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f7cdb9b3 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
5
6 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
7
8
dbf4ca8b 9CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
10
d164b5f8 11 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
12 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
ffe61cc3 13 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
14 STR #3473)
ccdadf80 15 - Documentation update (STR #3451)
83d83f7a 16 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
17 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 18 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
19 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 20 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
21 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 22 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 23 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
24 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 25 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 26 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 27 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 28 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 29 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 30 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
31 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 32 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 33 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
34 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 35 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
36 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 37 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 38 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
39 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 40 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
41 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 42 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
43 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 44 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 45 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
46 (STR #3421)
14026560 47 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 48 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 49 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 50 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
51 state.
41dc2e8d 52 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
53 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 54 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 55 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 56 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
57 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 58 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
59 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 60 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
61 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 62 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
63 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
64 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 65 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
66 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 67 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
68 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 69 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
70 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 71 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
72 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 73 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
74
75
2c7c8794 76CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
77
faee5ab9 78 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
79 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
80 STR #3401)
2197464b 81 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 82 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
83 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 84 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
85 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 86 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
87 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 88 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
89 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 90 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
91 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 92 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
93 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 94 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 95 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 96 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
97 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 98 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
99 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 100 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
101 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 102 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 103 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 104 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
105 SNMP implementations.
106
107
6c472821 108CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
109
e0b93db4 110 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 111 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
112 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 113 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 114 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 115 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
116 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 117 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
118 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 119 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 120 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 121 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 122 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
123 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 124 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
125 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 126 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 127 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
128 STR #3305)
74e726de 129 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 130 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 131 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
132 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 133 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
134 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 135 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
136 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 137 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
138 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 139 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
140 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 141 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
142 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 143
144
145CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
146
147 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
148 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
149 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
150 filter (STR #3278)
151 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
152 (STR #3277)
153 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
154 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
155 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
156 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
157 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
158 queues (STR #3258)
159 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
160 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
161 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
162 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
163 cases (STR #3253)
164 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
165 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
166 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
167 SNMP query.
168 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
169 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
170 templates (STR #3229)
171 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
172 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
173 performance.
174 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
175 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
176 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
177 for consistency.
178 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
179 reason on all platforms.
180
181
182CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
183
184 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
185 (STR #3212)
186 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
187 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
188 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
189 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
190 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
191 variables (STR #3210)
192 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
193 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
194 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
195 for print jobs.
196 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
197 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
198 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
199 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
200 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
201 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
202 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
203 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
204 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
205 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
206 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
207 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
208 that cupstestppd looks for...)
209 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
210 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
211 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
212 pages when a job was canceled or held.
213
214
215CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
216
217 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
218 STR #3173)
219 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
220 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
221 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
222 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
223 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
224 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
225 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
226 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
227 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
228 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
229 (STR #2624)
230 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
231 failed print jobs.
232 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
233 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
234 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
235 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
236 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
237 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
238 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
239 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
240 (STR #3171)
241 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
242 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
243 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
244 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
245 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
246 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
247 all work.
248 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
249 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
250 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
251 lack of kernel buffers.
252 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
253 while copying print data to a temporary file.
254 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
255 causing reduced performance in some situations.
256 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
257 would hang on the client.
258 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
259 work (STR #3132)
260 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
261 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
262 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
263 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
264 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
265 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
266 filenames in the PPD file.
267 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
268 values.
269 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
270 devices (STR #3108)
271 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
272 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
273 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
274 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
275 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
276 permissions.
277 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
278 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
279 device URI.
280 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
281 seconds.
282 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
283 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
284 them failed.
285 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
286 status operations.
287 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
288 keywords.
289 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
290 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
291 often unreliable.
292 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
293 "crashed".
294 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
295 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
296 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
297 printer had other reasons associated with it.
298 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
299 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
300 (STR #3084)
301 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
302 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
303 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
304 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
305 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
306 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
307 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
308 printer discovery (STR #3065)
309 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
310 in length (STR #3072)
311 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
312 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
313 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
314 printers with no specified colorspace.
315 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
316 file on Mac OS X.
317 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
318 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
319 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
320 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
321 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
322 for some PPDs.
323 - The ppdi utility did not work.
324 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
325 web browsers (STR #3049)
326 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
327 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
328 options.
329 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
330 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
331 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
332 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
333 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
334 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
335 present in most PPD files.
336 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
337 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
338 its jobs.
339 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
340 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
341 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
342 printers.
343 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
344 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
345 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
346 when a job finished.
347
348
349CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
350
351 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
352 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
353 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
354 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
355 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
356 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
357 rather than copying them whenever possible.
358 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
359 options implementations.
360 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
361 attributes.
362 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
363 was set to False in the PPD file.
364 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
365 and network backends (STR #3014)
366 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
367 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
368 attributes.
369 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
370 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
371 parameter.
372 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
373 --exclude-schemes options.
374 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
375 and exclude-schemes attributes.
376 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
377 attribute.
378 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
379 option called "fit-to-page".
380 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
381 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
382 prevent race conditions.
383 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
384 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
385 CUPS 1.1.x.
386 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
387 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
388 catalogs (STR #2990)
389 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
390 (STR #2989)
391 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
392 variable when running filters.
393 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
394 have all stopped.
395 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
396 progress messages.
397
398
399CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
400
401 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
402 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
403 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
404 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
405 (STR #2863)
406 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
407 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
408 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
409 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
410 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
411 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
412 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
413 (STR #1293)
414 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
415 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
416 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
417 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
418 levels.
419 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
420 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
421 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
422 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
423 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
424 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
425 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
426 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
427 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
428 of printer options (STR #1440)
429 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
430 form.
431 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
432 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
433 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
434 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
435 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
436 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
437 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
438 file (STR #2799)
439 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
440 command (STR #2562)
441 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
442 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
443 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
444 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
445 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
446 Google (STR #2882)
447 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
448 default server (STR #2833)
449 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
450 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
451 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
452 (STR #2923)
453 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
454 (STR #2848)
455 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
456 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
457 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
458 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
459 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
460 print jobs (STR #2482)
461 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
462 values.
463 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
464 track the progress of individual pages.
465 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
466 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
467 command, when available (STR #2724)
468 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
469 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
470 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
471 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
472 file as errors (STR #2616)
473 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
474 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
475 an error (STR #2555)
476 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
477 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
478 continue further (STR #2101)
479 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
480 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
481 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
482 (STR #2853)
483 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
484 the physical location of a printer device.
485 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
486 device data by a backend.
487 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
488 (STR #1729)
489 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
490 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
491 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
492 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
493 to CUPS (STR #263)
494 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
495 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
496 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
497 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
498 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
499 attributes for better option conflict detection and
500 resolution.
501 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
502 256 bytes (STR #2877)
503 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
504 what is logged to the access_log file.
505 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
506 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
507 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
508 files (STR #2871)
509 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
510 information files.
511 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
512 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
513 of an attribute.
514 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
515 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
516 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
517 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
518 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
519 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
520 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
521 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
522 (STR #2738)
523 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
524 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
525 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
526 (STR #2636)
527 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
528 files (STR #2739)
529 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
530 ModelName value as the output filename.
531 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
532 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
533 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
534 standard network backends.
535 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
536 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
537 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
538 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
539 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
540 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
541 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
542 name resolution.
543 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
544 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
545 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
546 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
547 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
548 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
549 - Driver information files can now be installed in
550 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
551 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
552 than 2GB.
553 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
554 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
555 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
556 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
557 backends are polled and for how long.
558 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
559 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
560 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
561 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
562 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
563 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
564 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
565 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
566 for localization (STR #2737)
567 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
568 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
569 file.
570 - The build system has been updated to support separate
571 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
572 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
573 by default.
574 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
575 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
576 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
577 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
578 root to make the default installation more secure.
579 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
580 the localized version of a marker-names value.
581 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
582 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
583 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
584 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
585 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
586 global based on the current access policies for the
587 printer.
588 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
589 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
590 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
591 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
592 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
593 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
594 that support it (STR #2637)
595 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
596 possible.
597 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
598 attriibute to purge a specified job.
599 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
600 attributes for custom option selections.
601 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
602 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
603 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
604 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
605 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
606 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
607 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
608 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
609 on the model page (STR #2436)
610 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
611 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
612 of printers (STR #1175)
613 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
614 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
615 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
616 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
617 to filter the document from the specified job.
618 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
619 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
620 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
621 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
622 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.