ghostscript

ghostscript 8.71

A PostScript interpreter and renderer

http://www.ghostscript.com

Packager: Ozan Çağlayan

License: GPLv3+

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Release history

ReleaseRelease dateVersionUpdaterComment
302010-07-138.71Eren Türkay- Add patch to fix memory corruption vulnerability. (CVE-2010-1628, #13137)
292010-04-168.71Onur KüçükAdd some gs fixes (executable name, linker etc.)
282010-03-308.71Ozan ÇağlayanSync fedora patches to fix issues with the CUPS device and TIFF filters
272010-02-268.71Ozan ÇağlayanVersion bump, sync fedora patches.
262010-02-178.70Ozan 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.
252009-08-038.70Ozan 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
242009-07-158.64Ozan ÇağlayanProvide better colors for cdnj500 driver.
232009-06-268.64Ozan ÇağlayanSync Ubuntu patches, Fix null ptr deref in JBIG2 decoder, fix scripts so they don't get broken on install.
222009-05-258.64Ozan ÇağlayanSplit documentation.
212009-04-218.64Ozan ÇağlayanVersion 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}).
202009-03-238.61Pınar YanardağFix multiple integer overflows (CVE-2009-0583,CVE-2009-0584), (bug#9453).
192008-02-298.61Gökçen EraslanFix CVE-2008-0411
182007-12-108.61İsmail DönmezAdd real fix for Ghostscript bug #689577
172007-12-068.61İsmail DönmezAlways use buffered input to workaround Ghostscript bug #689577
162007-11-238.61İsmail DönmezStable update and use external jpeg/png/zlib
152007-10-238.60İsmail DönmezFix CVE-2007-2721
142007-08-028.60İsmail DönmezFinal stable release
132007-07-178.60İsmail DönmezUpdate to SVN revision 8133
122007-06-148.60İsmail DönmezUpdate to SVN revision 8050, ESP Ghostscript is now merged
112007-03-308.15.1S.Çağlar OnurAdd missing dep
102006-09-218.15.1İsmail DönmezAdd fontconfig support
92006-05-028.15.1S.Çağlar OnurUse static Fontmap for dejavu and bitstream fonts
82006-05-018.15.1S.Çağlar OnurFix font path
72006-04-278.15.1S.Çağlar OnurFix encrypted pdf problems and some crashes (patches from OpenSUSE)
62006-01-168.15.1Furkan DumanFix font paths
52006-01-158.15.1S.Çağlar OnurVersion bump
42005-12-137.07.1Onur KüçükRemove runtime cups dependency
32005-12-037.07.1S.Çağlar OnurAdd gdi support for Samsung Laser Printers
22005-11-087.07.1S.Çağlar Onurfix #687 (-with-x)
12005-08-257.07.1S.Çağlar OnurFirst release.

Patches

CVE-2010-1628.patch
ubuntu/01_docdir-fix-for-debian.patch
ubuntu/02_gs-man-fix-for-debian.patch
fedora/ghostscript-multilib.patch
fedora/ghostscript-scripts.patch
fedora/ghostscript-noopt.patch
fedora/ghostscript-fPIC.patch
fedora/ghostscript-runlibfileifexists.patch
fedora/ghostscript-system-jasper.patch
fedora/ghostscript-pksmraw.patch
fedora/ghostscript-jbig2dec-nullderef.patch
fedora/ghostscript-gs-executable.patch
fedora/ghostscript-CVE-2009-4270.patch
fedora/ghostscript-vsnprintf.patch
fedora/ghostscript-pdftoraster-exit.patch
fedora/ghostscript-ldflags.patch
fedora/ghostscript-pdf2dsc.patch
fedora/ghostscript-cups-realloc-color-depth.patch
fedora/ghostscript-tif-fail-close.patch
fedora/ghostscript-tiff-default-strip-size.patch
fedora/ghostscript-tiff-fixes.patch
ghostscript-pagesize.patch
link-explicitly-with-lm.patch
fix-linking-with-gs.patch