Pango-1.9.1 released [unstable]

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Pango-1.9.1 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.7/

pango-1.9.1.tar.bz2   md5sum: 91f386893ff483e14dc4571e352150e4
pango-1.9.1.tar.gz    md5sum: f7750cb67b239ff6ef2144a94b4ea04e

This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.10.0, which 
will be released together with GTK+-2.8.

This release continues improving the support for cairo that was
first introduced in 1.9.0; the Pango/cairo API is thought to be
finalized at this point. Many bug fixes and improvements 
from the stable branch are also included.

Notes:

 * This is unstable development release. While it has had
   fairly extensive testing, there are likely bugs
   remaining to be found. This release should not be used
   in production.

 * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
   copy of Pango-1.8. If you have problems, you'll need
   to reinstall Pango-1.8.2

 * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

About Pango
===========

Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in 
the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text
and font handling for GTK+-2.x.

Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout engine can 
be used with different font backends. There are two basic backends, 
with multiple options for rendering with each.

 - Client side fonts using the FreeType and fontconfig libraries.
   Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or directly
   to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries.

 - Native fonts on Microsoft Windows. (Optionally using Uniscribe
   for complex-text handling). Rendering can be done via Cairo
   or directly using the native Win32 API.

The integration of Pango with cairo (http://cairographics.org)
provides a complete solution with high quality text handling
and graphics rendering.

Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.9 ships with a wide
selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul, 
Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all of the world's major 
scripts are supported.

As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,
and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.

More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/.

Pango depends on version 2.6.0 or newer of the GLib library; more 
information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.

Overview of changes between 1.9.1 and 1.9.2
===========================================
* Support setting of font options and DPI on PangoContext for
  the Cairo backend.
* Adapt to recent Cairo API changes
* Win32 build improvements [Tor Lillqvist]
* Misc bug fixes [Hans Breuer, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Kazuki IWAMOTO]

Overview of stable-branch changes since 1.9.1
=============================================
* Add Khmer support [Jens Herden, Javier Sola]
* Fix bugs and crashes in the operation of PangoLayoutIter [Amit Aronovitch]
* Remove dependence of opentype code on FreeType internals [David Turner,
  Behdad Esfahbod]
* Support for TrueType fonts on Win32 with characters outside the BMP [Tor]
* Handle alpha in XftColors again. [Mikael Magnusson]
* Fix Oriya character classification [Gora Mohanty, Gautam Sengupta]
* PangoAttrIterator bug fixes [Morten Welinder]
* Clean up copyright/licensing information [William N. Ray]
* Misc bug and build fixes [Brandon Bergren, Chris Blizzard, Behdad, Harshula, 
  Alex Jones, Karel Kulhavy, Ryan Lortie, Emil Soleyman-Zomalan, Morten]

Owen Taylor
26 July 2005

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