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3
68e39e3f 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7
5
a978e4cf 6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
9446f92c 7 STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782)
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)
cfb3a504 12 - The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile
13 on Mac OS X.
14 - The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for
15 the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing
16 their own jobs.
205bf9e8 17 - CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the
50fb4866 18 HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791)
82275df2 19 - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
19052b48 20 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
21 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
58e228c7 22 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
23 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
b26f1e73 24 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
6955ae26 25 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
26 issues (STR #3705)
66f1081e 27 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
236dd95b 28 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
29 other printers (STR #3405)
9dbcd110 30 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
0189ac1a 31 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
32 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
de187cbc 33 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
34 conformance mode (STR #3747)
6e63d29d 35 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
36 change notifications (STR #3739)
6906e1d1 37 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
38 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
b19f6c64 39 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
2bb97d36 40 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
41 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
a097b151 42 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
6940b939 43 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
7713cfe1 44 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
45 (STR #3761)
3929e7fd 46 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
47 are enabled (STR #3737)
94a1c8e4 48 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
560a2c09 49 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
50 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
bed68396 51 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
52 is printing (STR #3754)
814e0951 53 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
54 (STR #3764)
7fcd72d6 55 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
56 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
68e39e3f 57 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
58 the print filters (STR #3731)
59 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
60 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
09e95d11 61 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
62 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
68e39e3f 63
64
ed3d67d0 65CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
66
aabec20a 67 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
3dccd799 68 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
69 PostScript files (STR #3722)
2e3228ef 70 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
71 (STR #3697)
fa0b15a7 72 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
73 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
ed3d67d0 74
75
49132a24 76CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
77
368a708b 78 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
db950dfa 79 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
93cbfc28 80 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
81 (STR #3648)
c6d43390 82 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
83 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
84 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
986bf7e8 85 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
6c56d4a8 86 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
87 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
0fb00c07 88 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
7c9f934f 89 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
90 (STR #3645)
91 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
8996a87d 92 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
93 choices (STR #3642)
344d3ab7 94 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
95 (STR #3649)
9cb9b4b5 96 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
97 printers (STR #3622)
509d19bd 98 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
99 did not work (STR #3485)
32c61f35 100 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
101 (STR #3466)
b4c8adf7 102 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
103 printers (STR #3627)
452f8666 104 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
105 minutes (STR #3595)
106 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
107 serial number (STR #3590)
0050629b 108 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
109 (STR #3631)
6bff400e 110 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
111 description of a class (STR #3613)
0e54da70 112 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
113 (STR #3615)
996aee5a 114 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
115 change based on the locale's character set.
81b2d5a3 116 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
c9b4942e 117 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
118 (STR #3620)
73ec0057 119 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
120 (STR #3624)
4a44dbd8 121 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
ab4b0c5e 122 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
123 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
5b626b7a 124 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
63842e70 125 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
0b0f8244 126 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
127 for the PPD compiler.
1604350b 128 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
129 authentication (STR #3559)
8ddbcf63 130 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
131 changed (STR #3570)
1bc31a51 132 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
243d8ea4 133 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
5b5d9f99 134 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
135 needed (STR #3600)
bf1f6ea5 136 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
137 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
138 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
139 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
140 scheduler.
49132a24 141
142
f7cdb9b3 143CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
144
afabfe46 145 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
46b0225b 146 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
07de3d7d 147 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
148 (STR #3516)
511b6f59 149 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
150 memory (STR #3577)
91c5b0ff 151 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
152 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
9036e8da 153 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
154 AIX (STR #3587)
50cd8ff5 155 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
156 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
157 attributes (STR #3554)
b44f284a 158 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
159 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
89813a30 160 (STR #3461)
161 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
162 implementation (STR #3514)
31e254f1 163 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
b78f304d 164 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
be2173d2 165 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
166 printers (STR #3541)
ba198c74 167 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
168 variable (STR #3531)
64dd1836 169 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
1473a062 170 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
171 the first page (STR #3525)
74b4f71d 172 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
715a3e88 173 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
174 (STR #3524)
f84d5d12 175 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
176 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
adf04fdc 177 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
178 all cases (STR #3521)
d5d5fa4f 179 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
180 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 181 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
182 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 183 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
184 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
185 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
186 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 187 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 188 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 189 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
190 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 191 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
192 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 193 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
194 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 195 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
196 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 197 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
198
199
dbf4ca8b 200CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
201
d164b5f8 202 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
203 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
30dd0ced 204 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
205 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
ffe61cc3 206 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 207 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 208 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 209 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
210 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 211 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
212 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 213 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
214 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 215 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 216 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
217 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 218 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 219 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 220 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 221 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 222 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 223 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
224 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 225 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 226 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
227 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 228 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
229 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 230 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 231 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
232 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 233 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
234 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 235 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
236 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 237 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 238 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
239 (STR #3421)
14026560 240 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 241 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 242 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 243 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
244 state.
41dc2e8d 245 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
246 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 247 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 248 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 249 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
250 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 251 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
252 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 253 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
254 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 255 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
256 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
257 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 258 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
259 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 260 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
261 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 262 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
263 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 264 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
265 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 266 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
267
268
2c7c8794 269CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
270
faee5ab9 271 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
272 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
273 STR #3401)
2197464b 274 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 275 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
276 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 277 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
278 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 279 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
280 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 281 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
282 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 283 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
284 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 285 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
286 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 287 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 288 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 289 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
290 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 291 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
292 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 293 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
294 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 295 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 296 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 297 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
298 SNMP implementations.
299
300
6c472821 301CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
302
e0b93db4 303 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 304 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
305 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 306 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 307 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 308 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
309 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 310 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
311 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 312 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 313 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 314 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 315 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
316 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 317 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
318 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 319 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 320 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
321 STR #3305)
74e726de 322 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 323 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 324 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
325 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 326 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
327 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 328 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
329 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 330 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
331 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 332 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
333 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 334 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
335 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 336
337
338CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
339
340 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
341 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
342 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
343 filter (STR #3278)
344 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
345 (STR #3277)
346 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
347 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
348 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
349 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
350 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
351 queues (STR #3258)
352 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
353 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
354 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
355 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
356 cases (STR #3253)
357 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
358 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
359 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
360 SNMP query.
361 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
362 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
363 templates (STR #3229)
364 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
365 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
366 performance.
367 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
368 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
369 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
370 for consistency.
371 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
372 reason on all platforms.
373
374
375CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
376
377 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
378 (STR #3212)
379 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
380 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
381 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
382 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
383 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
384 variables (STR #3210)
385 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
386 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
387 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
388 for print jobs.
389 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
390 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
391 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
392 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
393 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
394 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
395 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
396 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
397 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
398 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
399 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
400 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
401 that cupstestppd looks for...)
402 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
403 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
404 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
405 pages when a job was canceled or held.
406
407
408CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
409
410 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
411 STR #3173)
412 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
413 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
414 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
415 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
416 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
417 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
418 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
419 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
420 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
421 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
422 (STR #2624)
423 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
424 failed print jobs.
425 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
426 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
427 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
428 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
429 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
430 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
431 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
432 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
433 (STR #3171)
434 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
435 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
436 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
437 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
438 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
439 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
440 all work.
441 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
442 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
443 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
444 lack of kernel buffers.
445 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
446 while copying print data to a temporary file.
447 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
448 causing reduced performance in some situations.
449 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
450 would hang on the client.
451 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
452 work (STR #3132)
453 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
454 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
455 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
456 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
457 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
458 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
459 filenames in the PPD file.
460 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
461 values.
462 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
463 devices (STR #3108)
464 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
465 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
466 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
467 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
468 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
469 permissions.
470 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
471 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
472 device URI.
473 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
474 seconds.
475 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
476 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
477 them failed.
478 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
479 status operations.
480 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
481 keywords.
482 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
483 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
484 often unreliable.
485 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
486 "crashed".
487 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
488 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
489 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
490 printer had other reasons associated with it.
491 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
492 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
493 (STR #3084)
494 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
495 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
496 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
497 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
498 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
499 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
500 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
501 printer discovery (STR #3065)
502 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
503 in length (STR #3072)
504 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
505 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
506 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
507 printers with no specified colorspace.
508 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
509 file on Mac OS X.
510 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
511 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
512 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
513 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
514 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
515 for some PPDs.
516 - The ppdi utility did not work.
517 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
518 web browsers (STR #3049)
519 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
520 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
521 options.
522 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
523 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
524 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
525 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
526 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
527 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
528 present in most PPD files.
529 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
530 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
531 its jobs.
532 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
533 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
534 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
535 printers.
536 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
537 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
538 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
539 when a job finished.
540
541
542CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
543
544 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
545 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
546 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
547 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
548 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
549 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
550 rather than copying them whenever possible.
551 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
552 options implementations.
553 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
554 attributes.
555 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
556 was set to False in the PPD file.
557 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
558 and network backends (STR #3014)
559 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
560 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
561 attributes.
562 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
563 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
564 parameter.
565 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
566 --exclude-schemes options.
567 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
568 and exclude-schemes attributes.
569 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
570 attribute.
571 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
572 option called "fit-to-page".
573 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
574 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
575 prevent race conditions.
576 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
577 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
578 CUPS 1.1.x.
579 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
580 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
581 catalogs (STR #2990)
582 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
583 (STR #2989)
584 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
585 variable when running filters.
586 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
587 have all stopped.
588 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
589 progress messages.
590
591
592CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
593
594 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
595 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
596 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
597 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
598 (STR #2863)
599 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
600 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
601 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
602 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
603 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
604 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
605 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
606 (STR #1293)
607 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
608 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
609 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
610 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
611 levels.
612 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
613 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
614 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
615 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
616 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
617 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
618 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
619 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
620 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
621 of printer options (STR #1440)
622 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
623 form.
624 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
625 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
626 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
627 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
628 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
629 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
630 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
631 file (STR #2799)
632 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
633 command (STR #2562)
634 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
635 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
636 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
637 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
638 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
639 Google (STR #2882)
640 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
641 default server (STR #2833)
642 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
643 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
644 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
645 (STR #2923)
646 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
647 (STR #2848)
648 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
649 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
650 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
651 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
652 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
653 print jobs (STR #2482)
654 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
655 values.
656 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
657 track the progress of individual pages.
658 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
659 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
660 command, when available (STR #2724)
661 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
662 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
663 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
664 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
665 file as errors (STR #2616)
666 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
667 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
668 an error (STR #2555)
669 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
670 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
671 continue further (STR #2101)
672 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
673 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
674 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
675 (STR #2853)
676 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
677 the physical location of a printer device.
678 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
679 device data by a backend.
680 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
681 (STR #1729)
682 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
683 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
684 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
685 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
686 to CUPS (STR #263)
687 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
688 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
689 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
690 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
691 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
692 attributes for better option conflict detection and
693 resolution.
694 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
695 256 bytes (STR #2877)
696 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
697 what is logged to the access_log file.
698 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
699 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
700 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
701 files (STR #2871)
702 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
703 information files.
704 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
705 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
706 of an attribute.
707 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
708 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
709 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
710 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
711 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
712 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
713 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
714 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
715 (STR #2738)
716 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
717 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
718 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
719 (STR #2636)
720 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
721 files (STR #2739)
722 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
723 ModelName value as the output filename.
724 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
725 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
726 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
727 standard network backends.
728 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
729 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
730 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
731 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
732 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
733 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
734 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
735 name resolution.
736 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
737 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
738 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
739 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
740 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
741 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
742 - Driver information files can now be installed in
743 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
744 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
745 than 2GB.
746 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
747 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
748 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
749 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
750 backends are polled and for how long.
751 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
752 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
753 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
754 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
755 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
756 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
757 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
758 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
759 for localization (STR #2737)
760 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
761 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
762 file.
763 - The build system has been updated to support separate
764 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
765 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
766 by default.
767 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
768 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
769 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
770 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
771 root to make the default installation more secure.
772 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
773 the localized version of a marker-names value.
774 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
775 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
776 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
777 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
778 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
779 global based on the current access policies for the
780 printer.
781 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
782 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
783 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
784 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
785 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
786 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
787 that support it (STR #2637)
788 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
789 possible.
790 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
791 attriibute to purge a specified job.
792 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
793 attributes for custom option selections.
794 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
795 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
796 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
797 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
798 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
799 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
800 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
801 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
802 on the model page (STR #2436)
803 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
804 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
805 of printers (STR #1175)
806 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
807 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
808 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
809 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
810 to filter the document from the specified job.
811 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
812 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
813 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
814 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
815 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.