Reducing memory consumption in librsvg, part 1: text nodes

Since a few weeks ago, librsvg is now in oss-fuzz — Google's constantly-running fuzz-testing for OSS projects — and the crashes have started coming in. I'll have a lot more to say soon about crashes in Cairo, which is where the majority of the bugs are so far, but for now I …

It has been, what, like four years since librsvg got fully rustified, and now it is time to move another piece of critical infrastructure to a memory-safe language. I'm talking about libipuz, the GObject-based C library that GNOME Crosswords uses underneath. This is a library that parses the ipuz file …

Starting with version 2.58.0, librsvg will no longer use gdk-pixbuf to decode raster images that are referenced from SVG documents. For example, an element like this: href="foo.jpg" width="100" height="100"/> I have just pushed a merge request to make librsvg use the image-rs …

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