FreeType 2.4.0 has been released.

It is available from

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/

or

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/

The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library.

See below  for the  relevant snippet  from the  CHANGES file; users of
version 2.3.12 should upgrade.

Enjoy!