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dbf4ca8b 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
5
d164b5f8 6 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
7 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
c14c690a 8 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422)
e54a41b1 9 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 10 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
11 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 12 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 13 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
14 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 15 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
16 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 17 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 18 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
19 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 20 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
21 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 22 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
23 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 24 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 25 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
26 (STR #3421)
14026560 27 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 28 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 29 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 30 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
31 state.
41dc2e8d 32 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
33 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 34 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 35 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 36 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
37 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 38 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
39 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 40 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
41 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 42 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
43 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
44 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 45 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
46 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 47 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
48 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 49 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
50 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 51 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
52 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 53 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
54
55
2c7c8794 56CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
57
faee5ab9 58 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
59 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
60 STR #3401)
2197464b 61 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 62 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
63 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 64 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
65 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 66 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
67 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 68 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
69 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 70 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
71 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 72 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
73 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 74 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 75 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 76 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
77 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 78 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
79 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 80 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
81 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 82 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 83 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 84 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
85 SNMP implementations.
86
87
6c472821 88CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
89
e0b93db4 90 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 91 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
92 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 93 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 94 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 95 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
96 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 97 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
98 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 99 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 100 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 101 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 102 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
103 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 104 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
105 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 106 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 107 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
108 STR #3305)
74e726de 109 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 110 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 111 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
112 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 113 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
114 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 115 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
116 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 117 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
118 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 119 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
120 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 121 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
122 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 123
124
125CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
126
127 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
128 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
129 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
130 filter (STR #3278)
131 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
132 (STR #3277)
133 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
134 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
135 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
136 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
137 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
138 queues (STR #3258)
139 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
140 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
141 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
142 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
143 cases (STR #3253)
144 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
145 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
146 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
147 SNMP query.
148 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
149 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
150 templates (STR #3229)
151 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
152 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
153 performance.
154 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
155 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
156 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
157 for consistency.
158 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
159 reason on all platforms.
160
161
162CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
163
164 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
165 (STR #3212)
166 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
167 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
168 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
169 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
170 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
171 variables (STR #3210)
172 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
173 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
174 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
175 for print jobs.
176 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
177 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
178 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
179 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
180 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
181 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
182 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
183 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
184 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
185 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
186 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
187 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
188 that cupstestppd looks for...)
189 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
190 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
191 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
192 pages when a job was canceled or held.
193
194
195CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
196
197 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
198 STR #3173)
199 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
200 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
201 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
202 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
203 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
204 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
205 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
206 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
207 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
208 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
209 (STR #2624)
210 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
211 failed print jobs.
212 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
213 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
214 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
215 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
216 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
217 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
218 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
219 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
220 (STR #3171)
221 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
222 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
223 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
224 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
225 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
226 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
227 all work.
228 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
229 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
230 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
231 lack of kernel buffers.
232 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
233 while copying print data to a temporary file.
234 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
235 causing reduced performance in some situations.
236 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
237 would hang on the client.
238 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
239 work (STR #3132)
240 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
241 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
242 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
243 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
244 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
245 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
246 filenames in the PPD file.
247 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
248 values.
249 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
250 devices (STR #3108)
251 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
252 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
253 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
254 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
255 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
256 permissions.
257 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
258 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
259 device URI.
260 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
261 seconds.
262 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
263 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
264 them failed.
265 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
266 status operations.
267 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
268 keywords.
269 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
270 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
271 often unreliable.
272 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
273 "crashed".
274 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
275 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
276 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
277 printer had other reasons associated with it.
278 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
279 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
280 (STR #3084)
281 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
282 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
283 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
284 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
285 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
286 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
287 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
288 printer discovery (STR #3065)
289 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
290 in length (STR #3072)
291 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
292 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
293 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
294 printers with no specified colorspace.
295 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
296 file on Mac OS X.
297 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
298 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
299 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
300 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
301 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
302 for some PPDs.
303 - The ppdi utility did not work.
304 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
305 web browsers (STR #3049)
306 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
307 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
308 options.
309 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
310 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
311 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
312 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
313 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
314 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
315 present in most PPD files.
316 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
317 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
318 its jobs.
319 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
320 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
321 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
322 printers.
323 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
324 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
325 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
326 when a job finished.
327
328
329CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
330
331 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
332 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
333 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
334 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
335 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
336 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
337 rather than copying them whenever possible.
338 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
339 options implementations.
340 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
341 attributes.
342 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
343 was set to False in the PPD file.
344 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
345 and network backends (STR #3014)
346 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
347 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
348 attributes.
349 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
350 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
351 parameter.
352 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
353 --exclude-schemes options.
354 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
355 and exclude-schemes attributes.
356 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
357 attribute.
358 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
359 option called "fit-to-page".
360 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
361 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
362 prevent race conditions.
363 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
364 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
365 CUPS 1.1.x.
366 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
367 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
368 catalogs (STR #2990)
369 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
370 (STR #2989)
371 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
372 variable when running filters.
373 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
374 have all stopped.
375 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
376 progress messages.
377
378
379CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
380
381 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
382 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
383 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
384 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
385 (STR #2863)
386 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
387 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
388 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
389 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
390 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
391 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
392 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
393 (STR #1293)
394 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
395 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
396 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
397 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
398 levels.
399 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
400 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
401 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
402 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
403 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
404 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
405 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
406 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
407 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
408 of printer options (STR #1440)
409 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
410 form.
411 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
412 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
413 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
414 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
415 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
416 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
417 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
418 file (STR #2799)
419 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
420 command (STR #2562)
421 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
422 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
423 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
424 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
425 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
426 Google (STR #2882)
427 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
428 default server (STR #2833)
429 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
430 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
431 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
432 (STR #2923)
433 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
434 (STR #2848)
435 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
436 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
437 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
438 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
439 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
440 print jobs (STR #2482)
441 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
442 values.
443 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
444 track the progress of individual pages.
445 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
446 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
447 command, when available (STR #2724)
448 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
449 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
450 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
451 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
452 file as errors (STR #2616)
453 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
454 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
455 an error (STR #2555)
456 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
457 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
458 continue further (STR #2101)
459 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
460 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
461 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
462 (STR #2853)
463 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
464 the physical location of a printer device.
465 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
466 device data by a backend.
467 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
468 (STR #1729)
469 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
470 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
471 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
472 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
473 to CUPS (STR #263)
474 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
475 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
476 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
477 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
478 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
479 attributes for better option conflict detection and
480 resolution.
481 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
482 256 bytes (STR #2877)
483 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
484 what is logged to the access_log file.
485 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
486 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
487 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
488 files (STR #2871)
489 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
490 information files.
491 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
492 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
493 of an attribute.
494 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
495 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
496 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
497 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
498 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
499 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
500 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
501 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
502 (STR #2738)
503 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
504 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
505 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
506 (STR #2636)
507 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
508 files (STR #2739)
509 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
510 ModelName value as the output filename.
511 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
512 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
513 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
514 standard network backends.
515 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
516 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
517 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
518 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
519 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
520 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
521 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
522 name resolution.
523 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
524 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
525 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
526 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
527 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
528 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
529 - Driver information files can now be installed in
530 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
531 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
532 than 2GB.
533 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
534 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
535 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
536 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
537 backends are polled and for how long.
538 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
539 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
540 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
541 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
542 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
543 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
544 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
545 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
546 for localization (STR #2737)
547 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
548 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
549 file.
550 - The build system has been updated to support separate
551 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
552 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
553 by default.
554 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
555 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
556 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
557 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
558 root to make the default installation more secure.
559 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
560 the localized version of a marker-names value.
561 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
562 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
563 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
564 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
565 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
566 global based on the current access policies for the
567 printer.
568 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
569 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
570 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
571 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
572 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
573 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
574 that support it (STR #2637)
575 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
576 possible.
577 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
578 attriibute to purge a specified job.
579 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
580 attributes for custom option selections.
581 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
582 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
583 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
584 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
585 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
586 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
587 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
588 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
589 on the model page (STR #2436)
590 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
591 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
592 of printers (STR #1175)
593 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
594 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
595 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
596 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
597 to filter the document from the specified job.
598 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
599 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
600 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
601 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
602 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.