6 - The scheduler would delete job data files when restarted (STR #3880)
7 - The network backends could crash if a printer returned a value of 0
8 for the maximum capacity for a supply (STR #3875)
11 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7
13 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
14 STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782, STR #3826, STR #3829, STR #3837)
15 - Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,
16 STR #3755, STR #3769, STR #3783)
17 - Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)
18 - Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774)
19 - The imageto* filters could crash with bad GIF files (STR #3867)
20 - The scheduler might leave old job data files in the spool directory
22 - CUPS did not work with locales using the ASCII character set
24 - httpAddrString() did not return a URI-style IPv6 numeric address
26 - Fixed an issue when reading compressed CUPS raster streams (STR #3812)
27 - Fixed an issue with PostScript printer auto-configuration (STR #3443)
28 - Fixed some compatibility issues with the libusb-based USB backend
30 - The network backends no longer try to collect SNMP supply and status
31 information for raw queues (STR #3809)
32 - The DBUS notifier did not report job state changes (STR #3805)
33 - The scheduler did not always report that the "normal" print-quality
34 value was supported (STR #3803)
35 - The gziptoany filter did not report the correct error if it was unable
36 to write the uncompressed document to the next filter or backend in
38 - The Epson and Oki 9-pin drivers had a bad resolution option
40 - The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile
42 - The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for
43 the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing
45 - CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the
46 HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791)
47 - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
48 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
49 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
50 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
51 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
52 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
53 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
55 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
56 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
57 other printers (STR #3405)
58 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
59 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
60 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
61 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
62 conformance mode (STR #3747)
63 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
64 change notifications (STR #3739)
65 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
66 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
67 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
68 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
69 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
70 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
71 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
72 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
74 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
75 are enabled (STR #3737)
76 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
77 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
78 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
79 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
80 is printing (STR #3754)
81 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
83 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
84 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
85 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
86 the print filters (STR #3731)
87 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
88 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
89 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
90 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
93 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
95 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
96 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
97 PostScript files (STR #3722)
98 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
100 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
101 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
104 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
106 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
107 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
108 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
110 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
111 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
112 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
113 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
114 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
115 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
116 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
117 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
119 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
120 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
122 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
124 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
126 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
127 did not work (STR #3485)
128 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
130 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
132 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
134 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
135 serial number (STR #3590)
136 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
138 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
139 description of a class (STR #3613)
140 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
142 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
143 change based on the locale's character set.
144 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
145 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
147 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
149 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
150 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
151 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
152 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
153 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
154 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
155 for the PPD compiler.
156 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
157 authentication (STR #3559)
158 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
160 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
161 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
162 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
164 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
165 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
166 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
167 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
171 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
173 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
174 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
175 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
177 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
179 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
180 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
181 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
183 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
184 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
185 attributes (STR #3554)
186 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
187 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
189 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
190 implementation (STR #3514)
191 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
192 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
193 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
195 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
197 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
198 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
199 the first page (STR #3525)
200 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
201 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
203 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
204 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
205 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
206 all cases (STR #3521)
207 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
208 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
209 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
211 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
212 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
213 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
215 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
216 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
217 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
218 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
219 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
221 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
222 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
223 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
224 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
225 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
228 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
230 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
231 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
232 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
233 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
234 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
235 STR #3473, STR #3502)
236 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
237 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
238 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
239 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
240 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
241 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
242 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
243 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
244 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
246 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
247 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
248 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
249 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
250 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
251 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
253 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
254 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
256 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
258 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
259 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
260 was turned off (STR #3425)
261 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
263 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
264 a remote server (STR #3435)
265 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
266 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
268 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
269 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
270 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
271 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
273 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
275 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
276 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
277 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
279 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
280 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
281 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
282 loading a job (STR #3407)
283 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
284 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
285 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
286 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
287 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
288 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
290 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
292 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
293 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
294 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
297 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
299 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
300 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
302 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
303 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
304 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
305 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
306 driver was changed (STR #3356)
307 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
308 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
309 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
310 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
311 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
313 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
314 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
315 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
316 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
317 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
318 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
319 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
320 characters (STR #3340)
321 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
323 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
324 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
325 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
326 SNMP implementations.
329 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
331 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
332 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
333 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
334 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
335 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
336 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
337 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
338 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
339 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
340 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
341 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
342 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
343 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
344 query job was held (STR #3302)
345 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
347 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
348 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
350 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
351 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
352 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
354 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
356 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
357 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
358 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
359 implementations (STR #3262)
360 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
362 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
366 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
368 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
369 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
370 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
372 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
374 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
375 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
376 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
378 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
380 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
381 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
382 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
383 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
385 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
386 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
387 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
389 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
390 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
391 templates (STR #3229)
392 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
393 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
395 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
396 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
397 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
399 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
400 reason on all platforms.
403 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
405 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
407 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
408 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
409 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
410 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
411 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
412 variables (STR #3210)
413 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
414 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
415 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
417 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
418 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
419 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
420 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
421 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
422 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
423 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
424 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
425 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
426 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
427 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
428 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
429 that cupstestppd looks for...)
430 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
431 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
432 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
433 pages when a job was canceled or held.
436 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
438 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
440 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
441 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
442 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
443 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
444 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
445 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
446 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
447 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
448 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
449 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
451 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
453 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
454 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
455 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
456 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
457 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
458 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
459 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
460 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
462 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
463 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
464 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
465 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
466 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
467 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
469 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
470 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
471 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
472 lack of kernel buffers.
473 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
474 while copying print data to a temporary file.
475 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
476 causing reduced performance in some situations.
477 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
478 would hang on the client.
479 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
481 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
482 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
483 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
484 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
485 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
486 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
487 filenames in the PPD file.
488 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
490 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
492 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
493 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
494 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
495 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
496 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
498 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
499 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
501 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
503 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
504 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
506 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
508 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
510 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
511 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
513 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
515 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
516 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
517 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
518 printer had other reasons associated with it.
519 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
520 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
522 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
523 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
524 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
525 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
526 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
527 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
528 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
529 printer discovery (STR #3065)
530 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
531 in length (STR #3072)
532 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
533 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
534 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
535 printers with no specified colorspace.
536 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
538 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
539 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
540 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
541 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
542 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
544 - The ppdi utility did not work.
545 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
546 web browsers (STR #3049)
547 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
548 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
550 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
551 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
552 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
553 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
554 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
555 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
556 present in most PPD files.
557 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
558 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
560 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
561 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
562 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
564 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
565 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
566 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
570 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
572 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
573 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
574 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
575 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
576 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
577 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
578 rather than copying them whenever possible.
579 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
580 options implementations.
581 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
583 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
584 was set to False in the PPD file.
585 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
586 and network backends (STR #3014)
587 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
588 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
590 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
591 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
593 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
594 --exclude-schemes options.
595 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
596 and exclude-schemes attributes.
597 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
599 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
600 option called "fit-to-page".
601 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
602 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
603 prevent race conditions.
604 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
605 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
607 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
608 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
610 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
612 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
613 variable when running filters.
614 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
616 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
620 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
622 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
623 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
624 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
625 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
627 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
628 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
629 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
630 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
631 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
632 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
633 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
635 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
636 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
637 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
638 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
640 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
641 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
642 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
643 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
644 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
645 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
646 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
647 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
648 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
649 of printer options (STR #1440)
650 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
652 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
653 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
654 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
655 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
656 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
657 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
658 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
660 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
662 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
663 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
664 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
665 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
666 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
668 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
669 default server (STR #2833)
670 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
671 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
672 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
674 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
676 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
677 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
678 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
679 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
680 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
681 print jobs (STR #2482)
682 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
684 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
685 track the progress of individual pages.
686 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
687 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
688 command, when available (STR #2724)
689 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
690 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
691 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
692 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
693 file as errors (STR #2616)
694 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
695 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
697 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
698 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
699 continue further (STR #2101)
700 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
701 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
702 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
704 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
705 the physical location of a printer device.
706 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
707 device data by a backend.
708 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
710 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
711 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
712 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
713 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
715 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
716 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
717 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
718 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
719 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
720 attributes for better option conflict detection and
722 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
723 256 bytes (STR #2877)
724 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
725 what is logged to the access_log file.
726 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
727 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
728 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
730 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
732 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
733 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
735 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
736 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
737 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
738 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
739 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
740 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
741 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
742 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
744 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
745 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
746 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
748 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
750 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
751 ModelName value as the output filename.
752 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
753 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
754 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
755 standard network backends.
756 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
757 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
758 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
759 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
760 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
761 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
762 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
764 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
765 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
766 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
767 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
768 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
769 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
770 - Driver information files can now be installed in
771 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
772 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
774 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
775 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
776 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
777 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
778 backends are polled and for how long.
779 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
780 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
781 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
782 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
783 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
784 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
785 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
786 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
787 for localization (STR #2737)
788 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
789 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
791 - The build system has been updated to support separate
792 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
793 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
795 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
796 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
797 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
798 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
799 root to make the default installation more secure.
800 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
801 the localized version of a marker-names value.
802 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
803 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
804 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
805 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
806 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
807 global based on the current access policies for the
809 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
810 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
811 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
812 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
813 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
814 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
815 that support it (STR #2637)
816 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
818 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
819 attriibute to purge a specified job.
820 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
821 attributes for custom option selections.
822 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
823 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
824 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
825 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
826 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
827 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
828 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
829 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
830 on the model page (STR #2436)
831 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
832 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
833 of printers (STR #1175)
834 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
835 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
836 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
837 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
838 to filter the document from the specified job.
839 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
840 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
841 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
842 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
843 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.