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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net> Pixman code merge. Optimization. Fixes for sub
 Hans Breuer <hans@breuer.org> win32 bug fixes, build fixes, and improvements
 Brian Cameron <brian.cameron@sun.com> Flag bug in Sun's X server
 Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc@gnome.org> libspectre integration into the test-suite
+Andrea Canciani <ranma42@gmail.com> Bugs, quartz backend improvements and type 6/7 patterns.
 Damien Carbery <damien.carbery@sun.com> Build fixes
 Andrew Chant <andrew.chant@utoronto.ca> Adding const where needed
 Steve Chaplin <stevech1097@yahoo.com.au> Bug fixes for PNG reading