Merge pull request #2776 from harfbuzz/release

2.7.3
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f211a37..92df1d0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 2.7.3
+Wednesday, December 23, 2020
+====================================
+- Update USE shaper to 2020-08-13 specification, and other improvements.
+- Don’t disable liga feature in myanmar shaper, to match Uniscribe.
+- Improvements to language and script tags handling.
+- Update language system tag registry to OpenType 1.8.4
+- Support for serializing and deserializing Unicode buffers. Serialized buffers
+  are now delimited with `<>` or `[]` based on whether it is a Unicode or
+  glyphs buffer.
+- Increase buffer work limits to handle fonts with many complex lookups.
+- Handle more shaping operations in trace output.
+- Memory access fixes.
+- More OOM fixes.
+- Improved documentation.
+- Build system improvements.
+- New API:
++hb_buffer_has_positions()
++hb_buffer_serialize()
++hb_buffer_serialize_unicode()
++hb_buffer_deserialize_unicode()
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 2.7.2
 Saturday, August 29, 2020
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 85d7a25..130e09a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [2.7.2],
+        [2.7.3],
         [https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index e3740df..61f46ca 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('harfbuzz', 'c', 'cpp',
   meson_version: '>= 0.47.0',
-  version: '2.7.2',
+  version: '2.7.3',
   default_options: [
     'cpp_eh=none',          # Just to support msvc, we are passing -fno-rtti also anyway
     'cpp_rtti=false',       # Just to support msvc, we are passing -fno-exceptions also anyway
diff --git a/src/hb-buffer.cc b/src/hb-buffer.cc
index 488f491..1458cda 100644
--- a/src/hb-buffer.cc
+++ b/src/hb-buffer.cc
@@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@
  * Return value:
  * %true if the @buffer has position array, %false otherwise.
  *
- * Since: REPLACEME
+ * Since: 2.7.3
  **/
 HB_EXTERN hb_bool_t
 hb_buffer_has_positions (hb_buffer_t  *buffer)
diff --git a/src/hb-version.h b/src/hb-version.h
index 92d61b8..62cffd5 100644
--- a/src/hb-version.h
+++ b/src/hb-version.h
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@
 
 #define HB_VERSION_MAJOR 2
 #define HB_VERSION_MINOR 7
-#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 2
+#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 3
 
-#define HB_VERSION_STRING "2.7.2"
+#define HB_VERSION_STRING "2.7.3"
 
 #define HB_VERSION_ATLEAST(major,minor,micro) \
 	((major)*10000+(minor)*100+(micro) <= \