File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 2.27
Notes: Many different improvements were made in this release, including new glyphs for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic blocks. Another change is that joining the tone letters now results in the proper ligatures.
Changes: * added some of Michael Everson's new Cyrillic glyphs to Sans (by Wesley Transue) * removed blank glyph at U+05EF from Sans Bold Oblique (by Gee Fung Sit) * small adjustments to existing tone bars in Sans and Mono (by Gee Fung Sit) * added U+0372-U+0373, U+0376-U+0377, U+03CF, U+A668-U+A66E, U+A708-U+A711, U+A71B-U+A71F to Sans (by Gee Fung Sit) * copied U+02E5-U+02E9 over from Sans to fix inconsistencies in Serif (by Gee Fung Sit) * added U+021C-U+021D, U+0370-U+0371, U+037B-U+037D, U+0470-U+0471, U+0510-U+0515, U+051A-U+051D, U+1E9F, U+2C64, U+2C6E-U+2C6F, U+2C79, U+2C7C-U+2C7D, U+A644-U+A647, U+A650-U+A651, U+A654-U+A657, U+A708-U+A716, U+A71B-U+A71F to Serif (by Gee Fung Sit) * added U+A708-U+A716, U+A71B-U+A71F to Mono (by Gee Fung Sit) * added anchors to U+017F (ſ) and fixed U+1E9B (ẛ) in Serif (by Gee Fung Sit) * made U+0325 smaller in Sans Bold and Serif to match Sans Book (by Gee Fung Sit) * fixes to U+02F3 (moved up), U+228F-U+2294 (more square-like) and U+22CE-U+22CF (stroke width) in Sans (by Gee Fung Sit) * replaced U+2202 ∂ (Sans and Mono) and U+221D ∝, U+221E ∞ (Sans) with glyphs from Arev (with small changes) (by Gee Fung Sit) * added U+22B0-U+22B1, U+22C7, U+22D0-U+22D5 from Arev to Sans to complete the block (by Gee Fung Sit) * added U+0514-U+0515 to Sans ExtraLight (by Gee Fung Sit) * skewed U+A78C in all Oblique/Italic fonts (by Gee Fung Sit) * moved U+2215 to U+2044 in Sans and Serif and replaced U+2215 with reference to U+002F in all fonts (by Gee Fung Sit) * added U+2C6E to Mono (by Denis Jacquerye) * added U+A782 and U+A783 in Sans (by Wesley Transue) * added U+0244, U+024C-024D, U+2C64 in Sans Mono (by Denis Jacquerye) * modified U+01AE in Sans Mono (by Denis Jacquerye) * added U+2C7A to all fonts (by Gee Fung Sit) * italicized/small changes to U+2C76 in Serif (Bold) Italic (by Gee Fung Sit) * improved outlines of U+2C68, U+2C6A, U+2C6C in Serif (Bold) Italic (by Gee Fung Sit) * rounded U+2C77 at the bottom in Serif (by Gee Fung Sit) * added joining behavior for tone letters (U+02E5-U+02E9) in Sans (bug #15669) (by Gee Fung Sit) * fixed outline of y.alt in Sans Regular (by Denis Jacquerye) * changed references of U+1D5A8, U+1D5C5, U+1D5DC, U+1D5F9, U+1D610, U+1D62D, U+1D644 and U+1D661 to stylistic alternates to have a better distinction (by Gee Fung Sit) * hinted I.alt in Sans Regular (by Gee Fung Sit) * added U+0487, completing Cyrillic block (by Gee Fung Sit) * extended the bar of U+0463 to the right and moved the anchor (by Gee Fung Sit) * added anchors to glyphs in Cyrillic block (by Gee Fung Sit) * added (preliminary) hints to tone letter forms (U+02E5.5, U+02E9.1, stem) in Sans Book (by Gee Fung Sit)
