-CHANGES.txt - 2009-02-17
-------------------------
+CHANGES.txt - 1.7.4 - 2014-07-08
+--------------------------------
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.4
- - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057)
- - Added complete localizations for Japanese and Russian and partial
- localizations for Chinese, Danish, German, Finnish, French, Italian,
- Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, and Swedish (STR #3096,
- STR #3098)
- - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
- incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
- - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
- permissions.
- - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
- - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
- device URI.
- - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
- seconds.
- - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
- - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
- them failed.
- - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
- status operations.
- - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
- keywords.
- - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" status bit
- since some printers report this status when the printer is busy
- printing, warming up, etc.
- - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
- "crashed".
- - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
- - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
- - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
- printer had other reasons associated with it.
- - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
- - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
- (STR #3084)
- - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
- cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
- - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
- microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
- - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
- control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
- - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
- printer discovery (STR #3065)
- - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
- in length (STR #3072)
- - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
- - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
- - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
- printers with no specified colorspace.
- - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
- file on Mac OS X.
- - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
- - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
- and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
- - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
- - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
- for some PPDs.
- - The ppdi utility did not work.
- - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
- web browsers (STR #3049)
- - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
- - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
- options.
- - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
- have associated translation text (STR #3045)
- - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
- - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
- - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
- choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
- present in most PPD files.
- - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
- - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
- its jobs.
- - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
- - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
- all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
- printers.
- - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
- printer attributes when a job was canceled.
- - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
- when a job finished.
+ - Security: The web interface incorrectly served symlinked files and
+ files that were not world-readable, potentially leading to a
+ disclosure of information (STR #4450)
+ - The CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support
+ (STR #4397)
+ - CUPS did not compile when Avahi or mDNSResponder was not present
+ (STR #4402, STR #4424)
+ - The "snmp" option did not work with the network backends (STR #4422)
+ - The User directive in client.conf did not override the USER
+ environment variable (STR #4426)
+ - The web interface now properly shows a "Go" button for all text-based
+ browsers (STR #4425)
+ - The MaxJobTime directive now properly supports time values (STR #4434)
+ - The RPM spec file did not work due to the new Brazilian Portuguese
+ localization (STR #4436)
+ - Fixed an "IPP read error" issue (STR #4440)
+ - Fixed the --disable-libusb configure option (STR #4439)
+ - Fixed the debug output from the DNS-SD backend when using Avahi
+ (STR #4444)
+ - Fixed a bug in the CUPS_SC_GET_DEVICE_ID handling by the network
+ backends (STR #4447)
+ - Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E230 (STR #4448)
+ - The LPD backend did not work with some versions of glibc (STR #4452)
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.3
- - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
- - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
- FormatVersion values in PPD files.
- - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
- --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
- - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
- rather than copying them whenever possible.
- - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
- options implementations.
- - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
- attributes.
- - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
- was set to False in the PPD file.
- - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
- and network backends (STR #3014)
- - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
- - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
- attributes.
- - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
- - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
- parameter.
- - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
- --exclude-schemes options.
- - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
- and exclude-schemes attributes.
- - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
- attribute.
- - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
- option called "fit-to-page".
- - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
- information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
- prevent race conditions.
- - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
- - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
- CUPS 1.1.x.
- - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
- - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
- catalogs (STR #2990)
- - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
- (STR #2989)
- - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
- variable when running filters.
- - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
- have all stopped.
- - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
- progress messages.
+ - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4409)
+ - Fixed mapping of OutputBin values such as "Tray1"
+ (<rdar://problem/16685606>)
+ - Several ippGet* functions incorrectly returned -1 instead of 0 on
+ error.
+ - The cupsGetResponse function did not work properly with
+ CUPS_HTTP_DEFAULT (<rdar://problem/16762593>)
+ - The IPP backend did not abort a job when the printer did not validate
+ the supplied options (<rdar://problem/16836752>)
+ - Fixed an authentication race condition in cupsSendRequest (STR #4403)
+ - The scheduler did not add the "job-hold-until-specified" reason when
+ holding a job using the lp command (STR #4405)
+ - The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS
+ dependency (STR #4399)
+ - cupsGetDestMediaCount did not work for CUPS_MEDIA_FLAGS DEFAULT
+ (STR #4414)
+ - Auto-typing of PWG Raster files did not work (STR #4417)
+ - IPP queues using hardcoded credentials would ask for credentials
+ (STR #4371)
+ - Dates in non-UTF-8 locales did not display correctly (STR #4388)
+ - The RPM spec file now looks for libusb-devel 1.0 or later.
+ - Fixed the "create-printer-subscription.test" file for IPPTOOL
+ (STR #4420)
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2
- - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
- - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
- override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
- - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
- (STR #2863)
- - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
- Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
- cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
- - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
- status of a single printer (STR #2843)
- - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
- significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
- (STR #1293)
- - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
- on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
- - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
- the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
- levels.
- - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
- support and easier customization (STR #2490)
- - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
- environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
- - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
- stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
- - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
- the printer-state-reasons attribute.
- - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
- of printer options (STR #1440)
- - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
- form.
- - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
- easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
- - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
- - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
- Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
- - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
- they know whether they are printing a banner or document
- file (STR #2799)
- - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
- command (STR #2562)
- - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
- talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
- - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
- cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
- - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
- Google (STR #2882)
- - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
- default server (STR #2833)
- - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
- which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
- - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
- (STR #2923)
- - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
- (STR #2848)
- - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
- value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
- - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
- - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
- - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
- print jobs (STR #2482)
- - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
- values.
- - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
- track the progress of individual pages.
- - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
- - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
- command, when available (STR #2724)
- - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
- - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
- PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
- - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
- file as errors (STR #2616)
- - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
- retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
- an error (STR #2555)
- - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
- correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
- continue further (STR #2101)
- - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
- (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
- - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
- (STR #2853)
- - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
- the physical location of a printer device.
- - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
- device data by a backend.
- - Added support for custom options in the web interface
- (STR #1729)
- - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
- and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
- - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
- - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
- to CUPS (STR #263)
- - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
- - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
- cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
- - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
- - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
- attributes for better option conflict detection and
- resolution.
- - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
- 256 bytes (STR #2877)
- - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
- what is logged to the access_log file.
- - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
- the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
- - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
- files (STR #2871)
- - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
- information files.
- - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
- - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
- of an attribute.
- - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
- - The standard MIME types are now installed in
- DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
- - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
- the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
- - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
- or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
- - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
- (STR #2738)
- - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
- the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
- - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
- (STR #2636)
- - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
- files (STR #2739)
- - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
- ModelName value as the output filename.
- - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
- set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
- - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
- standard network backends.
- - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
- control the format of lines in the page_log file.
- - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
- keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
- - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
- that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
- - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
- name resolution.
- - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
- all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
- - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
- page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
- - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
- PJL commands are used to display the job information.
- - Driver information files can now be installed in
- /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
- - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
- than 2GB.
- - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
- reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
- - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
- exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
- backends are polled and for how long.
- - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
- parallel to get the list of devices faster.
- - Added --enable-pap configure option.
- - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
- policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
- - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
- (STR #2735, STR #2736)
- - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
- for localization (STR #2737)
- - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
- when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
- file.
- - The build system has been updated to support separate
- installation of data, program, header, and library files.
- - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
- by default.
- - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
- - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
- SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
- - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
- root to make the default installation more secure.
- - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
- the localized version of a marker-names value.
- - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
- attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
- - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
- pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
- - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
- global based on the current access policies for the
- printer.
- - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
- used printer preference on Mac OS X.
- - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
- - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
- library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
- - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
- that support it (STR #2637)
- - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
- possible.
- - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
- attriibute to purge a specified job.
- - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
- attributes for custom option selections.
- - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
- sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
- server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
- - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
- server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
- and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
- - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
- manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
- on the model page (STR #2436)
- - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
- duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
- of printers (STR #1175)
- - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
- - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
- that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
- - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
- to filter the document from the specified job.
- - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
- do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
- - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
- cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
- - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
+ - Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML
+ (STR #4356)
+ - Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346, STR #4355)
+ - Fixed the Japanese localization (STR #4385)
+ - Added a German localization (STR #4363)
+ - The cupsfilter command incorrectly read the cupsd.conf file; it now
+ reads the cups-files.conf file instead.
+ - Fixed OS X builds with Xcode 5.x (<rdar://problem/15914959>)
+ - Fixed SSL support on Windows (STR #4358)
+ - Fixed documentation and naming of Create-Job/Printer-Subscriptions
+ operations (STR #4389)
+ - Phone numbers in fax jobs were not properly filtered for IPP FaxOut
+ (<rdar://problem/16351701>)
+ - Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393)
+ - Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349)
+ - cupsEnumDests did not set the "is_default" field (STR #4332)
+ - cupsDoIORequest could miss the server status, causing failed lpadmin
+ and other administrative commands (STR #4386)
+ - cupsEnumDests didn't always call the callback function (STR #4380)
+ - "lp -i job-id -H hold" did not work (STR #4401)
+ - CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338)
+ - Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception
+ notice (STR #4361)
+ - Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash
+ (STR #4347)
+ - The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed
+ (STR #4370, STR #4373)
+ - The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly
+ (STR #3265)
+ - The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using
+ Avahi (STR #4365)
+ - The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top"
+ values (STR #4354)
+ - The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in
+ printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264)
+ - The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB
+ (STR #4351)
+ - Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data
+ stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>)
+ - The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job
+ operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>)
+ - Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
+
+ - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
+ ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
+ - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
+ - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
+ - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
+ (<rdar://problem/15332672>)
+ - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
+ scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
+ - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
+ purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
+ (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)
+ - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
+ opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
+ - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
+ use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
+ (<rdar://problem/15392966>)
+ - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
+ cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
+ - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
+ (<rdar://problem/15427759>)
+ - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
+ - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
+ (<rdar://problem/15564888>)
+ - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
+ (<rdar://problem/15426838>)
+ - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
+ before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
+ - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
+ "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
+ - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
+ - lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities
+ were specified (STR #4326)
+ - The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)
+ - CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did
+ not match the user ID (STR #4327)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
+
+ - Updated Japanese localization.
+ - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
+ (<rdar://problem/15264697>)
+ - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
+ determine the direction of supply level values
+ (<rdar://problem/14302628>)
+ - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
+ deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
+ - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
+ interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
+ - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
+ client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
+ - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
+ (<rdar://problem/14498310>)
+ - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
+ language specified in the client's IPP request
+ (<rdar://problem/14128011>)
+ - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
+ - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
+ - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
+ -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
+ - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
+ against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
+ - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
+ automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
+ previous response.
+ - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
+ - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
+ environment variable to the filters or backend
+ (<rdar://problem/14355011>)
+ - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
+ sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
+ (<rdar://problem/14421943>)
+ - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
+
+ - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
+ or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
+ - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
+ to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
+ - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
+ va_list arguments.
+ - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
+ services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
+ - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
+ hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
+ - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
+ printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
+ - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
+ output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
+ - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
+ - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
+ default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
+ - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
+ includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
+ - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
+ WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
+ components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
+
+ - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
+ the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
+ locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
+ - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
+ - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
+ environment variable for filters.
+ - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
+ - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
+ - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
+ (STR #4289)
+ - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
+ cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
+ - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
+ cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
+ - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
+ octetString value (STR #4289)
+ - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
+ attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
+ - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
+ on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
+ - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
+ - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
+ - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
+ - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
+ - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
+ (STR #4168)
+ - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
+ systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
+ - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
+ - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
+ - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
+ enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)