CHANGES-1.7.txt

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