1 CHANGES.txt - 2009-07-02
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6 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246)
7 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230)
8 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
9 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
11 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
12 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
14 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
15 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
17 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
18 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
19 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
21 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
22 reason on all platforms.
25 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
27 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
29 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
30 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
31 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
32 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
33 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
35 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
36 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
37 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
39 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
40 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
41 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
42 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
43 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
44 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
45 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
46 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
47 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
48 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
49 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
50 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
51 that cupstestppd looks for...)
52 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
53 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
54 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
55 pages when a job was canceled or held.
58 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
60 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
62 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
63 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
64 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
65 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
66 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
67 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
68 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
69 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
70 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
71 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
73 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
75 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
76 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
77 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
78 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
79 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
80 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
81 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
82 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
84 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
85 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
86 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
87 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
88 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
89 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
91 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
92 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
93 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
94 lack of kernel buffers.
95 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
96 while copying print data to a temporary file.
97 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
98 causing reduced performance in some situations.
99 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
100 would hang on the client.
101 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
103 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
104 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
105 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
106 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
107 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
108 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
109 filenames in the PPD file.
110 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
112 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
114 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
115 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
116 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
117 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
118 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
120 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
121 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
123 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
125 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
126 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
128 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
130 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
132 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
133 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
135 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
137 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
138 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
139 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
140 printer had other reasons associated with it.
141 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
142 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
144 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
145 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
146 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
147 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
148 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
149 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
150 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
151 printer discovery (STR #3065)
152 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
153 in length (STR #3072)
154 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
155 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
156 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
157 printers with no specified colorspace.
158 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
160 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
161 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
162 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
163 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
164 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
166 - The ppdi utility did not work.
167 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
168 web browsers (STR #3049)
169 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
170 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
172 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
173 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
174 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
175 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
176 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
177 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
178 present in most PPD files.
179 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
180 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
182 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
183 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
184 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
186 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
187 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
188 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
192 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
194 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
195 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
196 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
197 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
198 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
199 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
200 rather than copying them whenever possible.
201 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
202 options implementations.
203 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
205 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
206 was set to False in the PPD file.
207 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
208 and network backends (STR #3014)
209 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
210 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
212 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
213 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
215 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
216 --exclude-schemes options.
217 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
218 and exclude-schemes attributes.
219 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
221 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
222 option called "fit-to-page".
223 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
224 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
225 prevent race conditions.
226 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
227 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
229 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
230 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
232 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
234 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
235 variable when running filters.
236 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
238 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
242 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
244 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
245 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
246 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
247 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
249 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
250 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
251 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
252 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
253 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
254 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
255 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
257 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
258 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
259 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
260 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
262 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
263 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
264 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
265 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
266 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
267 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
268 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
269 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
270 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
271 of printer options (STR #1440)
272 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
274 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
275 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
276 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
277 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
278 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
279 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
280 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
282 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
284 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
285 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
286 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
287 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
288 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
290 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
291 default server (STR #2833)
292 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
293 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
294 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
296 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
298 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
299 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
300 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
301 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
302 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
303 print jobs (STR #2482)
304 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
306 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
307 track the progress of individual pages.
308 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
309 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
310 command, when available (STR #2724)
311 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
312 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
313 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
314 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
315 file as errors (STR #2616)
316 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
317 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
319 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
320 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
321 continue further (STR #2101)
322 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
323 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
324 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
326 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
327 the physical location of a printer device.
328 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
329 device data by a backend.
330 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
332 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
333 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
334 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
335 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
337 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
338 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
339 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
340 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
341 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
342 attributes for better option conflict detection and
344 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
345 256 bytes (STR #2877)
346 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
347 what is logged to the access_log file.
348 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
349 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
350 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
352 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
354 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
355 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
357 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
358 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
359 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
360 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
361 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
362 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
363 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
364 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
366 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
367 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
368 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
370 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
372 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
373 ModelName value as the output filename.
374 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
375 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
376 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
377 standard network backends.
378 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
379 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
380 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
381 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
382 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
383 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
384 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
386 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
387 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
388 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
389 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
390 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
391 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
392 - Driver information files can now be installed in
393 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
394 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
396 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
397 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
398 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
399 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
400 backends are polled and for how long.
401 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
402 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
403 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
404 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
405 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
406 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
407 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
408 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
409 for localization (STR #2737)
410 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
411 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
413 - The build system has been updated to support separate
414 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
415 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
417 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
418 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
419 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
420 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
421 root to make the default installation more secure.
422 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
423 the localized version of a marker-names value.
424 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
425 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
426 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
427 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
428 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
429 global based on the current access policies for the
431 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
432 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
433 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
434 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
435 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
436 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
437 that support it (STR #2637)
438 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
440 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
441 attriibute to purge a specified job.
442 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
443 attributes for custom option selections.
444 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
445 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
446 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
447 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
448 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
449 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
450 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
451 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
452 on the model page (STR #2436)
453 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
454 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
455 of printers (STR #1175)
456 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
457 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
458 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
459 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
460 to filter the document from the specified job.
461 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
462 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
463 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
464 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
465 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.