6 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
7 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
8 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
9 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
11 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
13 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
14 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
15 the first page (STR #3525)
16 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
17 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
19 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
20 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
21 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
23 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
24 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
25 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
27 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
28 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
29 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
31 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
32 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
33 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
34 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
35 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
37 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
38 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
39 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
40 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
41 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
44 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
46 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
47 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
48 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
49 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
50 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
52 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
53 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
54 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
55 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
56 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
57 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
58 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
59 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
60 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
62 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
63 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
64 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
65 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
66 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
67 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
69 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
70 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
72 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
74 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
75 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
76 was turned off (STR #3425)
77 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
79 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
80 a remote server (STR #3435)
81 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
82 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
84 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
85 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
86 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
87 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
89 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
91 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
92 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
93 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
95 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
96 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
97 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
98 loading a job (STR #3407)
99 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
100 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
101 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
102 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
103 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
104 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
106 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
108 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
109 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
110 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
113 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
115 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
116 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
118 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
119 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
120 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
121 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
122 driver was changed (STR #3356)
123 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
124 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
125 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
126 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
127 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
129 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
130 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
131 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
132 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
133 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
134 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
135 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
136 characters (STR #3340)
137 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
139 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
140 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
141 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
142 SNMP implementations.
145 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
147 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
148 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
149 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
150 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
151 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
152 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
153 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
154 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
155 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
156 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
157 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
158 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
159 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
160 query job was held (STR #3302)
161 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
163 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
164 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
166 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
167 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
168 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
170 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
172 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
173 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
174 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
175 implementations (STR #3262)
176 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
178 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
182 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
184 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
185 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
186 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
188 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
190 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
191 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
192 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
194 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
196 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
197 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
198 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
199 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
201 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
202 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
203 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
205 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
206 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
207 templates (STR #3229)
208 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
209 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
211 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
212 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
213 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
215 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
216 reason on all platforms.
219 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
221 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
223 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
224 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
225 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
226 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
227 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
228 variables (STR #3210)
229 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
230 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
231 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
233 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
234 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
235 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
236 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
237 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
238 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
239 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
240 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
241 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
242 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
243 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
244 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
245 that cupstestppd looks for...)
246 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
247 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
248 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
249 pages when a job was canceled or held.
252 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
254 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
256 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
257 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
258 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
259 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
260 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
261 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
262 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
263 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
264 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
265 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
267 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
269 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
270 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
271 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
272 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
273 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
274 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
275 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
276 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
278 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
279 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
280 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
281 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
282 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
283 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
285 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
286 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
287 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
288 lack of kernel buffers.
289 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
290 while copying print data to a temporary file.
291 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
292 causing reduced performance in some situations.
293 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
294 would hang on the client.
295 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
297 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
298 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
299 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
300 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
301 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
302 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
303 filenames in the PPD file.
304 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
306 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
308 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
309 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
310 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
311 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
312 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
314 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
315 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
317 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
319 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
320 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
322 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
324 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
326 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
327 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
329 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
331 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
332 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
333 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
334 printer had other reasons associated with it.
335 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
336 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
338 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
339 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
340 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
341 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
342 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
343 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
344 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
345 printer discovery (STR #3065)
346 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
347 in length (STR #3072)
348 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
349 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
350 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
351 printers with no specified colorspace.
352 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
354 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
355 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
356 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
357 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
358 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
360 - The ppdi utility did not work.
361 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
362 web browsers (STR #3049)
363 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
364 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
366 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
367 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
368 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
369 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
370 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
371 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
372 present in most PPD files.
373 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
374 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
376 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
377 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
378 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
380 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
381 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
382 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
386 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
388 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
389 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
390 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
391 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
392 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
393 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
394 rather than copying them whenever possible.
395 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
396 options implementations.
397 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
399 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
400 was set to False in the PPD file.
401 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
402 and network backends (STR #3014)
403 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
404 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
406 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
407 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
409 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
410 --exclude-schemes options.
411 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
412 and exclude-schemes attributes.
413 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
415 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
416 option called "fit-to-page".
417 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
418 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
419 prevent race conditions.
420 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
421 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
423 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
424 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
426 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
428 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
429 variable when running filters.
430 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
432 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
436 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
438 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
439 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
440 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
441 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
443 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
444 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
445 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
446 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
447 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
448 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
449 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
451 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
452 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
453 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
454 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
456 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
457 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
458 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
459 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
460 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
461 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
462 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
463 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
464 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
465 of printer options (STR #1440)
466 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
468 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
469 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
470 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
471 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
472 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
473 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
474 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
476 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
478 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
479 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
480 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
481 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
482 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
484 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
485 default server (STR #2833)
486 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
487 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
488 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
490 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
492 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
493 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
494 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
495 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
496 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
497 print jobs (STR #2482)
498 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
500 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
501 track the progress of individual pages.
502 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
503 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
504 command, when available (STR #2724)
505 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
506 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
507 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
508 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
509 file as errors (STR #2616)
510 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
511 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
513 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
514 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
515 continue further (STR #2101)
516 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
517 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
518 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
520 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
521 the physical location of a printer device.
522 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
523 device data by a backend.
524 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
526 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
527 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
528 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
529 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
531 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
532 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
533 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
534 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
535 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
536 attributes for better option conflict detection and
538 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
539 256 bytes (STR #2877)
540 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
541 what is logged to the access_log file.
542 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
543 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
544 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
546 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
548 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
549 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
551 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
552 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
553 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
554 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
555 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
556 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
557 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
558 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
560 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
561 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
562 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
564 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
566 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
567 ModelName value as the output filename.
568 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
569 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
570 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
571 standard network backends.
572 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
573 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
574 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
575 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
576 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
577 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
578 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
580 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
581 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
582 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
583 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
584 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
585 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
586 - Driver information files can now be installed in
587 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
588 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
590 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
591 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
592 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
593 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
594 backends are polled and for how long.
595 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
596 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
597 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
598 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
599 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
600 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
601 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
602 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
603 for localization (STR #2737)
604 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
605 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
607 - The build system has been updated to support separate
608 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
609 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
611 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
612 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
613 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
614 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
615 root to make the default installation more secure.
616 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
617 the localized version of a marker-names value.
618 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
619 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
620 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
621 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
622 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
623 global based on the current access policies for the
625 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
626 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
627 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
628 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
629 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
630 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
631 that support it (STR #2637)
632 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
634 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
635 attriibute to purge a specified job.
636 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
637 attributes for custom option selections.
638 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
639 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
640 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
641 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
642 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
643 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
644 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
645 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
646 on the model page (STR #2436)
647 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
648 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
649 of printers (STR #1175)
650 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
651 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
652 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
653 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
654 to filter the document from the specified job.
655 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
656 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
657 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
658 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
659 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.