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f7cdb9b3 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
5
afabfe46 6 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
b78f304d 7 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
be2173d2 8 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
9 printers (STR #3541)
ba198c74 10 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
11 variable (STR #3531)
64dd1836 12 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
1473a062 13 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
14 the first page (STR #3525)
74b4f71d 15 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
715a3e88 16 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
17 (STR #3524)
f84d5d12 18 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
19 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
adf04fdc 20 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
21 all cases (STR #3521)
d5d5fa4f 22 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
23 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 24 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
25 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 26 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
27 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
28 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
29 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 30 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 31 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 32 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
33 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 34 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
35 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 36 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
37 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 38 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
39 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 40 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
41
42
dbf4ca8b 43CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
44
d164b5f8 45 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
46 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
30dd0ced 47 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
48 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
ffe61cc3 49 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 50 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 51 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 52 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
53 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 54 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
55 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 56 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
57 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 58 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 59 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
60 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 61 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 62 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 63 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 64 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 65 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 66 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
67 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 68 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 69 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
70 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 71 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
72 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 73 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 74 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
75 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 76 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
77 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 78 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
79 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 80 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 81 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
82 (STR #3421)
14026560 83 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 84 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 85 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 86 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
87 state.
41dc2e8d 88 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
89 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 90 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 91 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 92 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
93 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 94 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
95 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 96 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
97 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 98 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
99 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
100 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 101 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
102 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 103 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
104 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 105 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
106 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 107 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
108 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 109 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
110
111
2c7c8794 112CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
113
faee5ab9 114 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
115 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
116 STR #3401)
2197464b 117 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 118 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
119 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 120 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
121 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 122 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
123 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 124 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
125 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 126 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
127 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 128 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
129 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 130 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 131 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 132 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
133 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 134 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
135 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 136 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
137 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 138 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 139 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 140 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
141 SNMP implementations.
142
143
6c472821 144CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
145
e0b93db4 146 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 147 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
148 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 149 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 150 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 151 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
152 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 153 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
154 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 155 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 156 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 157 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 158 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
159 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 160 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
161 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 162 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 163 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
164 STR #3305)
74e726de 165 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 166 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 167 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
168 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 169 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
170 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 171 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
172 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 173 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
174 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 175 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
176 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 177 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
178 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 179
180
181CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
182
183 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
184 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
185 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
186 filter (STR #3278)
187 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
188 (STR #3277)
189 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
190 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
191 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
192 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
193 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
194 queues (STR #3258)
195 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
196 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
197 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
198 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
199 cases (STR #3253)
200 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
201 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
202 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
203 SNMP query.
204 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
205 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
206 templates (STR #3229)
207 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
208 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
209 performance.
210 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
211 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
212 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
213 for consistency.
214 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
215 reason on all platforms.
216
217
218CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
219
220 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
221 (STR #3212)
222 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
223 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
224 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
225 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
226 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
227 variables (STR #3210)
228 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
229 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
230 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
231 for print jobs.
232 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
233 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
234 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
235 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
236 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
237 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
238 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
239 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
240 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
241 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
242 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
243 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
244 that cupstestppd looks for...)
245 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
246 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
247 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
248 pages when a job was canceled or held.
249
250
251CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
252
253 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
254 STR #3173)
255 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
256 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
257 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
258 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
259 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
260 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
261 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
262 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
263 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
264 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
265 (STR #2624)
266 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
267 failed print jobs.
268 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
269 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
270 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
271 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
272 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
273 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
274 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
275 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
276 (STR #3171)
277 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
278 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
279 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
280 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
281 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
282 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
283 all work.
284 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
285 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
286 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
287 lack of kernel buffers.
288 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
289 while copying print data to a temporary file.
290 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
291 causing reduced performance in some situations.
292 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
293 would hang on the client.
294 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
295 work (STR #3132)
296 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
297 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
298 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
299 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
300 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
301 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
302 filenames in the PPD file.
303 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
304 values.
305 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
306 devices (STR #3108)
307 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
308 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
309 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
310 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
311 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
312 permissions.
313 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
314 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
315 device URI.
316 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
317 seconds.
318 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
319 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
320 them failed.
321 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
322 status operations.
323 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
324 keywords.
325 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
326 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
327 often unreliable.
328 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
329 "crashed".
330 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
331 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
332 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
333 printer had other reasons associated with it.
334 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
335 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
336 (STR #3084)
337 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
338 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
339 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
340 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
341 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
342 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
343 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
344 printer discovery (STR #3065)
345 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
346 in length (STR #3072)
347 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
348 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
349 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
350 printers with no specified colorspace.
351 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
352 file on Mac OS X.
353 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
354 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
355 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
356 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
357 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
358 for some PPDs.
359 - The ppdi utility did not work.
360 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
361 web browsers (STR #3049)
362 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
363 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
364 options.
365 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
366 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
367 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
368 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
369 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
370 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
371 present in most PPD files.
372 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
373 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
374 its jobs.
375 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
376 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
377 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
378 printers.
379 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
380 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
381 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
382 when a job finished.
383
384
385CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
386
387 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
388 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
389 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
390 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
391 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
392 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
393 rather than copying them whenever possible.
394 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
395 options implementations.
396 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
397 attributes.
398 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
399 was set to False in the PPD file.
400 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
401 and network backends (STR #3014)
402 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
403 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
404 attributes.
405 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
406 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
407 parameter.
408 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
409 --exclude-schemes options.
410 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
411 and exclude-schemes attributes.
412 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
413 attribute.
414 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
415 option called "fit-to-page".
416 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
417 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
418 prevent race conditions.
419 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
420 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
421 CUPS 1.1.x.
422 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
423 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
424 catalogs (STR #2990)
425 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
426 (STR #2989)
427 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
428 variable when running filters.
429 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
430 have all stopped.
431 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
432 progress messages.
433
434
435CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
436
437 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
438 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
439 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
440 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
441 (STR #2863)
442 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
443 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
444 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
445 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
446 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
447 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
448 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
449 (STR #1293)
450 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
451 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
452 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
453 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
454 levels.
455 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
456 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
457 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
458 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
459 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
460 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
461 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
462 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
463 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
464 of printer options (STR #1440)
465 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
466 form.
467 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
468 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
469 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
470 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
471 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
472 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
473 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
474 file (STR #2799)
475 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
476 command (STR #2562)
477 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
478 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
479 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
480 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
481 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
482 Google (STR #2882)
483 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
484 default server (STR #2833)
485 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
486 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
487 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
488 (STR #2923)
489 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
490 (STR #2848)
491 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
492 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
493 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
494 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
495 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
496 print jobs (STR #2482)
497 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
498 values.
499 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
500 track the progress of individual pages.
501 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
502 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
503 command, when available (STR #2724)
504 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
505 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
506 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
507 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
508 file as errors (STR #2616)
509 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
510 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
511 an error (STR #2555)
512 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
513 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
514 continue further (STR #2101)
515 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
516 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
517 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
518 (STR #2853)
519 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
520 the physical location of a printer device.
521 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
522 device data by a backend.
523 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
524 (STR #1729)
525 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
526 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
527 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
528 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
529 to CUPS (STR #263)
530 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
531 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
532 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
533 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
534 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
535 attributes for better option conflict detection and
536 resolution.
537 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
538 256 bytes (STR #2877)
539 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
540 what is logged to the access_log file.
541 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
542 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
543 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
544 files (STR #2871)
545 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
546 information files.
547 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
548 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
549 of an attribute.
550 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
551 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
552 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
553 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
554 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
555 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
556 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
557 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
558 (STR #2738)
559 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
560 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
561 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
562 (STR #2636)
563 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
564 files (STR #2739)
565 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
566 ModelName value as the output filename.
567 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
568 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
569 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
570 standard network backends.
571 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
572 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
573 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
574 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
575 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
576 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
577 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
578 name resolution.
579 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
580 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
581 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
582 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
583 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
584 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
585 - Driver information files can now be installed in
586 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
587 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
588 than 2GB.
589 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
590 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
591 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
592 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
593 backends are polled and for how long.
594 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
595 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
596 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
597 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
598 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
599 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
600 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
601 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
602 for localization (STR #2737)
603 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
604 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
605 file.
606 - The build system has been updated to support separate
607 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
608 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
609 by default.
610 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
611 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
612 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
613 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
614 root to make the default installation more secure.
615 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
616 the localized version of a marker-names value.
617 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
618 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
619 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
620 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
621 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
622 global based on the current access policies for the
623 printer.
624 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
625 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
626 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
627 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
628 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
629 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
630 that support it (STR #2637)
631 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
632 possible.
633 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
634 attriibute to purge a specified job.
635 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
636 attributes for custom option selections.
637 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
638 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
639 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
640 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
641 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
642 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
643 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
644 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
645 on the model page (STR #2436)
646 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
647 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
648 of printers (STR #1175)
649 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
650 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
651 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
652 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
653 to filter the document from the specified job.
654 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
655 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
656 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
657 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
658 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.