2.5.3
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+Overview of changes leading to 2.5.3
+Wednesday, June 26, 2019
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+- Fix UCD script data for Unicode 10+ scripts.  This was broken since 2.5.0.
+- More optimizations for HB_TINY.
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 Overview of changes leading to 2.5.2
 Thursday, June 20, 2019
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