While August had some big hitters, September was very quiet so I decided to only do one update.

New Packages

Ghostscript

Ghostscript is a PostScript and PDF interpreter. It is primarily used to generate PDFs from various input formats. Note that Ghostscript is licensed under the Affero GNU Public Licence (AGPL). This license requires releasing any source code which integrates with Ghostscript even when used in a Software as a Service model. This article has a more thorough walkthrough of the implications.

This fulfills RFE 131308.

GNU Texinfo

GNU Texinfo is the official documentation format of the GNU project. It's similar to man pages, but are built to be a more comprehensive documentation.

For instance, man bash will tell you the command line options that bash takes along with some information on how those options affect the behavior and some info on BASH syntax and things while running info bash will provide background on what a shell is, some history on BASH, how to write functions and pipelines and other things.

Package Updates

Python bugfix for IBM i 7.4

Building C++ Python extensions on IBM i 7.4 (eg. matplotlib) would fail with linker errors like A symbol name may only be followed by an export attribute or an address. The line is being ignored. as seen in this issue. This has been fixed.

libsodium SIGILL fix

Certain libsodium functions were calling mlock and madvise which are not supported by PASE and trigger SIGILL. These functions have been disabled from the builds.

Other Updates

Closing

I know a lot of people have been looking forward to Ghostscript for a long time. What do you think? Looking forward to anything else?