+libass (0.13.0)
+ * Add native font selection backends for OSX (CoreText) and Windows
+ (DirectWrite). You can now run libass without fontconfig on these
+ platforms. This fixes problems with fontconfig behaving badly on
+ these platforms (it could take minutes to scan all system fonts).
+ Even on Linux, this speeds up loading of embedded fonts (such as
+ provided by ass_add_font()).
+ The DirectWrite backend only works on Windows Vista and later. On
+ XP, fontconfig is still needed. libass can be compiled with both
+ DirectWrite and fontconfig, and then it will fallback to fontconfig
+ automatically if DirectWrite is not available at runtime.
+ * Add ass_get_available_font_providers() API function.
+ * Change the 4th parameter of ass_set_fonts(). This now selects the
+ font provider. This is somewhat backwards compatible with the old
+ behavior, but if you ever passed values other than 0 or 1, your
+ application might break with this libass release.
+ * The ass_fonts_update() function now does nothing. It's kept for
+ backward compatibility only.
+ * Much faster gaussian blur. This can bring a large speedup with big
+ blurred signs and such.
+ * Drop ENCA support
+ * Bug fixes
+ * Fix compilation of the freetype rasterizer (disabled by default)
+ * Fix rendering with some cases of consecutive line breaks (\N\N).
+ * Fix some memory allocation failure checks
+ * Avoid system locale dependent behavior by reinventing some standard
+ C functions
+ * Fix rendering errors with strikes (GH #193)
+ * MSVC compilation fixes
+
libass (0.12.3)
* VSFilter blur compatibility changes
* VSFilter color/alpha parsing compatibility changes
Get it
======
-See [GitHub releases](https://github.com/libass/libass/releases) for the latest release 0.12.3 (released 2015-06-30). This release contains bugfixes and compatibility fixes. See the [changelog](https://github.com/libass/libass/blob/master/Changelog) for a detailed list of changes.
+See [GitHub releases](https://github.com/libass/libass/releases) for the latest release 0.13.0 (released 2015-06-30). This release enables fontconfig-free operation on Windows and OSX, as well as performance improvements to gaussian blur. See the [changelog](https://github.com/libass/libass/blob/master/Changelog) for a detailed list of changes.
Source code is available from our [GitHub repository](https://github.com/libass/libass).