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+- [glyf] Have ``Glyph.recalcBounds`` skip empty components (base glyph with no contours)
+  when computing the bounding box of composite glyphs. This simply restores the existing
+  behavior before some changes were introduced in fonttools 4.44.0 (#3333).
+
 4.44.1 (released 2023-11-14)
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