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         - The User directive in client.conf did not override the USER
  10           environment variable (STR #4426)
  11
  12
  13 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.3
  14
  15         - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4409)
  16         - Fixed mapping of OutputBin values such as "Tray1"
  17           (<rdar://problem/16685606>)
  18         - Several ippGet* functions incorrectly returned -1 instead of 0 on
  19           error.
  20         - The cupsGetResponse function did not work properly with
  21           CUPS_HTTP_DEFAULT (<rdar://problem/16762593>)
  22         - The IPP backend did not abort a job when the printer did not validate
  23           the supplied options (<rdar://problem/16836752>)
  24         - Fixed an authentication race condition in cupsSendRequest (STR #4403)
  25         - The scheduler did not add the "job-hold-until-specified" reason when
  26           holding a job using the lp command (STR #4405)
  27         - The CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support
  28           (STR #4397)
  29         - The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS
  30           dependency (STR #4399)
  31         - cupsGetDestMediaCount did not work for CUPS_MEDIA_FLAGS DEFAULT
  32           (STR #4414)
  33         - Auto-typing of PWG Raster files did not work (STR #4417)
  34         - IPP queues using hardcoded credentials would ask for credentials
  35           (STR #4371)
  36         - Dates in non-UTF-8 locales did not display correctly (STR #4388)
  37         - The RPM spec file now looks for libusb-devel 1.0 or later.
  38         - Fixed the "create-printer-subscription.test" file for IPPTOOL
  39           (STR #4420)
  40
  41
  42 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2
  43
  44         - Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML
  45           (STR #4356)
  46         - Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346, STR #4355)
  47         - Fixed the Japanese localization (STR #4385)
  48         - Added a German localization (STR #4363)
  49         - The cupsfilter command incorrectly read the cupsd.conf file; it now
  50           reads the cups-files.conf file instead.
  51         - Fixed OS X builds with Xcode 5.x (<rdar://problem/15914959>)
  52         - Fixed SSL support on Windows (STR #4358)
  53         - Fixed documentation and naming of Create-Job/Printer-Subscriptions
  54           operations (STR #4389)
  55         - Phone numbers in fax jobs were not properly filtered for IPP FaxOut
  56           (<rdar://problem/16351701>)
  57         - Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349)
  58         - Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393)
  59         - cupsEnumDests did not set the "is_default" field (STR #4332)
  60         - cupsDoIORequest could miss the server status, causing failed lpadmin
  61           and other administrative commands (STR #4386)
  62         - cupsEnumDests didn't always call the callback function (STR #4380)
  63         - "lp -i job-id -H hold" did not work (STR #nnn)
  64         - CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338)
  65         - Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception
  66           notice (STR #4361)
  67         - Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash
  68           (STR #4347)
  69         - The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed
  70           (STR #4370, STR #4373)
  71         - The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly
  72           (STR #3265)
  73         - The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using
  74           Avahi (STR #4365)
  75         - The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top"
  76           values (STR #4354)
  77         - The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in
  78           printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264)
  79         - The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB
  80           (STR #4351)
  81         - Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data
  82           stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>)
  83         - The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job
  84           operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>)
  85         - Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>)
  86
  87
  88 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
  89
  90         - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
  91           ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
  92         - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
  93         - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
  94         - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
  95           (<rdar://problem/15332672>)
  96         - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
  97           scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
  98         - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
  99           purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
 100           (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)
 101         - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
 102           opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
 103         - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
 104           use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
 105           (<rdar://problem/15392966>)
 106         - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
 107           cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
 108         - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
 109           (<rdar://problem/15427759>)
 110         - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
 111         - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
 112           (<rdar://problem/15564888>)
 113         - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
 114           (<rdar://problem/15426838>)
 115         - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
 116           before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
 117         - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
 118           "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
 119         - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
 120         - lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities
 121           were specified (STR #4326)
 122         - The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)
 123         - CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did
 124           not match the user ID (STR #4327)
 125
 126
 127 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
 128
 129         - Updated the Japanese localization.
 130         - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
 131           (<rdar://problem/15264697>)
 132         - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
 133           determine the direction of supply level values
 134           (<rdar://problem/14302628>)
 135         - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
 136           deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
 137         - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
 138           interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
 139         - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
 140           client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
 141         - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
 142           (<rdar://problem/14498310>)
 143         - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
 144           language specified in the client's IPP request
 145           (<rdar://problem/14128011>)
 146         - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
 147         - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
 148         - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
 149           -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
 150         - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
 151           against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
 152         - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
 153           automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
 154           previous response.
 155         - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
 156         - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 157           environment variable to the filters or backend
 158           (<rdar://problem/14355011>)
 159         - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
 160           sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
 161           (<rdar://problem/14421943>)
 162         - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
 163
 164
 165 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
 166
 167         - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
 168           or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
 169         - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
 170           to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
 171         - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
 172           va_list arguments.
 173         - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
 174           services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
 175         - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
 176           hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
 177         - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
 178           printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
 179         - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
 180           output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
 181         - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
 182         - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
 183           default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
 184         - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
 185           includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
 186         - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
 187           WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
 188           components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
 189
 190
 191 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
 192
 193         - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
 194           the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
 195           locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
 196         - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
 197         - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 198           environment variable for filters.
 199         - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
 200         - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
 201         - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
 202           (STR #4289)
 203         - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
 204           cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
 205         - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
 206           cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
 207         - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
 208           octetString value (STR #4289)
 209         - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
 210           attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
 211         - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
 212           on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
 213         - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
 214         - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
 215         - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
 216         - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
 217         - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
 218           (STR #4168)
 219         - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
 220           systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
 221         - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
 222         - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
 223         - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
 224           enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)