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 8.56 (2007-03-14)

This is a stable release in the 8.5x series of Ghostscript. It contains a numerous bug fixes and improvements. Most significantly, comformance with the Quality Logic CET suite for Postscript has been improved, and a special 'gs_cet.ps' prefix file can be sent with a job to produce output closer to that of the reference implementation.

This is our first release since Ghostscript 8.54. The 8.55 version number was skipped to avoid confusion with a GNU release.

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

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Incompatible changes

There are no known incompatible changes at this point.


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Ghostscript version 8.56, 14 March 2007