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