6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
8 - Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,
10 - Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)
11 - Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774)
12 - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
13 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
14 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
15 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
16 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
17 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
18 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
20 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
21 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
22 other printers (STR #3405)
23 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
24 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
25 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
26 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
27 conformance mode (STR #3747)
28 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
29 change notifications (STR #3739)
30 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
31 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
32 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
33 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
34 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
35 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
36 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
37 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
39 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
40 are enabled (STR #3737)
41 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
42 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
43 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
44 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
45 is printing (STR #3754)
46 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
48 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
49 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
50 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
51 the print filters (STR #3731)
52 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
53 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
54 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
55 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
58 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
60 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
61 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
62 PostScript files (STR #3722)
63 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
65 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
66 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
69 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
71 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
72 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
73 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
75 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
76 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
77 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
78 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
79 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
80 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
81 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
82 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
84 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
85 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
87 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
89 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
91 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
92 did not work (STR #3485)
93 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
95 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
97 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
99 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
100 serial number (STR #3590)
101 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
103 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
104 description of a class (STR #3613)
105 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
107 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
108 change based on the locale's character set.
109 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
110 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
112 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
114 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
115 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
116 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
117 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
118 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
119 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
120 for the PPD compiler.
121 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
122 authentication (STR #3559)
123 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
125 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
126 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
127 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
129 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
130 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
131 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
132 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
136 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
138 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
139 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
140 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
142 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
144 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
145 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
146 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
148 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
149 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
150 attributes (STR #3554)
151 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
152 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
154 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
155 implementation (STR #3514)
156 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
157 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
158 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
160 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
162 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
163 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
164 the first page (STR #3525)
165 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
166 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
168 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
169 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
170 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
171 all cases (STR #3521)
172 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
173 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
174 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
176 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
177 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
178 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
180 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
181 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
182 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
183 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
184 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
186 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
187 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
188 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
189 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
190 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
193 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
195 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
196 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
197 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
198 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
199 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
200 STR #3473, STR #3502)
201 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
202 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
203 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
204 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
205 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
206 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
207 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
208 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
209 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
211 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
212 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
213 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
214 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
215 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
216 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
218 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
219 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
221 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
223 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
224 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
225 was turned off (STR #3425)
226 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
228 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
229 a remote server (STR #3435)
230 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
231 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
233 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
234 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
235 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
236 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
238 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
240 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
241 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
242 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
244 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
245 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
246 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
247 loading a job (STR #3407)
248 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
249 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
250 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
251 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
252 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
253 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
255 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
257 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
258 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
259 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
262 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
264 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
265 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
267 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
268 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
269 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
270 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
271 driver was changed (STR #3356)
272 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
273 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
274 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
275 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
276 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
278 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
279 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
280 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
281 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
282 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
283 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
284 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
285 characters (STR #3340)
286 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
288 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
289 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
290 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
291 SNMP implementations.
294 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
296 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
297 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
298 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
299 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
300 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
301 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
302 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
303 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
304 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
305 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
306 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
307 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
308 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
309 query job was held (STR #3302)
310 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
312 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
313 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
315 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
316 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
317 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
319 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
321 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
322 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
323 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
324 implementations (STR #3262)
325 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
327 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
331 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
333 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
334 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
335 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
337 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
339 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
340 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
341 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
343 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
345 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
346 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
347 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
348 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
350 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
351 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
352 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
354 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
355 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
356 templates (STR #3229)
357 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
358 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
360 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
361 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
362 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
364 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
365 reason on all platforms.
368 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
370 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
372 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
373 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
374 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
375 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
376 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
377 variables (STR #3210)
378 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
379 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
380 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
382 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
383 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
384 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
385 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
386 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
387 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
388 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
389 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
390 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
391 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
392 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
393 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
394 that cupstestppd looks for...)
395 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
396 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
397 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
398 pages when a job was canceled or held.
401 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
403 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
405 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
406 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
407 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
408 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
409 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
410 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
411 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
412 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
413 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
414 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
416 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
418 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
419 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
420 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
421 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
422 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
423 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
424 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
425 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
427 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
428 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
429 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
430 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
431 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
432 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
434 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
435 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
436 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
437 lack of kernel buffers.
438 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
439 while copying print data to a temporary file.
440 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
441 causing reduced performance in some situations.
442 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
443 would hang on the client.
444 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
446 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
447 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
448 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
449 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
450 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
451 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
452 filenames in the PPD file.
453 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
455 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
457 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
458 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
459 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
460 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
461 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
463 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
464 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
466 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
468 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
469 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
471 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
473 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
475 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
476 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
478 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
480 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
481 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
482 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
483 printer had other reasons associated with it.
484 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
485 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
487 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
488 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
489 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
490 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
491 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
492 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
493 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
494 printer discovery (STR #3065)
495 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
496 in length (STR #3072)
497 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
498 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
499 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
500 printers with no specified colorspace.
501 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
503 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
504 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
505 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
506 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
507 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
509 - The ppdi utility did not work.
510 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
511 web browsers (STR #3049)
512 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
513 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
515 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
516 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
517 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
518 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
519 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
520 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
521 present in most PPD files.
522 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
523 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
525 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
526 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
527 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
529 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
530 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
531 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
535 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
537 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
538 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
539 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
540 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
541 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
542 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
543 rather than copying them whenever possible.
544 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
545 options implementations.
546 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
548 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
549 was set to False in the PPD file.
550 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
551 and network backends (STR #3014)
552 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
553 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
555 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
556 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
558 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
559 --exclude-schemes options.
560 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
561 and exclude-schemes attributes.
562 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
564 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
565 option called "fit-to-page".
566 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
567 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
568 prevent race conditions.
569 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
570 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
572 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
573 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
575 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
577 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
578 variable when running filters.
579 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
581 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
585 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
587 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
588 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
589 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
590 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
592 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
593 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
594 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
595 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
596 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
597 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
598 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
600 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
601 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
602 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
603 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
605 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
606 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
607 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
608 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
609 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
610 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
611 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
612 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
613 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
614 of printer options (STR #1440)
615 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
617 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
618 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
619 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
620 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
621 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
622 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
623 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
625 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
627 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
628 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
629 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
630 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
631 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
633 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
634 default server (STR #2833)
635 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
636 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
637 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
639 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
641 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
642 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
643 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
644 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
645 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
646 print jobs (STR #2482)
647 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
649 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
650 track the progress of individual pages.
651 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
652 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
653 command, when available (STR #2724)
654 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
655 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
656 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
657 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
658 file as errors (STR #2616)
659 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
660 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
662 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
663 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
664 continue further (STR #2101)
665 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
666 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
667 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
669 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
670 the physical location of a printer device.
671 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
672 device data by a backend.
673 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
675 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
676 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
677 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
678 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
680 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
681 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
682 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
683 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
684 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
685 attributes for better option conflict detection and
687 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
688 256 bytes (STR #2877)
689 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
690 what is logged to the access_log file.
691 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
692 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
693 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
695 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
697 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
698 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
700 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
701 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
702 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
703 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
704 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
705 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
706 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
707 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
709 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
710 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
711 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
713 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
715 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
716 ModelName value as the output filename.
717 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
718 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
719 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
720 standard network backends.
721 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
722 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
723 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
724 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
725 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
726 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
727 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
729 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
730 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
731 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
732 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
733 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
734 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
735 - Driver information files can now be installed in
736 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
737 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
739 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
740 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
741 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
742 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
743 backends are polled and for how long.
744 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
745 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
746 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
747 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
748 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
749 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
750 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
751 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
752 for localization (STR #2737)
753 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
754 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
756 - The build system has been updated to support separate
757 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
758 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
760 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
761 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
762 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
763 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
764 root to make the default installation more secure.
765 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
766 the localized version of a marker-names value.
767 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
768 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
769 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
770 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
771 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
772 global based on the current access policies for the
774 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
775 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
776 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
777 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
778 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
779 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
780 that support it (STR #2637)
781 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
783 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
784 attriibute to purge a specified job.
785 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
786 attributes for custom option selections.
787 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
788 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
789 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
790 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
791 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
792 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
793 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
794 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
795 on the model page (STR #2436)
796 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
797 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
798 of printers (STR #1175)
799 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
800 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
801 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
802 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
803 to filter the document from the specified job.
804 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
805 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
806 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
807 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
808 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
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