Fedora 8 Update: freetype-2.3.5-5.fc8
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Thu Dec 18 00:43:25 UTC 2008
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11036
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Name : freetype
Product : Fedora 8
Version : 2.3.5
Release : 5.fc8
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 8.
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ChangeLog:
* Mon Dec 8 2008 Kevin Kofler <Kevin at tigcc.ticalc.org> 2.3.5-5
- Add freetype-autohinter-ligature.patch by Behdad Esfahbod (#368561)
* Tue Jun 17 2008 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo at redhat.com> 2.3.5-4
- Add freetype-2.3.5-CVEs.patch
- Resolves: #451212
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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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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update freetype' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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