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1 CHANGES.txt - 04/23/2002
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3
4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.15
5
6 - Updated the CUPS license agreement for the new MacOS
7 license exception.
8 - Removed the pstoraster filter (based on GNU
9 Ghostscript 5.50) and now provide the raster "driver"
10 and patch file necessary to use the current GNU
11 Ghostscript 7.05 release.
12 - Removed unnecessary fonts and updated the Courier and
13 Symbol fonts to the latest versions to better support
14 non-ISOLatin1 text.
15 - The text filter now always embeds the Courier and
16 Symbol fonts to ensure that they contain the full set
17 of glyphs.
18 - The lp and lpr commands now only override the SIGINT
19 handler if it is not being ignored (patch from Robert
20 Ambrose for some interactive software that catches
21 SIGINT and will gracefully cancel the print...)
22 - The PostScript image filter (imagetops) now supports
23 printing CMYK images using the CMYK colorspace.
24 - The image filters now support CMYK JPEG files, and
25 correctly handles the inverted files from Photoshop
26 (which seems to save RGBW data, not CMYK...)
27 - Added a "check" target to the top-level makefile to
28 conform with GNU standards (same as "test").
29 - The IPP code didn't always map the POSIX locale "C" to
30 the proper IPP language code.
31 - The cupsaddsmb program was updated to use the
32 setdriver command instead of addprinter.
33 - Banner pages were not handled properly for implicit
34 classes.
35 - When tunneling to a remote system using SSH, the
36 printer URIs for local printers on the remote system
37 did not reflect the correct port number.
38 - The Allow, Deny, BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, and
39 BrowseAddress directives now support the network
40 interface names "@LOCAL" and "@IF(name)" for access
41 control and browsing based on the current interface
42 addresses instead of fixed names or IP addresses.
43 - The texttops filter did not properly recognize the
44 "nowrap" (wrap=false) option.
45 - The InstallableOptions group name in a PPD file is now
46 translated separately (CUPS_MSG_OPTIONS_INSTALLED) so
47 that UIs can accurately detect the presence of this
48 group.
49 - The scheduler no longer keeps job history data for
50 remote printers on the client (just on the server.)
51 - The parallel and USB backends now retry if the backend
52 detects that the printer is not connected to the
53 system (rather than stopping the queue...)
54 - The network backends now retry if the backend detects
55 that the printer is not connected to the network or is
56 unreachable (rather than stopping the queue...)
57 - The cupsGetDests() function no longer lists options
58 and instances for printers that no longer exist.
59 - The scheduler now converts the document language to
60 the correct LANG string.
61 - The cupsaddsmb program now supports alternative CUPS
62 and SAMBA server names.
63 - The PostScript filter now supports the Orientation
64 comment and rotates the page as needed automatically.
65 - Revamped the makefiles slightly to use automatically
66 generated dependencies.
67 - Build fixes for OS X.
68 - The TIFF reading code depended on the newest version
69 of libtiff; now conditionally compile that portion of
70 the loader.
71 - The PPD code now decodes all JCL options in the
72 JCLSetup group, not just those options that start with
73 the prefix "JCL".
74 - The backends now read print data using the read()
75 system call to ensure that the current page is printed
76 while the next page is being processed.
77 - The pdftops filter did not support shading type 3
78 (radial fill) for the "sh" operator.
79 - The cups-polld program now throttles the local
80 broadcasts of polled printers and classes so that the
81 local system is not overwhelmed with hundreds of
82 printers and classes all at once.
83 - Updated the serial backend to support 230,400 baud for
84 the Linux PPC port.
85 - The cupsGetJobs() function wouldn't report completed
86 jobs that did not have a document-format attribute
87 value.
88 - The cupsEncodeOptions() function now maintains a table
89 of known boolean and numeric options, and encodes all
90 other options as strings.
91 - Now add a newline before the end-of-page code in the
92 PostScript filter; this fixes a problem with files
93 that don't end with a newline.
94 - The image filters looked for the "orientation" option
95 instead of the correctly named "orientation-requested"
96 option.
97 - The cupsEncodeOptions() function now handles mixed
98 integers and ranges.
99 - New translation guide for developers to provide native
100 language support for CUPS.
101
102
103 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.14
104
105 - The ippRead() function did not verify that the
106 attribute name length or string with language value
107 was not larger than the read buffer.
108 - The scheduler set the signal handlers before loading
109 the configuration files the first time; this prevented
110 the RunAsUser directive from blocking server reloads.
111 - Added Swedish message catalog.
112 - The parallel backend now recognizes the /dev/printers
113 device directory under Linux 2.4.x.
114 - MacOS X fixes.
115 - The cupsaddsmb utility sent the server name after the
116 user information when executing the rpcclient program.
117 This caused problems with some versions of SAMBA
118 2.2.x.
119 - The IPP backend did not pass the requesting user name
120 when checking on the print job status. This prevented
121 it from waiting for the job to complete when
122 communicating with some IPP implementations that
123 require it.
124
125
126 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.13
127
128 - The lpstat command did not report jobs submitted to
129 regular printer classes.
130 - The texttops filter didn't use sufficient precision
131 when positioning text with some values of cpi and lpi.
132 This could cause the alignment of text to stray.
133 - cupsGetDests() didn't merge the options from the
134 /etc/cups/lpoptions file with ~/.lpoptions - options
135 in ~/.lpoptions overrode them completely.
136 - Added support for KOI8-R and KOI8-U character sets,
137 and added several Russian message catalogs.
138 - The scheduler put the wrong timezone offset in the log
139 files (e.g. +0500 instead of -0500 for EST...)
140 - The scheduler did not ignore trailing whitespace in
141 *.convs files.
142 - The scheduler now forces all processes to exit (kill
143 -9) when it is stopped. This prevents parallel and
144 USB devices from running in the background after cupsd
145 goes away.
146 - The cupsParseOptions() function didn't skip trailing
147 whitespace after quoted values.
148 - More changes to support CUPS on OS/2.
149 - Added Simplified Chinese message catalog.
150 - Added PAM support for IRIX.
151 - The cupsGetPPD() function didn't remove the @server
152 portion of the printer name, and since it would
153 connect immediately to the remote server instead of
154 the local server, the printer would not be found.
155 - Classification and page labels were not rotated to
156 match the page orientation.
157 - Now set the TCP "no delay" option on network
158 connections to improve performance/response time.
159 - Improved the IRIX printing tools support with patches
160 from Andrea Suatoni.
161 - Added a new PrintcapGUI directive to specify the GUI
162 option panel program to use for the IRIX printing
163 tools support.
164 - The cupsGetDests() function did not check to see if a
165 user-defined default printer (set via lpoptions) still
166 existed.
167 - The pstops filter no longer assumes that the default
168 dictionary is writable when doing N-up processing.
169 - The pstops filter now supports printing N-up with the
170 page-set option.
171 - The imagetoraster filter now supports direct printing
172 of CMYK image data without conversion/correction.
173 - The IPP backend now reports printer state/error
174 conditions when possible (toner low, media empty,
175 etc.)
176 - The lpstat command now supports the (undocumented)
177 IRIX -l option ("-lprintername") for a compact job
178 listing for a printer.
179 - The lpstat command now includes printer date/time
180 information in the output (always Jan 01 00:00) to
181 make third-party tools happy.
182 - The text filter now supports non-integer cpi and lpi
183 values.
184 - The Margins field in the CUPS raster header was not
185 initialized by the pstoraster filter.
186 - Added --with-optim="flags" option to configure script.
187 - Updated the Italian message translations.
188 - Updated the cups.list file to install the correct
189 files.
190 - The pstoraster filter accessed the third element of a
191 2 element array.
192 - The scheduler did not setup a status pipe for polling
193 processes, so error messages went to whatever file
194 descriptor 2 was pointing to when they were started.
195 - The httpMD5Final() function didn't put a colon between
196 the password and nonce strings.
197 - The pstops filter did not default to Binary data for
198 "%%BeginData:".
199 - The pstops filter did not stop processing when a line
200 containing a CTRL-D is seen.
201 - The scheduler no longer replaces the JobSheets values
202 from the printers.conf and classes.conf files with the
203 classification level, if set. This way the original
204 banner settings are preserved when classification
205 levels are changed or turned off.
206 - The serial backend didn't drain the output queue, nor
207 did it restore the original settings.
208 - Updated the default system group under MacOS X.
209 - If no SystemGroup was defined in cupsd.conf, the
210 system default group was not used.
211 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon now supports LPD clients that
212 send multiple control files.
213 - httpConnectEncrypt() now always uses encryption for
214 connections on port 443, since port 443 is reserved
215 for the "https" scheme.
216 - Group authentication via certificates did not work
217 from the web interface for accounts other than
218 "root".
219 - The serial port backend did not clear the OPOST
220 option, which could cause problems with some printers.
221 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon didn't lookup the client IP
222 address properly.
223 - The parallel backend now identifies the polled and
224 interrupt-driven devices under *BSD.
225 - The scheduler allowed the "always" encryption mode
226 inside a Location, which is not valid.
227 - The CUPS startup script now checks for the timezone
228 information under Linux.
229 - Now also map the sides attribute to the JCLDuplex
230 option (if present) in PPD files.
231 - Updated pdftops to Xpdf 0.93a.
232 - Added support for MD5 passwords under Slackware.
233 - Added new AuthType BasicDigest that does Basic
234 authentication using the MD5 password file managed by
235 the lppasswd command.
236 - The banner page attribute substitution code now
237 retains {name} sequences in banner files when the
238 named attribute is undefined. Use {?name} to
239 conditionally substitute an IPP attribute.
240 - The scheduler now ensures that the ServerRoot
241 directory and configuration files are owned by and
242 writable by the User and Group in cupsd.conf.
243 - The USB backend now lists all USB printer devices
244 regardless of whether a printer is connected or not.
245 This allows new USB printers to be connected without
246 restarting cupsd.
247 - Added some more minor performance tweeks to the IPP
248 protocol code to reduce copying and array indexing.
249 - The cupsaddsmb utility now uses the -c option with
250 smbclient and rpcclient to avoid the read length limit
251 for commands on the standard input.
252 - Added an include file to the CRD handling code in
253 pstoraster so that it would compile properly on 64-bit
254 pointer platforms...
255 - The cups-config script reported the wrong version
256 number.
257 - The cups-config script was installed in $(bindir)
258 instead of $(BINDIR).
259 - The init script did not correctly check for a running
260 cupsd under IRIX 5.x.
261
262
263 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.12
264
265 - Added "Polish" to the list of known languages for PPD
266 files.
267 - Added missing directory definition to cups-config.
268 - The CUPS-Move-Job operation did not set the
269 destination type for the new destination.
270 - The CUPS-Add-Printer operation did not support the
271 allow=all or deny=none values to clear the per-user
272 printer ACLs.
273 - The SetPrinterAttrs() function did not handle invalid
274 PPD files that were missing the required NickName
275 attribute. It now looks for NickName, ModelName, and
276 then substitutes the string "Bad PPD File" for the
277 printer-make-and-model attribute.
278
279
280 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.11
281
282 - Added support for embedded TrueType fonts in PDF
283 files.
284 - Added support for PostScript functions in PDF
285 files.
286 - Added new "cupsaddsmb" utility for exporting
287 CUPS printer drivers to SAMBA/Windows clients.
288 - Added preliminary support for Darwin/MacOS X.
289 - The CUPS-Add-Printer operation no longer allows
290 arbitrary scheme names in device URIs to be used - it
291 now restricts the available schemes to those found in
292 the device list (lpinfo -m).
293 - The ippRead() and ipp_read_file() functions could not
294 handle more than IPP_MAX_VALUES (100) values in a
295 1setOf attribute. These functions have been updated
296 to dynamically allocate more memory as needed, and the
297 IPP_MAX_VALUES constant now represents the allocation
298 increment. [this caused some versions of the
299 GIMP-print drivers to fail since the number of media
300 options exceeded 100...]
301 - The scheduler could crash when BrowseShortNames
302 was set to "No".
303 - The scheduler did not prevent MaxClients from being
304 set to 0, which could cause the scheduler to go in an
305 infinite loop when accepting a request.
306 - Made some performance optimizations in the ippRead()
307 functions to make IPP request/response processing
308 faster.
309 - The accept/reject/enable/disable command did not
310 support properly support the "-h" or default
311 server name.
312 - The scheduler did not save the quota configuration
313 when the job-quota-period attribute was set to 0.
314 - The LPDEST and PRINTER environment variables did not
315 support printer instances.
316 - The text filter now handles more types of boldface and
317 underline formatting.
318 - The cupsTempFd() function did not fail if the
319 temporary directory did not exist; this would cause it
320 to loop indefinitely instead of returning an error
321 (-1).
322 - Stopping (disabling) a printer class did not stop jobs
323 from printing to printers in that class.
324 - The cupsGetDests() function was sending the
325 requested-attributes attribute as a name instead of a
326 keyword; this caused a serious performance problem on
327 slower systems since more information had to be
328 transferred from server to client.
329 - The web interfaces did not always quote < and & in
330 things like the job title. This had the potential for
331 browser-based security violations (on the browser's
332 machine); bug report from SuSE.
333 - The scheduler now treats unauthenticated usernames as
334 case-insensitive when doing quota and allow/deny
335 processing.
336 - The lp command sent the "request ID is ..." message
337 to stderr instead of stdout...
338 - The PostScript filter (pstops) now handles EPS files,
339 adding a showpage command to the files as needed.
340 - The configure script checked for the <stdlib.h> header
341 file before the JPEG libraries; since the JPEG headers
342 can define HAVE_STDLIB_H, the configure check would
343 cause the JPEG check to fail on some systems.
344 - The scheduler now supports localized banner files,
345 using the subdirectory approach, e.g. the "es"
346 subdirectory under /usr/share/cups/banners is used for
347 the Spanish banner files.
348 - Updated the scheduler so it knows the correct
349 language abbreviation to use for all supported
350 PPD LanguageVersion values. The new code also
351 supports country codes as well, so "English-GB"
352 maps to the "en_GB" locale.
353 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not support
354 anonymous printing (no username specified).
355 While the username is REQUIRED by RFC-1179,
356 MacOS clients do not send the REQUIRED username
357 information when printing via LPD.
358 - Added many warning and informational messages
359 to cups-lpd where they were missing.
360 - Added Czech message file contributed by SuSE.
361 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon now returns a non-zero
362 status if an invalid destination or job ID is
363 provided.
364 - The scheduler did not honor the KeepAlive setting in
365 cupsd.conf.
366 - Increased the size of the file read/write buffers to
367 32k.
368 - *BSD static library creation fixes.
369 - Use mkstemps() instead of tmpnam() in pdftops whenever
370 possible.
371 - Added httpGetHostByName() function as a wrapper around
372 gethostbyname() - some implementations of this
373 function do not support IP addresses (e.g. MacOS X.)
374 - Added casts to all printf's of file lengths, since
375 there is currently no standard way of formatting long
376 long values.
377 - The client filename field was not cleared in all
378 instances, resulting in old form data being submitted
379 to CGIs.
380 - The httpConnect*() functions now try all available
381 addresses for a host when connecting for the first
382 time.
383 - The pstoraster filter would "lose" all drawing
384 commands when the PageSize was set but the printer
385 bitmap was not reallocated. This was most noticeable
386 with the output from StarOffice 6 beta and would
387 result in a blank page being output...
388 - The IPP backend was sending a PAGE comment even when
389 printing the output from a filter (it should only send
390 page comments when printing files directly...)
391 - The pdftops filter didn't properly map glyph names of
392 embedded Asian TrueType fonts.
393 - Changed the CUPS startup script to look for a program
394 named "cupsd", not just any program with "cupsd" in
395 the name (this caused the apcupsd UPS monitoring
396 daemon to be stopped/restarted...)
397 - The CUPS-Move-Job operation did not change the
398 internal destination name for held jobs, so moved (but
399 held) jobs would still show up as queued on the
400 original destination.
401 - The cups-polld program didn't send the
402 requested-attributes attribute in the
403 CUPS-Get-Printers and CUPS-Get-Classes requests, which
404 made it use more CPU and bandwidth than required.
405 - The scheduler and CUPS API incorrectly added a
406 job-sheets-default attribute for remote printers. This
407 caused banner pages to be omitted from client system
408 prints.
409
410
411 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.10-1
412
413 - Minor fixes to the filter, systemv, and template
414 makefiles to install files properly.
415
416
417 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.10
418
419 - Added a driver for DYMO label printers.
420 - Added new ClassifyOverride directive to allow users
421 to override the classification of individual jobs.
422 - Added new BrowseProtocols directive to control which
423 browse protocols are used (currently CUPS and SLP).
424 - Added SLPv2 support (thanks to Matt Peterson for
425 contributing the initial implementation for CUPS.)
426 - Adding a raw printer on a remote CUPS server now
427 correctly redirects PPD file requests to the remote
428 server.
429 - The serial backend now limits writes to 1/10th
430 second worth of data to avoid buffer overflows
431 with some types of flow control.
432 - The scheduler did not properly process PUT requests,
433 so configuration files could not be uploaded to the
434 server.
435 - The scheduler did not strip trailing whitespace on
436 lines in the configuration files.
437 - The httpWrite() function did not transition the PUT
438 request to the HTTP_STATUS state to get the status
439 from the server.
440 - The scheduler did not properly handle trailing null
441 ("-") filters when testing a driver that sent data
442 to the file: pseudo-backend.
443 - The IPP backend now only sends a document-format of
444 "application/vnd.cups-raw" when printing to another
445 CUPS server using a local printer driver or interface
446 script. Previously the job's document format was
447 used, which was incorrect.
448 - The lpadmin command didn't use the ppd-name attribute
449 with the -m option; this prevented the use of the
450 "raw" model from the command-line.
451 - The pstoraster filter output draft (1-bit) 6-color
452 output in the wrong order; this resulted in yellow
453 being printed instead of black on Stylus Photo
454 printers.
455 - The pdftops filter did not have the Japanese and
456 Chinese text support compiled into it.
457 - The IPP and AppSocket backends did not clear the
458 "waiting for print job to complete" status message,
459 which caused some confusion... :)
460 - The serial backend now opens the port in "no delay"
461 mode to avoid DCD detection problems with some OS's.
462
463
464 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.9-1
465
466 - The configure script did not substitute the
467 correct user and group names.
468 - The configure script did not use the full path
469 to the install-sh script when it was used.
470 - The pstoraster filter did not correctly support
471 DuplexTumble mode for printers that used flip
472 duplexing.
473 - The cups.list.in file was missing from the
474 distribution.
475 - The New DeskJet series driver did not use the
476 correct OrderDependency for the Duplex option.
477 - Use read() instead of fread() to read piped
478 print files in lpr/lp. This avoids a bug in the
479 HP-UX 10.20 fread() function.
480 - Updated the pstoraster filter to use the MIPS_FIXADE
481 system call under IRIX to fix bus error problems on
482 R12000 processors (Ghostscript is not 64-bit clean...)
483 - Some Xerox PPD files (most notably the Phaser 790)
484 have illegal whitespace in the option keyword in the
485 OpenUI line. This caused the PageRegion option to not
486 be recognized properly for the Phaser 790.
487
488
489 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.9
490
491 - Revamped the configure script to use a modular
492 approach for the various tests.
493 - Added --with-openssl-* options to properly reference
494 the OpenSSL libraries in DSOs.
495 - Added --with-cups-user and --with-cups-group
496 options to specify the default user and group for
497 CUPS.
498 - Added AIX shared library support.
499 - Added AIX device discovery for the serial and
500 parallel ports.
501 - Now use install program or script to install
502 directories, files, and symlinks.
503 - Updated pstops filter to use strict handling of EPS
504 files embedded in a PostScript document. The %%EOF
505 handling in 1.1.8 caused some dvips files not to
506 print.
507 - Fixed yet another memory allocation bug in pstoraster
508 that would cause it to crash. This fix also ensures
509 that all memory allocations are done on (at least) a
510 64-bit boundary.
511 - Fixed Digest authentication - httpGetSubField() didn't
512 skip the Digest keyword.
513 - The scheduler did not properly handle Digest
514 authentication with the new multiple-group support.
515 - The scheduler did not allow usernames that were
516 not in the UNIX password file to be used for Digest
517 authentication from passwd.md5.
518 - The scheduler could not scan PPD files that only used
519 a carriage return (i.e. MacOS PPD files); the new code
520 is also about 40% faster, so servers with thousands of
521 PPD files should start much faster now.
522 - The scheduler now stores the PPD file size and
523 modification times in the ppds.dat file, so it can now
524 incrementally update the PPD database from the model
525 directory, resulting in significantly faster startup
526 times.
527 - The lpinfo command did not return a non-zero status
528 code if an error occurred.
529 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler's UpdateJob() function.
530 Basically, all jobs shared the same status buffer, and
531 the "buffer start" pointer could point to 1 byte
532 before the beginning of the buffer. The new
533 implementation uses a separate buffer for each job and
534 eliminates the buffer start bug.
535 - The IPP backend would send N copies of a document if
536 the receiving device didn't support the copies
537 attribute, even if the upstream driver already added
538 the necessary commands to generate the copies. This
539 was most noticeable with HP printers where N * N
540 copies would come out instead of N.
541 - The PostScript filter (pstops) did not properly handle
542 duplex printing on inkjet printers that provide this
543 option. Copies would be put on the front and back
544 sides of the duplexed page, and the filter did not
545 output an even number of pages.
546 - The backends always caught SIGTERM after they
547 connected to the printer. This prevented raw jobs
548 from being cancelled early.
549 - The cupsSetDests() function now removes any printers,
550 instances, and options that are not defined by the
551 user or server. This should prevent old system-wide
552 options from being used in individual user accounts.
553 - Updated the EPSON printer driver and added PPDs for
554 the newer EPSON Stylus printers that only support the
555 "ESC i" graphics command.
556 - The lpadmin command didn't allow you to add remote
557 printers to a local class.
558 - The lpadmin command didn't allow you to set the
559 options (quotas, etc.) for a class.
560 - The scheduler did not load or save the
561 job-sheets-default attribute for classes.
562 - The scheduler did not automatically recreate remote
563 printers that were part of a class.
564 - It was possible for a printer class to list the same
565 printer more than once.
566 - The scheduler now makes a backup copy of classes.conf
567 and printers.conf before writing the new file.
568 - The lppasswd program incorrectly asked for a new
569 password when deleting an existing MD5 password
570 account.
571 - The scheduler did not match "/printers/name.ppd"
572 against a location of "/printers/name".
573 - The client code did not always handle HTTP encryption
574 upgrades properly.
575 - The client code now caches the last Digest password so
576 it can retry using a new resource path or nonce value,
577 which are included in the MD5 sum sent to the server.
578 This should eliminate unnecessary password prompts
579 when using Digest authentication.
580 - The lppasswd command didn't have a man page.
581 - Updated the PJL detection rules to allow the universal
582 escape to occur anywhere in the first 128 bytes of the
583 file.
584 - The cups-polld program would poll servers continuously
585 with no delay if there was an error contacting the
586 server.
587 - The IPP backend would send an empty job-name or
588 requesting-user-name attribute if the corresponding
589 job attribute was an empty string. While this is
590 allowed by the IPP specification, some HP JetDirect
591 implementations return a client-error-bad-request
592 error if an empty name attribute value is received.
593 The new code only sends these attributes if they are
594 not the empty string.
595 - At least some versions of the HP JetDirect firmware
596 do not correctly implement IPP. Added additional
597 checks to the IPP backend to eliminate extra,
598 unsupported attributes which should normally be
599 ignored by a compliant IPP device.
600 - The scheduler did not copy the complete list of
601 supported file types into the
602 document-format-supported attribute. This caused
603 clients to not send the local file type (such as
604 application/vnd.cups-raw for raw print files) and the
605 corresponding bad output in some cases.
606 - The scheduler did not fully copy attributes from a
607 set-job-attributes request - string attributes were
608 only referenced, which could cause cupsd to crash
609 or behave irratically.
610 - The lp command didn't send the right value for the
611 job-hold-until attribute when "-H resume" was
612 specified.
613 - The IPP backend now returns as soon as a job is
614 completed or reported as "pending-held".
615 - Added new ImplicitAnyClasses and HideImplicitMembers
616 directives to the cupsd.conf file to make implicit
617 classes more usable/transparent to the user.
618 - Clients can now (with the appropriate authentication)
619 retrieve and update the server configuration files
620 using HTTP GET and PUT requests.
621 - The web interface didn't allow you to modify the
622 location or description of the printer.
623 - The pdftops filter now uses its own temporary file
624 function to work with PDF files using LZW compression
625 (which use the uncompress program or gunzip)
626 - The SystemGroup directive now supports specification of
627 multiple groups.
628 - Added new Include directive to cupsd.conf, a la
629 Apache.
630 - Added new pseudo-driver/PPD called "raw" that can be
631 used to create/convert a raw queue. This also allows
632 raw queues to be created in the web interface.
633 - The pdftops filter didn't handle image objects that
634 used JPEG and Flate compression together.
635 - The pstops filter counted pages wrong when using the
636 N-up and even/odd printing options. This prevented
637 the page-ranges option from working properly.
638 - Added another fix to pstoraster for a bus error
639 condition caused by a lack of parenthesis in the
640 Ghostscript code.
641 - Added new "natural-scaling" option which scales the
642 natural size of the image (percent of natural image
643 size instead of percent of page size.)
644 - The lppasswd program is now setuid to the CUPS user
645 instead of root.
646 - The PPD functions did not allow for PPD files that
647 defined the page sizes and margins before the page
648 size options.
649 - The mime.types file now checks for the PJL "LANGUAGE =
650 Postscript" command for PostScript files.
651 - The scheduler did not truncate file: output files.
652 - The PPD file reading code did not handle options with
653 raw quotes (") in the human-readable names.
654 - The pdftops filter now remaps the space character when
655 (bad) PDF files contain a .notdef glyph for the space
656 character.
657
658
659 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.8
660
661 - Updated configure script to check for /etc/pam.d and
662 to only set PAMDIR if it exists.
663 - Updated spec file to generate separate cups-pstoraster
664 package for pstoraster.
665 - The spec file wasn't setting LOGDIR in the install.
666 - The scheduler might restart a stopped printer after
667 stopping a print job. Thanks to Florent
668 Guiliani for finding this bug!
669 - The init script showed run level 0 for the Red Hat
670 chkconfig program. This is incorrect because Red Hat
671 doesn't use run level 0 for shutdown scripts.
672 - The IPP backend did not handle the
673 client-error-not-found error when checking the status
674 of the job that was sent. This caused remote queues
675 to stop on client machines when the server had job
676 history disabled.
677 - Added httpConnectEncrypt() function to avoid
678 performance penalty for setting up encrypted
679 connections initially.
680 - Use httpConnectEncrypt() in all client apps and in the
681 CUPS API to ensure consistent usage of encryption
682 throughout.
683 - Jobs weren't queued to remote classes (fix from
684 Richard Begg.)
685 - AIX changes from Richard Begg.
686 - Fixed the pstops fix for GNOME output - no longer use
687 the page numbers in the %%Page: comment since GNOME
688 puts a filename instead (!?@!#?!). There is still an
689 issue with N-up printing since GNOME defines its fonts
690 in the first page instead of the document setup section
691 (pages must be independent according to the DSC spec)
692 People with GNOME printing problems should consult bug
693 #54489...
694 - The imagetops filter produced PAGE: messages when
695 generating PostScript for a non-PostScript printer
696 (only affects page-label and Classification
697 options.)
698 - The updated pdftops filter was looking for an options
699 file called xpdf.conf instead of pdftops.conf.
700 - The scheduler would not force the default job sheets
701 for printers to the current classification setting.
702 - Added a new ippFindNextAttribute() function to the
703 CUPS API.
704 - ppdEmitJCL() now strips any leading path info from
705 the title string. This is only an issue for non-CUPS
706 clients that don't do this already...
707 - Other pstops fixed from Helge Blischke for printing
708 non-conforming documents.
709 - The MaxJobs parameter was not reset when loading the
710 cupsd.conf file.
711
712
713 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.7
714
715 - Configuration script changes, including new
716 "--with-docdir=/dir" option to relocate CUPS
717 documentation and web content according to your
718 favorite version of the FHS.
719 - Documentation updates for encryption, SLP, etc.
720 - New Software Test Plan and automated test script to
721 test CUPS prior to installation.
722 - All scheduler configuration files are now case
723 insensitive to match Apache.
724 - Added support for Apache ListenBackLog, LogFormat,
725 Require, UseCanonicalName, Satisfy, <Limit>,
726 <LimitExcept>, LimitRequestSize, and Options
727 directives.
728 - Added support for all Apache log levels...
729 - Added support for "double" HostNameLookups.
730 - Added new "RunAsUser" directive to support non-root
731 configurations on the standard (priviledged) ports.
732 - Added support for non-root invocation of the lpd
733 backend (does no reserve a priviledged port, which
734 might not work with some LPD servers...)
735 - Added new PrintcapFormat directive to control the
736 output format of the printcap file (BSD or Solaris
737 formats are supported at present.)
738 - The CUPS directory service routines now handle
739 ECONNREFUSED errors gracefully rather than shutting
740 all browsing off.
741 - ippErrorString() now returns the recommended error
742 messages from the IPP/1.1 Model and Semantics
743 document.
744 - Fixed a minor IPP compliance issue with responses
745 to requests without the attributes-charset or
746 attributes-natural-language attributes.
747 - Sun fix: need httpFlush() call for chunked IPP
748 requests in cupsDoFileRequest().
749 - httpConnect() now looks up "localhost" by name and
750 by address (127.0.0.1) for users the go to the
751 trouble of removing the required localhost entry
752 in /etc/hosts or on their DNS server...
753 - Added support for Linux 2.4.x devfs parallel port
754 filenames (/dev/parallel/N).
755 - cupsDo[File]Request() and cupsGetPPD() no longer
756 block trying to reconnect to a crashed or inaccessable
757 server.
758 - Added new ppdEmitJCL() function to better handle
759 PJL commands from PPD files.
760 - A bug in UpdateJob() would cause the scheduler to
761 consume 100% CPU until another request was submitted.
762 - The cancel command did not support the "-" option to
763 cancel all jobs on all printers.
764 - The cancel and lprm commands did not support cancelling
765 the next/current job in the queue.
766 - The pdftops and pstoraster filters were using unsafe
767 temporary file functions; while this is not a problem
768 in normal configurations (the CUPS temporary directory
769 is restricted), they now use the cupsTempFd() function.
770 - The mime.types file was missing the recognition rule
771 for Sun Raster images.
772 - The admin CGI was passing a printer make string to
773 ippSetCGIVars() that was being replaced in that
774 function.
775 - "lpoptions -l" would resave the options...
776 - The EPSON drivers now send the "end packet mode"
777 command when printing to USB devices.
778 - The scheduler initialized certificates before loading
779 the cupsd.conf file.
780 - The scheduler used /dev/random to collect random data,
781 which could block if insufficient entropy information
782 had been collected by the kernel. Now use
783 /dev/urandom.
784 - Fixed a bug in the whitespace skipping code in
785 httpGetSubField().
786 - The LPD backend now supports a new "order" option:
787 "lpd://server/queue?order=control,data" (default) and
788 "lpd://server/queue?order=data,control".
789 - The scheduler enforced a 30 second timeout on all
790 clients regardless of the Timeout directive and if a
791 CGI was currently running.
792 - cupsParseOptions() now sets boolean options to
793 option=true or option=false.
794 - The "percent complete" calculations in the LPD backend
795 could overflow on large files, causing the percentage
796 to wrap to 0 every 40MB or so.
797 - Fixed a memory reallocation bug in pstoraster that
798 could cause it to crash.
799 - The LPD backend now sanitizes the job title to avoid
800 potential problems on remote LPD servers.
801 - The lp command did not send the requesting-user-name
802 attribute when altering a job.
803 - The pstops filter did not handle PostScript files with
804 lines longer than 8191 bytes.
805 - The scheduler no longer uses inet_addr() to convert IP
806 addresses in dot format (mmm.nnn.ooo.ppp) to the
807 32-bit format, since it will not work for IPv6
808 addresses.
809 - New "Classification" directive to force labeling of
810 the current classification on each page.
811 - New "page-label" attribute to add per-page labels
812 ("For Official Use Only", "Draft", etc.)
813 - The scheduler now sets the HTTPS environment variable
814 for CGI programs when a client connects using
815 encryption.
816 - Fixed a recursion bug in the scheduler that could
817 cause cupsd to crash when a printer was removed.
818 - The LPDEST and PRINTER environment variables didn't
819 support instances.
820 - Dropped the "file" backend from the device list that
821 is reported, since it is only available for *testing*
822 and should never be used in a production environment.
823 The file: device can still be used, but it won't show
824 up in the list of devices from lpinfo or the web
825 interface.
826 - Added support for /dev/lpa# parallel ports under *BSD.
827 - Added META variables to the CGI header template to
828 prevent caching of the results.
829 - Fixed an unaligned memory buffer for the pstoraster
830 clist states; this caused bus errors for some
831 combinations of printers, drivers, and options.
832 - Re-added black reduction for colorful colors; this
833 helps to prevent dark colors from getting desaturated.
834 (only used when converting RGB to CMYK)
835 - Added two new directives - MaxJobsPerPrinter and
836 MaxJobsPerUser - to allow an administrator to set
837 the maximum number of pending jobs in a queue or
838 submitted by a user.
839 - The scheduler no longer stops a printer if it can't
840 create the status pipe or run the filters or backend.
841 This will allow heavily loaded servers to service
842 clients or start print jobs as the load allows.
843 - Fixed a bug in the Set-Job-Attributes code that could
844 crash the scheduler (patch from Martin Zielinski)
845 - cupsSetDests() did not quote option values with
846 embedded spaces.
847 - Added support for the Enable-Printer and
848 Disable-Printer extension operations (same as
849 CUPS-Accept-Jobs and CUPS-Reject-Jobs.)
850 - The AppSocket and IPP backends now wait for the print
851 job to be finished before exiting; this should prevent
852 the loss of print jobs with older JetDirect firmware
853 and make consecutive print jobs print faster.
854 - The BMP loading code did not handle resolution values
855 of 0. This is a problem with BMP image files produced
856 by the GIMP.
857 - The HTTP Upgrade code (upgrade to TLS encryption)
858 bypassed the authentication checks.
859 - The HTTP Upgrade code did not send a 426 status code
860 to the client and end the current request. This caused
861 a race condition between the client and server for the
862 upgrade to TLS.
863 - Fixed a bug in the EOF and Trailer detection code in
864 the pstops filter.
865 - The imagetoraster filter did not add the margins to
866 the custom page size in the raster header.
867 - The imagetops filter did not adjust the custom page
868 size to the size of the printed image.
869 - The imagetops filter did not include DSC comments
870 which are required by some printers.
871 - The imagetops filter did not insert newlines in
872 Base85 encoded output, causing files to contain
873 lines longer than 255 characters (violation of the
874 DSC).
875 - Added support for the DeskJet 900 series duplexer
876 and CRET color modes in the HP driver.
877 - Added support for PPD-defined margins in the HP
878 driver.
879 - Fixed the debugging output from pstoraster - the
880 font list was not terminated by a newline.
881 - Some versions of the HP-UX pam_unix authentication
882 module apparently do not pass the appdata_ptr argument
883 to the conversation function, preventing the scheduler
884 from authenticating users using PAM under HP-UX. A
885 workaround using a static variable has been added to
886 address this problem.
887 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler SortPrinters() function
888 that could cause printers to disappear or the
889 scheduler to crash when adding a printer.
890 - Changed the pstops filter to not do per-page filtering
891 if the file does not conform to at least version 3.0
892 of the document structuring conventions. This seems
893 to "fix" printing with broken apps.
894 - The image filters did not handle older TIFF files that
895 lacked the samples-per-pixel and bits-per-pixel tags.
896 - Added new cupsGetJobs() and cupsFreeJobs() functions
897 to manage print jobs.
898 - cupsEncodeOptions() would encode names of 0 length and
899 cupsAddOption() and cupsParseOptions() would add names
900 of 0 length.
901 - The scheduler might block waiting for status messages
902 after starting a new print job. Thanks to Florent
903 Guiliani for finding this bug!
904
905
906 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.6-3
907
908 - The configure script put the JPEG library before the
909 TIFF library; this caused problems in some
910 configurations since the TIFF library also supports
911 JPEG compression of TIFF images.
912 - Updated the configure script and makefiles to handle
913 admin man pages with the "1m" extension (HP-UX, IRIX,
914 Solaris, Tru64) and in odd directories (IRIX)
915 - The updated cupsTempFile() function did not return
916 the filename when called with a filename buffer of
917 NULL (previously it used a static buffer.)
918 - FreeBSD uses /dev/unlptN, but NetBSD and OpenBSD use
919 /dev/ulptN.
920 - DeletePrinter() didn't remove the printer from any
921 classes it was a member of.
922 - DeletePrinterFromClass() didn't preserve the
923 implicit status of a class.
924 - DeletePrinterFromClasses() didn't remove printers
925 from implicit classes.
926 - StartJob() didn't send the job-sheets, job-priority,
927 and job-hold-until attributes to remote printers.
928 - LoadAllJobs() was looking for job-sheets-completed
929 instead of job-media-sheets-completed. This would
930 prevent accumulation of page data after a restart
931 of the scheduler.
932 - The pstops and imagetops filters now generate copies
933 using the appropriate method for a Level 1, 2, or 3
934 printer since some Level 2/3 printers don't support
935 the /#copies variable anymore.
936 - The man page for cups-lpd did not mention the "-o"
937 option.
938 - The IPP backend didn't handle version-not-supported
939 errors and revert to IPP/1.0 (previously it only checked
940 for a bad-request error)
941 - Caldera fix: lpc now reports unimplemented commands as
942 unimplemented, not invalid.
943 - Caldera fix: lpq didn't recognize BSD lpq "-a" option.
944 - Caldera fix: lpr didn't recognize BSD lpr "-1", "-2",
945 "-3", "-4", "-q", or "-U" options.
946 - RedHat fixes: patches to GNU Ghostscript
947 - SuSE fix: temp file creation patch to GNU Ghostscript
948 (pstoraster).
949 - SuSE fix: remove cgi-bin/abort.c and cgi-bin/email.c,
950 which are not used.
951 - SuSE fix: missing NULL check in cgi_initialize_post().
952 - SuSE fix: potential buffer overflows in
953 cgi_initialize_string().
954 - SuSE fix: potential buffer overflows in
955 ippSetCGIVars()
956 - SuSE fix: more NULL checks in ppdOpen(); also make
957 sure that all memory is freed on error to avoid memory
958 leaks.
959 - SuSE fix: Exit from child if setgid() or setuid()
960 fails.
961 - SuSE fix: Added setgroups() calls after setgid() and
962 setuid() calls.
963 - SuSE fix: potential buffer overflows in httpEncode64()
964 calls.
965 - SuSE fix: potential buffer overflows in httpSeparate()
966 - SuSE fix: potential buffer overflows in ippWrite() for
967 bad input.
968 - SuSE fix: potential nul skip in ppd_decode() for
969 missing hex digits.
970
971
972 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.6-2
973
974 - Added changes to support NetBSD startup scripts.
975 - Added separate compiler options for pstoraster
976 (Ghostscript) to avoid compiler-induced errors
977 from Ghostscript's twisted code.
978 - The mime.types file contained syntax errors.
979 - Updated the *BSD USB device filenames to use
980 the /dev/unlptN files so that the USB device
981 is not reset prior to printing (causes print
982 corruption on many printers)
983 - Added new cupsTempFd() function to avoid serious
984 security bug in glibc fopen() function. The glibc
985 fopen() function unlinks a file before creating it,
986 which opens up possible symlink attacks.
987 - Now reject 0-length names in add-printer and add-class
988 requests.
989 - Fix for pstoraster when ZLIB is not available.
990 - cupsGetPPD() didn't reconnect when a HTTP connection
991 was lost.
992 - SuSE fix: httpConnect() didn't check that the
993 value from gethostbyname() was a valid IPv4 address.
994 - SuSE fix: httpConnect() didn't allow file descriptor 0
995 to be used for a socket.
996 - SuSE fix: ippRead() didn't confirm that all values in
997 a set were numeric or string types.
998 - SuSE fix: lppasswd race condition fixes.
999 - SuSE fix: directive names could overflow buffer when
1000 reading *.conf files.
1001 - SuSE fix: HEAD requests for PPD files did not use the
1002 same logic as GET requests.
1003 - SuSE fix: possible buffer overflow when adding
1004 /index.html to requested directory name.
1005 - SuSE fix: possible buffer overflow when converting
1006 IPP attributes to string options for filters.
1007 - SuSE fix: creating file: device output with mode 0666
1008 instead of mode 0600.
1009 - SuSE fix: creating job info files with mode 0640
1010 instead of 0600.
1011 - SuSE fix: don't rely on snprintf() for including
1012 system name in log filenames.
1013 - SuSE fix: add bounds checking when copying quoted
1014 and hex strings.
1015
1016
1017 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.6-1
1018
1019 - Added configure check for getting the correct
1020 strftime() format string; %c is not Y2k safe,
1021 and %KC and NULL are not universally supported.
1022
1023
1024 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.6
1025
1026 - Fixed another possible DoS attack in httpGets()
1027 - Added check for "LANGUAGE = PCL" and "LANGUAGE =
1028 POSTSCRIPT" in mime.types.
1029 - Resolution options were not being passed into the
1030 filter programs properly.
1031 - The default compiler options for GCC no longer include
1032 "-g3", which apparently is deprecated in newer
1033 versions of GCC.
1034 - CheckJobs() could cause cupsd to crash if a job is
1035 cancelled in StartJob().
1036 - The printers.conf and classes.conf files are now
1037 written with restricted permissions.
1038 - The round-robin algorithm used by FindAvailablePrinter()
1039 had problems; fixes contributed by Joel Fredrikson.
1040 - If LoadAllJobs() is unable to determine the file type
1041 of a print job, assume "application/vnd.cups-raw".
1042 - The web interface now provides a job_printer_name
1043 value for any corresponding job_printer_uri value.
1044 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon now logs the client address
1045 and hostname as well as all commands and errors in the
1046 syslog file.
1047 - The IPP backend now detects the supported file formats
1048 and only specifies the document format if it is
1049 supported. This makes IPP printing to network print
1050 servers and cards more reliable without affecting the
1051 capabilities of CUPS servers.
1052 - The time_at_xyz attributes are now converted to human-
1053 readable dates and times for the web interfaces.
1054 - The HP and EPSON sample drivers now correctly catch
1055 signals and eject the current page when a job is
1056 cancelled.
1057 - Fixed bug in CGI code - did not ignore control
1058 characters (e.g. newlines) in form data. This caused
1059 sporatic web interface problems.
1060 - The file type logging code in the scheduler referenced
1061 the optional document-format attribute; the new code
1062 uses the resolved MIME type instead.
1063 - The client.conf parsing code now removes trailing
1064 whitespace.
1065 - The MaxJobs directive was being treated as a boolean
1066 instead of an integer.
1067 - The scheduler would not timeout remote printers if
1068 BrowseInterval was set to 0.
1069 - The lpadmin command now supports setting of options
1070 and user-level access control.
1071 - Added "-E" option to all printing commands to force
1072 encryption.
1073 - The client code did not consume the response to the
1074 OPTIONS request when switching to secure mode.
1075 - The scheduler did not output a Content-Length field
1076 when responding to an OPTIONS request.
1077 - Added documentation on using cups-lpd with xinetd
1078 to the man page.
1079 - The socket backend now starts retries at 5 seconds and
1080 increases the interval to 30 seconds. This should
1081 provide faster printing when multiple jobs/files are
1082 queued for a printer.
1083 - The filters and backends no longer buffer output to
1084 stderr. This should provide much more accurate status
1085 reporting.
1086
1087
1088 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.5-2
1089
1090 - Fixed configure check for OpenSSL to work with RSA
1091 code.
1092 - Added configure check for <sys/ioctl.h>, and use this
1093 check in backend/serial.c.
1094 - Updated configure script handling of data,
1095 configuration, and state directories to use datadir,
1096 sysconfdir, and localstatedir variables.
1097 - NetBSD uses different serial port filenames than
1098 FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
1099 - The pdftops filter didn't need some X-specific files.
1100 - The scheduler makefile doesn't do a chown anymore when
1101 installing (cupsd did this automatically on startup
1102 anyways)
1103
1104
1105 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.5-1
1106
1107 - There was a typo in the top-level Makefile
1108 - The top-level Makefile did not install an init script
1109 for run level 5.
1110 - The configure script did not add the "crypto" library
1111 when checking for the OpenSSL library.
1112 - The OKIDATA PPD files were missing.
1113 - The config.h.in file defined the wrong version number.
1114 - The serial backend did not define "funky_hex" under *BSD.
1115 - Updated the Visual C++ project files and some of the
1116 CUPS API sources to compile under Windows again.
1117
1118
1119 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.5
1120
1121 - Security updates - new default configuration does
1122 not broadcast printer information and only allows
1123 access from the local system.
1124 - EXPERIMENTAL encryption support - CUPS now optionally
1125 supports TLS/SSL encryption via the OpenSSL library.
1126 - Documentation updates.
1127 - Makefile/configure script updates.
1128 - The RPM spec file didn't work out-of-the-box under
1129 RedHat or Mandrake.
1130 - Minor code cleanup to remove extraneous compiler
1131 warnings.
1132 - cupsTempFile() was using %p for the temporary
1133 filename; this should have been %08x (just 8 digit
1134 hex)
1135 - Deleting a printer with active print jobs would still
1136 crash the server.
1137 - ippWrite() and ipp_write_file() didn't send the
1138 correct value length for name-with-language and
1139 text-with-language attributes.
1140 - Updated IPP code to support copied strings (that
1141 should not be freed); this provides slightly more
1142 efficient IPP server performance.
1143 - Updated PDF filter to Xpdf 0.91.
1144 - httpGets() could go into an infinite loop if a line
1145 longer than the input buffer size was sent by a
1146 client. This could be used in a Denial-of-Service
1147 attack.
1148 - The lpstat and CUPS API functions now request only the
1149 data required when getting the list of printer or
1150 class information. This should improve performance
1151 with large numbers of printers on slower machines.
1152 - The scheduler was always enforcing the FilterLimit,
1153 even if FilterLimit was set to 0.
1154 - Updated the Linux USB backend to support Mandrake's
1155 /dev/usb/usblp# filenames.
1156 - The PRINTER and LPDEST environment variables did not
1157 override the lpoptions default printer.
1158 - The PPD read functions incorrectly included trailing
1159 characters (usually whitespace) after quoted string
1160 attributes.
1161 - The multiple-document-handling attribute handling code
1162 did not check for the correct value for collated
1163 copies (separate-documents-uncollated-copies).
1164 - The EPSON driver did not work with OKIDATA printers in
1165 EPSON emulation mode (needed change-emulation command)
1166 - The HP-GL/2 filter did not scale the plot properly in
1167 scale mode 2.
1168 - Added PPD files for 9-pin and 24-pin OKIDATA printers.
1169 - The httpSeparate() function didn't handle passwords
1170 that started with a number.
1171 - ippDelete() could free the character set string
1172 multiple times in name-with-language and
1173 text-with-language attributes.
1174 - The scheduler would access freed memory right after
1175 freeing it (for debug messages); these parts of the
1176 code have been reordered to avoid this situation
1177 which was causing sporatic errors and crashes.
1178 - The ppdClose() function didn't free all of the strings
1179 in the ppd_file_t structure.
1180 - The LoadAllJobs() function in the scheduler did not
1181 close the spool directory.
1182 - Changed all sprintf's that use string formats to
1183 snprintf's, even if the destination buffer is
1184 larger than the source string(s); this protects
1185 against buffer overflows caused outside of CUPS...
1186 - Changed all strcpy's to strncpy's between local and
1187 global variables, even if the destination buffer is
1188 larger than the source string; this protects
1189 against buffer overflows caused outside of CUPS...
1190 - The CUPS certificate functions didn't use the
1191 CUPS_SERVERROOT environment variable when set.
1192 - The directory services code was copying instead of
1193 comparing the remote printer info, resulting in
1194 unnecessary updates of the printer attributes for
1195 remote printers.
1196 - Added new mime.types rules to allow automatic raw
1197 printing of PCL and ESC/P files; PJL headers are
1198 parsed to differentiate between PostScript and
1199 PCL job files. This should eliminate a lot of
1200 the reports of SAMBA printing problems due to
1201 the missing "-oraw" or "-l" options.
1202 - The mimeLoadType() function didn't handle the
1203 3-argument contains() function.
1204 - The LoadPPDs() function in the scheduler didn't
1205 properly set the alloc_ppds variable or handle a PPD
1206 database containing 0 printers.
1207 - The scheduler FindAvailablePrinter() function didn't
1208 use the same queuing logic as the CheckJobs()
1209 function. This caused classes to stall if a remote
1210 printer was always busy.
1211 - Jobs are now assigned to printers in a class
1212 round-robin style. This should prevent the first
1213 server in the class from bearing the brunt of the
1214 jobs.
1215 - The scheduler's LoadAllJobs() function didn't always
1216 restore remote printers for queued jobs on startup.
1217 - The serial backend didn't support the higher baud
1218 rates with the old termios interface. It now supports
1219 57600 and 115200 baud.
1220 - The serial backend now supports different types of
1221 flow control; previously it ignored the flow=XYZ
1222 option in the device URI.
1223 - The serial backend now supports DTR/DSR flow control,
1224 which is popular on dot-matrix printers (access with
1225 "flow=dtrdsr" in the device URI)
1226 - Added new job-originating-host-name attribute for
1227 jobs. The new attribute provides the hostname or
1228 IP address of the machine that submitted the job.
1229 - The set-job-attributes code no longer allows read-only
1230 job attributes to be changed.
1231 - Expanded the click area for the navigation bar in the
1232 web interface.
1233 - Updated the lp and cancel commands to support all of
1234 the Solaris print options (some are simply ignored
1235 since they do not map)
1236 - Updated the scheduler to limit the number of file
1237 descriptors to the maximum select() set size. This
1238 was causing problems on Solaris systems where the
1239 max FD count was increased beyond 1024.
1240 - The scheduler's LoadDevices() function was getting
1241 interrupted by the SIGCHLD signal handler; now ignore
1242 child signals while loading devices.
1243 - Added quota and allow/deny user support for printers
1244 and classes.
1245 - Removed black/CMY adjustment code from the PS and
1246 image file RIPs; it was interfering with some CUPS
1247 driver dithering code.
1248 - The lpc program stopped listing the queue statuses
1249 after the first active printer.
1250 - The cups-lpd program used an output format that the
1251 Solaris printing system did not understand.
1252 - Updated the lpq program to use the Solaris format
1253 except under Tru64 UNIX.
1254 - Some DEC PPD files incorrectly use "Off" for the null
1255 value in UI constraints. Added "Off" to the list of
1256 accepted null values.
1257 - Changed the *BSD define constants to __*BSD__ in all
1258 of the backends.
1259 - Added support for "lpstat printername", which is an
1260 undocumented feature in Solaris.
1261 - The HP-GL/2 filter now only sets the plot size if it
1262 is set in the plot file.
1263 - The lpmove command wasn't sending the requesting
1264 user name, causing it to always fail.
1265 - Updated the cupsTempFile() code to use GetTempPath()
1266 under Windows.
1267 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon didn't limit the number of
1268 data files accepted, didn't use cupsTempFile(),
1269 didn't handle control file job information in any
1270 order, and didn't free job options after printing
1271 a file.
1272 - The scheduler copy_banner() function did not
1273 explicitly set the owner and permissions of the banner
1274 files, which could prevent the banner pages from
1275 printing on some systems.
1276 - The lpstat program wasn't listing remote classes.
1277 - The scheduler did not verify that the printer-uri
1278 attribute was specified in all requests that required
1279 it.
1280
1281
1282 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1.4
1283
1284 - Makefile and configure script fixes.
1285 - **** Changed the default Printcap setting **** to
1286 /etc/printcap. There are just too many people asking
1287 why application XYZ doesn't see their printers!
1288 - The web admin interface now displays an error if it
1289 can't get the list of printer drivers from cupsd.
1290 - The IPP backend was putting the copies option before
1291 the other job options were set. This caused the IPP
1292 request to contain attribute groups in the wrong
1293 order, which prevented remote printing.
1294 - Added checks in scheduler to free memory used for
1295 IPP requests and language information when closing
1296 a client connection.
1297 - Fixed the duplex option in the HP LaserJet driver. It
1298 should now work with all LaserJet printers (and
1299 compatibles)
1300 - The add-printer web interface didn't initialize the
1301 "old info" data pointer, which caused random crashes
1302 on many OS's.
1303 - Fixed many page sizes defined in the Level 1
1304 compatibility file "gs_statd.ps" to match reality.
1305 - Fixed another bug in the setpagedevice "code" in
1306 Ghostscript. It should now accept all standard
1307 Adobe attributes on all platforms.
1308 - Fixed pstoraster so that it reallocates memory for
1309 color depth changes as well as size/resolution
1310 changes. This removes an ordering constraint on
1311 the color, page size, and resolution options in
1312 PPD files.
1313 - The IPP backend didn't use the job's character set
1314 when the destination printer supported it. This
1315 caused problems when printing text files to other
1316 CUPS servers.
1317 - Updated the logic used to determine when to rebuild
1318 the PPD file database. The scheduler now checks the
1319 dates and the number of PPD files (was just checking
1320 the dates.)
1321 - Updated the ippSetCGIVars() function (used by the
1322 web interfaces) to only filter valid string values.
1323 - The PostScript filter was scaling 2-up pages
1324 incorrectly. This caused the edges of some pages to
1325 be clipped.
1326
1327
1328 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1.3
1329
1330 - Makefile fixes.
1331 - RPM spec file changes.
1332 - Documentation updates.
1333 - Enabled pstoraster debug messages for everything
1334 (only logged when LogLevel set to "debug"...)
1335 - Changed the Input/OutputAttributes fix in
1336 pstoraster so that it works on all platforms.
1337 - The HP-GL/2 filter didn't set the right green
1338 color value in encoded polylines or text.
1339 - Updated the "fitplot" code to handle plot sizes
1340 specified as "PSwidth,length" and "PSlength,width".
1341 - Updated the Linux parallel and USB backends to open
1342 the device files prior to looking in /proc for
1343 autoprobe info. This makes sure that loadable device
1344 driver modules are in fact loaded...
1345 - Added new FilterLimit directive to limit the number
1346 of processing jobs/filters on a system.
1347 - set-job-attributes didn't change the job-state to
1348 held/pending when the job-hold-until attribute was
1349 specified.
1350 - set-job-attributes didn't save the new job attributes.
1351 - Now change the "requesting-user-name" attribute in
1352 requests from remote systems to "remroot" when an
1353 unauthenticated "root" user is sent. This can be
1354 changed using the new RemoteRoot directive in
1355 cupsd.conf.
1356 - The cancel-job, hold-job, release-job, and restart-job
1357 operations didn't log the authenticated username.
1358 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon now checks for a
1359 document-format option before forcing raw mode with
1360 filter mode 'l'.
1361 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon now supports "-o" options
1362 on the command-line (passed by inetd) to set global
1363 defaults for all print queues.
1364 - The pstops filter assumed that a file with a Trailer
1365 comment would also have an EOF comment.
1366 - Added new cupsSetPasswordCB(), cupsSetServer(),
1367 cupsSetUser(), and ippSetPort() functions to better
1368 support client applications (especially GUIs...)
1369 - The CUPS-add-class and CUPS-add-printer operations
1370 didn't reset the printer-name attribute on remote
1371 print queues that had to be renamed when a local
1372 printer was defined with the same name.
1373 - The lpoptions command now supports a "-r" option to
1374 remove options for a printer or instance.
1375 - The lpadmin and admin.cgi programs no longer allow
1376 class and printer names to begin with a number; this
1377 caused the command-line utilities to become confused.
1378 - The Linux USB backend now looks for both the parallel
1379 and usblp driver names in the device list.
1380 - Added a new FontPath directive to cupsd.conf, and also
1381 a "--with-fontpath" option for the configure script to
1382 specify alternate font paths for pstoraster.
1383 - The CUPS-move-job operation didn't update the
1384 job-printer-uri attribute.
1385 - The scheduler only looked up printers and classes by
1386 name in IPP requests, instead of using the full URI.
1387 This caused problems with KUPS and friends with
1388 remote printers.
1389 - The scheduler now handles better localization of
1390 hostnames (e.g. server is host.foo.com, remote is
1391 host.subfoo.foo.com, localized is not host.subfoo...)
1392 - The scheduler logging functions now use a common
1393 log file checking/rotation function (courtesy of
1394 Crutcher Dunnavant at Red Hat)
1395 - The scheduler could accept more client connections
1396 than it allocated for if more than one Port or Listen
1397 line was present in cupsd.conf.
1398 - Other minor scheduler performance tweeks.
1399 - The lpq and lprm commands didn't support the default
1400 printer set using lpoptions.
1401 - The lpoptions command now supports a "-l" option to
1402 list the printer-specific options and their current
1403 settings.
1404 - The web printer and class lists now show a link to the
1405 default printer or class at the top of the page.
1406 - The text filter now supports pretty printing of shell
1407 and perl scripts as well as C/C++ source files.
1408 - The top and bottom margins were reversed for landscape
1409 text printing.
1410 - The lpq and lprm commands didn't understand printer
1411 instances.
1412 - The scheduler only selected on the first 100 file
1413 descriptors instead of the maximum file descriptor
1414 limit.
1415 - The scheduler client, listener, and mainline functions
1416 now share code to disable and enable monitoring for
1417 new client connections.
1418 - The imagetoraster filter didn't support all of the
1419 required pagedevice parameters.
1420 - The serial backend now checks for 100 serial ports
1421 under Linux.
1422 - The scheduler used sscanf() to pull out the remote
1423 printer location, description, and make/model strings,
1424 but if any of these options was empty then sscanf()
1425 would stop processing.
1426 - Added "debug2" log level to provide a little less
1427 verbose debugging information at the "debug" level.
1428 - The scheduler would crash if you stopped a printer
1429 that was currently printing a job.
1430 - The scheduler incorrectly allowed jobs in the cancelled,
1431 aborted, or completed state to be cancelled.
1432 - The image filters did not load TIFF images properly
1433 for bottom-to-top and right-to-left orientations.
1434 - Added new cupsEncodeOptions() function to encode
1435 CUPS options as IPP job attributes.
1436 - The IPP backend, LPD mini-daemon, client commands,
1437 and CUPS API did not properly encode multiple
1438 option values separated by commas.
1439 - Added new scheduler malloc logging in debug mode
1440 (provides summary of total arena size, allocated,
1441 and free bytes once a minute)
1442 - The EPM-based distributions didn't install the
1443 correct symlinks for a few man pages.
1444 - Fixed a memory leak in the scheduler - wasn't
1445 freeing old filters when deleting or renaming
1446 printers.
1447 - The scheduler now queries the primary IP address
1448 for the name of the server and maps any incoming
1449 requests from that address to the server name.
1450 This fixes web admin mapping problems from
1451 server.domain.com to localhost.
1452 - The web printer modify interface now remembers
1453 the previous device and driver settings (except
1454 for serial ports.)
1455 - The job-k-octets attribute is now stored as part of
1456 the job attributes; this preserves the information
1457 after a job is completed when job file history is
1458 turned off.
1459 - Dropped option sub-group parsing code for the moment,
1460 since many Xerox PPD files abuse this feature in PPD
1461 files and don't follow the hierarchy rules.
1462 - Added new wrapper code around options so that duplex
1463 options for some HP printers don't prevent prints.
1464 - Added support for Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX/OSF/1 format
1465 for "lpstat -v" output.
1466 - Now show the URI for remote printers instead of
1467 /dev/null in "lpstat -v" output.
1468 - Creating classes and adding printers to a class with
1469 the lpadmin command didn't work.
1470 - The banner pages and test page should now format
1471 correctly in both portrait and landscape orientations.
1472 - Updated banner page substitution so that { can appear
1473 by itself without quoting.
1474
1475
1476 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1.2
1477
1478 - Makefile/configure fixes
1479 - RPM spec file and EPM list file fixes
1480 - The cupsTempFile() function now uses a different
1481 algorithm for generating temp files and "reserves"
1482 them to avoid possible security exploitation.
1483 - Now use /dev/random (if available) to seed the random
1484 number generator for certificates.
1485 - The /var/spool/cups and /var/spool/cups/tmp directories
1486 were incorrectly owned by root; they are now owned by
1487 the filter user, typically "lp".
1488 - The scheduler now resets the permissions on the spool
1489 and temp directories as needed to match the filter
1490 user.
1491 - Now expose ppdCollect() as an externally callable
1492 function.
1493 - The image filters now support filtering from the
1494 standard input.
1495 - The imagetoraster filter now collects all printer
1496 options and job patch files and applies them to the
1497 page header as needed.
1498 - Added format and banner options to LPD backend.
1499 - The send-document operation didn't start a job
1500 immediately when last-document was true.
1501 - The set-job-attributes operation didn't correctly
1502 replace the current job-hold-until value.
1503 - Removed the option wrapper code from ppdEmit() and
1504 friends since it caused problems with Ghostscript
1505 and many PS printers.
1506 - Was setting TZ environment variable twice for job
1507 filters.
1508 - Added syslog logging in cups-lpd to aide in
1509 debugging problems.
1510 - The HP-UX parallel port backend did not list the
1511 available parallel ports on some systems (printf
1512 calling problem...)
1513 - The lp and lpr commands overrode user options if
1514 -d/-P were specified after -o.
1515 - The scheduler would crash with a */* filter.
1516 - Added support for a "default" filter for unknown file
1517 types. The example provided in the mime.types and
1518 mime.convs file prints unknown files as if "-oraw" was
1519 specified for the job. This functionality is disabled
1520 by default.
1521 - The "compatibility" mode fix for older backends did not
1522 work for smbspool. Added a workaround for it.
1523 - The HP-GL/2 filter didn't perform the right pen scaling
1524 with some files and the "fitplot" option.
1525 - New Software Performance Specification document that
1526 describes the memory, disk, and CPU usage of all the
1527 CUPS software.
1528
1529
1530 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1.1
1531
1532 - The pstoraster Makefile still referenced one of the
1533 old PDF filter files.
1534 - The filter Makefile used INSTALL_DATA instead of
1535 INSTALL_LIB to install the CUPS image library.
1536 - The administration CGI didn't work properly with
1537 network devices.
1538 - The BrowseACL variable was not updated after the
1539 cupsd.conf file was loaded.
1540 - The lpd mini-daemon didn't support printer instances.
1541 - Now use a default umask of 077 for child processes.
1542 - Now put temp files in /var/spool/cups/tmp for child
1543 processes and the root user, unless TMPDIR or TempDir
1544 is defined otherwise.
1545 - cupsGetPPD() no longer uses easy-to-guess filenames.
1546 - The CUPS-Delete-Class and CUPS-Delete-Printer
1547 operations now save classes.conf file as needed.
1548 - The lppasswd command wouldn't add a user.
1549 - The ppdOpen() function could cause a segfault if a
1550 0-length PPD file was read.
1551 - The image filters were not handling images with
1552 different X and Y resolutions properly.
1553 - The imagetoraster filter defaulted to RGB output
1554 instead of black output like pstoraster.
1555 - The pstops filter didn't handle binary data properly.
1556 - The pstops filter didn't handle copies properly for
1557 PS files lacking DSC comments.
1558 - The pstops filter now appends %%EOF to the end of
1559 documents if they don't have it.
1560 - The cupsGetPPD() function didn't work with remote
1561 printers lacking the @server in the name.
1562 - The configure script didn't work right when only
1563 --prefix was specified.
1564 - The ppdEmit() code now wraps all printer commands so
1565 that buggy PostScript printers will still print a file
1566 after receiving an option that isn't available.
1567 - Fixed the DeskJet margin bug, and disabled 600dpi
1568 color mode until it can be fixed.
1569 - The cupsAddDest() function didn't sort instances
1570 correctly in all cases.
1571 - The time-at-xyz attributes now expand to the date and
1572 time in banner files.
1573
1574
1575 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1
1576
1577 - Documentation updates.
1578 - Configuration script updates.
1579 - Didn't map charset and language value strings to lowercase
1580 and _ to - as required by SLP and IPP.
1581 - ppdLoadXYZ() didn't add the list of available fonts to the
1582 ppd_file_t structure.
1583 - The text filter common code was freeing the PPD file data
1584 before it was used.
1585 - The text filter now embeds missing fonts.
1586 - The CGI interface now maps local access to the server to
1587 the localhost address.
1588 - The HP-GL/2 filter didn't use the specified (or default)
1589 color ranges, resulting in strange colors.
1590 - The HP-GL/2 filter didn't default to no input window, which
1591 caused unnecessary clipping of plots.
1592 - Integrated Xpdf's pdftops filter into CUPS, which is a
1593 lightweight and reliable replacement for Ghostscript's
1594 PDF support.
1595 - Removed all PDF support from Ghostscript.
1596 - Updated HP driver to set top margin; this seems to fix
1597 the offset problem seen on HP DeskJet printers.
1598 - Fixed dependencies on the ZLIB and JPEG libraries in
1599 pstoraster.
1600 - The lpr command wasn't using the lpoptions defined by
1601 the user.
1602 - The lpr command would segfault if the CUPS server was
1603 not running.
1604 - The top-level makefile was not installing the CUPS
1605 initialization script. It now does so if it sees there
1606 is an init.d directory in /sbin, /etc/rc.d, or /etc.
1607 - "lpstat -v all" didn't work.
1608 - pstoraster would crash on some platforms doing the
1609 setpagedevice operator.
1610 - The web administration interface now allows you to set
1611 the default banner pages.
1612 - Images can now be positioned on the page using the new
1613 "position" option.
1614 - The AccessLog, ErrorLog, and PageLog directives now
1615 support "%s" to insert the server name.
1616 - Added a new BrowseShortNames directive to allow for
1617 short remote printer names ("printer" instead of
1618 "printer@server") when possible.
1619 - The scheduler could crash if given an invalid PPD file
1620 with no PageSize attributes.
1621 - Updated the serial, parallel, and usb backends to do
1622 multiple writes and ignore ioctl() errors as needed;
1623 this should fix problems with serial printing on old
1624 serial drivers and with the UltraSPARC parallel port
1625 driver under Solaris 2.7.
1626 - Now propagate LD_LIBRARY_PATH to child processes from
1627 cupsd.
1628 - New DataDir directive for installing in alternate
1629 locations.
1630 - New CUPS_SERVERROOT and CUPS_DATADIR environment
1631 variables to specify installation directories as
1632 needed.
1633 - Queued remote jobs recreate remote printers as needed
1634 when the scheduler is started.
1635 - Deleting a printer also purges all jobs on that
1636 printer.
1637 - Old job and control files that don't belong to a
1638 printer are automatically deleted.
1639 - Wasn't updating time-at-processing and
1640 time-at-completed attributes in job.
1641 - Didn't send required multiple-operation-time-out
1642 attribute in response to a get-printer-attributes
1643 request.
1644 - cups-lpd now supports options set with lpoptions.
1645 - The job-hold-until attribute is now provided with all
1646 jobs. For jobs that are not currently held the value
1647 is "no-hold".
1648 - The scheduler was not sending "unknown" values in IPP
1649 responses.
1650 - The lpoptions command now accumulates options from
1651 previous runs rather than replacing all options for a
1652 printer.
1653 - The IPP backend now switches to IPP/1.0 if a 1.1
1654 request fails.
1655 - The lpadmin and admin.cgi programs now validate new
1656 printer and class names.
1657 - The access_log file now includes the number of IPP bytes
1658 received in a POST request.
1659
1660
1661 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1b5
1662
1663 - Documentation updates.
1664 - The pstoraster filter didn't compile without the JPEG library.
1665 - The cupsd server didn't support the HTTP OPTIONS request
1666 method.
1667 - Dropped the "CLOSE" method supported by the cupsd server.
1668 (not defined in HTTP specification)
1669 - Makefile/configure script fixes.
1670 - Missing the job-restart template.
1671 - Added IPP test suite for testing.
1672 - Missing IPP documentation from binary distributions.
1673 - Fixed multiple-document handling code when last-document
1674 not specified.
1675 - Added more checks to IPP requests to prevent bad requests
1676 from getting through.
1677 - Not all of the Ghostscript error output was being sent to
1678 stderr.
1679 - The PostScript filter now added PJL commands to set the
1680 job name and display string, if supported.
1681 - The scheduler would crash if the browse socket could not
1682 be bound. Now disables browsing if port 631 (reserved for
1683 IPP) is being used by a misbehaving daemon.
1684 - The USB backend now looks for the older Linux 2.2.x USB
1685 printer device filenames as well as the newer ones.
1686 - The IPP backend now uses the UTF-8 charset exclusively,
1687 since apparently only CUPS handles more than US-ASCII and
1688 UTF-8...
1689 - Wasn't quoting ( in PostScript banners...
1690 - Send-document requests with no document-format attribute
1691 could cause cupsd to crash.
1692 - Old jobs in the spool directory might cause cupsd to
1693 crash.
1694 - CUPS now supports all of the recommended job-hold-until
1695 keywords as well as name values of the form "HH:MM" and
1696 "HH:MM:SS".
1697 - Added placeholder pointer for TLS encryption to the HTTP
1698 connection structure.
1699 - Fixed the "fast poll" bug reported by DISA - the
1700 status pipe wasn't being closed for multi-file jobs.
1701 - Revamped put_params code in pstoraster to fix bitmap
1702 allocation bug with FrameMaker output.
1703 - Ripped out filename, etc. code from pstoraster as it
1704 is a potential security hole.
1705 - Added support for RIP_CACHE environment variable in the
1706 new pstoraster.
1707 - Fixed USB device filenames for Linux; now support new
1708 pre-2.4 devices (/dev/usb/lp#) and 2.2 devices
1709 (/dev/usblp#)
1710 - Fixed accept-jobs crash with classes.
1711 - Didn't include dot-matrix EPSON drivers in previous
1712 release.
1713
1714
1715 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1b4
1716
1717 - Documentation updates.
1718 - Many makefile and configuration script fixes (should
1719 now compile better under *BSD.)
1720 - The MediaPosition attribute was being mishandled by
1721 GhostScript, causing the RIP to fail whenever a paper
1722 tray was selected.
1723 - The scheduler now logs the final line of log information
1724 from a filter, even if it doesn't end with a newline; this
1725 primarily affects GhostScript error output.
1726 - The scheduler was saving implicit classes, so after a few
1727 restarts you'll end up with AnyPrinter, AnyAnyPrinter, etc.
1728 - The JPEG autodetection didn't work with some JPEG files that
1729 came from digital cameras (JPEG but not JFIF); the new
1730 magic types should work with all images that the JPEG library
1731 can handle.
1732 - Fixed a bug in the new contains() MIME type rule that could
1733 cause cupsd to crash.
1734 - Switched to using strtol() in the MIME type code so that you
1735 can use hex, octal, or decimal constants as desired in the
1736 mime.types file.
1737 - Banner files are now treated as templates, allowing any type
1738 of file to be used as a banner.
1739 - Added a 30-second timeout to backend device reports so that a
1740 hung backend will not prevent the scheduler from starting.
1741 - Backends are once again terminated when jobs are stopped; the
1742 CUPS-supplied backends will stay alive until the downstream
1743 filters have had a chance to clear out old page data.
1744 - The charset lookup in the CUPS localization support was wrong
1745 (iso8859-x instead of iso-8859-x)
1746 - Changed the "cpNNNN" code page files to "windows-NNNN" to match
1747 the IANA registrations.
1748 - New PostScript banner pages.
1749 - Added Windows BMP and Alias PIX image file support to the image
1750 filter.
1751 - The PNG reading coded didn't free all of its buffers.
1752 - Added Digest authentication support to the client and server
1753 code.
1754 - Added Solaris options to System V commands.
1755 - Now support the output-bin job template attribute.
1756 - Now log the job-billing attribute in the page_log file, and
1757 keep track of the total number of pages in the
1758 job-media-sheets-completed attribute.
1759 - The penwidth option is now in micrometers to support more
1760 accurate width specification.
1761 - The image filters now support interlaced and transparent PNG
1762 files.
1763 - Didn't handle Keep-Alive for HTTP/1.0 clients.
1764 - The BrowsePoll support didn't handle when BrowseInterval
1765 was set to 0 (now uses 30 seconds if BrowseInterval is 0)
1766 - The DeskJet driver now supports 600 DPI color for printers
1767 that support it.
1768 - New lpinfo and lpmove commands.
1769 - The lpq command now supports the Digital UNIX output format.
1770 - The LPD mini-daemon now supports all required LPD operations.
1771 - Implemented timeouts for multi-file documents.
1772 - New cupsPrintFiles() function in the CUPS API library to
1773 print multiple files using create-job and send-document
1774 requests (1 job ID for multiple files)
1775 - The lp command now sends multiple files as a single job,
1776 matching the behavior of the System V command.
1777 - The "cancel -a" command now purges job history files.
1778
1779
1780 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1b3
1781
1782 - Documentation updates.
1783 - The startup script redirected stderr before stdout,
1784 which caused problems with some versions of Bourne
1785 shell and Bash.
1786 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler's PPD language reading
1787 code.
1788 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler's check for the
1789 manufacturer in the PPD.
1790 - The pstoraster filter didn't allow some input and
1791 output attributes to be set.
1792 - Added banner page support.
1793 - Added missing PAM configuration file.
1794 - Configuration script fixes for Linux and *BSD.
1795 - The log file code was using the wrong sign for the
1796 timezone offset.
1797 - The default printcap file is now empty (no printcap
1798 file is generated).
1799 - The scheduler did not start jobs destined for remote
1800 printers when they became available.
1801 - The scheduler now sends jobs to remote printers
1802 immediately. (when sending jobs to a class, the remote
1803 printer is only used when it becomes available)
1804 - The scheduler now supports printing of banner pages
1805 via the job-sheets attribute (banner files go in
1806 /usr/share/cups/banners)
1807 - The cupsd process now forks itself into the background
1808 (override with -f)
1809 - Added several *BSD enhancements.
1810 - Added UNSUPPORTED libtool option to configuration
1811 script to allow the use of libtool. Note that this is
1812 UNSUPPORTED by us, but added by request of the *BSD
1813 folks.
1814 - The parallel, serial, and usb backends now retry the
1815 opening of their ports. This allows multiple print
1816 queues to be associated with a single physical port,
1817 and will allow CUPS to support several types of
1818 parallel port auto-switches in the near future.
1819 - Set-Job-Attributes now supports adding, changing, and
1820 deleting job template attributes, and no longer allows
1821 job-printer-uri to be set (see CUPS-Move-Job)
1822 - Added CUPS-Move-Job operation to support moving of jobs.
1823 - The CGI template functionality now supports multiple
1824 languages (still only have templates for English)
1825 - The CUPS-Get-Printers and CUPS-Get-Classes operations
1826 now support filtering as defined in the IDD.
1827 - The Get-Jobs, CUPS-Get-Printers, and CUPS-Get-Classes
1828 operations no longer limit themselves to 1000 jobs,
1829 printers, or classes (believe it or not, this is
1830 needed for some sites)
1831 - The web interfaces now support language-specific
1832 templates.
1833 - The web admin interface now supports class management.
1834 - The web admin interface now shows a list of
1835 manufacturers before selecting the PPD/driver for a
1836 specific printer.
1837 - The web admin interface now supports configuration of
1838 the default printer options in the PPD file.
1839 - The web interface now uses printer/class
1840 authentication for the test page instead of admin
1841 authentication.
1842 - Updated the RPM spec file for the current release.
1843 - Updated language support for Windows code pages.
1844 - 8-bit character set files can now use multiple fonts
1845 (needed for Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, etc.)
1846 - Added basic right-to-left text support in the text
1847 filter.
1848 - The POSIX locale now uses ISO-8859-1 instead of
1849 US-ASCII.
1850 - Fixed PDF printing problems.
1851 - Fixed PostScript RIP page device dictionary elements
1852 that weren't getting passed in cups_get_params().
1853 - Added a new "contains" rule for the magic file typing.
1854 - The "printable" rule now accepts characters from 128 to 255
1855 (needed for Microsoft character sets)
1856 - Added support for ~/.cupsrc as well as /etc/cups/client.conf
1857 so that the default server can be configured on a per-user
1858 basis without environment variables.
1859 - Added LPD mini-daemon to support incoming LPD jobs.
1860
1861
1862 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1b2
1863
1864 - Documentation updates.
1865 - The lp command didn't always load the user-defined
1866 destinations, preventing it from seeing the default
1867 printer.
1868 - Many configure script and makefile fixes.
1869 - The Microsoft code page files were missing from the
1870 distribution.
1871 - Added a workaround for the HP IPP client (which is sending
1872 an invalid printer-uri in requests)
1873 - Fixed the encoding of text-with-language and name-with-language
1874 to match the IPP spec.
1875 - Added support for unknown value tags in the IPP routines
1876 (previously they would be ignored)
1877 - Integrated GNU GhostScript 5.50 into the pstoraster filter.
1878 - Client hostname resolution was broken on little-endian
1879 machines.
1880 - Now look at client.conf file for client's default server
1881 and printer.
1882 - The cupsServer() function did not close the client.conf file
1883 if it contained a ServerName directive.
1884 - Added BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, BrowseOrder, BrowsePoll, and
1885 BrowseRelay directives.
1886 - BrowseInterval 0 disables advertising of local printers, but
1887 still receives information on remote printers.
1888 - New browse polling daemon (for polling servers on different
1889 networks)
1890 - New PPD cache file for faster startup times with large numbers
1891 of PPD files.
1892 - The Host: field was incorrectly required for HTTP/1.0 clients.
1893 - New set-job-attributes operation now supported.
1894 - The mime_load_types() and mime_load_convs() functions did not
1895 close their input files.
1896
1897
1898 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.1b1
1899
1900 - NEW web-based administration interface.
1901 - NEW EPSON printer drivers.
1902 - NEW user-defined printers and options.
1903 - NEW persistent jobs and job history
1904 - NEW IPP/1.1 support
1905 - NEW template-based web interfaces.
1906 - NEW CUPS-get-devices and CUPS-get-ppds operations.
1907 - NEW support for create-job and send-file operations.
1908 - NEW certificate-based authentication for local
1909 administration.
1910 - NEW USB backend.
1911 - The lpr command now produces human-readable error messages.
1912 - The lpq command now produces BSD standard format output
1913 instead of OSF/1 output. This should resolve the SAMBA
1914 print queue problems that have been reported.
1915 - The IPP backend did not always detect when the "raw" option
1916 was being used.
1917 - The "lpstat -p" command would stop after the first active
1918 printer.
1919 - The "lpstat -v" command would stop before the first remote
1920 printer.
1921
1922
1923 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.0.5
1924
1925 - The HP-GL/2 filter did not correctly set the pen color
1926 for pens other than #1.
1927 - The scheduler would only accept 26 simultaneous jobs
1928 under some OS releases (mkstemp() limitation.) It now
1929 handles up to 2^32 simultaneous jobs.
1930 - The PostScript filter loaded the printer's PPD file
1931 twice.
1932 - The PAM authentication code now uses pam_strerror() to
1933 provide a textual error message in the error_log file.
1934 - The scheduler now copies PPD and interface script
1935 files instead of moving them; this fixes installations
1936 with a separate requests directory.
1937 - The PostScript RIP did not generate correct 6-color
1938 output.
1939 - Several filters were marking PPD options twice when
1940 they didn't need to.
1941 - The scheduler did not save the printer or class state
1942 after an accept-jobs or reject-jobs operation.
1943 - The cupsGetDefault() function now ignores the PRINTER
1944 environment variable if it is set to "lp".
1945 - New ippErrorString() function to get textual error
1946 messages.
1947 - Better error reporting in the System V commands.
1948 - The lpadmin and lpstat commands always tried to
1949 connect to the default server.
1950 - The text filter didn't load the charset files from the
1951 correct location.
1952 - Wasn't sending a WWW-Authenticate: field to HTTP
1953 clients when authentication was required.
1954 - httpSeparate() didn't always set the default port
1955 number for known methods.
1956 - The HP-GL/2 filter now looks for "PSwidth,length"
1957 instead of (the correct) "PSlength,width" as
1958 documented by HP. It appears that many major CAD
1959 applications are broken and this change allows the
1960 auto-rotation to work with them.
1961 - The IPP "printer-resolution" option was not being
1962 translated.
1963 - The charset files did not include the Microsoft
1964 "standard" characters from 128 to 159 (unused by the
1965 ISO-8859-x charsets)
1966 - The scheduler was chunking the Content-Type field from
1967 CGI programs; this problem was most noticeable with
1968 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.
1969 - By popular demand, the printers, jobs, and classes
1970 CGIs no longer force a reload of the page every 10/30
1971 seconds.
1972 - The scheduler incorrectly required that the IPP client
1973 provide a document-format attribute for the
1974 validate-job operation.
1975 - Clients that sent bad IPP requests without the
1976 required attributes-natural-language and
1977 attributes-charset attributes would crash the
1978 scheduler.
1979
1980
1981 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.0.4
1982
1983 - Documentation updates.
1984 - Jobs would get stuck in the queue and wouldn't print
1985 until you enabled the queue.
1986 - The lp and lpr commands now catch SIGHUP and SIGINTR.
1987 - The lp and lpr commands now use sigaction or sigset
1988 when available.
1989 - CUPS library updates for WIN32/OS-2
1990
1991
1992 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.0.3
1993
1994 - Documentation updates.
1995 - The lpq man page was missing.
1996 - The configure script was not properly detecting the
1997 image libraries.
1998 - The top-level makefile was calling "make" instead of
1999 "$(MAKE)".
2000 - PostScript filter fixes for number-up, OutputOrder,
2001 and %Trailer.
2002 - The imagetops filter didn't end the base-85 encoding
2003 properly if the image data was not a multiple of 4
2004 bytes in length.
2005 - The imagetoraster filter didn't generate good banded
2006 RGB or CMY data (was dividing the line width by 4
2007 instead of 3...)
2008 - The imagetoraster filter now records the bounding
2009 box of the image on the page.
2010 - The CUPS image library cache code wasn't working as
2011 designed; images larger than the maximum RIP cache
2012 would eventually thrash using the same cache tile.
2013 - The CUPS image library TIFF loading code didn't
2014 handle unknown resolution units properly; the fixed
2015 code uses a default resolution of 128 PPI.
2016 - cupsGetClasses() and cupsGetPrinters() did not free
2017 existing strings if they ran out of memory.
2018 - The scheduler logs incorrectly contained 3 digits for
2019 the timezone offset instead of 4.
2020 - The scheduler now does a lookup for the default user
2021 and group ID; the previous hardcoded values caused
2022 problems with the LPD backend.
2023 - The cancel-job operation now allows any user in the
2024 system group to cancel any job.
2025 - The cancel-job operation stopped the print queue if
2026 the job was being printed.
2027 - Now only stop printers if the backend fails. If the
2028 filter fails then the failure is noted in the
2029 error_log and printing continues with the next file in
2030 the queue.
2031 - Now log whether a filter fails because of a signal
2032 or because it returned a non-zero exit status.
2033 - The root user now always passes the system group test.
2034 - Printers with an interface script and remote printers
2035 and classes didn't have a printer-make-and-model
2036 attribute.
2037 - Added logging of lost/timed-out remote printers.
2038 - The HP-GL/2 filter was scaling the pen width twice.
2039 - Updated the HP-GL/2 filter to use a single SP (Set
2040 Pen) procedure. This makes the output smaller and is
2041 more appropriate since the filter keeps track of the
2042 pen states already.
2043 - The scheduler didn't handle passwords with spaces.
2044 - The IPP backend now does multiple copies and retries
2045 if the destination server requires it (e.g. HP
2046 JetDirect.)
2047 - The disable command didn't implement the "-c" option
2048 (cancel all jobs.)
2049 - Changed the CMYK generation function for the image file
2050 and PostScript RIPs.
2051 - The lp command didn't support the "-h" option as
2052 documented.
2053 - The AppSocket, IPP, and LPD backends now retry on all
2054 network errors. This should prevent stopped queues
2055 caused by a printer being disconnected from the
2056 network or powered off.
2057 - The scheduler now restarts a job if the corresponding
2058 printer is modified.
2059 - The image RIPs now rotate the image if needed to fit
2060 on the page.
2061
2062
2063 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.0.2
2064
2065 - The HP-GL/2 filter didn't always scale the output
2066 correctly.
2067 - The HP-GL/2 filter now supports changing the page size
2068 automatically when the "fitplot" option is not used.
2069 - The cancel-job operation was expecting a resource name
2070 of the form "/job/#" instead of "/jobs/#"; this
2071 prevented the cancel and lprm commands from working.
2072 - The backends didn't log pages when files were printed
2073 using the "-oraw" option.
2074 - The authorization code did not work with the Slackware
2075 long shadow password package because its crypt() can
2076 return NULL.
2077 - The chunking code didn't work for reading the response
2078 of a POST request.
2079 - cupsGetPPD() now does authentication as needed.
2080 - The N-up code in the PostScript filter didn't work
2081 with some printers (grestoreall would restore the
2082 default blank page and device settings).
2083 - The N-up code in the PostScript filter didn't scale
2084 the pages to fit within the imageable area of the
2085 page.
2086 - Wasn't doing an fchown() on the request files. This
2087 caused problems when the default root account group
2088 and CUPS group were not the same.
2089
2090
2091 CHANGES IN CUPS v1.0.1
2092
2093 - Documentation updates.
2094 - Fixed a bunch of possible buffer-overflow conditions.
2095 - The scheduler now supports authentication using PAM.
2096 - Updated the Italian message file.
2097 - httpEncode64() didn't add an extra "=" if there was
2098 only one byte in the last three-byte group.
2099 - Now drop any trailing character set from the locale
2100 string (e.g. "en_US.ISO_8859-1" becomes "en_US")
2101 - Fixed "timezone" vs "tm_gmtoff" usage for BSD-based
2102 operating systems.
2103 - Updated IPP security so that "get" operations can be
2104 done from any resource name; this allows the CGIs to
2105 work with printer authentication enabled so long as
2106 authentication isn't turned on for the whole "site".
2107 - The IPP code didn't properly handle the "unsupported"
2108 group; this caused problems with the HP JetDirect since
2109 it doesn't seem to support the "copies" attribute.
2110 - The HTTP chunking code was missing a CR LF pair at the
2111 end of a 0-length chunk.
2112 - The httpSeparate() function didn't handle embedded
2113 usernames and passwords in the URI properly.
2114 - Doing "lpadmin -p printer -E" didn't restart printing
2115 if there were pending jobs.
2116 - The cancel-job operation now requires either a
2117 requesting-user-name attribute or an authenticated
2118 username.
2119 - The add-printer code did not report errors if the
2120 interface script or PPD file could not be renamed.
2121 - Request files are now created without world read
2122 permissions.
2123 - Added a cupsLastError() function to the CUPS API to
2124 retrieve the IPP error code from the last request.
2125 - Options are now case-insensitive.
2126 - The lpq command now provides 10 characters for the
2127 username instead of the original (Berkeley standard)
2128 7.
2129 - The cancel command needed a local CUPS server to work
2130 (or the appropriate ServerName in cupsd.conf)
2131 - The cancel and lprm commands didn't report the IPP
2132 error if the job could not be cancelled.
2133 - The lp and lpr commands didn't intercept SIGTERM to
2134 remove temporary files when printing from stdin.
2135 - The lp and lpr commands didn't report the IPP error if
2136 the job could not be printed.