freetype2 to 2.7.1

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Andriy Gapon wrote:

>
> It would be really courteous to add an UPDATING entry about this update.
> Specifically, because of the important changes between 2.6.5 and 2.7 as
> described here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-announce/2016-09/msg00000.html
>
> Not everyone follows freetype development and announcements, and some users were
> already quite surprised (including myself).
>
> P.S.
> Perhaps it would be worthwhile explicitly mentioning
> FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35

Just that alone seems to not turn off the new ultra-super-mega hinting, 
which results in green and red shades on verticals on my system.  Not to 
mention that many fonts look different...

Maybe that setting in combination with some build options?  I appreciate 
the effort in maintaining this and keeping it up to date.  It's just 
that I would like to set it to look the way it did before.