Help us test the 2.0 alpha

[LinusU]

Just released the long overdue first alpha of the 2.x branch, canvas@2.0.0-alpha.1. Please help me test it 🎉

To install it, run npm install canvas@next

[zbjornson]

One regression found and fixed in #917.

[zbjornson]

One more bug: 8b5dc05#commitcomment-22033227

[asturur]

Hello! i would love to help testing it.
I really need to align fabricjs in browser and nodejs.
What is the situation with custom font? what libraries are necessary/suggested?

Any compiled version from @chearon ?

[chearon]

@asturur Planning on it! I'll report back here when I get the time to do it

[chearon]

What is the situation with custom font? what libraries are necessary/suggested?

Custom fonts API has changed (see readme) and Pango is now a hard requirement

[azangru]

@LinusU I've stumbled across what seems like a memory leak in the the 2.0 alpha (at least, it is absent in the 1.x branch). I have submitted an issue with a basic repro case.

[chearon]

Hey everyone, I've just released canvas-prebuilt for versions v2.0.0-alpha.1 andv2.0.0-alpha.2

[jhsware]

@chearon Regarding custom fonts, you mentioned to read the readme, but I have looked at the example project and README.md. They all refer to registerFont (which I have used successfully), but node-canvas doesn't appear to expose that method anymore. Where can I read about how to load custom fonts?

[zbjornson]

@jhsware I think that also got hidden by mistake; see this: #929 (comment)

[LinusU]

Whoops, that's probably my fault 🙈 will fix

[jhsware]

@LinusU looking forward to that! If you fix it I'll see if I can add a test for custom fonts... since I need it to work :D

[LinusU]

You should be able to use v2.0.0-alpha.2 (npm install canvas@v2.0.0-alpha.2) for now, that one shouldn't have that problem :)

[LinusU]

Fixed in v2.0.0-alpha.3 🎉