Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:06:33 +0200 From: VOICE News Service From: VOICE News Service Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: SW:GPL Ghostscript 8.70 release ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: paulDESPAM at DESPAMsmedley.id.au Hi All, Inline with the below announcement from Artifex, I've compiled an OS/2 & eCS binary of Ghostscript 8.70, which is available from my website at http://os2ports.smedley.info/ Enjoy! Cheers, Paul. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gs-devel] GPL Ghostscript 8.70 release Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:19:05 -0700 From: Ralph Giles Artifex Software, Inc. is happy to announce the release of GPL Ghostscript 8.70 and GhostPDL 8.70. This is the first release in a new stable series of Ghostscript releases. The GhostPDL release number has been set to 8.70 as well, to make it easier to identify corresponding releases. Source packages are available from: * http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-8.70.tar.bz2 * http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-8.70.tar.gz * http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostpdl-8.70.tar.bz2 And from the following mirrors: * http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs870/ * http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/ghostpdl/ * http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/downloads/list * https://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/files/GPL%20Ghostscript/8.70 SHA-1 checksums * 4e4132713258c680a4fbec577e6dfc82b980ec01 ghostscript-8.70.tar.bz2 * 170dfbe5901f642f51d9b061fa332863c6ba016d ghostscript-8.70.tar.gz * a94fbd345cb6431a2d7b7aaf38d3a9030edad6b1 ghostpdl-8.70.tar.bz2 * 1bdedfcc178eb924ee450eabb4d2b1847228fddc gs870w32.exe * 811b9eb9e1db43d33aa3b5d0743e5c664617d06d gs870w64.exe MD5 checksums * 526366f8cb4fda0d3d293597cc5b984b ghostscript-8.70.tar.bz2 * be2581eb1ba9e4ab67c2eda95144d564 ghostscript-8.70.tar.gz * f76aba6b4b9fd356dc635d3aa1dbe48c ghostpdl-8.70.tar.bz2 * b42955ed68ca5b71d4a5712466aa6cfd gs870w32.exe * 35b845ff9d9006d9bdb61fab7f39750a gs870w64.exe This release fixes a large number of issues with transparency, especially as it interacts with color space conversion, mask contexts and patterns. There have also been a number of significant fixes to font handling, especially when generating PDF. And there are numerous robustness, correctness and performance improvements. New generic Esc/Page devices, eplmono and eplcolor were added to the contrib directory. A new cdnj500 device was added to support the HP DesignJet 500. The licensing of the Free version of the core Ghostscript code has been changed to GPLv3 or later. Previously, the core code was GPLv2 only. Ghostscript can now be used with GPLv3 applications, and can no longer be used with applications that are GPLv2-only. This release also includes security fixes addressing CVE-2009-0583 and CVE-2009-0792. The size of PostScript integers has been limited to 32 bits. Previously they used the C long type resulting in 64 bits of precision on LP64 systems (like Linux on x86_64). As of this release all platforms match the recommended implementation limits in the specification. This is an incompatible change from the previous release. Thanks to everyone whose work made this new release possible! -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.]