CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-06-17
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
   7         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
   8           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
   9         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
  10           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
  11         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
  12           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
  13         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
  14           (STR #2738)
  15         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
  16           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
  17         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
  18           (STR #2636)
  19         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
  20           files (STR #2739)
  21         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
  22           ModelName value as the output filename.
  23         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
  24           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
  25         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
  26           standard network backends.
  27         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
  28           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
  29         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
  30           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
  31         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
  32           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
  33         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
  34           name resolution.
  35         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
  36           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
  37         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
  38           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
  39         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
  40           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
  41         - Driver information files can now be installed in
  42           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
  43         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
  44           than 2GB.
  45         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
  46           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
  47         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
  48           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
  49           backends are polled and for how long.
  50         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
  51           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
  52         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
  53         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
  54           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
  55         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
  56           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
  57         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
  58           for localization (STR #2737)
  59         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
  60           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
  61           file.
  62         - The build system has been updated to support separate
  63           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
  64         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
  65           by default.
  66         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
  67         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
  68           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
  69         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
  70           root to make the default installation more secure.
  71         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
  72           the localized version of a marker-names value.
  73         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
  74           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
  75         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
  76           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
  77         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
  78           global based on the current access policies for the
  79           printer.
  80         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
  81           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
  82         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
  83         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
  84           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
  85         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
  86           that support it (STR #2637)
  87         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
  88           possible.
  89         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
  90           attriibute to purge a specified job.
  91         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
  92           attributes for custom option selections.
  93         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
  94           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
  95           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
  96         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
  97           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
  98           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
  99         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 100           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 101           on the model page (STR #2436)
 102         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 103           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 104           of printers (STR #1175)
 105         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 106         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 107           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 108         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 109           to filter the document from the specified job.
 110         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 111           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 112         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 113           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 114         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
 115