v1.0.0-beta16

Advisories and Breaking Changes

Api

• Introduce TextOptions - #218 via @JimBobSquarePants

Build

• Drop NetStandard 1.3 - #234 via @JimBobSquarePants

Release Notes

Api

• Add FontCollection.AddSystemFontCollection - #195 via @JimBobSquarePants

Bug

• Allow loading of Non-Windows character maps - #192 via @JimBobSquarePants
• Fix loading woff 1 fonts - #208 via @brianpopow
• Fix Woff2 Glyph Loading - #209 via @JimBobSquarePants, @brianpopow
• Fix shaping when positions are not updated - #219 via @JimBobSquarePants
• Fix rendering for fully-qualified emojis with Twemoji font - #230 via @jairbubbles

Build

• Add netcore 3.1 target - #207 via @JimBobSquarePants

Codequality

• Use ImageSharp.Drawing package for samples. - #184 via @JimBobSquarePants
• Improve Font Metadata APIs - #187 via @JimBobSquarePants
• Expose methods to get paths for fonts. - #190 via @JimBobSquarePants
• Simplify CMapTable implementation - #193 via @0xced, @JimBobSquarePants
• Fix many typos - #194 via @0xced

Documentation

• Fix example reading a font description - #186 via @brianpopow

Enhancement

• Fallback for badly formed hhea tables - #181 via @JimBobSquarePants
• Support Word Breaking. - #197 via @JimBobSquarePants
• Bidi + Font Shaping Support - #198 via @JimBobSquarePants, @brianpopow
• Allow returning names by id. - #223 via @JimBobSquarePants

Format:Woff2

• Add support for reading woff2 fonts - #188 via @brianpopow, @JimBobSquarePants

Other

• fix (FontLoad): Skip Non version 1 properties on load for Version 1 TTF - #204 via @jafin
• Apply features in order - #211 via @brianpopow
• Port/integrate Font hinting from SharpFont - #210 via @tocsoft, @JimBobSquarePants
• Optimize hinting interpreter - #225 via @TechnologicalPizza
• Fix some emoji rendering with Segoe UI Emoji font - #231 via @jairbubbles, @JimBobSquarePants

Unicode

• Make CodePoint Public - #185 via @JimBobSquarePants
• Expose SpanCodePointEnumerator and SpanGraphemeEnumerator - #189 via @JimBobSquarePants
• Update to Unicode 14 - #224 via @JimBobSquarePants

New Contributors

• @0xced made their first contribution in #193
• @jafin made their first contribution in #204
• @TechnologicalPizza made their first contribution in #225
• @jairbubbles made their first contribution in #230

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-beta15...v1.0.0-beta16