fontconfig-2.17.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fontconfig Version 2.17 2025-06-27

• ci: Add a subproject test case for meson
• test: Set sys-root to WINEPATH for MinGW
• ci: Correct reference to not trigger fetching a branch for main
• ci: clean up and add changelog to the release note through changelog API
• meson: don't try to call run_command for gperf on --wrap-mode=forcefallback
• Make sure that the debugging facilities are initialized at loading config phase
• Add FcConfigPerferAppFont() to allow changing the order of application fonts
• conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf: Rename Lohit Oriya to Lohit Odia
• ci: disable meson static fontations build tentatively
• conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf: drop the leading extra white spaces
• ci: quote pip's requirement specifier in the build script
• ci: Add -O option to the build script for convenience
• ci: add installation test
• Add a test case for FcPtrList
• Improve performance of FcPtrListIterInitAtLast
• test: make sure we have fcstdint.h before building test programs
• Drop FcDefaultFini() from FcFini() to fix memory leaks
• test: do not free FcFontSet From FcConfigGetFonts
• Drop the configuration path migration code
• Drop FcObjectFini() from FcFini() to fix memory leaks
• Free the mutex object only when all cache objects isn't referenced
• Free the mutex object only when there are no references to the default FcConfig instance
• Increase a reference count for default FcConfig instance with FcInit()
• conf.d: Add a conf to guess a generic-family for substitution
• test: add a pattern test
• test: add a test scenario for 48-guessfamily.conf
• test-crbug1004254: hold FcConfig during running a test in a thread
• Simplify FcConfigFini()
• Revert "test-crbug1004254: hold FcConfig during running a test in a thread"
• Call FcMutexUnlock only when valid instance is available
• Fix a memory leak in default_langs
• Avoid possibly invalid access on MT
• Add bitmap-conf build option to choose default bitmap conf
• doc: rewrite check-missing-doc in Python
• Do not hardcode a cache version
• Add default font paths for Android in configure script
• meson: Fix additional-fonts-dirs build option that not taking effect
• meson: rename meson_options.txt to meson.options
• Allow dotfiles to scan for caching
• Trim trailing newline in string in cache
• Fix a crash with broken cache
• ci: cleanup builddir
• Do not fallback decoding with UTF-16BE if no iconv support
• Fix padding with "und" in pattern elements
• ci: fix pipeline fail of subproject build on forked project
• ci: add some usage text to build script
• Bump libtool version for autotools build
• Fix release script
• Avoid conflict between dgettext macro and declaration in fcint.h
• fix: Skip empty entries in XDG_DATA_DIRS parsing
• [Fontations] Factor out fcpat.c - add Fontations dependencies
• Add FcPatternObjectGet* impl for CharSet and LangSet
• [Fontations] Improve resolution of Rust crate features
• [Fontations] Roll Skrifa, Read-Fonts, Font-Types
• [Fontations] Pattern Bindings for CharSet and LangSet
• [Fontations] Container and local download of testfiles
• Add Pytest status to Meson Summary
• Add Roboto Flex to font downloading script
• Migrate pytest testcase 431 to pre-downloaded fonts
• [Fontations] Enable fc-query indexing through Fontations
• Revert "ci: disable meson static fontations build tentatively"
• [Fontations] Fix Rust edition, do not require extern crate
• [Fontations] Add support for "foundry" pattern element
• [Fontations] Add support for "version" pattern element
• [Fontations] Clippy fix for foundries mapping
• [Fontations] Add attributes weight, width, slant to Pattern
• Cargo build improvements
• [Fontations] Iterate over TrueType collections and named instances
• Amend license headers
• [Fontations] Process and append font capabilities to Pattern
• Speculative fix for uninitialised value used in FcFontSort
• [Fontations] Add charset pattern element
• [Fontations] Add langset pattern element
• [Fontations] Add fontwrapper, filename and symbol elements to pattern
• [Fontations] Add woff wrapper and filename if file is woff or woff2
• [Fontations] Roll Fontations, Skrifa to 0.31.3
• [Fontations] Match name id append order to FreeType indexer
• Sort test pattern elements
• [Fontations] Add pixel size information
• [Fontations] Fix size element and enable more element tests
• [Fontations] Add spacing property
• [Fontations] No style element for variable instance
• [Fontations] Remove pattern filter from tests
• Parse foundry from OS/2 for table version 0
• [Fontations] Assorted fixes to match FreeType indexing
• [Fontations] Do not combine bindings into one crate
• Make "retry:" label conditional on ICONV
• [Fontations] Clarify import of FcLangSet
• Rename FcFreeTypeLangSet to FcLangSetFromCharset
• [Fontations] Fix downstream build of indexing with Fontations
• fccharset.c Avoid use-after-free warning
• fccharset.c Avoid use-after-free warning
• configure.ac: drop -fno-strict-aliasing
• Fix heap buffer underflow in FcConfigXdgDataDirs
• Fix use-after-free in FcConfigGetPrgname
• meson: don't force installation of a static library, (Xi Ruoyao)

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

00e44cf666 Update to nettle-3.10.2.
b5c802424f Update to lxml-6.0.0 (Python module).
40a4cf0123 Update to fontconfig-2.17.0.