- Cairo 1.16.0 (19 Oct 2018)
- Catch2 2.4.2 (26 Oct 2018)
- curl 7.62.0 (31 Oct 2018)
- doctest 2.0.1 (24 Oct 2018)
- ICU 63.1 (15 Oct 2018)
- ImageMagick 7.0.8-14 (24 Oct 2018)
- OGRE 1.11.3 (24 Oct 2018)
- OpenCV 4.0.0-beta (15 Oct 2018)
- Poppler 0.70.1 (22 Oct 2018)
- Scintilla 4.1.2 (2 Oct 2018)
- SDL 2.0.9 (31 Oct 2018)
- SFML 2.5.1 (15 Oct 2018)
- V8 7.2.1 (12 Oct 2018)
Cairo 1.16.0
cairo version 1.16.0 was released on 19 October 2018. A previous fix for Adobe CMYK JPEGs in PDF export was reverted, because it caused a regression for some PDF viewers. A regression was fixed on Windows which could trigger an out of memory error if there is a space glyph.Catch2 2.4.2
Catch2 v2.4.2 was released on 26 October 2018. This version introduces a few improvements. For example, the XmlReporter now outputs the RNG seed that was used in a test run. A few bugfixes were made.curl 7.62.0
curl 7.62.0
was released on 31 October 2018. A new option --doh-url was added, which
supports DNS-over-HTTPS
when doing transfers. There were also numerous bugfixes.
curl is a
command line tool to transfer files using URLs. libcurl is a library for building
the same functionality into your own programs. curl and libcurl are distributed
under the MIT/X license.
doctest 2.0.1
doctest 2.0.1 was released on 24 October 2018. Minor bug fixes were made. There is now a #define to not run tests by default.
doctest is
a single-header C++ testing framework. It is distributed under the MIT license.
ICU 63.1
CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) data is maintained by the Unicode CLDR Project [http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads]. CLDR 34, also released on 15 October, includes support for additional languages, including Interlingua.
The newest ICU and CLDR support testing data for the new Japanese calendar era. The current era in Japan is the Heisei period, which started on 8 January 1989. So, Heisei 1 corresponds to 8 January 1989. The Heisei period is expected to end on 30 April 2019 (Heisei 31) and the Japanese government is expected to announce the new era’s name in late February of 2019.
ICU4C, the C++ API for ICU, now requires C++11 support. ICU4J, the project’s Java API, now requires Java 7.
ICU (International Components for Unicode) is
distributed under a non-restrictive open source license that resembles the
3-clause BSD license.
ImageMagick 7.0.8-14
ImageMagick 7.0.8-14 was released on 23 October 2018. The “-14” update comes only two days after the previous release, 7.0.8-13 (21 October). According to the commit logs, the -14 release replaces an old SVG density value (72.0) with a new one (92.0). A minor change was also made to magic number handling (magic.c).
ImageMagick’s latest release can be downloaded from
https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ The
project also has a GitHub page.
ImageMagick provides utilities to work with bitmap images in a variety
of formats, such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, PDF and SVG. It is distributed under the
Apache 2.0 license.
OGRE 1.11.3
OGRE 1.11.3 was released on 24 October 2018. According to the release notes, this release makes various improvements to the API and makes various code cleanups.
OGRE (Object-Oriented
Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented 3D engine that provides an
interface to system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL.
OpenCV 4.0.0-beta
OpenCV 4.0.0-beta was released on 15 October 2018. This release adds a fast QR code decoder to complement the QR code detector which was added in 4.0.0-alpha. Many functions and kernels have been accelerated. As of the 4.0 series, OpenCV now requires a C++11 compliant compiler.
OpenCV (Open
Computer Vision) is distributed under the 3-clause BSD license.
Poppler 0.70.1
Poppler 0.70.1 was released on 22 October 2018. This release is a follow up to last week’s 0.70.0 release (21 Oct 2018). This release makes fixes to the build system.
Poppler is
a PDF rendering library and is licensed under the GPL.
Scintilla 4.1.2
Scintilla is a source code text editor component. The source code is shipped together with SciTE, a text editor that uses the component.
Scintilla is distributed under a non-restrictive open source license
similar to Python’s license.
SDL 2.0.9
SDL (Simple
DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform multimedia library commonly used for
making games. It is distributed under the zlib license.
SFML 2.5.1
SFML (Simple
and Fast Multimedia Library) is a cross-platform multimedia library
supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux and is is distributed under the non-restrictive zlib/png
license.
V8 7.2.1
V8 is a JavaScript
engine from Google which can be used standalone or embedded into an
application. Notable consumers of V8 include Google Chrome and Node.js. V8 is
distributed under a 3-clause BSD license.