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dbf4ca8b 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
5
d164b5f8 6 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
7 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
7f8fdd3a 8 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452)
ccdadf80 9 - Documentation update (STR #3451)
83d83f7a 10 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
11 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 12 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
13 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 14 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
15 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 16 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 17 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
18 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 19 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 20 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 21 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 22 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 23 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 24 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
25 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 26 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 27 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
28 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 29 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
30 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 31 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 32 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
33 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 34 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
35 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 36 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
37 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 38 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 39 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
40 (STR #3421)
14026560 41 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 42 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 43 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 44 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
45 state.
41dc2e8d 46 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
47 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 48 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 49 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 50 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
51 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 52 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
53 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 54 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
55 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 56 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
57 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
58 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 59 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
60 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 61 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
62 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 63 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
64 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 65 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
66 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 67 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
68
69
2c7c8794 70CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
71
faee5ab9 72 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
73 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
74 STR #3401)
2197464b 75 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 76 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
77 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 78 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
79 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 80 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
81 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 82 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
83 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 84 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
85 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 86 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
87 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 88 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 89 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 90 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
91 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 92 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
93 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 94 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
95 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 96 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 97 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 98 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
99 SNMP implementations.
100
101
6c472821 102CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
103
e0b93db4 104 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 105 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
106 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 107 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 108 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 109 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
110 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 111 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
112 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 113 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 114 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 115 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 116 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
117 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 118 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
119 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 120 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 121 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
122 STR #3305)
74e726de 123 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 124 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 125 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
126 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 127 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
128 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 129 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
130 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 131 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
132 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 133 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
134 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 135 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
136 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 137
138
139CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
140
141 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
142 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
143 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
144 filter (STR #3278)
145 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
146 (STR #3277)
147 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
148 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
149 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
150 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
151 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
152 queues (STR #3258)
153 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
154 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
155 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
156 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
157 cases (STR #3253)
158 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
159 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
160 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
161 SNMP query.
162 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
163 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
164 templates (STR #3229)
165 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
166 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
167 performance.
168 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
169 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
170 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
171 for consistency.
172 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
173 reason on all platforms.
174
175
176CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
177
178 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
179 (STR #3212)
180 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
181 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
182 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
183 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
184 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
185 variables (STR #3210)
186 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
187 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
188 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
189 for print jobs.
190 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
191 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
192 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
193 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
194 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
195 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
196 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
197 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
198 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
199 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
200 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
201 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
202 that cupstestppd looks for...)
203 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
204 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
205 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
206 pages when a job was canceled or held.
207
208
209CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
210
211 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
212 STR #3173)
213 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
214 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
215 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
216 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
217 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
218 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
219 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
220 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
221 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
222 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
223 (STR #2624)
224 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
225 failed print jobs.
226 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
227 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
228 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
229 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
230 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
231 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
232 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
233 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
234 (STR #3171)
235 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
236 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
237 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
238 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
239 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
240 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
241 all work.
242 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
243 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
244 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
245 lack of kernel buffers.
246 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
247 while copying print data to a temporary file.
248 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
249 causing reduced performance in some situations.
250 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
251 would hang on the client.
252 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
253 work (STR #3132)
254 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
255 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
256 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
257 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
258 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
259 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
260 filenames in the PPD file.
261 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
262 values.
263 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
264 devices (STR #3108)
265 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
266 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
267 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
268 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
269 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
270 permissions.
271 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
272 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
273 device URI.
274 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
275 seconds.
276 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
277 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
278 them failed.
279 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
280 status operations.
281 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
282 keywords.
283 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
284 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
285 often unreliable.
286 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
287 "crashed".
288 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
289 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
290 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
291 printer had other reasons associated with it.
292 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
293 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
294 (STR #3084)
295 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
296 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
297 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
298 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
299 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
300 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
301 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
302 printer discovery (STR #3065)
303 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
304 in length (STR #3072)
305 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
306 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
307 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
308 printers with no specified colorspace.
309 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
310 file on Mac OS X.
311 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
312 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
313 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
314 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
315 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
316 for some PPDs.
317 - The ppdi utility did not work.
318 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
319 web browsers (STR #3049)
320 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
321 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
322 options.
323 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
324 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
325 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
326 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
327 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
328 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
329 present in most PPD files.
330 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
331 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
332 its jobs.
333 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
334 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
335 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
336 printers.
337 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
338 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
339 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
340 when a job finished.
341
342
343CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
344
345 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
346 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
347 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
348 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
349 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
350 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
351 rather than copying them whenever possible.
352 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
353 options implementations.
354 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
355 attributes.
356 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
357 was set to False in the PPD file.
358 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
359 and network backends (STR #3014)
360 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
361 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
362 attributes.
363 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
364 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
365 parameter.
366 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
367 --exclude-schemes options.
368 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
369 and exclude-schemes attributes.
370 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
371 attribute.
372 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
373 option called "fit-to-page".
374 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
375 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
376 prevent race conditions.
377 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
378 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
379 CUPS 1.1.x.
380 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
381 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
382 catalogs (STR #2990)
383 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
384 (STR #2989)
385 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
386 variable when running filters.
387 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
388 have all stopped.
389 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
390 progress messages.
391
392
393CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
394
395 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
396 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
397 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
398 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
399 (STR #2863)
400 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
401 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
402 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
403 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
404 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
405 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
406 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
407 (STR #1293)
408 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
409 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
410 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
411 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
412 levels.
413 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
414 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
415 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
416 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
417 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
418 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
419 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
420 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
421 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
422 of printer options (STR #1440)
423 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
424 form.
425 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
426 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
427 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
428 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
429 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
430 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
431 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
432 file (STR #2799)
433 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
434 command (STR #2562)
435 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
436 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
437 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
438 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
439 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
440 Google (STR #2882)
441 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
442 default server (STR #2833)
443 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
444 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
445 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
446 (STR #2923)
447 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
448 (STR #2848)
449 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
450 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
451 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
452 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
453 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
454 print jobs (STR #2482)
455 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
456 values.
457 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
458 track the progress of individual pages.
459 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
460 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
461 command, when available (STR #2724)
462 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
463 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
464 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
465 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
466 file as errors (STR #2616)
467 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
468 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
469 an error (STR #2555)
470 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
471 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
472 continue further (STR #2101)
473 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
474 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
475 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
476 (STR #2853)
477 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
478 the physical location of a printer device.
479 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
480 device data by a backend.
481 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
482 (STR #1729)
483 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
484 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
485 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
486 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
487 to CUPS (STR #263)
488 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
489 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
490 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
491 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
492 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
493 attributes for better option conflict detection and
494 resolution.
495 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
496 256 bytes (STR #2877)
497 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
498 what is logged to the access_log file.
499 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
500 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
501 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
502 files (STR #2871)
503 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
504 information files.
505 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
506 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
507 of an attribute.
508 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
509 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
510 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
511 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
512 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
513 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
514 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
515 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
516 (STR #2738)
517 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
518 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
519 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
520 (STR #2636)
521 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
522 files (STR #2739)
523 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
524 ModelName value as the output filename.
525 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
526 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
527 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
528 standard network backends.
529 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
530 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
531 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
532 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
533 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
534 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
535 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
536 name resolution.
537 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
538 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
539 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
540 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
541 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
542 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
543 - Driver information files can now be installed in
544 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
545 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
546 than 2GB.
547 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
548 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
549 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
550 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
551 backends are polled and for how long.
552 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
553 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
554 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
555 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
556 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
557 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
558 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
559 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
560 for localization (STR #2737)
561 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
562 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
563 file.
564 - The build system has been updated to support separate
565 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
566 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
567 by default.
568 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
569 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
570 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
571 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
572 root to make the default installation more secure.
573 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
574 the localized version of a marker-names value.
575 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
576 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
577 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
578 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
579 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
580 global based on the current access policies for the
581 printer.
582 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
583 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
584 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
585 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
586 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
587 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
588 that support it (STR #2637)
589 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
590 possible.
591 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
592 attriibute to purge a specified job.
593 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
594 attributes for custom option selections.
595 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
596 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
597 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
598 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
599 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
600 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
601 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
602 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
603 on the model page (STR #2436)
604 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
605 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
606 of printers (STR #1175)
607 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
608 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
609 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
610 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
611 to filter the document from the specified job.
612 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
613 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
614 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
615 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
616 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.