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diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md index b4f5009..fca8609 100644 --- a/changelog.md +++ b/changelog.md @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +## Version 0.45 (October, 2022) + +- New cairo/pango font drawing backend, substituting the direct X11/Xft one. + ## Version 0.44.2 (August, 2022) - Documentation improvements. @@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ output, in a variety of formats. 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 |