version: bump for 1.12.0 release!

NEWS

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+Release 1.12.0 (2012-03-23 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
+===================================================================
+It's taken over 18 months, but the wait is finally over. A new cairo release!
+We are pleased to annouce a new stable release of Cairo that brings many
+new features and performance improvements, all whilst maintaining
+compatibility with cairo-1.0 and all releases since. We recommend anyone
+using a previous release of Cairo to upgrade to 1.12.0.
+
+The major feature of this release is the introduction of a new procedural
+pattern; the mesh gradient. This, albeit complex, gradient is constructed
+from a set of cubic Bezier patches and is a superset of all other gradient
+surfaces which allows for the construction of incredibily detailed patterns.
+In PDF parlance, the mesh gradient corresponds with type 7 patterns. Many
+thanks to Andrea Canciani for bringing this to Cairo, and for his work on
+making gradient handling robust.
+
+Not content with just adding another procedural pattern, Cairo 1.12 also
+adds new API to create a callback pattern,
+cairo_pattern_create_raster_source, that allows the application to
+provide the pixel data for the region of interest at the time of
+rendering. This can be used for instance, by an application to decode
+compressed images on demand and to keep a cache of those decompressed
+images, independently of Cairo. When combined with the recording
+surface, it should form a useful basis for a deferred renderer.
+
+With the release of cairo-1.12, we also introduce a new supported
+backend for interoperating with X using XCB. Uli Schlachter, also
+maintainer of awesome and contributor to libxcb, has volunteered to
+maintain cairo-xcb for us. Thanks Uli!
+
+For cairo-1.12, we have also added some common API to address any
+surface as an image and so allow direct modification of the raster data.
+Previously, only the Quartz and Win32 backends supported a very narrow
+interface to allow for efficient pixel upload. Now with
+cairo_surface_create_similar_image, cairo_surface_map_to_image, and
+cairo_surface_unmap_image, Cairo exports a consistent method for
+treating those surfaces as an image and so allow modification inplace.
+These are the same routines used internally, and should support
+efficient transfer or direct mapping of the target surfaces as
+applicable.
+
+Another focus over the past year has been to address many performance
+issues, without sacrificing the composition model. To accomplish the
+goal, once again the rasterisation pipeline was overhauled and made
+explicit, giving the backends the freedom to implement their own
+specific pipeline whilst also providing a library of common routines
+from which to build the pipeline. For instance, this allows the image
+backend and the gl backend to composite scan line primitives inplace,
+and to then implement custom fallbacks to catch the corner cases that do
+not map onto their fastest paths. Similarly, this allows for the Xlib
+backend to implement trapezoidation without compromising the other
+backends, yet still allow for the pipeline to be used elsewhere for
+testing and fallbacks. Clipping was once again overhauled, so that the
+common cases for the raster pipelines could be captured and processed
+with fast paths with the emphasis on performing geometric clipping to
+reduce the frequency of using multi-pass clipmasks. Stroking was made
+faster, both by providing specialised fast-paths for simple, yet frequent,
+cases (such as stroking around a rectangle) and by reducing the number
+of edges generated by the general stroker.
+
+As part of the focus on performance, Cairo 1.12 introduces some
+antialias hints (NONE,FAST, GOOD, BEST) that are interpolated by the
+raserisers to fine tune their performance versus quality. Cairo 1.12
+also introduces a new observation architecture,
+cairo_surface_observer_t, which can be used to analyse the amount of
+time consumed by drawing commands and help identify inefficiencies in
+both Cairo and the application.
+
+Last, but by no means least, the OpenGL backend has seen significant
+work including the port to GLESv2 and the exploitation of advanced
+hardware features. Interesting times.
+
+As always, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to Cairo,
+not only through writing code, but also submitting documentation, bug
+reports, suggestions and generally having fun with Cairo! In particular
+though this release could not have happened without the efforts of
+Adrian Johnson, Alexandros Frantiz, Andrea Canicani, Martin Robinson,
+Nis Martensen, and Uli Schlachter. Thanks.
+-Chris
+
 Snapshot 1.11.4 (2012-13-12)
 ============================
 The cairo community is pleased to finally announce the long aniticpated

cairo-version.h

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #define CAIRO_VERSION_H
 
 #define CAIRO_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR 11
-#define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO 5
+#define CAIRO_VERSION_MINOR 12
+#define CAIRO_VERSION_MICRO 0
 
 #endif