3.1.0

Announcing the SDL_ttf 3.1.0 Stable ABI Preview!

Here are some of the highlights of what's new:

• Updated for SDL 3.0
• Added the concept of a text object and text engine, which is able to efficiently render text for a variety of output methods
• Added TTF_CreateSurfaceTextEngine() and TTF_DrawSurfaceText() for drawing text to SDL_Surface output
• Added TTF_CreateRendererTextEngine() and TTF_DrawRendererText() for drawing text to SDL_Renderer output
• Added TTF_CreateGPUTextEngine() and TTF_GetGPUTextDrawData() for drawing text to SDL_GPU output
• Made the text engine API public in <SDL3_ttf/SDL_textengine.h> so you can integrate text objects into custom font display solutions
• Added TTF_CopyFont() to allow you to easily make fonts of different sizes
• Added TTF_AddFallbackFont() to allow combining fonts with distinct glyph support
• Added support for OT-SVG fonts, which are useful as fallback fonts for color emoji support
• Updated SDF font support and added an example of using it with the SDL GPU API

Please let us know what you think, and report any issues on GitHub:
https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_ttf/issues

2.24.0

Here are the major changes in this release:

• Added TTF_SetFontLineSkip()

2.22.0

In addition to bug fixes, here are the major changes in this release:

• Updated to FreeType version 2.13.2 and HarfBuzz version 8.1.1

2.21.2

This is a release candidate for 2.22.0.

In addition to bug fixes, here are the major changes in this release:

Updated to FreeType version 2.13.2 and HarfBuzz version 8.1.1

2.21.1

This is a release candidate for 2.22.0.

In addition to bug fixes, here are the major changes in this release:

• Updated to FreeType version 2.13.0 and HarfBuzz version 8.1.1

2.20.2

This is a stable bugfix release, with the following changes:

• Fixed building from source without running autogen.sh

2.20.1

This is a quick update to fix building with homebrew on macOS

2.20.0

In addition to new CMake support by @madebr and many bug fixes, here are the highlights since the last release:

• API documentation is now available on the wiki: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_ttf
• Added TTF_GetFontWrappedAlign() and TTF_SetFontWrappedAlign() to set alignment on wrapped text
• Added functions to render using FreeType LCD algorithm:
  TTF_RenderText_LCD()
  TTF_RenderUTF8_LCD()
  TTF_RenderUNICODE_LCD()
  TTF_RenderText_LCD_Wrapped()
  TTF_RenderUTF8_LCD_Wrapped()
  TTF_RenderUNICODE_LCD_Wrapped()
  TTF_RenderGlyph_LCD()
  TTF_RenderGlyph32_LCD()
• Added TTF_SetFontDirection() and TTF_SetFontScriptName() for additional control over fonts using HarfBuzz
• Updated to FreeType version 2.12.1 and HarfBuzz version 2.9.1, fixing CVE-2018-25032
• Fixed crash when loading fonts at certain sizes on Windows
• Fix memory corruption loading malformed TTF files (CVE-2022-27470)

2.19.3

This is hopefully the final release candidate for 2.20.0.

The header documentation has been updated and is available at https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_ttf

2.19.2

This is a release candidate for 2.20.0.

In addition to new CMake support by @madebr and many bug fixes, here are the highlights since the last release:

• Added TTF_GetFontWrappedAlign() and TTF_SetFontWrappedAlign() to set alignment on wrapped text
• Added functions to render using FreeType LCD algorithm:
  TTF_RenderText_LCD()
  TTF_RenderUTF8_LCD()
  TTF_RenderUNICODE_LCD()
  TTF_RenderText_LCD_Wrapped()
  TTF_RenderUTF8_LCD_Wrapped()
  TTF_RenderUNICODE_LCD_Wrapped()
  TTF_RenderGlyph_LCD()
  TTF_RenderGlyph32_LCD()
• Added TTF_SetFontDirection() and TTF_SetFontScriptName() for additional control over fonts using HarfBuzz
• Updated to FreeType version 2.12.1 and HarfBuzz version 2.9.1, fixing CVE-2018-25032
• Fixed crash when loading fonts at certain sizes on Windows
• Fix memory corruption loading malformed TTF files (CVE-2022-27470)