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49132a24 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
5
243d8ea4 6 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542)
81b2d5a3 7 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
c9b4942e 8 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
9 (STR #3620)
73ec0057 10 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
11 (STR #3624)
4a44dbd8 12 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
ab4b0c5e 13 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
14 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
5b626b7a 15 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
63842e70 16 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
0b0f8244 17 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
18 for the PPD compiler.
1604350b 19 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
20 authentication (STR #3559)
8ddbcf63 21 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
22 changed (STR #3570)
1bc31a51 23 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
243d8ea4 24 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
5b5d9f99 25 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
26 needed (STR #3600)
bf1f6ea5 27 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
28 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
29 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
30 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
31 scheduler.
49132a24 32
33
f7cdb9b3 34CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
35
afabfe46 36 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
46b0225b 37 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
07de3d7d 38 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
39 (STR #3516)
511b6f59 40 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
41 memory (STR #3577)
91c5b0ff 42 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
43 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
9036e8da 44 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
45 AIX (STR #3587)
50cd8ff5 46 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
47 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
48 attributes (STR #3554)
b44f284a 49 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
50 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
89813a30 51 (STR #3461)
52 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
53 implementation (STR #3514)
31e254f1 54 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
b78f304d 55 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
be2173d2 56 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
57 printers (STR #3541)
ba198c74 58 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
59 variable (STR #3531)
64dd1836 60 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
1473a062 61 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
62 the first page (STR #3525)
74b4f71d 63 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
715a3e88 64 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
65 (STR #3524)
f84d5d12 66 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
67 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
adf04fdc 68 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
69 all cases (STR #3521)
d5d5fa4f 70 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
71 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 72 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
73 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 74 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
75 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
76 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
77 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 78 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 79 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 80 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
81 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 82 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
83 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 84 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
85 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 86 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
87 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 88 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
89
90
dbf4ca8b 91CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
92
d164b5f8 93 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
94 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
30dd0ced 95 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
96 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
ffe61cc3 97 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 98 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 99 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 100 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
101 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 102 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
103 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 104 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
105 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 106 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 107 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
108 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 109 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 110 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 111 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 112 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 113 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 114 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
115 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 116 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 117 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
118 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 119 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
120 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 121 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 122 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
123 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 124 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
125 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 126 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
127 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 128 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 129 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
130 (STR #3421)
14026560 131 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 132 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 133 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 134 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
135 state.
41dc2e8d 136 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
137 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 138 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 139 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 140 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
141 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 142 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
143 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 144 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
145 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 146 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
147 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
148 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 149 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
150 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 151 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
152 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 153 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
154 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 155 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
156 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 157 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
158
159
2c7c8794 160CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
161
faee5ab9 162 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
163 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
164 STR #3401)
2197464b 165 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 166 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
167 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 168 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
169 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 170 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
171 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 172 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
173 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 174 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
175 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 176 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
177 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 178 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 179 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 180 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
181 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 182 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
183 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 184 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
185 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 186 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 187 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 188 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
189 SNMP implementations.
190
191
6c472821 192CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
193
e0b93db4 194 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 195 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
196 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 197 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 198 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 199 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
200 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 201 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
202 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 203 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 204 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 205 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 206 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
207 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 208 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
209 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 210 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 211 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
212 STR #3305)
74e726de 213 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 214 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 215 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
216 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 217 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
218 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 219 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
220 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 221 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
222 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 223 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
224 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 225 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
226 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 227
228
229CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
230
231 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
232 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
233 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
234 filter (STR #3278)
235 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
236 (STR #3277)
237 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
238 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
239 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
240 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
241 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
242 queues (STR #3258)
243 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
244 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
245 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
246 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
247 cases (STR #3253)
248 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
249 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
250 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
251 SNMP query.
252 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
253 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
254 templates (STR #3229)
255 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
256 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
257 performance.
258 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
259 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
260 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
261 for consistency.
262 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
263 reason on all platforms.
264
265
266CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
267
268 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
269 (STR #3212)
270 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
271 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
272 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
273 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
274 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
275 variables (STR #3210)
276 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
277 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
278 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
279 for print jobs.
280 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
281 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
282 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
283 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
284 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
285 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
286 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
287 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
288 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
289 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
290 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
291 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
292 that cupstestppd looks for...)
293 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
294 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
295 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
296 pages when a job was canceled or held.
297
298
299CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
300
301 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
302 STR #3173)
303 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
304 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
305 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
306 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
307 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
308 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
309 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
310 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
311 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
312 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
313 (STR #2624)
314 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
315 failed print jobs.
316 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
317 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
318 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
319 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
320 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
321 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
322 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
323 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
324 (STR #3171)
325 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
326 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
327 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
328 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
329 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
330 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
331 all work.
332 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
333 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
334 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
335 lack of kernel buffers.
336 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
337 while copying print data to a temporary file.
338 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
339 causing reduced performance in some situations.
340 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
341 would hang on the client.
342 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
343 work (STR #3132)
344 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
345 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
346 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
347 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
348 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
349 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
350 filenames in the PPD file.
351 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
352 values.
353 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
354 devices (STR #3108)
355 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
356 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
357 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
358 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
359 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
360 permissions.
361 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
362 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
363 device URI.
364 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
365 seconds.
366 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
367 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
368 them failed.
369 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
370 status operations.
371 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
372 keywords.
373 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
374 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
375 often unreliable.
376 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
377 "crashed".
378 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
379 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
380 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
381 printer had other reasons associated with it.
382 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
383 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
384 (STR #3084)
385 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
386 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
387 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
388 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
389 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
390 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
391 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
392 printer discovery (STR #3065)
393 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
394 in length (STR #3072)
395 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
396 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
397 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
398 printers with no specified colorspace.
399 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
400 file on Mac OS X.
401 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
402 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
403 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
404 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
405 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
406 for some PPDs.
407 - The ppdi utility did not work.
408 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
409 web browsers (STR #3049)
410 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
411 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
412 options.
413 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
414 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
415 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
416 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
417 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
418 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
419 present in most PPD files.
420 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
421 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
422 its jobs.
423 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
424 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
425 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
426 printers.
427 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
428 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
429 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
430 when a job finished.
431
432
433CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
434
435 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
436 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
437 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
438 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
439 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
440 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
441 rather than copying them whenever possible.
442 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
443 options implementations.
444 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
445 attributes.
446 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
447 was set to False in the PPD file.
448 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
449 and network backends (STR #3014)
450 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
451 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
452 attributes.
453 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
454 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
455 parameter.
456 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
457 --exclude-schemes options.
458 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
459 and exclude-schemes attributes.
460 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
461 attribute.
462 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
463 option called "fit-to-page".
464 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
465 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
466 prevent race conditions.
467 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
468 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
469 CUPS 1.1.x.
470 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
471 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
472 catalogs (STR #2990)
473 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
474 (STR #2989)
475 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
476 variable when running filters.
477 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
478 have all stopped.
479 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
480 progress messages.
481
482
483CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
484
485 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
486 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
487 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
488 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
489 (STR #2863)
490 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
491 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
492 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
493 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
494 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
495 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
496 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
497 (STR #1293)
498 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
499 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
500 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
501 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
502 levels.
503 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
504 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
505 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
506 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
507 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
508 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
509 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
510 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
511 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
512 of printer options (STR #1440)
513 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
514 form.
515 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
516 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
517 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
518 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
519 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
520 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
521 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
522 file (STR #2799)
523 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
524 command (STR #2562)
525 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
526 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
527 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
528 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
529 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
530 Google (STR #2882)
531 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
532 default server (STR #2833)
533 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
534 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
535 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
536 (STR #2923)
537 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
538 (STR #2848)
539 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
540 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
541 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
542 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
543 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
544 print jobs (STR #2482)
545 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
546 values.
547 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
548 track the progress of individual pages.
549 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
550 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
551 command, when available (STR #2724)
552 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
553 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
554 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
555 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
556 file as errors (STR #2616)
557 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
558 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
559 an error (STR #2555)
560 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
561 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
562 continue further (STR #2101)
563 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
564 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
565 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
566 (STR #2853)
567 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
568 the physical location of a printer device.
569 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
570 device data by a backend.
571 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
572 (STR #1729)
573 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
574 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
575 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
576 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
577 to CUPS (STR #263)
578 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
579 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
580 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
581 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
582 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
583 attributes for better option conflict detection and
584 resolution.
585 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
586 256 bytes (STR #2877)
587 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
588 what is logged to the access_log file.
589 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
590 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
591 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
592 files (STR #2871)
593 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
594 information files.
595 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
596 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
597 of an attribute.
598 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
599 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
600 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
601 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
602 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
603 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
604 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
605 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
606 (STR #2738)
607 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
608 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
609 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
610 (STR #2636)
611 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
612 files (STR #2739)
613 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
614 ModelName value as the output filename.
615 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
616 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
617 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
618 standard network backends.
619 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
620 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
621 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
622 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
623 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
624 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
625 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
626 name resolution.
627 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
628 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
629 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
630 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
631 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
632 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
633 - Driver information files can now be installed in
634 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
635 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
636 than 2GB.
637 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
638 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
639 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
640 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
641 backends are polled and for how long.
642 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
643 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
644 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
645 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
646 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
647 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
648 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
649 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
650 for localization (STR #2737)
651 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
652 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
653 file.
654 - The build system has been updated to support separate
655 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
656 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
657 by default.
658 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
659 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
660 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
661 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
662 root to make the default installation more secure.
663 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
664 the localized version of a marker-names value.
665 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
666 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
667 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
668 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
669 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
670 global based on the current access policies for the
671 printer.
672 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
673 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
674 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
675 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
676 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
677 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
678 that support it (STR #2637)
679 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
680 possible.
681 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
682 attriibute to purge a specified job.
683 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
684 attributes for custom option selections.
685 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
686 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
687 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
688 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
689 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
690 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
691 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
692 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
693 on the model page (STR #2436)
694 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
695 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
696 of printers (STR #1175)
697 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
698 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
699 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
700 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
701 to filter the document from the specified job.
702 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
703 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
704 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
705 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
706 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.