# Rcairo 1.5.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcairo-1-5-0/105212>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 27, 2007, 10:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcairo-1-5-0/105212 "2007-05-27T10:32:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kouhei_S)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 10:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcairo-1-5-0/105212/1 "2007-05-27T10:32:40Z")

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Hi,

I released rcairo 1.5.0 that has many API improvements:

[http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.5.0.tar.gz](http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.5.0.tar.gz)

[http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.5.0.tar.gz.md5](http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.5.0.tar.gz.md5)  
47ed7b603f41abc9e828fa9f8585f02b rcairo-1.5.0.tar.gz

[http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.5.0.tar.gz.sha1](http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.5.0.tar.gz.sha1)  
b71c94fa1598b5b32242c15033f1ce508b0fc0e5 rcairo-1.5.0.tar.gz

API index (no description):  
[http://cairo.rubyforge.org/doc/en/](http://cairo.rubyforge.org/doc/en/)

Reference manual in Japanese (has description):  
[http://cairo.rubyforge.org/doc/ja/](http://cairo.rubyforge.org/doc/ja/)

# There is a repository of the above documents:

# [http://www.cozmixng.org/repos/rcairo-doc/](http://www.cozmixng.org/repos/rcairo-doc/)

# If you help rcairo project, please contact me.

Changes:

- Support RubyGems.

- Support win32 surface. (Yoshinao Muramatsu)

- Add high-level color interface. (Cairo::Color)

- Improve constant value specify API. For example:  
From:  
Cairo::ImageSurface.new(Cairo::FORMAT\_ARGB32, 100, 100)  
To:  
Cairo::ImageSurface.new(:argb32, 100, 100)

- Add experimental API Cairo::Context#pseudo\_blur. (API  
may be changed.)

- and more…

Regards,