Leaving open to add cargo-c to the book which is now required for the build.
Version 2.59.0
librsvg crate version 2.59.0
librsvg-rebind crate version 0.1.0
The biggest change in this release is that librsvg now uses the Meson
build system instead of autotools. Many, many thanks to Amyspark and
Centricular for doing and funding this massive work.
With Meson, librsvg now builds a lot more reliably on Windows and
MacOS.
The Meson options for different compile-time configurations are
documented in devel-docs/compiling.rst.
Requirements for build tools:
Meson 1.2.0 or later
Rust 1.77.2 or later
cargo-c 0.9.19 or later (https://github.com/lu-zero/cargo-c)
Summary of changes (see the release notes for the 2.58.9x releases for
more details):
Librsvg now uses Meson instead of Autotools (Amyspark, Chun-wei Fan,
Kleis Auke Wolthuizen, Jordan Petridis, Lovell Fuller, Nirbheek
Chauhan).
There is a -Davif meson option to include support for AVIF in the
image-rs crate, which librsvg uses to load raster images. See
devel-docs/compiling.rst for details. (Jan Alexander Steffens)
#1061 - Librsvg now explicitly builds only its supported raster
formats for image-rs: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WEBP, and optional
compile-time support for AVIF (Kleis Auke Wolthuizen). Other raster
image formats are not supported, to minimize the attack surface.
Please file a bug if you need more formats.
#429 - Librsvg now supports cancellable rendering; you can start
rendering an RsvgHandle in one thread, and stop it from another
thread with a GCancellable. In the C API, you can use the
rsvg_handle_set_cancellable_for_rendering() function; in the Rust
API, CairoRenderer now has a with_cancellable() method.
#1089 - For Rust users, there is now a librsvg-rebind crate that
binds the C API for use from Rust. Internally this links to the
system's librsvg shared library, in contrast with the librsvg
crate, which is statically linked and which has a native Rust API.
The librsvg-rebind crate is for cases where the additional code
size from static linking is not desired. This librsvg-rebind crate
is available from crates.io. (Sophie Herold).
A bunch of fixes to bugs found through fuzz testing.
