Index: general/genlib/aspell.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/aspell.xml	(revision 9eefd57716793e1768ed23dfae218140fa5be33c)
+++ general/genlib/aspell.xml	(revision ee5e39705bfadb105668b10c54d1a9a9ef27ff8d)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY aspell-download-http "&gnu-http;/aspell/aspell-&aspell-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY aspell-download-ftp  "&gnu-ftp;/aspell/aspell-&aspell-version;.tar.gz">
-  <!ENTITY aspell-md5sum        "8ef2252609c511cd2bb26f3a3932ef28">
-  <!ENTITY aspell-size          "2.0 MB">
-  <!ENTITY aspell-buildsize     "47 MB (Additional 8 MB for EN dictionary)">
+  <!ENTITY aspell-md5sum        "012fa9209203ae4e5a61c2a668fd10e3">
+  <!ENTITY aspell-size          "3.3 MB">
+  <!ENTITY aspell-buildsize     "51 MB (Additional 8 MB for EN dictionary)">
   <!ENTITY aspell-time          "0.4 SBU">
 ]>
@@ -101,8 +101,4 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Aspell</title>
-
-    <para>First, fix a problem identified by gcc7:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>sed -i '/ top.do_check ==/s/top.do_check/*&amp;/' modules/filter/tex.cpp</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
Index: general/graphlib/opencv.xml
===================================================================
--- general/graphlib/opencv.xml	(revision 9eefd57716793e1768ed23dfae218140fa5be33c)
+++ general/graphlib/opencv.xml	(revision ee5e39705bfadb105668b10c54d1a9a9ef27ff8d)
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
   <!ENTITY opencv-download-http     "https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/&opencv-version;/opencv-&opencv-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY opencv-download-ftp      " ">
-  <!ENTITY opencv-md5sum            "d9d3138d12e52bb0684f4a5862f6a46c">
-  <!ENTITY opencv-size              "84 MB">
+  <!ENTITY opencv-md5sum            "631f23b142665072969debbe39e1c958">
+  <!ENTITY opencv-size              "83 MB">
   <!ENTITY opencv-buildsize         "627 MB">
-  <!ENTITY opencv-time              "4.1 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
+  <!ENTITY opencv-time              "4.0 SBU (using parallelism=4)">
 
 
Index: general/graphlib/qpdf.xml
===================================================================
--- general/graphlib/qpdf.xml	(revision 9eefd57716793e1768ed23dfae218140fa5be33c)
+++ general/graphlib/qpdf.xml	(revision ee5e39705bfadb105668b10c54d1a9a9ef27ff8d)
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
   <!ENTITY qpdf-download-http "https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/releases/download/release-qpdf-&qpdf-version;/qpdf-&qpdf-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY qpdf-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY qpdf-md5sum        "d064a3dfee9fc53c306f10f48328ed2e">
+  <!ENTITY qpdf-md5sum        "ad9431ddd92c0767d9f040ada2ac5065">
   <!ENTITY qpdf-size          "17 MB">
   <!ENTITY qpdf-buildsize     "223 MB (add 38 MB for tests)">
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision 9eefd57716793e1768ed23dfae218140fa5be33c)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision ee5e39705bfadb105668b10c54d1a9a9ef27ff8d)
@@ -49,4 +49,24 @@
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12658">#12658</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to ghostscript-9.50. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12653">#12653</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to qpdf-9.0.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12644">#12644</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to aspell-0.60.8. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12641">#12641</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to balsa-2.5.8. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12639">#12639</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Update to opencv-4.1.2. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12635">#12635</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
Index: packages.ent
===================================================================
--- packages.ent	(revision 9eefd57716793e1768ed23dfae218140fa5be33c)
+++ packages.ent	(revision ee5e39705bfadb105668b10c54d1a9a9ef27ff8d)
@@ -80,5 +80,5 @@
 <!ENTITY apr-version                  "1.7.0">
 <!ENTITY apr-util-version             "1.6.1">
-<!ENTITY aspell-version               "0.60.7">
+<!ENTITY aspell-version               "0.60.8">
 
 <!ENTITY boost-major                  "1">
@@ -215,6 +215,6 @@
 <!ENTITY mypaint-brushes-version      "1.3.0"> <!-- version 1 only -->
 <!ENTITY newt-version                 "0.52.21">
-<!ENTITY opencv-version               "4.1.1">
-<!ENTITY opencv-contrib-version       "4.1.1">
+<!ENTITY opencv-version               "4.1.2">
+<!ENTITY opencv-contrib-version       "4.1.2">
 <!ENTITY openjpeg-version             "1.5.2">
 <!ENTITY openjpeg2-version            "2.3.1">
@@ -222,5 +222,5 @@
 <!ENTITY poppler-version              "0.81.0">
 <!ENTITY potrace-version              "1.16">
-<!ENTITY qpdf-version                 "9.0.1">
+<!ENTITY qpdf-version                 "9.0.2">
 <!ENTITY libsass-version              "3.6.1">
 <!ENTITY sassc-version                "3.6.1">
@@ -871,5 +871,5 @@
 
 <!-- Chapter 41 -->
-<!ENTITY balsa-version                "2.5.7">
+<!ENTITY balsa-version                "2.5.8">
 <!ENTITY ekiga-version                "4.0.1">
 <!ENTITY feh-version                  "3.2.1">
@@ -995,5 +995,5 @@
 <!ENTITY cups-version                 "2.3.0">
 <!ENTITY cups-filters-version         "1.25.6">
-<!ENTITY gs-version                   "9.27">
+<!ENTITY gs-version                   "9.50">
 <!ENTITY gutenprint-version           "5.3.3">
 
Index: pst/printing/gs.xml
===================================================================
--- pst/printing/gs.xml	(revision 9eefd57716793e1768ed23dfae218140fa5be33c)
+++ pst/printing/gs.xml	(revision ee5e39705bfadb105668b10c54d1a9a9ef27ff8d)
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
   "https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/download/gs927/ghostscript-&gs-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY gs-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY gs-md5sum        "dd531503dbbc524f73528359e2ea145c">
-  <!ENTITY gs-size          "32 MB">
-  <!ENTITY gs-buildsize     "332 MB (with fonts and libgs.so)">
-  <!ENTITY gs-time          "1.7 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with libgs.so)">
+  <!ENTITY gs-md5sum        "6cea6bae4a7cdfac6ccb09f07f0caf8c">
+  <!ENTITY gs-size          "33 MB">
+  <!ENTITY gs-buildsize     "161 MB (with fonts and libgs.so)">
+  <!ENTITY gs-time          "1.6 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with libgs.so)">
 
   <!ENTITY gs-standard-fonts-download
@@ -72,15 +72,4 @@
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          Required patch:
-          <ulink url="&patch-root;/ghostscript-&gs-version;-upstream_fixes-2.patch"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
       <para>If you wish, you can download additional fonts.</para>
 
@@ -177,6 +166,4 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>rm -rf zlib &amp;&amp;
-
-patch -Np1 -i ../ghostscript-&gs-version;-upstream_fixes-2.patch &amp;&amp;
 
 ./configure --prefix=/usr           \
Index: xsoft/other/balsa.xml
===================================================================
--- xsoft/other/balsa.xml	(revision 9eefd57716793e1768ed23dfae218140fa5be33c)
+++ xsoft/other/balsa.xml	(revision ee5e39705bfadb105668b10c54d1a9a9ef27ff8d)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <!ENTITY balsa-download-http "http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/balsa-&balsa-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY balsa-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY balsa-md5sum        "3d1d06c29e3d2cf9ec648641f35f0865">
+  <!ENTITY balsa-md5sum        "93820aea0d421ff7a86454ca81191433">
   <!ENTITY balsa-size          "4.3 MB">
-  <!ENTITY balsa-buildsize     "64 MB">
+  <!ENTITY balsa-buildsize     "67 MB">
   <!ENTITY balsa-time          "0.5 SBU">
 ]>
@@ -64,4 +64,5 @@
       <xref linkend="enchant"/>,
       <xref linkend="gmime"/>,
+      <xref linkend='gpgme'/>,
       <xref linkend="libesmtp"/>, and
       <xref linkend="rarian"/>
@@ -90,9 +91,4 @@
     </para>
 
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional to Build S/MIME Support</bridgehead>
-    <para role="optional">
-      <xref linkend='gpgme'/>
-    </para>
-
     <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
     <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/balsa"/></para>
