ghostscript

ghostscript 8.71

A PostScript interpreter and renderer

http://www.ghostscript.com

Packager: Ozan Çağlayan

License: GPLv3+

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Release history

Release	Release date	Version	Updater	Comment
30	2010-07-13	8.71	Eren Türkay	- Add patch to fix memory corruption vulnerability. (CVE-2010-1628, #13137)
29	2010-04-16	8.71	Onur Küçük	Add some gs fixes (executable name, linker etc.)
28	2010-03-30	8.71	Ozan Çağlayan	Sync fedora patches to fix issues with the CUPS device and TIFF filters
27	2010-02-26	8.71	Ozan Çağlayan	Version bump, sync fedora patches.
26	2010-02-17	8.70	Ozan Çağlayan	- Fixed pdftoraster so that it waits for its sub-process to exit, - Fix debugging output from gdevcups (CVE-2009-4270), - Harden ghostscript's debugging output functions.
25	2009-08-03	8.70	Ozan Çağlayan	- Version bump to the new upstream release 8.70, - Fixes many transparency problems: color space conversion, mask contexts, patterns, etc, - Fixes in font handling, especially when generating PDF - Improvements in robustness, correctness, and performance - New generic Esc/Page drivers: "eplmono", "eplcolor" - New "cdnj500" driver for many HP DesignJet printers - License is now GPLv2 or later and not GPLv2-only any more - Merged all patches of the Ubuntu and Debian packages upstream
24	2009-07-15	8.64	Ozan Çağlayan	Provide better colors for cdnj500 driver.
23	2009-06-26	8.64	Ozan Çağlayan	Sync Ubuntu patches, Fix null ptr deref in JBIG2 decoder, fix scripts so they don't get broken on install.
22	2009-05-25	8.64	Ozan Çağlayan	Split documentation.
21	2009-04-21	8.64	Ozan Çağlayan	Version bump, add missing dependencies, add fedora, ubuntu and gentoo patches and fix (CVE-2009-{0196, 0792}, CVE-2008-6679, CVE-2007-6725), (bug#{9623-9645}).
20	2009-03-23	8.61	Pınar Yanardağ	Fix multiple integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583,CVE-2009-0584), (bug#9453).
19	2008-02-29	8.61	Gökçen Eraslan	Fix CVE-2008-0411
18	2007-12-10	8.61	İsmail Dönmez	Add real fix for Ghostscript bug #689577
17	2007-12-06	8.61	İsmail Dönmez	Always use buffered input to workaround Ghostscript bug #689577
16	2007-11-23	8.61	İsmail Dönmez	Stable update and use external jpeg/png/zlib
15	2007-10-23	8.60	İsmail Dönmez	Fix CVE-2007-2721
14	2007-08-02	8.60	İsmail Dönmez	Final stable release
13	2007-07-17	8.60	İsmail Dönmez	Update to SVN revision 8133
12	2007-06-14	8.60	İsmail Dönmez	Update to SVN revision 8050, ESP Ghostscript is now merged
11	2007-03-30	8.15.1	S.Çağlar Onur	Add missing dep
10	2006-09-21	8.15.1	İsmail Dönmez	Add fontconfig support
9	2006-05-02	8.15.1	S.Çağlar Onur	Use static Fontmap for dejavu and bitstream fonts
8	2006-05-01	8.15.1	S.Çağlar Onur	Fix font path
7	2006-04-27	8.15.1	S.Çağlar Onur	Fix encrypted pdf problems and some crashes (patches from OpenSUSE)
6	2006-01-16	8.15.1	Furkan Duman	Fix font paths
5	2006-01-15	8.15.1	S.Çağlar Onur	Version bump
4	2005-12-13	7.07.1	Onur Küçük	Remove runtime cups dependency
3	2005-12-03	7.07.1	S.Çağlar Onur	Add gdi support for Samsung Laser Printers
2	2005-11-08	7.07.1	S.Çağlar Onur	fix #687 (-with-x)
1	2005-08-25	7.07.1	S.Çağlar Onur	First release.

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