7.2.0

What's Changed

• Add Tifinagh to the list of scripts that can natively be either right-to-left or left-to-right, to improve handling of its glyph positioning. (Simon Cozens)

• Return also single substitution from hb_ot_layout_lookup_get_glyph_alternates(). (Behdad Esfahbod)

• Fix 4.2.0 regression in applying across syllables in syllabic scripts. (Behdad Esfahbod)

• Add flag to avoid glyph substitution closure during subsetting, and the corresponding --no-layout-closure option to hb-subset command line tool. (Garret Rieger)

• Support instancing COLRv1 table. (Qunxin Liu)

• Don’t drop used user-defined name table entries during subsetting. (Qunxin Liu)

• Optimize handling of “gvar” table. (Behdad Esfahbod)

• Various subsetter bug fixes and improvements. (Garret Rieger, Qunxin Liu)

• Various documentation improvements. (Behdad Esfahbod, Josef Friedrich)

• New API:
  +HB_SUBSET_FLAGS_NO_LAYOUT_CLOSURE
  +HB_UNICODE_COMBINING_CLASS_CCC132

• Deprecated API:
  +HB_UNICODE_COMBINING_CLASS_CCC133

New Contributors

• @jcelerier made their first contribution in #4152
• @jason-simmons made their first contribution in #4167
• @pnacht made their first contribution in #4191
• @DeadSix27 made their first contribution in #4196
• @Josef-Friedrich made their first contribution in #4197
• @arHSM made their first contribution in #4207

Full Changelog: 7.1.0...7.2.0