]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/cups.git/blame - CHANGES-1.4.txt
More message cleanup, and retry on pretty much any error to work around printer
[thirdparty/cups.git] / CHANGES-1.4.txt
CommitLineData
6c472821 1CHANGES-1.4.txt
2---------------
3
68e39e3f 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7
5
a978e4cf 6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
dbd3fff7 7 STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782, STR #3826, STR #3829)
902e0bd1 8 - Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,
76bc13b1 9 STR #3755, STR #3769, STR #3783)
58e228c7 10 - Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)
a69ec225 11 - Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774)
9d4cf357 12 - httpAddrString() did not return a URI-style IPv6 numeric address
13 (STR #3814)
9b8296f8 14 - Fixed an issue when reading compressed CUPS raster streams (STR #3812)
b08e9fc1 15 - Fixed an issue with PostScript printer auto-configuration (STR #3443)
39bde3e9 16 - Fixed some compatibility issues with the libusb-based USB backend
17 (STR #3799)
77b6b841 18 - The network backends no longer try to collect SNMP supply and status
19 information for raw queues (STR #3809)
0c84f052 20 - The DBUS notifier did not report job state changes (STR #3805)
5ae82e30 21 - The scheduler did not always report that the "normal" print-quality
22 value was supported (STR #3803)
81515557 23 - The gziptoany filter did not report the correct error if it was unable
24 to write the uncompressed document to the next filter or backend in
25 the chain (STR #3797)
50082677 26 - The Epson and Oki 9-pin drivers had a bad resolution option
27 (STR #3798)
cfb3a504 28 - The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile
29 on Mac OS X.
30 - The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for
31 the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing
32 their own jobs.
205bf9e8 33 - CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the
50fb4866 34 HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791)
82275df2 35 - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
19052b48 36 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
37 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
58e228c7 38 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
39 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
b26f1e73 40 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
6955ae26 41 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
42 issues (STR #3705)
66f1081e 43 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
236dd95b 44 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
45 other printers (STR #3405)
9dbcd110 46 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
0189ac1a 47 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
48 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
de187cbc 49 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
50 conformance mode (STR #3747)
6e63d29d 51 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
52 change notifications (STR #3739)
6906e1d1 53 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
54 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
b19f6c64 55 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
2bb97d36 56 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
57 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
a097b151 58 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
6940b939 59 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
7713cfe1 60 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
61 (STR #3761)
3929e7fd 62 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
63 are enabled (STR #3737)
94a1c8e4 64 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
560a2c09 65 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
66 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
bed68396 67 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
68 is printing (STR #3754)
814e0951 69 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
70 (STR #3764)
7fcd72d6 71 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
72 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
68e39e3f 73 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
74 the print filters (STR #3731)
75 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
76 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
09e95d11 77 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
78 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
68e39e3f 79
80
ed3d67d0 81CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
82
aabec20a 83 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
3dccd799 84 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
85 PostScript files (STR #3722)
2e3228ef 86 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
87 (STR #3697)
fa0b15a7 88 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
89 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
ed3d67d0 90
91
49132a24 92CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
93
368a708b 94 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
db950dfa 95 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
93cbfc28 96 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
97 (STR #3648)
c6d43390 98 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
99 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
100 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
986bf7e8 101 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
6c56d4a8 102 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
103 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
0fb00c07 104 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
7c9f934f 105 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
106 (STR #3645)
107 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
8996a87d 108 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
109 choices (STR #3642)
344d3ab7 110 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
111 (STR #3649)
9cb9b4b5 112 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
113 printers (STR #3622)
509d19bd 114 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
115 did not work (STR #3485)
32c61f35 116 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
117 (STR #3466)
b4c8adf7 118 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
119 printers (STR #3627)
452f8666 120 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
121 minutes (STR #3595)
122 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
123 serial number (STR #3590)
0050629b 124 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
125 (STR #3631)
6bff400e 126 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
127 description of a class (STR #3613)
0e54da70 128 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
129 (STR #3615)
996aee5a 130 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
131 change based on the locale's character set.
81b2d5a3 132 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
c9b4942e 133 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
134 (STR #3620)
73ec0057 135 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
136 (STR #3624)
4a44dbd8 137 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
ab4b0c5e 138 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
139 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
5b626b7a 140 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
63842e70 141 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
0b0f8244 142 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
143 for the PPD compiler.
1604350b 144 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
145 authentication (STR #3559)
8ddbcf63 146 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
147 changed (STR #3570)
1bc31a51 148 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
243d8ea4 149 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
5b5d9f99 150 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
151 needed (STR #3600)
bf1f6ea5 152 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
153 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
154 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
155 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
156 scheduler.
49132a24 157
158
f7cdb9b3 159CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
160
afabfe46 161 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
46b0225b 162 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
07de3d7d 163 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
164 (STR #3516)
511b6f59 165 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
166 memory (STR #3577)
91c5b0ff 167 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
168 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
9036e8da 169 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
170 AIX (STR #3587)
50cd8ff5 171 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
172 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
173 attributes (STR #3554)
b44f284a 174 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
175 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
89813a30 176 (STR #3461)
177 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
178 implementation (STR #3514)
31e254f1 179 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
b78f304d 180 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
be2173d2 181 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
182 printers (STR #3541)
ba198c74 183 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
184 variable (STR #3531)
64dd1836 185 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
1473a062 186 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
187 the first page (STR #3525)
74b4f71d 188 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
715a3e88 189 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
190 (STR #3524)
f84d5d12 191 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
192 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
adf04fdc 193 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
194 all cases (STR #3521)
d5d5fa4f 195 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
196 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 197 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
198 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 199 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
200 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
201 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
202 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 203 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 204 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 205 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
206 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 207 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
208 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 209 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
210 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 211 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
212 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 213 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
214
215
dbf4ca8b 216CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
217
d164b5f8 218 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
219 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
30dd0ced 220 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
221 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
ffe61cc3 222 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 223 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 224 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 225 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
226 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 227 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
228 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 229 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
230 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 231 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 232 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
233 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 234 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 235 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 236 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 237 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 238 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 239 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
240 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 241 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 242 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
243 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 244 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
245 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 246 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 247 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
248 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 249 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
250 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 251 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
252 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 253 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 254 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
255 (STR #3421)
14026560 256 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 257 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 258 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 259 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
260 state.
41dc2e8d 261 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
262 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 263 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 264 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 265 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
266 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 267 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
268 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 269 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
270 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 271 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
272 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
273 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 274 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
275 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 276 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
277 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 278 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
279 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 280 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
281 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 282 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
283
284
2c7c8794 285CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
286
faee5ab9 287 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
288 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
289 STR #3401)
2197464b 290 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 291 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
292 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 293 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
294 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 295 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
296 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 297 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
298 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 299 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
300 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 301 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
302 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 303 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 304 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 305 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
306 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 307 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
308 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 309 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
310 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 311 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 312 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 313 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
314 SNMP implementations.
315
316
6c472821 317CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
318
e0b93db4 319 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 320 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
321 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 322 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 323 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 324 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
325 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 326 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
327 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 328 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 329 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 330 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 331 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
332 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 333 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
334 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 335 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 336 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
337 STR #3305)
74e726de 338 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 339 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 340 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
341 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 342 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
343 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 344 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
345 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 346 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
347 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 348 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
349 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 350 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
351 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 352
353
354CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
355
356 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
357 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
358 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
359 filter (STR #3278)
360 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
361 (STR #3277)
362 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
363 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
364 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
365 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
366 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
367 queues (STR #3258)
368 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
369 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
370 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
371 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
372 cases (STR #3253)
373 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
374 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
375 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
376 SNMP query.
377 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
378 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
379 templates (STR #3229)
380 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
381 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
382 performance.
383 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
384 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
385 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
386 for consistency.
387 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
388 reason on all platforms.
389
390
391CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
392
393 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
394 (STR #3212)
395 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
396 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
397 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
398 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
399 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
400 variables (STR #3210)
401 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
402 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
403 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
404 for print jobs.
405 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
406 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
407 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
408 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
409 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
410 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
411 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
412 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
413 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
414 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
415 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
416 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
417 that cupstestppd looks for...)
418 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
419 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
420 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
421 pages when a job was canceled or held.
422
423
424CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
425
426 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
427 STR #3173)
428 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
429 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
430 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
431 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
432 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
433 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
434 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
435 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
436 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
437 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
438 (STR #2624)
439 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
440 failed print jobs.
441 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
442 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
443 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
444 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
445 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
446 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
447 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
448 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
449 (STR #3171)
450 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
451 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
452 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
453 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
454 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
455 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
456 all work.
457 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
458 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
459 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
460 lack of kernel buffers.
461 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
462 while copying print data to a temporary file.
463 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
464 causing reduced performance in some situations.
465 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
466 would hang on the client.
467 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
468 work (STR #3132)
469 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
470 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
471 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
472 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
473 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
474 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
475 filenames in the PPD file.
476 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
477 values.
478 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
479 devices (STR #3108)
480 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
481 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
482 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
483 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
484 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
485 permissions.
486 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
487 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
488 device URI.
489 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
490 seconds.
491 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
492 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
493 them failed.
494 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
495 status operations.
496 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
497 keywords.
498 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
499 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
500 often unreliable.
501 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
502 "crashed".
503 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
504 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
505 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
506 printer had other reasons associated with it.
507 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
508 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
509 (STR #3084)
510 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
511 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
512 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
513 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
514 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
515 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
516 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
517 printer discovery (STR #3065)
518 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
519 in length (STR #3072)
520 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
521 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
522 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
523 printers with no specified colorspace.
524 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
525 file on Mac OS X.
526 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
527 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
528 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
529 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
530 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
531 for some PPDs.
532 - The ppdi utility did not work.
533 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
534 web browsers (STR #3049)
535 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
536 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
537 options.
538 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
539 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
540 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
541 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
542 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
543 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
544 present in most PPD files.
545 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
546 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
547 its jobs.
548 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
549 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
550 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
551 printers.
552 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
553 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
554 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
555 when a job finished.
556
557
558CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
559
560 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
561 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
562 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
563 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
564 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
565 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
566 rather than copying them whenever possible.
567 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
568 options implementations.
569 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
570 attributes.
571 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
572 was set to False in the PPD file.
573 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
574 and network backends (STR #3014)
575 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
576 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
577 attributes.
578 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
579 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
580 parameter.
581 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
582 --exclude-schemes options.
583 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
584 and exclude-schemes attributes.
585 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
586 attribute.
587 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
588 option called "fit-to-page".
589 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
590 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
591 prevent race conditions.
592 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
593 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
594 CUPS 1.1.x.
595 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
596 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
597 catalogs (STR #2990)
598 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
599 (STR #2989)
600 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
601 variable when running filters.
602 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
603 have all stopped.
604 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
605 progress messages.
606
607
608CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
609
610 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
611 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
612 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
613 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
614 (STR #2863)
615 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
616 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
617 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
618 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
619 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
620 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
621 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
622 (STR #1293)
623 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
624 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
625 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
626 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
627 levels.
628 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
629 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
630 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
631 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
632 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
633 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
634 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
635 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
636 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
637 of printer options (STR #1440)
638 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
639 form.
640 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
641 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
642 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
643 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
644 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
645 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
646 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
647 file (STR #2799)
648 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
649 command (STR #2562)
650 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
651 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
652 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
653 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
654 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
655 Google (STR #2882)
656 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
657 default server (STR #2833)
658 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
659 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
660 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
661 (STR #2923)
662 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
663 (STR #2848)
664 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
665 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
666 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
667 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
668 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
669 print jobs (STR #2482)
670 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
671 values.
672 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
673 track the progress of individual pages.
674 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
675 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
676 command, when available (STR #2724)
677 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
678 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
679 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
680 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
681 file as errors (STR #2616)
682 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
683 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
684 an error (STR #2555)
685 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
686 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
687 continue further (STR #2101)
688 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
689 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
690 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
691 (STR #2853)
692 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
693 the physical location of a printer device.
694 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
695 device data by a backend.
696 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
697 (STR #1729)
698 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
699 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
700 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
701 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
702 to CUPS (STR #263)
703 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
704 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
705 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
706 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
707 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
708 attributes for better option conflict detection and
709 resolution.
710 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
711 256 bytes (STR #2877)
712 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
713 what is logged to the access_log file.
714 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
715 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
716 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
717 files (STR #2871)
718 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
719 information files.
720 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
721 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
722 of an attribute.
723 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
724 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
725 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
726 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
727 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
728 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
729 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
730 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
731 (STR #2738)
732 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
733 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
734 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
735 (STR #2636)
736 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
737 files (STR #2739)
738 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
739 ModelName value as the output filename.
740 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
741 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
742 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
743 standard network backends.
744 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
745 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
746 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
747 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
748 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
749 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
750 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
751 name resolution.
752 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
753 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
754 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
755 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
756 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
757 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
758 - Driver information files can now be installed in
759 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
760 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
761 than 2GB.
762 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
763 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
764 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
765 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
766 backends are polled and for how long.
767 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
768 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
769 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
770 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
771 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
772 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
773 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
774 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
775 for localization (STR #2737)
776 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
777 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
778 file.
779 - The build system has been updated to support separate
780 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
781 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
782 by default.
783 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
784 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
785 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
786 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
787 root to make the default installation more secure.
788 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
789 the localized version of a marker-names value.
790 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
791 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
792 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
793 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
794 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
795 global based on the current access policies for the
796 printer.
797 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
798 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
799 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
800 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
801 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
802 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
803 that support it (STR #2637)
804 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
805 possible.
806 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
807 attriibute to purge a specified job.
808 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
809 attributes for custom option selections.
810 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
811 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
812 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
813 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
814 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
815 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
816 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
817 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
818 on the model page (STR #2436)
819 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
820 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
821 of printers (STR #1175)
822 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
823 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
824 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
825 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
826 to filter the document from the specified job.
827 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
828 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
829 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
830 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
831 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.