Font rendering is broken in Gtk2 apps with pango-1.44
I use standard Arch packages with default fontconfig, nothing related to fonts was installed from AUR.
Here is an example of HexChat with two versions of Pango.
The interface font on screenshots is Droid Sans Regular, and the monospace font is Droid Sans Mono, I also tested DejaVu Sans Mono and Liberation Mono.
With pango-1.44 the spacing is lost, the hinting in menus became ugly, there are visual bugs on mouse-over and strange spaces in "iiiiii"
The same bugs are in different Gtk2 apps, not in HexChat only. None of the fonts are bitmap.