For those who don't know about Junicode, it is an effort to provide a font that 1.) is free; 2.) is reasonably attractive; and 3.) contains characters of interest to medievalists which typically are not included in the products of commercial type foundries. There are several other very fine fonts for medievalists (notably Andron Scriptor and Cardo), but few offer matching bold and italic faces and numerous advanced typographical features.
This version of Junicode includes substantial additions, bug fixes and design improvements. All of the recent medievalist additions to Unicode have now been added in the regular and italic faces. Almost all Medieval Unicode Font Initiative characters are now available in the regular face, and most of them in italic. Obsolete characters (those formerly encoded in the Private Use Area which have been assigned Unicode encodings) have been marked with an x to remind users to use the new encodings; a file called "replacements" has been provided to help users write scripts to automate the updating of their files. As an alternative, a new OpenType feature (ss03) has been added to make the necessary substitutions on the fly.
This release is a big advance over the previous one, and I urge all who use Junicode to upgrade. Get it as http://junicode.sourceforge.net/.
Best wishes to all, Peter Baker