NEWS for 1.9.12.

NEWS

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+Snapshot 1.9.12 (2010-07-12)
+============================
+
+  A couple of weeks spent fixing those annoying bugs and cleaning up the build
+  system; the list of outstanding tasks to complete for the stable release is
+  finally shrinking. The chief bug fixer has been Benjamin Otte who not only
+  made sure that the public API is consistent and being tested for its
+  consistency, but also ensured that the documentation was up-to-date and
+  spent time clarifying cases where even the Cairo developers have come
+  unstuck in the past. Many thanks, Benjamin. However, he was not alone,
+  as Andrea Canciani continued his fine work in isolating broken corner cases
+  and proceeding to fix them, and tidying up the quartz backend. And last, but
+  definitely not least, M Joonas Pihlaja tried building Cairo across a
+  perverse range of systems and fixed up all the loose bits of code that came
+  unravelled. Thanks everybody!
+
+API Changes
+-----------
+
+  cairo_surface_set_mime_data, cairo_surface_get_mime_data:
+
+    The length parameter is now an unsigned long (as opposed to an unsigned
+    int). The parameter is intended to be an equivalent to a size_t without
+    requiring POSIX types and be large enough to store the size of the
+    largest possible allocation.
+
+  cairo_gl_surface_create_for_texture:
+
+    This a new surface constructor for cairo-gl that explicitly enables
+    render-to-texture for foreign, i.e. application, textures.
+
+  cairo_region_xor, cairo_region_xor_rectangle
+
+    A couple of utility routines add to the region handling interface for
+    the purpose of replacing existing GdkRegion functionality.
+
+Bugs fixes
+----------
+
+  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/600622
+
+    Inkscape was caught in the act of attempting to modify a finished surface.
+    Unfortunately, we had the ordering of our guards and assertions wrong and
+    so an ordinary application error was triggering an assert in Cairo. This
+    lead Benjamin to add a test case to ensure that the entire public API
+    could handle erroneous input and then proceeded to fix a whole slew of
+    uncovered bugs.
+
+
+  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28888
+
+    A regression introduced by the special casing of uploading images to an
+    xlib surface in-place which was ignoring the translation applied to the
+    image.
+
+
 Snapshot 1.9.10 (2010-06-26)
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