CHANGES-1.5.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.5.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.4
   5
   6         - Documentation updates (STR #4112, STR #4130, STR #4134)
   7         - Fixes for libusb-based USB backend (STR #4128)
   8         - The lpq command did not show the owner or title of jobs unless passed
   9           a username on the command-line (STR #4135)
  10         - Localized empty strings contained the message catalog metadata
  11           (STR #4119)
  12         - Fixed a crash in the libusb-based USB backend (STR #4099)
  13         - The cups-lpd mini-daemon no longer handled jobs with multiple copies
  14           (STR #4118)
  15         - Multiple libusb backend fixes (STR #4098, STR #4100)
  16         - The IPP backend no longer tries to get the job status for printers
  17           that do not implement the required operation (STR #4083)
  18         - Sending a document in an unsupported format to an IPP printer now
  19           automatically cancels the job (STR #4093)
  20         - Fix some error reporting issues when printing from /dev/null and
  21           other unusual situations (STR #4015)
  22         - The scheduler now sets the CUPS_MAX_MESSAGE environment variable for
  23           filters (STR #4074)
  24         - Fixed a build issue when using older versions of autoconf (STR #4084)
  25         - The IPP backend now treats the client-error-not-possible status code
  26           as a job history issue, allowing IPP printing to Windows to work
  27           (STR #4047)
  28         - The IPP backend incorrectly included the document-format and
  29           compression attributes in Create-Job requests (STR #4086)
  30         - The libusb-based USB backend did not work on non-Linux platforms
  31           (STR #4088)
  32
  33
  34 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.3
  35
  36         - httpReconnect() did not reset the read/write buffers (STR #4065)
  37         - Compiling without threading support failed (STR #4060)
  38         - Fixed compile problem with old versions of OpenSSL (STR #4036)
  39         - The network backends did not check SNMP supply levels regularly
  40           (STR #4040)
  41         - The online help always included the "help on help" text (STR #4042)
  42         - Fixed a SSL handshake issue on OS X (STR #4045)
  43         - The scheduler could crash if a PPD file contained an invalid paper
  44           size (STR #4049)
  45         - The CUPS polling daemon did not reinitialize its connection to the
  46           remote server on errors in all cases (STR #4031)
  47         - PostScript auto-configuration was slow and unreliable with some
  48           printers (STR #4028)
  49         - Missing localizations caused empty output (STR #4033)
  50         - The cups-driverd program could temporarily "forget" a PPD file if it
  51           was updated in place.
  52         - The dnssd backend now prefers IPPS over IPP.
  53         - The USB backend now uses and requires LIBUSB 1.0 or later (STR #3477)
  54         - The LIBUSB-based USB backend now supports the back-channel (STR #2890)
  55         - Changed how timeouts are implemented in the LPD backend (STR #4013)
  56         - Added more supported color names for SNMP supplies (STR #3981)
  57         - The default InputSlot setting was never used (STR #3957)
  58         - POSIX ACLs are now set properly on certificate files (STR #3970)
  59         - Supplies with commas in their names were not reported correctly
  60           (STR #4020)
  61         - The cupsGetPPD3() function created a temporary file when one was not
  62           needed (STR #4018)
  63         - The scheduler now ensures that job notifications contain a value for
  64           the notify-printer-uri attribute (STR #4014)
  65         - The lp and lpr commands did not cancel jobs queued from stdin on an
  66           error (STR #4015)
  67         - Fixed the IPP backend's handling of HTTP/1.0 compatibility (STR #3988)
  68         - The IPP backend did not always setup username/password authentication
  69           for printers (STR #3985)
  70         - The IPP backend no longer re-queues print jobs that are too large for
  71           the printer/server (STR #3977)
  72         - The RPM spec file did not work (STR #4021, STR #4057)
  73         - Encryption did not work when the server name ended with "."
  74           (STR #4011)
  75         - The multi-purpose tray is now mapped to the IPP "by-pass-tray"
  76           (STR #4009)
  77         - The correct media size was not always passed to IPP printers
  78           (STR #4001)
  79         - Finishing options were not passed to IPP printers (STR #3995)
  80         - Fixed iCloud-based Back to My Mac printing (STR #3996)
  81
  82
  83 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.2
  84
  85         - Reposted what should have been CUPS 1.5.1.
  86
  87
  88 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.1
  89
  90         - Documentation updates (STR #3885, STR #3886, STR #3946, STR #3969)
  91         - Localization updates (STR #3840, STR #3989, STR #3997)
  92         - Build fixes (STR #3956, STR #3999)
  93         - The SNMP backend did not validate the device URIs reported by printers
  94           (STR #4004)
  95         - cupsBackendReport() did not handle newlines in 1284 Device IDs
  96           (STR #4005)
  97         - USB backend fixes for libusb (STR #3965, STR #3978)
  98         - The DBUS notifier did not validate string parameters (STR #3984)
  99         - Group quota ACLs did not work with Kerberos (STR #3972)
 100         - The IPP backend did not retry when a printer responded with
 101           client-error-not-possible (STR #3963)
 102         - PostScript PPDs with filters used the wrong command filter (STR #3973)
 103         - The scheduler incorrectly used free() on a POSIX ACL value, which
 104           could cause a crash (STR #3970)
 105         - PPD files using the MacStandard encoding did not work.
 106         - The web interface did not work on some platforms (STR #3902)
 107         - The lpstat command would crash when then "-u" option was used by a
 108           non-administrator (STR #3953)
 109         - Japanese supply level reporting did not always work.
 110         - The DBUS notifier could crash (STR #3947)
 111         - Relaxed some of the page size checks in cupstestppd.
 112         - The ipptool program now reports attributes that are repeated within
 113           the same attribute group.
 114         - Updated the PWG raster support to match the current draft
 115           specification.
 116         - Fixed some IPP conformance issues in the scheduler.
 117         - Added ipptool support for repeating requests.
 118         - Added IPP/2.2 conformance tests and greatly improved the IPP/1.1,
 119           IPP/2.0, and IPP/2.1 conformance testing.
 120         - IPP messages containing mixed integer/rangeOfInteger values did not
 121           work (STR #3942)
 122         - The ipptool program now provides additional diagnostics for badly-
 123           formatted responses (STR #3857)
 124         - When possible, the IPP backend now stops sending job data early on a
 125           cancel.
 126         - cupsSendRequest and cupsWriteRequestData did not properly read all
 127           HTTP headers, preventing authentication and encryption upgrades from
 128           working in all cases.
 129         - The client.conf Server directive is no longer supported on Mac OS X
 130           10.7 and later.
 131         - The IPP backend sent the wrong margins in media-col.
 132         - The scheduler did not save or restore large Kerberos credentials for
 133           jobs.
 134         - The dnssd backend did not properly browse for secure IPP printers.
 135         - httpAssembleURI* did not properly escape all special characters in the
 136           username/password field.
 137         - The scheduler now logs config file errors to stderr (STR #3936)
 138         - The configure script incorrectly used bundle-based localizations on
 139           Linux (STR #3938)
 140         - The cups-driverd helper program did not cache .drv files properly,
 141           sometimes leading to a crash (STR #3921)
 142         - CUPS did not build on stock Mac OS X installations.
 143         - Encryption was broken with OpenSSL.
 144         - ipptool's XML output used date/time values with timezone offsets,
 145           which are not supported by Mac OS X's NSDate class.
 146         - Several programs did not support the cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files.
 147         - The IPP backend incorrectly reported spool-area-full states.
 148         - cupsMarkOptions() did not protect against a bad PPD that was missing
 149           one or more standard Duplex options.
 150         - The PostScript filter did not mirror N-up output properly.
 151         - The ipptool program did not validate UTF-8 strings in XML output.
 152         - Fixed supply level reporting for some printers.
 153         - The scheduler no longer automatically logs debug messages for jobs
 154           that were held or canceled.
 155         - The cupsSendRequest function did not flush remaining response data
 156           from a previous request, leading to apparent chunking issues.
 157         - The scheduler did not report the correct version in the Server: header
 158           (STR #3903)
 159         - The scheduler did not support 1284 device IDs reported by driver
 160           interface programs longer than 127 characters (STR #3871)
 161         - The image filters did not support loading images larger than the
 162           RIPCache setting (STR #3901)
 163         - "PAGE: total NNN" messages did not get logged properly (STR #3887)
 164         - Updated the PWG Raster support to conform to the current draft of the
 165           PWG Raster Format specification.
 166         - The PWG Raster filter did not always write the correct number of
 167           padding lines on the bottom of the page (STR #3904)
 168         - When reporting a denial-of-service attack from the domain socket, the
 169           address reported does not always contain the correct path (STR #3888)
 170         - Badly formed GIF files could cause the image filters to crash
 171           (STR #3914)
 172         - Jobs canceled at the printer were retried by the IPP backend.
 173         - "cupsfilter -u" deleted the input file instead of the PPD file.
 174         - The scheduler did not compute the cost of PPD filters defined using
 175           the cupsFilter2 keyword properly.
 176         - The scheduler did not correctly support the maxsize() attribute for
 177           PPD filters.
 178
 179
 180 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.0
 181
 182         - Documentation updates.
 183         - Localization update (STR #3865)
 184         - Needed to limit TLS to v1.0 on some versions of Mac OS X.
 185         - The snmp backend did not work with some printers.
 186
 187
 188 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5rc1
 189
 190         - Compile fixes (STR #3849, STR #3850)
 191         - The scheduler didn't check for empty values for several configuration
 192           directives (STR #3861)
 193         - ipptool didn't generate valid XML when a test was skipped.
 194         - Added additional error checking to the 1284 device ID code (STR #3858)
 195         - Fixed some compatibility issues migrating from the old usblp backend
 196           to the libusb backend (STR #3860)
 197         - Fixed the wake-from-sleep printing behavior on Mac OS X.
 198         - The scheduler incorrectly allowed jobs to be held from a terminating
 199           state.
 200         - The cups-driverd program could crash when a PPD was renamed.
 201         - The dnssd backend took too long to discover printers on large or busy
 202           networks with the new default timeout used by lpinfo and the web
 203           interface. This resulted in "lost" printers.
 204
 205
 206 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2
 207
 208         - Documentation updates.
 209         - Localization updates (STR #3845)
 210         - Compiler warning cleanup.
 211         - Fixed PIE support for Linux (STR #3846)
 212         - Made httpSetTimeout API public and use it in the IPP backend to avoid
 213           timeout errors.
 214         - The scheduler incorrectly set the "authenticated" printer-type bit for
 215           remote queues using authentication.
 216
 217
 218 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
 219
 220         - The CUPS library now supports per-connection HTTP timeouts and
 221           callbacks.
 222         - The CUPS library now supports (limited) SSL/TLS X.509 certificate
 223           validation and revocation (STR #1616)
 224         - Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more
 225           circumstances (STR #3417)
 226         - The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in
 227           the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533)
 228         - Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do
 229           not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800)
 230         - The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing
 231           was not enabled (STR #3639)
 232         - The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple
 233           hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813)
 234         - The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and
 235           manages the group (STR #2829)
 236         - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838)
 237         - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration,
 238           cache, and state files (STR #3715)
 239         - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
 240           (STR #2959)
 241         - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
 242           cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
 243         - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
 244         - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
 245           (STR #3605)
 246         - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
 247         - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
 248         - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
 249         - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
 250           (STR #3766)
 251         - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
 252           sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
 253           size (STR #3689)
 254         - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
 255         - Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes.
 256         - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
 257         - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
 258         - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
 259           drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
 260         - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
 261           the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
 262         - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
 263           authenticating (STR #3670)
 264         - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
 265           CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
 266           printers.
 267         - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
 268           pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
 269           Throughput keyword.
 270         - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
 271         - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
 272           CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
 273         - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
 274           STR #3753)
 275         - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
 276           to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
 277         - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
 278           in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
 279         - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
 280           (STR #2969)
 281         - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
 282           elements.
 283         - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
 284         - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
 285           default.
 286         - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
 287           support (STR #3097)
 288         - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
 289           Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
 290           PWG 5100.11.
 291         - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
 292           (<cups/ppd.h>).
 293         - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
 294           attribute.
 295         - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
 296           plugin.
 297         - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
 298           on Mac OS X.
 299         - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
 300           CUPS 1.1.x.  The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
 301           were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
 302         - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
 303           improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
 304         - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
 305           provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
 306         - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
 307         - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
 308           permissions disabled.
 309         - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
 310           PPD files.
 311         - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
 312         - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)