CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-08-28
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
   7           track the progress of individual pages.
   8         - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
   9         - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
  10           command, when available (STR #2724)
  11         - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
  12         - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
  13           PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
  14         - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
  15           file as errors (STR #2616)
  16         - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
  17           retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
  18           an error (STR #2555)
  19         - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
  20           correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
  21           continue further (STR #2101)
  22         - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
  23           (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
  24         - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
  25           (STR #2853)
  26         - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
  27           the physical location of a printer device.
  28         - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
  29           device data by a backend.
  30         - Added support for custom options in the web interface
  31           (STR #1729)
  32         - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
  33           and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
  34         - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
  35         - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
  36           to CUPS (STR #263)
  37         - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
  38         - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
  39           cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
  40         - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
  41         - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
  42           attributes for better option conflict detection and
  43           resolution.
  44         - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
  45           256 bytes (STR #2877)
  46         - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
  47           what is logged to the access_log file.
  48         - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
  49           the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
  50         - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
  51           files (STR #2871)
  52         - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
  53           information files.
  54         - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
  55         - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
  56           of an attribute.
  57         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
  58         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
  59           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
  60         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
  61           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
  62         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
  63           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
  64         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
  65           (STR #2738)
  66         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
  67           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
  68         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
  69           (STR #2636)
  70         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
  71           files (STR #2739)
  72         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
  73           ModelName value as the output filename.
  74         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
  75           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
  76         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
  77           standard network backends.
  78         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
  79           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
  80         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
  81           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
  82         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
  83           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
  84         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
  85           name resolution.
  86         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
  87           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
  88         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
  89           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
  90         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
  91           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
  92         - Driver information files can now be installed in
  93           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
  94         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
  95           than 2GB.
  96         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
  97           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
  98         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
  99           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
 100           backends are polled and for how long.
 101         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
 102           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
 103         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
 104         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
 105           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
 106         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
 107           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
 108         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
 109           for localization (STR #2737)
 110         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
 111           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
 112           file.
 113         - The build system has been updated to support separate
 114           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
 115         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
 116           by default.
 117         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
 118         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
 119           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
 120         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
 121           root to make the default installation more secure.
 122         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
 123           the localized version of a marker-names value.
 124         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
 125           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
 126         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
 127           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
 128         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
 129           global based on the current access policies for the
 130           printer.
 131         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
 132           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
 133         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
 134         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
 135           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
 136         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
 137           that support it (STR #2637)
 138         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
 139           possible.
 140         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
 141           attriibute to purge a specified job.
 142         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
 143           attributes for custom option selections.
 144         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
 145           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
 146           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
 147         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
 148           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
 149           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
 150         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 151           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 152           on the model page (STR #2436)
 153         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 154           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 155           of printers (STR #1175)
 156         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 157         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 158           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 159         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 160           to filter the document from the specified job.
 161         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 162           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 163         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 164           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 165         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
 166