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 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 7.03 (2001-10-20)

This is a fully tested, stable release of Ghostscript. It fixes quite a few issues with 7.02.

Major changes include:

Integration of icclib 2.0.
There was at least one embarassing pdfwrite bug, now fixed.
Significant shading speedups, especially for worst-case files such as Coons01.ps.
The stdio logic is a lot more robust. 7.02 had some problems, especially with trying to set stdin to non-blocking.
The usual bug fixes. In particular, regression testing against 7.00 shows only one serious regression (035-01.ps), and numerous progressions.

The following SourceForge bug numbers are currently open: 215256, 219798, 222727, 226477, 405342, 406689, 406979, 407342, 414947, 414985, 415016, 415142, 415170, 416131, 416830, 418241, 421057, 422532, 423838, 427193, 427314, 427347, 428891, 428973, 432040, 432657, 434277, 434707, 436099, 436897, 437285, 438679, 438957, 443745, 444791, 446344, 446672, 448199, 450663, 451456, 452155, 453969, 457838, 458261, 458500, 458769, 458775, 458780, 462221, 465720, 465921, 465936, 468386, 468762, 469518, 472681, 473305.

Incompatible changes

No incompatible changes have been recorded for this version.

This file is part of AFPL Ghostscript. See the Aladdin Free Public License (the "License") for full details of the terms of using, copying, modifying, and redistributing AFPL Ghostscript.

Ghostscript version 7.03, 20 October 2001