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4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.4
5
6 - Removed some duplicate size definitions for some ISO sizes that were
7 causing problems (<rdar://problem/14722721>)
8 - The IPP backend did not add the "last-document" attribute
9 (<rdar://problem/114660379>)
10 - Added a SyncOnClose directive to cups-files.conf to force cupsd to
11 call fsync before closing any configuration/state files it writes
12 (<rdar://problem/14523043>)
13 - Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E238 (<rdar://problem/14493054>)
14 - Closed server connections were still not always detected
15 (<rdar://problem/14484313>)
16 - The libusb-based USB backend now loads its list of quirks from files
17 in /usr/share/cups/usb instead of using a hardcoded table
18 (<rdar://problem/14442769>)
19 - The scheduler did not properly register ICC color profiles with
20 colord (<rdar://problem/14455625>)
21
22
23 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.3
24
25 - The configure script now prefers Clang over GCC.
26 - Fixed a compile problem on AIX (STR #4307)
27 - The default IPP version did not always get set before creating a new
28 IPP request message (<rdar://problem/14401718>)
29 - The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat now display an error message advising the
30 use of the /version=1.1 ServerName option (<rdar://problem/14290628>)
31 - Added documentation about the /version=1.1 option to ServerName in
32 client.conf (<rdar://problem/14216262>)
33 - httpStatus(HTTP_ERROR) did not return a useful error message
34 (<rdar://problem/14217326>)
35 - The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat commands incorrectly ignored the default
36 printer set in the lpoptions file (<rdar://problem/14216472>)
37 - Fixed a URI encoding issue for hostnames containing the ` (backquote)
38 character (<rdar://problem/14243133>)
39 - Added support for RFC 6874's IPv6 link local address format in URIs
40 (<rdar://problem/13979453>)
41 - The USB backend could crash on libusb-based systems if USB was
42 disabled in the BIOS (<rdar://problem/13875729>)
43 - Fixed a rounding error in the PWG media size mapping code
44 (<rdar://problem/13493241>)
45 - Fixed several ipptool test files that used old STATUS names.
46 - Kerberos credentials could get truncated when printing to a shared
47 printer.
48 - Printing using "ipps" URIs was not encrypted.
49 - Insecure ICC profiles prevented installation of user profiles for a
50 printer on OS X.
51 - Added more USB quirks for the libusb-based backend (STR #4311,
52 <rdar://problem/13736470>)
53 - The Russian web interface templates were broken (STR #4310)
54 - The scheduler no longer tries to do Kerberos authentication over the
55 loopback interface.
56 - The IPP backend could fail to pause a job for authentication
57 (STR #4298)
58 - Fixed a regression on the handling of auth keys on OS X if the
59 cups-files.conf was not present or did not contain a SystemAuthKey
60 value.
61 - The scheduler incorrectly did a reverse lookup of the server address
62 when HostNameLookups was turned off (STR #4302)
63 - The scheduler incorrectly computed the final content type value when
64 null filters were present.
65
66
67 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.2
68
69 - Documentation fixes (STR #4229, STR #4239, STR #4234, STR #4248,
70 STR #4259)
71 - Security: All file, directory, user, and group settings are now stored
72 in a separate cups-files.conf configuration file that cannot be set
73 through the CUPS web interface or APIs (STR #4223)
74 - Added a Czech localization (STR #4201)
75 - Added a French localization (STR #4247)
76 - Added a Russian localization (STR #4228, STR #4285)
77 - Updated the Catalan localization (STR #4202)
78 - Local certificate authentication did not guard against an empty
79 certification file (STR #4293)
80 - The scheduler did not reject device URIs with spaces.
81 - Added USB quirk rule for Epson Stylus Photo 750 (STR #4286)
82 - The IPP backend could crash if the printer disconnects early
83 (STR #4284)
84 - cupsGetPPD did not work with statically-configured CUPS shared
85 queues (STR #4178)
86 - The scheduler did not support long MIME media types (STR #4270)
87 - The cupsfilter command did not set the CHARSET environment variable
88 for the text filters (STR #4273)
89 - The lp command did not show errors for unknown "--foo" (STR #4261)
90 - Bad IPP responses could crash ipptool (STR #4262)
91 - Updated USB quirk rules for Canon and Xerox printers (STR #4217,
92 STR #4263)
93 - Added USB blacklisting for printers that require a custom backend
94 (STR #4218)
95 - The PPD compiler did not correctly JCL options (STR #4115, STR #4203)
96 - The ipptool program now supports DEFINE-MATCH and DEFINE-NO-MATCH
97 predicates for STATUS directives.
98 - Fixed a problem with local Kerberos authentication (STR #4140)
99 - Coverity scan: fixed some minor issues (STR #4242)
100 - The scheduler did not remove color profiles after deleting a printer
101 (STR #4232, STR #4276)
102 - The CUPS library did not always detect a timed out connection to the
103 server which could cause temporary loss of printing from applications
104 (STR #4187)
105 - The ipptool program now supports variable substitution in OPERATION
106 and DELAY directives (STR #4175)
107 - The IPP backend now stops queues when the server configuration
108 prevents successful job submission (STR #4125)
109 - The XML output of ipptool contained empty dictionaries (STR #4136)
110 - The scheduler did not delete job control backup files (STR #4244)
111 - cupsGetPPD3 could return a local PPD instead of the correct remote
112 PPD.
113 - The scheduler incorrectly advertised auth-info-required for local
114 queues needing local authentication (STR #4205)
115 - CUPS 1.6 clients using the ServerName directive in client.conf did not
116 work with CUPS 1.3.x or older servers (STR #4231, STR #4291)
117 - The SNMP backend now tries to work around broken printers that use a
118 newline to separate key/value pairs.
119 - The IPP backend did not send a cancel request to printers when a job
120 was canceled and the printer did not support Create-Job.
121 - Fixed EPM packaging files (STR #4199)
122 - OpenBSD build fix (STR #4195, STR #4196, STR #4197)
123 - The scheduler could crash when using Avahi (STR #4183, STR #4192,
124 STR #4200, STR #4213)
125 - The IPP backend could get stuck in an endless loop on certain network
126 errors (STR #4194)
127 - 32-bit builds failed on Debian (STR #4133)
128 - The scheduler no longer accepts or sends job description attributes.
129 - The IPP backend now works around some conformance issues for broken
130 printers (STR #4190)
131 - cupsBackendReport() now filters out all control characters from the
132 reported 1284 device IDs (STR #4124)
133 - The scheduler no longer allows job-name values that are not valid
134 network Unicode strings (STR #4072)
135 - The web interface did not preserve the order of classes, jobs, or
136 printers (STR #4170)
137 - The network backends now support disabling of SNMP supply level
138 queries via the "snmp" URI option (STR #4106)
139 - The IPP backend did not specify the compression used (STR #4181)
140 - ipptool did not support octetString values.
141 - The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared
142 queues (STR #4158)
143 - Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured
144 Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159)
145 - The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157)
146 - Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb
147 (STR #4155, STR #4191)
148 - Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi
149 (STR #4156)
150 - CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP
151 requests.
152 - Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring
153 out.
154
155
156 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.1
157
158 - Documentation fix (STR #4149)
159 - RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145)
160 - The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped
161 (STR #4148)
162
163
164 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.0
165
166 - Document changes (STR #4131)
167 - Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations.
168
169
170 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6rc1
171
172 - Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122)
173 - The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6
174 socket (STR #4109)
175 - The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file
176 instead of the current hostname.
177
178
179 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
180
181 - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
182 - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the
183 end of the job (STR #4075)
184 - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
185 - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
186 - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support
187 specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
188 - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce
189 the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
190 - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels
191 in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
192 - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in
193 printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
194 - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed
195 cupsd (STR #3459)
196 - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates
197 (STR #3949)
198 - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
199 environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
200 - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
201 - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
202 (STR #2856)
203 - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
204 have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
205 (STR #2291)
206 - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
207 local system (STR #2053)
208 - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
209 per-centimeter (STR #4006)
210 - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
211 separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
212 - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
213 "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
214 "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
215 - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
216 "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
217 - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
218 instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
219 job objects.
220 - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
221 - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
222 not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
223 - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
224 amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
225 - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
226 characters.
227 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
228 automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
229 (Kerberos) authentication.
230 - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
231 length.
232 - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
233 via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
234 - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
235 version of CUPS (STR #3927)
236 - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
237 - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
238 and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
239 - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
240 - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
241 - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
242 imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
243 filters have been removed (STR #3930)
244 - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)