The FreeType Project Files

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both  the `.sig`  file and  the  corresponding archive.   Then, run  a
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  gpg --verify freetype-2.14.0.tar.gz.sig

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  gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys BE6C3AAC63AD8E3F

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SHA1 file checksums:

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5986e15c8514369fdbdd2cf64d9ce26ceb1e0f10  freetype-2.14.0.tar.xz
6342a071baa0be23f56677a215d06b62124dec52  ft2140.zip
22ae34d348863dd213c0d06b092608b98167006c  ft2demos-2.14.0.tar.gz
d9f62b7b902c2542f309daa2eaed9d53f074766a  ft2demos-2.14.0.tar.xz
b7b5b66076ba116bd7885ccd2ae968fef202ac11  ftdmo2140.zip
bb87a48b0ce882b2bb4e2cd3ed743636db214f0d  freetype-doc-2.14.0.tar.gz
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9126aff5eb2ac4ef84669bd53d14981af5c01445  ftdoc2140.zip

SHA256 file checksums:

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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.13.3 and 2.14.0 (2025-Sep-06)

  I. IMPORTANT CHANGES

  - A new  configuration macro `FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_HARFBUZZ_DYNAMIC`
    is available to load the HarfBuzz library dynamically (in addition
    to the standard static and  dynamic linking modes);  cmake, meson,
    and autotools support have  been updated  accordingly.  Using this
    new feature  makes  it possible  to avoid  the circular dependency
    between HarfBuzz and FreeType.

    A  side effect  of this  change is  that FreeType  no longer  uses
    HarfBuzz header files (if HarfBuzz support is activated).

    This code was contributed by Behdad Esfahbod.

  - The auto-hinter got new abilities.

    . It can now better separate  diacritic glyphs from base glyphs at
      small sizes  by artificially moving  diacritics up (or  down) if
      necessary.

    . Tilde accent  glyphs get vertically stretched at  small sizes so
      that they don't degenerate to horizontal lines.

    . Diacritics directly attached to a base glyph (like the ogonek in
      character 'ę') no longer distort the shape of the base glyph.

    These features  use a  database (which  currently has  entries for
    Unicode characters up to U+FFFF,  based on Unicode 17.0), handling
    scripts like  Latin, Cyrillic, or  Greek, but not Arabic  or Indic
    scripts.  FreeType needs to access  a proper Unicode character map
    (or must be able to construct such a cmap) of a given font to make
    this work.

    The central algorithm and the foundation of this feature was Craig
    White's GSoC 2023 project.

  - Bitmap-only TrueType fonts now ignore the `FT_LOAD_NO_BITMAP` flag
    and  proceed loading  bitmaps instead  of giving  an error.   This
    behavior  is  documented  and implemented  for  other  bitmap-only
    fonts.  The flag  was always meant to suppress  the bitmap strikes
    in favor of outlines, not to ban them completely.


  II. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

  - Users of the `TT_CONFIG_OPTION_GPOS_KERNING`  configuration option
    should update;  the 'GPOS' table wasn't correctly validated before
    access, which could lead to crashes with malformed font files.


  III. MISCELLANEOUS

  - `FT_Set_Var_Design_Coordinates`  and `FT_Set_MM_Blend_Coordinates`
    now set the `FT_FACE_FLAG_VARIATION`  bit in the `face_flag` field
    of `FT_Face` (i.e., the macro `FT_IS_VARIATION` returns true) also
    if any  of the provided  coordinates is different from  the face's
    default value for the corresponding axis, that is, the set up face
    is not at its default position.

  - `FT_Load_Sfnt_Table` can now also load a font's table directory.

  - The TrueType  instruction interpreter  was optimized to  produce a
    15% gain in the glyph loading speed.

  - Handling of Variation Fonts is now considerably faster,  thanks to
    contributions by Behdad Esfahbod.

  - TrueType and CFF glyph loading speed has been improved by 5-10% on
    modern 64-bit platforms  as  a result of better handling of fixed-
    point multiplication.

  - The BDF driver now loads fonts 75% faster.

  - 'GPOS' kern table handling (if the `TT_CONFIG_OPTION_GPOS_KERNING`
    configuration option is active) is now about 3.5 times faster than
    before.

  - Support for  the (currently  undocumented) 'flip' graphic  type in
    the 'sbix' SFNT table as used  in the `Apple Color Emoji.ttc` font
    (code provided by Andrew Murray).

  - `ftmulti` can now scroll  through named instances  and  gracefully
    show static fonts.

  - The build file on OpenVMS now also creates a 32-bit version of the
    library.