v132.0 beta 11 Release

Since m131:

• PathEffect.{DashType, DashInfo, asADash} withdrawn.
  Upstream removed them from public API in m132.

• We now bundle a icudtl.dat for windows. This fixes windows-specific problems
  with SkUnicode, libSkShaper, and SkParagraph. Thanks @MeetWq for the change.
  Relevant CI tests re-enabled and added.

• Upstream's SkNamedTransferFn::* now available as cms.NamedTransferFn.*,
  and SkNamedGamut::* as cms.NamedGamut.*. These are used in RuntimeEffect-related
  code.

• More overloads of SkImage::makeShader added, and SkImage::makeRawShader added
  as Image.makeRawShader.

• We binds SkRuntimeEffect as skia.RuntimeEffect. Added some helper classes:
  SkV3 as skia.V3, SkV4 as skia.V4,
  SkRuntimeEffect::Result as RuntimeEffectResult,
  SkRuntimeEffect::ChildPtr as RuntimeEffectChildPtr,
  SkRuntimeEffectBuilder as RuntimeEffectBuilder,
  std::vector<SkRuntimeEffect::ChildPtr> as VectorRuntimeEffectChildPtr,
  SkSpan<const SkRuntimeEffect::ChildPtr> as SpanRuntimeEffectChildPtr,
  SkRuntimeEffectBuilder::BuilderUniform as RuntimeEffectBuilderUniform,
  SkRuntimeEffectBuilder::BuilderChild as RuntimeEffectBuilderChild.
  Details are subjected to change. We ported all 9 of current upstream SkSL c++ examples,
  hosted elsewhere.

Since m130:

• We now build for Mac OS 13 (12 deprecated at github), and support python 3.13

• GL examples and tests updated, to restrict "Mac OS friendly" GL settings to Mac only.
  Some Linux installations - specifically, inside github CI - are sensitive to those;
  typical desktop linux boxes with real graphic cards seem not to be affected.

• PDF.StructureElementNode.fAdditionalNodeIds withdrawn.
  SkPDF::StructureElementNode::fAdditionalNodeIds removed upstream.

What's Changed

• Sk runtime effect binding by @HinTak in #274
• Make GL version setting specific to Mac OS only by @HinTak in #267
• M131 public by @HinTak in #272
• M131 public py3.13 2nd try by @HinTak in #275
• V130.b10+py3.13 by @HinTak in #277
• Icudtl.dat fix try 2 by @HinTak in #279
• M132 public by @HinTak in #281

Full Changelog: v130.b10...v132.b11

v130.0 beta 10 Release

Since m129:

• Upstream removed SkColorFilter::filterColor, so ColorFilter.filterColor is now emulated.

Since m128 (last beta release):

• We now build for Mac OS 11.0 (instead of 10.13; github CI warning)

• We now bind uptream's experimental skparagraph module and the SkParagraph class,
  to provide multi-line text paragraph layout.
  The functionality is under the skia.textlayout namespace, as Paragraph, etc.

  • There is a FontMgr.OneFontMgr() method which takes a font file or data, which returns
    a font manager having knowledge of exactly one font. FontMgr.New_Custom_Empty() has been
    overloaded as an alias to this, too.

  • The SkUnicode class is now available under python as skia.Unicode.
    The constructor is known to fail on windows - It is likely that downloading
    a icudtl.dat file, renaming from the versioned data-bin-{l,b}.zip in
    https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases, is needed. Windows users please report
    success/failure on this.

  • There are two examples shape_text.py (a python port of upstream's example), and
    skparagraph-example.py hosted elsewhere.

  • Note that the entire skparagraph module is still experimental and subjected to change.
    Font choices on Linux are sensitive to LANG and FC_LANG, and you may need to set/unset
    them for desired outcome.
    See filed issue upstream for details and updates.

• Improved preview of default arguments in function signatures

• Some parametric tests involving skia.SurfaceProps removed during the m87->m116 changes
  are re-added.

What's Changed

• Update README.md by @HinTak in #255
• Skparagraph binding by @HinTak in #258
• fix to pre-release CI cache management by @HinTak in #256
• M129 public by @HinTak in #260
• M130 public by @HinTak in #265

Full Changelog: v128.0b9...v130.b10

v128.0 beta9 Release

Since m127:

• Vulkan symbols are renamed to skgpu::* . We use the older GrVk* forms,
  but also alias them to skgpu.Vulkan* , under the skia.skgpu namespace
  (i.e. similar to upstream's skgpu::, with python syntax), so that both
  m87-like and current continue to work.

Since m126:

• CentOS 7 EOL on 1 Jul 2024: small update to how we build the packages; We now more explicitly
  build for mac os 10.13+ in Skia.

• Adding references and code snipplets to OpenGL settings for Apple users. fixes #214

• GrVkExtensionFlags & GrVkFeatureFlags removed upsteam.

• Some redirections/aliases are added to allow newly written python codes to look like
  their current C counterparts (in addition to supporting a m87-like API).
  We also added some direct calls to currently APIs which were accessible
  only via m87-like emulations. Re-enabled a few parameterized tests removed
  during the m87->m116 transition.

What's Changed

• Improve "convert to PIL" example by @lucach in #250
• M128 public by @HinTak in #253
• Adding references and code snipplets to OpenGL settings for Apple users by @HinTak in #249
• M127 public by @HinTak in #251

Full Changelog: v126.0b8...v128.0b9

v126.0 beta8 Release

No user-visible change between m125 and m126
(SkCanvas::drawArc overloaded; Not adding SkArc class yet)

New to m125:

• Metal-enabled on Mac OS, and added Metal APIs equivalents to Vulkan's.

Changes since m124:

• Dropping Python 3.7 support

• GrContext_Base.defaultBackendFormat and GrContext_Base.compressedBackendFormat
  re-enabled (disabled between m87 and m116)

• Corrected two typos in Vulkan code

• MemoryStream.asData and MemoryStream.skipToAlign4 now emulated
  (changed/removed upstream)

What's Changed

• M126 public by @HinTak in #248
• M125 public by @HinTak in #244

Full Changelog: v124.0b7...v126.0b8

v87.6 Release

This is a minimal maintenance update from v87.5, mainly in the supported CI build matrix: updated CI build hosts and github CI actions, dropping python 3.7, adding linux/aarch64 builds and python 3.12. Functionally, it differs from v87.5 by only two typos.

What's Changed

• ci: build wheels also for linux/aarch64 by @lucach in #189
• Update Bitmap.cpp - obviously a cut and paste typo from Pixmap.cpp by @HinTak in #193
• Build Python 3.12 wheels from @madig #203
• Migrate to trusted publisher pypi workflow from @kyamagu #228
• Add missing PyPI upload environment from @kyamagu #229

Full Changelog: v87.5...v87.6

v124.0 beta7 release

New in v124.0:

• The skia.SamplingOptions class has been fleshed out. See README.m124 to migrate from m87 FilterQuality-based code.

What's Changed

• Vulkan initialization has changed.
• skia.Paint().getBlendMode() is now emulated.
• Upstream deleted SkFontMgr::RefDefault(); copied into skia-python to allow python code to continue to work
• M124 public by @HinTak in #236
• M123 public by @HinTak in #234
• M122 public by @HinTak in #232
• git-sync-deps seems to no longer require or support Python 2 by @pavpanchekha in #245

New Contributors

• @pavpanchekha made their first contribution in #245

Special thanks for @pavpanchekha for fixing "Identify what breaks in m122 for font(typeface("")) on mac os" #241 , which happened after the v122+ developement.

See README.m122 , README.m123 , README.m124 for details since v121.0 .

Full Changelog: v121.0b6...v124.0b7

v121.0 beta6 release

New to this release:

• Typeface.MakeEmpty()

Since m120:

• Typeface(),Typeface.MakeDefault(), Font() and Font(None, ...) ("default font/typeface") are deprecated upstream and usage now triggers warnings. Please migrate to explicit family/file/style choices.

What's Changed

• M121 public by @HinTak in #222
• Migrate to trusted publisher pypi workflow by @kyamagu in #228
• Add missing PyPI upload environment by @kyamagu in #229

See README.m121 for details.

Full Changelog: v120.0b5...v121.0b6

v120.0 beta5 release

New to this release:

• Rudimentary support (TextBlob::MakeFromShapedText) of text-shaping via
  upstream's libSkShaper module. (#195)

• Option to use freetype as fontmgr on non-linux (#213) - using
  skia.FontMgr.New_Custom_Empty()

• OT-SVG font support is on by default now (#212, also see #195).

• Vulkan is enabled for Linux/Windows.

What's Changed

• M120 public by @HinTak in #210

Details in README.m120

Full Changelog: v119.0b4...v120.0b5

v119.0 beta4 release

What's Changed

• Fix status badge in README.md by @kyamagu in #202
• Build Python 3.12 wheels by @madig in #203
• M119 public by @HinTak in #205
• M118 public by @HinTak in #204
• GL example in tutorial will break on m118+ upgrade #209

Brief description of changes in m118, m119: README.m118, README.m119.

New Contributors

• @madig made their first contribution in #203

Full Changelog: v117.0b3...v119.0b4

v117.0 beta3 release

What's Changed

• M117 public by @HinTak in #197
• m116/m117 API gaps against m87.5 #198
• bug fix in TextBlob textcount for non-ascii texts #200

Brief description of changes in m117: README.m117.md

New Contributors

• @jonathanhogg made their first contribution in #198

Full Changelog: v116.0b2...v117.0b3