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I. IMPORTANT CHANGES

    - Support for OpenType Variation Fonts is now complete.   The last

      missing part was handling the `VVAR' and `MVAR' tables, which is

      available with this release.

    - A new  function `FT_Face_Properties' allows the  control of some

      module  and   library  properties  per  font.    Currently,  the

      following properties can be  handled: stem darkening, LCD filter

      weights, and the random seed for the `random' CFF operator.

    - The PCF change to show more `colourful' family names (introduced

      in version 2.7.1) was too radical; it can now be configured with

      PCF_CONFIG_OPTION_LONG_FAMILY_NAMES   at   compile   time.    If

      activated, it can  be switched off at run time  with the new pcf

      property  `no-long-family-names'.  If  the `FREETYPE_PROPERTIES'

      environment variable is available, you can say

        FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=pcf:no-long-family-names=1

    - Support  for  the  following  scripts  has  been  added  to  the

      auto-hinter.

        Adlam, Avestan, Bamum, Buhid, Carian, Chakma, Coptic, Cypriot,

        Deseret, Glagolitic, Gothic, Kayah, Lisu, N'Ko, Ol Chiki, Old

        Turkic, Osage, Osmanya, Saurashtra, Shavian, Sundanese, Tai

        Viet, Tifinagh, Unified Canadian Syllabics, Vai

  II. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

    - `Light' auto-hinting  mode no  longer uses TrueType  metrics for

      TrueType  fonts.   This bug  was  introduced  in version  2.4.6,

      causing   horizontal  scaling   also.    Almost  all   GNU/Linux

      distributions (with Fedora as  a notable exception) disabled the

      corresponding patch for good reasons; chances are thus high that

      you won't notice a difference.

      If  optical backward  compatibility for  legacy applications  is

      necessary, you might enable the AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS

      configuration option.   However, it  is strongly  recommended to

      avoid that, adjusting font sizes instead.

    - If a TrueType font gets loaded with FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING, FreeType

      now scales  the font linearly  again (bug introduced  in version

      2.4.6).

    - CVE-2017-8105,  CVE-2017-8287:  Older   FreeType  versions  have

      out-of-bounds  writes  caused  by  heap-based  buffer  overflows

      related to Type 1 fonts.

        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8105

        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8287