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HarfBuzz 1.1 Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 20 November 2015 at 07:22 AM EST. Add A Comment
A new version is out of HarfBuzz, the widey depended upon, open-source text shaping library.

This text shaping library used by Firefox, Chromium, LibreOffice, Qt, Pango, and others is up to version 1.1 as its latest stable release. HarfBuzz 1.1 implements a 'stch' stretch feature for supporting the Sryiac Abbreviation Mark, implements shaping of various Unicode space characters, fixes resulting from continous fuzzing, and other bug fixes and optimizations.

The changes of HarfBuzz 1.1 can be found via this Git commit.

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