4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.10
6 - Documentation fixes (STR #2994, STR #2995, STR #3008, STR #3056,
8 - The scheduler did not always load MIME type rules correctly
10 - The test page did not format correctly on A4 paper (STR #3060)
11 - The web interface sometimes incorrectly redirected users to
13 - cupsPrintFile*() did not send the document filename for single
14 file submissions (STR #3055)
15 - The scheduler did not update the member-names attribute when
16 removing the last printer from a class.
17 - The scheduler did not report PPD Products with parenthesis
18 in them properly (STR #3046)
19 - The wrong italic fonts were listed in the UTF-8 charset file
21 - The backends did not return an OK status for the
22 CUPS_SC_CMD_GET_BIDI side-channel command (STR #3029)
23 - The scheduler did not purge jobs that were missing a
24 time-at-creation attribute, indicating a bad job control file
26 - The "-o job-hold-until=week-end" option did not work properly
28 - The Solaris USB printer device does not support select or poll
30 - The scheduler would crash if you exceeded the MaxSubscriptions
32 - The lp "-H immediate" option did not specify that the job
33 should not be held (STR #3013)
34 - The scheduler did not support the "Connection: close"
35 HTTP header (STR #3010)
36 - The mailto notifier didn't terminate messages properly
38 - Backends could spin trying to read back-channel data
40 - The HP-GL/2 filter was using the wrong default colors
42 - The scheduler incorrectly allowed Get-Jobs operations without a
43 printer-uri (STR #2996)
44 - The compression option was not being encoded properly
46 - Added a missing character map for JIS-X0213/ShiftJIS.
47 - The scheduler now rejects ATTR: messages with empty values.
48 - The scheduler could consume all CPU handling closed connections
50 - The scheduler now protects against DNS rebinding attacks on
52 - SECURITY: The PNG image reading code did not validate the
53 image size properly, leading to a potential buffer overflow
55 - Fixed some configure script bugs with rc/xinetd directories
57 - The Epson sample driver PPDs contained errors (STR #2979)
60 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.9
62 - SECURITY: The HP-GL/2 filter did not range check pen numbers
64 - SECURITY: The SGI image file reader did not range check
65 16-bit run lengths (STR #2918)
66 - SECURITY: The text filter did not range check cpi, lpi, or
67 column values (STR #2919)
68 - Documentation updates (STR #2904, STR #2944)
69 - The French web admin page was never updated (STR #2963)
70 - The IPP backend did not retry print jobs when the printer
71 reported itself as busy or unavailable (STR #2951)
72 - The "Set Allowed Users" web interface did not handle trailing
73 whitespace correctly (STR #2956)
74 - The PostScript filter did not work with Adobe applications
75 using custom page sizes (STR #2968)
76 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not work with some printers
77 that reported a bad 1284 device ID.
78 - The scheduler incorrectly resolved the client connection
79 address when HostNameLookups was set to Off (STR #2946)
80 - The IPP backend incorrectly stopped the local queue if
81 the remote server reported the "paused" state.
82 - The cupsGetDests() function did not catch all types of
84 - The scheduler did not always log "job queued" messages
86 - The scheduler did not support destination filtering using
87 the printer-location attribute properly (STR #2945)
88 - The scheduler did not send the server-started,
89 server-restarted, or server-stopped events (STR #2927)
90 - The scheduler no longer enforces configuration file
91 permissions on symlinked files (STR #2937)
92 - CUPS now reinitializes the DNS resolver on failures
94 - The CUPS desktop menu item was broken (STR #2924)
95 - The PPD parser was too strict about missing keyword
96 values in "relaxed" mode.
97 - The PostScript filter incorrectly mirrored landscape
99 - The scheduler did not correctly update the
100 auth-info-required value(s) if the AuthType was Default.
101 - The scheduler required Kerberos authentication for
102 all operations on remote Kerberized printers instead
103 of just for the operations that needed it.
104 - The socket backend could wait indefinitely for back-
105 channel data with some devices.
106 - PJL panel messages were not reset correctly on older
108 - cupsfilter used the wrong default path (STR #2908)
109 - Fixed address matching for "BrowseAddress @IF(name)"
111 - Fixed compiles on AIX.
112 - Firefox 3 did not work with the CUPS web interface in SSL
114 - Custom options with multiple parameters were not emitted
116 - Refined the cupstestppd utility.
117 - ppdEmit*() did not support custom JCL options (STR #2889)
118 - The cupstestppd utility incorrectly reported missing
119 "en" base translations (STR #2887)
122 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.8
124 - Documentation updates (STR #2785, STR #2861, STR #2862)
125 - The scheduler did not add the ending job sheet when the
127 - The IPP backend did not relay marker-* attributes.
128 - The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for
130 - The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for
132 - The cupstestppd utility reported mixed line endings for
133 Mac OS and Windows PPD files (STR #2874)
134 - The pdftops filter did not print landscape orientation PDF
135 pages correctly on all printers (STR #2850)
136 - The scheduler did not handle expiring of implicit classes
137 or their members properly, leading to a configuration where
138 one of the members would have a short name (STR #2766)
139 - The scheduler and cupstestppd utilities did not support
140 cupsFilter and cupsPreFilter programs with spaces in their
142 - Removed unused variables and assignments found by the
144 - Added NULL checks recommended by the LLVM "clang" tool.
145 - The scheduler would crash if you started a printer that
146 pointed to a backend that did not exist (STR #2865)
147 - The ppdLocalize functions incorrectly mapped all generic
148 locales to country-specific locales.
149 - The cups-driverd program did not support Simplified Chinese
150 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
151 - Added an Indonesian translation (STR #2792)
152 - Fixed a timing issue in the backends that could cause data
153 corruption with the CUPS_SC_CMD_DRAIN_OUTPUT side-channel
155 - The scheduler did not support "HostNameLookups" with all of
156 the boolean names (STR #2861)
157 - Fixed a compile problem with glibc 2.8 (STR #2860)
158 - The scheduler incorrectly filtered out queues with ACLs and
160 - The PostScript filter did not support %%IncludeFeature lines
161 in the page setup section of each page (STR #2831)
162 - The scheduler did not generate printer-state events when the
163 default printer was changed (STR #2764)
164 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported a warning about the PPD format
165 version in some locales (STR #2854)
166 - cupsGetPPD() and friends incorrectly returned a PPD file for
167 a class with no printers.
168 - The member-uris values for local printers in a class returned
169 by the scheduler did not reflect the connected hostname or
171 - The CUPS PHP extension was not thread-safe (STR #2828)
172 - The scheduler incorrectly added the document-format-default
173 attribute to the list of "common" printer attributes, which
174 over time would slow down the printing system (STR #2755,
176 - The cups-deviced and cups-driverd helper programs did not set
177 the CFProcessPath environment variable on Mac OS X (STR #2837)
178 - "lpstat -p" could report the wrong job as printing (STR #2845)
179 - The scheduler would crash when some cupsd.conf directives
180 were missing values (STR #2849)
181 - The web interface "move jobs" operation redirected users to
182 the wrong URL (STR #2815)
183 - The Polish web interface translation contained errors
185 - The scheduler did not report PostScript printer PPDs with
186 filters as PostScript devices.
187 - The scheduler did not set the job document-format attribute
188 for jobs submitted using Create-Job and Send-Document.
189 - cupsFileTell() did not work for log files opened in append
191 - The scheduler did not set QUERY_STRING all of the time
192 for CGI scripts (STR #2781, STR #2816)
193 - The scheduler now returns an error for bad job-sheets
195 - Authenticated remote printing did not work over domain
197 - The scheduler incorrectly logged errors for print filters
198 when a job was canceled (STR #2806, #2808)
199 - The scheduler no longer allows multiple RSS subscriptions
200 with the same URI (STR #2789)
201 - The scheduler now supports Kerberized printing with
202 multiple server names (STR #2783)
203 - "Satisfy any" did not work in IPP policies (STR #2782)
204 - The CUPS imaging library would crash with very large
205 images - more than 16Mx16M pixels (STR #2805)
206 - The PNG image loading code would crash with large images
208 - The scheduler did not limit the total number of filters.
209 - The scheduler now ensures that the RSS directory has
210 the correct permissions.
211 - The RSS notifier did not quote the feed URL in the RSS
212 file it created (STR #2801)
213 - The web interface allowed the creation and cancellation
214 of RSS subscriptions without a username (STR #2774)
215 - Increased the default MaxCopies value on Mac OS X to
216 9999 to match the limit imposed by the print dialog.
217 - The scheduler did not reject requests with an empty
218 Content-Length field (STR #2787)
219 - The scheduler did not log the current date and time and
220 did not escape special characters in request URIs when
221 logging bad requests to the access_log file (STR #2788)
224 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.7
226 - CVE-2008-0047: cgiCompileSearch buffer overflow (STR #2729)
227 - CVE-2008-1373: CUPS GIF image filter overflow (STR #2765)
228 - Updated the "make check" tests to do a more thorough
230 - cups-driverd complained about missing directories (STR
232 - cupsaddsmb would leave the Samba username and password on
233 disk if no Windows drivers were installed (STR #2779)
234 - The Linux USB backend used 100% CPU when a printer was
235 disconnected (STR #2769)
236 - The sample raster drivers did not properly handle SIGTERM
238 - The scheduler sent notify_post() messages too often on
240 - Kerberos access to the web interface did not work
242 - The scheduler did not support "AuthType Default" in IPP
244 - The scheduler did not support the "HideImplicitMembers"
245 directive as documented (STR #2760)
246 - "make check" didn't return a non-zero exit code on
248 - The scheduler incorrectly logged AUTH_foo environment
249 variables in debug mode (STR #2751)
250 - The image filters inverted PBM files (STR #2746)
251 - cupsctl would crash if the scheduler was not running
253 - The scheduler could crash when printing using a port
255 - The scheduler would crash if PAM was broken (STR #2734)
256 - The image filters did not work with some CMYK JPEG files
257 produced by Adobe applications (STR #2727)
258 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not work with printers that
259 did not report a make or model.
260 - The job-sheets option was not encoded properly (STR #2715)
261 - The scheduler incorrectly complained about missing LSB
265 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.6
267 - Documentation updates (STR #2646, STR #2647, STR #2649)
268 - Fixed a problem with the web interface "Use Kerberos
269 Authentication" check box (STR #2703)
270 - The scheduler unconditionally overwrote the printer-state-
271 message with "process-name failed" when a filter or backend
272 failed, preventing a useful error message from being shown
274 - Policies on CUPS-Move-Job didn't work as expected (STR
276 - The configure script only supported D-BUS on Linux
278 - The scheduler did not support </LimitExcept> (STR #2701)
279 - The scheduler did not reset the job-hold-until attribute
280 after a job's hold time was reached.
281 - The scheduler did not support printer supply attributes
283 - The Kerberos credentials provided by some Windows KDCs
284 were still too large - now use a dynamic buffer to
285 support credentials up to 64k in size (STR #2695)
286 - Printing a test page from the web interface incorrectly
287 defaulted to the "guest" user (STR #2688)
288 - The cupsEncodeOptions2() function did not parse multiple-
289 value attribute values properly (STR #2690)
290 - The scheduler incorrectly sent printer-stopped events for
291 status updates from the print filters (STR #2680)
292 - The IPP backend could crash when handling printer errors
294 - Multi-file jobs did not print to remote CUPS servers
296 - The scheduler did not provide the Apple language ID to
298 - Kerberos authentication did not work with the web
299 interface (STR #2606, STR #2669)
300 - The requesing-user-name-allowed and -denied functionality
301 did not work for Kerberos-authenticated usernames (STR
303 - CUPS didn't compile on HP-UX 11i (STR #2679)
304 - cupsEncodeOptions2() did not handle option values like
305 "What's up, doc?" properly.
306 - Added lots of memory allocation checks (Fortify)
307 - The scheduler would crash if it was unable to add a job
309 - ppdOpen*() did not check all memory allocations (Coverity)
310 - ippReadIO() did not check all memory allocations (Coverity)
311 - The PostScript filter did not detect read errors (Coverity)
312 - The scheduler did not check for a missing job-sheets-completed
313 attribute when sending an event notification (Coverity)
314 - "Set Printer Options" might not work with raw queues (Coverity)
315 - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() could crash on certain PostScript
317 - The USB backend did not check for back-channel support
318 properly on all systems (Coverity)
319 - Fixed memory leaks in the GIF and PNM image loading code
321 - Removed some dead code in the CUPS API and scheduler (Coverity)
322 - Fixed two overflow bugs in the HP-GL/2 filter (Coverity)
323 - Fixed another ASN1 string parsing bug (STR #2665)
324 - The RSS notifier directory was not installed with the
326 - The standard CUPS backends could use 100% CPU while waiting
327 for print data (STR #2664)
328 - Filename-based MIME rules did not work (STR #2659)
329 - The cups-polld program did not exit if the scheduler crashed
331 - The scheduler would crash if you tried to set the port-monitor
332 on a raw queue (STR #2639)
333 - The scheduler could crash if a polled remote printer was
334 converted to a class (STR #2656)
335 - The web interface and cupsctl did not correctly reflect
336 the "allow printing from the Internet" state (STR #2650)
337 - The scheduler incorrectly treated MIME types as case-
338 sensitive (STR #2657)
339 - The Java support classes did not send UTF-8 strings to
340 the scheduler (STR #2651)
341 - The CGI code did not handle interrupted POST requests
343 - The PostScript filter incorrectly handled number-up when
344 the number of pages was evenly divisible by the number-up
346 - The PDF filter incorrectly filtered pages when page-ranges
347 and number-up were both specified (STR #2643)
348 - The IPP backend did not handle printing of pictwps files
349 to a non-Mac CUPS server properly.
350 - The scheduler did not detect network interface changes
351 on operating systems other than Mac OS X (STR #2631)
352 - The scheduler now logs the UNIX error message when it
353 is unable to create a request file such as a print job.
354 - Added support for --enable-pie on Mac OS X.
357 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.5
359 - The SNMP backend did not check for negative string
361 - The scheduler incorrectly removed auth-info attributes,
362 potentially leading to a loss of all options for a job.
363 - The scheduler stopped sending CUPS browse packets on a
364 restart when using fixed addresses (STR #2618)
365 - Fixed PDF filter security issues (CVE-2007-4352
366 CVE-2007-5392 CVE-2007-5393)
367 - Changing settings would always change the DefaultAuthType
368 and Allow lines (STR #2580)
369 - The scheduler would crash when submitting an undefined
370 format file from Samba with LogLevel debug2 (STR #2600)
371 - The scheduler did not use poll() when epoll() was not
372 supported by the running kernel (STR #2582)
373 - Fixed a compile problem with Heimdal Kerberos (STR #2592)
374 - The USB backend now retries connections to a printer
375 indefinitely rather than stopping the queue.
376 - Printers with untranslated JCL options were not exported
377 to Samba correctly (STR #2570)
378 - The USB backend did not work with some Minolta USB
380 - The strcasecmp() emulation code did not compile (STR
382 - The scheduler would crash if a job was sent to an empty
384 - The lpc command did not work in non-UTF-8 locales (STR
386 - Subscriptions for printer-stopped events also received
387 other state changes (STR #2572)
388 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported translation errors for
390 - ppdOpen() did not handle custom options properly when the
391 Custom attribute appeared before the OpenUI for that
393 - The scheduler could crash when deleting a printer or
395 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not allow for requeuing of
396 jobs submitted to a class.
397 - lpmove didn't accept a job ID by itself.
398 - The scheduler incorrectly removed job history information
399 for remote print jobs.
400 - The scheduler incorrectly sent the
401 "com.apple.printerListChanged" message for printer state
403 - The PostScript filter drew the page borders (when enabled)
404 outside the imageable area.
405 - The LPD and IPP backends did not default to the correct
406 port numbers when using alternate scheme names.
407 - The scheduler incorrectly deleted hardwired remote
408 printers on system sleep.
409 - The scheduler would abort if a bad browse protocol name
410 was listed in the cupsd.conf file.
411 - The online cupsd.conf help file incorrectly showed
412 "dns-sd" instead of "dnssd" for Bonjour sharing.
413 - The scheduler could crash changing the port-monitor value.
414 - The scheduler generated CoreFoundation errors when run as
415 a background process.
416 - When printing with number-up > 1, it was possible to get
420 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.4
422 - Documentation updates (STR #2560, STR #2563, STR #2569)
423 - CUPS now maps the "nb" locale to "no" on all platforms
425 - CUPS did not work with a Windows 2003 R2 KDC (STR #2568)
426 - ippReadIO() could read past the end of a buffer (STR
428 - The scheduler would crash on shutdown if it was unable
429 to create a Kerberos context.
430 - Multiple AuthTypes in cupsd.conf did not work (STR
432 - The snmp.conf file referenced the wrong man page (STR
434 - The cupsaddsmb program didn't handle domain sockets
436 - The scheduler now validates device URIs when adding
438 - Updated httpSeparateURI() to support hostnames with
439 the backslash character.
440 - Updated the Japanese localization (STR #2546)
441 - The parallel backend now gets the current IEEE-1284
442 device ID string on Linux (STR #2553)
443 - The IPP backend now checks the job status at
444 variable intervals (from 1 to 10 seconds) instead
445 of every 10 seconds for faster remote printing
447 - "lpr -p" and "lpr -l" did not work (STR #2544)
448 - Compilation failed when a previous version of CUPS
449 was installed and was included in the SSL include
451 - The scheduler did not reject requests with charsets
452 other than US-ASCII or UTF-8, and the CUPS API
453 incorrectly passed the locale charset to the scheduler
454 instead of UTF-8 (STR #2537)
455 - cups-deviced did not filter out duplicate devices.
456 - The AppleTalk backend incorrectly added a scheme
457 listing when AppleTalk was disabled or no printers
459 - The PostScript filter generated N^2 copies when the
460 printer supported collated copies and user requested
461 reverse-order output.
462 - The scheduler did not reprint all of the files in a
464 - The scheduler did not update the printcap file after
465 removing stale remote queues.
466 - The cupsd.conf man page incorrectly referenced
467 "AuthType Kerberos" instead of "AuthType Negotiate".
470 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.3
472 - The scheduler did not use the attributes-natural-language
473 attribute when passing the LANG environment variable to
474 cups-deviced or cups-driverd.
475 - The scheduler did not use the printer-op-policy when
476 modifying classes or printers (STR #2525)
477 - The auth-info-required attribute was not always updated
478 for remote queues that required authentication.
479 - The German web interface localization contained errors
481 - The Swedish localization contained errors (STR #2522)
484 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.2
486 - The 1.3.1 release was incorrectly created from the
487 1.4.x source tree (STR #2519)
488 - Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX
490 - The scheduler incorrectly used portrait as the default
491 orientation (STR #2513)
492 - The scheduler no longer writes the printcap file for
493 every remote printer update (STR #2512)
494 - Remote raw printing with multiple copies did not work
496 - Updated the configure script to require at least autoconf
498 - Some gzip'd PPD files were not read in their entirety
502 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.1
504 - Documentation updates.
505 - The USB backend on Mac OS X could hang if the driver and
506 printer did not match.
507 - Delegated Kerberos credentials were not working.
508 - "make distclean" incorrectly removed the edit-config.tmpl
510 - Fix compile problem on HP-UX (STR #2501)
511 - The cupstestppd utility now tests for resolutions greater
512 than 99999 DPI to detect a missing "x" between the X and Y
514 - Fixed many problems in the various translations and added
515 a new "checkpo" utility to validate them.
516 - The cupstestppd utility now tests the custom page size code
517 for CUPS raster drivers.
518 - cupsLangDefault() did not attempt to return a language that
519 was supported by the calling application.
520 - If a remote printer stopped while a job was being sent, the
521 local queue would also get stopped and the job re-queued,
522 resulting in duplicate prints in some cases.
523 - A few Apple-specific job options needed to be omitted when
524 printing a banner page.
525 - The new peer credential support did not compile on FreeBSD
527 - Direct links to help files did not set the current section
528 so the table-of-contents was not shown.
529 - The configure script did not support --localedir=foo (STR #2488)
530 - The backends were not displaying their localized messages.
531 - CUPS-Authenticate-Job did not require Kerberos authentication
532 on queues protected by Kerberos.
533 - The Zebra ZPL driver did not work with Brady label printers
535 - Norwegian wasn't localized on Mac OS X.
536 - getnameinfo() returns an error on some systems when DNS is
537 not available, leading to numerous problems (STR #2486)
538 - The cupsfilter command did not work properly on Mac OS X.
539 - The scheduler makefile contained a typo (STR #2483)
540 - The TBCP and BCP port monitors did not handle the trailing
541 CTRL-D in some PostScript output properly.
542 - Fixed the localization instructions and German template for
543 the "Find New Printers" button (STR #2478)
544 - The web interface did not work with the Chinese localization
546 - The web interface home page did not work for languages that
547 were only partially localized (STR #2472)
548 - Updated the Spanish web interface localization (STR #2473)
549 - ppdLocalize() did not work for country-specific localizations.
552 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.0
554 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-file conditions
555 gracefully when accepting new connections, leading to
557 - The scheduler did not detect ServerBin misconfigurations
559 - "AuthType Default" did not work as expected when the
560 "DefaultAuthType foo" line appeared after it in the
562 - The on-line help did not describe many common printing
564 - The IPP backend did not return the "auth required" status
565 when printing to a Kerberos-protected queue.
566 - The scheduler was not looking in the correct directories
567 for LSB PPD files (STR #2464)
568 - Changed references to ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript
570 - The PostScript filter did not cleanly terminate when
571 the job was canceled or stopped.
572 - Fixed generation of Kerberos credentials for remote
573 printing. Note that this requires a recent version of
574 MIT Kerberos with a working krb5_cc_new_unique()
575 function or Heimdal Kerberos.
576 - Added Portuguese and updated Italian message catalogs.
579 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc2
581 - Added more range checking to the pdftops filter.
582 - The scheduler would crash if a remote IPP queue was stopped
584 - The scheduler did not allow "DefaultAuthType None".
587 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc1
589 - Updated the German localization (STR #2443)
590 - cupsAdminGetServerSettings() did not handle </Foo> properly.
591 - When lprm and cancel are run with no job ID, they now will
592 cancel the first stopped job if no pending or processing
593 jobs are left in the queue.
594 - The scheduler now logs successful print jobs, filter
595 failures, and the job file types at the default log
597 - The scheduler now logs the usernames it is using for
598 authorization at LogLevel debug instead of debug2 (STR #2448)
599 - Added Intellitech Intellibar and Zebra CPCL PPDs to the list
601 - Added 6" and 8" wide label sizes for the Zebra ZPL Label
602 Printer driver (STR #2442)
603 - The cupsaddsmb program and web interface now support
604 exporting of 64-bit Windows drivers, when available
606 - Moving a job that was printing did not stop the job on the
607 original printer (STR #2262)
608 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not work on Mac OS X server.
609 - Added httpGetAuthString() and httpSetAuthString() APIs to get
610 and set the current (cached) authorization string to use for
612 - Updated the default cupsd.conf policy to list the
613 "administrative" operations separately from the "printer
614 control" operations so that it is easier to define a
615 group of users that are "printer operators".
616 - The web interface now pulls the default cupsd.conf file
617 from cupsd.conf.default in the CUPS config directory.
618 - Added a help file for using Kerberos with CUPS.
619 - The scheduler now strips the "@KDC" portion of Kerberos
620 usernames since those usernames typically do not appear in
621 the group membership lists used by CUPS.
622 - cupsMarkOptions() could (incorrectly) leave multiple option
624 - Backends could (incorrectly) run as root during discovery
626 - Avahi is now supported for DNS-SD (Bonjour) printer sharing
628 - The default cupsd.conf file had typos and old operation names
630 - The scheduler now erases authentication cache files using the
631 7-pass US DoD algorithm.
632 - Delegated Kerberos credentials (proxy authentication) did not
634 - The filter makefile did not optimize the libcupsimage.2.dylib
635 with a sectorder file.
636 - The IPP backend incorrectly wrote an empty printer message
637 when processing the "none" state reason.
638 - The USB backend could deadlock on Mac OS X while performing
639 a side-channel command.
640 - The scheduler did not prevent remote queues from being
642 - The scheduler did not remove the temporary request file on
643 authentication errors.
644 - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() did not handle "scheme:" schemes or
646 - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() was not exported on Mac OS X.
649 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3b1
651 - Copyright updates - CUPS is now owned by Apple Inc.
652 - Documentation updates (STR #1775, STR #2027, STR #2130,
653 STR #2131, STR #2263, STR #2356, STR #2397)
654 - Added new cupsfilter utility (STR #1734)
655 - Added new job-printer-state-message and
656 job-printer-state-reasons attributes to jobs (STR #2418)
657 - Added LDAP+SSL support (STR #1967)
658 - CUPS now supports authentication via peer credentials
659 over domain sockets (STR #2242, STR #2277)
660 - The CUPS sample driver PPDs are now generated by the PPD
661 compiler and include all of the localized languages by
663 - You can now specify "AuthType Default" in the cupsd.conf
664 file to use the default authentication defined by the
665 DefaultAuthType directive.
666 - The SNMP backend no longer adds a default Address line
667 when none is specified in the snmp.conf file; this allows
668 the backend to be easily disabled as needed (STR #2434)
669 - Added a new cupsctl command for doing basic changes to
670 the cupsd.conf file (STR #1777)
671 - Added a new ppdLocalizeIPPReason() function to get the
672 localized text/URI for a given IPP reason keyword for a
674 - Removed the deskjet2.ppd driver, as it only worked with
675 a very small subset of HP DeskJet printers and was
676 confusing to users. The rastertohp driver still
677 supports the deskjet2.ppd options for existing queues.
678 - The scheduler did not add a trailing banner page if a
679 client did not specify the last document in a job (STR
681 - The scheduler did not report Bonjour shared printers as
682 remote printers (STR #2384)
683 - Added new -R and -W options to the cupstestppd program
684 for greater control over the testing of PPDs.
685 - Added a new cupsGetServerPPD() function for getting
686 an available PPD from the server (STR #2334)
687 - Added a new cupsDoIORequest() function for reading
688 and writing files via IPP requests (STR #2334)
689 - Added a new CUPS_GET_PPD operation for getting an
690 available PPD file on the server (STR #2334)
691 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports multiple ppd-product values
692 based on the PPD ModelName and Product strings (STR
694 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the PSVersion attributes
695 from a PPD file in the ppd-psversion attribute
697 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the cupsModelNumber attribute
698 from a PPD file in the ppd-model-number attribute (STR
700 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports a driver type string in the
701 ppd-type attribute based on the cupsFax and cupsFilter
702 attributes in a PPD file (STR #2383)
703 - Added a new printer attribute called "cups-version"
704 which reports the version of CUPS that is running
706 - backendRunLoop() now aborts immediately on SIGTERM
707 if no data has been written yet (STR #2103)
708 - Due to poor IPP support from the vendors, the SNMP
709 backend no longer tries IPP connections; instead,
710 it now uses a lookup file with fallback to port 9100
711 (socket://address) and 515 (lpd://address) printing
712 (STR #2035, STR #2354)
713 - The scheduler now recreates the CUPS log directory as
715 - cupsLangDefault() now maps new-style Apple locale names
716 to the traditional ll_CC form (STR #2357)
717 - Add new cupsArrayNew2() API to support hashed lookups
718 of array elements (STR #2358)
719 - ppdConflicts() optimizations (STR #2358)
720 - The cupstestppd program now tests for existing filters,
721 icons, profiles, and dialog extensions (STR #2326)
722 - The web interface no longer lists new printers on the
723 main administration page. Instead, a new "List Available
724 Printers" button is provided that shows a separate page
725 with the list of printers.
726 - The web interface now supports setting the banner and
727 policy options on raw printers and classes (STR #2238)
728 - The socket backend now reads any pending back-channel
729 data before shutting down the socket (STR #2325)
730 - Added a new ErrorPolicy directive in the cupsd.conf
732 - Printers that use JCL options are now exported to Samba
733 correctly (STR #1985)
734 - The IPP backend now relays printer-state-message values
735 from the server to the client (STR #2109)
736 - Added support for the PWG printer-alert and
737 printer-alert-description attributes (STR #2088)
738 - Added support for LPD "stream" mode (STR #2036)
739 - The scheduler now reports the PostScript product string
740 from PPD files in CUPS-Get-PPDs responses (STR #1900)
741 - Raw printing with queues pointing to the file pseudo-
742 device and multiple files and/or banners now works (STR
744 - Added new public cupsAdminGetServerSettings() and
745 cupsAdminSetServerSettings() APIs.
746 - Added new "makebuttons" script in the "tools" directory
747 for creating web interface buttons (STR #2231)
748 - Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing
750 - Job operations (cancel, hold, release, etc.) from the
751 web interface now return back to the original page (STR
753 - The classes or printers list is now shown after a
754 successful deletion from the web interface (STR #1999)
755 - The default configuration now allows browse packets from
756 any address (STR #2008)
757 - The web interface now provides an "allow printing from the
758 Internet" check box (STR #1897)
759 - The notify-events-default and
760 notify-lease-duration-default attributes can now be set
762 - Server-side default options are now sent to clients when
763 the "printer-defaults" attribute group is requested (STR
765 - Added support for Linux "relro" linker option (STR #1614)
766 - CUPS now validates the number-up option value (STR #1329)
767 - The on-line help now provides better search capabilities
769 - The web interface "Add This Printer" button now allows you
770 to change the printer name, description, and location
772 - Added support for Mac OS X authorization services
774 - Added support for driver-specific pre-filters (STR #2108)
775 - Added a new side-channel API for drivers and backends
776 for basic device control and information queries (STR
778 - The scheduler now uses poll(), epoll(), or /dev/kqueue
779 instead of select() when possible (STR #1261)
780 - Added new cupsArrayGetIndex() and cupsArrayGetInsert()
781 functions to get the current index and insertion
782 positions of an array.
783 - Added a new --with-max-copies configure option (STR
785 - Added new cupsRemoveDest() and cupsSetDefaultDest()
787 - Added support for cupsPJLCharset attribute in PPD files
788 which specifies the character set that is used in PJL
790 - Moved the definition of the (private) _http_s structure
791 to http-private.h; code that directly accesses the
792 http_t members will no longer compile!
793 - Added support for setting the document-format-default
794 attribute on a per-printer basis.
795 - Added support for IntelliBar label printers.