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