1.8.6
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+Overview of changes leading to 1.8.6
+Tuesday, August 7, 2018
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+- Internal code shuffling.
+- New API to speed up getting advance widths for implementations
+ that have heavy overhead in get_h_advance callback:
++hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_h_advances_func
++hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_v_advances_func
++hb_font_get_glyph_advances_for_direction
++hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances
++hb_font_get_glyph_h_advances_func_t
++hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances
++hb_font_get_glyph_v_advances_func_t
+
+
Overview of changes leading to 1.8.5
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
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