Recent Releases

0.17.413 Sep 2026 23:45 minor bugfix: Add new API to prune old events from memory. Ass_prune_events for manual pruning. Ass_configure_prune to set up automatic pruning. Add ASS_OVERRIDE_BIT_BLUR flag. Fontconfig: minor memory leaks in pathological font setups. Coretext: build on older compilers or Mac OS X 10.5. Checkasm: build for older compilers. Aarch64: assembly build on strict compilers due to oversized align. Meson: improve ASM configuration on x86 Android. Meson: align MSVC warnings and optimisations r to gcc-like compilers. Meson can now build all dev utility executables.
0.17.322 Aug 2024 13:41 major bugfix: * Fix 0.17.2 regression in the fontconfig fontprovider leading to undesirable widths being chosen from large typographic families * Fix configure generated with slibtool-provided autoconf macros * Fix "make check" for shared-only builds * Constify some API parameters in a backwards-compatible manner * Add new ass_malloc and ass_free API functions * Tweak default optimization flags * Speed up parsing of events with very long override blocks * Improve handling of HarfBuzz-related failures