-CHANGES.txt - 2011-05-10
-------------------------
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
-
- - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
- (STR #2959)
- - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
- cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
- - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
- - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
- (STR #3605)
- - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
- - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
- - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
- - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
- (STR #3766)
- - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
- sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
- size (STR #3689)
- - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
- - Added printer-uuid attribute.
- - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
- - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
- - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
- drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
- - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
- the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
- - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
- authenticating (STR #3670)
- - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
- CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
- printers.
- - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
- pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
- Throughput keyword.
- - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
- - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
- CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
- - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
- STR #3753)
- - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
- to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
- - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
- in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
- - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
- (STR #2969)
- - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
- elements.
- - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
- - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
- default.
- - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
- support (STR #3097)
- - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
- Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
- PWG 5100.11.
- - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
- (<cups/ppd.h>).
- - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
- attribute.
- - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
- plugin.
- - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
- on Mac OS X.
- - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
- CUPS 1.1.x. The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
- were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
- - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
- improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
- - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
- provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
- - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
- - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
- permissions disabled.
- - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
- PPD files.
- - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
- - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)
+CHANGES.txt - 2.0.3 - 2015-06-08
+--------------------------------
+
+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)