10 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
11 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
12 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
13 attributes (STR #3554)
14 - The GNU TLS and OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe
16 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
17 implementation (STR #3514)
18 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
19 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
20 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
22 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
24 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
25 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
26 the first page (STR #3525)
27 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
28 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
30 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
31 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
32 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
34 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
35 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
36 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
38 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
39 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
40 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
42 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
43 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
44 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
45 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
46 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
48 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
49 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
50 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
51 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
52 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
55 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
57 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
58 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
59 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
60 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
61 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
63 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
64 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
65 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
66 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
67 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
68 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
69 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
70 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
71 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
73 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
74 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
75 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
76 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
77 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
78 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
80 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
81 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
83 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
85 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
86 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
87 was turned off (STR #3425)
88 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
90 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
91 a remote server (STR #3435)
92 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
93 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
95 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
96 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
97 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
98 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
100 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
102 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
103 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
104 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
106 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
107 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
108 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
109 loading a job (STR #3407)
110 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
111 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
112 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
113 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
114 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
115 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
117 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
119 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
120 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
121 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
124 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
126 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
127 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
129 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
130 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
131 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
132 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
133 driver was changed (STR #3356)
134 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
135 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
136 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
137 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
138 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
140 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
141 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
142 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
143 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
144 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
145 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
146 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
147 characters (STR #3340)
148 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
150 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
151 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
152 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
153 SNMP implementations.
156 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
158 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
159 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
160 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
161 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
162 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
163 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
164 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
165 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
166 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
167 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
168 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
169 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
170 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
171 query job was held (STR #3302)
172 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
174 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
175 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
177 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
178 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
179 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
181 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
183 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
184 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
185 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
186 implementations (STR #3262)
187 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
189 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
193 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
195 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
196 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
197 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
199 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
201 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
202 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
203 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
205 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
207 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
208 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
209 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
210 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
212 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
213 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
214 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
216 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
217 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
218 templates (STR #3229)
219 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
220 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
222 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
223 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
224 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
226 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
227 reason on all platforms.
230 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
232 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
234 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
235 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
236 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
237 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
238 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
239 variables (STR #3210)
240 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
241 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
242 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
244 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
245 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
246 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
247 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
248 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
249 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
250 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
251 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
252 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
253 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
254 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
255 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
256 that cupstestppd looks for...)
257 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
258 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
259 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
260 pages when a job was canceled or held.
263 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
265 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
267 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
268 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
269 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
270 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
271 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
272 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
273 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
274 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
275 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
276 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
278 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
280 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
281 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
282 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
283 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
284 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
285 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
286 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
287 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
289 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
290 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
291 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
292 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
293 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
294 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
296 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
297 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
298 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
299 lack of kernel buffers.
300 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
301 while copying print data to a temporary file.
302 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
303 causing reduced performance in some situations.
304 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
305 would hang on the client.
306 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
308 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
309 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
310 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
311 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
312 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
313 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
314 filenames in the PPD file.
315 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
317 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
319 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
320 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
321 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
322 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
323 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
325 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
326 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
328 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
330 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
331 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
333 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
335 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
337 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
338 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
340 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
342 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
343 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
344 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
345 printer had other reasons associated with it.
346 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
347 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
349 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
350 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
351 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
352 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
353 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
354 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
355 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
356 printer discovery (STR #3065)
357 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
358 in length (STR #3072)
359 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
360 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
361 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
362 printers with no specified colorspace.
363 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
365 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
366 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
367 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
368 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
369 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
371 - The ppdi utility did not work.
372 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
373 web browsers (STR #3049)
374 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
375 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
377 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
378 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
379 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
380 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
381 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
382 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
383 present in most PPD files.
384 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
385 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
387 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
388 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
389 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
391 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
392 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
393 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
397 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
399 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
400 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
401 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
402 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
403 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
404 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
405 rather than copying them whenever possible.
406 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
407 options implementations.
408 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
410 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
411 was set to False in the PPD file.
412 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
413 and network backends (STR #3014)
414 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
415 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
417 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
418 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
420 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
421 --exclude-schemes options.
422 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
423 and exclude-schemes attributes.
424 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
426 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
427 option called "fit-to-page".
428 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
429 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
430 prevent race conditions.
431 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
432 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
434 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
435 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
437 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
439 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
440 variable when running filters.
441 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
443 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
447 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
449 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
450 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
451 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
452 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
454 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
455 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
456 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
457 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
458 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
459 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
460 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
462 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
463 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
464 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
465 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
467 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
468 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
469 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
470 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
471 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
472 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
473 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
474 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
475 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
476 of printer options (STR #1440)
477 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
479 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
480 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
481 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
482 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
483 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
484 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
485 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
487 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
489 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
490 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
491 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
492 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
493 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
495 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
496 default server (STR #2833)
497 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
498 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
499 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
501 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
503 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
504 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
505 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
506 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
507 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
508 print jobs (STR #2482)
509 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
511 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
512 track the progress of individual pages.
513 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
514 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
515 command, when available (STR #2724)
516 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
517 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
518 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
519 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
520 file as errors (STR #2616)
521 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
522 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
524 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
525 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
526 continue further (STR #2101)
527 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
528 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
529 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
531 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
532 the physical location of a printer device.
533 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
534 device data by a backend.
535 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
537 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
538 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
539 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
540 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
542 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
543 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
544 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
545 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
546 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
547 attributes for better option conflict detection and
549 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
550 256 bytes (STR #2877)
551 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
552 what is logged to the access_log file.
553 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
554 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
555 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
557 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
559 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
560 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
562 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
563 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
564 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
565 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
566 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
567 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
568 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
569 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
571 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
572 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
573 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
575 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
577 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
578 ModelName value as the output filename.
579 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
580 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
581 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
582 standard network backends.
583 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
584 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
585 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
586 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
587 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
588 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
589 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
591 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
592 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
593 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
594 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
595 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
596 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
597 - Driver information files can now be installed in
598 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
599 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
601 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
602 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
603 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
604 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
605 backends are polled and for how long.
606 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
607 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
608 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
609 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
610 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
611 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
612 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
613 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
614 for localization (STR #2737)
615 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
616 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
618 - The build system has been updated to support separate
619 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
620 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
622 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
623 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
624 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
625 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
626 root to make the default installation more secure.
627 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
628 the localized version of a marker-names value.
629 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
630 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
631 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
632 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
633 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
634 global based on the current access policies for the
636 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
637 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
638 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
639 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
640 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
641 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
642 that support it (STR #2637)
643 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
645 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
646 attriibute to purge a specified job.
647 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
648 attributes for custom option selections.
649 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
650 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
651 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
652 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
653 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
654 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
655 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
656 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
657 on the model page (STR #2436)
658 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
659 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
660 of printers (STR #1175)
661 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
662 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
663 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
664 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
665 to filter the document from the specified job.
666 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
667 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
668 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
669 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
670 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.