-CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2012-01-13
+CHANGES.txt - 2.1b1 - 2014-12-01
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-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
+CHANGES IN CUPS V2.1b1
- - 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)
+ - Improved speed of ppdMarkDefaults for complex/large PPDs
+ (<rdar://problem/15146999>)
+ - The IPP backend now stops sending print data if the printer indicates
+ the job has been aborted or canceled (<rdar://problem/17837631>)
+ - No longer install banner files since third-party banner filters now
+ supply their own (STR #4518)