CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2011-01-21
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
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   6         - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
   7           pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
   8           Throughput keyword.
   9         - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
  10         - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
  11           CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
  12         - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
  13           STR #3753)
  14         - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
  15           to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
  16         - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
  17           in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
  18         - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
  19           (STR #2969)
  20         - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
  21           elements.
  22         - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
  23         - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
  24           default.
  25         - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
  26           support (STR #3097)
  27         - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
  28           Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
  29           PWG 5100.11.
  30         - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
  31           (<cups/ppd.h>).
  32         - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
  33           attribute.
  34         - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
  35           plugin.
  36         - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
  37           on Mac OS X.
  38         - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
  39           CUPS 1.1.x.  The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
  40           were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
  41         - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
  42           improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
  43         - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
  44           provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
  45         - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
  46         - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
  47           permissions disabled.
  48         - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
  49           PPD files.
  50         - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
  51         - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)