-CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2012-05-22
+CHANGES.txt - 1.7.0 - 2013-07-26
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-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
- - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
- - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the
- end of the job (STR #4075)
- - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
- - 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)
+ - 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)
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