STABLE version -- 4.2.10.171

[rch]

Including myself, I believe there are still tons of users, especially in the Chinese environment treat MacType as a must-have, and "Disabling DirectWrite" can be the only reason they are still sticking with Cent. I also tried with Advanced Chrome, there is still a day and night difference with the text rendering of Chinese characters compare with Cent with DirectWrite disabled + Mactype.

And there are 10x more replies in the Chinese forum who are telling the devs how eagerly they are waiting for the update every day. Have a LITE branch can be helpful for some users, but could also delay the main update, it all depends on how much resources our dear developers have.

And there is the problem, you say many Chinese people will be using MacType and then they are eagerly awaiting updates. It's becoming more evident all the time that having both is simply not possible anymore because each time a Chromium update appears, it gets harder to implement Direct Write into Cent. All the big Chromium based browsers like Vivaldi, Brave, and Opera have all had to drop Direct Write, and they have far more resources available to them.

I don't want to see any features removed in an ideal world, but it looks like Cent is coming to a fork in the road. They can remove Direct Write and the troublesome Bookmark options which will upset some and make others happy. They can keep them and probably make the update schedule even worse, which makes no-one happy. Or they can have the Lite version option which will please the most users but stretches their already limited resources and makes their job more difficult...