Nerd Fonts 2.3.0 / 2.3.1 / 2.3.2 / 2.3.3 Release

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Main changes

• TTC support ✔️
• Add all Material Design Icons (after codepoint F0001) Add New Material Design Icons to its own region #773
• Preserve embedded bitmaps ✔️
• No useless Nerd Font Mono from proportional source fonts anymore ✔️
• Preserve sourcefont line gaps ✔️
• Braille support (maybe not, see Add Braille support #837)
• Finally drop Windows Compatible ❓
• Add Nerd Font Proportional ❓ Pull 'Mono' to front in names and other naming changes #1028

Updates

• 3270font ✔️
• Inconsolata ✔️
• Iosevka Update Iosevka font to 15.3.1 #832
• Add Iosevka Term Slab Add Iosevka Term Slab #803

Fixes

• Symbols Only Mono is empty?! ✔️

Items marked ❓ are rather breaking and should be done in 3.0.0 instead?

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Requests

Icons

• Glyph Request : Anaconda (conda) #952 -> 🟡 v3.0.0
• Add icon for aws #936
• Add Hacklang icon #904
• Add Deno Icon #869 -> 🟡 v3.0.0
• Add Netwide Assembler (NASM) icon #857
• Add progress bar icon set #855
• Add icon for Shopify Liquid (.liquid) files #852
• add Raku icon #851 -> postponed
• Add crypto glyphs: Ethereum, Solana, Shiba Inu, Avalanche, etc. #728
• Include Feather icons #665 -> 🟡 v3.0.0
• Adding icons for reasonml and rescript ? #657
• Add vlang #630

Font Updates

• Update Iosevka font to 15.3.1 #832
• update fira code to latest #649

Bugs

• Patcher does not check for illegal characters in output filename #632
• Icons are rendered small and low on Windows Terminal and iTerm (have bisect) #634
• FuraCode, three dots are displayed as a space, a question mark and a dot #646
• Power Line half cirles streched #658
• [Bug] Curved separators do not extend to full height of character box #661
• Victor Mono Complete - Italic/oblique variants seen as "duplicate" in MacOS #663 -> 🟡 v3.0.0
• Patched PragmataPro glyphs are being rendered sliced #682
• Overpass Nerdfont kerning is incorrect #703
• Size issue in ProggyCleanTT* #718
• Fira code glyphs size reduced #731
• [Feature Request] Shrink very wide icons to fit inside 2 wide space #747
• Caskaydia Cove not displaying on visual studio code, but displayed correctly in the integrated terminal. #785
• whitspace-mode issue when using CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font Mono in Emacs #826
• Not Supported in VSCode terminal [solved] #831
• Source Code Pro nerd font looks different compared to unpatched Source Code Pro #842
• Vertical alignment wrong? #877
• Patched Fira Code height does not match original font on Windows Terminal #885
• UbuntuMono has no license file #979

and family related:

• Characters from the range U+F900 to U+FAFF are displayed with a width of two #637 -> 🟡 v3.0.0
• FiraCode NF Retina not being recognized as a distinct font #744
• Mono fonts have same family name as double-width fonts on Windows #757

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The list above seems to come to a conclusion (finally).
Here the milestone list link
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/milestone/22

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Check all source font versions.

Agave 10 -> 37
Arimo 1.23 -> 1.33
IBM Plex 1.0.0 -> 6.1.1 (2.000 to 2.3)
DaddyTimeMono 1.009 -> 1.2.2
FiraCode 6.0 -> 6.2
FiraMono 3.111-> 3.206
Go-Mono 2.008 -> 2.010
Gohu 2.0 -> 2.1
Hermit 1.21 -> 2.0
Iosevka 11.0.1 -> 16.3.4
Liberation 2.00.5 -> 2.1.5
Lilex 1.000 -> 1.100
M+ 1.063 -> ?
Mononoki 1.2 -> 1.4
Overpass 3.0.0 -> 3.0.5
Roboto Mono 2.0 -> 3.0
Source 2.030 -> 2.038
Terminus 4.40.1 -> 4.49.1
Victor Mono 1.4.1 -> 1.5.4

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Noto seems missing here, compare #1071

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Note to self:

• Check if cheat sheet works with 5 digit codes ✔️

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All systems go -> Trigger Release 2.3.0 (via 7839899)

Build times usually around 5 minutes
Font running more than 10:

• NAME (time minutes) [families * styles]
• Liberation Mono (12) [3*4]
• RobotoMono (12) [1*10]
• Lilex (13) [1*4] otf+ttf
• Overpass (19) [1*4 + 1*16]
• iA writer (19) [4*4] one set otf+ttf
• IBM Plex Mono (22) [1*16]
• Cascadia Code (22) [1*12]
• Hasklig (23) [1*14]
• SourceCodePro (27) [1*15]
• Victor Mono (28) [1*21]
• Meslo (31) [6*4]
• M+ (43) [8*2..7?]
• JetBrains Mono (48) [2*16]
• Iosevka (149) [2*27]
• Noto (121) [1*1 + 1*36 + 1*68 + 1*72]

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Unfortunately Release workflow had a bug: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/actions/runs/3941121635/jobs/6745881154
Fortunately I can do the missing steps by hand afterwards.

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List what to do (next time)

• Trigger release
• Fill out release draft text and publish release
• Manually fill gh-pages release version and description (see 9ac253b)
• Check readme for font version changes that were forgotten (see af78959)
• Sankey diagram? https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/bin/scripts/data/sankey
• Casks
  • Update PAT
  • Trigger workflow manually via https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/actions/workflows/casks.yml
  • Create PR in fork

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https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/milestones/v2.3.2

• Overpass Nerdfont kerning is incorrect #703
• Scaling inconsistency between text and glyphs #1056
• font-patcher: Cover alternate unicode encodings #1058
• Rewrite font height calculation #1060

Check #70

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v2.3.3

• 8a749ab patch-em-all: Fix missing licenses
• 4939ac5 Fix Symbols Only metrics

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For some reasons the workflow generated 2 release drafts with the same tag??!

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Needs repair:

gitter-buttons:

remove travis

Shall this clone the pages or master? Strange link:

Add community packages:

Obviously not updated (e7c9630 missing):

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bug-life

https://9-volt.github.io/bug-life/?repo=ryanoasis/nerd-fonts