As many of you know, we are using FreeType as our font renderer. It is already able to produce very nice font renderings, but the quality of the rendering still seem to improve with every further version.
Until today, we were using FreeType in a wrong way, though. That didn't affect the rendering quality, but let the app_server crash pretty regularly (note, it still does that, but for different reasons and even a tiny bit less often 8-)). Somehow we assumed that FreeType was safe to be used in a multi-threaded environment. It even kind of is, but not in the way we used it.
