cairo 1.17.8 broke my gnome-mahjongg

I upgrading cairo to 1.17.8 and found I could no longer select tiles in gnome-mahjongg. Only the top tile is selected. I backed cairo down to 1.17.6 and was able to play gnome-mahjongg again. I don't know what changed in cairo to break gnome-mahjongg. Grandma loves gnome-mahjongg.