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Revision as of 07:48, 28 December 2017
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: 2017-12-28
- 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), No
- Blocks product? none
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)