CHANGES.txt

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