'/'abvm'/'blwm' features to all scripts.
165- Drop experimental DirectWrite API.
166
167
168Overview of changes leading to 2.6.0
169Tuesday, August 13, 2019
170====================================
171- New OpenType metrics, baseline, and metadata table access APIs.
172- New API to set font variations to a named-instance.
173- New hb-gdi.h header and API for creating hb_face_t from HFONT.
174- Amalgam: Provide a single-file harfbuzz.cc file for easier alternate building.
175- More size-reduction configurable options, enabled by HB_TINY.
176- New API:
177+hb_font_set_var_named_instance()
178+hb_gdi_face_create()
179+hb_ot_layout_baseline_tag_t
180+hb_ot_layout_get_baseline()
181+hb_ot_meta_tag_t
182+hb_ot_meta_get_entry_tags()
183+hb_ot_meta_reference_entry()
184+hb_ot_metrics_tag_t
185+hb_ot_metrics_get_position()
186+hb_ot_metrics_get_variation()
187+hb_ot_metrics_get_x_variation()
188+hb_ot_metrics_get_y_variation()
189
190
191Overview of changes leading to 2.5.3
192Wednesday, June 26, 2019
193====================================
194- Fix UCD script data for Unicode 10+ scripts.  This was broken since 2.5.0.
195- More optimizations for HB_TINY.
196
197
198Overview of changes leading to 2.5.2
199Thursday, June 20, 2019
200====================================
201- More hb-config.hh facilities to shrink library size, namely when built as
202  HB_TINY.
203- New documentation of custom configurations in CONFIG.md.
204- Fix build on gcc 4.8.  That's supported again.
205- Universal Shaping Engine improvements thanks to David Corbett.
206- API Changes: Undeprecate some horizontal-kerning API and re-enable in hb-ft,
207  such that Type1 fonts will continue kerning.
208
209
210Overview of changes leading to 2.5.1
211Friday, May 31, 2019
212====================================
213- Fix build with various versions of Visual Studio.
214- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
215- Bugfix in subsetting glyf table.
216- Improved scripts for cross-compiling for Windows using mingw.
217- Rename HB_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER to HB_OT_MATH_GLYPH_PART_FLAG_EXTENDER.
218  A deprecated macro is added for backwards-compatibility.
219
220
221Overview of changes leading to 2.5.0
222Friday, May 24, 2019
223====================================
224- This release does not include much functional changes, but includes major internal
225  code-base changes.  We now require C++11.  Support for gcc 4.8 and earlier has been
226  dropped.
227- New hb-config.hh facility for compiling smaller library for embedded and web usecases.
228- New Unicode Character Databse implementation that is half the size of previously-used
229  UCDN.
230- Subsetter improvements.
231- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
232- Misc shaping fixes.
233
234
235Overview of changes leading to 2.4.0
236Monday, March 25, 2019
237====================================
238- Unicode 12.
239- Misc fixes.
240- Subsetter improvements.
241- New API:
242HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DO_NOT_INSERT_DOTTED_CIRCLE
243hb_directwrite_face_create()
244
245
246Overview of changes leading to 2.3.1
247Wednesday, January 30, 2019
248====================================
249- AAT bug fixes.
250- Misc internal housekeeping cleanup.
251
252
253Overview of changes leading to 2.3.0
254Thursday, December 20, 2018
255====================================
256- Fix regression on big-endian architectures.  Ouch!
257- Misc bug and build fixes.
258- Fix subsetting of simple GSUB/GDEF.
259- Merge CFF / CFF2 support contributed by Adobe.  This mostly involves
260  the subsetter, but also get_glyph_extents on CFF fonts.
261
262New API in hb-aat.h:
263+hb_aat_layout_has_substitution()
264+hb_aat_layout_has_positioning()
265+hb_aat_layout_has_tracking()
266
267
268Overview of changes leading to 2.2.0
269Thursday, November 29, 2018
270====================================
271- Misc shaping bug fixes.
272- Add font variations named-instance API.
273- Deprecate font variations axis enumeration API and add replacement.
274- AAT shaping improvements:
275  o Fixed 'kern' table Format 2 implementation.
276  o Implement 'feat' table API for feature detection.
277  o Blacklist 'GSUB' table of fonts from 'MUTF' foundry that also have 'morx'.
278
279New API:
280+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_t
281+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_t
282+hb_aat_layout_get_feature_types()
283+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_name_id
284+hb_aat_layout_feature_selector_info_t
285+HB_AAT_LAYOUT_NO_SELECTOR_INDEX
286+hb_aat_layout_feature_type_get_selector_infos()
287+hb_ot_var_axis_flags_t
288+hb_ot_var_axis_info_t
289+hb_ot_var_get_axis_infos()
290+hb_ot_var_find_axis_info()
291+hb_ot_var_get_named_instance_count()
292+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_subfamily_name_id()
293+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_postscript_name_id()
294+hb_ot_var_named_instance_get_design_coords()
295
296Deprecated API:
297+HB_OT_VAR_NO_AXIS_INDEX
298+hb_ot_var_axis_t
299+hb_ot_var_get_axes()
300+hb_ot_var_find_axis()
301
302
303Overview of changes leading to 2.1.3
304Friday, November 16, 2018
305====================================
306- Fix AAT 'mort' shaping, which was broken in 2.1.2
307
308
309Overview of changes leading to 2.1.2
310Friday, November 16, 2018
311====================================
312- Various internal changes.
313- AAT shaping improvements:
314  o Implement kern table Format 1 state-machine-based kerning.
315  o Implement cross-stream kerning (cursive positioning, etc).
316  o Ignore emptyish GSUB tables (zero scripts) if morx present.
317  o Don't apply GPOS if morx is being applied.  Matches Apple.
318
319
320-Overview of changes leading to 2.1.1
321Monday, November 5, 2018
322====================================
323- AAT improvements:
324  o Implement 'mort' table.
325  o Implement 'kern' subtables Format 1 and Format 3.
326
327
328Overview of changes leading to 2.1.0
329Tuesday, October 30, 2018
330====================================
331- AAT shaping improvements:
332  o Allow user controlling AAT features, for whole buffer only currently.
333  o Several 'morx' fixes.
334  o Implement tuple-kerns in 'kerx'; Fixes kerning with Apple default
335    San Francisco fonts.
336- Support for color fonts:
337  o COLR/CPAL API to fetch color layers.
338  o SVG table to fetch SVG documents.
339  o CBDT/sbix API to fetch PNG images.
340- New 'name' table API.
341- hb-ot-font now uses 'VORG' table to correctly position CFF glyphs
342  in vertical layout.
343- Various fuzzer-found bug fixes.
344
345Changed API:
346
347A type and a macro added in 2.0.0 were renamed:
348
349hb_name_id_t -> hb_ot_name_id_t
350HB_NAME_ID_INVALID -> HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
351
352New API:
353
354+hb_color_t
355+HB_COLOR
356+hb_color_get_alpha()
357+hb_color_get_red()
358+hb_color_get_green()
359+hb_color_get_blue()
360+hb_ot_color_has_palettes()
361+hb_ot_color_palette_get_count()
362+hb_ot_color_palette_get_name_id()
363+hb_ot_color_palette_color_get_name_id()
364+hb_ot_color_palette_flags_t
365+hb_ot_color_palette_get_flags()
366+hb_ot_color_palette_get_colors()
367+hb_ot_color_has_layers()
368+hb_ot_color_layer_t
369+hb_ot_color_glyph_get_layers()
370+hb_ot_color_has_svg()
371+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_svg()
372+hb_ot_color_has_png()
373+hb_ot_color_glyph_reference_png()
374
375+hb_ot_name_id_t
376+HB_OT_NAME_ID_INVALID
377+HB_OT_NAME_ID_COPYRIGHT
378+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_FAMILY
379+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FONT_SUBFAMILY
380+HB_OT_NAME_ID_UNIQUE_ID
381+HB_OT_NAME_ID_FULL_NAME
382+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VERSION_STRING
383+HB_OT_NAME_ID_POSTSCRIPT_NAME
384+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TRADEMARK
385+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MANUFACTURER
386+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER
387+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESCRIPTION
388+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VENDOR_URL
389+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DESIGNER_URL
390+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE
391+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LICENSE_URL
392+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_FAMILY
393+HB_OT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_SUBFAMILY
394+HB_OT_NAME_ID_MAC_FULL_NAME
395+HB_OT_NAME_ID_SAMPLE_TEXT
396+HB_OT_NAME_ID_CID_FINDFONT_NAME
397+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_FAMILY
398+HB_OT_NAME_ID_WWS_SUBFAMILY
399+HB_OT_NAME_ID_LIGHT_BACKGROUND
400+HB_OT_NAME_ID_DARK_BACKGROUND
401+HB_OT_NAME_ID_VARIATIONS_PS_PREFIX
402+hb_ot_name_entry_t
403+hb_ot_name_list_names()
404+hb_ot_name_get_utf8()
405+hb_ot_name_get_utf16()
406+hb_ot_name_get_utf32()
407
408
409Overview of changes leading to 2.0.2
410Saturday, October 20, 2018
411====================================
412- Fix two minor memory access issues in AAT tables.
413
414
415Overview of changes leading to 2.0.1
416Friday, October 19, 2018
417====================================
418- Fix hb-version.h reported release version that went wrong (1.8.0)
419  with previous release.
420- Fix extrapolation in 'trak' table.
421- Fix hb-font infinite-recursion issue with some font funcs and
422  subclassed fonts.
423- Implement variation-kerning format in kerx table, although without
424  variation.
425- Fix return value of hb_map_is_empty().
426
427
428Overview of changes leading to 2.0.0
429Thursday, October 18, 2018
430====================================
431- Added AAT shaping support (morx/kerx/trak).
432  Automatically used if GSUB/GPOS are not available respectively.
433  Set HB_OPTIONS=aat env var to have morx/kerx preferred over
434  GSUB/GPOS.
435- Apply TrueType kern table internally, instead of relying on
436  hb_font_t callbacks.
437- Khmer shaper significantly rewritten to better match Uniscribe.
438- Indic3 tags ('dev3', etc) are passed to USE shaper.
439- .dfont Mac font containers implemented.
440- Script- and language-mapping revamped to better use BCP 47.
441- Misc USE and Indic fixes.
442- Misc everything fixes.
443- Too many things to list.  Biggest release since 0.9.1, with
444  over 500 commits in just over 5 weeks!  Didn't intend it to
445  be a big release.  Just happened to become.
446- hb-ft now locks underlying FT_Face during use.
447
448API changes:
449
450- Newly-created hb_font_t's now have our internal "hb-ot-font"
451  callbacks set on them, so they should work out of the box
452  without any callbacks set.  If callbacks are set, everything
453  is back to what it was before, the fallback callbacks are
454  null.  If you to get the internal implementation modified,
455  sub_font it.
456
457- New hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func() allows speeding
458  up character to glyph mapping.
459
460New API:
461+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_START
462+HB_FEATURE_GLOBAL_END
463+hb_buffer_set_invisible_glyph()
464+hb_buffer_get_invisible_glyph()
465+hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyphs_func()
466+hb_ot_layout_table_select_script()
467+hb_ot_layout_script_select_language()
468+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_name_ids()
469+hb_ot_layout_feature_get_characters()
470+hb_name_id_t
471+HB_NAME_ID_INVALID
472+HB_OT_MAX_TAGS_PER_SCRIPT
473+hb_ot_tags_from_script_and_language()
474+hb_ot_tags_to_script_and_language()
475
476Deprecated API:
477-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
478-hb_unicode_eastasian_width_func_t
479-hb_unicode_funcs_set_eastasian_width_func()
480-hb_unicode_eastasian_width()
481-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility_func_t
482-HB_UNICODE_MAX_DECOMPOSITION_LEN
483-hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func()
484-hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility()
485-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func()
486-hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func()
487-hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning()
488-hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning()
489-hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction()
490-hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script()
491-hb_ot_layout_script_find_language()
492-hb_ot_tags_from_script()
493-hb_ot_tag_from_language()
494
495
496Overview of changes leading to 1.9.0
497Monday, September 10, 2018
498====================================
499- Added 'cmap' API to hb_face_t.
500- Face-builder API.
501- hb-ot-font re-creation should be much leaner now, as the
502  font tables it uses are cached on hb_face_t now.
503- Internal source header file name changes:
504  hb-*-private.hh is renamed to hb-*.hh.
505
506New API:
507+HB_UNICODE_MAX
508+hb_face_collect_unicodes()
509+hb_face_collect_variation_selectors()
510+hb_face_collect_variation_unicodes()
511+hb_face_builder_create()
512+hb_face_builder_add_table()
513
514
515Overview of changes leading to 1.8.8
516Tuesday, August 14, 2018
517====================================
518- Fix hb-icu crash on architectures where compare_exchange_weak() can
519  fail falsely.  This bug was introduced in 1.8.4.
520  https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=873568
521- More internal refactoring of atomic operations and singletons.
522- API changes:
523  The following functions do NOT reference their return value before
524  returning:
525  * hb_unicode_funcs_get_default()
526  * hb_glib_get_unicode_funcs()
527  * hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs()
528  This is consistent with their naming ("get", instead of "reference")
529  as well as how they are used in the wild (ie. no one calls destroy()
530  on their return value.)
531
532
533Overview of changes leading to 1.8.7
534Wednesday, August 8, 2018
535====================================
536- Fix assertion failure with GDEF-blacklisted fonts.
537
538
539Overview of changes leading to 1.8.6
540Tuesday, August 7, 2018
541====================================
542- Internal code shuffling.
543- New API to speed up getting advance widths for implementations
544  that have heavy overhead in get_h_advance callback:
545+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advances_func
546+hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advances_func
547+hb_font_get_glyph_advances_for_direction
548+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances
549+hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances_func_t
550+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances
551+hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances_func_t
552
553
554Overview of changes leading to 1.8.5
555Wednesday, August 1, 2018
556====================================
557- Major Khmer shaper improvements to better match Microsoft.
558- Indic bug fixes.
559- Internal improvements to atomic operations.
560
561
562Overview of changes leading to 1.8.4
563Tuesday, July 17, 2018
564====================================
565- Fix build on non-C++11.
566- Use C++-style GCC atomics and C++11 atomics.
567
568
569Overview of changes leading to 1.8.3
570Wednesday, July 11, 2018
571====================================
572- A couple of Indic / USE bug fixes.
573- Disable vectorization, as it was causing unaligned access bus error on
574  certain 32bit architectures.
575
576
577Overview of changes leading to 1.8.2
578Tuesday, July 3, 2018
579====================================
580- Fix infinite loop in Khmer shaper.
581- Improve hb_blob_create_from_file() for streams.
582
583
584Overview of changes leading to 1.8.1
585Tuesday, June 12, 2018
586====================================
587- Fix hb-version.h file generation; last two releases went out with wrong ones.
588- Add correctness bug in hb_set_t operations, introduced in 1.7.7.
589- Remove HB_SUBSET_BUILTIN build option.  Not necessary.
590
591
592Overview of changes leading to 1.8.0
593Tuesday, June 5, 2018
594====================================
595- Update to Unicode 11.0.0.
596
597
598Overview of changes leading to 1.7.7
599Tuesday, June 5, 2018
600====================================
601- Lots of internal changes, but not yet exposed externally.
602- All HarfBuzz objects are significantly smaller in size now.
603- Sinhala: Position repha on top of post-consonant, not base.
604  This better matches Windows 10 behavior, which was changed
605  from previous Windows versions.
606- New build options:
607  o New cpp macro HB_NO_ATEXIT
608  o New cpp macro HB_SUBSET_BUILTIN
609- Significant libharfbuzz-subset changes. API subject to change.
610- New API in libharfbuzz:
611
612+hb_blob_create_from_file()
613+hb_face_count()
614
615A hashmap implementation:
616+hb-map.h
617+HB_MAP_VALUE_INVALID
618+hb_map_t
619+hb_map_create()
620+hb_map_get_empty()
621+hb_map_reference()
622+hb_map_destroy()
623+hb_map_set_user_data()
624+hb_map_get_user_data()
625+hb_map_allocation_successful()
626+hb_map_clear()
627+hb_map_is_empty()
628+hb_map_get_population()
629+hb_map_set()
630+hb_map_get()
631+hb_map_del()
632+hb_map_has()
633
634
635Overview of changes leading to 1.7.6
636Wednesday, March 7, 2018
637====================================
638
639- Fix to hb_set_t binary operations. Ouch.
640- New experimental harfbuzz-subset library. All of hb-subset.h
641  is experimental right now and API WILL change.
642
643- New API:
644hb_blob_copy_writable_or_fail()
645HB_OT_TAG_BASE
646hb_set_previous()
647hb_set_previous_range()
648
649
650Overview of changes leading to 1.7.5
651Tuesday, January 30, 2018
652====================================
653
654- Separate Khmer shaper from Indic.
655- First stab at AAT morx. Not hooked up.
656- Misc bug fixes.
657
658
659Overview of changes leading to 1.7.4
660Wednesday, December 20, 2017
661====================================
662
663- Fix collect_glyphs() regression caused by hb_set_t changes.
664
665
666Overview of changes leading to 1.7.3
667Monday, December 18, 2017
668====================================
669
670- hb_set_t performance tuning and optimizations.
671- Speed up collect_glyphs() and reject garbage data.
672- In hb_coretext_font_create() set font point-size (ptem).
673- Misc fixes.
674
675
676Overview of changes leading to 1.7.2
677Monday, December 4, 2017
678====================================
679
680- Optimize hb_set_add_range().
681- Misc fixes.
682- New API:
683hb_coretext_font_create()
684
685
686Overview of changes leading to 1.7.1
687Tuesday, November 14, 2017
688====================================
689
690- Fix atexit object destruction regression.
691- Fix minor integer-overflow.
692
693
694Overview of changes leading to 1.7.0
695Monday, November 13, 2017
696====================================
697
698- Minor Indic fixes.
699- Implement kerning and glyph names in hb-ot-font.
700- Various DSO optimization re .data and .bss sizes.
701- Make C++11 optional; build fixes.
702- Mark all other backends "unsafe-to-break".
703- Graphite fix.
704
705
706Overview of changes leading to 1.6.3
707Thursday, October 26th, 2017
708====================================
709
710- Fix hb_set_t some more.  Should be solid now.
711- Implement get_glyph_name() for hb-ot-font.
712- Misc fixes.
713
714
715Overview of changes leading to 1.6.2
716Monday, October 23nd, 2017
717====================================
718
719- Yesterday's release had a bad crasher; don't use it.  That's what
720  happens when one works on Sunday...
721  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/578
722- Build fixes for FreeBSD and Chrome Android.
723
724
725Overview of changes leading to 1.6.1
726Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
727====================================
728
729- Don't skip over COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER when ligating, etc.
730  To be refined: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/554
731- Faster hb_set_t implementation.
732- Don't use deprecated ICU API.
733- Fix undefined-behavior in Myanmar shaper, introduced in 1.6.0
734- Deprecated API:
735  hb_set_invert()
736
737
738Overview of changes leading to 1.6.0
739Friday, October the 13th, 2017
740====================================
741
742- Update to Unicode 10.
743
744- Various Indic and Universal Shaping Engine fixes as a result of
745  HarfBuzz Hackfest with Jonathan Kew at Web Engines Hackfest at
746  the Igalia offices in A Coruña, Spain.  Thanks Igalia for having
747  us!
748
749- Implement Unicode Arabic Mark Ordering Algorithm UTR#53.
750
751- Implement optical sizing / tracking in CoreText backend, using
752  new API hb_font_set_ptem().
753
754- Allow notifying hb_font_t that underlying FT_Face changed sizing,
755  using new API hb_ft_font_changed().
756
757- More Graphite backend RTL fixes.
758
759- Fix caching of variable font shaping plans.
760
761- hb-view / hb-shape now accept following new arguments:
762
763  o --unicodes: takes a list of hex numbers that represent Unicode
764    codepoints.
765
766New API:
767+hb_face_get_table_tags()
768+hb_font_set_ptem()
769+hb_font_get_ptem()
770+hb_ft_font_changed()
771
772
773Overview of changes leading to 1.5.1
774Tuesday, September 5, 2017
775====================================
776
777- Fix "unsafe-to-break" in fallback shaping and other corner cases.
778  All our tests pass with --verify now, meaning unsafe-to-break API
779  works as expected.
780- Add --unicodes to hb-view / hb-shape.
781- [indic] Treat Consonant_With_Stacker as consonant.  This will need
782  further tweaking.
783- hb_buffer_diff() tweaks.
784
785
786Overview of changes leading to 1.5.0
787Wednesday, August 23, 2017
788====================================
789
790- Misc new API, for appending a buffer to another, and for comparing
791  contents of two buffers for types of differences.
792
793- New "unsafe-to-break" API.  Can be used to speed up reshaping
794  in line-breaking situations.  Essentially, after shaping, it returns
795  positions in the input string (some of the cluster boundaries) that
796  are "safe to break" in that if the text is segmented at that position
797  and two sides reshaped and concatenated, the shaping result is
798  exactly the same as shaping the text in one piece.
799
800  hb-view and hb-shape and hb-shape now take --verify, which verifies
801  the above property.
802
803  Some corner cases of the implementation are still not quite working.
804  Those will be fixed in subsequent releases.
805
806- New API:
807
808hb_buffer_append()
809
810hb_glyph_flags_t
811HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_BREAK
812HB_GLYPH_FLAG_DEFINED
813hb_glyph_info_get_glyph_flags()
814
815HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS
816
817hb_buffer_diff_flags_t
818HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_EQUAL
819HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CONTENT_TYPE_MISMATCH
820HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_LENGTH_MISMATCH
821HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_NOTDEF_PRESENT
822HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_DOTTED_CIRCLE_PRESENT
823HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CODEPOINT_MISMATCH
824HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CLUSTER_MISMATCH
825HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS_MISMATCH
826HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_POSITION_MISMATCH
827hb_buffer_diff
828
829
830Overview of changes leading to 1.4.8
831Tuesday, August 8, 2017
832====================================
833
834- Major fix to avar table handling.
835- Rename hb-shape --show-message to --trace.
836- Build fixes.
837
838
839Overview of changes leading to 1.4.7
840Tuesday, July 18, 2017
841====================================
842
843- Multiple Indic, Tibetan, and Cham fixes.
844- CoreText: Allow disabling kerning.
845- Adjust Arabic feature order again.
846- Misc build fixes.
847
848
849Overview of changes leading to 1.4.6
850Sunday, April 23, 2017
851====================================
852
853- Graphite2: Fix RTL positioning issue.
854- Backlist GDEF of more versions of Padauk and Tahoma.
855- New, experimental, cmake alternative build system.
856
857
858Overview of changes leading to 1.4.5
859Friday, March 10, 2017
860====================================
861
862- Revert "Fix Context lookup application when moving back after a glyph..."
863  This introduced memory access problems.  To be fixed properly soon.
864
865
866Overview of changes leading to 1.4.4
867Sunday, March 5, 2017
868====================================
869
870- Fix Context lookup application when moving back after a glyph deletion.
871- Fix buffer-overrun in Bengali.
872
873
874Overview of changes leading to 1.4.3
875Saturday, February 25, 2017
876====================================
877
878- Route Adlam script to Arabic shaper.
879- Misc fixes.
880- New API:
881  hb_font_set_face()
882- Deprecate API:
883  hb_graphite2_font_get_gr_font()
884
885
886Overview of changes leading to 1.4.2
887Monday, January 23, 2017
888====================================
889
890- Implement OpenType Font Variation tables avar/fvar/HVAR/VVAR.
891- hb-shape and hb-view now accept --variations.
892- New API:
893
894hb_variation_t
895hb_variation_from_string()
896hb_variation_to_string()
897
898hb_font_set_variations()
899hb_font_set_var_coords_design()
900hb_font_get_var_coords_normalized()
901
902hb-ot-var.h:
903hb_ot_var_axis_t
904hb_ot_var_has_data()
905hb_ot_var_get_axis_count()
906hb_ot_var_get_axes()
907hb_ot_var_find_axis()
908hb_ot_var_normalize_variations()
909hb_ot_var_normalize_coords()
910
911- MVAR to be implemented later.  Access to named instances to be
912  implemented later as well.
913
914- Misc fixes.
915
916
917Overview of changes leading to 1.4.1
918Thursday, January 5, 2017
919====================================
920
921- Always build and use UCDN for Unicode data by default.
922  Reduces dependence on version of Unicode data in glib,
923  specially in the Windows bundles we are shipping, which
924  have very old glib.
925
926
927Overview of changes leading to 1.4.0
928Thursday, January 5, 2017
929====================================
930
931- Merged "OpenType GX" branch which adds core of support for
932  OpenType 1.8 Font Variations.  To that extent, the relevant
933  new API is:
934
935New API:
936hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
937
938  with supporting API:
939
940New API:
941HB_OT_LAYOUT_NO_VARIATIONS_INDEX
942hb_ot_layout_table_find_feature_variations()
943hb_ot_layout_feature_with_variations_get_lookups()
944hb_shape_plan_create2()
945hb_shape_plan_create_cached2()
946
947  Currently variations in GSUB/GPOS/GDEF are fully supported,
948  and no other tables are supported.  In particular, fvar/avar
949  are NOT supported, hence the hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
950  taking normalized coordinates.  API to take design coordinates
951  will be added in the future.
952
953  HVAR/VVAR/MVAR support will also be added to hb-ot-font in the
954  future.
955
956- Fix regression in GDEF glyph class processing.
957- Add decompositions for Chakma, Limbu, and Balinese in USE shaper.
958- Misc fixes.
959
960
961Overview of changes leading to 1.3.4
962Monday, December 5, 2016
963====================================
964
965- Fix vertical glyph origin in hb-ot-font.
966- Implement CBDT/CBLC color font glyph extents in hb-ot-font.
967
968
969Overview of changes leading to 1.3.3
970Wednesday, September 28, 2016
971====================================
972
973- Implement parsing of OpenType MATH table.
974New API:
975HB_OT_TAG_MATH
976HB_OT_MATH_SCRIPT
977hb_ot_math_constant_t
978hb_ot_math_kern_t
979hb_ot_math_glyph_variant_t
980hb_ot_math_glyph_part_flags_t
981hb_ot_math_glyph_part_t
982hb_ot_math_has_data
983hb_ot_math_get_constant
984hb_ot_math_get_glyph_italics_correction
985hb_ot_math_get_glyph_top_accent_attachment
986hb_ot_math_get_glyph_kerning
987hb_ot_math_is_glyph_extended_shape
988hb_ot_math_get_glyph_variants
989hb_ot_math_get_min_connector_overlap
990hb_ot_math_get_glyph_assembly
991
992
993Overview of changes leading to 1.3.2
994Wednesday, September 27, 2016
995====================================
996
997- Fix build of hb-coretext on older OS X versions.
998
999
1000Overview of changes leading to 1.3.1
1001Wednesday, September 7, 2016
1002====================================
1003
1004- Blacklist bad GDEF of more fonts (Padauk).
1005- More CoreText backend crash fixes with OS X 10.9.5.
1006- Misc fixes.
1007
1008
1009Overview of changes leading to 1.3.0
1010Thursday, July 21, 2016
1011====================================
1012
1013- Update to Unicode 9.0.0
1014- Move Javanese from Indic shaper to Universal Shaping Engine.
1015- Allow MultipleSubst to delete a glyph (matching Windows engine).
1016- Update Universal Shaping Engine to latest draft from Microsoft.
1017- DirectWrite backend improvements.  Note: this backend is for testing ONLY.
1018- CoreText backend improvements with unreachable fonts.
1019- Implement symbol fonts (cmap 3.0.0) in hb-ft and hb-ot-font.
1020- Blacklist bad GDEF of more fonts (Tahoma & others).
1021- Misc fixes.
1022
1023
1024Overview of changes leading to 1.2.7
1025Monday, May 2, 2016
1026====================================
1027
1028- Blacklist another version of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic from Windows 7.
1029- Fix Mongolian Free Variation Selectors shaping with certain fonts.
1030- Fix Tibetan shorthand contractions shaping.
1031- Improved list of language tag mappings.
1032- Unbreak build on Windows CE.
1033- Make 'glyf' table loading lazy in hb-ot-font.
1034
1035
1036Overview of changes leading to 1.2.6
1037Friday, April 8, 2016
1038====================================
1039
1040- Blacklist GDEF table of another set of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic.
1041- DirectWrite backend improvements.  Note: DirectWrite backend is
1042  exclusively for our internal testing and should NOT be used in any
1043  production system whatsoever.
1044
1045
1046Overview of changes leading to 1.2.5
1047Monday, April 4, 2016
1048====================================
1049
1050- Fix GDEF mark-filtering-set, which was broken in 1.2.3.
1051
1052
1053Overview of changes leading to 1.2.4
1054Thursday, March 17, 2016
1055====================================
1056
1057- Synthesize GDEF glyph class for any glyph that does not have one in GDEF.
1058  I really hope we don't discover broken fonts that shape badly with this
1059  change.
1060- Misc build and other minor fixes.
1061- API changes:
1062  - Added HB_NDEBUG.  It's fine for production systems to define this to
1063    disable high-overhead debugging checks.  However, I also reduced the
1064    overhead of those checks, so it's a non-issue right now.  You can
1065    forget it.  Just not defining anything at all is fine.
1066
1067
1068Overview of changes leading to 1.2.3
1069Thursday, February 25, 2016
1070====================================
1071
1072- Blacklist GDEF table of certain versions of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic,
1073  due to bug in glyph class of ASCII double-quote character.  This should
1074  address "regression" introduced in 1.2.0 when we switched mark zeroing
1075  in most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to BY_GDEF_LATE.
1076  This fourth release in a week should finally stablize things...
1077
1078- hb-ot-font's get_glyph() implementation saw some optimizations.  Though,
1079  might be really hard to measure in real-world situations.
1080
1081- Also, two rather small API changes:
1082
1083We now disable some time-consuming internal bookkeeping if built with NDEBUG
1084defined.  This is a first time that we use NDEBUG to disable debug code.  If
1085there exist production systems that do NOT want to enable NDEBUG, please let
1086me know and I'll add HB_NDEBUG.
1087
1088Added get_nominal_glyph() and get_variation_glyph() instead of get_glyph()
1089
1090New API:
1091- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph_func_t
1092- hb_font_get_variation_glyph_func_t
1093- hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyph_func()
1094- hb_font_funcs_set_variation_glyph_func()
1095- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph()
1096- hb_font_get_variation_glyph()
1097
1098Deprecated API:
1099- hb_font_get_glyph_func_t
1100- hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
1101
1102Clients that implement their own font-funcs are encouraged to replace
1103their get_glyph() implementation with a get_nominal_glyph() and
1104get_variation_glyph() pair.  The variation version can assume that
1105variation_selector argument is not zero.  Old (deprecated) functions
1106will continue working indefinitely using internal gymnastics; it is
1107just more efficient to use the new functions.
1108
1109
1110Overview of changes leading to 1.2.2
1111Wednesday, February 24, 2016
1112====================================
1113
1114- Fix regression with mark positioning with fonts that have
1115  non-zero mark advances.  This was introduced in 1.2.0 while
1116  trying to make mark and cursive attachments to work together.
1117  I have partially reverted that, so this version is much more
1118  like what we had before.  All clients who updated to 1.2.0
1119  should update to this version.
1120
1121
1122Overview of changes leading to 1.2.1
1123Tuesday, February 23, 2016
1124====================================
1125
1126- CoreText: Fix bug with wrong scale if font scale was changed later.
1127  https://github.com/libass/libass/issues/212
1128- CoreText: Drastically speed up font initialization.
1129- CoreText: Fix tiny leak.
1130- Group ZWJ/ZWNJ with previous syllable under cluster-level=0.
1131  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/217
1132- Add test/shaping/README.md about how to add tests to the suite.
1133
1134
1135Overview of changes leading to 1.2.0
1136Friday, February 19, 2016
1137====================================
1138
1139- Fix various issues (hangs mostly) in case of memory allocation failure.
1140- Change mark zeroing types of most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to
1141  BY_GDEF_LATE.  This seems to be what Uniscribe does.
1142- Change mark zeroing of USE shaper from NONE to BY_GDEF_EARLY.  That's
1143  what Windows does.
1144- Allow GPOS cursive connection on marks, and fix the interaction with
1145  mark attachment.  This work resulted in some changes to how mark
1146  attachments work.  See:
1147  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/211
1148  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/commit/86c68c7a2c971efe8e35b1f1bd99401dc8b688d2
1149- Graphite2 shaper: improved negative advance handling (eg. Nastaliq).
1150- Add nmake-based build system for Windows.
1151- Minor speedup.
1152- Misc. improvements.
1153
1154
1155Overview of changes leading to 1.1.3
1156Monday, January 11, 2016
1157====================================
1158
1159- Ported Indic shaper to Unicode 8.0 data.
1160- Universal Shaping Engine fixes.
1161- Speed up CoreText shaper when font fallback happens in CoreText.
1162- Documentation improvements, thanks to Khaled Hosny.
1163- Very rough directwrite shaper for testing, thanks to Ebrahim Byagowi.
1164- Misc bug fixes.
1165- New API:
1166
1167  * Font extents:
1168      hb_font_extents_t
1169      hb_font_get_font_extents_func_t
1170      hb_font_get_font_h_extents_func_t
1171      hb_font_get_font_v_extents_func_t
1172      hb_font_funcs_set_font_h_extents_func
1173      hb_font_funcs_set_font_v_extents_func
1174      hb_font_get_h_extents
1175      hb_font_get_v_extents
1176      hb_font_get_extents_for_direction
1177
1178  * Buffer message (aka debug):
1179      hb_buffer_message_func_t
1180      hb_buffer_set_message_func()
1181    Actual message protocol to be fleshed out later.
1182
1183
1184Overview of changes leading to 1.1.2
1185Wednesday, November 26, 2015
1186====================================
1187
1188- Fix badly-broken fallback shaper that affected terminology.
1189  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/187
1190- Fix y_scaling in Graphite shaper.
1191- API changes:
1192  * An unset glyph_h_origin() function in font-funcs now (sensibly)
1193    implies horizontal origin at 0,0.  Ie, the nil callback returns
1194    true instead of false.  As such, implementations that have a
1195    glyph_h_origin() that simply returns true, can remove that function
1196    with HarfBuzz >= 1.1.2.  This results in a tiny speedup.
1197
1198
1199Overview of changes leading to 1.1.1
1200Wednesday, November 24, 2015
1201====================================
1202
1203- Build fixes, specially for hb-coretext.
1204
1205
1206Overview of changes leading to 1.1.0
1207Wednesday, November 18, 2015
1208====================================
1209
1210- Implement 'stch' stretch feature for Syriac Abbreviation Mark.
1211  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/141
1212- Disable use of decompose_compatibility() callback.
1213- Implement "shaping" of various Unicode space characters, even
1214  if the font does not support them.
1215  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/153
1216- If font does not support U+2011 NO-BREAK HYPHEN, fallback to
1217  U+2010 HYPHEN.
1218- Changes resulting from libFuzzer continuous fuzzing:
1219  * Reject font tables that need more than 8 edits,
1220  * Bound buffer growth during shaping to 32x,
1221  * Fix assertions and other issues at OOM / buffer max-growth.
1222- Misc fixes and optimizations.
1223- API changes:
1224  * All fonts created with hb_font_create() now inherit from
1225    (ie. have parent) hb_font_get_empty().
1226
1227
1228Overview of changes leading to 1.0.6
1229Thursday, October 15, 2015
1230====================================
1231
1232- Reduce max nesting level in OT lookups from 8 to 6.
1233  Should not affect any real font as far as I know.
1234- Fix memory access issue in ot-font.
1235- Revert default load-flags of fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
1236  back to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.  This was changed in
1237  last release (1.0.5), but caused major issues, so revert.
1238  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/143
1239
1240
1241Overview of changes leading to 1.0.5
1242Tuesday, October 13, 2015
1243====================================
1244
1245- Fix multiple memory access bugs discovered using libFuzzer.
1246  https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/139
1247  Everyone should upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
1248  We now have continuous fuzzing set up, to avoid issues like
1249  these creeping in again.
1250- Misc fixes.
1251
1252- New API:
1253  * hb_font_set_parent().
1254  * hb_ft_font_[sg]et_load_flags()
1255    The default flags for fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
1256    has changed to default to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT now.  Previously it
1257    was defaulting to FT_LOAD_DFEAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.
1258
1259- API changes:
1260  * Fonts now default to units-per-EM as their scale, instead of 0.
1261  * hb_font_create_sub_font() does NOT make parent font immutable
1262    anymore.  hb_font_make_immutable() does.
1263
1264
1265Overview of changes leading to 1.0.4
1266Wednesday, September 30, 2015
1267====================================
1268
1269- Fix minor out-of-bounds read error.
1270
1271
1272Overview of changes leading to 1.0.3
1273Tuesday, September 1, 2015
1274====================================
1275
1276- Start of user documentation, from Simon Cozens!
1277- Implement glyph_extents() for TrueType fonts in hb-ot-font.
1278- Improve GPOS cursive attachments with conflicting lookups.
1279- More fixes for cluster-level = 1.
1280- Uniscribe positioning fix.
1281
1282
1283Overview of changes leading to 1.0.2
1284Wednesday, August 19, 2015
1285====================================
1286
1287- Fix shaping with cluster-level > 0.
1288- Fix Uniscribe backend font-size scaling.
1289- Declare dependencies in harfbuzz.pc.
1290  FreeType is not declared though, to avoid bugs in pkg-config
1291  0.26 with recursive dependencies.
1292- Slightly improved debug infrastructure.  More to come later.
1293- Misc build fixes.
1294
1295
1296Overview of changes leading to 1.0.1
1297Monday, July 27, 2015
1298====================================
1299
1300- Fix out-of-bounds access in USE shaper.
1301
1302
1303Overview of changes leading to 1.0.0
1304Sunday, July 26, 2015
1305====================================
1306
1307- Implement Universal Shaping Engine:
1308  https://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/USE/intro.htm
1309  http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/02/23/windows-shapes-the-worlds-languages/
1310- Bump version to 1.0.0.  The soname was NOT bumped.
1311
1312
1313Overview of changes leading to 0.9.42
1314Thursday, July 26, 2015
1315=====================================
1316
1317- New API to allow for retrieving finer-grained cluster
1318  mappings if the client desires to handle them.  Default
1319  behavior is unchanged.
1320- Fix cluster merging when removing default-ignorables.
1321- Update to Unicode 8.0
1322- hb-graphite2 fixes.
1323- Misc fixes.
1324- Removed HB_NO_MERGE_CLUSTERS hack.
1325- New API:
1326  hb_buffer_cluster_level_t enum
1327  hb_buffer_get_cluster_level()
1328  hb_buffer_set_cluster_level()
1329  hb-shape / hb-view --cluster-level
1330
1331
1332Overview of changes leading to 0.9.41
1333Thursday, June 18, 2015
1334=====================================
1335
1336- Fix hb-coretext with trailing whitespace in right-to-left.
1337- New API: hb_buffer_reverse_range().
1338- Allow implementing atomic ops in config.h.
1339- Fix hb_language_t in language bindings.
1340- Misc fixes.
1341
1342
1343Overview of changes leading to 0.9.40
1344Friday, March 20, 2015
1345=====================================
1346
1347- Another hb-coretext crasher fix.  Ouch!
1348- Happy Norouz!
1349
1350
1351Overview of changes leading to 0.9.39
1352Wednesday, March 4, 2015
1353=====================================
1354
1355- Critical hb-coretext fixes.
1356- Optimizations and refactoring; no functional change
1357  expected.
1358- Misc build fixes.
1359
1360
1361Overview of changes leading to 0.9.38
1362Friday, January 23, 2015
1363=====================================
1364
1365- Fix minor out-of-bounds access in Indic shaper.
1366- Change New Tai Lue shaping engine from South-East Asian to default,
1367  reflecting change in Unicode encoding model.
1368- Add hb-shape --font-size.  Can take up to two numbers for separate
1369  x / y size.
1370- Fix CoreText and FreeType scale issues with negative scales.
1371- Reject blobs larger than 2GB.  This might break some icu-le-hb clients
1372  that need security fixes.  See:
1373  http://www.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/11450
1374- Avoid accessing font tables during face destruction, in casce rogue
1375  clients released face data already.
1376- Fix up gobject-introspection a bit.  Python bindings kinda working.
1377  See README.python.
1378- Misc fixes.
1379- API additions:
1380  hb_ft_face_create_referenced()
1381  hb_ft_font_create_referenced()
1382
1383
1384Overview of changes leading to 0.9.37
1385Wednesday, December 17, 2014
1386=====================================
1387
1388- Fix out-of-bounds access in Context lookup format 3.
1389- Indic: Allow ZWJ/ZWNJ before syllable modifiers.
1390
1391
1392Overview of changes leading to 0.9.36
1393Thursday, November 20, 2014
1394=====================================
1395
1396- First time that three months went by without a release since
1397  0.9.2 was released on August 10, 2012!
1398- Fix performance bug in hb_ot_collect_glyphs():
1399  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090869
1400- Add basic vertical-text support to hb-ot-font.
1401- Misc build fixes.
1402
1403
1404Overview of changes leading to 0.9.35
1405Saturday, August 13, 2014
1406=====================================
1407
1408- Fix major shape-plan caching bug when more than one shaper were
1409  provided to hb_shape_full() (as exercised by XeTeX).
1410  http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1246370.html
1411- Fix Arabic fallback shaping regression.  This was broken in 0.9.32.
1412- Major hb-coretext fixes.  That backend is complete now, including
1413  respecing buffer direction and language, down to vertical writing.
1414- Build fixes for Windows CE.  Should build fine now.
1415- Misc fixes:
1416  Use atexit() only if it's safe to call from shared library
1417  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82246
1418  Mandaic had errors in its Unicode Joining_Type
1419  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82306
1420- API changes:
1421
1422  * hb_buffer_clear_contents() does not reset buffer flags now.
1423
1424    After 763e5466c0a03a7c27020e1e2598e488612529a7, one doesn't
1425    need to set flags for different pieces of text.  The flags now
1426    are something the client sets up once, depending on how it
1427    actually uses the buffer.  As such, don't clear it in
1428    clear_contents().
1429
1430    I don't expect any changes to be needed to any existing client.
1431
1432
1433Overview of changes leading to 0.9.34
1434Saturday, August 2, 2014
1435=====================================
1436
1437- hb_feature_from_string() now accepts CSS font-feature-settings format.
1438- As a result, hb-shape / hb-view --features also accept CSS-style strings.
1439  Eg, "'liga' off" is accepted now.
1440- Add old-spec Myanmar shaper:
1441  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81775
1442- Don't apply 'calt' in Hangul shaper.
1443- Fix mark advance zeroing for Hebrew shaper:
1444  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76767
1445- Implement Windows-1256 custom Arabic shaping.  Only built on Windows,
1446  and requires help from get_glyph().  Used by Firefox.
1447  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045139
1448- Disable 'liga' in vertical text.
1449- Build fixes.
1450- API changes:
1451
1452  * Make HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT/EOT easier to use.
1453
1454    Previously, we expected users to provide BOT/EOT flags when the
1455    text *segment* was at paragraph boundaries.  This meant that for
1456    clients that provide full paragraph to HarfBuzz (eg. Pango), they
1457    had code like this:
1458
1459      hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
1460                           (item_offset == 0 ? HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT : 0) |
1461                           (item_offset + item_length == paragraph_length ?
1462                            HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT : 0));
1463
1464      hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
1465                          paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
1466                          item_offset, item_length);
1467
1468    After this change such clients can simply say:
1469
1470      hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
1471                           HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT | HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT);
1472
1473      hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
1474                          paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
1475                          item_offset, item_length);
1476
1477    Ie, HarfBuzz itself checks whether the segment is at the beginning/end
1478    of the paragraph.  Clients that only pass item-at-a-time to HarfBuzz
1479    continue not setting any flags whatsoever.
1480
1481    Another way to put it is: if there's pre-context text in the buffer,
1482    HarfBuzz ignores the BOT flag.  If there's post-context, it ignores
1483    EOT flag.
1484
1485
1486Overview of changes leading to 0.9.33
1487Tuesday, July 22, 2014
1488=====================================
1489
1490- Turn off ARabic 'cswh' feature that was accidentally turned on.
1491- Add HB_TAG_MAX_SIGNED.
1492- Make hb_face_make_immutable() really make face immutable!
1493- Windows build fixes.
1494
1495
1496Overview of changes leading to 0.9.32
1497Thursday, July 17, 2014
1498=====================================
1499
1500- Apply Arabic shaping features in spec order exactly.
1501- Another fix for Mongolian free variation selectors.
1502- For non-Arabic scripts in Arabic shaper apply 'rlig' and 'calt'
1503  together.
1504- Minor adjustment to U+FFFD logic.
1505- Fix hb-coretext build.
1506
1507
1508Overview of changes leading to 0.9.31
1509Wednesday, July 16, 2014
1510=====================================
1511
1512- Only accept valid UTF-8/16/32; we missed many cases before.
1513- Better shaping of invalid UTF-8/16/32.  Falls back to
1514  U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER now.
1515- With all changes in this release, the buffer will contain fully
1516  valid Unicode after hb_buffer_add_utf8/16/32 no matter how
1517  broken the input is.  This can be overridden though.  See below.
1518- Fix Mongolian Variation Selectors for fonts without GDEF.
1519- Fix minor invalid buffer access.
1520- Accept zh-Hant and zh-Hans language tags.  hb_ot_tag_to_language()
1521  now uses these instead of private tags.
1522- Build fixes.
1523- New API:
1524  * hb_buffer_add_codepoints().  This does what hb_buffer_add_utf32()
1525    used to do, ie. no validity check on the input at all.  add_utf32
1526    now replaces invalid Unicode codepoints with the replacement
1527    character (see below).
1528  * hb_buffer_set_replacement_codepoint()
1529  * hb_buffer_get_replacement_codepoint()
1530    Previously, in hb_buffer_add_utf8 and hb_buffer_add_utf16, when
1531    we detected broken input, we replaced that with (hb_codepoint_t)-1.
1532    This has changed to use U+FFFD now, but can be changed using these
1533    new API.
1534
1535
1536Overview of changes leading to 0.9.30
1537Wednesday, July 9, 2014
1538=====================================
1539
1540- Update to Unicode 7.0.0:
1541  * New scripts Manichaean and Psalter Pahlavi are shaped using
1542    Arabic shaper.
1543  * All the other new scripts to through the generic shaper for
1544    now.
1545- Minor Indic improvements.
1546- Fix graphite2 backend cluster mapping [crasher!]
1547- API changes:
1548  * New HB_SCRIPT_* values for Unicode 7.0 scripts.
1549  * New function hb_ot_layout_language_get_required_feature().
1550- Build fixes.
1551
1552
1553Overview of changes leading to 0.9.29
1554Thursday, May 29, 2014
1555=====================================
1556
1557- Implement cmap in hb-ot-font.h.  No variation-selectors yet.
1558- Myanmar: Allow MedialYa+Asat.
1559- Various Indic fixes:
1560  * Support most characters in Extended Devanagary and Vedic
1561    Unicode blocks.
1562  * Allow digits and a some punctuation as consonant placeholders.
1563- Build fixes.
1564
1565
1566Overview of changes leading to 0.9.28
1567Monday, April 28, 2014
1568=====================================
1569
1570- Unbreak old-spec Indic shaping. (bug 76705)
1571- Fix shaping of U+17DD and U+0FC6.
1572- Add HB_NO_MERGE_CLUSTERS build option.  NOT to be enabled by default
1573  for shipping libraries.  It's an option for further experimentation
1574  right now.  When we are sure how to do it properly, we will add
1575  public run-time API for the functionality.
1576- Build fixes.
1577
1578
1579Overview of changes leading to 0.9.27
1580Tuesday, March 18, 2014
1581=====================================
1582
1583- Don't use "register" storage class specifier
1584- Wrap definition of free_langs() with HAVE_ATEXIT
1585- Add coretext_aat shaper and hb_coretext_face_create() constructor
1586- If HAVE_ICU_BUILTIN is defined, use hb-icu Unicode callbacks
1587- Add Myanmar test case from OpenType Myanmar spec
1588- Only do fallback Hebrew composition if no GPOS 'mark' available
1589- Allow bootstrapping without gtk-doc
1590- Use AM_MISSING_PROG for ragel and git
1591- Typo in ucdn's Makefile.am
1592- Improve MemoryBarrier() implementation
1593
1594
1595Overview of changes leading to 0.9.26
1596Thursday, January 30, 2014
1597=====================================
1598
1599- Misc fixes.
1600- Fix application of 'rtlm' feature.
1601- Automatically apply frac/numr/dnom around U+2044 FRACTION SLASH.
1602- New header: hb-ot-shape.h
1603- Uniscribe: fix scratch-buffer accounting.
1604- Reorder Tai Tham SAKOT to after tone-marks.
1605- Add Hangul shaper.
1606- New files:
1607  hb-ot-shape-complex-hangul.cc
1608  hb-ot-shape-complex-hebrew.cc
1609  hb-ot-shape-complex-tibetan.cc
1610- Disable 'cswh' feature in Arabic shaper.
1611- Coretext: better handle surrogate pairs.
1612- Add HB_TAG_MAX and _HB_SCRIPT_MAX_VALUE.
1613
1614
1615Overview of changes leading to 0.9.25
1616Wednesday, December 4, 2013
1617=====================================
1618
1619- Myanmar shaper improvements.
1620- Avoid font fallback in CoreText backend.
1621- Additional OpenType language tag mappiongs.
1622- More aggressive shape-plan caching.
1623- Build with / require automake 1.13.
1624- Build with libtool 2.4.2.418 alpha to support ppc64le.
1625
1626
1627Overview of changes leading to 0.9.24
1628Tuesday, November 13, 2013
1629=====================================
1630
1631- Misc compiler warning fixes with clang.
1632- No functional changes.
1633
1634
1635Overview of changes leading to 0.9.23
1636Monday, October 28, 2013
1637=====================================
1638
1639- "Udupi HarfBuzz Hackfest", Paris, October 14..18 2013.
1640- Fix (Chain)Context recursion with non-monotone lookup positions.
1641- Misc Indic bug fixes.
1642- New Javanese / Buginese shaping, similar to Windows 8.1.
1643
1644
1645Overview of changes leading to 0.9.22
1646Thursday, October 3, 2013
1647=====================================
1648
1649- Fix use-after-end-of-scope in hb_language_from_string().
1650- Fix hiding of default_ignorables if font doesn't have space glyph.
1651- Protect against out-of-range lookup indices.
1652
1653- API Changes:
1654
1655  * Added hb_ot_layout_table_get_lookup_count()
1656
1657
1658Overview of changes leading to 0.9.21
1659Monday, September 16, 2013
1660=====================================
1661
1662- Rename gobject-introspection library name from harfbuzz to HarfBuzz.
1663- Remove (long disabled) hb-old and hb-icu-le test shapers.
1664- Misc gtk-doc and gobject-introspection annotations.
1665- Misc fixes.
1666- API changes:
1667
1668  * Add HB_SET_VALUE_INVALID
1669
1670Overview of changes leading to 0.9.20
1671Thursday, August 29, 2013
1672=====================================
1673
1674General:
1675- Misc substitute_closure() fixes.
1676- Build fixes.
1677
1678Documentation:
1679- gtk-doc boilerplate integrated.  Docs are built now, but
1680  contain no contents.  By next release hopefully we have
1681  some content in.  Enable using --enable-gtk-doc.
1682
1683GObject and Introspection:
1684- Added harfbuzz-gobject library (hb-gobject.h) that has type
1685  bindings for all HarfBuzz objects and enums.  Enable using
1686  --with-gobject.
1687- Added gobject-introspection boilerplate.  Nothing useful
1688  right now.  Work in progress.  Gets enabled automatically if
1689  --with-gobject is used.  Override with --disable-introspection.
1690
1691OpenType shaper:
1692- Apply 'mark' in Myanmar shaper.
1693- Don't apply 'dlig' by default.
1694
1695Uniscribe shaper:
1696- Support user features.
1697- Fix loading of fonts that are also installed on the system.
1698- Fix shaping of Arabic Presentation Forms.
1699- Fix build with wide chars.
1700
1701CoreText shaper:
1702- Support user features.
1703
1704Source changes:
1705- hb_face_t code moved to hb-face.h / hb-face.cc.
1706- Added hb-deprecated.h.
1707
1708API changes:
1709- Added HB_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.
1710- Deprecated HB_SCRIPT_CANADIAN_ABORIGINAL; replaced by
1711  HB_SCRIPT_CANADIAN_SYLLABICS.
1712- Deprecated HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT; replaced by
1713  HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DEFAULT.
1714- Deprecated HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAGS_DEFAULT; replaced by
1715  HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_DEFAULT.
1716
1717
1718Overview of changes leading to 0.9.19
1719Tuesday, July 16, 2013
1720=====================================
1721
1722- Build fixes.
1723- Better handling of multiple variation selectors in a row.
1724- Pass on variation selector to GSUB if not consumed by cmap.
1725- Fix undefined memory access.
1726- Add Javanese config to Indic shaper.
1727- Misc bug fixes.
1728
1729Overview of changes leading to 0.9.18
1730Tuesday, May 28, 2013
1731=====================================
1732
1733New build system:
1734
1735- All unneeded code is all disabled by default,
1736
1737- Uniscribe and CoreText shapers can be enabled with their --with options,
1738
1739- icu_le and old shapers cannot be enabled for now,
1740
1741- glib, freetype, and cairo will be detected automatically.
1742  They can be force on/off'ed with their --with options,
1743
1744- icu and graphite2 are default off, can be enabled with their --with
1745  options,
1746
1747Moreover, ICU support is now build into a separate library:
1748libharfbuzz-icu.so, and a new harfbuzz-icu.pc is shipped for it.
1749Distros can enable ICU now without every application on earth
1750getting linked to via libharfbuzz.so.
1751
1752For distros I recommend that they make sure they are building --with-glib
1753--with-freetype --with-cairo, --with-icu, and optionally --with-graphite2;
1754And package harfbuzz and harfbuzz-icu separately.
1755
1756
1757Overview of changes leading to 0.9.17
1758Monday, May 20, 2013
1759=====================================
1760
1761- Build fixes.
1762- Fix bug in hb_set_get_min().
1763- Fix regression with Arabic mark positioning / width-zeroing.
1764
1765Overview of changes leading to 0.9.16
1766Friday, April 19, 2013
1767=====================================
1768
1769- Major speedup in OpenType lookup processing.  With the Amiri
1770  Arabic font, this release is over 3x faster than previous
1771  release.  All scripts / languages should see this speedup.
1772
1773- New --num-iterations option for hb-shape / hb-view; useful for
1774  profiling.
1775
1776Overview of changes leading to 0.9.15
1777Friday, April 05, 2013
1778=====================================
1779
1780- Build fixes.
1781- Fix crasher in graphite2 shaper.
1782- Fix Arabic mark width zeroing regression.
1783- Don't compose Hangul jamo into Unicode syllables.
1784
1785
1786Overview of changes leading to 0.9.14
1787Thursday, March 21, 2013
1788=====================================
1789
1790- Build fixes.
1791- Fix time-consuming sanitize with malicious fonts.
1792- Implement hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs() for both json and text.
1793- Do not ignore Hangul filler characters.
1794- Indic fixes:
1795  * Fix Malayalam pre-base reordering interaction with post-forms.
1796  * Further adjust ZWJ handling.  Should fix known regressions from
1797    0.9.13.
1798
1799
1800Overview of changes leading to 0.9.13
1801Thursday, February 25, 2013
1802=====================================
1803
1804- Build fixes.
1805- Ngapi HarfBuzz Hackfest in London (February 2013):
1806  * Fixed all known Indic bugs,
1807  * New Win8-style Myanmar shaper,
1808  * New South-East Asian shaper for Tai Tham, Cham, and New Tai Lue,
1809  * Smartly ignore Default_Ignorable characters (joiners, etc) wheb
1810    matching GSUB/GPOS lookups,
1811  * Fix 'Phags-Pa U+A872 shaping,
1812  * Fix partial disabling of default-on features,
1813  * Allow disabling of TrueType kerning.
1814- Fix possible crasher with broken fonts with overlapping tables.
1815- Removed generated files from git again.  So, one needs ragel to
1816  bootstrap from the git tree.
1817
1818API changes:
1819- hb_shape() and related APIs now abort if buffer direction is
1820  HB_DIRECTION_INVALID.  Previously, hb_shape() was calling
1821  hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties() on the buffer before
1822  shaping.  The heuristics in that function are fragile.  If the
1823  user really wants the old behvaior, they can call that function
1824  right before calling hb_shape() to get the old behavior.
1825- hb_blob_create_sub_blob() always creates sub-blob with
1826  HB_MEMORY_MODE_READONLY.  See comments for the reason.
1827
1828
1829Overview of changes leading to 0.9.12
1830Thursday, January 18, 2013
1831=====================================
1832
1833- Build fixes for Sun compiler.
1834- Minor bug fix.
1835
1836Overview of changes leading to 0.9.11
1837Thursday, January 10, 2013
1838=====================================
1839
1840- Build fixes.
1841- Fix GPOS mark attachment with null Anchor offsets.
1842- [Indic] Fix old-spec reordering of viramas if sequence ends in one.
1843- Fix multi-threaded shaper data creation crash.
1844- Add atomic ops for Solaris.
1845
1846API changes:
1847- Rename hb_buffer_clear() to hb_buffer_clear_contents().
1848
1849
1850Overview of changes leading to 0.9.10
1851Thursday, January 3, 2013
1852=====================================
1853
1854- [Indic] Fixed rendering of Malayalam dot-reph
1855- Updated OT language tags.
1856- Updated graphite2 backend.
1857- Improved hb_ot_layout_get_size_params() logic.
1858- Improve hb-shape/hb-view help output.
1859- Fixed hb-set.h implementation to not crash.
1860- Fixed various issues with hb_ot_layout_collect_lookups().
1861- Various build fixes.
1862
1863New API:
1864
1865hb_graphite2_face_get_gr_face()
1866hb_graphite2_font_get_gr_font()
1867hb_coretext_face_get_cg_font()
1868
1869Modified API:
1870
1871hb_ot_layout_get_size_params()
1872
1873
1874Overview of changes leading to 0.9.9
1875Wednesday, December 5, 2012
1876====================================
1877
1878- Fix build on Windows.
1879- Minor improvements.
1880
1881
1882Overview of changes leading to 0.9.8
1883Tuesday, December 4, 2012
1884====================================
1885
1886
1887- Actually implement hb_shape_plan_get_shaper ().
1888- Make UCDB data tables const.
1889- Lots of internal refactoring in OTLayout tables.
1890- Flesh out hb_ot_layout_lookup_collect_glyphs().
1891
1892New API:
1893
1894hb_ot_layout_collect_lookups()
1895hb_ot_layout_get_size_params()
1896
1897
1898Overview of changes leading to 0.9.7
1899Sunday, November 21, 2012
1900====================================
1901
1902
1903HarfBuzz "All-You-Can-Eat-Sushi" (aka Vancouver) Hackfest and follow-on fixes.
1904
1905- Fix Arabic contextual joining using pre-context text.
1906- Fix Sinhala "split matra" mess.
1907- Fix Khmer shaping with broken fonts.
1908- Implement Thai "PUA" shaping for old fonts.
1909- Do NOT route Kharoshthi script through the Indic shaper.
1910- Disable fallback positioning for Indic and Thai shapers.
1911- Misc fixes.
1912
1913
1914hb-shape / hb-view changes:
1915
1916- Add --text-before and --text-after
1917- Add --bot / --eot / --preserve-default-ignorables
1918- hb-shape --output-format=json
1919
1920
1921New API:
1922
1923hb_buffer_clear()
1924
1925hb_buffer_flags_t
1926
1927HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT
1928HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT
1929HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT
1930HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRESERVE_DEFAULT_IGNORABLES
1931
1932hb_buffer_set_flags()
1933hb_buffer_get_flags()
1934
1935HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAGS
1936hb_buffer_serialize_glyphs()
1937hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs()
1938hb_buffer_serialize_list_formats()
1939
1940hb_set_add_range()
1941hb_set_del_range()
1942hb_set_get_population()
1943hb_set_next_range()
1944
1945hb_face_[sg]et_glyph_count()
1946
1947hb_segment_properties_t
1948HB_SEGMENT_PROPERTIES_DEFAULT
1949hb_segment_properties_equal()
1950hb_segment_properties_hash()
1951
1952hb_buffer_set_segment_properties()
1953hb_buffer_get_segment_properties()
1954
1955hb_ot_layout_glyph_class_t
1956hb_ot_layout_get_glyph_class()
1957hb_ot_layout_get_glyphs_in_class()
1958
1959hb_shape_plan_t
1960hb_shape_plan_create()
1961hb_shape_plan_create_cached()
1962hb_shape_plan_get_empty()
1963hb_shape_plan_reference()
1964hb_shape_plan_destroy()
1965hb_shape_plan_set_user_data()
1966hb_shape_plan_get_user_data()
1967hb_shape_plan_execute()
1968hb_shape_plan_get_shaper()
1969
1970hb_ot_shape_plan_collect_lookups()
1971
1972
1973API changes:
1974
1975- Remove "mask" parameter from hb_buffer_add().
1976- Rename hb_ot_layout_would_substitute_lookup() and hb_ot_layout_substitute_closure_lookup().
1977- hb-set.h API const correction.
1978- Renamed hb_set_min/max() to hb_set_get_min/max().
1979- Rename hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookup_indexes() to hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookups().
1980- Rename hb_buffer_guess_properties() to hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties().
1981
1982
1983
1984Overview of changes leading to 0.9.6
1985Sunday, November 13, 2012
1986====================================
1987
1988- Don't clear pre-context text if no new context is provided.
1989- Fix ReverseChainingSubstLookup, which was totally borked.
1990- Adjust output format of hb-shape a bit.
1991- Include config.h.in in-tree.  Makes it easier for alternate build systems.
1992- Fix hb_buffer_set_length(buffer, 0) invalid memory allocation.
1993- Use ICU LayoutEngine's C API instead of C++.  Avoids much headache.
1994- Drop glyphs for all of Unicode Default_Ignorable characters.
1995- Misc build fixes.
1996
1997Arabic shaper:
1998- Enable 'dlig' and 'mset' features in Arabic shaper.
1999- Implement 'Phags-pa shaping, improve Mongolian.
2000
2001Indic shaper:
2002- Decompose Sinhala split matras the way old HarfBuzz / Pango did.
2003- Initial support for Consonant Medials.
2004- Start adding new-style Myanmar shaping.
2005- Make reph and 'pref' logic introspect the font.
2006- Route Meetei-Mayek through the Indic shaper.
2007- Don't apply 'liga' in Indic shaper.
2008- Improve Malayalam pre-base reordering Ra interaction with Chillus.
2009
2010
2011
2012Overview of changes leading to 0.9.5
2013Sunday, October 14, 2012
2014====================================
2015
2016- Synthetic-GSUB Arabic fallback shaping.
2017
2018- Misc Indic improvements.
2019
2020- Add build system support for pthread.
2021
2022- Imported UCDN for in-tree Unicode callbacks implementation.
2023
2024- Context-aware Arabic joining.
2025
2026- Misc other fixes.
2027
2028- New API:
2029
2030  hb_feature_to/from-string()
2031  hb_buffer_[sg]et_content_type()
2032
2033
2034
2035Overview of changes leading to 0.9.4
2036Tuesday, Sep 03, 2012
2037====================================
2038
2039- Indic improvements with old-spec Malayalam.
2040
2041- Better fallback glyph positioning, specially with Thai / Lao marks.
2042
2043- Implement dotted-circle insertion.
2044
2045- Better Arabic fallback shaping / ligation.
2046
2047- Added ICU LayoutEngine backend for testing.  Call it by the 'icu_le' name.
2048
2049- Misc fixes.
2050
2051
2052
2053Overview of changes leading to 0.9.3
2054Friday, Aug 18, 2012
2055====================================
2056
2057- Fixed fallback mark positioning for left-to-right text.
2058
2059- Improve mark positioning for the remaining combining classes.
2060
2061- Unbreak Thai and fallback Arabic shaping.
2062
2063- Port Arabic shaper to shape-plan caching.
2064
2065- Use new ICU normalizer functions.
2066
2067
2068
2069Overview of changes leading to 0.9.2
2070Friday, Aug 10, 2012
2071====================================
2072
2073- Over a thousand commits!  This is the first major release of HarfBuzz.
2074
2075- HarfBuzz is feature-complete now!  It should be in par, or better, than
2076  both Pango's shapers and old HarfBuzz / Qt shapers.
2077
2078- New Indic shaper, supporting main Indic scripts, Sinhala, and Khmer.
2079
2080- Improved Arabic shaper, with fallback Arabic shaping, supporting Arabic,
2081  Sinhala, N'ko, Mongolian, and Mandaic.
2082
2083- New Thai / Lao shaper.
2084
2085- Tibetan / Hangul support in the generic shaper.
2086
2087- Synthetic GDEF support for fonts without a GDEF table.
2088
2089- Fallback mark positioning for fonts without a GPOS table.
2090
2091- Unicode normalization shaping heuristic during glyph mapping.
2092
2093- New experimental Graphite2 backend.
2094
2095- New Uniscribe backend (primarily for testing).
2096
2097- New CoreText backend (primarily for testing).
2098
2099- Major optimization and speedup.
2100
2101- Test suites and testing infrastructure (work in progress).
2102
2103- Greatly improved hb-view cmdline tool.
2104
2105- hb-shape cmdline tool.
2106
2107- Unicode 6.1 support.
2108
2109Summary of API changes:
2110
2111o Changed API:
2112
2113  - Users are expected to only include main header files now (ie. hb.h,
2114    hb-glib.h, hb-ft.h, ...)
2115
2116  - All struct tag names had their initial underscore removed.
2117    Ie. "struct _hb_buffer_t" is "struct hb_buffer_t" now.
2118
2119  - All set_user_data() functions now take a "replace" boolean parameter.
2120
2121  - hb_buffer_create() takes zero arguments now.
2122    Use hb_buffer_pre_allocate() to pre-allocate.
2123
2124  - hb_buffer_add_utf*() now accept -1 for length parameteres,
2125    meaning "nul-terminated".
2126
2127  - hb_direction_t enum values changed.
2128
2129  - All *_from_string() APIs now take a length parameter to allow for
2130    non-nul-terminated strings. A -1 length means "nul-terminated".
2131
2132  - Typedef for hb_language_t changed.
2133
2134  - hb_get_table_func_t renamed to hb_reference_table_func_t.
2135
2136  - hb_ot_layout_table_choose_script()
2137
2138  - Various renames in hb-unicode.h.
2139
2140o New API:
2141
2142  - hb_buffer_guess_properties()
2143    Automatically called by hb_shape().
2144
2145  - hb_buffer_normalize_glyphs()
2146
2147  - hb_tag_from_string()
2148
2149  - hb-coretext.h
2150
2151  - hb-uniscribe.h
2152
2153  - hb_face_reference_blob()
2154  - hb_face_[sg]et_index()
2155  - hb_face_set_upem()
2156
2157  - hb_font_get_glyph_name_func_t
2158    hb_font_get_glyph_from_name_func_t
2159    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_name_func()
2160    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_from_name_func()
2161    hb_font_get_glyph_name()
2162    hb_font_get_glyph_from_name()
2163    hb_font_glyph_to_string()
2164    hb_font_glyph_from_string()
2165
2166  - hb_font_set_funcs_data()
2167
2168  - hb_ft_font_set_funcs()
2169  - hb_ft_font_get_face()
2170
2171  - hb-gobject.h (work in progress)
2172
2173  - hb_ot_shape_glyphs_closure()
2174    hb_ot_layout_substitute_closure_lookup()
2175
2176  - hb-set.h
2177
2178  - hb_shape_full()
2179
2180  - hb_unicode_combining_class_t
2181
2182  - hb_unicode_compose_func_t
2183    hb_unicode_decompose_func_t
2184    hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility_func_t
2185    hb_unicode_funcs_set_compose_func()
2186    hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_func()
2187    hb_unicode_funcs_set_decompose_compatibility_func()
2188    hb_unicode_compose()
2189    hb_unicode_decompose()
2190    hb_unicode_decompose_compatibility()
2191
2192o Removed API:
2193
2194  - hb_ft_get_font_funcs()
2195
2196  - hb_ot_layout_substitute_start()
2197    hb_ot_layout_substitute_lookup()
2198    hb_ot_layout_substitute_finish()
2199    hb_ot_layout_position_start()
2200    hb_ot_layout_position_lookup()
2201    hb_ot_layout_position_finish()
2202
2203
2204
2205Overview of changes leading to 0.6.0
2206Friday, May 27, 2011
2207====================================
2208
2209- Vertical text support in GPOS
2210- Almost all API entries have unit tests now, under test/
2211- All thread-safety issues are fixed
2212
2213Summary of API changes follows.
2214
2215
2216* Simple Types API:
2217
2218  o New API:
2219    HB_LANGUAGE_INVALID
2220    hb_language_get_default()
2221    hb_direction_to_string()
2222    hb_direction_from_string()
2223    hb_script_get_horizontal_direction()
2224    HB_UNTAG()
2225
2226  o Renamed API:
2227    hb_category_t renamed to hb_unicode_general_category_t
2228
2229  o Changed API:
2230    hb_language_t is a typed pointers now
2231
2232  o Removed API:
2233    HB_TAG_STR()
2234
2235
2236* Use ISO 15924 tags for hb_script_t:
2237
2238  o New API:
2239    hb_script_from_iso15924_tag()
2240    hb_script_to_iso15924_tag()
2241    hb_script_from_string()
2242
2243  o Changed API:
2244    HB_SCRIPT_* enum members changed value.
2245
2246
2247* Buffer API streamlined:
2248
2249  o New API:
2250    hb_buffer_reset()
2251    hb_buffer_set_length()
2252    hb_buffer_allocation_successful()
2253
2254  o Renamed API:
2255    hb_buffer_ensure() renamed to hb_buffer_pre_allocate()
2256    hb_buffer_add_glyph() renamed to hb_buffer_add()
2257
2258  o Removed API:
2259    hb_buffer_clear()
2260    hb_buffer_clear_positions()
2261
2262  o Changed API:
2263    hb_buffer_get_glyph_infos() takes an out length parameter now
2264    hb_buffer_get_glyph_positions() takes an out length parameter now
2265
2266
2267* Blob API streamlined:
2268
2269  o New API:
2270    hb_blob_get_data()
2271    hb_blob_get_data_writable()
2272
2273  o Renamed API:
2274    hb_blob_create_empty() renamed to hb_blob_get_empty()
2275
2276  o Removed API:
2277    hb_blob_lock()
2278    hb_blob_unlock()
2279    hb_blob_is_writable()
2280    hb_blob_try_writable()
2281
2282  o Changed API:
2283    hb_blob_create() takes user_data before destroy now
2284
2285
2286* Unicode functions API:
2287
2288  o Unicode function vectors can subclass other unicode function vectors now.
2289    Unimplemented callbacks in the subclass automatically chainup to the parent.
2290
2291  o All hb_unicode_funcs_t callbacks take a user_data now.  Their setters
2292    take a user_data and its respective destroy callback.
2293
2294  o New API:
2295    hb_unicode_funcs_get_empty()
2296    hb_unicode_funcs_get_default()
2297    hb_unicode_funcs_get_parent()
2298
2299  o Changed API:
2300    hb_unicode_funcs_create() now takes a parent_funcs.
2301
2302  o Removed func getter functions:
2303    hb_unicode_funcs_get_mirroring_func()
2304    hb_unicode_funcs_get_general_category_func()
2305    hb_unicode_funcs_get_script_func()
2306    hb_unicode_funcs_get_combining_class_func()
2307    hb_unicode_funcs_get_eastasian_width_func()
2308
2309
2310* Face API:
2311
2312  o Renamed API:
2313    hb_face_get_table() renamed to hb_face_reference_table()
2314    hb_face_create_for_data() renamed to hb_face_create()
2315
2316  o Changed API:
2317    hb_face_create_for_tables() takes user_data before destroy now
2318    hb_face_reference_table() returns empty blob instead of NULL
2319    hb_get_table_func_t accepts the face as first parameter now
2320
2321* Font API:
2322
2323  o Fonts can subclass other fonts now.  Unimplemented callbacks in the
2324    subclass automatically chainup to the parent.  When chaining up,
2325    scale is adjusted if the parent font has a different scale.
2326
2327  o All hb_font_funcs_t callbacks take a user_data now.  Their setters
2328    take a user_data and its respective destroy callback.
2329
2330  o New API:
2331    hb_font_get_parent()
2332    hb_font_funcs_get_empty()
2333    hb_font_create_sub_font()
2334
2335  o Removed API:
2336    hb_font_funcs_copy()
2337    hb_font_unset_funcs()
2338
2339  o Removed func getter functions:
2340    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_func()
2341    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_advance_func()
2342    hb_font_funcs_get_glyph_extents_func()
2343    hb_font_funcs_get_contour_point_func()
2344    hb_font_funcs_get_kerning_func()
2345
2346  o Changed API:
2347    hb_font_create() takes a face and references it now
2348    hb_font_set_funcs() takes user_data before destroy now
2349    hb_font_set_scale() accepts signed integers now
2350    hb_font_get_contour_point_func_t now takes glyph first, then point_index
2351    hb_font_get_glyph_func_t returns a success boolean now
2352
2353
2354* Changed object model:
2355
2356  o All object types have a _get_empty() now:
2357    hb_blob_get_empty()
2358    hb_buffer_get_empty()
2359    hb_face_get_empty()
2360    hb_font_get_empty()
2361    hb_font_funcs_get_empty()
2362    hb_unicode_funcs_get_empty()
2363
2364  o Added _set_user_data() and _get_user_data() for all object types:
2365    hb_blob_get_user_data()
2366    hb_blob_set_user_data()
2367    hb_buffer_get_user_data()
2368    hb_buffer_set_user_data()
2369    hb_face_get_user_data()
2370    hb_face_set_user_data()
2371    hb_font_funcs_get_user_data()
2372    hb_font_funcs_set_user_data()
2373    hb_font_get_user_data()
2374    hb_font_set_user_data()
2375    hb_unicode_funcs_get_user_data()
2376    hb_unicode_funcs_set_user_data()
2377
2378  o Removed the _get_reference_count() from all object types:
2379    hb_blob_get_reference_count()
2380    hb_buffer_get_reference_count()
2381    hb_face_get_reference_count()
2382    hb_font_funcs_get_reference_count()
2383    hb_font_get_reference_count()
2384    hb_unicode_funcs_get_reference_count()
2385
2386  o Added _make_immutable() and _is_immutable() for all object types except for buffer:
2387    hb_blob_make_immutable()
2388    hb_blob_is_immutable()
2389    hb_face_make_immutable()
2390    hb_face_is_immutable()
2391
2392
2393* Changed API for vertical text support
2394
2395  o The following callbacks where removed:
2396    hb_font_get_glyph_advance_func_t
2397    hb_font_get_kerning_func_t
2398
2399  o The following new callbacks added instead:
2400    hb_font_get_glyph_h_advance_func_t
2401    hb_font_get_glyph_v_advance_func_t
2402    hb_font_get_glyph_h_origin_func_t
2403    hb_font_get_glyph_v_origin_func_t
2404    hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning_func_t
2405    hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning_func_t
2406
2407  o The following API removed as such:
2408    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_advance_func()
2409    hb_font_funcs_set_kerning_func()
2410    hb_font_get_glyph_advance()
2411    hb_font_get_kerning()
2412
2413  o New API added instead:
2414    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advance_func()
2415    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advance_func()
2416    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_origin_func()
2417    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_origin_func()
2418    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_kerning_func()
2419    hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_kerning_func()
2420    hb_font_get_glyph_h_advance()
2421    hb_font_get_glyph_v_advance()
2422    hb_font_get_glyph_h_origin()
2423    hb_font_get_glyph_v_origin()
2424    hb_font_get_glyph_h_kerning()
2425    hb_font_get_glyph_v_kerning()
2426
2427  o The following higher-leve API added for convenience:
2428    hb_font_get_glyph_advance_for_direction()
2429    hb_font_get_glyph_origin_for_direction()
2430    hb_font_add_glyph_origin_for_direction()
2431    hb_font_subtract_glyph_origin_for_direction()
2432    hb_font_get_glyph_kerning_for_direction()
2433    hb_font_get_glyph_extents_for_origin()
2434    hb_font_get_glyph_contour_point_for_origin()
2435
2436
2437* OpenType Layout API:
2438
2439  o New API:
2440    hb_ot_layout_position_start()
2441    hb_ot_layout_substitute_start()
2442    hb_ot_layout_substitute_finish()
2443
2444
2445* Glue code:
2446
2447  o New API:
2448    hb_glib_script_to_script()
2449    hb_glib_script_from_script()
2450    hb_icu_script_to_script()
2451    hb_icu_script_from_script()
2452
2453
2454* Version API added:
2455
2456  o New API:
2457    HB_VERSION_MAJOR
2458    HB_VERSION_MINOR
2459    HB_VERSION_MICRO
2460    HB_VERSION_STRING
2461    HB_VERSION_CHECK()
2462    hb_version()
2463    hb_version_string()
2464    hb_version_check()
2465
2466
2467