From c25d4abc21e7bd50025068156e7dd36ba1ab0b89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dima Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 02:25:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] release-notes: adding pango font loading deprecation --- nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml index 2a5064c71b0f..c5b8b1254f78 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2003.xml @@ -198,6 +198,14 @@ The buildRustCrate infrastructure now produces lib outputs in addition to the out output. This has led to drastically reduced closed sizes for some rust crates since development dependencies are now in the lib output. + + + + Pango was upgraded to 1.44, which no longer uses freetype for font loading. This means that type1 + and bitmap fonts are no longer supported in applications relying on Pango for font rendering + (notably, GTK application). See + upstream issue for more information. +