Cairo 1.16 Released With OpenGL ES 3.0 Support, Colored Emojis

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Cairo 1.16 Released With OpenGL ES 3.0 Support, Colored Emojis

It's been four years since the debut of the Cairo 1.14 stable series and today that has been succeeded by Cairo 1.16. Cairo, as a reminder, is the vector graphics library for 2D drawing and supports back-ends ranging from OpenGL to PDF, PostScript, DirectFB, and SVG outputs. Cairo is used by the likes of the GTK+ tool-kit, Mozilla's Gecko engine, Gnuplot, Poppler, and many other open-source projects...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Cairo-1.16-Released

[wizard69]

Nice!

This makes me wonder if a Vulkan backend is coming. I didn't see any indications one way or the other on the Cairo web site.

[clapbr]

Still no gamma correction https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/issues/2 8 years long

[oleid]

Nice!

This makes me wonder if a Vulkan backend is coming. I didn't see any indications one way or the other on the Cairo web site.

I had the impression, that cairo is in maintenance mode and that the new and exciting stuff is happening in gsk.