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- branch: MAIN
  date: Tue Dec 10 10:44:09 UTC 2019
  files:
  - new: '1.47'
    old: '1.46'
    path: pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-agpl/Makefile
    pathrev: pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-agpl/Makefile@1.47
    type: modified
  - new: '1.18'
    old: '1.17'
    path: pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-agpl/Makefile.common
    pathrev: pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-agpl/Makefile.common@1.18
    type: modified
  - new: '1.26'
    old: '1.25'
    path: pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-agpl/distinfo
    pathrev: pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-agpl/distinfo@1.26
    type: modified
  id: 20191210T104409Z.802d8ade43f3f30824f018913e41e13c8dc74627
  log: |
    ghostscript-agpl: Update to 9.50

    Changes:
    Version 9.50 (2019-09-30)

    Highlights in this release include:

      * The change to version 9.50 (rather than the intended 9.28) follows
        recognition of the extent and importance of the file access control
        redesign/reimplementation outlined below.
      * The file access control capability (enable with -dSAFER) has been
        completely rewritten, with a ground-up rethink of the design. For more
        details, see: SAFER.

        It is important to note that -dSAFER now only enables the file access
        controls, and no longer applies restrictions to standard Postscript
        functionality (specifically, restrictions on setpagedevice. If your
        application relies on these Postscript restrictions, see OLDSAFER, and
        please get in touch, as we do plan to remove those Postscript restrictions
        unless we have reason not to.

        IMPORTANT: File access controls are now enabled by default. In order to run
        Ghostscript without these controls, see NOSAFER

        Important Note for Windows Users: See below under Incompatible Changes
      * IMPORTANT: We are in the process of forking LittleCMS. LCMS2 is not thread
        safe, and cannot be made thread safe without breaking the ABI. Our fork
        will be thread safe, and include performance enhancements (these changes
        have all be been offered and rejected upstream). We will maintain
        compatibility between Ghostscript and LCMS2 for a time, but not in
        perpetuity. Our fork will be available as its own package separately from
        Ghostscript (and MuPDF).
      * The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental
        improvements.
      * Special thanks to Akira Kakuto, Paul Wessel, William Bader, Nelson H. F.
        Beebe and everyone else who put time and effort into testing this new
        release.

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

    Incompatible changes

      * There are a couple of subtle incompatibilities between the old and new
        SAFER implementations. Firstly, as mentioned above, SAFER now leaves
        standard Postcript functionality unchanged (except for the file access
        limitations). Secondly, the interaction with save/restore operations,
        see SAFER.

        Important Note for Windows Users:
        The file/path pattern matching is case sensitive, even on Windows. This is
        a change in behaviour compared to the old code which, on Windows, was case
        insensitive. This is in recognition of changes in Windows behaviour, in
        that it now supports (although does not enforce) case sensitivity.
      * The following is not strictly speaking new to 9.50, as not much has changed
        since 9.27 in this area, but for those who don't upgrade with every
        release:

        The process of "tidying" the Postscript name space should have removed only
        non-standard and undocumented operators. Nevertheless, it is possible that
        any integrations or utilities that rely on those non-standard and
        undocumented operators may stop working, or may change behaviour.

        If you encounter such a case, please contact us (either the #ghostscript
        IRC channel, or the gs-devel mailing list would be best), and we'll work
        with you to either find an alternative solution or return the previous
        functionality, if there is genuinely no other option.

        One case we know this has occurred is GSView 5 (and earlier). GSView 5
        support for PDF files relied upon internal use only features which are no
        longer available. GSView 5 will still work as previously for Postscript
        files. For PDF files, users are encouraged to look at MuPDF.
  module: pkgsrc
  subject: 'CVS commit: pkgsrc/print/ghostscript-agpl'
  unixtime: '1575974649'
  user: leot