4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.12
6 - The PHP cups_print_file() function crashed if the options
7 array contained non-string option values (STR #2430)
8 - The image/tiff file matching rule incorrectly identified
9 some text files as TIFF files (STR #2431)
10 - The filter(7) man page incorrectly documented the
11 "PAGE: total #-pages" message (STR #2427)
12 - PCL text files were mis-identified as HP-GL/2 and
13 caused the HP-GL/2 filter to hang (STR #2423)
14 - When printing to a queue with user ACLs, the scheduler
15 incorrectly returned a quota error instead of a "not
16 allowed to print" error (STR #2409)
17 - cupsaddsmb could get in a loop if no printer drivers
18 were installed (STR #2407)
19 - cupsRasterReadHeader() did not byte-swap the header
20 properly when compiled with certain versions of GCC.
21 - The IPP backend did not send the document-format
22 attribute for filtered jobs (STR #2411)
23 - Some PPD files could cause a crash in ppdOpen2 (STR
25 - The web admin interface incorrectly handled the "share
26 printers" and "show remote printers" settings (STR
28 - The scheduler's log messages about AuthClass and
29 AuthGroupName advised using a replacement directive but
30 had the wrong syntax (STR #2400)
31 - Updated the PostScript/PJL and HP-GL/2 MIME rules to
32 look in the first 4k of the file, not just the first 1k
34 - Updated the Italian localization (STR #2382)
37 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.11
39 - Fixed the "relaying from" log message (STR #2376)
40 - Updated the launchd support on Mac OS X to better
41 support reconfiguration.
42 - "make distclean" didn't remove all generated files
44 - Fixed a bug in the advertisement of classes (STR
46 - The IPP backend now stays running until the job is
47 actually printed by the remote server; previously
48 it would stop monitoring the job if it was held or
49 temporarily stopped (STR #2352)
50 - PDF files were not always printed using the correct
51 orientation (STR #2348)
52 - The scheduler could crash if you specified a bad file:
53 URI for a printer (STR #2351)
54 - The Renew-Subscription operation now returns the
55 notify-lease-duration value that was used (STR #2346)
56 - The IPP backend sent job options to IPP printers,
57 however some printers tried to override the options
58 embedded in the PS/PCL stream with those job options
60 - ppdLocalize() now also tries a country-specific
61 localization for when localizing to a generic locale
63 - The cupstestppd program now allows for partial
64 localizations to reduce the size of universal PPD
66 - Chinese PPD files were incorrectly tagged with the
67 "cn" locale (should have been "zh")
68 - The backends now manage the printer-state-reasons
69 attribute more accurately (STR #2345)
70 - Java, PHP, Perl, and Python scripts did not work
72 - The scheduler would take forever to start if the
73 maximum number of file descriptors was set to
74 "unlimited" (STR #2329)
75 - The page-ranges option was incorrectly applied to the
76 banner pages (STR #2336)
77 - Fixed some GCC compile warnings (STR #2340)
78 - The DBUS notification code was broken for older
79 versions of DBUS (STR #2327)
80 - The IPv6 code did not compile on HP-UX 11.23 (STR
82 - PPD constraints did not work properly with custom
84 - Regular PPD options with the name "CustomFoo" did
86 - The USB backend did not work on NetBSD (STR #2324)
87 - The printer-state-reasons attribute was incorrectly
88 cleared after a job completed (STR #2323)
89 - The scheduler did not set the printer operation policy
90 on startup, only on soft reload (STR #2319)
91 - The AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot option did not clear any
92 ManualFeed setting that was made, which caused problems
93 with some PPD files (STR #2318)
94 - cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() did not abort
95 when getting an error in the response (STR #2315)
96 - The scheduler did not schedule jobs properly to remote
97 or nested classes (STR #2317)
98 - Updated the mime.types and mime.convs headers to warn
99 that the files are overwritten when CUPS is installed.
100 Local changes should go in local.types or local.convs,
101 respectively (STR #2310)
102 - The scheduler could get in an infinite loop if a
103 printer in an implicit class disappeared (STR #2311)
104 - The pstops filter did not handle %%EndFeature comments
106 - Fixed a problem with the Polish web page printer icons
108 - ppdLocalize() now also localizes the cupsICCProfile
110 - The scheduler still had a reference to the incorrect
111 "notify-recipient" attribute (STR #2307)
112 - The "make check" and "make test" subscription tests did
113 not set the locale (STR #2307)
114 - The "make check" and "make test" subscription tests
115 incorrectly used the notify-recipient attribute instead
116 of notify-recipient-uri (STR #2307)
117 - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() incorrectly limited the
118 cupsBorderlessScalingFactor when specified in the
122 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.10
124 - ppdLocalize() now supports localizing for Japanese
125 using the "jp" locale name used by the ppdmerge
126 program from the CUPS DDK 1.1.0 (STR #2301)
127 - _cupsAdminSetServerSettings() did not support changing
128 of top-level directives as designed.
129 - The init script path check was broken.
130 - CUPS incorrectly used the attribute "notify-recipient"
131 instead of "notify-recicpient-uri" in several places
133 - Fixed a configure script bug on MirBSD (STR #2294)
134 - The pdftops filter did not limit the amount of recursion
135 of page sets (STR #2293)
136 - Custom page sizes with fractional point sizes did not
138 - The lpoptions command would crash when adding or removing
139 options on a system with no printers (STR #2295)
142 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.9
144 - The scheduler did not use the default job-sheets
145 (banners) for implicit classes (STR #2284)
146 - The scheduler could crash when listing complete jobs
147 that had been unloaded from memory (STR #2288)
148 - The French localization was doubled up (STR #2287)
149 - Build system fixes for several platforms (STR #2260,
151 - The scheduler's openssl certificate generation code was
152 broken on some platforms (STR #2282)
153 - The scheduler's log rotation check for devices was
155 - The LPD mini-daemon did not handle the document-format
156 option correctly (STR #2266)
157 - The pdftops filter ignored the "match" size option in the
158 pdftops.conf file (STR #2285)
159 - cupstestppd now validates UTF-8 text strings in
160 globalized PPD files (STR #2283)
161 - The outputorder=reverse option did not work with all
163 - Classes containing other classes did not always work
165 - Printer location and description information was lost
166 if the corresponding string contained the "#" character
168 - cupsRemoveOption() did not work properly (STR #2264)
169 - The USB backend did not work with some USB to parallel
171 - The test page did not print the rulers properly on
172 large media sizes (STR #2252)
173 - The text filter could crash when pretty printing certain
174 types of files (STR #2158)
177 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.8
179 - Documentation fixes (STR #2141, STR #2157)
180 - The HTTP upgrade redirection used by the scheduler did
181 not work with Internet Explorer (STR #2235)
182 - Members of a class with Unicode names did not appear
183 correctly in the web interface (STR #2154)
184 - Changing the "Save debugging information" setting in
185 the web interface no longer affects the other server
187 - The scheduler did not choose SSL certificates correctly
188 on Mac OS X (STR #2225)
189 - The scheduler could get in an infinite loop when
190 printing to a remote class (STR #2228)
191 - The jobs web page did not have separating space after
192 the number of pages column (STR #2230)
193 - Added French localization (STR #2221)
194 - Updated Spanish localization (STR #2223)
195 - Updated Japanese localization (STR #2216)
196 - cupsBorderlessScalingFacter was limited to a range of
197 0.9 to 1.1, but some printers need larger values (STR
199 - Landscape printing of PDF files did not always work
201 - Fixed slow USB printing on Minolta printers (STR #2104,
203 - The ZPL label printer driver could produce stretched
205 - The IPP backend now clears the printer-state-message
206 when there are no outstanding errors or warnings (STR
208 - The CUPS Java scripting support did not work with
209 recent versions of Java due to the use of Sun's private
210 Base64 class (STR #2152)
211 - The scheduler did not pass HTTP GET form variables to
212 custom CGI programs (STR #2173)
213 - The lpoptions command now displays the reason why a PPD
214 file cannot be found (STR #2184)
215 - The scheduler did not accept "none" as a browse
216 protocol name (STR #2200)
217 - The scheduler still loaded the remote printer cache,
218 even when browsing was disabled (STR #2198)
219 - The SNMP backend now shows OfficeJet printers with the
220 "HP" manufacturer prefix (STR #2151)
221 - Web interface HTML cleanup (STR #2153)
222 - The parallel backend consumed 100% CPU on FreeBSD due
223 to an apparently common parallel port driver bug (STR
225 - ippReadIO() incorrectly returned IPP_IDLE when the
226 initial IPP message header could not be read (STR
228 - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() did not support custom options
230 - Collated output produced by the PostScript filter could
231 lose some options (STR #2137)
232 - job-hold-until with time values for the next day would
233 be held for 60 days (STR #2144)
234 - Some types of Sun raster files did not print correctly
236 - Raw PBM files did not print correctly (STR #2106)
237 - The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP with HP printers,
238 as some recent firmware versions appear to not work
240 - cupsMarkOptions() did not handle the
241 multiple-document-handling option (STR #2135)
242 - lpstat did not show the local job ID of active printers
244 - The backends incorrectly used STATUS:
245 media-tray-empty-error messages for out-of-paper
246 conditions (STR #2123, STR #2124)
247 - cupsGetPPD2() returned the wrong error when the PPD
248 file did not exist (STR #2122)
249 - cupsDoAuthentication() did not translate the password
251 - httpGetLength2() did not handle error messages without
252 content correctly (STR #2133)
253 - Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX Itanium
255 - Fixed a configure script problem with the 32/64-bit
256 library support (STR #2114)
257 - The PostScript filter did not properly output document
258 setup commands for reversed output (STR #2111)
259 - The scheduler did not parse IPv6 netmasks properly (STR
263 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.7
265 - Documentation updates (STR #2089)
266 - Added an Italian translation (STR #2105)
267 - The PostScript filter now rotates the bounding box
268 values as needed (STR #2079)
269 - The scheduler no longer loads the remote printer cache
270 when browsing is disabled (STR #2084)
271 - The scheduler no longer writes a new launchd
272 configuration file if it doesn't have to (STR #2083)
273 - Updated the USB and PAP backends for Mac OS X (STR
275 - The scheduler now picks up on changes to IPv6 and DNS
276 configuration on Mac OS X (STR #2085)
277 - The lpstat program could still hang (STR #2098)
278 - Fixed an inefficiency in the SNMP IPP detection code
280 - The SSL negotiation code did not implement short
284 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.6
286 - The web interface was not localized on Mac OS X (STR
288 - "lpc status" did not show the number of queued jobs for
289 disabled queues (STR #2069)
290 - The lpstat program could hang (STR #2073)
291 - The serial backend did not support the new USB serial
292 filenames on Linux (STR #2061)
293 - The parallel backend did not support bidirectional I/O
295 - The network backends now log the numeric address that
296 is being used (STR #2046)
297 - Fixed a compile error when using libpaper.
298 - Fixed a compile error when compiling on Solaris with
299 threading enabled (STR #2049, STR #2050)
300 - Missing printer-state-changed event for
301 printer-state-message updates (STR #2047)
304 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.5
306 - Documentation updates (STR #2038)
307 - The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP for Epson printers
309 - Updated the configure script for Tru64 UNIX 5.1 (STR
311 - Tru64 5.1B's getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() functions
312 leak file descriptors (STR #2034)
313 - cupsAddDest() didn't add the parent destination's
314 options and attributes.
315 - ppdConflicts() did not handle custom option
317 - Raw printing of gzip'd files did not work (STR #2009)
318 - The scheduler no longer preserves default option
319 choices when the new PPD no longer provides the old
320 default choice (STR #1929)
321 - The Linux SCSI backend is now only built if the SCSI
322 development headers are installed.
323 - USB printing to Minolta printers did not work (STR
325 - Windows clients could not monitor the queue status (STR
327 - The scheduler didn't log the operation name in the
328 access_log file for Create-Job and Print-Job requests.
329 - The PostScript filter now separates collated copies
330 with any required JCL commands so that JCL-based
331 finishing options act on the individual copies and not
332 all of the copies as a single document.
333 - The PostScript filter now disables duplex printing when
334 printing a 1-page document.
335 - cups-lpd didn't pass the correct
336 job-originating-host-name value (STR #2023)
337 - Fixed some speling errors in the German message catalog
339 - cupstestppd did not catch PPD files with bad
340 UIConstraints values (STR #2016)
341 - The USB backend did not work with the current udev-
342 created printers if the first printer was disconnected
344 - Mirrored and rotated printing did not work with some
345 documents (STR #2004)
346 - 2-sided printing with banners did not work properly on
347 some printers (STR #2018)
348 - Updated the raw type rule to handle PJL within the
349 first 4k of a print job (STR #1969)
350 - Added an Estonian translation (STR #1957)
351 - Clarified the documentation for the cupsd.conf @LOCAL
352 and @IF(name) allow/deny functionality (STR #1992)
353 - The PostScript filters did not escape the Title and For
354 comments in the print job header (STR #1988)
355 - The scheduler would use 100% CPU if browsing was
356 disabled and the cupsd.conf file contained BrowsePoll
358 - The cupsDirRead() function did not work properly on
359 non-POSIX-compliant systems (STR #2001)
360 - The cupsFile functions didn't handle read/write errors
362 - The DBUS support now works with older versions of the
366 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.4
368 - The --with-printcap configure option did not work (STR
370 - The character set reported by cupsLangGet() did not
371 always reflect the default character set of a given
373 - Older Lexmark and Tektronix printers did not work with
375 - Failsafe printing did not work (PR #6328)
376 - Some web interface redirects did not work (STR #1978)
377 - The web interface change settings button could
378 introduce a "Port 0" line in cupsd.conf if there was no
379 loopback connection available (STR #1979)
380 - The web interface change settings and edit
381 configuration file buttons would truncate the
382 cupsd.conf file (STR #1976)
383 - The German web interface used the wrong printer icon
385 - The "All Documents" link in the on-line help was
386 missing a trailing slash (STR #1971)
387 - The Polish web interface translation used the wrong
388 URLs for the job history (STR #1963)
389 - The "reprint job" button did not work (STR #1956)
390 - The scheduler did not always report printer or job
391 events properly (STR #1955)
392 - The scheduler always stopped the queue on error,
393 regardless of the exit code, if the error policy was
394 set to "stop-printer" (STR #1959)
395 - ppdEmitJCL() included UTF-8 characters in the JCL job
396 name, which caused problems on some printers (STR
398 - Fixed a buffering problem that cause high CPU usage
400 - The command-line applications did not convert
401 command-line strings to UTF-8 as needed (STR #1958)
402 - cupsDirRead() incorrectly aborted when reading a
403 symbolic link that pointed to a file/directory that did
404 not exist (STR #1953)
405 - The cupsInterpretRasterPPD() function did not handle
406 custom page sizes properly.
409 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.3
411 - The scheduler did not send job-state or
412 job-config-changed events when a job was held,
413 released, or changed (STR #1947)
414 - The scheduler now aborts if the configuration file and
415 directory checks fail (STR #1941)
416 - Fixed a problem with ippPort() not using the port
417 number that was set via the client.conf file or
418 CUPS_SERVER environment variable (STR #1945)
419 - HTTP headers were not buffered (STR #1899)
420 - Some IPP printers (HP) did not like UTF-8 job names
422 - The CUPS desktop icon is now localized for Polish (STR
424 - Printer options were not always honored when printing
425 from Windows clients (STR #1839)
426 - The openssl command would lock up the scheduler when
427 generating an encryption certificate on some platforms
428 due to a lack of entropy for the random number
429 generator (STR #1876)
430 - The web admin page did not recognize that "Listen 631"
431 enabled remote access (STR #1908)
432 - The web admin page did not check whether changes were
433 made to the Basic Server Settings check boxes (STR
435 - The IPP backend could generate N*N copies in certain
437 - The scheduler did not restore remote printers properly
438 when BrowseShortNames was enabled (STR #1893)
439 - Polling did not handle changes to the network
440 environment on Mac OS X (STR #1896)
441 - The "make test" subscription tests used invalid
442 notify-recipient-uri values (STR #1910)
443 - Printers could be left in an undefined state on system
445 - The Berkeley and System V commands did not always use
446 the expected character set (STR #1915)
447 - Remote printing fixes (STR #1881)
448 - The cupstestppd utility did not validate translation
449 strings for custom options properly.
450 - Multi-language PPD files were not properly localized in
451 the web interface (STR #1913)
452 - The admin page's simple settings options did not check
453 for local domain socket or IPv6 addresses and did not
454 use "localhost" as the listen address.
455 - An empty BrowseProtocols, BrowseLocalProtocols, or
456 BrowseRemoteProtocols line would crash the scheduler
457 instead of disabling the corresponding browsing options.
458 - The scheduler now logs IPP operation status as debug
459 messages instead of info or error.
460 - cupsFileRewind() didn't clear the end-of-file state.
461 - cupstestppd didn't report the actual misspelling of the
462 1284DeviceID attribute (STR #1849)
463 - BrowseRelay didn't work on Debian (STR #1887)
464 - configure --without-languages didn't work (STR #1879)
465 - Manually added remote printers did not work (STR #1881)
466 - The <cups/backend.h> header was not installed.
467 - Updated the build files for Autoconf 2.60 (STR #1853)
468 - The scheduler incorrectly terminated the polling
469 processes after receiving a partial log line.
470 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon reported "No printer-state
471 attribute found" errors when reporting the queue status
472 (PR #6250, STR #1821)
473 - SNMP backend improvements (STR #1737, STR #1742, STR
474 #1790, STR #1835, STR #1880)
475 - The scheduler erroneously reported an error with the
477 - Fixed HP-UX compile problems (STR #1858, STR #1859)
478 - cupstestppd crashed with some PPD files (STR #1864)
479 - The <cups/dir.h> and <cups/file.h> header files did not
483 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.2
485 - Documentation updates (STR #1765, STR #1780)
486 - CUPS didn't know about alternate character set names
487 for Asian text (STR #1819)
488 - The lpoptions -o and -r options did not work unless you
490 - The lpoptions command incorrectly allowed users to set
491 printer attributes like printer-type (STR #1791)
492 - httpWait() did not flush the write buffer, causing "bad
493 request" errors when communicating with CUPS 1.1.x
495 - Polling did not sanitize the printer description,
496 location, or make and model strings like broadcasts
498 - Polled printers did not show the server's default
499 job-sheets option value.
500 - The Samba password prompt was not properly localized
502 - Added a German translation (STR #1842)
503 - The scheduler now creates self-signed SSL certficates
504 automatically when using OpenSSL and CDSA for
505 encryption, just as for GNU TLS.
506 - The SNMP backend sporatically reported some printers as
507 "unknown" (STR #1774)
508 - The scheduler now forces BrowseTimeout to be at least
509 twice the BrowseInterval value and non-zero to avoid
510 common configuration errors.
511 - The scheduler incorrectly returned printer URIs of the
512 form "ipp://server/printers/classname" for classes (STR
514 - Updated Japanese localization (STR #1805)
515 - The scheduler's SSL certificate/key directory was not
516 created on installation (STR #1788)
517 - Added a mailto.conf man page and help page (STR #1754)
518 - The parallel and USB backends no longer wait for the
519 printer to go on-line - this caused problems with
520 certain printers that don't follow with the IEEE-1284
522 - The scheduler could crash on a reload when implicit
523 classes were present (STR #1828)
524 - The IPP backend incorrectly used the CUPS_ENCRYPTION
525 environment variable to determine the default
526 encryption mode when printing (STR #1820)
527 - USB printing did not work on Solaris (STR #1756)
528 - The scheduler sorted job priorities in the wrong order
530 - The scheduler did not automatically restart notifiers
531 that exited or crashed (STR #1793)
532 - IPv6 support did not work on NetBSD (STR #1834)
533 - The EPM packaging file did not work (STR #1804)
534 - The scheduler used up the CPU if BrowseRemoteProtocols
535 was empty (STR #1792)
536 - Custom page sizes did not work (STR #1787)
537 - The SNMP backend could crash on some systems when SNMP
538 logging was enabled (STR #1789)
539 - Browsing could produce some funny printer names when
540 ServerName was set to an IP address (STR #1799)
541 - Fixed the log message for BrowseRelay (STR #1798)
542 - Fixes to allow CUPS to compile on MirBSD (STR #1796)
543 - The scheduler incorrectly set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
544 environment variable (STR #1795)
545 - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded a "produced by"
546 comment, causing PDF printing not to work on some
547 operating systems (STR #1801)
548 - Sending raw jobs from a client system could cause the
549 client's scheduler to eventually crash (STR #1786)
550 - The scheduler now checks that the notifier exists prior
551 to accepting a new subscription request.
552 - The scheduler now reports the supported
553 notify-recipient schemes based on the contents of the
554 ServerBin/notifier directory.
555 - Event notifications did not include the
556 notify-sequence-number or other required attributes
558 - Allow/Deny addresses of the form "11.22.33.*" did not
559 work on Linux (STR #1769)
560 - cupsGetPPD() did not work if the scheduler was only
561 listening on a domain socket (STR #1766)
562 - The scheduler could crash advertising a class (STR
564 - The scheduler could crash if the default printer was
566 - Added a new default CUPS raster format (v3) which does
567 not compress the raster stream in order to provide the
568 same cupsRasterReadPixels() and cupsRasterWritePixels()
569 performance as CUPS 1.1.x.
570 - The cupsaddsmb man page listed the wrong files for the
572 - Some configure --with options did not work (STR #1746)
573 - "Allow @IF(name)" didn't work if "name" wasn't the
574 first network interface (STR #1758)
575 - The lpstat command did not use the correct character
576 set when reporting the date and time (STR #1751)
577 - The cupsaddsmb command and web interface did not update
578 the Windows PPD files properly, resulting in corrupt
579 PPD files for the Windows client to use (STR #1750)
580 - The cupsd.conf man page didn't describe the Listen
581 domain socket syntax (STR #1753)
582 - The scheduler no longer tries to support more than
583 FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
584 - CDSA (encryption) support fixes for MacOS X.
585 - The lppasswd program needs to be setuid to root to
586 create and update the /etc/cups/passwd.md5 file (STR
588 - 32/64-bit library installation was broken (STR #1741)
589 - The USB backend now reports a "no such device" error
590 when using the old filename-based USB URIs instead of
592 - Increased the HTTP and IPP read timeouts to 10 seconds,
593 as 1 second was too short on congested networks (STR
595 - The SNMP backend now uses the device description over
596 the printer-make-and-model attribute when the attribute
597 contains a generic name (STR #1728)
598 - Fixed another file descriptor leak when printing raw
600 - Raw queues were not shared via LDAP (STR #1739)
601 - The pstops filter didn't always embed PageSetup
602 commands from the PPD file (STR #1740)
603 - "make install" didn't work if you disabled all of the
605 - The scheduler didn't always choose the least costly
607 - Fixed parsing of IPv6 addresses in Allow, Deny,
608 BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, and BrowseRelay directives
610 - Printers that were shared via LDAP did not get added to
611 the LDAP server properly (STR #1733)
612 - LDAP browsing would crash the scheduler if a required
613 value was missing (STR #1731)
614 - Special cases for the "localhost" hostname did not
615 work, causing printing to not work when the /etc/hosts
616 file did not contain a localhost entry (STR #1723)
617 - Updated the Spanish translation (STR #1720, STR #1770)
618 - Reverse-order page output was broken when N-up or
619 landscape orientations were used (STR #1725)
620 - The parallel, serial, socket, and USB backends needed
621 print data before they would report back-channel data,
622 causing problems with several new drivers (STR #1724)
625 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.1
627 - "lprm -h hostname" did not work (STR #1800)
628 - The web interface did not handle reloads properly for
630 - The configure script no longer adds linker rpath
631 options when they are unnecessary.
632 - The scheduler could crash printing a debug message on
634 - The --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure options
636 - The password prompt showed the domain socket address
637 instead of "localhost" for local authentication (STR
639 - The web interface filtered the list of printers even if
640 the user wasn't logged in (STR #1700)
641 - The IPP backend did not work reliably with some Xerox
643 - Trailing banners were not added when printing a single
645 - The web interface support programs crashed on Solaris
647 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported problems with
648 *1284DeviceID attributes (STR #1710)
649 - Browsing could get disabled after a restart (STR #1670)
650 - Custom page sizes were not parsed properly (STR #1709)
651 - The -U option wasn't supported by lpadmin (STR #1702)
652 - The -u option didn't work with lpadmin (STR #1703)
653 - The scheduler did not create non-blocking back-channel
654 pipes, which caused problems when the printer driver
655 did not read the back-channel data (STR #1705)
656 - The scheduler no longer uses chunking in responses to
657 clients - this caused problems with older versions of
658 CUPS like 1.1.17 (PR #6143)
659 - Automatic raw printing was broken (STR #1667)
660 - 6-up printing was broken (STR #1697)
661 - The pstops filter did not disable CTRL-D processing on
663 - ppdOpen*() did not load custom options properly (STR
665 - "Set Printer Options" in the web interface did not
666 update the DefaultImageableArea or
667 DefaultPaperDimension attributes in the PPD file (STR
669 - Fixed compile errors (STR #1682, STR #1684, STR #1685,
671 - The lpstat command displayed the wrong error message
672 for a missing destination (STR #1683)
673 - Revised and completed the Polish translation (STR
675 - Stopped jobs did not show up in the list of active jobs
677 - The configure script did not use the GNU TLS
678 "libgnutls-config" script to find the proper compiler
680 - The imagetoraster filter did not correctly generate
681 several 1, 2, and 4-bit color modes.
682 - cupsRasterWritePixels() could lose track of the current
684 - cupsRasterReadPixels() did not automatically swap
685 12/16-bit chunked pixel data.
686 - Moved the private _cups_raster_s structure out of the
688 - Updated the CUPS raster format specification to include
689 encoding rules and colorspace definitions.
690 - The Zebra PPD files had the wrong PostScript code for
691 the "default" option choices.
692 - The imagetoraster filter did not generate correct CIE
693 XYZ or Lab color data.
694 - The cups-config script did not work when invoked from a
695 source directory (STR #1673)
696 - The SNMP backend did not compile on systems that used
697 the getifaddrs emulation functions (STR #1668)
700 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.0
702 - Documentation updates (STR #1618, STR #1620, STR #1622,
704 - Static file copy buffers reduced from 64k to 32k to
705 work around bogus MallocDebug library assumptions (STR
707 - The scheduler did not decode the backend exit code
709 - The MacOS X USB backend did not report the 1284 device ID,
710 nor did it fix device IDs returned by HP printers.
711 - The scheduler started more slowly than 1.1.x with large
712 numbers of printers (STR #1653)
713 - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() didn't support the
714 cupsPreferredBitsPerColor attribute, and imagetoraster
715 didn't use the new API.
716 - The "make test" script did not create all of the necessary
717 subdirectories for testing (STR #1638)
718 - The scheduler did not prevent rotation of logs
719 redirected to /dev/null (STR #1651)
720 - "make test" did not include the SNMP backend in the
721 test environment (STR #1625)
722 - The EPM packaging files did not work (STR #1621)
723 - "Use Default Configuration" inserted a broken
724 configuration file (STR #1624)
725 - Redirects in the web interface did not always preserve
726 the encrypted status of a connection (STR #1603)
727 - Added the Apple "pap" backend.
728 - Added CUPS library to CUPS Image shared library
729 linkage to support Linux --as-needed linker option
731 - Fixed support for --enable-pie (STR #1609)
732 - The pdftops filter did not validate the length of the
733 encryption key (STR #1608)
734 - Updated the Polish localization.
735 - "Encryption Required" in the cupsd.conf file now only
736 requires encryption when the connection is not over the
737 loopback interface or domain socket.
738 - Printer names containing "+" were not quoted properly in
739 the web interface (STR #1600)
740 - The SNMP backend now reports the make and model in the
741 information string so that the auto-generated printer
742 name is more useful than just an IP address.
745 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc3
747 - The cups-lpd program always did reverse lookups on the
748 client address, which could be a performance problem.
749 Added a "-n" option to disable lookups.
750 - When configured with SSL support, require encryption by
751 default when displaying the /admin location (STR #1592)
752 - The next job ID was not computed correctly if the job
753 cache file got out of sync with the spool directory
755 - The PNG image handling code used deprecated functions
756 from libpng (STR #1587)
757 - Added a Polish translation (STR #1584, STR #1586)
758 - More changes to the scheduler to improve battery life
759 on portable devices (STR #1583)
760 - Changed the default log level for status messages back
761 to "DEBUG" to be consistent with CUPS 1.1.x (STR #1579)
762 - The error string was not set properly when
763 cupsDoFileRequest() was given the name of a directory
765 - Fixed handling of job-hold-until (STR #1581)
766 - Added explicit notes to the cupsaddsmb man page
767 explaining that the driver filenames are case-sensitive
768 under UNIX and that they must be all lowercase (Windows
769 2000) or all UPPERCASE (Windows 95/98/Me) to work (STR
771 - The USB backend incorrectly split the manufacturer name
772 if it contained spaces (STR #1566)
773 - The scheduler would hang when listing PPD files for a
774 manufacturer whose name contained spaces (STR #1567)
775 - Added the SNMP backend for network printer discovery
777 - cupstestppd now fails PPD files with 1284DeviceId
778 instead of 1284DeviceID, and cups-driverd uses a
779 case-insensitive comparison when looking for it (STR
781 - cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() now work
782 properly with non-blocking HTTP connections.
783 - Added Swedish translation (STR #1569)
784 - "make install" now installs the MIME files with world
785 read permissions (STR #1565)
786 - More CDSA encryption support fixes (STR #1563)
787 - Updated the default mime.types file to support printing
788 of files that do not have a locally-recognized MIME
789 media type to raw or System V queues.
790 - Updated the serial port detection code on Linux (STR
792 - Added some more error checking to httpGetHostname()
794 - The title of some administration pages was not
795 localized (STR #1548)
796 - The edit-config.tmpl file was not generated or
797 installed for the Spanish or Japanese localizations
799 - The mimeDelete() function freed the types before the
800 filters, but the filters needed the type data (STR #1558)
801 - The scheduler didn't keep track of the status pipes
802 properly, leading to a bad select() for multi-file jobs
804 - The cupstestdsc program didn't validate the ordinal
805 page number value for %%Page: comments.
808 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc2
810 - The scheduler was not always using the string pool,
811 causing random crashes.
812 - The lpmove and the web interface's Move Job button did
813 not work with stopped jobs (STR #1534)
814 - The PostScript filter did not handle the page-set
815 option properly with number-up printing (STR #1543)
816 - The scheduler now only warns about unsupported ACLs
818 - The "fitplot" option did not work with output from
820 - The imagetops filter did not work with Level 2 or 3
822 - The scheduler now recognizes PostScript files with PJL
823 commands that do not include an ENTER LANGUAGE command.
824 - Added --with-printcap configure option.
825 - 64-bit SSL fixes for MacOS X.
826 - The scheduler didn't send some printer state change
828 - The scheduler didn't send jobs to busy remote printers.
829 - Fixed some problems with the launchd support.
830 - Added new USB printer backend for MacOS X.
831 - The PostScript filter now handles files that start with
832 an incomplete PJL header (PR #6076)
833 - The web interface language selection code did not try
834 the generic language localization (STR #1531)
835 - The language cache, string pool, and transcoding caches
836 are now process global instead of per-thread to avoid
837 problems with GNOME and to allow for data sharing
838 between threads (STR #1530)
839 - Fixed a CUPS 1.1.x compatibility bug (STR #1528)
840 - The web interface redirection after certain printer
841 administration tasks was broken (STR #1516)
842 - Web interface authorization could get stuck (STR #1512)
843 - Localization updates (STR #1513, STR #1518, STR #1520)
844 - The pstops filter didn't work with some files (STR
846 - "./configure --enable-static" didn't work (STR #1522)
847 - The scheduler was not using the configured default
849 - The web interface still did not show the localized time
850 and date for some locales and systems (STR #1509)
851 - httpAddrGetList() would crash on systems without
853 - Socket URIs without a trailing slash would cause the
854 port number to not be accepted (STR #1519)
855 - Local raw and System V printers were not advertised as
856 such for printer browsing (STR #1502)
857 - The RPM spec file incorrectly put duplicate copies of
858 the Japanese and Spanish web interface templates in the
859 main cups package (STR #1517)
860 - cupsSetDests() did not explicitly set the permissions
861 of the /etc/cups/lpoptions file (STR #1508)
862 - The lpq command crashed with the -h option (STR #1515)
865 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc1
867 - Documentation updates (STR #1497, STR #1498)
868 - The scheduler now redirects browsers to https: URLs
869 when encryption is required.
870 - The scheduler would crash when printing with a banner
872 - cups-driverd did not use the LanguageEncoding attribute
873 in PPD files to convert the NickName to UTF-8 (STR
875 - The lpadmin command could not set the
876 printer-error-policy attribute (STR #1504)
877 - The web interface did not show the time and date in the
878 correct format for the locale (STR #1505)
879 - CUPS no longer accepts print jobs if a printer does not
880 support the file format (STR #1501)
881 - Cleaned up the PostScript filter (pstops) so that it
882 properly supports %%IncludeFeature and page scaling
884 - Fixed the cupsFileRewind() and cupsFileSeek() functions
885 to work properly with uncompressed files.
886 - Added cupsFileGetLine(), cupsFileStderr(),
887 cupsFileStdin(), and cupsFileStdout() functions to the
889 - Added a new cupstestdsc program to test the DSC
890 conformance of PostScript files.
891 - Added KDE/GNOME icons and a Manage Printers menu item.
892 - Added --enable-image and --enable-pdftops configure
893 options to control whether the image and PDF filters
894 are built and installed (default = yes for all
895 platforms but MacOS X)
896 - Fixed a minor memory leak in the PPD API.
897 - Fixed transcoding issues (STR #1493)
898 - The scheduler now enforces a minimum job cost of 100
899 when doing FilterLimit checks.
900 - The scheduler would leak file descriptors when printing
901 to raw queues (STR #1491)
902 - The IPv6 support did not compile on Tru64 UNIX (STR
904 - ppdOpen2() now converts the NickName and all UI text to
906 - The Set Allowed Users web page did not work (STR #1486)
907 - When the default policy was not set or set to a non-
908 existing policy, the scheduler did not set the default
909 policy name to "default" (STR #1484)
910 - The Zebra CPCL driver did not use the correct righthand
911 margin for the 4" wide label sizes.
912 - Fixed a problem with the parsing of fractional real
913 numbers in PPD files.
914 - Added Spanish localization files (STR #1480)
915 - Fixed localization of a few scheduler messages (STR
917 - Fixed support for HEAD requests in the scheduler (STR
921 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b2
923 - Updated the CUPS design description.
924 - Added --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure
925 options to allow building of separate 32/64-bit
926 libraries on systems that support both environments
928 - Various compiler warning fixes.
929 - Fixes for Solaris 10 builds against old GNU TLS and
931 - Added a cupsArrayUserData() function to retrieve the
932 user data pointer for an array (useful for typing
934 - The ppdEmitString() function did not compute the
935 required buffer size properly, leading to dropped
936 characters on the end of the printer commands in pstops
937 and imagetops (STR #1470)
940 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b1
942 - The serial backend now supports Equinox 8-port serial
944 - The IPP backend now supports a compression option to
945 compress print files as they are sent to the remote
947 - The CUPS browse protocol now supports passing of
948 default options and browse timeout values from the
949 server to the clients (STR #800)
950 - Implicit classes that timed out could cause the
951 scheduler to crash (STR #1439)
952 - Added DragonFly support in local device backends (STR
954 - Added LDAP printer browsing support (STR #338)
955 - Added official support for printer maintenance commands
956 via the CUPS Command file format and hooks in the
957 printer-type and web interfaces (STR #932)
958 - The HP-GL/2 filter could get in an infinite loop trying
959 to convert HP-PCL files (STR #1415)
960 - CUPS now implements the HTTP/1.1 Expect header (STR
962 - Options in PPD files are no longer automatically put in
963 an "Extra" group; rather, all options that are not
964 inside an Open/CloseGroup will be placed in the
965 "General" group (STR #1385)
966 - The scheduler now creates a job-uuid attribute that
967 uniquely identifies a job on a network (STR #1410)
968 - The init script now unsets the TMPDIR environment
969 variable to prevent user temporary directories from
970 being used by cupsd accidentally (STR #1424)
971 - Added support for launchd on MacOS X.
972 - Added support for notify_post on MacOS X.
973 - Added support for DBUS on Linux.
974 - All of the Berkeley (except for lpc) and System V
975 commands now support specification of user, host, and
976 port (STR #1028, STR #1029, STR #1087)
977 - The lpmove command now allows you to move all jobs for
978 a given queue (STR #56)
979 - The web interface now supports moving of a job or jobs
980 to another queue (STR #56)
981 - The web interface now provides searching, paging, and
982 changing of the sort/display order of classes, jobs,
984 - cupsaddsmb now accepts a password on the command-line
985 and supports passwords with special characters (STR
987 - ppdLoad*() no longer tries to "fix" bad characters in
989 - Printer names can now (reliably) contain Unicode
990 characters (STR #896)
991 - The lpstat command now shows the time and date of the
992 last printer state change instead of the hardcoded "Jan
994 - The scheduler now adds a job-actual-printer-uri
995 attribute to job objects when printing to a class (STR
997 - The scheduler now logs log file open errors to the
998 system log (STR #1289)
999 - The scheduler now sets the job-originating-user-name to
1000 the authenticated username, if available (STR #1318)
1001 - The scheduler now only updates the permissions of SSL
1002 keys and certificates when they are under the
1003 ServerRoot directory (STR #1324)
1004 - The rastertodymo driver has been renamed to
1005 rastertolabel (a symlink is installed so that existing
1006 queues continue to work) and now also supports Zebra's
1008 - The lpstat command could show the wrong active job for
1009 a printer (STR #1301)
1010 - Fixed a potential crash problem in the scheduler when
1011 aborting a CGI program (STR #1290)
1012 - Added a "cancel all jobs" button to the class and
1013 printer web interfaces (STR #1140)
1014 - The add-printer web page now shows the
1015 set-printer-options page after the printer has been
1017 - The classes web page now provides links to each of the
1018 member printers (STR #307)
1019 - CUPS now handles HTTP request/response lines up to 32k
1020 in length; this is mainly for better cookie support
1022 - Added support for the Apache PassEnv and SetEnv
1023 directives to cupsd.conf (STR #853)
1024 - Added large file (64-bit) support (STR #541)
1025 - Fixed a performance issue with the ippReadIO()
1026 implementation (STR #1284)
1027 - Fixed a performance issue with the scheduler's implicit
1028 class implementation (STR #1283)
1029 - The pdftops filter now adds the Title and Creator
1030 fields from the PDF file to the PostScript document
1031 comments section (STR #539, STR #830)
1032 - Added a new cups_array_t and cupsArray*() functions to
1033 the CUPS API to support sorted lists of data.
1034 - Made the CUPS API library thread-safe (STR #1276)
1035 - Added "media" option support for EFI EFMediaType option
1037 - Added write buffering to the HTTP code to improve
1038 performance (STR #547)
1039 - The scheduler now uses the attributes-natural-language
1040 attribute to localize banner pages (STR #386)
1041 - The scheduler now returns the address that was used to
1042 connect to it (STR #1076)
1043 - Fixed a problem with N-up printing and OpenOffice (STR
1045 - Added support for the GCC position independent
1046 executable options (STR #1209)
1047 - Added new BrowseLocalProtocols and
1048 BrowseRemoteProtocols directives to cupsd.conf,
1049 allowing for different browse protocols for local and
1050 remote printers (STR #877)
1051 - PPD files can now contain strings up to 256k in length
1053 - The pstops filter now supports the IncludeFeature DSC
1055 - The pstops filter now disables the setpagedevice
1056 procedure when doing N-up printing (STR #1161)
1057 - The serial backend now supports "stop=1", "stop=2",
1058 "parity=space", and "parity=mark" options (STR #1155)
1059 - "make install" no longer overwrites an existing PAM
1060 configuration file (STR #1064)
1061 - The scheduler now closes all files on startup when run
1062 in daemon mode (STR #1009)
1063 - Added a new RGBW colorspace to the CUPS raster format
1065 - The pdftops filter now sets the page size based on the
1066 media box when not scaling the output (STR #912)
1067 - The pdftops filter now supports masked images (STR
1069 - The pdftops filter produced large output when rendering
1070 PDF files containing lot of repeated images (STR #327)
1071 - The pdftops filter now minimizes print processing of
1072 PDF files when using the page-ranges option (STR #273)
1073 - Updated pdftops filter to Xpdf 3.01.
1074 - Added new cupsBackchannelRead() and
1075 cupsBackchannelWrite() functions, as well as
1076 backchannel support to the parallel, serial, socket,
1077 and USB backends (STR #1252)
1078 - The parallel and USB backends now treat a "no space
1079 available" error as an out-of-paper condition (STR
1081 - The "lpc" command now supports the "status all" command
1083 - ippReadIO() did not read collections properly (STR
1085 - The "make test" script now creates the test files in
1086 "/tmp/cups-$USER" instead of "/tmp/$USER" (STR #981)
1087 - All backends now abort on error when printing a job to
1088 a class - this allows the next printer in the class to
1089 print the job (STR #1084)
1090 - The scheduler now verifies that a printer supports
1091 Letter or A4 media sizes before setting them as the
1092 initial default (STR #1250)
1093 - The cupstestppd program now flags bad Resolution
1095 - The USB backend now retries printing when the printer
1096 is disconnected or turned off (STR #1267)
1097 - Added new httpGetHostname() function to CUPS API, and
1098 use it instead of gethostname() so that the web
1099 interface will work correctly on systems whose hostname
1100 is not the FQDN (STR #1266)
1101 - The scheduler now stops printers if the backend for the
1102 queue is missing on startup (STR #1265)
1103 - The configure script now supports "--disable-library"
1104 to disable particular image file format support
1105 libraries, even if they are available on the build
1107 - The IPP backend did not always report on the total
1108 number of pages that were printed (STR #1251)
1109 - The lpstat program could display garbage date and time
1110 values for locales whose date format exceeded 31
1111 characters (STR #1263)
1112 - The cupstestppd program would segfault when testing
1113 certain broken PPD files (STR #1268)
1114 - Dramatically reduced the overhead of implicit classes.
1115 - Added new cupsDir*() functions to CUPS API.
1116 - Printers can now be published individually for sharing.
1117 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler's startup signalling code
1118 which caused cupsd to send the SIGUSR1 signal to the
1119 init process instead of the original parent process
1121 - Added new on-line help CGI to web interface to provide
1123 - Devices are now tracked dynamically, with each query
1124 doing a new device scan. This eliminates a previous
1125 startup delay caused by slow backends and allows new
1126 printers to be seen without restarting the server,
1127 however it limits the amount of device URI checking
1128 that can be done (basically now the scheduler only
1129 requires a URI with a method that is a listed backend)
1130 - Added new printer auto-detection, server configuration,
1131 and log file viewing to the administration web page.
1132 - Added new "set allowed users" web interface to set the
1133 list of allowed users for a printer or class.
1134 - The scheduler, command-line, and web interfaces now
1135 limit the list of printers and classes to those
1136 accessible by a user.
1137 - cupsMarkOptions() now handles more non-standard
1138 duplexing options and choices (STR #915)
1139 - cups-lpd now honors remote banner requests with the
1140 "standard" banner whenever a printer does not have one
1142 - The scheduler's denial-of-service checks did not work
1143 properly with IPv6 addresses (STR #1134)
1144 - The lp and lpr commands did not error out properly when
1145 they were unable to write to a temporary file (STR
1147 - The pstops filter did not handle Adobe-specific
1148 comments in Windows NT driver output (STR #1085)
1149 - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly reported the printer
1150 interface (STR #936)
1151 - The web interface now operates exclusively with the
1152 UTF-8 encoding, and sends the appropriate character set
1153 and header information to the web browser (STR #919,
1155 - Added a "set allowed users" interface to the web
1156 interface so that you can set the list of allowed or
1157 denied users/groups for a printer or class.
1158 - Disallow the "#" character in printer names, since it
1159 has special meaning in the shell, config files, and in
1160 URIs (STR #917, STR #1202)
1161 - Added a new application/x-csource MIME type, and
1162 support for it to the texttops filter so that you can
1163 pretty print plain text files without the C/C++
1164 keywords being highlighted.
1165 - The pdftops filter did not compile with GCC 4.0 (STR
1167 - The texttops filter did not highlight preprocessor
1168 directives followed by a tab properly.
1169 - HP PJL output now uses both JOB DISPLAY and RDYMSG
1170 commands to show the current job on the printer's
1172 - Local authentication certificates are now stored in
1173 /var/run/cups/certs by default instead of
1174 /etc/cups/certs (STR #1211)
1175 - Backends now use "&" to separate options in device
1176 URIs; "+" is still recognized but is deprecated (STR
1178 - The USB backend no longer supports the usb:/dev/foo
1179 format on systems that support device ID queries.
1180 - Forced classification markings did not work when the
1181 job-sheets parameters were "none,none".
1182 - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly showed all users as allowed,
1183 even if the queue was restricted to certain users (STR
1185 - The scheduler now automatically detects SSL/TLS clients
1186 without using the SSLPort/SSLListen directives.
1187 - The CUPS API and scheduler no longer support SSLv2-
1188 encrypted connections.
1189 - Updated the cupsaddsmb utility to correctly export the
1190 CUPS driver for Windows.
1191 - Fixed a signal-handling bug in httpRead() which
1192 ultimately caused the server to print multiple copies
1193 when it was busy (STR #1184)
1194 - The cupsFile API now uses the O_APPEND option when
1195 opening files in append mode (STR #990)
1196 - The md5.h header and md5_* functions are now officially
1197 private and have been renamed to avoid conflicts with
1198 other implementations with the same name.
1199 - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded some Type1
1201 - The scheduler didn't detect a closed connection in the
1202 middle of an IPP request (STR #1153)
1203 - The scheduler could block trying to read the job status
1204 if there was input pending and the job was cancelled in
1205 the same input cycle (STR #1157)
1206 - The scheduler could crash when deleting a class due to
1208 - Updated the Zebra ZPL label printer driver to use the
1209 run-length encoding and support more options.
1210 - Updated serial backend to scan for /dev/ttyC* as well
1211 as /dev/ttyc* for Cyclades serial ports (STR #1049)
1212 - The scheduler could hang reading the job status under
1213 certain circumstances (STR #1068)
1214 - The USB backend termination signal code was inverted
1216 - Moved enable and disable commands to sbindir to be
1218 - Added new cupsRasterInterpretPPD() function for RIP
1219 filters to setup the raster page header from
1220 PostScript commands in a PPD file.
1221 - The CUPS browsing protocol now offers a "delete" bit
1222 to remove printers as soon as they are deleted on the
1223 server or as soon as the server shuts down gracefully
1225 - The CUPS_SERVER and ServerName directives (client.conf
1226 and ~/.cupsrc) may now contain names of the form
1227 "server:port" and "/path/to/domain/socket".
1228 - The "cancel -u user" command now works for ordinary
1230 - Added test run support to "make test" target (STR #64)
1231 - Added domain socket support (STR #656)
1232 - Added BrowseLocalOptions directive to allow the
1233 administrator to add printer URI options to the browse
1234 URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR #732)
1235 - Added BrowseRemoteOptions directive to allow the
1236 administrator to add standard URI options to the
1237 remote printer URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR
1239 - Now put "-I.." compiler option in front of all others
1240 to ensure that local CUPS headers are used before
1241 installed headers (STR #437)
1242 - New cupsLangPrintf() and cupsLangPuts() for localized
1244 - Now support custom attributes and extended options in
1246 - Now provide functions to save PPD files.
1247 - New policy mechanism allows per-operation and
1248 per-printer control over what users and groups are
1249 allowed to do various IPP operations.
1250 - New error policy mechanism to control how aborted
1251 backend errors are handled by the scheduler
1252 (abort-job, retry-job, requeue-job, stop-printer)
1253 - Updated the printer test page with a better color
1254 wheel and a separate grayscale ramp.
1255 - A single backend process is now run to send all print
1257 - Backends and filters can now send and receive
1258 backchannel data over file descriptor 3.
1259 - Updated the raster stream format to support more
1260 user-defined attributes and to do compression of the