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-Overview of changes leading to 2.9.0
-Wednesday, August 18, 2021
-History Repeats Itself (Afghanistan)
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-- Subsetter API is being stabilized, with the first stable API to happen in
-  3.0.0 release (https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/3078).
-- Support multiple variation axes with same tag, aka HOI.
-- The “coretext” testing shaper now passes font variations to CoreText.
-- hb-shape/hb-view does not break line at new lines unless text is read from
-  file.
-- hb-view and hb-subset has a --batch now, similar to hb-shape.
-- The --batch mode now uses ; as argument separator instead of : used previously.
-- The --batch in hb-shape does not expect 0th argument anymore. That is, the
-  lines read are interpreted as argv[1:], instead of argv[0:].
-- The --batch option has been undocumented. We are ready to document it; send
-  feedback if you find it useful.
-- hb-subset got arguments revamps. Added much-requested --gids-file, --glyphs,
-  --glyphs-file, --unicodes-file, supporting ranges in --unicodes.
-- Various bug fixes.
-
 Overview of changes leading to 2.8.2
 Tuesday, July 8, 2021
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