Changes/Fontconfig 2.13

Fontconfig 2.13

Summary

Update fontconfig package to the latest version.

Owner

• Name: Akira TAGOH
• Email: tagoh@redhat.com
• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 28
• Last updated: 2017-12-27
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Update fontconfig package to the latest version which contains the following features and bug fixes:

• config file description support
• allow sharing caches under the bind-mounted dirs
• improve footprint on creating caches
• variable fonts suppport

Benefit to Fedora

Most visible benefit to Fedora is that new fontconfig can reduce the time on scriptlet to update/create caches. that will be 5x to 10x faster than the previous release. also improve performance of apps with flatpak.

Scope

• Proposal owners:
  • Package new version of fontconfig
  • bug fixes (if any)

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering: #7223 (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
  • List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

• Check if the default font is same to the previous release unless it is proposed in other changes proposal
  • log into your desktop with your primary language and run fc-match
• Check if no missing language coverage in your default font
  • fc-match -f "%{family}: %{lang}\n"

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
• Blocks product? N/A

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)