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88121eb3 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.8
5
6 - The scheduler would delete job data files when restarted (STR #3880)
7 - The network backends could crash if a printer returned a value of 0
8 for the maximum capacity for a supply (STR #3875)
9
10
68e39e3f 11CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7
12
a978e4cf 13 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
2637dd2e 14 STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782, STR #3826, STR #3829, STR #3837)
902e0bd1 15 - Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,
76bc13b1 16 STR #3755, STR #3769, STR #3783)
58e228c7 17 - Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)
a69ec225 18 - Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774)
22834f0b 19 - The imageto* filters could crash with bad GIF files (STR #3867)
1885e4ec 20 - The scheduler might leave old job data files in the spool directory
21 (STR #3795)
d592e3dd 22 - CUPS did not work with locales using the ASCII character set
23 (STR #3832)
9d4cf357 24 - httpAddrString() did not return a URI-style IPv6 numeric address
25 (STR #3814)
9b8296f8 26 - Fixed an issue when reading compressed CUPS raster streams (STR #3812)
b08e9fc1 27 - Fixed an issue with PostScript printer auto-configuration (STR #3443)
39bde3e9 28 - Fixed some compatibility issues with the libusb-based USB backend
29 (STR #3799)
77b6b841 30 - The network backends no longer try to collect SNMP supply and status
31 information for raw queues (STR #3809)
0c84f052 32 - The DBUS notifier did not report job state changes (STR #3805)
5ae82e30 33 - The scheduler did not always report that the "normal" print-quality
34 value was supported (STR #3803)
81515557 35 - The gziptoany filter did not report the correct error if it was unable
36 to write the uncompressed document to the next filter or backend in
37 the chain (STR #3797)
50082677 38 - The Epson and Oki 9-pin drivers had a bad resolution option
39 (STR #3798)
cfb3a504 40 - The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile
41 on Mac OS X.
42 - The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for
43 the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing
44 their own jobs.
205bf9e8 45 - CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the
50fb4866 46 HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791)
82275df2 47 - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
19052b48 48 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
49 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
58e228c7 50 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
51 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
b26f1e73 52 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
6955ae26 53 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
54 issues (STR #3705)
66f1081e 55 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
236dd95b 56 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
57 other printers (STR #3405)
9dbcd110 58 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
0189ac1a 59 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
60 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
de187cbc 61 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
62 conformance mode (STR #3747)
6e63d29d 63 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
64 change notifications (STR #3739)
6906e1d1 65 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
66 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
b19f6c64 67 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
2bb97d36 68 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
69 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
a097b151 70 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
6940b939 71 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
7713cfe1 72 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
73 (STR #3761)
3929e7fd 74 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
75 are enabled (STR #3737)
94a1c8e4 76 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
560a2c09 77 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
78 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
bed68396 79 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
80 is printing (STR #3754)
814e0951 81 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
82 (STR #3764)
7fcd72d6 83 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
84 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
68e39e3f 85 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
86 the print filters (STR #3731)
87 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
88 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
09e95d11 89 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
90 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
68e39e3f 91
92
ed3d67d0 93CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
94
aabec20a 95 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
3dccd799 96 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
97 PostScript files (STR #3722)
2e3228ef 98 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
99 (STR #3697)
fa0b15a7 100 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
101 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
ed3d67d0 102
103
49132a24 104CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
105
368a708b 106 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
db950dfa 107 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
93cbfc28 108 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
109 (STR #3648)
c6d43390 110 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
111 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
112 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
986bf7e8 113 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
6c56d4a8 114 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
115 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
0fb00c07 116 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
7c9f934f 117 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
118 (STR #3645)
119 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
8996a87d 120 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
121 choices (STR #3642)
344d3ab7 122 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
123 (STR #3649)
9cb9b4b5 124 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
125 printers (STR #3622)
509d19bd 126 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
127 did not work (STR #3485)
32c61f35 128 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
129 (STR #3466)
b4c8adf7 130 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
131 printers (STR #3627)
452f8666 132 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
133 minutes (STR #3595)
134 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
135 serial number (STR #3590)
0050629b 136 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
137 (STR #3631)
6bff400e 138 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
139 description of a class (STR #3613)
0e54da70 140 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
141 (STR #3615)
996aee5a 142 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
143 change based on the locale's character set.
81b2d5a3 144 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
c9b4942e 145 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
146 (STR #3620)
73ec0057 147 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
148 (STR #3624)
4a44dbd8 149 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
ab4b0c5e 150 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
151 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
5b626b7a 152 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
63842e70 153 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
0b0f8244 154 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
155 for the PPD compiler.
1604350b 156 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
157 authentication (STR #3559)
8ddbcf63 158 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
159 changed (STR #3570)
1bc31a51 160 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
243d8ea4 161 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
5b5d9f99 162 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
163 needed (STR #3600)
bf1f6ea5 164 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
165 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
166 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
167 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
168 scheduler.
49132a24 169
170
f7cdb9b3 171CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
172
afabfe46 173 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
46b0225b 174 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
07de3d7d 175 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
176 (STR #3516)
511b6f59 177 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
178 memory (STR #3577)
91c5b0ff 179 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
180 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
9036e8da 181 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
182 AIX (STR #3587)
50cd8ff5 183 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
184 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
185 attributes (STR #3554)
b44f284a 186 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
187 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
89813a30 188 (STR #3461)
189 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
190 implementation (STR #3514)
31e254f1 191 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
b78f304d 192 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
be2173d2 193 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
194 printers (STR #3541)
ba198c74 195 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
196 variable (STR #3531)
64dd1836 197 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
1473a062 198 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
199 the first page (STR #3525)
74b4f71d 200 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
715a3e88 201 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
202 (STR #3524)
f84d5d12 203 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
204 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
adf04fdc 205 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
206 all cases (STR #3521)
d5d5fa4f 207 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
208 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 209 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
210 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 211 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
212 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
213 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
214 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 215 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 216 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 217 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
218 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 219 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
220 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 221 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
222 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 223 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
224 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 225 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
226
227
dbf4ca8b 228CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
229
d164b5f8 230 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
231 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
30dd0ced 232 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
233 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
ffe61cc3 234 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 235 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 236 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 237 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
238 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 239 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
240 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 241 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
242 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 243 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 244 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
245 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 246 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 247 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 248 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 249 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 250 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 251 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
252 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 253 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 254 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
255 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 256 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
257 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 258 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 259 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
260 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 261 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
262 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 263 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
264 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 265 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 266 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
267 (STR #3421)
14026560 268 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 269 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 270 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 271 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
272 state.
41dc2e8d 273 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
274 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 275 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 276 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 277 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
278 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 279 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
280 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 281 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
282 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 283 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
284 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
285 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 286 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
287 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 288 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
289 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 290 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
291 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 292 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
293 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 294 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
295
296
2c7c8794 297CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
298
faee5ab9 299 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
300 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
301 STR #3401)
2197464b 302 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 303 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
304 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 305 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
306 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 307 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
308 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 309 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
310 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 311 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
312 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 313 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
314 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 315 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 316 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 317 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
318 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 319 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
320 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 321 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
322 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 323 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 324 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 325 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
326 SNMP implementations.
327
328
6c472821 329CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
330
e0b93db4 331 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 332 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
333 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 334 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 335 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 336 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
337 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 338 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
339 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 340 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 341 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 342 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 343 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
344 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 345 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
346 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 347 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 348 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
349 STR #3305)
74e726de 350 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 351 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 352 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
353 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 354 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
355 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 356 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
357 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 358 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
359 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 360 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
361 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 362 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
363 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 364
365
366CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
367
368 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
369 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
370 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
371 filter (STR #3278)
372 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
373 (STR #3277)
374 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
375 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
376 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
377 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
378 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
379 queues (STR #3258)
380 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
381 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
382 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
383 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
384 cases (STR #3253)
385 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
386 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
387 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
388 SNMP query.
389 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
390 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
391 templates (STR #3229)
392 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
393 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
394 performance.
395 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
396 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
397 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
398 for consistency.
399 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
400 reason on all platforms.
401
402
403CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
404
405 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
406 (STR #3212)
407 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
408 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
409 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
410 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
411 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
412 variables (STR #3210)
413 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
414 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
415 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
416 for print jobs.
417 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
418 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
419 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
420 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
421 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
422 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
423 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
424 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
425 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
426 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
427 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
428 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
429 that cupstestppd looks for...)
430 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
431 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
432 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
433 pages when a job was canceled or held.
434
435
436CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
437
438 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
439 STR #3173)
440 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
441 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
442 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
443 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
444 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
445 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
446 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
447 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
448 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
449 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
450 (STR #2624)
451 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
452 failed print jobs.
453 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
454 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
455 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
456 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
457 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
458 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
459 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
460 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
461 (STR #3171)
462 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
463 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
464 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
465 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
466 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
467 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
468 all work.
469 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
470 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
471 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
472 lack of kernel buffers.
473 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
474 while copying print data to a temporary file.
475 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
476 causing reduced performance in some situations.
477 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
478 would hang on the client.
479 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
480 work (STR #3132)
481 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
482 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
483 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
484 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
485 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
486 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
487 filenames in the PPD file.
488 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
489 values.
490 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
491 devices (STR #3108)
492 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
493 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
494 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
495 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
496 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
497 permissions.
498 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
499 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
500 device URI.
501 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
502 seconds.
503 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
504 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
505 them failed.
506 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
507 status operations.
508 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
509 keywords.
510 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
511 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
512 often unreliable.
513 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
514 "crashed".
515 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
516 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
517 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
518 printer had other reasons associated with it.
519 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
520 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
521 (STR #3084)
522 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
523 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
524 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
525 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
526 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
527 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
528 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
529 printer discovery (STR #3065)
530 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
531 in length (STR #3072)
532 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
533 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
534 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
535 printers with no specified colorspace.
536 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
537 file on Mac OS X.
538 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
539 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
540 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
541 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
542 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
543 for some PPDs.
544 - The ppdi utility did not work.
545 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
546 web browsers (STR #3049)
547 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
548 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
549 options.
550 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
551 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
552 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
553 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
554 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
555 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
556 present in most PPD files.
557 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
558 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
559 its jobs.
560 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
561 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
562 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
563 printers.
564 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
565 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
566 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
567 when a job finished.
568
569
570CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
571
572 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
573 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
574 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
575 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
576 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
577 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
578 rather than copying them whenever possible.
579 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
580 options implementations.
581 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
582 attributes.
583 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
584 was set to False in the PPD file.
585 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
586 and network backends (STR #3014)
587 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
588 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
589 attributes.
590 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
591 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
592 parameter.
593 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
594 --exclude-schemes options.
595 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
596 and exclude-schemes attributes.
597 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
598 attribute.
599 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
600 option called "fit-to-page".
601 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
602 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
603 prevent race conditions.
604 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
605 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
606 CUPS 1.1.x.
607 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
608 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
609 catalogs (STR #2990)
610 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
611 (STR #2989)
612 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
613 variable when running filters.
614 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
615 have all stopped.
616 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
617 progress messages.
618
619
620CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
621
622 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
623 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
624 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
625 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
626 (STR #2863)
627 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
628 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
629 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
630 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
631 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
632 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
633 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
634 (STR #1293)
635 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
636 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
637 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
638 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
639 levels.
640 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
641 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
642 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
643 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
644 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
645 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
646 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
647 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
648 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
649 of printer options (STR #1440)
650 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
651 form.
652 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
653 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
654 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
655 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
656 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
657 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
658 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
659 file (STR #2799)
660 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
661 command (STR #2562)
662 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
663 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
664 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
665 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
666 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
667 Google (STR #2882)
668 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
669 default server (STR #2833)
670 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
671 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
672 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
673 (STR #2923)
674 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
675 (STR #2848)
676 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
677 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
678 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
679 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
680 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
681 print jobs (STR #2482)
682 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
683 values.
684 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
685 track the progress of individual pages.
686 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
687 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
688 command, when available (STR #2724)
689 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
690 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
691 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
692 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
693 file as errors (STR #2616)
694 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
695 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
696 an error (STR #2555)
697 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
698 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
699 continue further (STR #2101)
700 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
701 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
702 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
703 (STR #2853)
704 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
705 the physical location of a printer device.
706 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
707 device data by a backend.
708 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
709 (STR #1729)
710 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
711 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
712 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
713 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
714 to CUPS (STR #263)
715 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
716 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
717 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
718 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
719 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
720 attributes for better option conflict detection and
721 resolution.
722 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
723 256 bytes (STR #2877)
724 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
725 what is logged to the access_log file.
726 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
727 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
728 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
729 files (STR #2871)
730 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
731 information files.
732 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
733 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
734 of an attribute.
735 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
736 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
737 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
738 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
739 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
740 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
741 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
742 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
743 (STR #2738)
744 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
745 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
746 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
747 (STR #2636)
748 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
749 files (STR #2739)
750 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
751 ModelName value as the output filename.
752 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
753 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
754 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
755 standard network backends.
756 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
757 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
758 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
759 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
760 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
761 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
762 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
763 name resolution.
764 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
765 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
766 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
767 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
768 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
769 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
770 - Driver information files can now be installed in
771 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
772 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
773 than 2GB.
774 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
775 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
776 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
777 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
778 backends are polled and for how long.
779 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
780 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
781 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
782 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
783 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
784 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
785 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
786 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
787 for localization (STR #2737)
788 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
789 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
790 file.
791 - The build system has been updated to support separate
792 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
793 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
794 by default.
795 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
796 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
797 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
798 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
799 root to make the default installation more secure.
800 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
801 the localized version of a marker-names value.
802 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
803 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
804 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
805 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
806 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
807 global based on the current access policies for the
808 printer.
809 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
810 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
811 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
812 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
813 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
814 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
815 that support it (STR #2637)
816 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
817 possible.
818 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
819 attriibute to purge a specified job.
820 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
821 attributes for custom option selections.
822 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
823 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
824 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
825 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
826 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
827 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
828 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
829 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
830 on the model page (STR #2436)
831 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
832 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
833 of printers (STR #1175)
834 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
835 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
836 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
837 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
838 to filter the document from the specified job.
839 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
840 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
841 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
842 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
843 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.