This document is news about the most recent Ghostscript release. For earlier versions, see the history documents:
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.
This is the fourth stable release in the 8.5x series of Ghostscript. It contains a few bug fixes and improvements since 8.52, particularly in the fix for a build problem on AMD64/Windows64 and vastly improved transparency rendering speed for some PDF's.
The following bugs were open at the time of this release:
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There are no known incompatible changes at this point.
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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 8.53, 20 October 2005