CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2012-01-13
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
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   6         - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
   7         - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
   8           not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
   9         - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
  10           amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
  11         - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
  12           characters.
  13         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
  14           automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
  15           (Kerberos) authentication.
  16         - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
  17           length.
  18         - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
  19           via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
  20         - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
  21           version of CUPS (STR #3927)
  22         - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
  23         - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
  24           and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
  25         - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
  26         - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
  27         - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
  28           imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
  29           filters have been removed (STR #3930)
  30         - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)