v6.2.0

Newly added support for:

• Smart components (#822, #829, #840)
• Glyphs 3 alternate layers (#828, #833, #834, #839, #842)
• Corner components (#831)
• Rename Glyphs custom parameter (#832)
• Right-to-left kerning in Glyphs 3 (#865)
• Saving postscript hinting information to UFO (#825)

Fixes:

• Fix interaction between COLRv0 layers and components (#875)
• Look in the "Axis Location" custom parameter for axis mappings (#810)
• Preserve custom name table entries when roundtripping to UFO. (#827)
• Maintain instance properties when saving (#862, #864)
• Don't use "default" feature writers when the user has provided their own kern feature (#849)
• Maintain the "postscriptFontName" in Glyphs format v3 files (#878)

Smaller improvements:

• use fontTools.misc.transform instead of glyphsLib.affine (#854)
• Reduce the ordering difference with respect to Glyphs (#863)
• Add option to expand_includes in features (#798)
• Use version 3 structures internally (#869, #874)
• Improvements to custom name table entries (#871, #872, #857, #858)
• Improvements to the support for the "Variable" instance (#815, #819, #856)

Full Changelog: v6.1.0...v6.2.0

v6.1.0

• Support for loading .glyphspackage sources (#803).
• Support converting "meta Table" custom parameter to UFO 'public.openTypeMeta' (#808).
• Parse GSInstance.type attribute for Glyphs3 sources, and ignore instances marked as 'variable' when building DS axis mappings (#812).
• Write out master names when saving a Glyphs2 source as format 3, previously they were incorrectly reset to 'Regular' (#811).

v6.0.7

v6.0.7

• Implement the "Feature for Feature Variations" custom feature (#796)
• Write GDEF categories for glyphs to the UFO public.openTypeCategories lib key (#792)

v6.0.6

• Make the first point of an open contour behave the same with regards to the 'name' attribute as following points (#789).
• When building COLRv1 layers, avoid creating color glyphs with empty PaintColrLayers list.

v6.0.5

• Ensure instance width class is remapped to user-space values in Glyphs 3 sources (#780, #781).
• While importing UFO features.fea to Glyphs, handle the case where a mark class is used as the value for a glyph class (#694, #682).
• Fixed regression whereby the advance width of intermediate layers was being overwritten by the width of the associated master layer (#773, #774, #777).

v6.0.4

• Fix problem building brace layers (#741)

v6.0.3

• Fix two small problems with localised values (#766)
• Fix color on master layer optimization (#768)

v6.0.2

• Fix reusing master layer glyph when creating COLR v1 table; if master
  layer has color attribute, we should use its glyph for the color layer
  in the UFO font, but this was not working for COLR v1 layers.

v6.0.1

• Make passing --glyph-data to glyph2ufo actually do something.

v6.0.0

First stable release in the 6.x series

The major change in this release cycle is the support for Glyphs 3 file format and using openstep-plist for parsing Glyphs file instead of the home-grown plist parser.

This release requires Python >= 3.7.

Other changes since last stable release include:

• Update GlyphData.xml to commit 0fe81a0 (#665)
• Implement "Link Metrics ..." custom parameters (#641)
• Close open corners with a ufo2ft filter (#663)
• Support FontLab 7 Glyphs export format (#719)
• Various housekeeping fixes (#704, #705, #720)
• Improve GSNode.read* performance (#732)
• Construct glyph data from unicodes as a fallback (#736)
• [builder] Check that vert{Width,Origin} are not None, can be 0 (#659)
• [builder] Support hints with target="up" and "down" (#613)
• [builder] Store layer names for roundtripping (#664)
• [builder] Guard against rogue comments in glyph classes (#660)
• [builder] Optionally, only export UFO layers needed for font compilation (#674, #722)
• [builder] Respect "Propagate Anchors" custom parameter (#683)
• [builder] Only write locations along defined axes (#739)
• [builder] Export COLRv0 layers (#716)
• [builder] Export COLRv1 layers from Glyphs 3 Color layers (#751)
• [builder] Export stylistic set feature names from Glyphs 2 feature notes and Glyphs 3 feature labels (#615)
• [builder] Add glyph_data argument to glyphs2ufo and to_ufos() (#668)