6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
7 STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782)
8 - Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,
9 STR #3755, STR #3769, STR #3783)
10 - Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)
11 - Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774)
12 - Fixed an issue when reading compressed CUPS raster streams (STR #3812)
13 - Fixed an issue with PostScript printer auto-configuration (STR #3443)
14 - Fixed some compatibility issues with the libusb-based USB backend
16 - The network backends no longer try to collect SNMP supply and status
17 information for raw queues (STR #3809)
18 - The DBUS notifier did not report job state changes (STR #3805)
19 - The scheduler did not always report that the "normal" print-quality
20 value was supported (STR #3803)
21 - The gziptoany filter did not report the correct error if it was unable
22 to write the uncompressed document to the next filter or backend in
24 - The Epson and Oki 9-pin drivers had a bad resolution option
26 - The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile
28 - The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for
29 the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing
31 - CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the
32 HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791)
33 - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
34 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
35 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
36 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
37 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
38 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
39 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
41 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
42 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
43 other printers (STR #3405)
44 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
45 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
46 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
47 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
48 conformance mode (STR #3747)
49 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
50 change notifications (STR #3739)
51 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
52 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
53 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
54 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
55 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
56 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
57 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
58 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
60 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
61 are enabled (STR #3737)
62 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
63 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
64 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
65 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
66 is printing (STR #3754)
67 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
69 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
70 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
71 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
72 the print filters (STR #3731)
73 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
74 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
75 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
76 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
79 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
81 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
82 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
83 PostScript files (STR #3722)
84 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
86 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
87 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
90 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
92 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
93 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
94 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
96 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
97 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
98 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
99 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
100 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
101 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
102 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
103 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
105 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
106 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
108 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
110 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
112 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
113 did not work (STR #3485)
114 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
116 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
118 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
120 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
121 serial number (STR #3590)
122 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
124 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
125 description of a class (STR #3613)
126 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
128 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
129 change based on the locale's character set.
130 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
131 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
133 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
135 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
136 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
137 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
138 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
139 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
140 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
141 for the PPD compiler.
142 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
143 authentication (STR #3559)
144 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
146 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
147 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
148 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
150 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
151 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
152 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
153 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
157 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
159 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
160 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
161 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
163 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
165 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
166 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
167 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
169 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
170 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
171 attributes (STR #3554)
172 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
173 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
175 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
176 implementation (STR #3514)
177 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
178 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
179 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
181 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
183 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
184 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
185 the first page (STR #3525)
186 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
187 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
189 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
190 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
191 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
192 all cases (STR #3521)
193 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
194 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
195 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
197 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
198 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
199 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
201 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
202 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
203 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
204 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
205 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
207 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
208 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
209 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
210 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
211 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
214 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
216 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
217 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
218 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
219 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
220 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
221 STR #3473, STR #3502)
222 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
223 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
224 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
225 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
226 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
227 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
228 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
229 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
230 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
232 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
233 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
234 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
235 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
236 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
237 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
239 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
240 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
242 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
244 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
245 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
246 was turned off (STR #3425)
247 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
249 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
250 a remote server (STR #3435)
251 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
252 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
254 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
255 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
256 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
257 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
259 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
261 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
262 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
263 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
265 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
266 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
267 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
268 loading a job (STR #3407)
269 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
270 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
271 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
272 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
273 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
274 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
276 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
278 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
279 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
280 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
283 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
285 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
286 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
288 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
289 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
290 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
291 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
292 driver was changed (STR #3356)
293 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
294 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
295 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
296 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
297 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
299 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
300 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
301 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
302 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
303 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
304 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
305 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
306 characters (STR #3340)
307 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
309 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
310 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
311 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
312 SNMP implementations.
315 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
317 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
318 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
319 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
320 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
321 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
322 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
323 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
324 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
325 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
326 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
327 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
328 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
329 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
330 query job was held (STR #3302)
331 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
333 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
334 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
336 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
337 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
338 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
340 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
342 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
343 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
344 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
345 implementations (STR #3262)
346 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
348 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
352 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
354 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
355 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
356 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
358 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
360 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
361 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
362 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
364 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
366 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
367 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
368 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
369 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
371 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
372 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
373 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
375 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
376 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
377 templates (STR #3229)
378 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
379 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
381 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
382 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
383 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
385 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
386 reason on all platforms.
389 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
391 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
393 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
394 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
395 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
396 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
397 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
398 variables (STR #3210)
399 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
400 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
401 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
403 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
404 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
405 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
406 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
407 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
408 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
409 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
410 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
411 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
412 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
413 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
414 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
415 that cupstestppd looks for...)
416 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
417 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
418 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
419 pages when a job was canceled or held.
422 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
424 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
426 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
427 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
428 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
429 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
430 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
431 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
432 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
433 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
434 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
435 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
437 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
439 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
440 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
441 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
442 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
443 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
444 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
445 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
446 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
448 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
449 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
450 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
451 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
452 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
453 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
455 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
456 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
457 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
458 lack of kernel buffers.
459 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
460 while copying print data to a temporary file.
461 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
462 causing reduced performance in some situations.
463 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
464 would hang on the client.
465 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
467 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
468 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
469 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
470 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
471 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
472 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
473 filenames in the PPD file.
474 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
476 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
478 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
479 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
480 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
481 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
482 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
484 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
485 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
487 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
489 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
490 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
492 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
494 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
496 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
497 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
499 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
501 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
502 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
503 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
504 printer had other reasons associated with it.
505 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
506 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
508 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
509 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
510 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
511 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
512 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
513 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
514 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
515 printer discovery (STR #3065)
516 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
517 in length (STR #3072)
518 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
519 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
520 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
521 printers with no specified colorspace.
522 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
524 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
525 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
526 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
527 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
528 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
530 - The ppdi utility did not work.
531 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
532 web browsers (STR #3049)
533 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
534 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
536 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
537 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
538 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
539 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
540 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
541 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
542 present in most PPD files.
543 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
544 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
546 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
547 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
548 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
550 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
551 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
552 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
556 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
558 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
559 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
560 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
561 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
562 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
563 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
564 rather than copying them whenever possible.
565 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
566 options implementations.
567 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
569 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
570 was set to False in the PPD file.
571 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
572 and network backends (STR #3014)
573 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
574 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
576 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
577 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
579 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
580 --exclude-schemes options.
581 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
582 and exclude-schemes attributes.
583 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
585 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
586 option called "fit-to-page".
587 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
588 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
589 prevent race conditions.
590 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
591 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
593 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
594 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
596 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
598 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
599 variable when running filters.
600 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
602 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
606 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
608 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
609 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
610 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
611 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
613 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
614 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
615 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
616 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
617 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
618 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
619 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
621 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
622 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
623 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
624 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
626 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
627 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
628 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
629 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
630 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
631 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
632 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
633 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
634 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
635 of printer options (STR #1440)
636 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
638 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
639 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
640 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
641 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
642 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
643 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
644 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
646 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
648 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
649 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
650 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
651 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
652 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
654 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
655 default server (STR #2833)
656 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
657 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
658 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
660 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
662 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
663 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
664 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
665 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
666 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
667 print jobs (STR #2482)
668 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
670 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
671 track the progress of individual pages.
672 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
673 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
674 command, when available (STR #2724)
675 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
676 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
677 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
678 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
679 file as errors (STR #2616)
680 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
681 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
683 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
684 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
685 continue further (STR #2101)
686 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
687 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
688 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
690 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
691 the physical location of a printer device.
692 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
693 device data by a backend.
694 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
696 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
697 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
698 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
699 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
701 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
702 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
703 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
704 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
705 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
706 attributes for better option conflict detection and
708 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
709 256 bytes (STR #2877)
710 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
711 what is logged to the access_log file.
712 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
713 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
714 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
716 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
718 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
719 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
721 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
722 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
723 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
724 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
725 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
726 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
727 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
728 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
730 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
731 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
732 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
734 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
736 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
737 ModelName value as the output filename.
738 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
739 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
740 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
741 standard network backends.
742 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
743 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
744 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
745 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
746 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
747 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
748 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
750 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
751 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
752 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
753 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
754 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
755 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
756 - Driver information files can now be installed in
757 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
758 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
760 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
761 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
762 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
763 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
764 backends are polled and for how long.
765 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
766 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
767 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
768 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
769 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
770 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
771 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
772 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
773 for localization (STR #2737)
774 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
775 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
777 - The build system has been updated to support separate
778 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
779 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
781 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
782 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
783 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
784 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
785 root to make the default installation more secure.
786 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
787 the localized version of a marker-names value.
788 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
789 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
790 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
791 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
792 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
793 global based on the current access policies for the
795 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
796 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
797 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
798 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
799 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
800 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
801 that support it (STR #2637)
802 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
804 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
805 attriibute to purge a specified job.
806 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
807 attributes for custom option selections.
808 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
809 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
810 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
811 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
812 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
813 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
814 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
815 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
816 on the model page (STR #2436)
817 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
818 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
819 of printers (STR #1175)
820 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
821 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
822 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
823 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
824 to filter the document from the specified job.
825 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
826 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
827 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
828 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
829 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.