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   9 <H1 CLASS="title">What's New in CUPS 1.5</H1>
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  11 <P>CUPS 1.5 many changes and new features to CUPS 1.4.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>
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  13 <H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="COMMANDS">Commands</A></H2>
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  17         <LI><EM>User defaults;</EM> Starting in CUPS 1.2, user defaults were stored in the ~/.cups directory, and the old ~/.cupsrc and ~/.lpoptions files were deprecated. Support for ~/.cupsrc and ~/.lpoptions have been removed in CUPS 1.5.</LI>
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  19         <LI><EM>IPP test tool;</EM> The <code>ipptool</code> IPP test tool is now a first-class user program.</LI>
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  21         <LI><EM>lpadmin;</EM> The <code>lpadmin</code> command now supports setting the cupsIPPSupplies and cupsSNMPSupplies keywords in PPDs and deleting options.</LI>
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  24 <H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="SCHEDULER">Scheduler</A></H2>
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  28         <LI><EM>Filter security;</EM> Filters and backends must now have group write permissions disabled.</LI>
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  33 <H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="FILTERS">Print Filters</A></H2>
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  37         <LI><EM>HP-GL/2 filter;</EM> The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer provided with CUPS.</LI>
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  39         <LI><EM>PDF filter;</EM> The PDF filter now supports new Poppler and Ghostscript options.</LI>
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  41         <LI><EM>PWG Raster driver;</EM> Added a new PWG Raster printer driver filter.</LI>
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  43         <LI><EM>SCSI backend;</EM> The SCSI backend is no longer provided with CUPS.</LI>
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  52         <LI><EM>CUPS headers;</EM> Changes to the main CUPS header may require code changes to applications and toolkits. Users of PPD functions must now include the &lt;cups/ppd.h&gt; header file explicitly since the &lt;cups/cups.h&gt; header no longer does so.</LI>
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  54         <LI><EM>HTTP support:</EM> Applications can now set a per-connection timeout interval and callback for HTTP operations as well as query and set SSL/TLS X.509 certificates.</LI>
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  56         <LI><EM>Raster support;</EM> The CUPS raster functions now support the creation of PWG Raster files and streams, and a new callback-based context function allows reading and writing from objects other than file descriptors.</LI>
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