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68e39e3f 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7
5
92c99734 6 - Documentation changes (STR #3720)
3929e7fd 7 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
8 are enabled (STR #3737)
94a1c8e4 9 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
560a2c09 10 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
11 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
6981bf16 12 - The web interface did not allow setting of a default custom page size
13 (STR #3707)
bed68396 14 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
15 is printing (STR #3754)
814e0951 16 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
17 (STR #3764)
7fcd72d6 18 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
19 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
68e39e3f 20 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
21 the print filters (STR #3731)
22 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
23 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
09e95d11 24 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
25 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
68e39e3f 26
27
ed3d67d0 28CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
29
aabec20a 30 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
3dccd799 31 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
32 PostScript files (STR #3722)
2e3228ef 33 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
34 (STR #3697)
fa0b15a7 35 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
36 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
ed3d67d0 37
38
49132a24 39CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
40
368a708b 41 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
db950dfa 42 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
93cbfc28 43 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
44 (STR #3648)
c6d43390 45 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
46 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
47 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
986bf7e8 48 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
6c56d4a8 49 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
50 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
0fb00c07 51 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
7c9f934f 52 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
53 (STR #3645)
54 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
8996a87d 55 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
56 choices (STR #3642)
344d3ab7 57 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
58 (STR #3649)
9cb9b4b5 59 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
60 printers (STR #3622)
509d19bd 61 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
62 did not work (STR #3485)
32c61f35 63 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
64 (STR #3466)
b4c8adf7 65 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
66 printers (STR #3627)
452f8666 67 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
68 minutes (STR #3595)
69 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
70 serial number (STR #3590)
0050629b 71 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
72 (STR #3631)
6bff400e 73 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
74 description of a class (STR #3613)
0e54da70 75 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
76 (STR #3615)
996aee5a 77 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
78 change based on the locale's character set.
81b2d5a3 79 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
c9b4942e 80 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
81 (STR #3620)
73ec0057 82 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
83 (STR #3624)
4a44dbd8 84 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
ab4b0c5e 85 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
86 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
5b626b7a 87 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
63842e70 88 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
0b0f8244 89 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
90 for the PPD compiler.
1604350b 91 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
92 authentication (STR #3559)
8ddbcf63 93 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
94 changed (STR #3570)
1bc31a51 95 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
243d8ea4 96 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
5b5d9f99 97 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
98 needed (STR #3600)
bf1f6ea5 99 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
100 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
101 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
102 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
103 scheduler.
49132a24 104
105
f7cdb9b3 106CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
107
afabfe46 108 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
46b0225b 109 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
07de3d7d 110 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
111 (STR #3516)
511b6f59 112 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
113 memory (STR #3577)
91c5b0ff 114 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
115 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
9036e8da 116 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
117 AIX (STR #3587)
50cd8ff5 118 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
119 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
120 attributes (STR #3554)
b44f284a 121 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
122 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
89813a30 123 (STR #3461)
124 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
125 implementation (STR #3514)
31e254f1 126 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
b78f304d 127 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
be2173d2 128 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
129 printers (STR #3541)
ba198c74 130 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
131 variable (STR #3531)
64dd1836 132 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
1473a062 133 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
134 the first page (STR #3525)
74b4f71d 135 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
715a3e88 136 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
137 (STR #3524)
f84d5d12 138 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
139 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
adf04fdc 140 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
141 all cases (STR #3521)
d5d5fa4f 142 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
143 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 144 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
145 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 146 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
147 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
148 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
149 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 150 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 151 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 152 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
153 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 154 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
155 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 156 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
157 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 158 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
159 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 160 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
161
162
dbf4ca8b 163CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
164
d164b5f8 165 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
166 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
30dd0ced 167 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
168 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
ffe61cc3 169 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 170 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 171 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 172 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
173 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 174 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
175 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 176 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
177 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 178 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 179 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
180 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 181 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 182 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 183 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 184 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 185 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 186 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
187 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 188 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 189 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
190 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 191 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
192 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 193 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 194 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
195 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 196 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
197 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 198 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
199 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 200 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 201 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
202 (STR #3421)
14026560 203 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 204 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 205 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 206 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
207 state.
41dc2e8d 208 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
209 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 210 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 211 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 212 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
213 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 214 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
215 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 216 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
217 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 218 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
219 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
220 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 221 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
222 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 223 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
224 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 225 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
226 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 227 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
228 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 229 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
230
231
2c7c8794 232CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
233
faee5ab9 234 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
235 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
236 STR #3401)
2197464b 237 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 238 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
239 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 240 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
241 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 242 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
243 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 244 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
245 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 246 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
247 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 248 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
249 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 250 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 251 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 252 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
253 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 254 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
255 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 256 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
257 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 258 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 259 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 260 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
261 SNMP implementations.
262
263
6c472821 264CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
265
e0b93db4 266 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 267 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
268 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 269 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 270 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 271 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
272 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 273 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
274 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 275 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 276 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 277 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 278 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
279 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 280 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
281 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 282 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 283 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
284 STR #3305)
74e726de 285 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 286 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 287 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
288 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 289 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
290 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 291 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
292 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 293 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
294 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 295 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
296 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 297 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
298 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 299
300
301CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
302
303 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
304 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
305 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
306 filter (STR #3278)
307 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
308 (STR #3277)
309 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
310 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
311 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
312 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
313 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
314 queues (STR #3258)
315 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
316 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
317 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
318 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
319 cases (STR #3253)
320 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
321 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
322 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
323 SNMP query.
324 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
325 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
326 templates (STR #3229)
327 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
328 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
329 performance.
330 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
331 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
332 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
333 for consistency.
334 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
335 reason on all platforms.
336
337
338CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
339
340 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
341 (STR #3212)
342 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
343 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
344 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
345 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
346 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
347 variables (STR #3210)
348 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
349 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
350 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
351 for print jobs.
352 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
353 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
354 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
355 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
356 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
357 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
358 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
359 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
360 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
361 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
362 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
363 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
364 that cupstestppd looks for...)
365 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
366 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
367 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
368 pages when a job was canceled or held.
369
370
371CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
372
373 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
374 STR #3173)
375 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
376 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
377 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
378 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
379 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
380 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
381 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
382 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
383 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
384 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
385 (STR #2624)
386 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
387 failed print jobs.
388 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
389 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
390 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
391 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
392 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
393 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
394 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
395 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
396 (STR #3171)
397 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
398 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
399 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
400 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
401 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
402 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
403 all work.
404 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
405 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
406 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
407 lack of kernel buffers.
408 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
409 while copying print data to a temporary file.
410 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
411 causing reduced performance in some situations.
412 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
413 would hang on the client.
414 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
415 work (STR #3132)
416 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
417 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
418 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
419 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
420 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
421 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
422 filenames in the PPD file.
423 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
424 values.
425 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
426 devices (STR #3108)
427 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
428 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
429 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
430 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
431 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
432 permissions.
433 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
434 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
435 device URI.
436 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
437 seconds.
438 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
439 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
440 them failed.
441 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
442 status operations.
443 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
444 keywords.
445 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
446 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
447 often unreliable.
448 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
449 "crashed".
450 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
451 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
452 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
453 printer had other reasons associated with it.
454 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
455 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
456 (STR #3084)
457 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
458 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
459 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
460 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
461 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
462 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
463 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
464 printer discovery (STR #3065)
465 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
466 in length (STR #3072)
467 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
468 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
469 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
470 printers with no specified colorspace.
471 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
472 file on Mac OS X.
473 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
474 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
475 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
476 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
477 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
478 for some PPDs.
479 - The ppdi utility did not work.
480 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
481 web browsers (STR #3049)
482 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
483 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
484 options.
485 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
486 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
487 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
488 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
489 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
490 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
491 present in most PPD files.
492 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
493 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
494 its jobs.
495 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
496 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
497 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
498 printers.
499 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
500 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
501 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
502 when a job finished.
503
504
505CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
506
507 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
508 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
509 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
510 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
511 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
512 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
513 rather than copying them whenever possible.
514 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
515 options implementations.
516 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
517 attributes.
518 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
519 was set to False in the PPD file.
520 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
521 and network backends (STR #3014)
522 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
523 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
524 attributes.
525 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
526 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
527 parameter.
528 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
529 --exclude-schemes options.
530 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
531 and exclude-schemes attributes.
532 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
533 attribute.
534 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
535 option called "fit-to-page".
536 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
537 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
538 prevent race conditions.
539 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
540 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
541 CUPS 1.1.x.
542 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
543 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
544 catalogs (STR #2990)
545 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
546 (STR #2989)
547 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
548 variable when running filters.
549 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
550 have all stopped.
551 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
552 progress messages.
553
554
555CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
556
557 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
558 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
559 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
560 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
561 (STR #2863)
562 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
563 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
564 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
565 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
566 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
567 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
568 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
569 (STR #1293)
570 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
571 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
572 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
573 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
574 levels.
575 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
576 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
577 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
578 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
579 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
580 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
581 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
582 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
583 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
584 of printer options (STR #1440)
585 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
586 form.
587 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
588 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
589 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
590 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
591 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
592 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
593 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
594 file (STR #2799)
595 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
596 command (STR #2562)
597 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
598 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
599 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
600 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
601 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
602 Google (STR #2882)
603 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
604 default server (STR #2833)
605 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
606 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
607 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
608 (STR #2923)
609 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
610 (STR #2848)
611 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
612 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
613 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
614 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
615 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
616 print jobs (STR #2482)
617 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
618 values.
619 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
620 track the progress of individual pages.
621 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
622 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
623 command, when available (STR #2724)
624 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
625 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
626 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
627 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
628 file as errors (STR #2616)
629 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
630 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
631 an error (STR #2555)
632 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
633 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
634 continue further (STR #2101)
635 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
636 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
637 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
638 (STR #2853)
639 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
640 the physical location of a printer device.
641 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
642 device data by a backend.
643 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
644 (STR #1729)
645 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
646 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
647 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
648 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
649 to CUPS (STR #263)
650 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
651 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
652 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
653 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
654 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
655 attributes for better option conflict detection and
656 resolution.
657 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
658 256 bytes (STR #2877)
659 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
660 what is logged to the access_log file.
661 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
662 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
663 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
664 files (STR #2871)
665 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
666 information files.
667 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
668 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
669 of an attribute.
670 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
671 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
672 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
673 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
674 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
675 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
676 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
677 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
678 (STR #2738)
679 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
680 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
681 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
682 (STR #2636)
683 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
684 files (STR #2739)
685 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
686 ModelName value as the output filename.
687 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
688 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
689 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
690 standard network backends.
691 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
692 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
693 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
694 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
695 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
696 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
697 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
698 name resolution.
699 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
700 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
701 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
702 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
703 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
704 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
705 - Driver information files can now be installed in
706 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
707 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
708 than 2GB.
709 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
710 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
711 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
712 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
713 backends are polled and for how long.
714 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
715 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
716 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
717 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
718 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
719 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
720 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
721 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
722 for localization (STR #2737)
723 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
724 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
725 file.
726 - The build system has been updated to support separate
727 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
728 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
729 by default.
730 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
731 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
732 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
733 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
734 root to make the default installation more secure.
735 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
736 the localized version of a marker-names value.
737 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
738 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
739 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
740 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
741 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
742 global based on the current access policies for the
743 printer.
744 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
745 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
746 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
747 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
748 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
749 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
750 that support it (STR #2637)
751 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
752 possible.
753 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
754 attriibute to purge a specified job.
755 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
756 attributes for custom option selections.
757 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
758 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
759 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
760 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
761 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
762 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
763 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
764 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
765 on the model page (STR #2436)
766 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
767 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
768 of printers (STR #1175)
769 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
770 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
771 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
772 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
773 to filter the document from the specified job.
774 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
775 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
776 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
777 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
778 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.