# Changes in the most recent release of Ghostscript

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

> History of Ghostscript versions 7.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 6.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 5.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 4.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 3.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 2.n
> History of Ghostscript versions 1.n

For other information, see the Ghostscript overview.

### Version 7.06 (2003-04-01)

This is the second release of the stable 7.0x series under the GNU GPL, following one year after the release of 7.00. It includes a number of small bug fixes and documentation cleanup to comply with the GNU coding guidelines.

Also new in this release is the 'pngalpha' device which produces png output with a transparent background (page) color so they can be composited against a separate background. The transparency is based only on what parts of the page have been drawn and does not support PDF 1.4 trasparent painting.

### Incompatible changes

No incompatible changes have been recorded for this version. Users of the 6.5x versions of GNU Ghostscript will want to check the History for a complete list of changes since that version. Authors of drivers with potential security implications are also encouraged to review the security changes introduced with 6.53/7.04.

Additionally, the scripts which create the project file for bulding ghostscript on MacOS have been updated for Metrowerks CodeWarrior 7.2 and 8.3. Edit the LIBS entries in macgenmcpxml.sh to recover the settings for CW6.

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Ghostscript version 7.06, 1 April 2003