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