-CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2012-04-17
+CHANGES.txt - 2.0b1 - 2014-07-30
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-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
+CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0b1
- - 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)
+ - 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 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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