File ghostscript-mini.changes of Package ghostscript.19369
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 10 09:37:46 CEST 2021 - jsmeix@suse.de
- CVE-2021-3781.patch fixes CVE-2021-3781
Trivial -dSAFER bypass
cf. https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704342
(bsc#1190381)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Apr 21 16:49:16 UTC 2021 - Wolfgang Frisch <wolfgang.frisch@suse.com>
- Hardening: link as position independent executable (bsc#1184123).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Jul 27 08:28:04 CEST 2020 - jsmeix@suse.de
- CVE-2020-15900.patch fixes CVE-2020-15900
Memory Corruption (SAFER Sandbox Breakout)
cf. https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702582
(bsc#1174415)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Apr 28 14:17:59 CEST 2020 - jsmeix@suse.de
- The version upgrade to 9.52 fixes in particular
CVE-2020-12268: jbic2dec: heap-based buffer overflow
in jbig2_image_compose (bsc#1170603)
- Version upgrade to 9.52
Highlights in this release include:
* The 9.52 release replaces the 9.51 release after a problem
was reported with 9.51 which warranted the quick turnaround.
Thus, like 9.51, 9.52 is primarily a maintenance release,
consolidating the changes we introduced in 9.50.
* IMPORTANT: We have forked LittleCMS2 into LittleCMS2mt
(the "mt" indicating "multi-thread").
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
been offered and rejected upstream). We will maintain
compatibility between Ghostscript and LCMS2 for a time,
but not in perpetuity. If there is sufficient interest,
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.
Incompatible changes:
* New option -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY: The transparency compositor
(and related features), whilst we are improving it, remains
sensitive to being driven correctly, and incorrect use
can have unexpected/undefined results. Hence, as part of
improving security, we limited access to these operators,
originally using the -dSAFER feature. As we made "SAFER"
the default mode, that became unacceptable, hence the
new option -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY which enables access
to the operators, cf.
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.52/Use.htm#ALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY
For a release summary see:
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.52/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
- Version upgrade to 9.51
Highlights in this release include:
* 9.51 is primarily a maintainance release, consolidating
the changes we introduced in 9.50.
* We have continued our work on code hygiene for this release,
with a focus on the static analysis tool Coverity
(from Synopsys, Inc) and we are now maintaining a policy of
zero Coverity issues in the Ghostscript/GhostPDL source base.
* IMPORTANT: In consultation with a representative of
OpenPrinting (http://www.openprinting.org/) it is our
intention to deprecate and, in the not distant future,
remove the OpenPrinting Vector/Raster Printer Drivers
(that is, the opvp and oprp devices).
If you rely on either of these devices, please get in touch
with us (i.e. Ghostscript upstream), so we can discuss your
use case, and revise our plans accordingly.
* We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) are in the process of forking
LittleCMS, cf. the other release notes entries below.
* The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
For a release summary see:
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.51/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
- Version upgrade to 9.50
Highlights in this release include:
* The change to version 9.50 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" at
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.50/Use.htm#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" at
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.50/Use.htm#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" at
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.50/Use.htm#NoSafer
* We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) are in the process of forking
LittleCMS, cf. the other release notes entries below.
* The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
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" at
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.50/Use.htm#Safer
* 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
(i.e. Ghostscript upstream, 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 https://www.mupdf.com/
For a release summary see:
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.50/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
- CVE-2019-10216.patch CVE-2019-14869.patch
gs-CVE-2019-14811-885444fc.patch
gs-CVE-2019-14817-cd1b1cac.patch
openjpeg4gs-CVE-2018-6616-8ee33522.patch
are fixed in the version 9.52 upstream sources.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Nov 11 15:49:40 CET 2019 - jsmeix@suse.de
- CVE-2019-14869.patch contains commit from Ghostscript upstream
https://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=485904772c5f
to fix CVE-2019-14869 "-dSAFER escape in .charkeys"
(bsc#1156275)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Sep 16 13:01:18 UTC 2019 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Port latest ghostscript 9.27 from factory including latest
security patches to SLES15/SLES12
* Port patch CVE-2019-10216.patch to 9.27 which is the orignal
upstream commit now
* Drop patch CVE-2019-3838.patch as now part of 9.27
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Sep 16 11:58:41 UTC 2019 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add patch gs-CVE-2019-14811-885444fc.patch to fix bsc#1146882
for CVE-2019-14811,CVE-2019-14812,CVE-2019-14813
- Add patch gs-CVE-2019-14817-cd1b1cac.patch to fix bsc#1146884
for CVE-2019-14817
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 13 14:15:10 UTC 2019 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- Add patch openjpeg4gs-CVE-2018-6616-8ee33522.patch
to fix bsc#1140359 for CVE-2019-12973
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Aug 12 11:32:08 UTC 2019 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
- CVE-2019-10216.patch fixes CVE-2019-10216
forceput/superexec in .buildfont1 is still accessible
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144621 bsc#1144621
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701394
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Apr 4 14:37:09 CEST 2019 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.27
Highlights in this release include:
* We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) have extensively cleaned up
the Postscript name space: removing access to internal and/or
undocumented Postscript operators, procedures and data.
This has benefits for security and maintainability.
Incompatible changes:
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 (i.e.
Ghostscript upstream) - (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.
* Fontmap can now reference invidual fonts in a TrueType
Collection for font subsitution. Previously, a Fontmap entry
could only reference a TrueType collection and use the default
(first) font.
Now, the Fontmap syntax allows for specifying a specific index
in a TTC. See the comments at the top of (the default)
Fontmap.GS for details.
* The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
IMPORTANT: It is our intention, within the next 12 months
(ideally sooner, in time for the next release) to make SAFER
the default mode of operation. For many users this will have
no effect, since they use SAFER explicitly, but some niche
uses which rely on SAFER being disabled may need to start
explicitly adding the "-dNOSAFER" option.
IMPORTANT: We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) 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).
For a release summary see:
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.27/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
The Ghostscript 9.27 release should fix (cf. the entry below
dated 'Fri Sep 14 10:47:33 CEST 2018' what "should fix" means)
in particular those security issues:
* CVE-2019-3838 forceput in DefineResource is still accessible
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129186 bsc#1129186
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576
* CVE-2019-3835: superexec operator is available
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129180 bsc#1129180
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700585
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Mar 19 15:08:05 CET 2019 - jsmeix@suse.de
- CVE-2019-3838.patch fixes CVE-2019-3838
forceput in DefineResource is still accessible
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129186 bsc#1129186
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700576
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Jan 17 09:49:20 CET 2019 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.26a
The version 9.26a is a special security bugfix version to fix
* CVE-2019-6116: subroutines within pseudo-operators
must themselves be pseudo-operators
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700317
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122319 bsc#1122319
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Nov 30 09:01:17 CET 2018 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.26
Highlights in this release include:
* Security issues have been the primary focus of this release,
including solving several (well publicised) real and potential
exploits.
Thanks to Man Yue Mo of Semmle Security Research Team,
Jens Mueller of Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum and
Tavis Ormandy of Google's Project Zero
for their help to identify specific security issues.
PLEASE NOTE:
We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) strongly urge users to upgrade
to this latest release to avoid these issues.
* The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
For a release summary see:
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
The Ghostscript 9.26 release should fix (cf. the entry below
dated 'Fri Sep 14 10:47:33 CEST 2018' what "should fix" means)
in particular those security issues (bsc#1117331)
* CVE-2018-19475: psi/zdevice2.c allows attackers to bypass
intended access restrictions
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700153
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117327 bsc#1117327
* CVE-2018-19476: psi/zicc.c allows attackers to bypass
intended access restrictions because of a setcolorspace
type confusion
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700169
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117313 bsc#1117313
* CVE-2018-19477: psi/zfjbig2.c allows attackers to bypass
intended access restrictions because of a JBIG2Decode
type confusion
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700168
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117274 bsc#1117274
* CVE-2018-19409: LockSafetyParams is not checked correctly
if another device is used
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700176
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1117022 bsc#1117022
and those security issues
* CVE-2018-18284: 1Policy operator gives access to .forceput
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=69963
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1112229 bsc#1112229
* CVE-2018-18073: saved execution stacks can leak operator arrays
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699927
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111480 bsc#1111480
* CVE-2018-17961: bypassing executeonly to escape -dSAFER sandbox
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699816
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111479 bsc#1111479
* CVE-2018-17183: remote attackers could be able to supply
crafted PostScript to potentially overwrite or replace
error handlers to inject code
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699708
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109105 bsc#1109105
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Nov 9 11:25:19 CET 2018 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.26rc1 (first release candidate for 9.26).
Highlights in this release include:
* Purely security and a few bug fixes, there are no new features,
and no API changes to report.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 14 10:47:33 CEST 2018 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.25
For the highlights in this release see the highlights in the
9.25rc1 first release candidate for 9.25 entry below.
PLEASE NOTE:
We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) strongly urge users to upgrade
to this latest release to avoid these issues.
For a release summary see:
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.25/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
The Ghostscript 9.25 release should fix (see below)
in particular those security issues:
* CVE-2018-15909: shading_param incomplete type checking
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699660
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106172 bsc#1106172
* CVE-2018-15908: .tempfile file permission issues
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699657
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106171 bsc#1106171
* CVE-2018-15910: LockDistillerParams type confusion
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699656
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106173 bsc#1106173
* CVE-2018-15911: uninitialized memory access in the aesdecode
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699665
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106195 bsc#1106195
* CVE-2018-16513: setcolor missing type check
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699655
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107412 bsc#1107412
* CVE-2018-16509: /invalidaccess bypass after failed restore
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699654
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107410 bsc#1107410
* CVE-2018-16510: Incorrect exec stack handling in the "CS"
and "SC" PDF primitives
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699671
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107411 bsc#1107411
* CVE-2018-16542: .definemodifiedfont memory corruption
if /typecheck is handled
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699668
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107413 bsc#1107413
* CVE-2018-16541 incorrect free logic in pagedevice replacement
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699664
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107421 bsc#1107421
* CVE-2018-16540 use-after-free in copydevice handling
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699661
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107420 bsc#1107420
* CVE-2018-16539: incorrect access checking in temp file
handling to disclose contents of files
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699658
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107422 bsc#1107422
* CVE-2018-16543: gssetresolution and gsgetresolution allow
for unspecified impact
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699670
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107423 bsc#1107423
* CVE-2018-16511: type confusion in "ztype" could be used by
remote attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to crash
the interpreter or possibly have unspecified other impact
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699659
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107426 bsc#1107426
* CVE-2018-16585 .setdistillerkeys PostScript command is
accepted even though it is not intended for use
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107581 bsc#1107581
* CVE-2018-16802: Incorrect"restoration of privilege" checking
when running out of stack during exceptionhandling could be
used by attackers able to supply crafted PostScript to execute
code using the "pipe" instruction. This is due to an incomplete
fix for CVE-2018-16509
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699714
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699718
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108027 bnc#1108027
Regarding what the above "should fix" means:
PostScript is a general purpose Turing-complete programming
language (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript)
that supports in particular file access on the system disk.
When Ghostscript processes PostScript it runs a PostScript
program as the user who runs Ghostscript.
When Ghostscript processes an arbitrary PostScript file,
the user who runs Ghostscript runs an arbitrary program
which can do anything on the system where Ghostscript runs
that this user is allowed to do on that system.
To make it safer when Ghostscript runs a PostScript program
the Ghostscript command line option '-dSAFER' disables
certain file access functionality, for details see
/usr/share/doc/ghostscript/9.25/Use.htm
Its name 'SAFER' says everything: It makes it 'safer'
to let Ghostscript run a PostScript program,
but it does not make it completely safe.
In theory software is safe against misuse (i.e. has no bugs).
In practice there is an endless sequence of various kind of
security issues (i.e. software can be misused to do more than
what is intended) that get fixed issue by issue ad infinitum.
In the end all that means:
In practice the user who runs Ghostscript must not let it
process arbitrary PostScript files from untrusted origin.
In particular Ghostscript is usually run when printing
documents (with the '-dSAFER' option set), see the part about
"It is crucial to limit access to CUPS to trusted users" in
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_and_SANE_Firewall_settings
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Sep 13 14:14:39 CEST 2018 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.25rc1 (first release candidate for 9.25).
Highlights in this release include:
* This release fixes problems with argument handling, some
unintended results of the security fixes to the SAFER file
access restrictions (specifically accessing ICC profile files),
and some additional security issues over the 9.24 release.
* Security issues have been the primary focus of this release,
including solving several (well publicised) real
and potential exploits.
PLEASE NOTE:
We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) strongly urge users to upgrade
to this latest release to avoid these issues.
* Avoid that ps2epsi fails with
'Error: /undefined in --setpagedevice--'
Recent changes required to harden SAFER mode mean that
it is no longer possible to run ps2epsi in SAFER mode,
because it relies upon unsafe Ghostscript non-standard
extension operators.
Removing SAFER and DELAYSAFER, and the code to reset SAFER,
allow ps2epsi to run as well as it ever did (ie badly).
This program (i.e. ps2epsi) should now be considered unsafe,
you should not use it on untrusted PostScript programs.
Likely we (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) will deprecate and
remove this program in future.
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Regarding installing packages (in particular release candidates)
from the openSUSE build service development project "Printing"
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Printing
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Sep 13 10:25:21 CEST 2018 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.24
Highlights in this release include:
* Security issues have been the primary focus of this release,
including solving several (well publicised)
real and potential exploits.
PLEASE NOTE:
We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) strongly urge users to upgrade
to this latest release to avoid these issues.
* As well as Ghostscript itself, jbig2dec has had a significant
amount of work improving its robustness in the face of
out specification files.
* IMPORTANT: We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) 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.
For a release summary see:
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.24/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
- fix_ln_docdir_gsdatadir.patch is no longer needed
because the issue is fixed in the upstream sources.
- CVE-2018-10194.patch is no longer needed
because the issue is fixed in the upstream sources.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Jun 5 14:47:59 CEST 2018 - jsmeix@suse.de
- CVE-2018-10194.patch fixes stack-based buffer overflow
in gdevpdts.c (bsc#1090099), see
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699255 and
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=39b1e54b2968620723bf32e96764c88797714879
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Mar 22 12:51:39 CET 2018 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.23
Highlights in this release include:
* Ghostscript now has a family of 'pdfimage' devices
(pdfimage8, pdfimage24 and pdfimage32) which produce
rendered output wrapped up as an image in a PDF.
Additionally, there is a 'pclm' device which
produces PCLm format output.
* There is now a ColorAccuracy parameter allowing the user
to decide between speed or accuracy in ICC color transforms.
* JPEG Passthrough: devices which support it can now receive
the 'raw' JPEG stream from the interpreter.
The main use of this is the pdfwrite/ps2write family of devices
that can now take JPEG streams from the input file(s) and write
them unchanged to the output (thus avoiding additional
quantization effects).
* PDF transparency performance improvements
* IMPORTANT: We (i.e. Ghostscript upstream) 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).
* We have continued the focus on code hygiene in this release
cleaning up security issues, ignored return values,
and compiler warnings.
* The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
Incompatible changes
* The planned device API tidy has, unfortunately, been
indefinitely postponed, until appropriate resources
are available.
For a release summary see:
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.23/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
See also the entries below since "Version upgrade to 9.22"
(boo#1082896 and boo#1074266).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Mar 16 12:39:36 CET 2018 - jsmeix@suse.de
- For now use lcms2 from SUSE because that is what currently
Ghostscript upstream recommends according to
https://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2018-March/010061.html
because since Ghostscript 9.23rc1 there is no longer lcms2
in Ghostscript but now it is lcms2art which is the beginning
of a lcms2 fork, see News.htm that reads in particular
"LCMS2 is not thread safe ... Our fork will be thread safe ...
We will maintain compatibility between Ghostscript and LCMS2
for a time, but not in perpetuity", see also
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082896#c14
- On SLE11 and on SLE12-SP1 there is liblcms2-2-2.5
which is too old so that configure fails there with
configure: error: lcms2 not found, or too old
but there is no configure option to build it without lcms2
so that for SLE11 and SLE12-SP1 it is built with
the lcms2art in Ghostscript.
- ppc64le-support.patch is no longer needed because it only
contained a fix for lcms2art/include/lcms2art.h in Ghostscript
but currently lcms2 from SUSE is used instead (see above).
- Do no longer require any fonts packages in particular
neither require ghostscript-fonts-std because the PostScript
Base35 fonts are provided by Ghostscript (in 'Resource')
nor require ghostscript-fonts-other (provides Bitream Charter,
Adobe Utopia, URW Antiqua, URW Grotesq and Hershey fonts where
all but the last are also provided by texlive-<name>-fonts) and
those fonts are not required for PostScript compliance, see
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1082896#c13
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Mar 15 11:19:33 CET 2018 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.23rc1 (first release candidate for 9.23).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Regarding installing packages (in particular release candidates)
from the openSUSE build service development project "Printing"
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Printing
- Adapted ppc64le-support.patch: In Ghostscript 9.23 there is now
lcms2art/include/lcms2art.h (instead of lcms2/include/lcms2.h).
- ghostscript-fix-debug-use.patch is no longer needed
because the issue is fixed in the upstream sources.
- fix_ln_docdir_gsdatadir.patch avoids
"base/unixinst.mak:162: recipe for target 'install-doc' failed"
- Adapted spec file to the new Ghostscript upstream documentation
directory /usr/share/doc/ghostscript/9.23/
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Feb 28 00:14:31 UTC 2018 - stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de
- Use -p /sbin/ldconfig instead of shell post(un) scriptlet, drop
explicit Prereq for ldconfig
- Use shared libgs library for gs binary instead of static linked
version
- Use --disable-compile-inits, to allow unbundling of Resource files
- Remove --disable-omni switch, has been removed in GS 9.20
- Keep patch ordering in full/mini consistent
- Remove patch backup files to avoid packaging
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Feb 27 14:55:51 CET 2018 - novell@mirell.de
- Add ghostscript-fix-debug-use.patch from upstream to fix broken
printing with some drivers (especially Dell Printers) from
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698837
- Fix build for SLE targets
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Nov 29 16:04:48 CET 2017 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.22.
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Highlights in this release include:
* Ghostscript can now consume and produce (via the pdfwrite
device) PDF 2.0 compliant files.
* The main focus of this release has been security and code
cleanliness. Hence many AddressSanitizer, Valgrind and
Coverity issues have been addressed.
* The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
Incompatible changes
* The planned device API tidy (still!) did not happen for
this release, due to time pressures, but we still intend
to undertake the following: We plan to somewhat tidy up
the device API. We intend to remove deprecated device procs
(methods/function pointers) and change the device API
so every device proc takes a graphics state parameter
(rather than the current scheme where only a very few procs
take an imager state parameter). This should serve as notice
to anyone maintaining a Ghostscript device outside the
canonical source tree that you may (probably will) need
to update your device(s) when these changes happen.
Devices using only the non-deprecated procs should be
trivial to update.
- Up to 9.22rc1 it "just built" for all openSUSE versions but
since 9.22rc2 the libijs part does no longer buid for any
released openSUSE version where if fails with messages like
libtool: Version mismatch error.
This is libtool 2.4.6 Debian-2.4.6-2, but the
definition of this LT_INIT comes from libtool 2.4.2.
You should recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from
libtool 2.4.6 Debian-2.4.6-2 and run autoconf again.
Makefile: recipe for target 'ijs.lo' failed
so that currently it only builds for Tumbleweed/Factory.
Presumably it is not too complicated to make it build again
also for released openSUSE versions but currently I have
less than zero energy to fix such "latest breaking changes"
so that for now Ghostscript 9.22 is only provided for
openSUSE Tumbleweed/Factory and the upcoming SLE15/Leap15.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Sep 29 09:12:06 CEST 2017 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.22rc2 (second release candidate for 9.22).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Regarding installing packages (in particular release candidates)
from the openSUSE build service development project "Printing"
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Printing
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Sep 14 15:19:40 CEST 2017 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.22rc1 (first release candidate for 9.22).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Regarding installing packages (in particular release candidates)
from the openSUSE build service development project "Printing"
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Printing
- Since Ghostscript 9.22rc1 font2c and wftopfa are removed.
- CVE-2017-5951.patch CVE-2017-7207.patch
CVE-2017-8291.patch and CVE-2017-9216.patch
are fixed in the version 9.22rc1 upstream sources.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Jun 2 09:12:45 UTC 2017 - daniel.molkentin@suse.com
- CVE-2017-7207.patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference
in mem_get_bits_rectangle
see https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697676
(bsc#1030263)
- CVE-2017-9216.patch fixes a NULL pointer dereference
in jbig2_huffman_get
see https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697934
(bsc#1040643)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue May 2 14:27:22 CEST 2017 - jsmeix@suse.de
- CVE-2017-8291.patch fixes
a type confusion in .rsdparams and .eqproc
see https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697808
and https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697799
(bsc#1036453).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Apr 12 11:12:27 CEST 2017 - jsmeix@suse.de
- CVE-2016-10317 (bsc#1032230)
heap buffer overflow in fill_threshhold_buffer()
is not yet fixed because there is no fix available at
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697459
- CVE-2016-10219 (bsc#1032138)
divide by zero in intersect()
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697453
is fixed in the version 9.21 upstream sources
- CVE-2016-10218 (bsc#1032135)
null pointer dereference in pdf14_pop_transparency_group()
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697444
is fixed in the version 9.21 upstream sources.
- CVE-2016-10217 (bsc#1032130)
use-after-free in pdf14_cleanup_parent_color_profiles()
that is related to pdf14_open() in base/gdevp14.c
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697456
is fixed in the version 9.21 upstream sources.
- CVE-2016-10220 (bsc#1032120)
null pointer dereference in gx_device_finalize() that is
related to gs_makewordimagedevice() in base/gsdevmem.c
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697450
is fixed in the version 9.21 upstream sources.
- CVE-2017-5951.patch fixes
null pointer dereference in ref_stack_index() that is
related to mem_get_bits_rectangle() in base/gdevmem.c
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697548
(bsc#1032114)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Apr 10 14:06:09 CEST 2017 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.21.
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Highlights in this release include:
* pdfwrite now preserves annotations from
input PDFs (where possible).
* The GhostXPS interpreter now provides the pdfwrite device
with the data it requires to emit a ToUnicode CMap: thus
allowing fully searchable PDFs to be created from XPS
input (in the vast majority of cases).
* Ghostscript now allows the default color space
for PDF transparency blends.
* The Ghostscript/GhostPDL configure script now has much
better/fuller support for cross compiling.
* The tiffscaled and tiffscaled4 devices can now
use ETS (Even Tone Screening)
* The toolbin/pdf_info.ps utility can now emit
the PDF XML metadata.
* Ghostscript has a new scan converter available
(currently optional, but will become the default in a near
future release). It can be enabled by using the command line
option: '-dSCANCONVERTERTYPE=2'. This new implementation
provides vastly improved performance with large and complex
paths.
* The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
Incompatible changes:
* The planned device API tidy (still!) did not happen for
this release, due to time pressures, but we still intend
to undertake the following: We plan to somewhat tidy up
the device API. We intend to remove deprecated device
procs (methods/function pointers) and change the device API
so every device proc takes a graphics state parameter
(rather than the current scheme where only a very few procs
take an imager state parameter). This should serve as notice
to anyone maintaining a Ghostscript device outside the
canonical source tree that you may (probably will) need to
update your device(s) when these changes happen. Devices using
only the non-deprecated procs should be trivial to update.
- CVE-2016-7976.patch and CVE-2016-7977.patch and
CVE-2016-7978.patch and CVE-2016-7979.patch and
CVE-2016-8602.patch are no longer needed because
those issues are fixed in the upstream sources.
- 0001-mkromfs-make-build-reproducible-use-buildtime-from-S.patch
and
0002-mkromfs-sort-gp_enumerate_files-output-for-determini.patch
are no longer needed because both are included
in the upstream sources, see the upstream issue
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697484
- Again use the zlib sources from Ghostscript upstream
and disable remove-zlib-h-dependency.patch because
Ghostscript 9.21 does no longer build this way,
cf. the entry below dated "Wed Nov 18 11:46:58 UTC 2015"
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Jan 12 17:13:58 UTC 2017 - stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de
- Set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH based on changelog head
- Add 0001-mkromfs-make-build-reproducible-use-buildtime-from-S.patch
* Use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for mkromfs output for reproducible build
- Add 0002-mkromfs-sort-gp_enumerate_files-output-for-determini.patch
* Sort ROM contents for deterministic output
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Oct 17 13:36:57 CEST 2016 - jsmeix@suse.de
- CVE-2013-5653 (getenv and filenameforall ignore -dSAFER)
is fixed in the Ghostscript 9.20 upstream sources
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694724
(bsc#1001951).
- CVE-2016-7976.patch fixes that
various userparams allow %pipe% in paths, allowing
remote shell command execution
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697178
(bsc#1001951).
- CVE-2016-7977.patch fixes that
.libfile doesn't check PermitFileReading array, allowing
remote file disclosure
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697169
(bsc#1001951).
- CVE-2016-7978.patch fixes that
reference leak in .setdevice allows
use-after-free and remote code execution
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697179
(bsc#1001951).
- CVE-2016-7979.patch fixes that
type confusion in .initialize_dsc_parser allows
remote code execution
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697190
(bsc#1001951).
- CVE-2016-8602.patch fixes a NULL dereference in .sethalftone5
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697203
(bsc#1004237).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Sep 29 14:40:38 CEST 2016 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.20. Purely a maintenance release.
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Highlights in this release include:
* The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
Incompatible changes:
* The planned device API tidy did not happen for this release,
due to time pressures, but we still intend to undertake the
following: We plan to somewhat tidy up the device API.
We intend to remove deprecated device procs
(methods/function pointers) and change the device API
so every device proc takes a graphics state parameter (rather
than the current scheme where only a very few procs take an
imager state parameter). This should serve as notice to anyone
maintaining a Ghostscript device outside the canonical source
tree that you may (probably will) need to update your
device(s) when these changes happen. Devices using only
the non-deprecated procs should be trivial to update.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Sep 15 10:12:03 CEST 2016 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.20rc1 (first release candidate for 9.20).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Regarding installing packages (in particular release candidates)
from the openSUSE build service development project "Printing"
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Printing
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Mar 23 15:43:27 CET 2016 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.19. Mainly a maintenance release.
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Highlights in this release include:
* Metadata pdfmark is now implemented. This allows the user
to specify an XMP stream which will be written to the
Catalog of the PDF file. A new pdfmark 'Ext_Metadata' has
been defined. This takes a string parameter which contains
XML to be add to the XMP normally created by pdfwrite.
See "pdfwrite pdfmark extensions" for more information.
* An experimental, rudimentary raster trapping implementation
has been added to the Ghostscript graphics library.
See "Trapping" for details.
Incompatible changes:
* (Minor) API change: copy_alpha now supports 8 bit depth
(as well as the previous 2 and 4).
* The gs man pages are woefully out of date and basically
unmaintained. With the release following 9.19, we intend
to replace their contents with a very limited summary
of (unlikely to ever change aspects of) calling
Ghostscript, and a pointer to the (maintained) HTML
documentation. That is, unless a volunteer is willing
to update, and commit to maintaining the man pages.
* ijs-config is no longer provided
Planned incompatible changes:
* We plan (ideally for the release following 9.19) to somewhat
tidy up the device API. We plan to remove deprecated device
procs (methods/function pointers). We also intend to merge
the imager state and graphics state (thus eliminating the
imager state), and change the device API so every device proc
takes a graphics state parameter (rather than the current
scheme where only a very few procs take an imager state
parameter). This should serve as notice to anyone maintaining
a Ghostscript device outside the canonical source tree that
you may (probably will) need to update your device(s) when
these changes happen. Devices using only the non-deprecated
procs should be trivial to update.
- fix_make_install.patch fixes and
add_brackets_for_old_autoconf.patch are no longer needed
because both issues are fixed in the upstream sources.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Mar 18 10:13:23 CET 2016 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.19rc1 (first release candidate for 9.19).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Regarding installing packages (in particular release candidates)
from the openSUSE build service development project "Printing"
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Printing
- ijs-config is no longer provided
- fix_make_install.patch fixes an install error and
add_brackets_for_old_autoconf.patch fixes an autoconf error
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696665
- fix_ijs_and_x11_for_FirstPage_and_LastPage.patch is no longer
needed because it is fixed in the upstream sources.
- install_gserrors.h.patch is no longer needed because it is fixed
in the upstream sources.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Nov 18 11:46:58 UTC 2015 - schwab@suse.de
- Do not use library sources for freetype jpeg libpng tiff zlib
from the Ghostscript upstream tarball because we prefer to use
for long-established standard libraries the ones from SUSE
in particular to automatically get SUSE security updates
for standard libraries.
In contrast we use e.g. lcms2 from the Ghostscript upstream
tarball because this one is specially modified to work with
Ghostscript so that we cannot use lcms2 from SUSE.
- remove-zlib-h-dependency.patch removes dependency on zlib/zlib.h
in makefiles as we do not use the zlib sources from the
Ghostscript upstream tarball.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Nov 5 13:33:14 CET 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- An incompatible change appeared when building other software
with Ghostscript 9.18.
Since version 9.18 Ghostscript does no longer provide
e_<SomeError> (e.g. e_NeedInput) in its header files
(gserrors.h and ierrors.h).
When building other software with Ghostscript 9.18
gs_error_<SomeError> (e.g. gs_error_NeedInput)
must be used, see boo#953149 and
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696317
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Oct 30 11:28:14 CET 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- install_gserrors.h.patch installs gserrors.h to fix
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696301
because without gserrors.h several other packages fail to build
(in particular texlive, libspectre, gimp,...).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Oct 12 10:26:52 CEST 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- fix_ijs_and_x11_for_FirstPage_and_LastPage.patch
fixes the Ghostscript device ijs and the x11* devices
so that they also work when -dFirstPage/-dLastPage is used,
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696246
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Oct 6 10:21:22 CEST 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.18. A maintenance release.
There are no recorded incompatible changes (as of this writing).
Highlights in this release include:
* A substantial revision of the build system and GhostPDL
directory structure. Ghostscript-only users should
not be affected by this change.
* A new method of internally inserting devices into the device
chain has been developed, named "device subclassing".
This allows suitably written devices to be more easily and
consistently as "filter" devices.
The first fruit of this is a new implementation of
the "-dFirstPage"/"-dLastPage" feature which functions
a device filter in the Ghostscript graphics library, meaning
it works consistently with all input languages.
* Plus the usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
See http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.18/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Sep 29 11:05:48 CEST 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.18rc2 (second release candidate for 9.18).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Regarding installing packages (in particular release candidates)
from the openSUSE build service development project "Printing"
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Printing
- assign_pointer_not_value_in_gximono.c.patch is no longer needed
because it is fixed in the upstream sources.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Sep 24 10:29:04 CEST 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.18rc1 (first release candidate for 9.18).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Regarding installing packages (in particular release candidates)
from the openSUSE build service development project "Printing"
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Printing
- CVE-2015-3228.patch is no longer needed because it is fixed
in the upstream sources.
- assign_pointer_not_value_in_gximono.c.patch attempts to fix a
"assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast" compiler
warning by assigning the pointer and not the integer value.
- Removed --disable-compile-inits from configure, see
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696223
and "Precompiled run-time data" in
/usr/share/ghostscript/9.18/doc/Make.htm
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Jul 29 15:20:46 CEST 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- CVE-2015-3228.patch fixes out of bound read/write cause
by integer overflow in gsmalloc.c (boo#939342).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Mar 31 10:18:06 CEST 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.16. Primarily a maintenance release.
There are no recorded incompatible changes (as of this writing).
Highlights in this release include:
* "LockColorants" command line option for tiffsep and psdcmyk
devices.
* Improved high level devices handling of Forms.
See http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.16/News.htm
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
- fix.including.pread.pwrite.pthread_mutexattr_settype.diff
is no longer needed because it is fixed in the upstream sources.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Mar 25 12:38:16 CET 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- fix.including.pread.pwrite.pthread_mutexattr_settype.diff
fixes on SLE11 implicit declaration of function warnings
for 'pread' 'pwrite' 'pthread_mutexattr_settype' see
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695882
- ppc64le-support.patch is a remainder of the previous patch
now the hunk for LCMS (lcms/include/lcms.h) is removed
because LCMS 1.x is removed since Ghostscript 9.16
but the hunk for LCMS2 (lcms2/include/lcms2.h) is still needed
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695544
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Mar 20 17:12:34 CET 2015 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.16rc2 (second release candidate for 9.16).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
Regarding installing packages (in particular release candidates)
from the openSUSE build service development project "Printing"
see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Printing
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Sun Sep 28 18:00:37 CEST 2014 - ro@suse.de
- readd ppc64le patch ppc64le-support.patch (adapted for lcms2 in
Ghostscript version 9.15): the tests in lcms2.h cannot work
without "include <endian.h>" that is now added and
regardless that lcms is not used by default (unless the
configure option --with-lcms is set), lcms is again fixed
(see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695544).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Sep 23 10:14:28 CEST 2014 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.15. Primarily a maintenance release.
There are no recorded incompatible changes (as of this writing).
Highlights in this release include:
* Ghostscript now supports the PDF security handler revision 6.
* The pdfwrite and ps2write (and related) devices can now be
forced to "flatten" glyphs into "basic" marking operations
(rather than writing fonts to the output), by giving
the -dNoOutputFonts command line option (defaults to "false").
* PostScript programs can now use get_params or get_param to
determine if a page contains color markings by reading the
pageneutralcolor state from the device (so whether the page
is "color" or "mono"). Note that this is only accurate when in
clist mode, so -dMaxBitmap=0 and -dGrayDetection=true should
both be used.
* The pdfwrite device now supports Link annotations with GoTo
and GoToR actions.
* The pdfwrite device now supports BMC/BDC/EMC pdfmarks
* Regarding the new color management for the pdfwrite device
introduced in the previous release, the proscription on using
the new color management when producing PDF/A-1 compliant files
is now lifted. To reiterate, also, with the new color
management implementation, using the UseCIEColor option is
strongly discouraged. For further information on the new
pdfwrite color management, see in Ps2pdf.htm the
"Color Conversion and Management" section.
* Plus the usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes,
and incremental improvements.
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Sep 17 12:17:47 CEST 2014 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.15rc2 (second release candidate for 9.15).
Ghostscript upstream QA highlighted a couple of issues
that they felt warranted a fresh release candidate.
For details see the History9.htm file.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Sep 9 16:06:31 CEST 2014 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.15rc1 (first release candidate for 9.15).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
- ppc64le-support.patch is no longer needed because
it is fixed in the upstream sources.
- Removed trailing whitespaces in spec file and changes file.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Mar 27 12:21:55 CET 2014 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.14. Primarily a maintenance release.
Highlights in this release include (excerpt):
* pdfwrite now uses the same color management engine as
Ghostscript rendering devices (by default LCMS2). For
the duration of this release a new switch -dPDFUseOldCMS
is available which will restore the old color management.
See: "Color Conversion and Management" in Ps2pdf.htm
Due to constraints of the PDF/A-1 specification, the new color
management does not yet apply when producing PDF/A files.
* A new device 'eps2write' has been added which allows for the
creation of EPS files using the ps2write device instead of
the deprecated and removed pswrite device. The epswrite device
is now also deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
* Ghostscript has a new "pwgraster" output device for PWG Raster
output.
* The CUPS device now has improved support for PPD-less printing.
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Dec 13 19:09:12 UTC 2013 - uweigand@de.ibm.com
- ppc64le-support.patch from IBM fixes endianness
in lcms (the Little-CMS library) to support the new
architecture ppc64le (IBM Power PC Little Endian architecture)
because ppc64 is big-endian and ppc64le is little-endian
and lcms has a hard-coded check that assumes PowerPC
is always big-endian which is incorrect on ppc64le.
The fix is already in the main Little-CMS repository
by this Git commit
https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/b4f5c91a2c1582bd284f0d0f49cb43e2c2235a79
(There are some cosmetic changes in the upstream patch.)
It is not yet in the imported copy in Ghostscript.
IBM will work with upstream to get the fix imported too.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Sep 3 16:26:46 CEST 2013 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.10. Primarily a maintenance release.
Highlights in this release include:
* LittleCMS2 and libpng have both been updated to the
latest versions.
* The URW Postscript font set has been updated to the
latest version, fixing many compatibility problems
with the Adobe fonts.
* The CUPS filters gstoraster and gstopxl have been
removed from Ghostscript. Those filters are now provided by
cups-filters (a free software package hosted by OpenPrinting)
that contains all CUPS filters needed by CUPS under Linux
(see also the openSUSE issue bnc#735404 comment#44 at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735404#c44).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
- fix-undefined-operation.patch is no longer needed because
it is fixed in the upstream sources.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Aug 29 15:06:13 CEST 2013 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.10rc1 (release candidate for the 9.10 version).
For details see the News.htm and History9.htm files.
- Prepare spec files to build both releases and release candidates
easily in the future by using special different version strings.
- fix-undefined-operation.patch fixes
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694546
- Removed BuildRequires for liblcms-devel because it is not needed
when we build Ghostscript that works in compliance with upstream
(see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828751#c5).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Mar 27 07:58:08 UTC 2013 - mmeister@suse.com
- Added url as source.
Please see http://en.opensuse.org/SourceUrls
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Feb 19 13:51:06 CET 2013 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Version upgrade to 9.07.
* As of this release (9.07), Ghostscript is distributed
under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).
* Ghostscript has been extended to support file sizes >4Gb
in particular reading and writing PDF files.
* Color management enhancements. Full details of the color
management features can be found in: GS9_Color_Management.pdf
* The pdfwrite devices now supports linearized (or optimized
for fast web view) output directly ("-dFastWebView").
* With the addition of linearisation to pdfwrite, pdfopt.ps
has become redundant. Since it is difficult to maintain,
has a number of bugs, and is believed not to work properly
anyway, it is removed. Accordingly the pdfopt shell script
that used pdfopt.ps is also removed.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Jan 3 11:58:51 CET 2013 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Provide libijs (that is not done via "configure --with-ijs")
because libijs is needed by the pdftoijs filter in the
cups-filters package (see the README file in cups-filters).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu Sep 27 12:02:51 UTC 2012 - mmeister@suse.com
- Version upgrade to 9.06. Mainly a bugfix release.
* pdfwrite announcements:
pdfwrite now supports the creation of PDF/A-2 files.
For further details see the NEWS file.
* removed moribund dumphint tool, see History9.htm and
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693223
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Mon Sep 24 10:44:57 UTC 2012 - idonmez@suse.com
- "export SUSE_ASNEEDED=0" disables -Wl,--as-needed linker flags,
see http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693100
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Thu May 10 15:49:33 CEST 2012 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Require Ghostscript's font packages because the
Ghostscript package provides the "Fontmap" file
/usr/share/ghostscript/<version>/Resource/Init/Fontmap.GS
which lists Ghostscript's fonts but the fonts itself
are provided in the separated packages ghostscript-fonts-std
and ghostscript-fonts-other so that a RPM requirement
is needed to make sure that Ghostscript has its fonts.
- Extract the catalog of devices which are actually built-in
in exactly this Ghostscript and provide it as catalog.devices
in the Ghostscript package.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Apr 24 14:30:45 CEST 2012 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Install documentation which is not installed by default
(LICENSE doc/AUTHORS doc/COPYING doc/thirdparty.htm
doc/WhatIsGS.htm doc/GS9_Color_Management.pdf
doc/gs-vms.hlp doc/Ps2ps2.htm).
- Add a link from SUSE's usual documentation directory
(/usr/share/doc/packages/ghostscript/) to Ghostscript's
documentation directory (/usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/doc/)
because "configure --docdir=..." does not work.
- Let ghostscript-mini "Conflicts: ghostscript-library".
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Wed Mar 28 10:59:21 CEST 2012 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Require only the basic fonts for Ghostscript
(package ghostscript-fonts-std) but do not recommend
optional fonts (package ghostscript-fonts-other).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fri Mar 23 11:32:28 CET 2012 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Cleaned up BuildRequires.
- Explicitly specify configure --with-* versus --without-*
in ghostscript.spec versus ghostscript-mini.spec
to make the differences clear.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tue Mar 20 16:07:56 CET 2012 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Initial ghostscript-mini package.
