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