Version 1.003

• Simultaneous above and below marks over glyphs with dots are now positioned correctly.
• Restore ss01 feature and remove the its replacement cv01 feature, it broke the font on Adobe apps!
• Generate the font without glyph names, they are useless.
• Switch sources to cubics and 100 UPEM.
• Cleanup some glyph outlines.
• Build Arabic font with ufo2ft instead of FontForge.
• Simplify OpenType layout a bit.
• Fix successive heh glyphs, in words like بههة جههه شبههه مشتبههة

Version 1.002

• Fix various mark and glyph attachments (#26).
• Correctly merge duplicate Latin glyphs.
• Fix mark displacement due to kerning.
• Make ss07 feature the default, and move old default to it.
• Fix ss06 feature (#27).
• Turn ss04 feature into cv01 (#24).
• Drop incomplete Greek support.
• Add numr and dnom features (#25).
• Misc bug fixes.

Version 0.9

• Add localized Kashmiri and Sindhi digits.
• Add support for Jawi (#17).
• Used looped kaf when preceded by lam and meem (#18).
• Fix broken lam-alef in Adobe applications (#10).
• Adjust dots above initial kaf followed by alef (#17).
• Fix several misplaced glyph connections (#9).

Version 0.8

• Support Kurdish, thanks to Nzar Design.
• Improved Latin spacing and kerning, by Kalapi Gajjar.

Version 0.7

• Various metadata fixes.
• Fix excessive kerning in وسيط.
• Fix some base glyphs wrongly assigned mark glyph class.

Sixth beta

• Add Urdu full stop۔
• Change dammatan a bit.

• Fix marks above and below combining ء.
• Fix marks below dots.

Fifth beta

• Ensure kerning is applied before mark positioning, to fix bad mark positioning over kerned pairs with Uniscribe/DirectWrite.
• Increase default line-spacing to better fit the cascading nature of the font.
• Various other mark positioning fixes.

Fourth beta

• Fix disappearing ط glyph in bold font due to bad outlines.

Third beta

This is the third, and potentially the last, beta release. Arabic shaping and positioning are considered done, as well as the Latin part of the font. Barring any major issues, the 1.0 will be essentially identical to this release.

Main changes in this release:

• Major improvement to Arabic and Latin kerning and spacing.
• Many fixes to cursive anchors to streamline glyph attachments.
• Several changes to the shapes of vowel marks to be more conventional.
• Using mkmk feature to position stacked vowel marks instead of using ligatures.
• An alternate, rounded, sukun.
• Expanded Latin character set, now covers Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode blocks.

Second beta

This is the second beta release, Arabic shaping have been finalised, but there are still some positioning issues to tackle.

Main changes in this release:

• The file size has been made smaller by removing the legacy Arabic Presentation Forms and other unused glyphs and using glyph references where appropriate.
• The outlines have been further optimised with FontCrunch, making the file size even smaller.
• Localised Urdu digits.
• Much improved bari ye shape and alternates.
• Dot-less feh, beh and qaf characters for completeness sake, as well as inverted damma and ghuna marks.
• New stylistic sets:
  • ss05: Alternate Arabic digit two.
  • ss06: Tailed sheen.
  • ss06: Alternate sad-tah/tah-sad connection.
  • cv00 dropped in favour of ss05.
• Various shaping fixes.
• Fixed positioning of justification alternates.