CHANGES-1.7.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.7.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
   5
   6         - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
   7           ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
   8         - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
   9         - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
  10         - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
  11           (<rdar://problem/15332672>)
  12         - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
  13           scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
  14         - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
  15           purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
  16           (<rdar://problem/15375760>)
  17         - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
  18           opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
  19         - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
  20           use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
  21           (<rdar://problem/15392966>)
  22         - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
  23           cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
  24         - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
  25           (<rdar://problem/15427759>)
  26         - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
  27         - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
  28           (<rdar://problem/15564888>)
  29         - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
  30           (<rdar://problem/15426838>)
  31         - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
  32           before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
  33         - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
  34           "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
  35         - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
  36
  37
  38 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
  39
  40         - Updated the Japanese localization.
  41         - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
  42           (<rdar://problem/15264697>)
  43         - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
  44           determine the direction of supply level values
  45           (<rdar://problem/14302628>)
  46         - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
  47           deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
  48         - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
  49           interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
  50         - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
  51           client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
  52         - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
  53           (<rdar://problem/14498310>)
  54         - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
  55           language specified in the client's IPP request
  56           (<rdar://problem/14128011>)
  57         - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
  58         - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
  59         - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
  60           -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
  61         - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
  62           against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
  63         - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
  64           automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
  65           previous response.
  66         - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
  67         - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
  68           environment variable to the filters or backend
  69           (<rdar://problem/14355011>)
  70         - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
  71           sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
  72           (<rdar://problem/14421943>)
  73         - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
  74
  75
  76 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
  77
  78         - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
  79           or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
  80         - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
  81           to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
  82         - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
  83           va_list arguments.
  84         - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
  85           services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
  86         - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
  87           hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
  88         - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
  89           printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
  90         - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
  91           output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
  92         - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
  93         - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
  94           default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
  95         - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
  96           includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
  97         - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
  98           WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
  99           components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
 100
 101
 102 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
 103
 104         - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
 105           the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
 106           locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
 107         - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
 108         - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 109           environment variable for filters.
 110         - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
 111         - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
 112         - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
 113           (STR #4289)
 114         - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
 115           cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
 116         - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
 117           cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
 118         - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
 119           octetString value (STR #4289)
 120         - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
 121           attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
 122         - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
 123           on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
 124         - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
 125         - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
 126         - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
 127         - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
 128         - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
 129           (STR #4168)
 130         - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
 131           systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
 132         - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
 133         - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
 134         - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
 135           enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)