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-<P>CUPS 1.4 adds over 65 changes and new features to CUPS 1.3.x. This page provides a high-level outline of these changes. If you have never used CUPS before, read the <A HREF="overview.html">"Overview of CUPS"</A> document instead.</P>
+<H1 CLASS="title">What's New in CUPS 1.4</H1>
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+<P>CUPS 1.4 adds over 67 changes and new features to CUPS 1.3.x. This page provides a high-level outline of these changes. If you have never used CUPS before, read the <A HREF="overview.html">"Overview of CUPS"</A> document instead.</P>
<H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="COMMANDS">Commands</A></H2>
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- <LI><EM>accept and reject;</EM> the accept and reject commands have been officially renamed to cupsaccess and cupsreject. The old names are still supported via symlinks.</LI>
+ <LI><EM>accept and reject;</EM> the accept and reject commands have been officially renamed to cupsaccept and cupsreject. The old names are still supported via symlinks.</LI>
<LI><EM>cupsdisable and cupsenable;</EM> the cupsdisable command now supports a --hold option to stop printing after the current job and the cupsenable command now supports a --release option to release pending jobs for printing.</LI>
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+ <LI><EM>IPP/2.x support;</EM> CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specifications.</LI>
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<LI><EM>CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation;</EM> the scheduler now supports setting the printer-state-reasons attribute using this operation.</LI>
<LI><EM>CUPS-Get-Document operation;</EM> the scheduler now supports a "get document" operation to download files from a print job.</LI>
<H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="SCHEDULER">Scheduler</A></H2>
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<LI><EM>Access control;</EM> the scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and Deny lines. It also now returns a HTTP 403 (forbidden) status when a user authenticates successfully but is not allowed to perform an operation.</LI>
<LI><EM>Default LogLevel;</EM> the default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info".</LI>
+ <LI><EM>Automatic debug logging;</EM> the scheduler now records up to the last N (default 200) debug messages for failed print jobs.</LI>
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<LI><EM>Default paper size;</EM> the scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive to override the default paper size defined by the locale or libpaper configuration.</LI>
<LI><EM>Encryption support;</EM> the scheduler now supports a SSLOptions directive to optionally support Windows clients in "FIPS" mode. It also now loads both the server and CA certificates (if present) from the ServerCertificate file.</LI>
<H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="DRIVERS">Printer Drivers</A></H2>
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<LI><EM>Device discovery;</EM> the cups-deviced helper now runs backends in parallel for faster discovery and streams the results of discovery as the backends provide them.</LI>
<H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="FILTERS">Print Filters</A></H2>
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<LI><EM>Banner filter;</EM> the bundled banner ("job-sheets") pages are now generated using a new banner filter provides easier customization and better support for UTF-8 text.</LI>
<H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="CUPSAPI">CUPS API</A></H2>
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<LI><EM>Backend API;</EM> a new cupsBackendReport function is provided to report a device from a backend and handles any needed quoting of the make-and-model, info, device-id, and location strings.</LI>
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