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22<h1>Changes in the most recent release of Ghostscript</h1>
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33This document is news about the most recent Ghostscript release.  For
34earlier versions, see the history documents:
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36<blockquote>
37<a href="History8.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 8.n</a><br>
38<a href="History7.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 7.n</a><br>
39<a href="History6.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 6.n</a><br>
40<a href="History5.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 5.n</a><br>
41<a href="History4.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 4.n</a><br>
42<a href="History3.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 3.n</a><br>
43<a href="History2.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 2.n</a><br>
44<a href="History1.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 1.n</a>
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47<p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript
48overview</a>.
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58<h3><a name="Version8.53"></a>Version 8.53 (2005-10-20)</h3>
59
60<p>This is the fourth stable release in the 8.5x series of Ghostscript.
61It contains a few bug fixes and improvements since 8.52, particularly in
62the fix for a build problem on AMD64/Windows64 and vastly improved
63transparency rendering speed for some PDF's.
64
65<p> The following <a href="http://bugs.ghostscript.com/">bugs</a> were
66open at the time of this release: <blockquote>
67465936, 578865, 592160, 610478, 626295, 686747, 686842, 686853,
68687011, 687039, 687063, 687108, 687125, 687146, 687196, 687219,
69687231, 687243, 687257, 687271, 687280, 687292, 687295, 687298,
70687314, 687316, 687327, 687342, 687345, 687346, 687373, 687397,
71687399, 687435, 687480, 687484, 687514, 687520, 687525, 687529,
72687531, 687545, 687559, 687560, 687583, 687608, 687621, 687622,
73687628, 687633, 687642, 687643, 687644, 687650, 687654, 687657,
74687663, 687669, 687674, 687676, 687677, 687679, 687682, 687694,
75687695, 687697, 687702, 687721, 687728, 687729, 687796, 687805,
76687806, 687808, 687814, 687822, 687825, 687844, 687848, 687850,
77687863, 687866, 687868, 687870, 687875, 687895, 687903, 687904,
78687907, 687914, 687919, 687931, 687938, 687957, 687960, 687970,
79687974, 687975, 687986, 687988, 687992, 687994, 687996, 688005,
80688006, 688007, 688009, 688013, 688017, 688020, 688022, 688026,
81688032, 688035, 688036, 688039, 688042, 688047, 688054, 688058,
82688060, 688061, 688064, 688066, 688068, 688075, 688079, 688081,
83688091, 688095, 688101, 688106, 688108, 688124, 688129, 688130,
84688132, 688134, 688149, 688151, 688152, 688159, 688166, 688176,
85688179, 688181, 688184, 688187, 688200, 688203, 688207, 688215,
86688225, 688227, 688231, 688239, 688243, 688249, 688260, 688265,
87688269, 688274, 688278, 688280, 688282, 688285, 688288, 688290,
88688291, 688295, 688300, 688302, 688309, 688311, 688317, 688318,
89688319, 688320, 688321, 688323, 688326, 688329, 688332, 688333,
90688334, 688335, 688336, 688337, 688338, 688339, 688342, 688344
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93<h3><a name="8.53_Incompatible_changes"></a>Incompatible changes</h3>
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96There are no known incompatible changes at this point.
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104Copyright &copy; 2005 artofcode LLC.  All rights
105reserved.
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108This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or
109implied.
110
111This software is distributed under license and may not be copied,
112modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms
113of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution.
114
115For more information about licensing, please refer to
116http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on
117commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or
118contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110,
119San Rafael, CA  94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861.
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122<small>Ghostscript version 8.53, 20 October 2005
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