CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-04-21
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - Driver information files can now be installed in
   7           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
   8         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
   9           than 2GB.
  10         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
  11           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
  12         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
  13           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
  14           backends are polled and for how long.
  15         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
  16           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
  17         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
  18         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
  19           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
  20         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
  21           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
  22         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
  23           for localization (STR #2737)
  24         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
  25           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
  26           file.
  27         - The build system has been updated to support separate
  28           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
  29         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
  30           by default.
  31         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
  32         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
  33           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
  34         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
  35           root to make the default installation more secure.
  36         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
  37           the localized version of a marker-names value.
  38         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
  39           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
  40         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
  41           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
  42         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
  43           global based on the current access policies for the
  44           printer.
  45         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
  46           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
  47         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
  48         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
  49           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
  50         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
  51           that support it (STR #2637)
  52         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
  53           possible.
  54         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
  55           attriibute to purge a specified job.
  56         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
  57           attributes for custom option selections.
  58         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
  59           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
  60           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
  61         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
  62           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
  63           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
  64         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
  65           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
  66           on the model page (STR #2436)
  67         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
  68           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
  69           of printers (STR #1175)
  70         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
  71         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
  72           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
  73         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
  74           to filter the document from the specified job.
  75         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
  76           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
  77         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
  78           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
  79         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
  80