Recent changes in Ghostscript

# Changes in the most recent release of Ghostscript

This document is news about the most recent Ghostscript release. For earlier versions, see the history documents:

> History of Ghostscript versions 7.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 6.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 5.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 4.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 3.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 2.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 1.n

For other information, see the Ghostscript overview.

### Version 7.05 (2002-04-22)

This is the first release of the stable 7.0x series under the GNU GPL, following one year after the release of 7.00. The license change in the major reason for this release, and we hope the community of Free Software users will enjoy the much improved features of the new stable branch.

Another major change over the 7.04 release is a improved asian language support from the gs-cjk team. This is a new version of the work released with 6.53.

And of course there are the usual bug fixes and minor improvements.

At the time of release, the following bugs were open against all ghostscript versions: 219798, 405342, 406979, 407342, 414947, 414985, 415142, 418241, 423838, 427193, 427347, 428891, 428973, 432040, 434277, 437285, 446344, 446672, 448199, 453969, 458261, 458500, 458775, 458780, 459647, 462221, 465720, 465936, 468762, 474745, 475147, 477644, 482038, 483629, 484752, 484753, 485510, 487953, 493348, 495319, 498595, 503794, 505429, 506375, 508081, 508675, 509646, 510808, 511232, 513905, 514616, 514616, 515475, 516653, 517349, 520686, 521354, 521664, 521916, 522486, 524292, 525508, 526099, 526491, 528647, 529103, 529578, 530011, 530588, 533467, 534637, 535366, 535752, 535836, 535997, 536877, 538033, 538042, 538055, 538267, 538311, 538428, 539239, 539327, 539359, 542535, 542625, 542664, 542786, 542848, 543185, 544247, 544365, 544774, 544996, 545003, 545177, 545478, 546823, 547102, 547111.

### Incompatible changes

No incompatible changes have been recorded for this version. Users of the 6.5x versions of GNU Ghostscript will want to check the History for a complete list of changes since that version. Authors of drivers with potential security implications are also encouraged to review the security changes introduced with 6.53/7.04.

Copyright © 2002 artofcode LLC. All rights reserved.

This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or implied. This software is distributed under license and may not be copied, modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution. For more information about licensing, please refer to http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110, San Rafael, CA 94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861.

Ghostscript version 7.05, 22 April 2002