Release 3.1.8a

Author: hmenke

doc/generic/pgf/ChangeLog

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+2020-12-27 Henri Menke
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+    - Release 3.1.8a
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+2020-12-25 Henri Menke
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+    - fixup! Preserve coordinate relativity across ..
+
 2020-12-25 Henri Menke
 
     - Release 3.1.8

doc/generic/pgf/RELEASE_NOTES.md

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-# BREAKING CHANGES
-
-If a topath is bent by any of the in=, out=, bend=, etc. options, a Bezier
-curve is constructed in the background.  To infer the positions of the control
-points the start and end coordinate are converted to absolute coordinates.
-However, this has the effect that subsequent points on the path think that the
-endpoint of the topath was absolute which can lead to counter-intuitive path
-construction, e.g.
-```latex
-\draw (2,0) to[out=0,in=180] +(1,0) -- ++(0,-1) -- +(1,0);
-```
-If old code relies on this behavior, this drawing will silently break!  Please
-open an issue if you rely on this.
-
-# Bug fixes
-
-This release introduces a fix for path handling which concerns expansion of
-tokens on the path in particular with respect to conditional.  Previously when
-the expansion of a conditonal resulted in a frozen \relax the parser would just
-give up.  Now the parser will skip over the frozen \relax and continue to
-expand tokens.  Whether this will result in a meaningful expansion is up to the
-user.
-
-This release also includes other bug fixes. On GitHub you can click the commit
-hashes and the issue numbers to get to the fix and the ticket, respectively.
-
-a4c275704 #952
-8a997bbc1 #954
-8f37bca84 #962
-3cbe5a192 #844
-49e5f0a08 #654
-17a95e4c5 #966
-ad06895a6 #966
-79e613ae1 #966
+Hotfix for the new topaths handling.  One instance did not yet properly
+preserve relative coordinates.