From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:48:33 +0100
To: cairo-announce@cairographics.org
Subject: cairo snapshot 1.9.12 now available
A new cairo snapshot 1.9.12 is now available from:
http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz
which can be verified with:
http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz.sha1
486a0b6855aa63bcb333f6ac63307ae8647035ba cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz
http://cairographics.org/snapshots/cairo-1.9.12.tar.gz.sha1.asc
(signed by Chris Wilson)
Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo
will include a signed 1.9.12 tag which points to a commit named:
aa4cd8287f47b4538e765e1b48dcbac19813a8a2
which can be verified with:
git verify-tag 1.9.12
and can be checked out with a command such as:
git checkout -b build 1.9.12
Snapshot 1.9.12 (2010-07-12)
============================
A couple of weeks spent fixing those annoying bugs and cleaning up the build
system; the list of outstanding tasks to complete for the stable release is
finally shrinking. The chief bug fixer has been Benjamin Otte who not only
made sure that the public API is consistent and being tested for its
consistency, but also ensured that the documentation was up-to-date and
spent time clarifying cases where even the Cairo developers have come
unstuck in the past. Many thanks, Benjamin. However, he was not alone,
as Andrea Canciani continued his fine work in isolating broken corner cases
and proceeding to fix them, and tidying up the quartz backend. And last, but
definitely not least, M Joonas Pihlaja tried building Cairo across a
perverse range of systems and fixed up all the loose bits of code that came
unravelled. Thanks everybody!
-Chris
API Changes
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cairo_surface_set_mime_data, cairo_surface_get_mime_data:
The length parameter is now an unsigned long (as opposed to an unsigned
int). The parameter is intended to be an equivalent to a size_t without
requiring POSIX types and be large enough to store the size of the
largest possible allocation.
cairo_gl_surface_create_for_texture:
This a new surface constructor for cairo-gl that explicitly enables
render-to-texture for foreign, i.e. application, textures.
cairo_region_xor, cairo_region_xor_rectangle
A couple of utility routines add to the region handling interface for
the purpose of replacing existing GdkRegion functionality.
Bugs fixes
----------
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/600622
Inkscape was caught in the act of attempting to modify a finished surface.
Unfortunately, we had the ordering of our guards and assertions wrong and
so an ordinary application error was triggering an assert in Cairo. This
lead Benjamin to add a test case to ensure that the entire public API
could handle erroneous input and then proceeded to fix a whole slew of
uncovered bugs.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28888
A regression introduced by the special casing of uploading images to an
xlib surface in-place which was ignoring the translation applied to the
image.
