NEWS: Bring up to date with recent bug fixes.

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 Release 1.??.?? (??)
 ====================
-intro text...
+Hard to believe it's been over a year since our last release, but it's
+not for lack of activity.  This release includes contributions of a wide
+assortment of bug fixes, build system improvements, warnings cleanups,
+codebase refactoring, test suite repairs, and static analysis work.
+This release is lighter on features (compared with 1.12.10) but includes
+a highly demanded rehaul of our image downscaling functionality, which
+solves a serious problem experienced by Inkscape users when shrinking
+embedded bitmaps in SVG files.
 
+While not as exciting in terms of new fe
 
 Features
 --------
@@ -11,6 +19,23 @@ Features
   when viewing large images on low resolution devices, as firefox and
   chromium already do.
 
+    Filter generator:
+    - Single filter, no "reconstruction" and "sample" filter
+    - Filters for derivative < 1 work
+    - Fixed IMPULSE and BOX
+    - Added TENT, CATMULL_ROM, NOTCH. Remove LANZCOS2.
+    - Renamed CUBIC to MITCHELL
+
+    Cairo's filter settings:
+    - CAIRO_FILTER_GOOD: uses BOX filter for scales less than .75 in
+      either direction. Uses PIXMAN_FILTER_GOOD (ie BILINEAR) otherwise.
+    - CAIRO_FILTER_BEST: uses CATMULL filter always. Upscaling more than
+      2x will produce anti-aliased square pixels, similar to OS/X.
+    - CAIRO_FILTER_GAUSSIAN: this obsolete value is used to test other
+      filters.  The program must declare and poke the filter into the
+      static variable ikernel. This should be removed for production
+      code.
+
   Improve handling of device transformation and scaling, allowing Cairo
   to now support scaling at a device level, permitting easier, more
   transparent HiDPI support.
@@ -25,9 +50,17 @@ Features
 
   Reorder font declarations to be in natural order.
 
+  Update the Skia backend to build against current Skia (as of June
+  2014).
+
+  Drop Link-Time Optimization (LTO) support from build system.  This
+  seems to have caused much trouble for unclear benefit, and most
+  distros are reverting or disabling it anyway.
+
 
 API Changes
 -----------
+
   New public functions cairo_surface_set_device_scale and
   cairo_surface_get_device_scale are available.
 
@@ -38,6 +71,7 @@ Dependency Changes
   Cairo now requires glib 2.14 for its gobject helper functions,
   and pixman 0.30 for downscaling.
 
+
 Bug fixes
 ---------
 
@@ -101,9 +135,38 @@ Bug fixes
   American rather than British spelling of this word.
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50411
 
+  Fix crash in pixman_image_composite32
+
   Fix crash when trying to modify a (const) all-clipped cairo_clip_t
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75819
 
+  Add check_composite method to all compositors, to fix crashes in the
+  test suite.
+
+  Fix crash in Firefox when scrolling on certain pages.
+
+  Fix memory leaks found by static analysis.
+
+  Fix build of any2ppm if fork is not available.
+
+  Fix broken build for Qt backend, due to missing libstdc++.
+
+  Fix typo in two cairo_uint128 functions.  Fixes potential build issues
+  on systems without a uint128 type.
+
+  Fix build when --enable-pdf=no
+
+  Fix cache_frozen assertions for Win32 print.
+
+  Correctly check for xcb image surface for inplace upload
+
+  Fix webkit-based web browser crashes due to empty boxes by skipping
+  over them when tesselating.
+
+  Make pixman, libpng, and zlib paths commandline configurable for win32
+  builds.
+
+  Fix image scale on Win32 when GDI scale is not identity.
 
   Various cleanups and fixes to warnings, documentation, tests, and
   build system.  Improve error handling and return value checks.
@@ -518,8 +581,8 @@ cases (such as stroking around a rectangle) and by reducing the number
 of edges generated by the general stroker.
 
 As part of the focus on performance, Cairo 1.12 introduces some
-antialias hints (NONE,FAST, GOOD, BEST) that are interpolated by the
-raserisers to fine tune their performance versus quality. Cairo 1.12
+antialias hints (NONE, FAST, GOOD, BEST) that are interpolated by the
+rasterisers to fine tune their performance versus quality. Cairo 1.12
 also introduces a new observation architecture,
 cairo_surface_observer_t, which can be used to analyse the amount of
 time consumed by drawing commands and help identify inefficiencies in