Comment # 47 on bug 906687 from Bj�rn Lie

(In reply to Atri Bhattacharya from comment #43)
> 
> Hi Bjorn!
> As far as I understand, none of these require a rebuild because cairo 1.14.0
> is backward ABI compatible with the version in 13.2. Only those applications
> need to be rebuilt which explicitly check for the new functions added in
> cairo 1.14.0 for HiDPI rendering. I checked abiword, for example, and
> abiword from openSUSE:13.2 works just fine with cairo from my branch. As
> does KDE.
> 
> From what I see, as long as it does not break anything, and the chances of
> that happening are pretty low looking at the cairo changelog, at least gtk
> and clutter makes HiDPI not broken on GNOME in 13.2, which it otherwise is.

If you feel confident that it is ABI compatible, then go ahead :-)
-  But you "own" the fallout (if there is any).

No doubt a VERY nice enhancement for HiDPI displays.