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 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 8.61 (SVN PRE-RELEASE)

This is an unreleased development snapshot.

The following bugs were open at the time of the last release:

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Incompatible changes

The default device on unix-oriented builds has temporarily switched to the bbox device, and is not the x11 device as in the past. The means that running gs from the commandline with no options will no longer display a file. Specify -sDEVICE=x11alpha instead. The change is a side effect of the X11 modularization patch, and will be remedied in a future release.

Changelog

See the history file for complete log of changes.


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Ghostscript version 8.60, 1 August 2007