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  • CM Unicode 0.7.0 (June 18 2009) (Development release)
    • License changed to OFL 1.1
    • Converted to lookups for Advanced Typography
    • Changed building of accented characters, it is now based on anchors
    • Added special accents for capital letters
    • Added small serifs to U+26A in sans-serif fonts
    • Reencoded U+478 and U+479 as U+A46A, U+A46B
    • Kerning copied to built accented characters
    • Added experimental truetype fonts with autoconverted instructions
    • Tarballs now compressed with xz (use xz or 7-Zip for decompression)
  • CM Unicode 0.6.3a (March 14 2008)
    • Bug fixes:
      • wrong ucircumflex and udieresis in CMUTypewriter-Regular, CMUTypewriter-Oblique, CMUTypewriter-LightOblique (from previous fix)
      • wrong advanced width of U+044F in CMUSerif-Italic
      • empty M in CMUSansSerif-Oblique
      • changed encoding of U+2116 in *.enc files
  • Fix to CM Unicode 0.6.3 (March 30 2007)
    • Computer Modern Unicode fonts had wrong "ucircumflex" and "udieresis" glyphs in some fonts. A package cm-unicode-fix-0.6.3.tar.bz2 with fixed CMUTypewriter-LightOblique, CMUTypewriter-Oblique, CMUTypewriter-Regular is added to download area. This package contains these three fonts in pfb, otf and sfd formats. The fonts were regenerated by patched fontforge.
  • CM Unicode 0.6.3 (March 17 2007)
    • Added Latin Extended-A and Latin Extended-B characters to CMUSerif-Roman from VĂ­ctor Carbajo
    • Added glyphs from t2d encoded lh fonts
    • Regenerated by newer fontforge which fixes an issue with "dotlessj"
  • CM Unicode 0.6.2 (March 02 2007)
    • Added anchors to phonetic characters
    • Added 18 pixel bitmap font to CMUBright-Roman, fixed other sizes
    • Swapped "uni1FBC", "uni1FCC", "uni1FFC" and "uni1FBC.alt", "uni1FCC.alt", "uni1FFC.alt" (suggested by Alexey Kryukov), removed relevant substitution with "case" tag, added alternative set of capital letters with mute iota
    • Patched lh fonts to make U+0428 symmetric, also changed U+0429
    • Added stylistic set 1 with some Latin accented letters based on Vietnamese ones and capital letters with adscript mute iota
    • Added Greek small capitals to CMUSerif-Roman, CMUSerif-Bold, CMUSansSerif, CMUSansSerif-Bold, CMUTypewriter-Regular
    • Added 'kern' GPOS tables to languages other than "latn{dflt}"
  • CM Unicode 0.6.1 (November 10 2006)
    • Added ligatures for "i", "j" + combining accents, "Aogonek"
    • Added anchors
    • Reencoded "femaleuncrossed" as "uni26B2", "uni2040" as "uni2322", "uni0311" as "tieaccentlowercase", "cyrflex" as "uni0311"
    • Added 14 and 16 pixel fonts to CMUBright-Roman, regenerated embedded bitmap fonts
    • Changed script and language tags (suggested by Alexey Kryukov)
    • Added "uni1FEE" as reference to "uni0385", "figuredash"
    • Reencoded accented Russian vowels
    • Retraced CMUSansSerif-Bold
    • Added substitution from "uni1FB3", "uni1FBC", "uni1FC3", "uni1FCC", "uni1FF3", "uni1FFC" to "uni1FBC.alt", "uni1FCC.alt", "uni1FFC.alt" with "case" tag (suggested by Alexey Kryukov)
    • Further manual correction of badly traced glyphs from CMUSerif-Roman, CMUSerif-Italic, CMUSerif-BoldItalic, CMUSansSerif-Bold, CMUSansSerif-BoldOblique, CMUBright-Roman fonts
  • CM Unicode 0.6.0 (June 28 2006)
    • Added Vietnamese glyphs from vnr fonts. Characters existed in ec fonts added as local alternatives
    • Changed position of accents in "atilde", "amacron", "otilde", "ntilde", "umacron", "omacron", "aemacron", "uni1E7D", "etilde", "emacron", "afii10831", "afii10832"
    • Corrected "u" and "y" in CMUClassicalSerif-Italic
    • Changed shape of "afii10063" to "afii10068" + "macron"
    • Fixed Cyrillic small capital characters in CMUConcrete-Roman
    • Used names with suffixes for glyph variants. Type 1 fonts now require at least Freetype 2.2
    • Set OS2 Values WinAscent, WinDescent, HHeadAscent and HHeadDescent from bounding box of ec fonts. TypoLineGap and HHeadLineGap are set to 200 (20% of em) as advised by Recommendations for OpenType Fonts. The OpenType fonts now have more condensed line spacing
    • Used lh fonts 3.5.4
    • Fixed some badly traced glyphs (manually edited) from CMUSerif-Roman, CMUSansSerif, CMUSansSerif-Oblique, CMUBright-Roman, CMUBright-Oblique, CMUBright-Bold fonts, look at post_*.sfd files
    • Added "locl" substitution from "beta", "gamma", "theta", "lambda", "chi", "omega" to IPA variants imported from tipa fonts for Latin alphabet
  • CM Unicode 0.5.0 (March 01 2006)
    • Removed extra space from name of "CMU Concrete Bold Extended Roman"
    • Added CM Bright font family and "Typewriter Text Light" fonts (8 fonts)
    • Added accented Russian vowels
    • Added glyphs from lb fonts
    • Built yet more extended Latin characters
    • Renamed "babygamma" as "babygammaold" not to interfere with "rams horn"
    • Font family name for "CMUTypewriter-Oblique" changed to "CMU Typewriter Text"
    • Added quotereversed, uni201F, uni01A7, uni01A8, uni02C1
    • Added uni1FBD and uni1FFD as references
    • Changed font and family name for "CMUSerif-UnslantedItalic" to "CMUSerif-UprightItalic"
    • Added space characters: uni2000...uni200D
    • Added longs and florin to most fonts
  • CM Unicode 0.4.3 (December 07 2005)
    • Copied some combining glyphs to spacing ones for compatibility with TeX
    • Changed simplification rules in mergefonts.pe
    • Non-unicode glyphs reencoded into Private Use Area
    • Added small capitals for Cyrillic and Latin characters to some fonts
    • Copied afii10063 from CMUSerif-Italic to CMUClassicalSerif-Italic
    • Reencoded acrophonic Greek numbers
    • Reencoded some glyphs accordingly upcoming Unicode 5.0
    • Added an workaround for fractions in Serif Bold fonts
  • CM Unicode 0.4.2 (September 20 2005)
    • Substituted some glyphs (numerals, basic Latin alphabet and some others) from Blue Sky fonts when available
    • Built yet more extended Latin characters
    • Built uni0186 from C and uni0254 from c for fonts without IPA
    • Added OpenType substitution for old-style numerals (Thanks to Cody Boisclair)
  • CM Unicode 0.4.1 (May 25 2005)
    • Removed Apple Advanced Typography tables from opentype fonts
    • Reverted nexusleftside and nexusrightside in g.enc
    • Properly reencoded strokes in rx.enc
    • Used guillemets from lh fonts as default, the ones from ec fonts substitutedwith GSUB locl tag
    • Corrected uni0329
    • Built yet more phonetic symbols
  • CM Unicode 0.4.0a (May 04 2005)
    • Added missing Concrete fonts
  • CM Unicode 0.4.0 (May 03 2005)
    • Added Concrete font family
    • Reencoded some symbols accordingly Unicode 4.1
    • Merged into uc (ux) fonts from the lh fonts
    • Set width of combining glyphs to zero in proportional width fonts
    • Used leipzig shape of Greek letters in serif italic fonts, the old one is moved to CMUClassicalSerif-Italic
    • Rebuilt uni1FBC, uni1FCC, uni1FFC placing mute iota under a glyph
    • Built capital Greek polytonic glyphs in proportional width fonts
    • Built several accented Latin glyphs
    • Built IPA digraphs: uni02A3, uni02A5, uni02A8, uni02A9, uni02AA, uni02AB
    • Built several phonetic symbols
    • Reencoded CYREPS as uni0190 and cyreps as uni0190 in rx.enc
    • Merged changes from Alexey Kryukov into g.enc
    • Several accents in tc.enc encoded as capital accents
    • Used neutral shape for quotesingle from tc fonts
  • CM Unicode 0.3.2 (Mar 28 2005)
    • Reencoded Serbian italic glyphs
    • Made lowercase monotonic accented Greek glyphs as references to polytonic ones
    • Added Delta.greek, Omega.greek and mu.greek as references to unicode encoded glyphs
    • Added several composite Latin glyphs
    • Removed tipabs10 and tipxbs10 from SansSerif-BoldOblique
    • acc_height changed to 90/36pt in ectb.mf, ectx.mf, tctb.mf, tctx.mf in order to shift up accents. Aring glyph is built using fontforge.
  • CM Unicode 0.3.1 (Mar 09 2005)
    • Reverted tracing options for Serif Italic fonts with a workaround for fractions
    • Changed tracing options for SansSerif-DemiCondensed to produce more smooth outlines
    • Regenerated by the fontforge from CVS which fixes the positions of accented eta glyphs in otf files
  • CM Unicode 0.3.0 (Feb 28 2005)
    • License changed for X11 with an exception for fonts
    • Fixed width of ellipsis in proportional fonts
    • Changed magnification of italic serif fonts, fixes a bug with onehalf
    • Added IPA symbols from tipa fonts
    • changed slope of the Greek glyphs in italics, roman slanted and typewriter text fonts
    • Added 10 (6 unicode) Cyrillic extended glyphs from lc fonts
  • (Dec 24 2004)
    • OpenType fonts regenerated by fontforge with fixed bug related to hints generation in otf fonts
  • CM Unicode 0.2.2 (Dec 22 2004)
    • Rebuilt by fontforge with fixed bug related to generation of .pfb fonts with references
    • Added ATT tags for substitution of g, d, p and t for Serbian language in italic fonts
    • Built Serbian glyphs "p" and "t" from Cyrillic "i" and "sha" in italic fonts
    • Built imacron
  • CM Unicode 0.2.1 (Dec 21 2004)
    • created experimental font gtdn1000 which is merged into CMUSansSerif-DemiCondensed
    • gsme1000 and gsxe1000 fonts used instead of gsmn1000 (changed shape of epsilon)
    • grmu1000 merged into CMUSerif-UnslantedItalic
    • created experimental font gtbi1000 which is merged into CMUTypewriter-BoldItalic
    • created experimental font gtbn1000 which is merged into CMUTypewriter-Bold
    • changed encoding for Omega and Delta symbols
    • renamed macron.ts1 by macronts1 to avoid ambiguity in freetype OpenType fonts are also generated
    • added ATT substitutions for guillemotleft, guillemotright, emdash
    • added nonbreakingspace as reference to space
  • CM Unicode 0.2.0 (Nov 03 2004)
    • TeX fonts are retraced by mftrace with autotrace backend at higher resolutions. This should create more correct outlines (I hope).
    • Added linedrawing characters to Typewriter fonts
    • Added ".notdef" glyph as supposed by Adobe
    • Generated several Cyrillic and Greek accented glyphs using fontforge
    • Changed fontnames for several fonts to conform Adobe conventions
    • regenerated by fontforge-20041028
  • CM Unicode 0.1.3 (May 11 2004)
    • regenerated by fontforge-20040509 which fixes issues with hints
  • CM Unicode 0.1.2 (Dec 09 2003)
    • regenerated by pfaedit-031205
    • added two experimental fonts CMUTypewriter-Bold and CMUTypewriter-BoldItalic, containing Latin and Cyrillic glyphs
    • added RoundToInt() to merging script
    • redesigned "musicalnote" glyph for monospaced fonts
    • changed family name for Typewriter Text Regular
  • CM Unicode 0.1.1 (Aug 27 2003)
    • redesigned ellipsis glyph for monospaced fonts
    • changed names for Typewriter Text fonts to conform Mac OS X requirements
    • panose value "monospaced" is set for Typewriter Text fonts
    • regenerated by pfaedit-030822
  • CM Unicode 0.1 (Apr 10 2003)
    • First public release