Fedora 9 Update: freetype-2.3.5-7.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11020
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Name        : freetype
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.3.5
Release     : 7.fc9
URL         : http://www.freetype.org
Summary     : A free and portable font rendering engine
Description :
The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering
engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of
platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and
manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render
individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete
text-rendering library.

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Update Information:

This update backports Behdad Esfahbod's fix for #368561 (Latin ligatures
incorrectly rendered by the autohinter) to Fedora 9.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Dec  7 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org> 2.3.5-7
- Add freetype-autohinter-ligature.patch by Behdad Esfahbod (#368561)
* Tue Jun 17 2008 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo at redhat.com> 2.3.5-6
- Add freetype-2.3.5-CVEs.patch
- Resolves: #451213
* Fri May 23 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 2.3.5-5
- add sparc64  to list of 64 bit arches
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #368561 - ligature-related font rendering bug with 'ff' and 'fi'
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368561
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