Now the merger between ESP Ghostscript and GPL (upstream) Ghostscript is done and available in an official, stable release. Artifex has released GPL Ghostscript 8.60, which is is now the Ghostscript recommended for use in Linux distributions. Now the latest and greatest Ghostscript will make it into the distros.

This new version contains especially the CUPS raster output device, IJS and OpenPrinting Vector interfaces for driver plug-ins, all built-in printer drivers listed in the OpenPrinting database, X display drivers in a separate shared library, and many more improvements and bug fixes.