# 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 9.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 8.n
> 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 9.08 (2013-08-14)

This is the eighth full release in the stable 9.x series, and is primarily a maintenance release.

Highlights in this release include:

- Background printing (BGPrint)is a new feature allowing an accumulated page clist to be rendered by one or more rendering threads whilst the interpreter (in the "main" thread) continues to accumulate the subsequent page's clist. For certain classes of file this can result in a useful performance increase. See: Banding Parameters

- GrayDetection allows suitably written devices to detect "color" input in near neutral tones (i.e. near monochrome) and to convert "on-the-fly" to pure grayscale, whilst retaining the ability to print full color on demand. This is primarily aimed at workflows where saving ink (especially color inks) is required. See: Device Parameters

- LittleCMS2 and libpng have both been updated to the latest versions.

- Support has been added to build the Ghostscript DLL for WinRT for x86, x64 and ARM (Requires MS Visual Studio 2012 Pro).

- Processing of Windows command line arguments into UTF8 (as presaged a few releases ago) has been enhaned and enabled by default.

- Processing of Windows command line arguments into UTF8 (as presaged a few releases ago) has been enhaned and enabled by default.

- Plus the usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental improvements.

For a list of open issues, or to report problems, please visit bugs.ghostscript.com.

### Incompatible changes

No recorded incompatible changes.

### Changelog

See the history file for complete log of changes.

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Ghostscript version 9.08, 14 August 2013