[Bug 1521299] Re: Update to 2.6.3

[Bungeman]

I would argue this is more than just "wishlist". In FreeType 2.6 an
actual thread safety model was introduced making FreeType no longer
thread antagonistic. Also, between 2.6 and 2.6.2 FreeType was heavily
fuzzed which resulted in a number of fixes, some of which may be of
security interest but because they were not found as vulnerabilities
they will probably never end up with CVE numbers. If Xenial ships with
FreeType 2.5.2, I have no doubt that it will have already known but
unpatched security issues for its entire life.

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Title:
  Update to 2.6.3

Status in freetype package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in freetype package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Please update the package to 2.6.3. There's quite a bit of interesting
  new features and stability fixes via fuzzing since 2.5.x, have a look
  at www.freetype.org -> "More on the 2.6.2 release for users and
  developers".

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