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dbf4ca8b 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
5
d164b5f8 6 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
7 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
c14c690a 8 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422)
ccdadf80 9 - Documentation update (STR #3451)
b5d5e2a2 10 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
11 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 12 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 13 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 14 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 15 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 16 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 17 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
18 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 19 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 20 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
21 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 22 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
23 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 24 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 25 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
26 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 27 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
28 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 29 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
30 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 31 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 32 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
33 (STR #3421)
14026560 34 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 35 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 36 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 37 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
38 state.
41dc2e8d 39 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
40 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 41 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 42 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 43 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
44 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 45 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
46 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 47 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
48 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 49 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
50 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
51 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 52 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
53 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 54 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
55 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 56 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
57 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 58 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
59 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 60 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
61
62
2c7c8794 63CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
64
faee5ab9 65 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
66 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
67 STR #3401)
2197464b 68 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 69 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
70 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 71 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
72 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 73 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
74 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 75 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
76 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 77 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
78 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 79 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
80 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 81 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 82 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 83 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
84 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 85 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
86 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 87 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
88 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 89 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 90 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 91 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
92 SNMP implementations.
93
94
6c472821 95CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
96
e0b93db4 97 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 98 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
99 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 100 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 101 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 102 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
103 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 104 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
105 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 106 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 107 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 108 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 109 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
110 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 111 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
112 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 113 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 114 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
115 STR #3305)
74e726de 116 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 117 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 118 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
119 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 120 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
121 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 122 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
123 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 124 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
125 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 126 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
127 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 128 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
129 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 130
131
132CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
133
134 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
135 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
136 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
137 filter (STR #3278)
138 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
139 (STR #3277)
140 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
141 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
142 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
143 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
144 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
145 queues (STR #3258)
146 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
147 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
148 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
149 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
150 cases (STR #3253)
151 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
152 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
153 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
154 SNMP query.
155 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
156 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
157 templates (STR #3229)
158 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
159 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
160 performance.
161 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
162 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
163 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
164 for consistency.
165 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
166 reason on all platforms.
167
168
169CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
170
171 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
172 (STR #3212)
173 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
174 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
175 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
176 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
177 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
178 variables (STR #3210)
179 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
180 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
181 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
182 for print jobs.
183 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
184 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
185 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
186 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
187 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
188 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
189 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
190 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
191 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
192 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
193 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
194 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
195 that cupstestppd looks for...)
196 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
197 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
198 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
199 pages when a job was canceled or held.
200
201
202CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
203
204 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
205 STR #3173)
206 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
207 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
208 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
209 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
210 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
211 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
212 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
213 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
214 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
215 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
216 (STR #2624)
217 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
218 failed print jobs.
219 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
220 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
221 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
222 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
223 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
224 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
225 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
226 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
227 (STR #3171)
228 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
229 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
230 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
231 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
232 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
233 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
234 all work.
235 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
236 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
237 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
238 lack of kernel buffers.
239 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
240 while copying print data to a temporary file.
241 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
242 causing reduced performance in some situations.
243 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
244 would hang on the client.
245 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
246 work (STR #3132)
247 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
248 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
249 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
250 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
251 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
252 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
253 filenames in the PPD file.
254 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
255 values.
256 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
257 devices (STR #3108)
258 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
259 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
260 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
261 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
262 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
263 permissions.
264 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
265 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
266 device URI.
267 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
268 seconds.
269 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
270 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
271 them failed.
272 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
273 status operations.
274 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
275 keywords.
276 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
277 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
278 often unreliable.
279 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
280 "crashed".
281 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
282 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
283 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
284 printer had other reasons associated with it.
285 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
286 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
287 (STR #3084)
288 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
289 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
290 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
291 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
292 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
293 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
294 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
295 printer discovery (STR #3065)
296 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
297 in length (STR #3072)
298 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
299 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
300 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
301 printers with no specified colorspace.
302 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
303 file on Mac OS X.
304 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
305 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
306 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
307 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
308 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
309 for some PPDs.
310 - The ppdi utility did not work.
311 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
312 web browsers (STR #3049)
313 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
314 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
315 options.
316 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
317 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
318 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
319 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
320 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
321 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
322 present in most PPD files.
323 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
324 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
325 its jobs.
326 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
327 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
328 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
329 printers.
330 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
331 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
332 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
333 when a job finished.
334
335
336CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
337
338 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
339 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
340 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
341 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
342 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
343 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
344 rather than copying them whenever possible.
345 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
346 options implementations.
347 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
348 attributes.
349 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
350 was set to False in the PPD file.
351 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
352 and network backends (STR #3014)
353 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
354 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
355 attributes.
356 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
357 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
358 parameter.
359 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
360 --exclude-schemes options.
361 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
362 and exclude-schemes attributes.
363 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
364 attribute.
365 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
366 option called "fit-to-page".
367 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
368 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
369 prevent race conditions.
370 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
371 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
372 CUPS 1.1.x.
373 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
374 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
375 catalogs (STR #2990)
376 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
377 (STR #2989)
378 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
379 variable when running filters.
380 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
381 have all stopped.
382 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
383 progress messages.
384
385
386CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
387
388 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
389 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
390 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
391 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
392 (STR #2863)
393 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
394 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
395 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
396 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
397 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
398 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
399 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
400 (STR #1293)
401 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
402 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
403 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
404 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
405 levels.
406 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
407 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
408 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
409 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
410 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
411 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
412 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
413 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
414 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
415 of printer options (STR #1440)
416 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
417 form.
418 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
419 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
420 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
421 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
422 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
423 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
424 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
425 file (STR #2799)
426 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
427 command (STR #2562)
428 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
429 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
430 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
431 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
432 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
433 Google (STR #2882)
434 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
435 default server (STR #2833)
436 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
437 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
438 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
439 (STR #2923)
440 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
441 (STR #2848)
442 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
443 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
444 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
445 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
446 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
447 print jobs (STR #2482)
448 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
449 values.
450 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
451 track the progress of individual pages.
452 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
453 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
454 command, when available (STR #2724)
455 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
456 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
457 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
458 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
459 file as errors (STR #2616)
460 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
461 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
462 an error (STR #2555)
463 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
464 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
465 continue further (STR #2101)
466 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
467 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
468 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
469 (STR #2853)
470 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
471 the physical location of a printer device.
472 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
473 device data by a backend.
474 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
475 (STR #1729)
476 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
477 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
478 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
479 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
480 to CUPS (STR #263)
481 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
482 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
483 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
484 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
485 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
486 attributes for better option conflict detection and
487 resolution.
488 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
489 256 bytes (STR #2877)
490 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
491 what is logged to the access_log file.
492 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
493 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
494 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
495 files (STR #2871)
496 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
497 information files.
498 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
499 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
500 of an attribute.
501 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
502 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
503 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
504 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
505 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
506 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
507 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
508 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
509 (STR #2738)
510 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
511 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
512 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
513 (STR #2636)
514 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
515 files (STR #2739)
516 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
517 ModelName value as the output filename.
518 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
519 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
520 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
521 standard network backends.
522 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
523 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
524 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
525 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
526 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
527 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
528 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
529 name resolution.
530 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
531 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
532 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
533 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
534 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
535 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
536 - Driver information files can now be installed in
537 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
538 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
539 than 2GB.
540 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
541 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
542 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
543 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
544 backends are polled and for how long.
545 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
546 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
547 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
548 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
549 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
550 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
551 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
552 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
553 for localization (STR #2737)
554 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
555 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
556 file.
557 - The build system has been updated to support separate
558 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
559 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
560 by default.
561 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
562 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
563 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
564 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
565 root to make the default installation more secure.
566 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
567 the localized version of a marker-names value.
568 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
569 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
570 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
571 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
572 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
573 global based on the current access policies for the
574 printer.
575 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
576 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
577 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
578 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
579 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
580 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
581 that support it (STR #2637)
582 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
583 possible.
584 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
585 attriibute to purge a specified job.
586 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
587 attributes for custom option selections.
588 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
589 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
590 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
591 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
592 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
593 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
594 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
595 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
596 on the model page (STR #2436)
597 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
598 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
599 of printers (STR #1175)
600 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
601 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
602 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
603 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
604 to filter the document from the specified job.
605 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
606 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
607 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
608 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
609 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.