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This document is news about the most recent Ghostscript release.  For
earlier versions, see the history documents:

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<a href="History9.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 9.n</a><br>
<a href="History8.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 8.n</a><br>
<a href="History7.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 7.n</a><br>
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<h2><a name="Version9.24"></a>Version 9.24 (2018-08-30)</h2>

<p> Highlights in this release include:
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<p>Security issues have been the primary focus of this release, including solving
several (well publicised) real and potential exploits.
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<p> <big><u><b>PLEASE NOTE:</b> We <b>strongly</b> urge users to upgrade to this latest
release to avoid these issues.</u></big>
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<p>As well as Ghostscript itself, jbig2dec has had a significant amount of work improving
its robustness in the face of out specification files.
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<p>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).
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<p>The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental improvements.
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<p>For a list of open issues, or to report problems,
please visit <a href="http://bugs.ghostscript.com/">bugs.ghostscript.com</a>.

<h3><a name="9.24_Incompatible_changes"></a>Incompatible changes</h3>
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<h3><a name="9.24_changelog"></a>Changelog</h3>

<p>See the <a href="History9.htm">history file</a> for complete log 
of changes.

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