harfbuzz-5.0.1

[Bruce Dubbs]

New major version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Overview of changes leading to 5.0.1 - Saturday, July 23, 2022

• Fix version 2 “avar” table with hb-ft.

Overview of changes leading to 5.0.0 - Saturday, July 23, 2022

• Support fonts with more than 65535 glyphs in “GDEF”, “GSUB”, and “GPOS” tables. This is part of ​https://github.com/be-fonts/boring-expansion-spec to extend OpenType in a backward-compatible way.
• Complete support for more than 65535 glyphs in “glyf” table that started in 4.0.0 release. Part of boring-expansion-spec.
• Support version 2 of “avar” table. Part of boring-expansion-spec.
• Fix mark attachment on multiple substitutions in some cases.
• Fix application of “calt”, “rclt”, and “ccmp” features to better match Uniscribe behaviour with some Arabic fonts.
• Improvement to interaction between multiple cursive attachments.
• Improve multiple mark interactions in Hebrew.
• Implement language-specific forms in AAT shaping.
• Fix variation of “VORG” table.
• Support for specific script tags to be retained in the subsetter, and add “--layout-scripts” option to “hb-subset” tool.
• Accept space as delimiter for --features/--variations in command line tools.
• Improve subsetting of “COLR” table.
• Improved fuzzing coverage for ot-math API.
• Fix “kern” table version 2 (AAT) sanitization on 32-bit systems.
• Allow negative glyph advances from “graphite2” shaper.
• Implement loading (color) bitmap fonts with hb-ft.
• Fix regression in hb-ft when changing font size.
• Fix build on GCC < 7.
• Dynamically load dwrite.dll on windows if “directwrite” shaper is enabled.
• Provide a single-file harfbuzz-subset.cc file for easier alternate building of hb-subset library, similar to harfbuzz.cc.

• New API

  +HB_SUBSET_SETS_LAYOUT_SCRIPT_TAG
  +hb_language_matches()
  

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

4ef89d0c04 Update to libcap-2.65.
03162d7cc1 Update to harfbuzz-5.0.1.
9ee9da07c0 Update to libspiro-20220722.
41e1648453 Update to proftpd-1.3.7e.