Mako 6.5.1 Release Notes
Introduction
This is a follow-up release that addresses an issue discovered during the release testing of Mako 6.5.0.
Since the principal issue concerns Mako’s internal renderer, all platforms are released, including Windows UWP (C++/WinRT) that was absent from the last release.
An additional Java distribution is included, built for macOS and Java 11.
Issues fixed
MAKO-4006 | MakoSeparator Produces Incorrect Output |
This release completes some remedial work to Mako’s internal renderer that began when release testing of Mako 6.5.0 uncovered a minor regression. It concerned the unusual situation where a job called for a completely transparent object (zero opacity) being painted into a knockout group, and in a few cases producing an incorrect result. The problem is now eliminated, and all test suites pass normally. | |
MAKO-4011 | MAKOSUP-10982 Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: @PDFfileexec |
The customer exhibit triggered an exception because the PDF contained | |
MAKO-4017 | The nativestream sample in the SWIG Simple Examples is failing on Mac and Linux |
Testing showed one of the C# code samples included with the SDK (in the simpleexamples folder) sometimes failed. Investigation confirmed that the problem was caused by premature garbage collection of either the Since the Along with the using keyword, this is another useful technique for C# developers to ensure the continued existence of a reference to an object that is at risk of being prematurely reclaimed by the garbage collector. This might happen when there are no references to the object in managed code or data, but the object is still in use in Mako’s unmanaged code. | |
MAKO-4023 | Fix UWP build |
| The Mako distribution for UWP/WinRT (Universal Windows Platform/Windows Runtime) was absent from Mako 6.5.0 due to a build error. It is included in this release. |
Distribution
MAKO Version 6.5.1 is built for the following platforms:
- iOS
- macOS
- Linux (for Debian-based distributions, eg Ubuntu, Mint)
- Linux (Centos)
- Linux (Red Hat Enterprise v7.0)
- Linux (Red Hat Enterprise v8.4)
- Linux (for Debian Buster) (arm32v7 for Raspberry Pi)
- Linux (for Debian Bullseye) (arm64v8 for Raspberry Pi)
- Linux (for Debian Stretch)
- Linux (for Debian Bullseye)
- Linux (for MUSL distributions, eg Alpine Linux)
- Linux (for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)
- Windows (static and dynamic libs, VS 2019 (V142), x86 and x64)
- Windows (static and dynamic libs, VS 2017 (V141), x64)
- Windows UWP/WinRT
Note that the Android build has been dropped from this release pending a tooling change. Please contact Mako support if you need a Mako release for Android later than Mako 6.1.0.
Mako supports the following programming languages
- C++ (Mako is written in C++)
- C# (.Net Core and .Net Framework)
- Java (built with OpenJDK11)
- Java (built with OpenJDK15)
- Python (v3.8)
The alternatives to C++ are built using SWIG (www.swig.org) which provides a translation to the native libraries, are found in these distribution folders:
- Linux_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- Linux_Centos7_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- Linux_Centos8_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- Linux_Ubuntu_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- macOS_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- macOS_SWIG_(C#-Java11-Python)
- Windows_SWIG_(C#-Java-Python)
- Windows_SWIG_(C#-Java11-Python)