CHANGES-1.6.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.6.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.2
   5
   6         - Documentation fixes (STR #4239, STR #4234)
   7         - Security: All file, directory, user, and group settings are now stored
   8           in a separate cups-files.conf configuration file that cannot be set
   9           through the CUPS web interface or APIs (STR #4223)
  10         - The ipptool program now supports DEFINE-MATCH and DEFINE-NO-MATCH
  11           predicates for STATUS directives.
  12         - Fixed a problem with local Kerberos authentication (STR #4140)
  13         - Coverity scan: fixed some minor issues (STR #4242)
  14         - The scheduler did not remove color profiles after deleting a printer
  15           (STR #4232)
  16         - The CUPS library did not always detect a timed out connection to the
  17           server which could cause temporary loss of printing from applications
  18           (STR #4187)
  19         - The ipptool program now supports variable substitution in OPERATION
  20           and DELAY directives (STR #4175)
  21         - The IPP backend now stops queues when the server configuration
  22           prevents successful job submission (STR #4125)
  23         - The XML output of ipptool contained empty dictionaries (STR #4136)
  24         - The scheduler did not delete job control backup files (STR #4244)
  25         - cupsGetPPD3 could return a local PPD instead of the correct remote
  26           PPD.
  27         - The scheduler incorrectly advertised auth-info-required for local
  28           queues needing local authentication (STR #4205)
  29         - CUPS 1.6 clients using the ServerName directive in client.conf did not
  30           work with CUPS 1.3.x or older servers (STR #4231)
  31         - The SNMP backend now tries to work around broken printers that use a
  32           newline to separate key/value pairs.
  33         - The IPP backend did not send a cancel request to printers when a job
  34           was canceled and the printer did not support Create-Job.
  35         - Fixed EPM packaging files (STR #4199)
  36         - OpenBSD build fix (STR #4195, STR #4196, STR #4197)
  37         - The scheduler could crash when using Avahi (STR #4183, STR #4192,
  38           STR #4200, STR #4213)
  39         - The IPP backend could get stuck in an endless loop on certain network
  40           errors (STR #4194)
  41         - 32-bit builds failed on Debian (STR #4133)
  42         - The scheduler no longer accepts or sends job description attributes.
  43         - The IPP backend now works around some conformance issues for broken
  44           printers (STR #4190)
  45         - cupsBackendReport() now filters out all control characters from the
  46           reported 1284 device IDs (STR #4124)
  47         - The scheduler no longer allows job-name values that are not valid
  48           network Unicode strings (STR #4072)
  49         - The web interface did not preserve the order of classes, jobs, or
  50           printers (STR #4170)
  51         - The network backends now support disabling of SNMP supply level
  52           queries via the "snmp" URI option (STR #4106)
  53         - The IPP backend did not specify the compression used (STR #4181)
  54         - ipptool did not support octetString values.
  55         - The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared
  56           queues (STR #4158)
  57         - Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured
  58           Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159)
  59         - The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157)
  60         - Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb
  61           (STR #4155, STR #4191)
  62         - Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi
  63           (STR #4156)
  64         - CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP
  65           requests.
  66         - Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring
  67           out.
  68
  69
  70 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.1
  71
  72         - Documentation fix (STR #4149)
  73         - RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145)
  74         - The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped
  75           (STR #4148)
  76
  77
  78 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.0
  79
  80         - Document changes (STR #4131)
  81         - Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations.
  82
  83
  84 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6rc1
  85
  86         - Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122)
  87         - The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6
  88           socket (STR #4109)
  89         - The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file
  90           instead of the current hostname.
  91
  92
  93 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
  94
  95         - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
  96         - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the
  97           end of the job (STR #4075)
  98         - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
  99         - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
 100         - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support
 101           specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
 102         - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce
 103           the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
 104         - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels
 105           in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
 106         - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in
 107           printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
 108         - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed
 109           cupsd (STR #3459)
 110         - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates
 111           (STR #3949)
 112         - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
 113           environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
 114         - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
 115         - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
 116           (STR #2856)
 117         - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
 118           have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
 119           (STR #2291)
 120         - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
 121           local system (STR #2053)
 122         - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
 123           per-centimeter (STR #4006)
 124         - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
 125           separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
 126         - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
 127           "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
 128           "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
 129         - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
 130           "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
 131         - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
 132           instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
 133           job objects.
 134         - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
 135         - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
 136           not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
 137         - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
 138           amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
 139         - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
 140           characters.
 141         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
 142           automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
 143           (Kerberos) authentication.
 144         - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
 145           length.
 146         - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
 147           via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
 148         - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
 149           version of CUPS (STR #3927)
 150         - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
 151         - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
 152           and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
 153         - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
 154         - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
 155         - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
 156           imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
 157           filters have been removed (STR #3930)
 158         - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)