CHANGES-1.7.txt

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