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

v116.0 beta2 release

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
• M116 public by @HinTak in #196

New Contributors

• @HinTak made their first contribution in #193

Full Changelog: v87.5...v116.0b2

v87.5

What's Changed

• Fix windows install command by @jamesgk in #180
• Build wheels for Python 3.11 (fixes #182) by @lucach in #183

New Contributors

• @jamesgk made their first contribution in #180
• @lucach made their first contribution in #183

Full Changelog: v87.4...v87.5

v87.4

What's Changed

• Python 3.10 support by @kyamagu in #161
• Build expat for macos 10.14 compatibility by @kyamagu in #152
• Update glfw window example to correctly handle HiDPI by @xjmdoo in #154
• Fix Path.getPoint (#157) by @sherlockdoyle in #158
• Fix obsolete links in README by @kyamagu in #162
• Fix isBold bug by @sherlockdoyle in #166
• Prepare for v87.4 release by @kyamagu in #171

New Contributors

• @xjmdoo made their first contribution in #154
• @sherlockdoyle made their first contribution in #158

Full Changelog: v87.3...v87.4