FreeType 2.8 was released a couple of days ago.
CrOS has had a rather large patch applied on top of 2.7.1. We can drop that large patch by going to 2.8.
Chrome has 2.7.1+update, but we can roll a bit more to 2.8.
In addition to features, we can get a few security fixes as well.
Comment 1 by js...@chromium.org
, May 15 2017