CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2012-05-22
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
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   6         - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
   7         - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the
   8           end of the job (STR #4075)
   9         - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
  10         - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
  11         - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support
  12           specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
  13         - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce
  14           the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
  15         - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels
  16           in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
  17         - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in
  18           printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
  19         - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed
  20           cupsd (STR #3459)
  21         - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates
  22           (STR #3949)
  23         - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
  24           environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
  25         - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
  26         - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
  27           (STR #2856)
  28         - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
  29           have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
  30           (STR #2291)
  31         - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
  32           local system (STR #2053)
  33         - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
  34           per-centimeter (STR #4006)
  35         - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
  36           separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
  37         - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
  38           "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
  39           "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
  40         - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
  41           "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
  42         - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
  43           instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
  44           job objects.
  45         - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
  46         - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
  47           not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
  48         - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
  49           amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
  50         - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
  51           characters.
  52         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
  53           automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
  54           (Kerberos) authentication.
  55         - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
  56           length.
  57         - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
  58           via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
  59         - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
  60           version of CUPS (STR #3927)
  61         - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
  62         - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
  63           and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
  64         - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
  65         - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
  66         - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
  67           imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
  68           filters have been removed (STR #3930)
  69         - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)