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== Detailed Description ==
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* allow sharing caches under the bind-mounted dirs
* allow sharing caches under the bind-mounted dirs
* improve footprint on creating caches
* improve footprint on creating caches
* variable fonts suppport
* variable fonts support


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Latest revision as of 15:01, 2 March 2018


Fontconfig 2.13

Summary

Update fontconfig package to the latest version.

Owner

Current status

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 support

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)
  • 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), No
  • Blocks product? none

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes