Ghostscript 10.07.1

A new version 10.07.1 of Ghostscript has just been released. From the announcement on the gs-devel list:

> Announcing the release of GPL Ghostscript 10.07.1 and GPL GhostPDL 10.07.1 from Artifex Software.
> 
> Get it here:
> 
>    https://ghostscript.com/releases/index.html
> 
> For a release summary see:
> 
>    https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/gs10.07.1/News.html

The release candidate 12 days ago came with the comment:

> Whilst this is, strictly speaking, a "patch release", there have been a considerable number of minor, but security related changes since 10.07.0, hence we're taking the step of doing a release candidate this time.

Greater detail for programmers, from the News page above:

> Highlights in this release include:
>     • The 10.07.1 release is a maintenance release:
>     • This release addresses a number of potential security issues.
>     • The wider adoption of "C99" and later features has reached the point where we must ease our policy on this area. The Ghostscript/GhostPDL codebase will remain "C89" plus widely supported extensions but, as of the 10.08.0 release, our included third party libraries will will be permitted to use "C99" and potentially later features.
>     • The 10.07.1 removes the non-standard operator ".tempfile", and removes the "temp" directory from the default file permission lists. By default, such access is now only available internally, not from "user level" PostScript
>     • Our efforts in code hygiene and maintainability continue.
>     • The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental improvements.

The new version compiles just as before, and, based on very limited testing, seems to work just as before in relation to TeX and friends.

Bruno Voisin