[Bug 1638959] [NEW] Consider updating from 2.12 RC4 to 2.12.1 for 17.04

[Mingye Wang]

Public bug reported:

Current 16.04+ releases uses fc 2.11.94 (2.12 RC4) for an early fix for
#1556457. It sounds saner to move to 2.12.1, a non-RC release which
contains some Unicode table updates, memory leak fixes, and the original
fix for CVE-2016-5384, for the next Ubuntu release. The ABI appears
unchanged since 2.11.94.

README (with ChangeLog): https://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/tree/README
ABI diff: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/fontconfig/

** Affects: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  Current 16.04+ releases uses fc 2.11.94 (2.12 RC4) for an early fix for
- #1556457. It sounds saner to move to a non-RC release for the next
- Ubuntu release, which contains some Unicode table updates, memory leak
- fixes, and the original fix for CVE-2016-5384. The ABI appears unchanged
- since 2.11.94.
+ #1556457. It sounds saner to move to 2.12.1, a non-RC release which
+ contains some Unicode table updates, memory leak fixes, and the original
+ fix for CVE-2016-5384, for the next Ubuntu release. The ABI appears
+ unchanged since 2.11.94.
  
  README (with ChangeLog): https://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/tree/README
  ABI diff: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/fontconfig/

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Title:
  Consider updating from 2.12 RC4 to 2.12.1 for 17.04

Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Current 16.04+ releases uses fc 2.11.94 (2.12 RC4) for an early fix
  for #1556457. It sounds saner to move to 2.12.1, a non-RC release
  which contains some Unicode table updates, memory leak fixes, and the
  original fix for CVE-2016-5384, for the next Ubuntu release. The ABI
  appears unchanged since 2.11.94.

  README (with ChangeLog): https://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/tree/README
  ABI diff: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/fontconfig/

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