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68e39e3f 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7
5
a978e4cf 6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
1bda5cb4 7 STR #3757, STR #3758)
902e0bd1 8 - Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,
9 STR #3755, STR #3769)
58e228c7 10 - Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)
a69ec225 11 - Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774)
205bf9e8 12 - CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the
13 HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778)
82275df2 14 - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
19052b48 15 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
16 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
58e228c7 17 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
18 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
b26f1e73 19 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
6955ae26 20 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
21 issues (STR #3705)
66f1081e 22 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
236dd95b 23 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
24 other printers (STR #3405)
9dbcd110 25 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
0189ac1a 26 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
27 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
de187cbc 28 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
29 conformance mode (STR #3747)
6e63d29d 30 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
31 change notifications (STR #3739)
6906e1d1 32 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
33 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
b19f6c64 34 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
2bb97d36 35 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
36 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
a097b151 37 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
6940b939 38 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
7713cfe1 39 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
40 (STR #3761)
3929e7fd 41 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
42 are enabled (STR #3737)
94a1c8e4 43 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
560a2c09 44 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
45 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
bed68396 46 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
47 is printing (STR #3754)
814e0951 48 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
49 (STR #3764)
7fcd72d6 50 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
51 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
68e39e3f 52 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
53 the print filters (STR #3731)
54 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
55 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
09e95d11 56 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
57 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
68e39e3f 58
59
ed3d67d0 60CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
61
aabec20a 62 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
3dccd799 63 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
64 PostScript files (STR #3722)
2e3228ef 65 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
66 (STR #3697)
fa0b15a7 67 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
68 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
ed3d67d0 69
70
49132a24 71CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
72
368a708b 73 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
db950dfa 74 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
93cbfc28 75 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
76 (STR #3648)
c6d43390 77 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
78 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
79 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
986bf7e8 80 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
6c56d4a8 81 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
82 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
0fb00c07 83 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
7c9f934f 84 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
85 (STR #3645)
86 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
8996a87d 87 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
88 choices (STR #3642)
344d3ab7 89 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
90 (STR #3649)
9cb9b4b5 91 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
92 printers (STR #3622)
509d19bd 93 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
94 did not work (STR #3485)
32c61f35 95 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
96 (STR #3466)
b4c8adf7 97 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
98 printers (STR #3627)
452f8666 99 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
100 minutes (STR #3595)
101 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
102 serial number (STR #3590)
0050629b 103 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
104 (STR #3631)
6bff400e 105 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
106 description of a class (STR #3613)
0e54da70 107 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
108 (STR #3615)
996aee5a 109 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
110 change based on the locale's character set.
81b2d5a3 111 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
c9b4942e 112 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
113 (STR #3620)
73ec0057 114 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
115 (STR #3624)
4a44dbd8 116 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
ab4b0c5e 117 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
118 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
5b626b7a 119 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
63842e70 120 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
0b0f8244 121 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
122 for the PPD compiler.
1604350b 123 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
124 authentication (STR #3559)
8ddbcf63 125 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
126 changed (STR #3570)
1bc31a51 127 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
243d8ea4 128 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
5b5d9f99 129 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
130 needed (STR #3600)
bf1f6ea5 131 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
132 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
133 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
134 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
135 scheduler.
49132a24 136
137
f7cdb9b3 138CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
139
afabfe46 140 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
46b0225b 141 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
07de3d7d 142 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
143 (STR #3516)
511b6f59 144 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
145 memory (STR #3577)
91c5b0ff 146 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
147 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
9036e8da 148 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
149 AIX (STR #3587)
50cd8ff5 150 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
151 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
152 attributes (STR #3554)
b44f284a 153 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
154 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
89813a30 155 (STR #3461)
156 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
157 implementation (STR #3514)
31e254f1 158 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
b78f304d 159 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
be2173d2 160 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
161 printers (STR #3541)
ba198c74 162 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
163 variable (STR #3531)
64dd1836 164 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
1473a062 165 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
166 the first page (STR #3525)
74b4f71d 167 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
715a3e88 168 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
169 (STR #3524)
f84d5d12 170 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
171 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
adf04fdc 172 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
173 all cases (STR #3521)
d5d5fa4f 174 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
175 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 176 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
177 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 178 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
179 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
180 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
181 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 182 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 183 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 184 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
185 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 186 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
187 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 188 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
189 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 190 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
191 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 192 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
193
194
dbf4ca8b 195CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
196
d164b5f8 197 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
198 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
30dd0ced 199 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
200 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
ffe61cc3 201 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 202 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 203 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 204 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
205 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 206 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
207 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 208 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
209 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 210 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 211 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
212 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 213 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 214 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 215 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 216 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 217 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 218 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
219 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 220 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 221 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
222 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 223 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
224 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 225 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 226 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
227 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 228 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
229 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 230 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
231 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 232 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 233 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
234 (STR #3421)
14026560 235 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 236 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 237 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 238 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
239 state.
41dc2e8d 240 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
241 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 242 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 243 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 244 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
245 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 246 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
247 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 248 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
249 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 250 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
251 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
252 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 253 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
254 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 255 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
256 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 257 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
258 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 259 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
260 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 261 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
262
263
2c7c8794 264CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
265
faee5ab9 266 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
267 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
268 STR #3401)
2197464b 269 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 270 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
271 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 272 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
273 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 274 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
275 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 276 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
277 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 278 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
279 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 280 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
281 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 282 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 283 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 284 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
285 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 286 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
287 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 288 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
289 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 290 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 291 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 292 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
293 SNMP implementations.
294
295
6c472821 296CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
297
e0b93db4 298 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 299 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
300 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 301 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 302 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 303 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
304 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 305 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
306 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 307 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 308 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 309 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 310 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
311 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 312 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
313 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 314 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 315 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
316 STR #3305)
74e726de 317 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 318 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 319 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
320 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 321 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
322 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 323 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
324 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 325 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
326 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 327 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
328 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 329 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
330 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 331
332
333CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
334
335 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
336 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
337 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
338 filter (STR #3278)
339 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
340 (STR #3277)
341 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
342 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
343 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
344 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
345 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
346 queues (STR #3258)
347 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
348 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
349 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
350 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
351 cases (STR #3253)
352 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
353 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
354 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
355 SNMP query.
356 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
357 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
358 templates (STR #3229)
359 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
360 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
361 performance.
362 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
363 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
364 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
365 for consistency.
366 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
367 reason on all platforms.
368
369
370CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
371
372 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
373 (STR #3212)
374 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
375 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
376 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
377 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
378 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
379 variables (STR #3210)
380 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
381 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
382 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
383 for print jobs.
384 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
385 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
386 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
387 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
388 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
389 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
390 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
391 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
392 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
393 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
394 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
395 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
396 that cupstestppd looks for...)
397 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
398 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
399 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
400 pages when a job was canceled or held.
401
402
403CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
404
405 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
406 STR #3173)
407 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
408 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
409 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
410 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
411 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
412 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
413 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
414 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
415 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
416 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
417 (STR #2624)
418 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
419 failed print jobs.
420 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
421 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
422 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
423 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
424 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
425 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
426 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
427 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
428 (STR #3171)
429 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
430 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
431 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
432 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
433 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
434 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
435 all work.
436 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
437 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
438 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
439 lack of kernel buffers.
440 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
441 while copying print data to a temporary file.
442 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
443 causing reduced performance in some situations.
444 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
445 would hang on the client.
446 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
447 work (STR #3132)
448 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
449 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
450 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
451 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
452 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
453 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
454 filenames in the PPD file.
455 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
456 values.
457 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
458 devices (STR #3108)
459 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
460 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
461 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
462 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
463 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
464 permissions.
465 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
466 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
467 device URI.
468 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
469 seconds.
470 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
471 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
472 them failed.
473 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
474 status operations.
475 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
476 keywords.
477 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
478 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
479 often unreliable.
480 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
481 "crashed".
482 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
483 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
484 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
485 printer had other reasons associated with it.
486 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
487 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
488 (STR #3084)
489 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
490 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
491 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
492 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
493 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
494 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
495 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
496 printer discovery (STR #3065)
497 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
498 in length (STR #3072)
499 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
500 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
501 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
502 printers with no specified colorspace.
503 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
504 file on Mac OS X.
505 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
506 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
507 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
508 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
509 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
510 for some PPDs.
511 - The ppdi utility did not work.
512 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
513 web browsers (STR #3049)
514 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
515 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
516 options.
517 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
518 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
519 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
520 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
521 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
522 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
523 present in most PPD files.
524 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
525 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
526 its jobs.
527 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
528 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
529 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
530 printers.
531 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
532 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
533 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
534 when a job finished.
535
536
537CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
538
539 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
540 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
541 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
542 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
543 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
544 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
545 rather than copying them whenever possible.
546 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
547 options implementations.
548 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
549 attributes.
550 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
551 was set to False in the PPD file.
552 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
553 and network backends (STR #3014)
554 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
555 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
556 attributes.
557 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
558 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
559 parameter.
560 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
561 --exclude-schemes options.
562 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
563 and exclude-schemes attributes.
564 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
565 attribute.
566 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
567 option called "fit-to-page".
568 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
569 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
570 prevent race conditions.
571 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
572 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
573 CUPS 1.1.x.
574 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
575 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
576 catalogs (STR #2990)
577 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
578 (STR #2989)
579 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
580 variable when running filters.
581 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
582 have all stopped.
583 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
584 progress messages.
585
586
587CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
588
589 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
590 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
591 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
592 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
593 (STR #2863)
594 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
595 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
596 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
597 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
598 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
599 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
600 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
601 (STR #1293)
602 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
603 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
604 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
605 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
606 levels.
607 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
608 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
609 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
610 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
611 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
612 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
613 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
614 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
615 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
616 of printer options (STR #1440)
617 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
618 form.
619 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
620 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
621 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
622 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
623 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
624 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
625 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
626 file (STR #2799)
627 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
628 command (STR #2562)
629 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
630 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
631 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
632 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
633 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
634 Google (STR #2882)
635 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
636 default server (STR #2833)
637 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
638 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
639 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
640 (STR #2923)
641 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
642 (STR #2848)
643 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
644 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
645 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
646 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
647 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
648 print jobs (STR #2482)
649 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
650 values.
651 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
652 track the progress of individual pages.
653 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
654 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
655 command, when available (STR #2724)
656 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
657 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
658 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
659 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
660 file as errors (STR #2616)
661 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
662 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
663 an error (STR #2555)
664 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
665 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
666 continue further (STR #2101)
667 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
668 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
669 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
670 (STR #2853)
671 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
672 the physical location of a printer device.
673 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
674 device data by a backend.
675 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
676 (STR #1729)
677 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
678 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
679 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
680 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
681 to CUPS (STR #263)
682 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
683 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
684 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
685 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
686 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
687 attributes for better option conflict detection and
688 resolution.
689 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
690 256 bytes (STR #2877)
691 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
692 what is logged to the access_log file.
693 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
694 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
695 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
696 files (STR #2871)
697 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
698 information files.
699 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
700 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
701 of an attribute.
702 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
703 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
704 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
705 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
706 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
707 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
708 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
709 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
710 (STR #2738)
711 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
712 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
713 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
714 (STR #2636)
715 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
716 files (STR #2739)
717 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
718 ModelName value as the output filename.
719 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
720 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
721 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
722 standard network backends.
723 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
724 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
725 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
726 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
727 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
728 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
729 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
730 name resolution.
731 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
732 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
733 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
734 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
735 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
736 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
737 - Driver information files can now be installed in
738 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
739 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
740 than 2GB.
741 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
742 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
743 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
744 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
745 backends are polled and for how long.
746 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
747 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
748 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
749 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
750 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
751 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
752 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
753 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
754 for localization (STR #2737)
755 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
756 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
757 file.
758 - The build system has been updated to support separate
759 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
760 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
761 by default.
762 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
763 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
764 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
765 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
766 root to make the default installation more secure.
767 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
768 the localized version of a marker-names value.
769 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
770 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
771 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
772 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
773 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
774 global based on the current access policies for the
775 printer.
776 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
777 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
778 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
779 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
780 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
781 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
782 that support it (STR #2637)
783 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
784 possible.
785 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
786 attriibute to purge a specified job.
787 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
788 attributes for custom option selections.
789 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
790 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
791 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
792 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
793 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
794 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
795 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
796 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
797 on the model page (STR #2436)
798 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
799 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
800 of printers (STR #1175)
801 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
802 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
803 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
804 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
805 to filter the document from the specified job.
806 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
807 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
808 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
809 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
810 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.