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f7cdb9b3 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
5
74a64efc 6 - Documentation updates (STR #3453)
d5d5fa4f 7 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
8 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 9 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
10 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 11 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
12 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
13 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
14 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 15 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 16 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 17 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
18 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 19 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
20 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 21 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
22 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 23 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
24 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 25 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
26
27
dbf4ca8b 28CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
29
d164b5f8 30 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
31 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
ffe61cc3 32 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 33 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 34 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 35 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
36 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 37 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
38 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 39 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
40 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 41 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 42 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
43 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 44 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 45 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 46 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 47 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 48 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 49 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
50 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 51 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 52 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
53 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 54 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
55 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 56 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 57 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
58 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 59 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
60 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 61 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
62 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 63 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 64 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
65 (STR #3421)
14026560 66 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 67 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 68 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 69 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
70 state.
41dc2e8d 71 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
72 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 73 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 74 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 75 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
76 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 77 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
78 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 79 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
80 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 81 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
82 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
83 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 84 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
85 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 86 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
87 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 88 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
89 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 90 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
91 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 92 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
93
94
2c7c8794 95CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
96
faee5ab9 97 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
98 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
99 STR #3401)
2197464b 100 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 101 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
102 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 103 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
104 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 105 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
106 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 107 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
108 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 109 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
110 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 111 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
112 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 113 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 114 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 115 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
116 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 117 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
118 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 119 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
120 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 121 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 122 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 123 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
124 SNMP implementations.
125
126
6c472821 127CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
128
e0b93db4 129 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 130 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
131 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 132 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 133 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 134 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
135 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 136 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
137 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 138 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 139 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 140 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 141 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
142 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 143 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
144 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 145 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 146 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
147 STR #3305)
74e726de 148 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 149 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 150 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
151 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 152 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
153 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 154 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
155 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 156 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
157 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 158 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
159 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 160 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
161 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 162
163
164CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
165
166 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
167 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
168 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
169 filter (STR #3278)
170 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
171 (STR #3277)
172 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
173 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
174 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
175 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
176 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
177 queues (STR #3258)
178 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
179 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
180 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
181 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
182 cases (STR #3253)
183 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
184 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
185 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
186 SNMP query.
187 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
188 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
189 templates (STR #3229)
190 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
191 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
192 performance.
193 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
194 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
195 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
196 for consistency.
197 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
198 reason on all platforms.
199
200
201CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
202
203 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
204 (STR #3212)
205 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
206 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
207 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
208 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
209 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
210 variables (STR #3210)
211 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
212 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
213 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
214 for print jobs.
215 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
216 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
217 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
218 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
219 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
220 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
221 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
222 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
223 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
224 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
225 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
226 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
227 that cupstestppd looks for...)
228 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
229 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
230 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
231 pages when a job was canceled or held.
232
233
234CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
235
236 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
237 STR #3173)
238 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
239 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
240 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
241 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
242 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
243 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
244 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
245 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
246 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
247 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
248 (STR #2624)
249 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
250 failed print jobs.
251 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
252 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
253 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
254 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
255 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
256 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
257 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
258 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
259 (STR #3171)
260 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
261 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
262 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
263 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
264 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
265 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
266 all work.
267 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
268 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
269 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
270 lack of kernel buffers.
271 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
272 while copying print data to a temporary file.
273 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
274 causing reduced performance in some situations.
275 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
276 would hang on the client.
277 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
278 work (STR #3132)
279 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
280 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
281 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
282 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
283 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
284 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
285 filenames in the PPD file.
286 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
287 values.
288 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
289 devices (STR #3108)
290 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
291 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
292 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
293 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
294 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
295 permissions.
296 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
297 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
298 device URI.
299 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
300 seconds.
301 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
302 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
303 them failed.
304 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
305 status operations.
306 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
307 keywords.
308 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
309 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
310 often unreliable.
311 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
312 "crashed".
313 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
314 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
315 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
316 printer had other reasons associated with it.
317 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
318 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
319 (STR #3084)
320 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
321 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
322 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
323 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
324 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
325 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
326 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
327 printer discovery (STR #3065)
328 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
329 in length (STR #3072)
330 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
331 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
332 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
333 printers with no specified colorspace.
334 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
335 file on Mac OS X.
336 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
337 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
338 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
339 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
340 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
341 for some PPDs.
342 - The ppdi utility did not work.
343 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
344 web browsers (STR #3049)
345 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
346 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
347 options.
348 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
349 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
350 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
351 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
352 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
353 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
354 present in most PPD files.
355 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
356 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
357 its jobs.
358 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
359 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
360 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
361 printers.
362 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
363 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
364 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
365 when a job finished.
366
367
368CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
369
370 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
371 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
372 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
373 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
374 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
375 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
376 rather than copying them whenever possible.
377 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
378 options implementations.
379 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
380 attributes.
381 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
382 was set to False in the PPD file.
383 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
384 and network backends (STR #3014)
385 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
386 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
387 attributes.
388 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
389 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
390 parameter.
391 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
392 --exclude-schemes options.
393 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
394 and exclude-schemes attributes.
395 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
396 attribute.
397 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
398 option called "fit-to-page".
399 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
400 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
401 prevent race conditions.
402 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
403 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
404 CUPS 1.1.x.
405 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
406 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
407 catalogs (STR #2990)
408 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
409 (STR #2989)
410 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
411 variable when running filters.
412 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
413 have all stopped.
414 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
415 progress messages.
416
417
418CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
419
420 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
421 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
422 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
423 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
424 (STR #2863)
425 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
426 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
427 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
428 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
429 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
430 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
431 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
432 (STR #1293)
433 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
434 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
435 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
436 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
437 levels.
438 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
439 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
440 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
441 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
442 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
443 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
444 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
445 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
446 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
447 of printer options (STR #1440)
448 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
449 form.
450 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
451 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
452 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
453 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
454 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
455 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
456 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
457 file (STR #2799)
458 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
459 command (STR #2562)
460 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
461 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
462 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
463 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
464 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
465 Google (STR #2882)
466 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
467 default server (STR #2833)
468 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
469 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
470 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
471 (STR #2923)
472 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
473 (STR #2848)
474 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
475 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
476 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
477 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
478 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
479 print jobs (STR #2482)
480 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
481 values.
482 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
483 track the progress of individual pages.
484 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
485 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
486 command, when available (STR #2724)
487 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
488 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
489 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
490 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
491 file as errors (STR #2616)
492 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
493 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
494 an error (STR #2555)
495 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
496 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
497 continue further (STR #2101)
498 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
499 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
500 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
501 (STR #2853)
502 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
503 the physical location of a printer device.
504 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
505 device data by a backend.
506 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
507 (STR #1729)
508 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
509 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
510 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
511 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
512 to CUPS (STR #263)
513 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
514 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
515 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
516 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
517 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
518 attributes for better option conflict detection and
519 resolution.
520 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
521 256 bytes (STR #2877)
522 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
523 what is logged to the access_log file.
524 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
525 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
526 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
527 files (STR #2871)
528 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
529 information files.
530 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
531 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
532 of an attribute.
533 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
534 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
535 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
536 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
537 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
538 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
539 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
540 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
541 (STR #2738)
542 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
543 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
544 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
545 (STR #2636)
546 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
547 files (STR #2739)
548 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
549 ModelName value as the output filename.
550 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
551 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
552 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
553 standard network backends.
554 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
555 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
556 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
557 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
558 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
559 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
560 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
561 name resolution.
562 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
563 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
564 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
565 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
566 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
567 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
568 - Driver information files can now be installed in
569 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
570 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
571 than 2GB.
572 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
573 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
574 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
575 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
576 backends are polled and for how long.
577 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
578 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
579 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
580 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
581 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
582 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
583 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
584 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
585 for localization (STR #2737)
586 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
587 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
588 file.
589 - The build system has been updated to support separate
590 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
591 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
592 by default.
593 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
594 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
595 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
596 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
597 root to make the default installation more secure.
598 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
599 the localized version of a marker-names value.
600 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
601 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
602 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
603 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
604 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
605 global based on the current access policies for the
606 printer.
607 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
608 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
609 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
610 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
611 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
612 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
613 that support it (STR #2637)
614 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
615 possible.
616 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
617 attriibute to purge a specified job.
618 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
619 attributes for custom option selections.
620 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
621 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
622 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
623 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
624 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
625 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
626 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
627 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
628 on the model page (STR #2436)
629 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
630 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
631 of printers (STR #1175)
632 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
633 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
634 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
635 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
636 to filter the document from the specified job.
637 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
638 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
639 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
640 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
641 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.