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4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
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6 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
7 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
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8 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
9 STR #3473)
5a662dc0 10 - Documentation update (STR #3451)
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11 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
12 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
13 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
14 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
15 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
16 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
17 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
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18 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
19 (STR #3383)
20 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
21 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
22 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
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23 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
24 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
25 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
26 options (STR #3440)
27 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
28 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
29 (STR #3431)
30 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
31 (STR #3428)
32 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
33 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
34 was turned off (STR #3425)
35 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
36 (STR #3436)
37 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
38 a remote server (STR #3435)
39 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
40 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
41 (STR #3421)
42 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
43 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
44 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
45 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
46 state.
47 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
48 printers (STR #3391)
49 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
50 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
51 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
52 (STR #3386)
53 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
54 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
55 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
56 loading a job (STR #3407)
57 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
58 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
59 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
60 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
61 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
62 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
63 (STR #3411)
64 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
65 (STR #3399)
66 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
67 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
68 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
69
70
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71CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
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73 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
74 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
75 STR #3401)
3fb9c47e 76 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
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77 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
78 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
79 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
80 driver was changed (STR #3356)
81 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
82 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
83 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
84 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
85 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
86 (STR #3346)
87 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
88 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
b226ab99 89 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
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90 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
91 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
92 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
93 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
94 characters (STR #3340)
95 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
96 driver (STR #3342)
97 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
98 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
99 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
100 SNMP implementations.
101
102
103CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
104
105 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
106 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
107 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
108 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
109 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
110 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
111 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
112 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
113 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
114 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
115 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
116 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
117 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
118 query job was held (STR #3302)
119 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
120 (STR #3303)
121 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
122 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
123 STR #3305)
124 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
125 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
126 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
127 setting (STR #3287)
128 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
129 (STR #3308)
130 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
131 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
132 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
133 implementations (STR #3262)
134 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
135 (STR #3263)
136 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
137 seconds (STR #3307)
138
139
140CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
141
142 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
143 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
144 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
145 filter (STR #3278)
146 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
147 (STR #3277)
148 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
149 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
150 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
151 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
152 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
153 queues (STR #3258)
154 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
155 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
156 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
157 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
158 cases (STR #3253)
159 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
160 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
161 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
162 SNMP query.
163 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
164 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
165 templates (STR #3229)
166 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
167 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
168 performance.
169 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
170 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
171 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
172 for consistency.
173 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
174 reason on all platforms.
175
176
177CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
178
179 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
180 (STR #3212)
181 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
182 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
183 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
184 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
185 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
186 variables (STR #3210)
187 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
188 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
189 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
190 for print jobs.
191 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
192 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
193 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
194 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
195 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
196 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
197 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
198 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
199 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
200 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
201 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
202 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
203 that cupstestppd looks for...)
204 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
205 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
206 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
207 pages when a job was canceled or held.
208
209
210CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
211
212 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
213 STR #3173)
214 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
215 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
216 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
217 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
218 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
219 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
220 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
221 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
222 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
223 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
224 (STR #2624)
225 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
226 failed print jobs.
227 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
228 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
229 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
230 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
231 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
232 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
233 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
234 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
235 (STR #3171)
236 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
237 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
238 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
239 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
240 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
241 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
242 all work.
243 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
244 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
245 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
246 lack of kernel buffers.
247 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
248 while copying print data to a temporary file.
249 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
250 causing reduced performance in some situations.
251 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
252 would hang on the client.
253 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
254 work (STR #3132)
255 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
256 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
257 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
258 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
259 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
260 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
261 filenames in the PPD file.
262 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
263 values.
264 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
265 devices (STR #3108)
266 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
267 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
268 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
269 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
270 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
271 permissions.
272 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
273 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
274 device URI.
275 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
276 seconds.
277 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
278 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
279 them failed.
280 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
281 status operations.
282 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
283 keywords.
284 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
285 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
286 often unreliable.
287 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
288 "crashed".
289 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
290 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
291 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
292 printer had other reasons associated with it.
293 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
294 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
295 (STR #3084)
296 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
297 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
298 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
299 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
300 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
301 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
302 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
303 printer discovery (STR #3065)
304 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
305 in length (STR #3072)
306 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
307 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
308 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
309 printers with no specified colorspace.
310 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
311 file on Mac OS X.
312 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
313 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
314 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
315 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
316 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
317 for some PPDs.
318 - The ppdi utility did not work.
319 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
320 web browsers (STR #3049)
321 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
322 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
323 options.
324 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
325 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
326 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
327 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
328 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
329 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
330 present in most PPD files.
331 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
332 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
333 its jobs.
334 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
335 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
336 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
337 printers.
338 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
339 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
340 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
341 when a job finished.
342
343
344CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
345
346 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
347 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
348 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
349 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
350 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
351 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
352 rather than copying them whenever possible.
353 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
354 options implementations.
355 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
356 attributes.
357 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
358 was set to False in the PPD file.
359 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
360 and network backends (STR #3014)
361 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
362 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
363 attributes.
364 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
365 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
366 parameter.
367 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
368 --exclude-schemes options.
369 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
370 and exclude-schemes attributes.
371 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
372 attribute.
373 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
374 option called "fit-to-page".
375 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
376 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
377 prevent race conditions.
378 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
379 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
380 CUPS 1.1.x.
381 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
382 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
383 catalogs (STR #2990)
384 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
385 (STR #2989)
386 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
387 variable when running filters.
388 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
389 have all stopped.
390 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
391 progress messages.
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394CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
395
396 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
397 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
398 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
399 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
400 (STR #2863)
401 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
402 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
403 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
404 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
405 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
406 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
407 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
408 (STR #1293)
409 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
410 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
411 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
412 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
413 levels.
414 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
415 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
416 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
417 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
418 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
419 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
420 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
421 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
422 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
423 of printer options (STR #1440)
424 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
425 form.
426 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
427 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
428 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
429 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
430 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
431 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
432 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
433 file (STR #2799)
434 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
435 command (STR #2562)
436 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
437 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
438 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
439 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
440 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
441 Google (STR #2882)
442 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
443 default server (STR #2833)
444 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
445 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
446 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
447 (STR #2923)
448 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
449 (STR #2848)
450 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
451 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
452 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
453 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
454 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
455 print jobs (STR #2482)
456 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
457 values.
458 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
459 track the progress of individual pages.
460 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
461 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
462 command, when available (STR #2724)
463 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
464 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
465 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
466 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
467 file as errors (STR #2616)
468 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
469 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
470 an error (STR #2555)
471 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
472 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
473 continue further (STR #2101)
474 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
475 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
476 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
477 (STR #2853)
478 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
479 the physical location of a printer device.
480 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
481 device data by a backend.
482 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
483 (STR #1729)
484 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
485 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
486 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
487 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
488 to CUPS (STR #263)
489 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
490 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
491 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
492 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
493 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
494 attributes for better option conflict detection and
495 resolution.
496 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
497 256 bytes (STR #2877)
498 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
499 what is logged to the access_log file.
500 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
501 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
502 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
503 files (STR #2871)
504 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
505 information files.
506 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
507 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
508 of an attribute.
509 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
510 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
511 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
512 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
513 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
514 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
515 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
516 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
517 (STR #2738)
518 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
519 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
520 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
521 (STR #2636)
522 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
523 files (STR #2739)
524 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
525 ModelName value as the output filename.
526 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
527 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
528 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
529 standard network backends.
530 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
531 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
532 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
533 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
534 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
535 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
536 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
537 name resolution.
538 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
539 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
540 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
541 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
542 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
543 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
544 - Driver information files can now be installed in
545 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
546 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
547 than 2GB.
548 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
549 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
550 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
551 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
552 backends are polled and for how long.
553 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
554 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
555 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
556 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
557 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
558 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
559 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
560 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
561 for localization (STR #2737)
562 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
563 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
564 file.
565 - The build system has been updated to support separate
566 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
567 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
568 by default.
569 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
570 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
571 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
572 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
573 root to make the default installation more secure.
574 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
575 the localized version of a marker-names value.
576 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
577 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
578 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
579 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
580 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
581 global based on the current access policies for the
582 printer.
583 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
584 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
585 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
586 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
587 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
588 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
589 that support it (STR #2637)
590 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
591 possible.
592 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
593 attriibute to purge a specified job.
594 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
595 attributes for custom option selections.
596 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
597 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
598 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
599 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
600 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
601 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
602 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
603 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
604 on the model page (STR #2436)
605 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
606 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
607 of printers (STR #1175)
608 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
609 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
610 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
611 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
612 to filter the document from the specified job.
613 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
614 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
615 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
616 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
617 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.