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68e39e3f 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7
5
a978e4cf 6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
7 STR #3757)
902e0bd1 8 - Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,
9 STR #3755, STR #3769)
58e228c7 10 - Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)
2101ba5e 11 - Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771)
19052b48 12 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
13 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
58e228c7 14 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
15 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
b26f1e73 16 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
6955ae26 17 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
18 issues (STR #3705)
66f1081e 19 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
236dd95b 20 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
21 other printers (STR #3405)
9dbcd110 22 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
0189ac1a 23 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
24 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
de187cbc 25 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
26 conformance mode (STR #3747)
6e63d29d 27 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
28 change notifications (STR #3739)
6906e1d1 29 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
30 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
b19f6c64 31 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
2bb97d36 32 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
33 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
a097b151 34 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
6940b939 35 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
7713cfe1 36 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
37 (STR #3761)
3929e7fd 38 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
39 are enabled (STR #3737)
94a1c8e4 40 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
560a2c09 41 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
42 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
bed68396 43 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
44 is printing (STR #3754)
814e0951 45 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
46 (STR #3764)
7fcd72d6 47 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
48 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
68e39e3f 49 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
50 the print filters (STR #3731)
51 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
52 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
09e95d11 53 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
54 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
68e39e3f 55
56
ed3d67d0 57CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
58
aabec20a 59 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
3dccd799 60 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
61 PostScript files (STR #3722)
2e3228ef 62 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
63 (STR #3697)
fa0b15a7 64 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
65 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
ed3d67d0 66
67
49132a24 68CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
69
368a708b 70 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
db950dfa 71 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
93cbfc28 72 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
73 (STR #3648)
c6d43390 74 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
75 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
76 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
986bf7e8 77 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
6c56d4a8 78 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
79 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
0fb00c07 80 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
7c9f934f 81 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
82 (STR #3645)
83 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
8996a87d 84 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
85 choices (STR #3642)
344d3ab7 86 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
87 (STR #3649)
9cb9b4b5 88 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
89 printers (STR #3622)
509d19bd 90 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
91 did not work (STR #3485)
32c61f35 92 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
93 (STR #3466)
b4c8adf7 94 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
95 printers (STR #3627)
452f8666 96 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
97 minutes (STR #3595)
98 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
99 serial number (STR #3590)
0050629b 100 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
101 (STR #3631)
6bff400e 102 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
103 description of a class (STR #3613)
0e54da70 104 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
105 (STR #3615)
996aee5a 106 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
107 change based on the locale's character set.
81b2d5a3 108 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
c9b4942e 109 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
110 (STR #3620)
73ec0057 111 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
112 (STR #3624)
4a44dbd8 113 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
ab4b0c5e 114 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
115 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
5b626b7a 116 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
63842e70 117 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
0b0f8244 118 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
119 for the PPD compiler.
1604350b 120 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
121 authentication (STR #3559)
8ddbcf63 122 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
123 changed (STR #3570)
1bc31a51 124 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
243d8ea4 125 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
5b5d9f99 126 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
127 needed (STR #3600)
bf1f6ea5 128 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
129 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
130 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
131 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
132 scheduler.
49132a24 133
134
f7cdb9b3 135CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
136
afabfe46 137 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
46b0225b 138 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
07de3d7d 139 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
140 (STR #3516)
511b6f59 141 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
142 memory (STR #3577)
91c5b0ff 143 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
144 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
9036e8da 145 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
146 AIX (STR #3587)
50cd8ff5 147 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
148 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
149 attributes (STR #3554)
b44f284a 150 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
151 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
89813a30 152 (STR #3461)
153 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
154 implementation (STR #3514)
31e254f1 155 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
b78f304d 156 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
be2173d2 157 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
158 printers (STR #3541)
ba198c74 159 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
160 variable (STR #3531)
64dd1836 161 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
1473a062 162 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
163 the first page (STR #3525)
74b4f71d 164 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
715a3e88 165 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
166 (STR #3524)
f84d5d12 167 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
168 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
adf04fdc 169 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
170 all cases (STR #3521)
d5d5fa4f 171 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
172 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 173 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
174 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 175 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
176 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
177 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
178 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 179 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 180 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 181 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
182 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 183 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
184 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 185 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
186 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 187 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
188 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 189 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
190
191
dbf4ca8b 192CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
193
d164b5f8 194 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
195 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
30dd0ced 196 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
197 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
ffe61cc3 198 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 199 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 200 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 201 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
202 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 203 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
204 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 205 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
206 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 207 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 208 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
209 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 210 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 211 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 212 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 213 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 214 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 215 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
216 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 217 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 218 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
219 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 220 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
221 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 222 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 223 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
224 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 225 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
226 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 227 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
228 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 229 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 230 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
231 (STR #3421)
14026560 232 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 233 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 234 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 235 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
236 state.
41dc2e8d 237 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
238 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 239 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 240 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 241 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
242 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 243 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
244 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 245 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
246 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 247 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
248 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
249 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 250 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
251 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 252 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
253 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 254 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
255 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 256 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
257 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 258 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
259
260
2c7c8794 261CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
262
faee5ab9 263 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
264 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
265 STR #3401)
2197464b 266 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 267 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
268 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 269 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
270 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 271 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
272 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 273 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
274 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 275 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
276 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 277 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
278 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 279 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 280 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 281 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
282 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 283 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
284 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 285 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
286 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 287 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 288 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 289 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
290 SNMP implementations.
291
292
6c472821 293CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
294
e0b93db4 295 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 296 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
297 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 298 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 299 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 300 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
301 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 302 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
303 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 304 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 305 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 306 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 307 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
308 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 309 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
310 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 311 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 312 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
313 STR #3305)
74e726de 314 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 315 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 316 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
317 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 318 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
319 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 320 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
321 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 322 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
323 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 324 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
325 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 326 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
327 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 328
329
330CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
331
332 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
333 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
334 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
335 filter (STR #3278)
336 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
337 (STR #3277)
338 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
339 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
340 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
341 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
342 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
343 queues (STR #3258)
344 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
345 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
346 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
347 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
348 cases (STR #3253)
349 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
350 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
351 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
352 SNMP query.
353 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
354 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
355 templates (STR #3229)
356 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
357 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
358 performance.
359 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
360 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
361 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
362 for consistency.
363 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
364 reason on all platforms.
365
366
367CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
368
369 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
370 (STR #3212)
371 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
372 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
373 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
374 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
375 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
376 variables (STR #3210)
377 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
378 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
379 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
380 for print jobs.
381 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
382 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
383 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
384 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
385 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
386 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
387 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
388 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
389 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
390 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
391 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
392 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
393 that cupstestppd looks for...)
394 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
395 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
396 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
397 pages when a job was canceled or held.
398
399
400CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
401
402 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
403 STR #3173)
404 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
405 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
406 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
407 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
408 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
409 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
410 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
411 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
412 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
413 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
414 (STR #2624)
415 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
416 failed print jobs.
417 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
418 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
419 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
420 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
421 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
422 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
423 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
424 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
425 (STR #3171)
426 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
427 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
428 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
429 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
430 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
431 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
432 all work.
433 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
434 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
435 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
436 lack of kernel buffers.
437 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
438 while copying print data to a temporary file.
439 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
440 causing reduced performance in some situations.
441 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
442 would hang on the client.
443 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
444 work (STR #3132)
445 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
446 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
447 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
448 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
449 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
450 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
451 filenames in the PPD file.
452 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
453 values.
454 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
455 devices (STR #3108)
456 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
457 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
458 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
459 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
460 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
461 permissions.
462 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
463 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
464 device URI.
465 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
466 seconds.
467 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
468 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
469 them failed.
470 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
471 status operations.
472 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
473 keywords.
474 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
475 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
476 often unreliable.
477 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
478 "crashed".
479 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
480 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
481 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
482 printer had other reasons associated with it.
483 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
484 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
485 (STR #3084)
486 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
487 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
488 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
489 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
490 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
491 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
492 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
493 printer discovery (STR #3065)
494 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
495 in length (STR #3072)
496 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
497 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
498 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
499 printers with no specified colorspace.
500 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
501 file on Mac OS X.
502 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
503 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
504 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
505 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
506 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
507 for some PPDs.
508 - The ppdi utility did not work.
509 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
510 web browsers (STR #3049)
511 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
512 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
513 options.
514 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
515 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
516 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
517 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
518 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
519 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
520 present in most PPD files.
521 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
522 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
523 its jobs.
524 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
525 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
526 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
527 printers.
528 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
529 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
530 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
531 when a job finished.
532
533
534CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
535
536 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
537 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
538 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
539 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
540 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
541 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
542 rather than copying them whenever possible.
543 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
544 options implementations.
545 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
546 attributes.
547 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
548 was set to False in the PPD file.
549 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
550 and network backends (STR #3014)
551 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
552 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
553 attributes.
554 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
555 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
556 parameter.
557 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
558 --exclude-schemes options.
559 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
560 and exclude-schemes attributes.
561 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
562 attribute.
563 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
564 option called "fit-to-page".
565 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
566 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
567 prevent race conditions.
568 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
569 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
570 CUPS 1.1.x.
571 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
572 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
573 catalogs (STR #2990)
574 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
575 (STR #2989)
576 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
577 variable when running filters.
578 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
579 have all stopped.
580 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
581 progress messages.
582
583
584CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
585
586 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
587 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
588 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
589 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
590 (STR #2863)
591 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
592 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
593 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
594 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
595 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
596 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
597 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
598 (STR #1293)
599 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
600 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
601 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
602 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
603 levels.
604 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
605 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
606 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
607 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
608 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
609 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
610 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
611 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
612 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
613 of printer options (STR #1440)
614 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
615 form.
616 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
617 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
618 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
619 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
620 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
621 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
622 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
623 file (STR #2799)
624 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
625 command (STR #2562)
626 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
627 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
628 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
629 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
630 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
631 Google (STR #2882)
632 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
633 default server (STR #2833)
634 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
635 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
636 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
637 (STR #2923)
638 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
639 (STR #2848)
640 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
641 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
642 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
643 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
644 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
645 print jobs (STR #2482)
646 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
647 values.
648 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
649 track the progress of individual pages.
650 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
651 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
652 command, when available (STR #2724)
653 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
654 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
655 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
656 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
657 file as errors (STR #2616)
658 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
659 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
660 an error (STR #2555)
661 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
662 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
663 continue further (STR #2101)
664 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
665 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
666 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
667 (STR #2853)
668 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
669 the physical location of a printer device.
670 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
671 device data by a backend.
672 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
673 (STR #1729)
674 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
675 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
676 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
677 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
678 to CUPS (STR #263)
679 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
680 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
681 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
682 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
683 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
684 attributes for better option conflict detection and
685 resolution.
686 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
687 256 bytes (STR #2877)
688 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
689 what is logged to the access_log file.
690 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
691 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
692 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
693 files (STR #2871)
694 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
695 information files.
696 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
697 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
698 of an attribute.
699 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
700 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
701 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
702 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
703 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
704 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
705 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
706 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
707 (STR #2738)
708 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
709 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
710 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
711 (STR #2636)
712 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
713 files (STR #2739)
714 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
715 ModelName value as the output filename.
716 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
717 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
718 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
719 standard network backends.
720 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
721 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
722 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
723 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
724 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
725 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
726 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
727 name resolution.
728 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
729 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
730 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
731 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
732 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
733 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
734 - Driver information files can now be installed in
735 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
736 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
737 than 2GB.
738 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
739 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
740 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
741 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
742 backends are polled and for how long.
743 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
744 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
745 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
746 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
747 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
748 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
749 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
750 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
751 for localization (STR #2737)
752 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
753 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
754 file.
755 - The build system has been updated to support separate
756 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
757 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
758 by default.
759 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
760 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
761 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
762 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
763 root to make the default installation more secure.
764 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
765 the localized version of a marker-names value.
766 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
767 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
768 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
769 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
770 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
771 global based on the current access policies for the
772 printer.
773 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
774 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
775 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
776 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
777 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
778 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
779 that support it (STR #2637)
780 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
781 possible.
782 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
783 attriibute to purge a specified job.
784 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
785 attributes for custom option selections.
786 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
787 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
788 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
789 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
790 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
791 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
792 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
793 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
794 on the model page (STR #2436)
795 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
796 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
797 of printers (STR #1175)
798 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
799 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
800 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
801 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
802 to filter the document from the specified job.
803 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
804 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
805 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
806 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
807 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.