4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.11
6 - The scheduler did not prevent nested classes (STR #3211)
7 - The scheduler did not reprint processing jobs that were moved to
8 another destination (STR #3222)
9 - The scheduler did not reset the current job file when stopping a
11 - The scheduler did not handle POSTs to custom CGIs properly (STR #3221)
12 - The pdftops filter did not print landscape PDF pages properly
14 - The scheduler did not handle partial header lines properly from CGI
16 - The web interface could hang on OpenBSD (STR #3176, STR #3196)
17 - The scheduler and cupsfilter utility did not handle rules starting
18 with a negation operator properly (STR #3160)
19 - The scheduler and cupsfilter utility would crash with certain MIME
20 .types rules (STR #3159)
21 - httpSetField wasn't bracketing IPv6 numeric addresses for the Host:
23 - The ServerName, if specified, was not treated as a valid alias for the
24 local system (STR #3167)
25 - "make epm" did not work (STR #3166)
26 - "lpstat -h server" showed non-shared printers (STR #3147)
27 - "make check" did not work on Linux (STR #3161)
30 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.10
32 - Documentation fixes (STR #2994, STR #2995, STR #3008, STR #3056,
34 - SECURITY: The scheduler now protects against DNS rebinding attacks
36 - SECURITY: Fixed TIFF integer overflow in image filters (STR #3031)
37 - The scheduler did not support the job-hold-until attribute with the
38 Restart-Job operation (STR #3130)
39 - SECURITY: The PNG image reading code did not validate the
40 image size properly, leading to a potential buffer overflow
42 - The rastertohp driver did not set the 1-sided printing mode when
44 - Now use a wrapper program instead of our fork of the Xpdf code to
45 support printing of PDF files. The new wrapper supports using Xpdf,
46 poppler, or Ghostscript to convert PDF files to PostScript (STR #3129)
47 - Long job names caused problems with some PJL printers (STR #3125)
48 - The lpq command did not work when showing all destinations (STR #3117)
49 - The scheduler used a codeset name of UTF8 which is not supported on
51 - cupsGetJobs() did not work with a NULL destination (STR #3107)
52 - Fixed a localization problem for option choices (incorrectly) named
54 - The fallback OpenSSL random number seeding would not work (STR #3079)
55 - The scheduler might miss a child signal, causing high CPU usage.
56 - The scheduler did not enforce quotas after the job history was
58 - The job-k-limit, job-page-limit, and job-quota-period attributes
59 could not be set using the lpadmin command (STR #3077)
60 - httpSeparateURI() did not error out on URIs with a missing port
62 - Fixed a Valgrind-detected initialization error when creating a
63 missing directory on startup.
64 - The scheduler did not always read all of the HTTP headers from a
66 - The scheduler did not always set the "air" property in Bonjour/DNS-SD
68 - The scheduler incorrectly compared Mac OS X UUIDs for access
69 control, preventing access in certain configurations.
70 - The IPP backend incorrectly reset the required authentication
71 to Kerberos when authentication failed.
72 - The scheduler no longer looks up the local hostname by default;
73 turn on hostname lookups to restore the previous behavior.
74 - The scheduler did not always load MIME type rules correctly
76 - The test page did not format correctly on A4 paper (STR #3060)
77 - The web interface sometimes incorrectly redirected users to
79 - cupsPrintFile*() did not send the document filename for single
80 file submissions (STR #3055)
81 - The scheduler did not update the member-names attribute when
82 removing the last printer from a class.
83 - The scheduler did not report PPD Products with parenthesis
84 in them properly (STR #3046)
85 - The wrong italic fonts were listed in the UTF-8 charset file
87 - The backends did not return an OK status for the
88 CUPS_SC_CMD_GET_BIDI side-channel command (STR #3029)
89 - The scheduler did not purge jobs that were missing a
90 time-at-creation attribute, indicating a bad job control file
92 - The "-o job-hold-until=week-end" option did not work properly
94 - The Solaris USB printer device does not support select or poll
96 - The scheduler would crash if you exceeded the MaxSubscriptions
98 - The lp "-H immediate" option did not specify that the job
99 should not be held (STR #3013)
100 - The scheduler did not support the "Connection: close"
101 HTTP header (STR #3010)
102 - The mailto notifier didn't terminate messages properly
104 - Backends could spin trying to read back-channel data
106 - The HP-GL/2 filter was using the wrong default colors
108 - The scheduler incorrectly allowed Get-Jobs operations without a
109 printer-uri (STR #2996)
110 - The compression option was not being encoded properly
112 - Added a missing character map for JIS-X0213/ShiftJIS.
113 - The scheduler now rejects ATTR: messages with empty values.
114 - The scheduler could consume all CPU handling closed connections
116 - Fixed some configure script bugs with rc/xinetd directories
118 - The Epson sample driver PPDs contained errors (STR #2979)
121 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.9
123 - SECURITY: The HP-GL/2 filter did not range check pen numbers
125 - SECURITY: The SGI image file reader did not range check
126 16-bit run lengths (STR #2918)
127 - SECURITY: The text filter did not range check cpi, lpi, or
128 column values (STR #2919)
129 - Documentation updates (STR #2904, STR #2944)
130 - The French web admin page was never updated (STR #2963)
131 - The IPP backend did not retry print jobs when the printer
132 reported itself as busy or unavailable (STR #2951)
133 - The "Set Allowed Users" web interface did not handle trailing
134 whitespace correctly (STR #2956)
135 - The PostScript filter did not work with Adobe applications
136 using custom page sizes (STR #2968)
137 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not work with some printers
138 that reported a bad 1284 device ID.
139 - The scheduler incorrectly resolved the client connection
140 address when HostNameLookups was set to Off (STR #2946)
141 - The IPP backend incorrectly stopped the local queue if
142 the remote server reported the "paused" state.
143 - The cupsGetDests() function did not catch all types of
145 - The scheduler did not always log "job queued" messages
147 - The scheduler did not support destination filtering using
148 the printer-location attribute properly (STR #2945)
149 - The scheduler did not send the server-started,
150 server-restarted, or server-stopped events (STR #2927)
151 - The scheduler no longer enforces configuration file
152 permissions on symlinked files (STR #2937)
153 - CUPS now reinitializes the DNS resolver on failures
155 - The CUPS desktop menu item was broken (STR #2924)
156 - The PPD parser was too strict about missing keyword
157 values in "relaxed" mode.
158 - The PostScript filter incorrectly mirrored landscape
160 - The scheduler did not correctly update the
161 auth-info-required value(s) if the AuthType was Default.
162 - The scheduler required Kerberos authentication for
163 all operations on remote Kerberized printers instead
164 of just for the operations that needed it.
165 - The socket backend could wait indefinitely for back-
166 channel data with some devices.
167 - PJL panel messages were not reset correctly on older
169 - cupsfilter used the wrong default path (STR #2908)
170 - Fixed address matching for "BrowseAddress @IF(name)"
172 - Fixed compiles on AIX.
173 - Firefox 3 did not work with the CUPS web interface in SSL
175 - Custom options with multiple parameters were not emitted
177 - Refined the cupstestppd utility.
178 - ppdEmit*() did not support custom JCL options (STR #2889)
179 - The cupstestppd utility incorrectly reported missing
180 "en" base translations (STR #2887)
183 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.8
185 - Documentation updates (STR #2785, STR #2861, STR #2862)
186 - The scheduler did not add the ending job sheet when the
188 - The IPP backend did not relay marker-* attributes.
189 - The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for
191 - The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for
193 - The cupstestppd utility reported mixed line endings for
194 Mac OS and Windows PPD files (STR #2874)
195 - The pdftops filter did not print landscape orientation PDF
196 pages correctly on all printers (STR #2850)
197 - The scheduler did not handle expiring of implicit classes
198 or their members properly, leading to a configuration where
199 one of the members would have a short name (STR #2766)
200 - The scheduler and cupstestppd utilities did not support
201 cupsFilter and cupsPreFilter programs with spaces in their
203 - Removed unused variables and assignments found by the
205 - Added NULL checks recommended by the LLVM "clang" tool.
206 - The scheduler would crash if you started a printer that
207 pointed to a backend that did not exist (STR #2865)
208 - The ppdLocalize functions incorrectly mapped all generic
209 locales to country-specific locales.
210 - The cups-driverd program did not support Simplified Chinese
211 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
212 - Added an Indonesian translation (STR #2792)
213 - Fixed a timing issue in the backends that could cause data
214 corruption with the CUPS_SC_CMD_DRAIN_OUTPUT side-channel
216 - The scheduler did not support "HostNameLookups" with all of
217 the boolean names (STR #2861)
218 - Fixed a compile problem with glibc 2.8 (STR #2860)
219 - The scheduler incorrectly filtered out queues with ACLs and
221 - The PostScript filter did not support %%IncludeFeature lines
222 in the page setup section of each page (STR #2831)
223 - The scheduler did not generate printer-state events when the
224 default printer was changed (STR #2764)
225 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported a warning about the PPD format
226 version in some locales (STR #2854)
227 - cupsGetPPD() and friends incorrectly returned a PPD file for
228 a class with no printers.
229 - The member-uris values for local printers in a class returned
230 by the scheduler did not reflect the connected hostname or
232 - The CUPS PHP extension was not thread-safe (STR #2828)
233 - The scheduler incorrectly added the document-format-default
234 attribute to the list of "common" printer attributes, which
235 over time would slow down the printing system (STR #2755,
237 - The cups-deviced and cups-driverd helper programs did not set
238 the CFProcessPath environment variable on Mac OS X (STR #2837)
239 - "lpstat -p" could report the wrong job as printing (STR #2845)
240 - The scheduler would crash when some cupsd.conf directives
241 were missing values (STR #2849)
242 - The web interface "move jobs" operation redirected users to
243 the wrong URL (STR #2815)
244 - The Polish web interface translation contained errors
246 - The scheduler did not report PostScript printer PPDs with
247 filters as PostScript devices.
248 - The scheduler did not set the job document-format attribute
249 for jobs submitted using Create-Job and Send-Document.
250 - cupsFileTell() did not work for log files opened in append
252 - The scheduler did not set QUERY_STRING all of the time
253 for CGI scripts (STR #2781, STR #2816)
254 - The scheduler now returns an error for bad job-sheets
256 - Authenticated remote printing did not work over domain
258 - The scheduler incorrectly logged errors for print filters
259 when a job was canceled (STR #2806, #2808)
260 - The scheduler no longer allows multiple RSS subscriptions
261 with the same URI (STR #2789)
262 - The scheduler now supports Kerberized printing with
263 multiple server names (STR #2783)
264 - "Satisfy any" did not work in IPP policies (STR #2782)
265 - The CUPS imaging library would crash with very large
266 images - more than 16Mx16M pixels (STR #2805)
267 - The PNG image loading code would crash with large images
269 - The scheduler did not limit the total number of filters.
270 - The scheduler now ensures that the RSS directory has
271 the correct permissions.
272 - The RSS notifier did not quote the feed URL in the RSS
273 file it created (STR #2801)
274 - The web interface allowed the creation and cancellation
275 of RSS subscriptions without a username (STR #2774)
276 - Increased the default MaxCopies value on Mac OS X to
277 9999 to match the limit imposed by the print dialog.
278 - The scheduler did not reject requests with an empty
279 Content-Length field (STR #2787)
280 - The scheduler did not log the current date and time and
281 did not escape special characters in request URIs when
282 logging bad requests to the access_log file (STR #2788)
285 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.7
287 - CVE-2008-0047: cgiCompileSearch buffer overflow (STR #2729)
288 - CVE-2008-1373: CUPS GIF image filter overflow (STR #2765)
289 - Updated the "make check" tests to do a more thorough
291 - cups-driverd complained about missing directories (STR
293 - cupsaddsmb would leave the Samba username and password on
294 disk if no Windows drivers were installed (STR #2779)
295 - The Linux USB backend used 100% CPU when a printer was
296 disconnected (STR #2769)
297 - The sample raster drivers did not properly handle SIGTERM
299 - The scheduler sent notify_post() messages too often on
301 - Kerberos access to the web interface did not work
303 - The scheduler did not support "AuthType Default" in IPP
305 - The scheduler did not support the "HideImplicitMembers"
306 directive as documented (STR #2760)
307 - "make check" didn't return a non-zero exit code on
309 - The scheduler incorrectly logged AUTH_foo environment
310 variables in debug mode (STR #2751)
311 - The image filters inverted PBM files (STR #2746)
312 - cupsctl would crash if the scheduler was not running
314 - The scheduler could crash when printing using a port
316 - The scheduler would crash if PAM was broken (STR #2734)
317 - The image filters did not work with some CMYK JPEG files
318 produced by Adobe applications (STR #2727)
319 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not work with printers that
320 did not report a make or model.
321 - The job-sheets option was not encoded properly (STR #2715)
322 - The scheduler incorrectly complained about missing LSB
326 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.6
328 - Documentation updates (STR #2646, STR #2647, STR #2649)
329 - Fixed a problem with the web interface "Use Kerberos
330 Authentication" check box (STR #2703)
331 - The scheduler unconditionally overwrote the printer-state-
332 message with "process-name failed" when a filter or backend
333 failed, preventing a useful error message from being shown
335 - Policies on CUPS-Move-Job didn't work as expected (STR
337 - The configure script only supported D-BUS on Linux
339 - The scheduler did not support </LimitExcept> (STR #2701)
340 - The scheduler did not reset the job-hold-until attribute
341 after a job's hold time was reached.
342 - The scheduler did not support printer supply attributes
344 - The Kerberos credentials provided by some Windows KDCs
345 were still too large - now use a dynamic buffer to
346 support credentials up to 64k in size (STR #2695)
347 - Printing a test page from the web interface incorrectly
348 defaulted to the "guest" user (STR #2688)
349 - The cupsEncodeOptions2() function did not parse multiple-
350 value attribute values properly (STR #2690)
351 - The scheduler incorrectly sent printer-stopped events for
352 status updates from the print filters (STR #2680)
353 - The IPP backend could crash when handling printer errors
355 - Multi-file jobs did not print to remote CUPS servers
357 - The scheduler did not provide the Apple language ID to
359 - Kerberos authentication did not work with the web
360 interface (STR #2606, STR #2669)
361 - The requesing-user-name-allowed and -denied functionality
362 did not work for Kerberos-authenticated usernames (STR
364 - CUPS didn't compile on HP-UX 11i (STR #2679)
365 - cupsEncodeOptions2() did not handle option values like
366 "What's up, doc?" properly.
367 - Added lots of memory allocation checks (Fortify)
368 - The scheduler would crash if it was unable to add a job
370 - ppdOpen*() did not check all memory allocations (Coverity)
371 - ippReadIO() did not check all memory allocations (Coverity)
372 - The PostScript filter did not detect read errors (Coverity)
373 - The scheduler did not check for a missing job-sheets-completed
374 attribute when sending an event notification (Coverity)
375 - "Set Printer Options" might not work with raw queues (Coverity)
376 - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() could crash on certain PostScript
378 - The USB backend did not check for back-channel support
379 properly on all systems (Coverity)
380 - Fixed memory leaks in the GIF and PNM image loading code
382 - Removed some dead code in the CUPS API and scheduler (Coverity)
383 - Fixed two overflow bugs in the HP-GL/2 filter (Coverity)
384 - Fixed another ASN1 string parsing bug (STR #2665)
385 - The RSS notifier directory was not installed with the
387 - The standard CUPS backends could use 100% CPU while waiting
388 for print data (STR #2664)
389 - Filename-based MIME rules did not work (STR #2659)
390 - The cups-polld program did not exit if the scheduler crashed
392 - The scheduler would crash if you tried to set the port-monitor
393 on a raw queue (STR #2639)
394 - The scheduler could crash if a polled remote printer was
395 converted to a class (STR #2656)
396 - The web interface and cupsctl did not correctly reflect
397 the "allow printing from the Internet" state (STR #2650)
398 - The scheduler incorrectly treated MIME types as case-
399 sensitive (STR #2657)
400 - The Java support classes did not send UTF-8 strings to
401 the scheduler (STR #2651)
402 - The CGI code did not handle interrupted POST requests
404 - The PostScript filter incorrectly handled number-up when
405 the number of pages was evenly divisible by the number-up
407 - The PDF filter incorrectly filtered pages when page-ranges
408 and number-up were both specified (STR #2643)
409 - The IPP backend did not handle printing of pictwps files
410 to a non-Mac CUPS server properly.
411 - The scheduler did not detect network interface changes
412 on operating systems other than Mac OS X (STR #2631)
413 - The scheduler now logs the UNIX error message when it
414 is unable to create a request file such as a print job.
415 - Added support for --enable-pie on Mac OS X.
418 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.5
420 - The SNMP backend did not check for negative string
422 - The scheduler incorrectly removed auth-info attributes,
423 potentially leading to a loss of all options for a job.
424 - The scheduler stopped sending CUPS browse packets on a
425 restart when using fixed addresses (STR #2618)
426 - Fixed PDF filter security issues (CVE-2007-4352
427 CVE-2007-5392 CVE-2007-5393)
428 - Changing settings would always change the DefaultAuthType
429 and Allow lines (STR #2580)
430 - The scheduler would crash when submitting an undefined
431 format file from Samba with LogLevel debug2 (STR #2600)
432 - The scheduler did not use poll() when epoll() was not
433 supported by the running kernel (STR #2582)
434 - Fixed a compile problem with Heimdal Kerberos (STR #2592)
435 - The USB backend now retries connections to a printer
436 indefinitely rather than stopping the queue.
437 - Printers with untranslated JCL options were not exported
438 to Samba correctly (STR #2570)
439 - The USB backend did not work with some Minolta USB
441 - The strcasecmp() emulation code did not compile (STR
443 - The scheduler would crash if a job was sent to an empty
445 - The lpc command did not work in non-UTF-8 locales (STR
447 - Subscriptions for printer-stopped events also received
448 other state changes (STR #2572)
449 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported translation errors for
451 - ppdOpen() did not handle custom options properly when the
452 Custom attribute appeared before the OpenUI for that
454 - The scheduler could crash when deleting a printer or
456 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not allow for requeuing of
457 jobs submitted to a class.
458 - lpmove didn't accept a job ID by itself.
459 - The scheduler incorrectly removed job history information
460 for remote print jobs.
461 - The scheduler incorrectly sent the
462 "com.apple.printerListChanged" message for printer state
464 - The PostScript filter drew the page borders (when enabled)
465 outside the imageable area.
466 - The LPD and IPP backends did not default to the correct
467 port numbers when using alternate scheme names.
468 - The scheduler incorrectly deleted hardwired remote
469 printers on system sleep.
470 - The scheduler would abort if a bad browse protocol name
471 was listed in the cupsd.conf file.
472 - The online cupsd.conf help file incorrectly showed
473 "dns-sd" instead of "dnssd" for Bonjour sharing.
474 - The scheduler could crash changing the port-monitor value.
475 - The scheduler generated CoreFoundation errors when run as
476 a background process.
477 - When printing with number-up > 1, it was possible to get
481 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.4
483 - Documentation updates (STR #2560, STR #2563, STR #2569)
484 - CUPS now maps the "nb" locale to "no" on all platforms
486 - CUPS did not work with a Windows 2003 R2 KDC (STR #2568)
487 - ippReadIO() could read past the end of a buffer (STR
489 - The scheduler would crash on shutdown if it was unable
490 to create a Kerberos context.
491 - Multiple AuthTypes in cupsd.conf did not work (STR
493 - The snmp.conf file referenced the wrong man page (STR
495 - The cupsaddsmb program didn't handle domain sockets
497 - The scheduler now validates device URIs when adding
499 - Updated httpSeparateURI() to support hostnames with
500 the backslash character.
501 - Updated the Japanese localization (STR #2546)
502 - The parallel backend now gets the current IEEE-1284
503 device ID string on Linux (STR #2553)
504 - The IPP backend now checks the job status at
505 variable intervals (from 1 to 10 seconds) instead
506 of every 10 seconds for faster remote printing
508 - "lpr -p" and "lpr -l" did not work (STR #2544)
509 - Compilation failed when a previous version of CUPS
510 was installed and was included in the SSL include
512 - The scheduler did not reject requests with charsets
513 other than US-ASCII or UTF-8, and the CUPS API
514 incorrectly passed the locale charset to the scheduler
515 instead of UTF-8 (STR #2537)
516 - cups-deviced did not filter out duplicate devices.
517 - The AppleTalk backend incorrectly added a scheme
518 listing when AppleTalk was disabled or no printers
520 - The PostScript filter generated N^2 copies when the
521 printer supported collated copies and user requested
522 reverse-order output.
523 - The scheduler did not reprint all of the files in a
525 - The scheduler did not update the printcap file after
526 removing stale remote queues.
527 - The cupsd.conf man page incorrectly referenced
528 "AuthType Kerberos" instead of "AuthType Negotiate".
531 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.3
533 - The scheduler did not use the attributes-natural-language
534 attribute when passing the LANG environment variable to
535 cups-deviced or cups-driverd.
536 - The scheduler did not use the printer-op-policy when
537 modifying classes or printers (STR #2525)
538 - The auth-info-required attribute was not always updated
539 for remote queues that required authentication.
540 - The German web interface localization contained errors
542 - The Swedish localization contained errors (STR #2522)
545 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.2
547 - The 1.3.1 release was incorrectly created from the
548 1.4.x source tree (STR #2519)
549 - Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX
551 - The scheduler incorrectly used portrait as the default
552 orientation (STR #2513)
553 - The scheduler no longer writes the printcap file for
554 every remote printer update (STR #2512)
555 - Remote raw printing with multiple copies did not work
557 - Updated the configure script to require at least autoconf
559 - Some gzip'd PPD files were not read in their entirety
563 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.1
565 - Documentation updates.
566 - The USB backend on Mac OS X could hang if the driver and
567 printer did not match.
568 - Delegated Kerberos credentials were not working.
569 - "make distclean" incorrectly removed the edit-config.tmpl
571 - Fix compile problem on HP-UX (STR #2501)
572 - The cupstestppd utility now tests for resolutions greater
573 than 99999 DPI to detect a missing "x" between the X and Y
575 - Fixed many problems in the various translations and added
576 a new "checkpo" utility to validate them.
577 - The cupstestppd utility now tests the custom page size code
578 for CUPS raster drivers.
579 - cupsLangDefault() did not attempt to return a language that
580 was supported by the calling application.
581 - If a remote printer stopped while a job was being sent, the
582 local queue would also get stopped and the job re-queued,
583 resulting in duplicate prints in some cases.
584 - A few Apple-specific job options needed to be omitted when
585 printing a banner page.
586 - The new peer credential support did not compile on FreeBSD
588 - Direct links to help files did not set the current section
589 so the table-of-contents was not shown.
590 - The configure script did not support --localedir=foo (STR #2488)
591 - The backends were not displaying their localized messages.
592 - CUPS-Authenticate-Job did not require Kerberos authentication
593 on queues protected by Kerberos.
594 - The Zebra ZPL driver did not work with Brady label printers
596 - Norwegian wasn't localized on Mac OS X.
597 - getnameinfo() returns an error on some systems when DNS is
598 not available, leading to numerous problems (STR #2486)
599 - The cupsfilter command did not work properly on Mac OS X.
600 - The scheduler makefile contained a typo (STR #2483)
601 - The TBCP and BCP port monitors did not handle the trailing
602 CTRL-D in some PostScript output properly.
603 - Fixed the localization instructions and German template for
604 the "Find New Printers" button (STR #2478)
605 - The web interface did not work with the Chinese localization
607 - The web interface home page did not work for languages that
608 were only partially localized (STR #2472)
609 - Updated the Spanish web interface localization (STR #2473)
610 - ppdLocalize() did not work for country-specific localizations.
613 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.0
615 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-file conditions
616 gracefully when accepting new connections, leading to
618 - The scheduler did not detect ServerBin misconfigurations
620 - "AuthType Default" did not work as expected when the
621 "DefaultAuthType foo" line appeared after it in the
623 - The on-line help did not describe many common printing
625 - The IPP backend did not return the "auth required" status
626 when printing to a Kerberos-protected queue.
627 - The scheduler was not looking in the correct directories
628 for LSB PPD files (STR #2464)
629 - Changed references to ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript
631 - The PostScript filter did not cleanly terminate when
632 the job was canceled or stopped.
633 - Fixed generation of Kerberos credentials for remote
634 printing. Note that this requires a recent version of
635 MIT Kerberos with a working krb5_cc_new_unique()
636 function or Heimdal Kerberos.
637 - Added Portuguese and updated Italian message catalogs.
640 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc2
642 - Added more range checking to the pdftops filter.
643 - The scheduler would crash if a remote IPP queue was stopped
645 - The scheduler did not allow "DefaultAuthType None".
648 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc1
650 - Updated the German localization (STR #2443)
651 - cupsAdminGetServerSettings() did not handle </Foo> properly.
652 - When lprm and cancel are run with no job ID, they now will
653 cancel the first stopped job if no pending or processing
654 jobs are left in the queue.
655 - The scheduler now logs successful print jobs, filter
656 failures, and the job file types at the default log
658 - The scheduler now logs the usernames it is using for
659 authorization at LogLevel debug instead of debug2 (STR #2448)
660 - Added Intellitech Intellibar and Zebra CPCL PPDs to the list
662 - Added 6" and 8" wide label sizes for the Zebra ZPL Label
663 Printer driver (STR #2442)
664 - The cupsaddsmb program and web interface now support
665 exporting of 64-bit Windows drivers, when available
667 - Moving a job that was printing did not stop the job on the
668 original printer (STR #2262)
669 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not work on Mac OS X server.
670 - Added httpGetAuthString() and httpSetAuthString() APIs to get
671 and set the current (cached) authorization string to use for
673 - Updated the default cupsd.conf policy to list the
674 "administrative" operations separately from the "printer
675 control" operations so that it is easier to define a
676 group of users that are "printer operators".
677 - The web interface now pulls the default cupsd.conf file
678 from cupsd.conf.default in the CUPS config directory.
679 - Added a help file for using Kerberos with CUPS.
680 - The scheduler now strips the "@KDC" portion of Kerberos
681 usernames since those usernames typically do not appear in
682 the group membership lists used by CUPS.
683 - cupsMarkOptions() could (incorrectly) leave multiple option
685 - Backends could (incorrectly) run as root during discovery
687 - Avahi is now supported for DNS-SD (Bonjour) printer sharing
689 - The default cupsd.conf file had typos and old operation names
691 - The scheduler now erases authentication cache files using the
692 7-pass US DoD algorithm.
693 - Delegated Kerberos credentials (proxy authentication) did not
695 - The filter makefile did not optimize the libcupsimage.2.dylib
696 with a sectorder file.
697 - The IPP backend incorrectly wrote an empty printer message
698 when processing the "none" state reason.
699 - The USB backend could deadlock on Mac OS X while performing
700 a side-channel command.
701 - The scheduler did not prevent remote queues from being
703 - The scheduler did not remove the temporary request file on
704 authentication errors.
705 - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() did not handle "scheme:" schemes or
707 - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() was not exported on Mac OS X.
710 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3b1
712 - Copyright updates - CUPS is now owned by Apple Inc.
713 - Documentation updates (STR #1775, STR #2027, STR #2130,
714 STR #2131, STR #2263, STR #2356, STR #2397)
715 - Added new cupsfilter utility (STR #1734)
716 - Added new job-printer-state-message and
717 job-printer-state-reasons attributes to jobs (STR #2418)
718 - Added LDAP+SSL support (STR #1967)
719 - CUPS now supports authentication via peer credentials
720 over domain sockets (STR #2242, STR #2277)
721 - The CUPS sample driver PPDs are now generated by the PPD
722 compiler and include all of the localized languages by
724 - You can now specify "AuthType Default" in the cupsd.conf
725 file to use the default authentication defined by the
726 DefaultAuthType directive.
727 - The SNMP backend no longer adds a default Address line
728 when none is specified in the snmp.conf file; this allows
729 the backend to be easily disabled as needed (STR #2434)
730 - Added a new cupsctl command for doing basic changes to
731 the cupsd.conf file (STR #1777)
732 - Added a new ppdLocalizeIPPReason() function to get the
733 localized text/URI for a given IPP reason keyword for a
735 - Removed the deskjet2.ppd driver, as it only worked with
736 a very small subset of HP DeskJet printers and was
737 confusing to users. The rastertohp driver still
738 supports the deskjet2.ppd options for existing queues.
739 - The scheduler did not add a trailing banner page if a
740 client did not specify the last document in a job (STR
742 - The scheduler did not report Bonjour shared printers as
743 remote printers (STR #2384)
744 - Added new -R and -W options to the cupstestppd program
745 for greater control over the testing of PPDs.
746 - Added a new cupsGetServerPPD() function for getting
747 an available PPD from the server (STR #2334)
748 - Added a new cupsDoIORequest() function for reading
749 and writing files via IPP requests (STR #2334)
750 - Added a new CUPS_GET_PPD operation for getting an
751 available PPD file on the server (STR #2334)
752 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports multiple ppd-product values
753 based on the PPD ModelName and Product strings (STR
755 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the PSVersion attributes
756 from a PPD file in the ppd-psversion attribute
758 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the cupsModelNumber attribute
759 from a PPD file in the ppd-model-number attribute (STR
761 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports a driver type string in the
762 ppd-type attribute based on the cupsFax and cupsFilter
763 attributes in a PPD file (STR #2383)
764 - Added a new printer attribute called "cups-version"
765 which reports the version of CUPS that is running
767 - backendRunLoop() now aborts immediately on SIGTERM
768 if no data has been written yet (STR #2103)
769 - Due to poor IPP support from the vendors, the SNMP
770 backend no longer tries IPP connections; instead,
771 it now uses a lookup file with fallback to port 9100
772 (socket://address) and 515 (lpd://address) printing
773 (STR #2035, STR #2354)
774 - The scheduler now recreates the CUPS log directory as
776 - cupsLangDefault() now maps new-style Apple locale names
777 to the traditional ll_CC form (STR #2357)
778 - Add new cupsArrayNew2() API to support hashed lookups
779 of array elements (STR #2358)
780 - ppdConflicts() optimizations (STR #2358)
781 - The cupstestppd program now tests for existing filters,
782 icons, profiles, and dialog extensions (STR #2326)
783 - The web interface no longer lists new printers on the
784 main administration page. Instead, a new "List Available
785 Printers" button is provided that shows a separate page
786 with the list of printers.
787 - The web interface now supports setting the banner and
788 policy options on raw printers and classes (STR #2238)
789 - The socket backend now reads any pending back-channel
790 data before shutting down the socket (STR #2325)
791 - Added a new ErrorPolicy directive in the cupsd.conf
793 - Printers that use JCL options are now exported to Samba
794 correctly (STR #1985)
795 - The IPP backend now relays printer-state-message values
796 from the server to the client (STR #2109)
797 - Added support for the PWG printer-alert and
798 printer-alert-description attributes (STR #2088)
799 - Added support for LPD "stream" mode (STR #2036)
800 - The scheduler now reports the PostScript product string
801 from PPD files in CUPS-Get-PPDs responses (STR #1900)
802 - Raw printing with queues pointing to the file pseudo-
803 device and multiple files and/or banners now works (STR
805 - Added new public cupsAdminGetServerSettings() and
806 cupsAdminSetServerSettings() APIs.
807 - Added new "makebuttons" script in the "tools" directory
808 for creating web interface buttons (STR #2231)
809 - Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing
811 - Job operations (cancel, hold, release, etc.) from the
812 web interface now return back to the original page (STR
814 - The classes or printers list is now shown after a
815 successful deletion from the web interface (STR #1999)
816 - The default configuration now allows browse packets from
817 any address (STR #2008)
818 - The web interface now provides an "allow printing from the
819 Internet" check box (STR #1897)
820 - The notify-events-default and
821 notify-lease-duration-default attributes can now be set
823 - Server-side default options are now sent to clients when
824 the "printer-defaults" attribute group is requested (STR
826 - Added support for Linux "relro" linker option (STR #1614)
827 - CUPS now validates the number-up option value (STR #1329)
828 - The on-line help now provides better search capabilities
830 - The web interface "Add This Printer" button now allows you
831 to change the printer name, description, and location
833 - Added support for Mac OS X authorization services
835 - Added support for driver-specific pre-filters (STR #2108)
836 - Added a new side-channel API for drivers and backends
837 for basic device control and information queries (STR
839 - The scheduler now uses poll(), epoll(), or /dev/kqueue
840 instead of select() when possible (STR #1261)
841 - Added new cupsArrayGetIndex() and cupsArrayGetInsert()
842 functions to get the current index and insertion
843 positions of an array.
844 - Added a new --with-max-copies configure option (STR
846 - Added new cupsRemoveDest() and cupsSetDefaultDest()
848 - Added support for cupsPJLCharset attribute in PPD files
849 which specifies the character set that is used in PJL
851 - Moved the definition of the (private) _http_s structure
852 to http-private.h; code that directly accesses the
853 http_t members will no longer compile!
854 - Added support for setting the document-format-default
855 attribute on a per-printer basis.
856 - Added support for IntelliBar label printers.