2.5.0
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+Overview of changes leading to 2.5.0
+Friday, May 24, 2019
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+- This release does not include much functional changes, but includes major internal
+ code-base changes. We now require C++11. Support for gcc 4.8 and earlier has been
+ dropped.
+- New hb-config.hh facility for compiling smaller library for embedded and web usecases.
+- New Unicode Character Databse implementation that is half the size of previously-used
+ UCDN.
+- Subsetter improvements.
+- Improved documentation, thanks to Nathan Willis.
+- Misc shaping fixes.
+
+
Overview of changes leading to 2.4.0
Monday, March 25, 2019
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