- [varLib] Fix building variation of PairPosFormat2 (b5c34ce).
- Populate defaults even for otTables that have postRead (e45297b).
- Fix compiling of MultipleSubstFormat1 with zero 'out' glyphs (b887860).

- [varLib.merger] Fixed "TypeError: reduce() of empty sequence with no
  initial value" (3717dc6).

-  [py23] Fixed unhandled exception occurring at interpreter shutdown in
   the "last resort" logging handler (972b3e6).
-  [agl] Ensure all glyph names are of native 'str' type; avoid mixing
   'str' and 'unicode' in TTFont.glyphOrder (d8c4058).
-  Fixed inconsistent title levels in README.rst that caused PyPI to
   incorrectly render the reStructuredText page.

-  [varLib] Refactored and improved the variation-font-building process.
-  Assembly code in the fpgm, prep, and glyf tables is now indented in
   XML output for improved readability. The ``instruction`` element is
   written as a simple tag if empty (#819).
-  [ttx] Fixed 'I/O operation on closed file' error when dumping
   multiple TTXs to standard output with the '-o -' option.
-  The unit test modules (``*_test.py``) have been moved outside of the
   fontTools package to the Tests folder, thus they are no longer
   installed (#811).

- Font tables read from XML can now be written back to XML with no loss.
- GSUB/GPOS LookupType is written out in XML as an element, not comment. (#792)
- When parsing cmap table, do not store items mapped to glyph id 0. (#790)
- [otlLib] Make ClassDef sorting deterministic. Fixes #766 (7d1ddb2)
- [mtiLib] Added unit tests (#787)
- [cvar] Implemented cvar table
- [gvar] Renamed GlyphVariation to TupleVariation to match OpenType terminology.
- [otTables] Handle gracefully empty VarData.Item array when compiling XML. (#797)
- [varLib] Re-enabled generation of `HVAR` table for fonts with TrueType
  outlines; removed `--build-HVAR` command-line option.
- [feaLib] The parser can now be extended to support non-standard statements in
  FEA code by using a customized Abstract Syntax Tree. See, for example,
  `feaLib.builder_test.test_extensions` and baseClass.feax (#794, fixes #773).
- [feaLib] Added `feaLib` command to the 'fonttools' command-line tool; applies
  a feature file to a font. `fonttools feaLib -h` for help.
- [pens] The `T2CharStringPen` now takes an optional `roundTolerance` argument
  to control the rounding of coordinates (#804, fixes #769).
- [ci] Measure test coverage on all supported python versions and OSes, combine
  coverage data and upload to https://codecov.io/gh/fonttools/fonttools (#786)
- [ci] Configured Travis and Appveyor for running tests on Python 3.6 (#785, 55c03bc)
- The manual pages installation directory can be customized through
  FONTTOOLS_MANPATH environment variable (#799, fixes #84).
- [Snippets] Added otf2ttf.py, for converting fonts from CFF to TrueType using
  the googlei18n/cu2qu module (#802)

- [feaLib] Added support for generating FEA text from abstract syntax tree
  (AST) objects (#776). Thanks @mhosken
- Added `agl.toUnicode` function to convert AGL-compliant glyph names to
  Unicode strings (#774)
- Implemented MVAR table (b4d5381)

- [setup] We no longer use versioneer.py to compute fonttools version from git
  metadata, as this has caused issues for some users (#767). Now we bump the
  version strings manually with a custom `release` command of setup.py script.