CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-11-14
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
   5
   6         - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998)
   7         - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
   8           catalogs (STR #2990)
   9         - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
  10           (STR #2989)
  11         - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
  12           variable when running filters.
  13         - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
  14           have all stopped.
  15         - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
  16           progress messages.
  17
  18
  19 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
  20
  21         - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
  22         - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
  23           override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
  24         - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
  25           (STR #2863)
  26         - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
  27           Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
  28           cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
  29         - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
  30           status of a single printer (STR #2843)
  31         - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
  32           significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
  33           (STR #1293)
  34         - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
  35           on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
  36         - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
  37           the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
  38           levels.
  39         - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
  40           support and easier customization (STR #2490)
  41         - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
  42           environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
  43         - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
  44           stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
  45         - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
  46           the printer-state-reasons attribute.
  47         - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
  48           of printer options (STR #1440)
  49         - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
  50           form.
  51         - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
  52           easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
  53         - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
  54         - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
  55           Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
  56         - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
  57           they know whether they are printing a banner or document
  58           file (STR #2799)
  59         - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
  60           command (STR #2562)
  61         - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
  62           talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
  63         - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
  64           cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
  65         - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
  66           Google (STR #2882)
  67         - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
  68           default server (STR #2833)
  69         - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
  70           which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
  71         - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
  72           (STR #2923)
  73         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
  74           (STR #2848)
  75         - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
  76           value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
  77         - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
  78         - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
  79         - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
  80           print jobs (STR #2482)
  81         - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
  82           values.
  83         - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
  84           track the progress of individual pages.
  85         - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
  86         - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
  87           command, when available (STR #2724)
  88         - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
  89         - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
  90           PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
  91         - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
  92           file as errors (STR #2616)
  93         - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
  94           retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
  95           an error (STR #2555)
  96         - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
  97           correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
  98           continue further (STR #2101)
  99         - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
 100           (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
 101         - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
 102           (STR #2853)
 103         - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
 104           the physical location of a printer device.
 105         - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
 106           device data by a backend.
 107         - Added support for custom options in the web interface
 108           (STR #1729)
 109         - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
 110           and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
 111         - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
 112         - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
 113           to CUPS (STR #263)
 114         - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
 115         - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
 116           cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
 117         - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
 118         - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
 119           attributes for better option conflict detection and
 120           resolution.
 121         - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
 122           256 bytes (STR #2877)
 123         - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
 124           what is logged to the access_log file.
 125         - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
 126           the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
 127         - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
 128           files (STR #2871)
 129         - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
 130           information files.
 131         - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
 132         - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
 133           of an attribute.
 134         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
 135         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
 136           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
 137         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
 138           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
 139         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
 140           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
 141         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
 142           (STR #2738)
 143         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
 144           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
 145         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
 146           (STR #2636)
 147         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
 148           files (STR #2739)
 149         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
 150           ModelName value as the output filename.
 151         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
 152           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
 153         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
 154           standard network backends.
 155         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
 156           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
 157         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
 158           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
 159         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
 160           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
 161         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
 162           name resolution.
 163         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
 164           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
 165         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
 166           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
 167         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
 168           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
 169         - Driver information files can now be installed in
 170           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
 171         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
 172           than 2GB.
 173         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
 174           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
 175         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
 176           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
 177           backends are polled and for how long.
 178         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
 179           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
 180         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
 181         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
 182           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
 183         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
 184           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
 185         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
 186           for localization (STR #2737)
 187         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
 188           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
 189           file.
 190         - The build system has been updated to support separate
 191           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
 192         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
 193           by default.
 194         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
 195         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
 196           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
 197         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
 198           root to make the default installation more secure.
 199         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
 200           the localized version of a marker-names value.
 201         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
 202           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
 203         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
 204           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
 205         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
 206           global based on the current access policies for the
 207           printer.
 208         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
 209           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
 210         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
 211         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
 212           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
 213         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
 214           that support it (STR #2637)
 215         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
 216           possible.
 217         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
 218           attriibute to purge a specified job.
 219         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
 220           attributes for custom option selections.
 221         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
 222           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
 223           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
 224         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
 225           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
 226           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
 227         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 228           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 229           on the model page (STR #2436)
 230         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 231           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 232           of printers (STR #1175)
 233         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 234         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 235           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 236         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 237           to filter the document from the specified job.
 238         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 239           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 240         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 241           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 242         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
 243