Changelog
ghostscript (9.15~dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
[ upstream ]
* New release 9.07.
Highlights:
+ Licensing changed to GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).
+ Ghostscript now has the option to be built as thread safe.
+ The pdfwrite devices now supports linearized (or optimized for
fast web view) output directly.
+ Supports Postscript string and array objects with >64k entries.
+ Supports file sizes >4Gb - in particular reading and writing PDF
files, and as side effect supports 64 bit Postscript integer
objects.
+ All CMYK devices supports simulated overprint of spot colors.
+ Support for use of DeviceN ICC color profiles as the output
profile with the tiffsep and psdcmyk devices.
+ Support for customized named color handling with DeviceN colors.
+ Support for black point compensation.
+ Support for K preservation in CMYK to CMYK conversions.
+ Support for DeviceLink profiles for graphic, image and text
objects.
+ Support for custom color replacement.
+ Increased control in specifying color conversions as a function of
object type.
+ Provide BigTIFF output option, when linked against recent libtiff.
+ LittleCMS updated to 2.4 [Debian instead links to shared lib].
Closes: bug#531624. Thanks to Moritz Muehlenhoff and Bastien
Roucaries.
* New releases 9.09 and 9.10.
Highlights:
+ New Background printing (BGPrint) feature to speedup processing of
certain classes of files.
+ New GrayDetection feature to detect and convert nearly-grey color
input to grayscale for some drivers.
+ Misc. improvements for Windows environments.
+ Updated URW Postscript font set, fixing compatibility problems
with the Adobe fonts [Debian uses separately packaged fonts].
* New release 9.14.
Highlights:
+ pdfwrite now uses same color management as for rendering devices.
+ New device 'eps2write' to create EPS files using ps2write.
+ Support customisation of output for specific devices.
+ Reduced memory usage processing PDF with transparency to either
display device or high level vector non-transparency devices like
ps2write or pdfwrite when 'flattening' to PDF 1.3 or earlier.
+ New --saved-page option to spool and render in arbitrary order.
+ Improved performance by more extensive use of multiple threads.
+ New device 'pwgraster' to render for PWG Raster output.
+ CUPS device improved support for PPD-less printing.
* New release 9.15.
Highlights:
+ Support for PDF security handler revision 6.
+ New -dNoOutputFonts for pdfwrite and ps2write (and related).
+ New PostScript pageneutralcolor state to resolve color/grayscale.
+ pdfwrite device supports Link annotations.
+ pdfwrite device supports BMC/BDC/EMC pdfmarks.
+ New LCMS2-based color management also applies to PDF/A-1 output.
[ Jonas Smedegaard ]
* Update copyright info:
+ Extend coverage a few places to include recent years.
+ Change main license to "AGPL-3+~Artifex".
+ Update main fonts to author "(URW)++" and license
"AGPL-3+~Artifex with font exception".
+ Extend coverage for packaging, and relicense as GPL-3+.
+ Drop Files section for documentation files not shipped since 9.05.
+ Fix include verbatim exceptions in license section (not comment).
+ Only comment on (not formally declare) unused AFPL license.
+ Merge bogus dual-licensing of (two wording of) LGPL-2.1+.
+ Drop Files sections for excluded autotools files.
+ Fix stop bogusly list as specially licensed the files
examples/waterfal.ps contrib/japanese/doc/gdevdmpr.txt
toolbin/localcluster/dashboard.html.
+ Use License-Grant and License-Reference fields.
Thanks to Ben Finney.
+ Use license short-name public-domain.
* Update repackaging:
+ Strip convenience library trio from upstream source.
+ Strip DFSG-nonfree ETS halftone code from upstream source.
+ Strip example code lacking license.
+ Strip contributed documentation possibly lacking license.
+ Strip from repackaged upstream tarball ramfs code lacking license
according to <http://www.ghostscript.com/irclogs/2014/05/05.html>.
+ Stop strip jasper project: not shipped since 9.07.
+ Reflect files moved from base/ to devices/.
+ Stop documenting CUPS filters dropped since 9.09.
* Update patches:
+ Drop cherry-picked patches now included with upstream release.
+ Add patch cherry-picked upstream to sanity check for memory
allocation.
Closes: Bug#793489 (CVE-2015-3228). Thanks to Raphael Hertzog.
+ Add patch 2009 to not link against stripped ramfs code.
+ Unfuzz all patches.
* Update package relations:
+ Build-depend on recent libopenjpeg-dev (not libjasper-dev):
Support for JasPer has been dropped upstream.
+ Tighten build-dependency on liblcms2-dev: We need threads support.
+ Build-depend on libtrio-dev.
+ Tighten to build-depend on d-shlibs handling libtrio quirk.
+ Relax to build-depend unversioned on libopenjpeg-dev: Needed
version satisified even in oldstable.
+ Relax to depend unversioned on poppler-data, and drop
fallback-dependency on gs-cjk-resource: Needed version satisified
even in oldstable.
+ Drop bogus/ancient fallback-build-dependency on libglut-dev.
* Add d-shlibmove override for libtrio.
* Add news entry about licensing change to AGPL.
Thanks to Jonathan Nieder.
* Update symbols file (208 new, 70 dropped).
* Temporarily adjust source URLs for upstream pre-release.
* Have license-check skip main HTML documentation.
* Add lintian overrides regarding license in License-Reference field.
See bug#786450.
* Declare compliance with Debian Policy 3.9.6.
-- Jonas Smedegaard <email address hidden> Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:34:11 +0200
