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commit f2f0b8e1f7e1edbf63239107bdcce65a8fdeca24
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Jan 16 11:58:09 2025 -0600

    NEWS: Add item re: grops resource behavior change.
    
    Continues fixing <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66419>.
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 NEWS | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index aec55bbf0..7cc72191f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-    Copyright (C) 1992-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+    Copyright (C) 1992-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
     Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
     are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
@@ -608,6 +608,15 @@ Output drivers
      .fchar \[s ,] \o's\[ac]'
      .hcode \[s ,]s
 
+*  The PostScript output driver grops(1) once again accepts a file name
+   containing slashes them as a document prolog or resource (such as a
+   font to be downloaded into the document).  This is a restoration of
+   groff 1.22.4 and earlier behavior; groff's 1.23.0 change of not
+   accepting a file name containing slashes as an encoding or font
+   description files remains in place.  (We impose this restriction
+   because the output driver interprets the contents of these files; it
+   does not interpret the PostScript prolog or resource files.)
+
 *  gropdf(1), the PDF output driver, now allows embedding of JFIF/JPEG
    and JPEG 2000 image file formats.  If PerlMagick is installed, many
    more image file formats, including PNG, PAM, and GIF, can be

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