1 CHANGES.txt - 2006-11-02
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6 - The web interface was not localized on Mac OS X (STR
8 - "lpc status" did not show the number of queued jobs for
9 disabled queues (STR #2069)
10 - The lpstat program could hang (STR #2073)
11 - The serial backend did not support the new USB serial
12 filenames on Linux (STR #2061)
13 - The parallel backend did not support bidirectional I/O
15 - The network backends now log the numeric address that
16 is being used (STR #2046)
17 - Fixed a compile error when using libpaper.
18 - Fixed a compile error when compiling on Solaris with
19 threading enabled (STR #2049, STR #2050)
20 - Missing printer-state-changed event for
21 printer-state-message updates (STR #2047)
24 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.5
26 - Documentation updates (STR #2038)
27 - The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP for Epson printers
29 - Updated the configure script for Tru64 UNIX 5.1 (STR
31 - Tru64 5.1B's getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() functions
32 leak file descriptors (STR #2034)
33 - cupsAddDest() didn't add the parent destination's
34 options and attributes.
35 - ppdConflicts() did not handle custom option
37 - Raw printing of gzip'd files did not work (STR #2009)
38 - The scheduler no longer preserves default option
39 choices when the new PPD no longer provides the old
40 default choice (STR #1929)
41 - The Linux SCSI backend is now only built if the SCSI
42 development headers are installed.
43 - USB printing to Minolta printers did not work (STR
45 - Windows clients could not monitor the queue status (STR
47 - The scheduler didn't log the operation name in the
48 access_log file for Create-Job and Print-Job requests.
49 - The PostScript filter now separates collated copies
50 with any required JCL commands so that JCL-based
51 finishing options act on the individual copies and not
52 all of the copies as a single document.
53 - The PostScript filter now disables duplex printing when
54 printing a 1-page document.
55 - cups-lpd didn't pass the correct
56 job-originating-host-name value (STR #2023)
57 - Fixed some speling errors in the German message catalog
59 - cupstestppd did not catch PPD files with bad
60 UIConstraints values (STR #2016)
61 - The USB backend did not work with the current udev-
62 created printers if the first printer was disconnected
64 - Mirrored and rotated printing did not work with some
66 - 2-sided printing with banners did not work properly on
67 some printers (STR #2018)
68 - Updated the raw type rule to handle PJL within the
69 first 4k of a print job (STR #1969)
70 - Added an Estonian translation (STR #1957)
71 - Clarified the documentation for the cupsd.conf @LOCAL
72 and @IF(name) allow/deny functionality (STR #1992)
73 - The PostScript filters did not escape the Title and For
74 comments in the print job header (STR #1988)
75 - The scheduler would use 100% CPU if browsing was
76 disabled and the cupsd.conf file contained BrowsePoll
78 - The cupsDirRead() function did not work properly on
79 non-POSIX-compliant systems (STR #2001)
80 - The cupsFile functions didn't handle read/write errors
82 - The DBUS support now works with older versions of the
86 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.4
88 - The --with-printcap configure option did not work (STR
90 - The character set reported by cupsLangGet() did not
91 always reflect the default character set of a given
93 - Older Lexmark and Tektronix printers did not work with
95 - Failsafe printing did not work (PR #6328)
96 - Some web interface redirects did not work (STR #1978)
97 - The web interface change settings button could
98 introduce a "Port 0" line in cupsd.conf if there was no
99 loopback connection available (STR #1979)
100 - The web interface change settings and edit
101 configuration file buttons would truncate the
102 cupsd.conf file (STR #1976)
103 - The German web interface used the wrong printer icon
105 - The "All Documents" link in the on-line help was
106 missing a trailing slash (STR #1971)
107 - The Polish web interface translation used the wrong
108 URLs for the job history (STR #1963)
109 - The "reprint job" button did not work (STR #1956)
110 - The scheduler did not always report printer or job
111 events properly (STR #1955)
112 - The scheduler always stopped the queue on error,
113 regardless of the exit code, if the error policy was
114 set to "stop-printer" (STR #1959)
115 - ppdEmitJCL() included UTF-8 characters in the JCL job
116 name, which caused problems on some printers (STR
118 - Fixed a buffering problem that cause high CPU usage
120 - The command-line applications did not convert
121 command-line strings to UTF-8 as needed (STR #1958)
122 - cupsDirRead() incorrectly aborted when reading a
123 symbolic link that pointed to a file/directory that did
124 not exist (STR #1953)
125 - The cupsInterpretRasterPPD() function did not handle
126 custom page sizes properly.
129 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.3
131 - The scheduler did not send job-state or
132 job-config-changed events when a job was held,
133 released, or changed (STR #1947)
134 - The scheduler now aborts if the configuration file and
135 directory checks fail (STR #1941)
136 - Fixed a problem with ippPort() not using the port
137 number that was set via the client.conf file or
138 CUPS_SERVER environment variable (STR #1945)
139 - HTTP headers were not buffered (STR #1899)
140 - Some IPP printers (HP) did not like UTF-8 job names
142 - The CUPS desktop icon is now localized for Polish (STR
144 - Printer options were not always honored when printing
145 from Windows clients (STR #1839)
146 - The openssl command would lock up the scheduler when
147 generating an encryption certificate on some platforms
148 due to a lack of entropy for the random number
149 generator (STR #1876)
150 - The web admin page did not recognize that "Listen 631"
151 enabled remote access (STR #1908)
152 - The web admin page did not check whether changes were
153 made to the Basic Server Settings check boxes (STR
155 - The IPP backend could generate N*N copies in certain
157 - The scheduler did not restore remote printers properly
158 when BrowseShortNames was enabled (STR #1893)
159 - Polling did not handle changes to the network
160 environment on Mac OS X (STR #1896)
161 - The "make test" subscription tests used invalid
162 notify-recipient-uri values (STR #1910)
163 - Printers could be left in an undefined state on system
165 - The Berkeley and System V commands did not always use
166 the expected character set (STR #1915)
167 - Remote printing fixes (STR #1881)
168 - The cupstestppd utility did not validate translation
169 strings for custom options properly.
170 - Multi-language PPD files were not properly localized in
171 the web interface (STR #1913)
172 - The admin page's simple settings options did not check
173 for local domain socket or IPv6 addresses and did not
174 use "localhost" as the listen address.
175 - An empty BrowseProtocols, BrowseLocalProtocols, or
176 BrowseRemoteProtocols line would crash the scheduler
177 instead of disabling the corresponding browsing options.
178 - The scheduler now logs IPP operation status as debug
179 messages instead of info or error.
180 - cupsFileRewind() didn't clear the end-of-file state.
181 - cupstestppd didn't report the actual misspelling of the
182 1284DeviceID attribute (STR #1849)
183 - BrowseRelay didn't work on Debian (STR #1887)
184 - configure --without-languages didn't work (STR #1879)
185 - Manually added remote printers did not work (STR #1881)
186 - The <cups/backend.h> header was not installed.
187 - Updated the build files for Autoconf 2.60 (STR #1853)
188 - The scheduler incorrectly terminated the polling
189 processes after receiving a partial log line.
190 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon reported "No printer-state
191 attribute found" errors when reporting the queue status
192 (PR #6250, STR #1821)
193 - SNMP backend improvements (STR #1737, STR #1742, STR
194 #1790, STR #1835, STR #1880)
195 - The scheduler erroneously reported an error with the
197 - Fixed HP-UX compile problems (STR #1858, STR #1859)
198 - cupstestppd crashed with some PPD files (STR #1864)
199 - The <cups/dir.h> and <cups/file.h> header files did not
203 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.2
205 - Documentation updates (STR #1765, STR #1780)
206 - CUPS didn't know about alternate character set names
207 for Asian text (STR #1819)
208 - The lpoptions -o and -r options did not work unless you
210 - The lpoptions command incorrectly allowed users to set
211 printer attributes like printer-type (STR #1791)
212 - httpWait() did not flush the write buffer, causing "bad
213 request" errors when communicating with CUPS 1.1.x
215 - Polling did not sanitize the printer description,
216 location, or make and model strings like broadcasts
218 - Polled printers did not show the server's default
219 job-sheets option value.
220 - The Samba password prompt was not properly localized
222 - Added a German translation (STR #1842)
223 - The scheduler now creates self-signed SSL certficates
224 automatically when using OpenSSL and CDSA for
225 encryption, just as for GNU TLS.
226 - The SNMP backend sporatically reported some printers as
227 "unknown" (STR #1774)
228 - The scheduler now forces BrowseTimeout to be at least
229 twice the BrowseInterval value and non-zero to avoid
230 common configuration errors.
231 - The scheduler incorrectly returned printer URIs of the
232 form "ipp://server/printers/classname" for classes (STR
234 - Updated Japanese localization (STR #1805)
235 - The scheduler's SSL certificate/key directory was not
236 created on installation (STR #1788)
237 - Added a mailto.conf man page and help page (STR #1754)
238 - The parallel and USB backends no longer wait for the
239 printer to go on-line - this caused problems with
240 certain printers that don't follow with the IEEE-1284
242 - The scheduler could crash on a reload when implicit
243 classes were present (STR #1828)
244 - The IPP backend incorrectly used the CUPS_ENCRYPTION
245 environment variable to determine the default
246 encryption mode when printing (STR #1820)
247 - USB printing did not work on Solaris (STR #1756)
248 - The scheduler sorted job priorities in the wrong order
250 - The scheduler did not automatically restart notifiers
251 that exited or crashed (STR #1793)
252 - IPv6 support did not work on NetBSD (STR #1834)
253 - The EPM packaging file did not work (STR #1804)
254 - The scheduler used up the CPU if BrowseRemoteProtocols
255 was empty (STR #1792)
256 - Custom page sizes did not work (STR #1787)
257 - The SNMP backend could crash on some systems when SNMP
258 logging was enabled (STR #1789)
259 - Browsing could produce some funny printer names when
260 ServerName was set to an IP address (STR #1799)
261 - Fixed the log message for BrowseRelay (STR #1798)
262 - Fixes to allow CUPS to compile on MirBSD (STR #1796)
263 - The scheduler incorrectly set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
264 environment variable (STR #1795)
265 - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded a "produced by"
266 comment, causing PDF printing not to work on some
267 operating systems (STR #1801)
268 - Sending raw jobs from a client system could cause the
269 client's scheduler to eventually crash (STR #1786)
270 - The scheduler now checks that the notifier exists prior
271 to accepting a new subscription request.
272 - The scheduler now reports the supported
273 notify-recipient schemes based on the contents of the
274 ServerBin/notifier directory.
275 - Event notifications did not include the
276 notify-sequence-number or other required attributes
278 - Allow/Deny addresses of the form "11.22.33.*" did not
279 work on Linux (STR #1769)
280 - cupsGetPPD() did not work if the scheduler was only
281 listening on a domain socket (STR #1766)
282 - The scheduler could crash advertising a class (STR
284 - The scheduler could crash if the default printer was
286 - Added a new default CUPS raster format (v3) which does
287 not compress the raster stream in order to provide the
288 same cupsRasterReadPixels() and cupsRasterWritePixels()
289 performance as CUPS 1.1.x.
290 - The cupsaddsmb man page listed the wrong files for the
292 - Some configure --with options did not work (STR #1746)
293 - "Allow @IF(name)" didn't work if "name" wasn't the
294 first network interface (STR #1758)
295 - The lpstat command did not use the correct character
296 set when reporting the date and time (STR #1751)
297 - The cupsaddsmb command and web interface did not update
298 the Windows PPD files properly, resulting in corrupt
299 PPD files for the Windows client to use (STR #1750)
300 - The cupsd.conf man page didn't describe the Listen
301 domain socket syntax (STR #1753)
302 - The scheduler no longer tries to support more than
303 FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
304 - CDSA (encryption) support fixes for MacOS X.
305 - The lppasswd program needs to be setuid to root to
306 create and update the /etc/cups/passwd.md5 file (STR
308 - 32/64-bit library installation was broken (STR #1741)
309 - The USB backend now reports a "no such device" error
310 when using the old filename-based USB URIs instead of
312 - Increased the HTTP and IPP read timeouts to 10 seconds,
313 as 1 second was too short on congested networks (STR
315 - The SNMP backend now uses the device description over
316 the printer-make-and-model attribute when the attribute
317 contains a generic name (STR #1728)
318 - Fixed another file descriptor leak when printing raw
320 - Raw queues were not shared via LDAP (STR #1739)
321 - The pstops filter didn't always embed PageSetup
322 commands from the PPD file (STR #1740)
323 - "make install" didn't work if you disabled all of the
325 - The scheduler didn't always choose the least costly
327 - Fixed parsing of IPv6 addresses in Allow, Deny,
328 BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, and BrowseRelay directives
330 - Printers that were shared via LDAP did not get added to
331 the LDAP server properly (STR #1733)
332 - LDAP browsing would crash the scheduler if a required
333 value was missing (STR #1731)
334 - Special cases for the "localhost" hostname did not
335 work, causing printing to not work when the /etc/hosts
336 file did not contain a localhost entry (STR #1723)
337 - Updated the Spanish translation (STR #1720, STR #1770)
338 - Reverse-order page output was broken when N-up or
339 landscape orientations were used (STR #1725)
340 - The parallel, serial, socket, and USB backends needed
341 print data before they would report back-channel data,
342 causing problems with several new drivers (STR #1724)
345 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.1
347 - "lprm -h hostname" did not work (STR #1800)
348 - The web interface did not handle reloads properly for
350 - The configure script no longer adds linker rpath
351 options when they are unnecessary.
352 - The scheduler could crash printing a debug message on
354 - The --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure options
356 - The password prompt showed the domain socket address
357 instead of "localhost" for local authentication (STR
359 - The web interface filtered the list of printers even if
360 the user wasn't logged in (STR #1700)
361 - The IPP backend did not work reliably with some Xerox
363 - Trailing banners were not added when printing a single
365 - The web interface support programs crashed on Solaris
367 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported problems with
368 *1284DeviceID attributes (STR #1710)
369 - Browsing could get disabled after a restart (STR #1670)
370 - Custom page sizes were not parsed properly (STR #1709)
371 - The -U option wasn't supported by lpadmin (STR #1702)
372 - The -u option didn't work with lpadmin (STR #1703)
373 - The scheduler did not create non-blocking back-channel
374 pipes, which caused problems when the printer driver
375 did not read the back-channel data (STR #1705)
376 - The scheduler no longer uses chunking in responses to
377 clients - this caused problems with older versions of
378 CUPS like 1.1.17 (PR #6143)
379 - Automatic raw printing was broken (STR #1667)
380 - 6-up printing was broken (STR #1697)
381 - The pstops filter did not disable CTRL-D processing on
383 - ppdOpen*() did not load custom options properly (STR
385 - "Set Printer Options" in the web interface did not
386 update the DefaultImageableArea or
387 DefaultPaperDimension attributes in the PPD file (STR
389 - Fixed compile errors (STR #1682, STR #1684, STR #1685,
391 - The lpstat command displayed the wrong error message
392 for a missing destination (STR #1683)
393 - Revised and completed the Polish translation (STR
395 - Stopped jobs did not show up in the list of active jobs
397 - The configure script did not use the GNU TLS
398 "libgnutls-config" script to find the proper compiler
400 - The imagetoraster filter did not correctly generate
401 several 1, 2, and 4-bit color modes.
402 - cupsRasterWritePixels() could lose track of the current
404 - cupsRasterReadPixels() did not automatically swap
405 12/16-bit chunked pixel data.
406 - Moved the private _cups_raster_s structure out of the
408 - Updated the CUPS raster format specification to include
409 encoding rules and colorspace definitions.
410 - The Zebra PPD files had the wrong PostScript code for
411 the "default" option choices.
412 - The imagetoraster filter did not generate correct CIE
413 XYZ or Lab color data.
414 - The cups-config script did not work when invoked from a
415 source directory (STR #1673)
416 - The SNMP backend did not compile on systems that used
417 the getifaddrs emulation functions (STR #1668)
420 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.0
422 - Documentation updates (STR #1618, STR #1620, STR #1622,
424 - Static file copy buffers reduced from 64k to 32k to
425 work around bogus MallocDebug library assumptions (STR
427 - The scheduler did not decode the backend exit code
429 - The MacOS X USB backend did not report the 1284 device ID,
430 nor did it fix device IDs returned by HP printers.
431 - The scheduler started more slowly than 1.1.x with large
432 numbers of printers (STR #1653)
433 - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() didn't support the
434 cupsPreferredBitsPerColor attribute, and imagetoraster
435 didn't use the new API.
436 - The "make test" script did not create all of the necessary
437 subdirectories for testing (STR #1638)
438 - The scheduler did not prevent rotation of logs
439 redirected to /dev/null (STR #1651)
440 - "make test" did not include the SNMP backend in the
441 test environment (STR #1625)
442 - The EPM packaging files did not work (STR #1621)
443 - "Use Default Configuration" inserted a broken
444 configuration file (STR #1624)
445 - Redirects in the web interface did not always preserve
446 the encrypted status of a connection (STR #1603)
447 - Added the Apple "pap" backend.
448 - Added CUPS library to CUPS Image shared library
449 linkage to support Linux --as-needed linker option
451 - Fixed support for --enable-pie (STR #1609)
452 - The pdftops filter did not validate the length of the
453 encryption key (STR #1608)
454 - Updated the Polish localization.
455 - "Encryption Required" in the cupsd.conf file now only
456 requires encryption when the connection is not over the
457 loopback interface or domain socket.
458 - Printer names containing "+" were not quoted properly in
459 the web interface (STR #1600)
460 - The SNMP backend now reports the make and model in the
461 information string so that the auto-generated printer
462 name is more useful than just an IP address.
465 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc3
467 - The cups-lpd program always did reverse lookups on the
468 client address, which could be a performance problem.
469 Added a "-n" option to disable lookups.
470 - When configured with SSL support, require encryption by
471 default when displaying the /admin location (STR #1592)
472 - The next job ID was not computed correctly if the job
473 cache file got out of sync with the spool directory
475 - The PNG image handling code used deprecated functions
476 from libpng (STR #1587)
477 - Added a Polish translation (STR #1584, STR #1586)
478 - More changes to the scheduler to improve battery life
479 on portable devices (STR #1583)
480 - Changed the default log level for status messages back
481 to "DEBUG" to be consistent with CUPS 1.1.x (STR #1579)
482 - The error string was not set properly when
483 cupsDoFileRequest() was given the name of a directory
485 - Fixed handling of job-hold-until (STR #1581)
486 - Added explicit notes to the cupsaddsmb man page
487 explaining that the driver filenames are case-sensitive
488 under UNIX and that they must be all lowercase (Windows
489 2000) or all UPPERCASE (Windows 95/98/Me) to work (STR
491 - The USB backend incorrectly split the manufacturer name
492 if it contained spaces (STR #1566)
493 - The scheduler would hang when listing PPD files for a
494 manufacturer whose name contained spaces (STR #1567)
495 - Added the SNMP backend for network printer discovery
497 - cupstestppd now fails PPD files with 1284DeviceId
498 instead of 1284DeviceID, and cups-driverd uses a
499 case-insensitive comparison when looking for it (STR
501 - cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() now work
502 properly with non-blocking HTTP connections.
503 - Added Swedish translation (STR #1569)
504 - "make install" now installs the MIME files with world
505 read permissions (STR #1565)
506 - More CDSA encryption support fixes (STR #1563)
507 - Updated the default mime.types file to support printing
508 of files that do not have a locally-recognized MIME
509 media type to raw or System V queues.
510 - Updated the serial port detection code on Linux (STR
512 - Added some more error checking to httpGetHostname()
514 - The title of some administration pages was not
515 localized (STR #1548)
516 - The edit-config.tmpl file was not generated or
517 installed for the Spanish or Japanese localizations
519 - The mimeDelete() function freed the types before the
520 filters, but the filters needed the type data (STR #1558)
521 - The scheduler didn't keep track of the status pipes
522 properly, leading to a bad select() for multi-file jobs
524 - The cupstestdsc program didn't validate the ordinal
525 page number value for %%Page: comments.
528 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc2
530 - The scheduler was not always using the string pool,
531 causing random crashes.
532 - The lpmove and the web interface's Move Job button did
533 not work with stopped jobs (STR #1534)
534 - The PostScript filter did not handle the page-set
535 option properly with number-up printing (STR #1543)
536 - The scheduler now only warns about unsupported ACLs
538 - The "fitplot" option did not work with output from
540 - The imagetops filter did not work with Level 2 or 3
542 - The scheduler now recognizes PostScript files with PJL
543 commands that do not include an ENTER LANGUAGE command.
544 - Added --with-printcap configure option.
545 - 64-bit SSL fixes for MacOS X.
546 - The scheduler didn't send some printer state change
548 - The scheduler didn't send jobs to busy remote printers.
549 - Fixed some problems with the launchd support.
550 - Added new USB printer backend for MacOS X.
551 - The PostScript filter now handles files that start with
552 an incomplete PJL header (PR #6076)
553 - The web interface language selection code did not try
554 the generic language localization (STR #1531)
555 - The language cache, string pool, and transcoding caches
556 are now process global instead of per-thread to avoid
557 problems with GNOME and to allow for data sharing
558 between threads (STR #1530)
559 - Fixed a CUPS 1.1.x compatibility bug (STR #1528)
560 - The web interface redirection after certain printer
561 administration tasks was broken (STR #1516)
562 - Web interface authorization could get stuck (STR #1512)
563 - Localization updates (STR #1513, STR #1518, STR #1520)
564 - The pstops filter didn't work with some files (STR
566 - "./configure --enable-static" didn't work (STR #1522)
567 - The scheduler was not using the configured default
569 - The web interface still did not show the localized time
570 and date for some locales and systems (STR #1509)
571 - httpAddrGetList() would crash on systems without
573 - Socket URIs without a trailing slash would cause the
574 port number to not be accepted (STR #1519)
575 - Local raw and System V printers were not advertised as
576 such for printer browsing (STR #1502)
577 - The RPM spec file incorrectly put duplicate copies of
578 the Japanese and Spanish web interface templates in the
579 main cups package (STR #1517)
580 - cupsSetDests() did not explicitly set the permissions
581 of the /etc/cups/lpoptions file (STR #1508)
582 - The lpq command crashed with the -h option (STR #1515)
585 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc1
587 - Documentation updates (STR #1497, STR #1498)
588 - The scheduler now redirects browsers to https: URLs
589 when encryption is required.
590 - The scheduler would crash when printing with a banner
592 - cups-driverd did not use the LanguageEncoding attribute
593 in PPD files to convert the NickName to UTF-8 (STR
595 - The lpadmin command could not set the
596 printer-error-policy attribute (STR #1504)
597 - The web interface did not show the time and date in the
598 correct format for the locale (STR #1505)
599 - CUPS no longer accepts print jobs if a printer does not
600 support the file format (STR #1501)
601 - Cleaned up the PostScript filter (pstops) so that it
602 properly supports %%IncludeFeature and page scaling
604 - Fixed the cupsFileRewind() and cupsFileSeek() functions
605 to work properly with uncompressed files.
606 - Added cupsFileGetLine(), cupsFileStderr(),
607 cupsFileStdin(), and cupsFileStdout() functions to the
609 - Added a new cupstestdsc program to test the DSC
610 conformance of PostScript files.
611 - Added KDE/GNOME icons and a Manage Printers menu item.
612 - Added --enable-image and --enable-pdftops configure
613 options to control whether the image and PDF filters
614 are built and installed (default = yes for all
615 platforms but MacOS X)
616 - Fixed a minor memory leak in the PPD API.
617 - Fixed transcoding issues (STR #1493)
618 - The scheduler now enforces a minimum job cost of 100
619 when doing FilterLimit checks.
620 - The scheduler would leak file descriptors when printing
621 to raw queues (STR #1491)
622 - The IPv6 support did not compile on Tru64 UNIX (STR
624 - ppdOpen2() now converts the NickName and all UI text to
626 - The Set Allowed Users web page did not work (STR #1486)
627 - When the default policy was not set or set to a non-
628 existing policy, the scheduler did not set the default
629 policy name to "default" (STR #1484)
630 - The Zebra CPCL driver did not use the correct righthand
631 margin for the 4" wide label sizes.
632 - Fixed a problem with the parsing of fractional real
633 numbers in PPD files.
634 - Added Spanish localization files (STR #1480)
635 - Fixed localization of a few scheduler messages (STR
637 - Fixed support for HEAD requests in the scheduler (STR
641 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b2
643 - Updated the CUPS design description.
644 - Added --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure
645 options to allow building of separate 32/64-bit
646 libraries on systems that support both environments
648 - Various compiler warning fixes.
649 - Fixes for Solaris 10 builds against old GNU TLS and
651 - Added a cupsArrayUserData() function to retrieve the
652 user data pointer for an array (useful for typing
654 - The ppdEmitString() function did not compute the
655 required buffer size properly, leading to dropped
656 characters on the end of the printer commands in pstops
657 and imagetops (STR #1470)
660 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b1
662 - The serial backend now supports Equinox 8-port serial
664 - The IPP backend now supports a compression option to
665 compress print files as they are sent to the remote
667 - The CUPS browse protocol now supports passing of
668 default options and browse timeout values from the
669 server to the clients (STR #800)
670 - Implicit classes that timed out could cause the
671 scheduler to crash (STR #1439)
672 - Added DragonFly support in local device backends (STR
674 - Added LDAP printer browsing support (STR #338)
675 - Added official support for printer maintenance commands
676 via the CUPS Command file format and hooks in the
677 printer-type and web interfaces (STR #932)
678 - The HP-GL/2 filter could get in an infinite loop trying
679 to convert HP-PCL files (STR #1415)
680 - CUPS now implements the HTTP/1.1 Expect header (STR
682 - Options in PPD files are no longer automatically put in
683 an "Extra" group; rather, all options that are not
684 inside an Open/CloseGroup will be placed in the
685 "General" group (STR #1385)
686 - The scheduler now creates a job-uuid attribute that
687 uniquely identifies a job on a network (STR #1410)
688 - The init script now unsets the TMPDIR environment
689 variable to prevent user temporary directories from
690 being used by cupsd accidentally (STR #1424)
691 - Added support for launchd on MacOS X.
692 - Added support for notify_post on MacOS X.
693 - Added support for DBUS on Linux.
694 - All of the Berkeley (except for lpc) and System V
695 commands now support specification of user, host, and
696 port (STR #1028, STR #1029, STR #1087)
697 - The lpmove command now allows you to move all jobs for
698 a given queue (STR #56)
699 - The web interface now supports moving of a job or jobs
700 to another queue (STR #56)
701 - The web interface now provides searching, paging, and
702 changing of the sort/display order of classes, jobs,
704 - cupsaddsmb now accepts a password on the command-line
705 and supports passwords with special characters (STR
707 - ppdLoad*() no longer tries to "fix" bad characters in
709 - Printer names can now (reliably) contain Unicode
710 characters (STR #896)
711 - The lpstat command now shows the time and date of the
712 last printer state change instead of the hardcoded "Jan
714 - The scheduler now adds a job-actual-printer-uri
715 attribute to job objects when printing to a class (STR
717 - The scheduler now logs log file open errors to the
718 system log (STR #1289)
719 - The scheduler now sets the job-originating-user-name to
720 the authenticated username, if available (STR #1318)
721 - The scheduler now only updates the permissions of SSL
722 keys and certificates when they are under the
723 ServerRoot directory (STR #1324)
724 - The rastertodymo driver has been renamed to
725 rastertolabel (a symlink is installed so that existing
726 queues continue to work) and now also supports Zebra's
728 - The lpstat command could show the wrong active job for
729 a printer (STR #1301)
730 - Fixed a potential crash problem in the scheduler when
731 aborting a CGI program (STR #1290)
732 - Added a "cancel all jobs" button to the class and
733 printer web interfaces (STR #1140)
734 - The add-printer web page now shows the
735 set-printer-options page after the printer has been
737 - The classes web page now provides links to each of the
738 member printers (STR #307)
739 - CUPS now handles HTTP request/response lines up to 32k
740 in length; this is mainly for better cookie support
742 - Added support for the Apache PassEnv and SetEnv
743 directives to cupsd.conf (STR #853)
744 - Added large file (64-bit) support (STR #541)
745 - Fixed a performance issue with the ippReadIO()
746 implementation (STR #1284)
747 - Fixed a performance issue with the scheduler's implicit
748 class implementation (STR #1283)
749 - The pdftops filter now adds the Title and Creator
750 fields from the PDF file to the PostScript document
751 comments section (STR #539, STR #830)
752 - Added a new cups_array_t and cupsArray*() functions to
753 the CUPS API to support sorted lists of data.
754 - Made the CUPS API library thread-safe (STR #1276)
755 - Added "media" option support for EFI EFMediaType option
757 - Added write buffering to the HTTP code to improve
758 performance (STR #547)
759 - The scheduler now uses the attributes-natural-language
760 attribute to localize banner pages (STR #386)
761 - The scheduler now returns the address that was used to
762 connect to it (STR #1076)
763 - Fixed a problem with N-up printing and OpenOffice (STR
765 - Added support for the GCC position independent
766 executable options (STR #1209)
767 - Added new BrowseLocalProtocols and
768 BrowseRemoteProtocols directives to cupsd.conf,
769 allowing for different browse protocols for local and
770 remote printers (STR #877)
771 - PPD files can now contain strings up to 256k in length
773 - The pstops filter now supports the IncludeFeature DSC
775 - The pstops filter now disables the setpagedevice
776 procedure when doing N-up printing (STR #1161)
777 - The serial backend now supports "stop=1", "stop=2",
778 "parity=space", and "parity=mark" options (STR #1155)
779 - "make install" no longer overwrites an existing PAM
780 configuration file (STR #1064)
781 - The scheduler now closes all files on startup when run
782 in daemon mode (STR #1009)
783 - Added a new RGBW colorspace to the CUPS raster format
785 - The pdftops filter now sets the page size based on the
786 media box when not scaling the output (STR #912)
787 - The pdftops filter now supports masked images (STR
789 - The pdftops filter produced large output when rendering
790 PDF files containing lot of repeated images (STR #327)
791 - The pdftops filter now minimizes print processing of
792 PDF files when using the page-ranges option (STR #273)
793 - Updated pdftops filter to Xpdf 3.01.
794 - Added new cupsBackchannelRead() and
795 cupsBackchannelWrite() functions, as well as
796 backchannel support to the parallel, serial, socket,
797 and USB backends (STR #1252)
798 - The parallel and USB backends now treat a "no space
799 available" error as an out-of-paper condition (STR
801 - The "lpc" command now supports the "status all" command
803 - ippReadIO() did not read collections properly (STR
805 - The "make test" script now creates the test files in
806 "/tmp/cups-$USER" instead of "/tmp/$USER" (STR #981)
807 - All backends now abort on error when printing a job to
808 a class - this allows the next printer in the class to
809 print the job (STR #1084)
810 - The scheduler now verifies that a printer supports
811 Letter or A4 media sizes before setting them as the
812 initial default (STR #1250)
813 - The cupstestppd program now flags bad Resolution
815 - The USB backend now retries printing when the printer
816 is disconnected or turned off (STR #1267)
817 - Added new httpGetHostname() function to CUPS API, and
818 use it instead of gethostname() so that the web
819 interface will work correctly on systems whose hostname
820 is not the FQDN (STR #1266)
821 - The scheduler now stops printers if the backend for the
822 queue is missing on startup (STR #1265)
823 - The configure script now supports "--disable-library"
824 to disable particular image file format support
825 libraries, even if they are available on the build
827 - The IPP backend did not always report on the total
828 number of pages that were printed (STR #1251)
829 - The lpstat program could display garbage date and time
830 values for locales whose date format exceeded 31
831 characters (STR #1263)
832 - The cupstestppd program would segfault when testing
833 certain broken PPD files (STR #1268)
834 - Dramatically reduced the overhead of implicit classes.
835 - Added new cupsDir*() functions to CUPS API.
836 - Printers can now be published individually for sharing.
837 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler's startup signalling code
838 which caused cupsd to send the SIGUSR1 signal to the
839 init process instead of the original parent process
841 - Added new on-line help CGI to web interface to provide
843 - Devices are now tracked dynamically, with each query
844 doing a new device scan. This eliminates a previous
845 startup delay caused by slow backends and allows new
846 printers to be seen without restarting the server,
847 however it limits the amount of device URI checking
848 that can be done (basically now the scheduler only
849 requires a URI with a method that is a listed backend)
850 - Added new printer auto-detection, server configuration,
851 and log file viewing to the administration web page.
852 - Added new "set allowed users" web interface to set the
853 list of allowed users for a printer or class.
854 - The scheduler, command-line, and web interfaces now
855 limit the list of printers and classes to those
856 accessible by a user.
857 - cupsMarkOptions() now handles more non-standard
858 duplexing options and choices (STR #915)
859 - cups-lpd now honors remote banner requests with the
860 "standard" banner whenever a printer does not have one
862 - The scheduler's denial-of-service checks did not work
863 properly with IPv6 addresses (STR #1134)
864 - The lp and lpr commands did not error out properly when
865 they were unable to write to a temporary file (STR
867 - The pstops filter did not handle Adobe-specific
868 comments in Windows NT driver output (STR #1085)
869 - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly reported the printer
871 - The web interface now operates exclusively with the
872 UTF-8 encoding, and sends the appropriate character set
873 and header information to the web browser (STR #919,
875 - Added a "set allowed users" interface to the web
876 interface so that you can set the list of allowed or
877 denied users/groups for a printer or class.
878 - Disallow the "#" character in printer names, since it
879 has special meaning in the shell, config files, and in
880 URIs (STR #917, STR #1202)
881 - Added a new application/x-csource MIME type, and
882 support for it to the texttops filter so that you can
883 pretty print plain text files without the C/C++
884 keywords being highlighted.
885 - The pdftops filter did not compile with GCC 4.0 (STR
887 - The texttops filter did not highlight preprocessor
888 directives followed by a tab properly.
889 - HP PJL output now uses both JOB DISPLAY and RDYMSG
890 commands to show the current job on the printer's
892 - Local authentication certificates are now stored in
893 /var/run/cups/certs by default instead of
894 /etc/cups/certs (STR #1211)
895 - Backends now use "&" to separate options in device
896 URIs; "+" is still recognized but is deprecated (STR
898 - The USB backend no longer supports the usb:/dev/foo
899 format on systems that support device ID queries.
900 - Forced classification markings did not work when the
901 job-sheets parameters were "none,none".
902 - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly showed all users as allowed,
903 even if the queue was restricted to certain users (STR
905 - The scheduler now automatically detects SSL/TLS clients
906 without using the SSLPort/SSLListen directives.
907 - The CUPS API and scheduler no longer support SSLv2-
908 encrypted connections.
909 - Updated the cupsaddsmb utility to correctly export the
910 CUPS driver for Windows.
911 - Fixed a signal-handling bug in httpRead() which
912 ultimately caused the server to print multiple copies
913 when it was busy (STR #1184)
914 - The cupsFile API now uses the O_APPEND option when
915 opening files in append mode (STR #990)
916 - The md5.h header and md5_* functions are now officially
917 private and have been renamed to avoid conflicts with
918 other implementations with the same name.
919 - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded some Type1
921 - The scheduler didn't detect a closed connection in the
922 middle of an IPP request (STR #1153)
923 - The scheduler could block trying to read the job status
924 if there was input pending and the job was cancelled in
925 the same input cycle (STR #1157)
926 - The scheduler could crash when deleting a class due to
928 - Updated the Zebra ZPL label printer driver to use the
929 run-length encoding and support more options.
930 - Updated serial backend to scan for /dev/ttyC* as well
931 as /dev/ttyc* for Cyclades serial ports (STR #1049)
932 - The scheduler could hang reading the job status under
933 certain circumstances (STR #1068)
934 - The USB backend termination signal code was inverted
936 - Moved enable and disable commands to sbindir to be
938 - Added new cupsRasterInterpretPPD() function for RIP
939 filters to setup the raster page header from
940 PostScript commands in a PPD file.
941 - The CUPS browsing protocol now offers a "delete" bit
942 to remove printers as soon as they are deleted on the
943 server or as soon as the server shuts down gracefully
945 - The CUPS_SERVER and ServerName directives (client.conf
946 and ~/.cupsrc) may now contain names of the form
947 "server:port" and "/path/to/domain/socket".
948 - The "cancel -u user" command now works for ordinary
950 - Added test run support to "make test" target (STR #64)
951 - Added domain socket support (STR #656)
952 - Added BrowseLocalOptions directive to allow the
953 administrator to add printer URI options to the browse
954 URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR #732)
955 - Added BrowseRemoteOptions directive to allow the
956 administrator to add standard URI options to the
957 remote printer URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR
959 - Now put "-I.." compiler option in front of all others
960 to ensure that local CUPS headers are used before
961 installed headers (STR #437)
962 - New cupsLangPrintf() and cupsLangPuts() for localized
964 - Now support custom attributes and extended options in
966 - Now provide functions to save PPD files.
967 - New policy mechanism allows per-operation and
968 per-printer control over what users and groups are
969 allowed to do various IPP operations.
970 - New error policy mechanism to control how aborted
971 backend errors are handled by the scheduler
972 (abort-job, retry-job, requeue-job, stop-printer)
973 - Updated the printer test page with a better color
974 wheel and a separate grayscale ramp.
975 - A single backend process is now run to send all print
977 - Backends and filters can now send and receive
978 backchannel data over file descriptor 3.
979 - Updated the raster stream format to support more
980 user-defined attributes and to do compression of the
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