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+## Version 0.45 (October, 2022)
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+- New cairo/pango font drawing backend, substituting the direct X11/Xft one.
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## Version 0.44.2 (August, 2022)
- Documentation improvements.
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Check [[./changelog.md][the change log]] for our release history. We also have an IRC
channel, ~#xmobar~, at [[ircs://irc.libera.chat][Libera]].
+* Breaking news
+
+ - Starting with version 0.45 we use cairo/pango as our drawing engine
+ (instead of plain X11/Xft). From a user's point of view, that change
+ should be mostly transparent, except for the facts that it's allowed
+ fixing quite a few bugs and that your /font names/ in your configuration, if
+ you used ~xft~ ones, might need to be adapted to Pango's syntax: please see
+ [[./doc/quick-start.org#fonts][this section of the documentation]] for all the details. If you're
+ compiling your own xmobar, there's a new dependency on libpango (see
+ [[./doc/compiling.org#c-libraries][C library dependencies]]).
+
* Installation
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: installation