CHANGES-1.7.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.7.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.4
   5
   6         - CUPS did not compile when Avahi or mDNSResponder was not present
   7           (STR #4402, STR #4424)
   8         - The "snmp" option did not work with the network backends (STR #4422)
   9
  10
  11 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.3
  12
  13         - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4409)
  14         - Fixed mapping of OutputBin values such as "Tray1"
  15           (<rdar://problem/16685606>)
  16         - Several ippGet* functions incorrectly returned -1 instead of 0 on
  17           error.
  18         - The cupsGetResponse function did not work properly with
  19           CUPS_HTTP_DEFAULT (<rdar://problem/16762593>)
  20         - The IPP backend did not abort a job when the printer did not validate
  21           the supplied options (<rdar://problem/16836752>)
  22         - Fixed an authentication race condition in cupsSendRequest (STR #4403)
  23         - The scheduler did not add the "job-hold-until-specified" reason when
  24           holding a job using the lp command (STR #4405)
  25         - The CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support
  26           (STR #4397)
  27         - The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS
  28           dependency (STR #4399)
  29         - cupsGetDestMediaCount did not work for CUPS_MEDIA_FLAGS DEFAULT
  30           (STR #4414)
  31         - Auto-typing of PWG Raster files did not work (STR #4417)
  32         - IPP queues using hardcoded credentials would ask for credentials
  33           (STR #4371)
  34         - Dates in non-UTF-8 locales did not display correctly (STR #4388)
  35         - The RPM spec file now looks for libusb-devel 1.0 or later.
  36         - Fixed the "create-printer-subscription.test" file for IPPTOOL
  37           (STR #4420)
  38
  39
  40 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2
  41
  42         - Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML
  43           (STR #4356)
  44         - Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346, STR #4355)
  45         - Fixed the Japanese localization (STR #4385)
  46         - Added a German localization (STR #4363)
  47         - The cupsfilter command incorrectly read the cupsd.conf file; it now
  48           reads the cups-files.conf file instead.
  49         - Fixed OS X builds with Xcode 5.x (<rdar://problem/15914959>)
  50         - Fixed SSL support on Windows (STR #4358)
  51         - Fixed documentation and naming of Create-Job/Printer-Subscriptions
  52           operations (STR #4389)
  53         - Phone numbers in fax jobs were not properly filtered for IPP FaxOut
  54           (<rdar://problem/16351701>)
  55         - Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349)
  56         - Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393)
  57         - cupsEnumDests did not set the "is_default" field (STR #4332)
  58         - cupsDoIORequest could miss the server status, causing failed lpadmin
  59           and other administrative commands (STR #4386)
  60         - cupsEnumDests didn't always call the callback function (STR #4380)
  61         - "lp -i job-id -H hold" did not work (STR #nnn)
  62         - CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338)
  63         - Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception
  64           notice (STR #4361)
  65         - Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash
  66           (STR #4347)
  67         - The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed
  68           (STR #4370, STR #4373)
  69         - The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly
  70           (STR #3265)
  71         - The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using
  72           Avahi (STR #4365)
  73         - The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top"
  74           values (STR #4354)
  75         - The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in
  76           printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264)
  77         - The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB
  78           (STR #4351)
  79         - Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data
  80           stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>)
  81         - The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job
  82           operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>)
  83         - Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>)
  84
  85
  86 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
  87
  88         - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
  89           ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
  90         - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
  91         - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
  92         - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
  93           (<rdar://problem/15332672>)
  94         - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
  95           scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
  96         - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
  97           purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
  98           (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)
  99         - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
 100           opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
 101         - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
 102           use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
 103           (<rdar://problem/15392966>)
 104         - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
 105           cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
 106         - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
 107           (<rdar://problem/15427759>)
 108         - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
 109         - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
 110           (<rdar://problem/15564888>)
 111         - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
 112           (<rdar://problem/15426838>)
 113         - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
 114           before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
 115         - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
 116           "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
 117         - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
 118         - lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities
 119           were specified (STR #4326)
 120         - The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)
 121         - CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did
 122           not match the user ID (STR #4327)
 123
 124
 125 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
 126
 127         - Updated the Japanese localization.
 128         - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
 129           (<rdar://problem/15264697>)
 130         - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
 131           determine the direction of supply level values
 132           (<rdar://problem/14302628>)
 133         - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
 134           deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
 135         - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
 136           interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
 137         - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
 138           client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
 139         - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
 140           (<rdar://problem/14498310>)
 141         - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
 142           language specified in the client's IPP request
 143           (<rdar://problem/14128011>)
 144         - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
 145         - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
 146         - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
 147           -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
 148         - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
 149           against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
 150         - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
 151           automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
 152           previous response.
 153         - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
 154         - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 155           environment variable to the filters or backend
 156           (<rdar://problem/14355011>)
 157         - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
 158           sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
 159           (<rdar://problem/14421943>)
 160         - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
 161
 162
 163 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
 164
 165         - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
 166           or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
 167         - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
 168           to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
 169         - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
 170           va_list arguments.
 171         - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
 172           services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
 173         - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
 174           hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
 175         - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
 176           printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
 177         - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
 178           output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
 179         - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
 180         - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
 181           default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
 182         - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
 183           includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
 184         - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
 185           WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
 186           components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
 187
 188
 189 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
 190
 191         - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
 192           the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
 193           locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
 194         - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
 195         - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 196           environment variable for filters.
 197         - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
 198         - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
 199         - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
 200           (STR #4289)
 201         - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
 202           cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
 203         - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
 204           cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
 205         - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
 206           octetString value (STR #4289)
 207         - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
 208           attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
 209         - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
 210           on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
 211         - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
 212         - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
 213         - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
 214         - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
 215         - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
 216           (STR #4168)
 217         - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
 218           systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
 219         - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
 220         - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
 221         - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
 222           enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)