-CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2012-04-17
+CHANGES.txt - 2.0.3 - 2015-06-08
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-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
-
- - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010)
- - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
- - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support
- specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
- - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce
- the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
- - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels
- in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
- - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in
- printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
- - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed
- cupsd (STR #3459)
- - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates
- (STR #3949)
- - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
- environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
- - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
- - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
- (STR #2856)
- - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
- have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
- (STR #2291)
- - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
- local system (STR #2053)
- - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
- per-centimeter (STR #4006)
- - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
- separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
- - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
- "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
- "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
- - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
- "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
- - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
- instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
- job objects.
- - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
- - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
- not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
- - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
- amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
- - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
- characters.
- - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
- automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
- (Kerberos) authentication.
- - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
- length.
- - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
- via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
- - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
- version of CUPS (STR #3927)
- - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
- - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
- and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
- - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
- - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
- - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
- imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
- filters have been removed (STR #3930)
- - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)
+CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0.3
+
+ - Security: Fixed CERT VU #810572 exploiting the dynamic linker
+ (STR #4609)
+ - Security: The scheduler could hang with malformed gzip data
+ (STR #4602)
+ - Restored missing generic printer icon file (STR #4587)
+ - Fixed logging of configuration errors to show up as errors (STR #4582)
+ - Fixed potential buffer overflows in raster code and filters
+ (STR #4598, STR #4599, STR #4600, STR #4601)
+ - Fixed a gzip processing bug (#4602)
+ - Fixed <Limit> inside <Location> (STR #4575)
+ - Fixed lpadmin when both -m and -o are used (STR #4578)
+ - The web interface always showed support for 2-sided printing
+ (STR #4595)
+ - cupsRasterReadHeader did not fully validate the raster header
+ (STR #4596)
+ - The rastertopwg filter did not check for truncated input (STR #4597)
+ - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not check for request parameters
+ (STR #4603)
+ - The scheduler could get caught in a busy loop (STR #4605)
+ - The sample Epson driver could crash (STR #4616)
+ - The IPP backend now correctly monitors jobs
+ (<rdar://problem/20495955>)
+ - The ppdhtml and ppdpo utilities crashed when the -D option was used
+ before a driver information file (STR #4627)
+ - ippfind incorrectly substituted "=port" for service_port.
+ - The IPP/1.1 test file did not handle the initial print job
+ completing early (STR #4576)
+ - Fixed a memory leak in cupsConnectDest (STR #4634)
+ - PWG Raster Format output contained invalid ImageBox values
+ (<rdar://problem/21144309>)
+ - Added Russian translation (STR #4577)
+ - Added German translation (STR #4635)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0.2
+
+ - Security: cupsRasterReadPixels buffer overflow with invalid page
+ header and compressed raster data (STR #4551)
+ - Command-line programs were not localized on Mac OS X
+ (<rdar://problem/14546232>)
+ - The scheduler incorrectly cleared the MakeModel string in the
+ printers.conf file after a restart (<rdar://problem/16827518>)
+ - CUPS did not compile with older versions of GNU TLS (STR #4527)
+ - CUPS did not compile without Avahi or mDNSResponder (STR #4523)
+ - ippLength() did not return the correct length for IPP_TAG_CONST
+ string values.
+ - The scheduler incorrectly aborted jobs after a job was restarted
+ (<rdar://problem/19129387>)
+ - The cups-files.conf file contained the old ServerCertificate/Key
+ directives instead of ServerKeychain.
+ - Fixed builds when no SSL/TLS library is available, or when explicitly
+ disabled (STR #4531)
+ - Fixed an OpenBSD charset transcoding issue.
+ - Fixed USB printing on OpenBSD (STR #4525)
+ - The --without-xinetd configure option did not work (STR #4542)
+ - Backends needing to load OS X kernel extensions did not work
+ (<rdar://problem/19015679>)
+ - Mapping of PPD keywords to IPP keywords did not work if the PPD
+ keyword was already an IPP keyword (<rdar://problem/19121005>)
+ - cupsGetPPD* sent bad requests (STR #4567)
+ - ippserver used the wrong temporary directory on Windows (STR #4547)
+ - ippserver did not handle Bonjour registrations properly (STR #4548)
+ - The scheduler could crash during shutdown if Avahi was shutdown
+ first (STR #4550)
+ - Added a USB quirk rule for Intermec printers (STR #4553)
+ - The scheduler did not always log which configuration file had the
+ error (STR #4559)
+ - The ippfind and ipptool programs now correctly match hostnames with
+ trailing dots (STR #4563)
+ - The ipptool timeout option did not work (STR #4515)
+ - Fixed several issues with client.conf, CUPS_SERVER, and the "-h"
+ option of most commands (STR #4528)
+ - Another change for OpenBSD (STR #4526)
+ - Added Japanese localization (STR #4524)
+ - Documentation changes (STR #4569)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0.1
+
+ - Security: SSLv3 is now disabled by default to protect against the
+ POODLE attack (STR #4476)
+ - Printer sharing did not work when systemd was being used (STR #4497)
+ - cupsGetPPD* would return a symlink to the PPD in /etc/cups/ppd even if
+ it was not readable by the user (STR #4500)
+ - The web interface now protects against frame "click-jacking" attacks
+ (STR #4492)
+ - Fixed a crash in ippAttributeString (<rdar://problem/17903871>)
+ - Fixed a crash in the scheduler on Linux/*BSD if colord was not running
+ (STR #4496)
+ - Fixed a random crash in the scheduler when not using systemd
+ (STR #4484)
+ - Added systemd support for cups-lpd (STR #4493)
+ - The scheduler did not honor the FatalErrors directive for mis-
+ configured Group and SystemGroup values (STR #4495)
+ - The network backends no longer report waste-receptacle conditions when
+ using SNMP (STR #4499)
+ - The IPP backend did not work with some configurations of Windows
+ (STR #4503)
+ - RPMs did not build (STR #4490)
+ - Added a USB quirk rule for the Brother HL-1250 (STR #4519)
+ - Fixed compiles on unsupported platforms (STR #4510)
+ - "cancel -a" did not cancel all jobs on all destinations (STR #4513)
+ - The web interface did not work on OpenBSD (STR #4496)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0.0
+
+ - The scheduler did not preserve listener sockets from launchd or
+ systemd after a restart (<rdar://problem/18112848>)
+ - Added some USB quirk rules for the libusb-based USB backend
+ (STR #4482)
+ - Spanish localization update (STR #4487)
+ - Updated documentation for 2.0.0 release.
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0rc1
+
+ - Documentation updates (STR #4464)
+ - The scheduler now monitors the AC power status on OS X, allowing for
+ "sleep printing" when sharing printers (<rdar://problem/17325852>)
+ - The scheduler incorrectly called launch_activate_socket multiple times
+ on OS X (<rdar://problem/17523218>)
+ - The ippserver test program now passes the IPP Everywhere self-
+ certification tests (STR #4101)
+ - Relaxed the new OS X filter sandbox slightly (STR #4471,
+ <rdar://problem/17483959>)
+ - Dropped the old Epson Stylus Color/Photo sample drivers since they
+ don't work with any current printers and there are free alternatives
+ that produce much better output (<rdar://problem/18036889>)
+ - Log and configuration files that are not world-readable are again
+ accessible via the web interface (STR #4461)
+ - PPD files are now created using the permissions specified by the
+ ConfigFilePerm directive.
+ - Fixed RPM build issues (STR #4459)
+ - Fixed the spinner image and restart page when reconfiguring the
+ scheduler through the web interface (STR #4475)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0b1
+
+ - Added a "--list-filters" option to the cupsfilter command (STR #4325)
+ - Added systemd support (STR #3917)
+ - Added support for re-sending a job as a raster file if a higher-level
+ format such as PDF fails (<rdar://problem/15583721>)
+ - Added support for regular expression matching in the MIME type rules
+ (<rdar://problem/11131245>)
+ - Added support for TLS certificate validation and policy enforcement
+ (STR #1616)
+ - Added support for simultaneous XML and test output from ipptool.
+ - Added support for PAUSE directive in ipptool test files.
+ - Added support for auto-typing of TIFF files by ipptool (STR #4418)
+ - The scheduler now returns completed jobs in the correct newest-to-
+ oldest order (STR #4396)
+ - The configure script now supports target-specific tools for pkg-config
+ and others (STR #4423)
+ - The ipptool program now supports EXPECT statements for collection
+ member attributes (<rdar://problem/15355218>)
+ - The ipptool program now supports collection attributes with multiple
+ values (<rdar://problem/15355124>)
+ - The sample drivers now include all of the installed localizations by
+ default (<rdar://problem/14756625>)
+ - Adopted Linux man page conventions and updated all man pages
+ (STR #4372, STR #4329)
+ - The scheduler now supports the "first-index" operation attribute for
+ the Get-Jobs operation (STR #2913)
+ - Changed the default AccessLogLevel and PageLogFormat to disable the
+ access_log and page_log files by default (<rdar://problem/16495000>)
+ - cupsRasterInterpretPPD now supports the Orientation header in order to
+ support long-edge feed raster printers (<rdar://problem/15837926>)
+ - The scheduler now allows run-as-root backends to have group read and
+ execute permissions (STR #2935)
+ - The ippFindAttribute and ippFindNextAttribute functions now support
+ hierarchical searches (STR #4395)
+ - Dropped OpenSSL support in favor of GNU TLS.
+ - Dropped "dark wake" support on OS X, which was preventing portables
+ from going to sleep when there was a stuck job. We now use a variation
+ of the CUPS 1.4 sleep support to do a cleaner sleep
+ (<rdar://problem/14323704>)
+ - Dropped support for AIX, HP-UX, and OSF/1 (aka Digital UNIX)
+ - Dropped lppasswd and support for Digest authentication in in the
+ scheduler (STR #4321)
+ - The cupsGetClasses, cupsGetPrinters, and cupsTempFile functions are no
+ longer supported.
+ - The scheduler now caches more job history data and limits the number
+ of completed jobs returned by Get-Jobs as needed in order to prevent a
+ denial-of-service on busy servers (STR #2913)
+ - The filter/backend sandbox on OS X now defaults to a more strict
+ whitelist (<rdar://problem/15939788>)
+ - Increased the default idle exit timeout to 60 seconds on OS X
+ (<rdar://problem/16041820>)
+ - Printer classes were not accessible on OS X
+ (<rdar://problem/16385643>)
+ - The scheduler now uses </DefaultPrinter> to close the default printer
+ definition in printers.conf (STR #4153)
+ - Canceling all jobs in the web interface now just cancels the jobs
+ (STR #1914)
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