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PDFio 1.6.5 August 20, 2026

PDFio 1.6.5 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• CVE-2016-NNNNN: Fixed reading of invalid empty AES-encrypted strings.
• Fixed pdfioContentTextXxx output with Unicode characters past U+FFFF (Issue #171)
• Fixed pdfioPageCopy with a damaged input PDF file (Issue #174)
• Fixed error recovery when reading values (Issue #178)
• Fixed pdfioContentTextXxx output with invalid UTF-8.
• Fixed import of 16-bit PNG files with alpha.
• Fixed pdfioDictSetStringf which wasn’t making a copy of the formatted string.

Enjoy!

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PAPPL v1.4.12 August 20, 2026

PAPPL v1.4.12 is now available for download and is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• CVE-2026-NNNNN: Added overflow protection to the dithering code paths.
• CVE-2026-NNNNN: Added overflow protection for setting ready media values.
• Added logging of the USB port status byte for USB-connected printers.
• Now clear USB errors after a failed get device ID request.
• Updated poll error handling and forced sleep to be consistent throughout.
• Now close HTTP connections immediately after returning an error (Issue #431)
• Fixed a locking issue when deleting a printer (Issue #433)

Enjoy!

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Mini-XML 4.0.5 August 20, 2026

Mini-XML v4.0.5 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Added support for the “apos” entity (Issue #346)
• Added support for Windows on ARM64 (Issue #352)
• Fixed build issues with MingW (Issue #347)
• Fixed an access issue in mxmlIndexNew (Issue #350)
• Fixed a potential memory leak when loading bad XML (Issue #354)

Enjoy!

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Mike's System Monitor (msysmon) v1.0.0 August 10, 2026

Mike’s System Monitor (msysmon) is a lightweight administrator/developer tool for monitoring the CPU, memory, and threads used by processes on a Linux or macOS system. I wrote it primarily to do long-term testing of embedded Linux systems where memory leaks, crashes, and/or CPU spins can cause problems but are often hard to track down.

msysmon runs in the background to collect usage information and provides a simple web interface for viewing it complete with graphs.

Enjoy!

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LPrint v1.4.0 June 08, 2026

LPrint v1.4.0 is a feature release that adds support for ESC/POS printers and several other printer models with existing drivers. Changes include:

• Added ESC/POS driver (Issue #123)
• Added Vevor Y428BT driver (Issue #130)
• Added 4 x 7.83 inch label size (Issue #144)
• Added Arkscan 2054a and HP KE103 (Issue #165)
• Added DYMO LabelWriter Twin Turbo driver (Issue #193)
• Now enable the TLS web interface unless the “no-tls” option is specified (Issue #161)
• Updated the default state file to match current PAPPL defaults (Issue #129)
• Updated the maximum label width of TSPL printers to 105mm (Issue #141)
• Updated the ZPL driver to automatically disable status commands if the target printer doesn’t implement that part of ZPL (Issue #161)
• Fixed the margins for DYMO printers (Issue #132)
• Fixed some Brother driver problems (Issue #167)
• Fixed a NumCopies issue in the TSPL driver (Issue #188)
• Fixed list of label sizes for DYMO LabelWriter 4XL (Issue #198)

Enjoy!

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HP Printer Application v1.3.1 June 08, 2026

HP Printer Application v1.3.1 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Improved PCL compression code.
• Fixed CMYK output.
• Fixed a few PCL 6 output bugs.
• Fixed the --enable-experimental configure option to enable the PCL 6 driver.

Enjoy!

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PDFio 1.6.4 June 05, 2026

PDFio 1.6.4 is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Fixed pdfioPageCopy implementation to not force a CropBox value (Issue #166)
• Fixed AES padding (Issue #167, Issue #169, Issue #170)

Enjoy!

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PAPPL v1.4.11 June 05, 2026

PAPPL v1.4.11 is now available for download and is a bug fix release. Changes include:

• Updated the programmer’s manual (Issue #418, Issue #419)
• Updated Set-Printer-Attributes validations checks.
• Fixed builds on FreeBSD and other systems without a sys/statfs.h header (Issue #411)
• Fixed a deadlock issue in the USB gadget shutdown code (Issue #417)
• Fixed a truncation bug when decoding SNMP string values.
• Fixed the handling of the finishings option.

Enjoy!

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