-CHANGES.txt - 2011-05-20
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+CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2012-02-15
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-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
- - Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more
- circumstances (STR #3417)
- - The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in
- the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533)
- - Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do
- not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800)
- - The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing
- was not enabled (STR #3639)
- - The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple
- hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813)
- - The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and
- manages the group (STR #2829)
- - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838)
- - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration,
- cache, and state files (STR #3715)
- - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
- (STR #2959)
- - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
- cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
- - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
- - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
- (STR #3605)
- - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
- - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
- - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
- - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
- (STR #3766)
- - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
- sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
- size (STR #3689)
- - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
- - Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes.
- - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
- - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
- - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
- drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
- - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
- the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
- - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
- authenticating (STR #3670)
- - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
- CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
- printers.
- - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
- pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
- Throughput keyword.
- - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
- - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
- CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
- - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
- STR #3753)
- - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
- to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
- - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
- in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
- - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
- (STR #2969)
- - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
- elements.
- - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
- - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
- default.
- - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
- support (STR #3097)
- - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
- Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
- PWG 5100.11.
- - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
- (<cups/ppd.h>).
- - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
- attribute.
- - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
- plugin.
- - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
- on Mac OS X.
- - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
- CUPS 1.1.x. The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
- were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
- - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
- improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
- - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
- provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
- - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
- - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
- permissions disabled.
- - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
- PPD files.
- - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
- - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)
+ - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010)
+ - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
+ environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
+ - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
+ - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
+ (STR #2856)
+ - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
+ have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
+ (STR #2291)
+ - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
+ local system (STR #2053)
+ - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
+ per-centimeter (STR #4006)
+ - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
+ separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
+ - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
+ "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
+ "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
+ - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
+ "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
+ - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
+ instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
+ job objects.
+ - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
+ - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
+ not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
+ - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
+ amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
+ - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
+ characters.
+ - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
+ automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
+ (Kerberos) authentication.
+ - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
+ length.
+ - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
+ via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
+ - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
+ version of CUPS (STR #3927)
+ - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
+ - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
+ and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
+ - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
+ - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
+ - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
+ imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
+ filters have been removed (STR #3930)
+ - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)