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093556d7 | 1 | CHANGES.txt - 2008-09-03 |
cedfb4b7 | 2 | ------------------------ |
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5afab2da | 4 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1 |
422aa985 | 5 | |
093556d7 | 6 | - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name |
7 | value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558) | |
d5a8fca5 | 8 | - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903) |
445c9aae | 9 | - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529) |
eae98867 | 10 | - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing |
11 | print jobs (STR #2482) | |
c11fea22 | 12 | - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message |
13 | values. | |
a39d88ea | 14 | - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to |
15 | track the progress of individual pages. | |
516b355a | 16 | - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798) |
ea101cc4 | 17 | - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open |
18 | command, when available (STR #2724) | |
19 | - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794) | |
6385e0cc | 20 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the |
21 | PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745) | |
5414b004 | 22 | - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log |
23 | file as errors (STR #2616) | |
258748b6 | 24 | - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that |
25 | retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters | |
26 | an error (STR #2555) | |
acd13551 | 27 | - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user |
28 | correctly authenticates but does not have permission to | |
29 | continue further (STR #2101) | |
9e6c9b90 | 30 | - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates |
31 | (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146) | |
76d54ec8 | 32 | - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately |
33 | (STR #2853) | |
2317ac1e | 34 | - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides |
35 | the physical location of a printer device. | |
36 | - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the | |
37 | device data by a backend. | |
04709c71 | 38 | - Added support for custom options in the web interface |
39 | (STR #1729) | |
d4609d64 | 40 | - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers, |
41 | and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962) | |
51dbcdb5 | 42 | - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477) |
5faeb470 | 43 | - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access |
44 | to CUPS (STR #263) | |
2c4bed11 | 45 | - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API. |
46 | - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3, | |
47 | cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes. | |
48 | - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs. | |
987c3d49 | 49 | - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver |
50 | attributes for better option conflict detection and | |
51 | resolution. | |
5298b60b | 52 | - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to |
53 | 256 bytes (STR #2877) | |
e1606ecf | 54 | - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control |
55 | what is logged to the access_log file. | |
d7e5dcfa | 56 | - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce |
57 | the amount of logging that is done to disk by default. | |
bd4a75c3 | 58 | - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD |
59 | files (STR #2871) | |
60 | - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver | |
61 | information files. | |
d11f579d | 62 | - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575) |
8f189c6c | 63 | - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version |
64 | of an attribute. | |
5ca995ba | 65 | - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719) |
66 | - The standard MIME types are now installed in | |
67 | DataDir/mime (STR #2719) | |
74fc878b | 68 | - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and |
69 | the necessary parameters (STR #2660) | |
e102f4c1 | 70 | - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese |
71 | or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851) | |
3c344ca6 | 72 | - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes |
73 | (STR #2738) | |
74 | - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in | |
75 | the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754) | |
604cabd7 | 76 | - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives |
77 | (STR #2636) | |
18d049b0 | 78 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD |
79 | files (STR #2739) | |
80 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the | |
81 | ModelName value as the output filename. | |
82 | - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to | |
83 | set an alternate output filename (STR #2740) | |
1e1d7a78 | 84 | - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the |
85 | standard network backends. | |
e1018101 | 86 | - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to |
87 | control the format of lines in the page_log file. | |
dab136f6 | 88 | - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD |
89 | keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing. | |
ad9fc101 | 90 | - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers |
91 | that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour) | |
92 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service | |
93 | name resolution. | |
94 | - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for | |
95 | all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674) | |
96 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based | |
97 | page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655) | |
c86a789f | 98 | - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what |
99 | PJL commands are used to display the job information. | |
b3c7c574 | 100 | - Driver information files can now be installed in |
101 | /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X. | |
3ada82ef | 102 | - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger |
103 | than 2GB. | |
5f8fccd6 | 104 | - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to |
105 | reduce disk activity (STR #2684) | |
5127c948 | 106 | - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the |
107 | exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which | |
108 | backends are polled and for how long. | |
f2b9668b | 109 | - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in |
110 | parallel to get the list of devices faster. | |
01e95b34 | 111 | - Added --enable-pap configure option. |
9387aaf1 | 112 | - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated" |
113 | policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs. | |
27a22dc8 | 114 | - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files |
115 | (STR #2735, STR #2736) | |
a1749f01 | 116 | - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files |
117 | for localization (STR #2737) | |
b6c39946 | 118 | - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N |
119 | when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD | |
120 | file. | |
ad63a394 | 121 | - The build system has been updated to support separate |
122 | installation of data, program, header, and library files. | |
123 | - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries | |
124 | by default. | |
f4eb7264 | 125 | - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X. |
5ba153ab | 126 | - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support |
127 | SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655) | |
6e170fd5 | 128 | - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to |
129 | root to make the default installation more secure. | |
89fa13e0 | 130 | - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get |
131 | the localized version of a marker-names value. | |
f25c5b34 | 132 | - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name |
133 | attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour. | |
e1c806ac | 134 | - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler |
135 | pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471) | |
6bfb0a3d | 136 | - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or |
137 | global based on the current access policies for the | |
138 | printer. | |
e0e669c6 | 139 | - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last |
140 | used printer preference on Mac OS X. | |
36883182 | 141 | - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261) |
ab7730df | 142 | - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS |
143 | library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638) | |
9dad4dd8 | 144 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems |
145 | that support it (STR #2637) | |
fc988006 | 146 | - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when |
147 | possible. | |
f6f37a30 | 148 | - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job |
149 | attriibute to purge a specified job. | |
be140c52 | 150 | - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency |
151 | attributes for custom option selections. | |
8a56c565 | 152 | - The web interface now enables/disables the printer |
153 | sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the | |
154 | server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233) | |
155 | - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the | |
156 | server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD | |
157 | and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233) | |
a25365e1 | 158 | - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/ |
159 | manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver | |
160 | on the model page (STR #2436) | |
256e92ca | 161 | - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and |
162 | duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities | |
163 | of printers (STR #1175) | |
164 | - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492) | |
87889b42 | 165 | - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation |
166 | that returns the specified print job document (STR #118) | |
167 | - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option | |
168 | to filter the document from the specified job. | |
cd0b47e5 | 169 | - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to |
170 | do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003) | |
bbf1b8dd | 171 | - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to |
172 | cache PPDs safely (STR #1473) | |
cd0b47e5 | 173 | - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs. |
422aa985 | 174 |