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+Amiri 0.100 (2011-12-04), beta gamma delta
+------------------------------------------
+* This release marks another important developmental milestone, with Arabic and
+ Arabic Supplement blocks in Unicode 6.0 being fully covered (which means
+ essentially any Arabic character in Unicode can now be presented with Amiri).
+ Also the font has now matured to great extent and is usable for most of
+ typesetting tasks.
+
+* New styles:
+ - Add a slanted style that slants to the left and no to right, to follow
+ Arabic writing direction.
+
+* New glyphs:
+ - Subtending marks (U+0600-0603).
+ - Arabic date separator (U+060D).
+ - Arabic poetic verse sign (U+060E).
+ - Honorific marks (U+0610-0614).
+ - Dochashmi Heh (U+06BE and U+06FF).
+ - Bari Yaa (U+06D2 and U+06D3).
+ - 4 sizes of Kashida.
+
+Fixes:
+ - Fix issue with Kashida breaking word shaping in InDesign.
+ - Slant Urdu digit four to look more acceptable.
+ - Fix disappearance of media Khaa dot when preceded by Kaf, as in كخا.
+ - Decrease the hight of initial Lam when followed by Haa and Meem, as in
+ لحمد, to match other Lam glyphs.
+ - Finjani Ayn and closed Haa when followed by Kaf.
+ - Lower small Waw after final Heh.
+ - Widen small Waw and final Alef when a Madda mark is applied to them.
+ - Increase side bearings of many dotted glyphs no avoid clash with their
+ neighbours.
+ - More wider forms of glyphs to avoid mark clash when fully vowelled.
+ - New contextual shape for initial Ain followed by Raa, as in غر.
+ - New contextual shape for final Alef preceded by Kashida, as in عمـان.
+ - New contextual shape for final Yaa when followed by open Heh, as in نهى.
+ - New redrawn initial and medial Kaf that do not clash with their neighbours.
+ - New redrawn final Waw that is more faithful to the original design.
+ - Disable, by default, lowering Baa dots when preceded by Raa or Waw, moved
+ to stylistic set 01.
+ - Disable, by default, contextual form of medial Meem when followed by Alef,
+ moved to stylistic set 02.
+ - Digits are now tabular, removed tnum feature.
+ - Common punctuation and European digits are now from Crimson Text.
+ - Change the default interline spacing to fit better for regular text.
+ - Many more smaller fixes here and there.
+
+Amiri 0.016 (2011-09-22), Beginning of the End
+----------------------------------------------
+* This release features full Quranic support, another major developmental
+ milestone, more work still needed in refining glyph interaction specially
+ mark positioning in fully vocalised text such as Quran.
+
+* New glyphs:
+ - All Quranic annotation marks in Unicode 6.0.
+ - All other Arabic vowel marks in Unicode 6.0.
+ - Radical (U+221A) including a RTL variant, and other Arabic radicals
+ (U+0606, U+0607).
+ - Arabic ray (U+0608).
+ - Afghani sign (U+060B).
+ - Arabic sign Misra (U+060F).
+ - New contextual shape for initial meem followed by medial heh, as in مها.
+
+* Kerning:
+ - Decreased the number of kerning pairs from 411240 to 55850 while retaining
+ the same functionality.
+
+* Fixes:
+ - General cleanup of punctuation marks, fixing spacing of brackets and making
+ curly brackets more bolder to fit wit the rest of the font.
+ - Made the space glyph 600 units wide.
+ - Fixed erroneous tatweel (kashida) insertion in full justification.
+ - Wider forms of some glyphs to avoid mark clash when fully vowelled.
+ - Underline position is now lower than most glyphs with descendants.
+ - Various mark positioning fixes.
+ - Separate the ring of Kashmiri yeh from the body of base glyph, following
+ Kashmiri orthographic traditions.
+
+Amiri 0.015 (2011-07-14), Phoenix
+---------------------------------
+* This release represents a major developmental milestone, as the OpenType
+ layout have been rewritten to allow maximum compatibility with various
+ OpenType implementations.
+
+* Cleanup:
+ - More unification and tidy up.
+ - Various fixes for FontForge warnings.
+ - Various dot placement fixes.
+ - Various tashkil fine tuning.
+ - Fixes to Lellah form.
+ - Fine tune initial Baa/final Alef combination.
+
+* More kerning pairs.
+
+* Font name is now shown only in English in font menus.
+
+Amiri 0.014 (2011-06-05), Break a Leg
+-------------------------------------
+* Another minor release to fix two bugs:
+ - Lellah bug on Windows and MS Office.
+ - Wrong placement of dots under final Yaa.
+
+Amiri 0.013 (2011-04-27), Hurry up!
+-----------------------------------
+* A minor release to fix mark positionin on kerned glyphs in Windows.
+
+Amiri 0.012 (2011-04-26), A Long Night
+--------------------------------------
+
+* New glyphs:
+ - Add localised Urdu and Sindhi digits ('locl' feature).
+ - Add tabular numbers feature ('tnum').
+ - European numbers and some punctuation marks from Linux Libertine.
+ - Add at sign with experimental Arabic variant ('locl' feature, too).
+ - Add triple dot punctuation mark (U+061E).
+ - Add middle dot (U+00B7).
+ - Reimplement الله igature properly and added فلله ligature; the code now
+ much more careful on when to activate this ligature.
+
+
+* Cleanup:
+ - Massive cleanup removing tens of too similar glyphs, making the font more
+ unified and consistent.
+ - This cleanup results in more contextual variants that were missing before,
+ yet the font is smaller not larger.
+ - Scaled Tashkil marks down by 80%, they are now smaller leading too less
+ mark collision.
+ - The Arabic digits are more polished.
+ - Misc. mark fixes.
+ - Less use of exotic OpenType features to work with even more OpenType
+ implementations.
+
+* More kerning pairs.
+
+* Bug fixes: 3234138, 3110760, 3087332, 3073139, 3211187, 3211239 and 3078741
+
+Amiri 0.011 (2011-03-31), Inflating the Tire
+--------------------------------------------
+
+* New glyphs:
+ - "#'*,-/;[\]{|}¦
+ - Single and double angle quotation marks: ‹›«», in addition to rounded
+ Arabic variant.
+ - Curly quotation marks: ‟„”“‛‚’‘
+ - Asterism symbol: ⁂
+ - Fraction slash: ⁄
+ - Arabic percent signs: ٪؊؉
+ - Arabic decimal and thousands separators: ٫٬
+ - Arabic five pointed star: ٭
+ - Typographic dashes: ‒ – — ―
+ - Proper support for Arabic characters with traverse stroke: ۅ ݛ ݪ
+ - Arabic characters with digit marks: ݳ ݴ ݵ ݶ ݷ ݸ ݹ ݼ ݽ
+
+* Misc. fixes:
+ - Update font metadata.
+ - Scale all numbers by 120% since they were drawn smaller than what they
+ should, and raise them a bit.
+ - Misc. cleanup of punctuation and math glyphs.
+ - Proper mark support for standalone Hamza.
+ - Visually centralise marks bellow isolated Heh.
+
+Amiri 0.010 (2011-03-21), Referendum
+------------------------------------
+
+* New glyphs:
+ - Lam with three dots below (U+06B8).
+
+* Kerning:
+ - Lam of له with preceding Raa/Waw family.
+ - Kaf of كتب as well.
+
+* Glyph fixes:
+ - Fixed exclamation mark's vertical position as compared to question mark.
+ - Removed stray Hamza from U+063B and U+063C initial and medial forms.
+ - Fixed the weight of isolated Dal, was much bolder than the rest of the font.
+ - Fixed Lam Meem connection in لما, there was a slight mismatch.
+ - Fixed the size of medial Ayn compared to the head of final one.
+
+* OpenType code:
+ - Removed DFLT script from 'locl' feature which would cause it to be on
+ unconditionally.
+ - Got rid of mark sets in favour of the more widely supported mark classes.
+
+Amiri 0.009 (2011-02-06), Revolution
+------------------------------------
+
+* New glyphs:
+ - Initial support for vowel marks, still needs more adjustments and fine
+ tuning.
+ - Arabic and Persian digits.
+ - More punctuation marks.
+ - More coverage of extended Arabic characters.
+ - More glyph variants, especially for pairs ending with Haa.
+
+* Attempted to get around OOo bugs, it should render much better now. A proper
+ fix have been submitted to LibreOffice developers but didn't make it into
+ 3.3.0 release.
+* Packed sfdir into an sfd file in the release, should make it easier for
+ others to open the source in FontForge.
+* Increased line spacing a bit to give more room for vowel marks.
+* More coverage and kerning fixes.
+* Tens of other small fixes here and there.
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ - 3085159 Kaf clashes with next letters
+ - 3085165 Hamza on Alef clashes wit next and previous letters
+ - 3085166 Raa and Zay clashes with next Yaa
+ - 3085172 Kaf clashes with next Lam-Meem combination
+ - 3085174 Lam-Alef is broken of preceded by Kaf-Meem
+ - 3085175 Succeeding Haa clash with each other
+ - 3101634 Missing kerning
+ - 3101674 Finjani Ayn
+
+Amiri 0.003 (2010-10-10)
+-----------------------
+
+* More tuning of kerning, especially handling of dot clash between
+ kerned glyphs.
+* Resolved many glyph clashes especially between ل and ك, between ك and
+ letters with above dots after it, and between marks of ب and ا.
+* Persian should be now fully supported, other languages to follow.
+
+Amiri 0.002 (2010-09-25)
+-----------------------
+
+* More kerning work:
+
+ Kerning have been further refined, extended in coverage especially
+ between contextual variants, and mysterious dot movements on Windows
+ resulting from bad interaction between kerning and dot positioning
+ have been fixed.
+
+* Refined dot positioning:
+
+ Some dot placements have been refined, though this area still in need
+ of more work.
+
+* Smaller file size:
+
+ The uncompressed TTF file is now approximately 25% smaller than previous
+ release, saving a bit more bandwidth when used as web font.
+
+Amiri 0.001 (2010-9-19)
+-----------------------
+
+First release.
+