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49132a24 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
5
243d8ea4 6 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542)
a63748b2 7 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636)
a10c87db 8 - The USB backend did not check whether the printer has a serial number
9 (STR #3590)
0050629b 10 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
11 (STR #3631)
6bff400e 12 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
13 description of a class (STR #3613)
0e54da70 14 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
15 (STR #3615)
996aee5a 16 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
17 change based on the locale's character set.
81b2d5a3 18 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
c9b4942e 19 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
20 (STR #3620)
73ec0057 21 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
22 (STR #3624)
4a44dbd8 23 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
ab4b0c5e 24 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
25 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
5b626b7a 26 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
63842e70 27 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
0b0f8244 28 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
29 for the PPD compiler.
1604350b 30 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
31 authentication (STR #3559)
8ddbcf63 32 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
33 changed (STR #3570)
1bc31a51 34 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
243d8ea4 35 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
5b5d9f99 36 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
37 needed (STR #3600)
bf1f6ea5 38 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
39 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
40 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
41 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
42 scheduler.
49132a24 43
44
f7cdb9b3 45CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
46
afabfe46 47 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
46b0225b 48 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
07de3d7d 49 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
50 (STR #3516)
511b6f59 51 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
52 memory (STR #3577)
91c5b0ff 53 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
54 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
9036e8da 55 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
56 AIX (STR #3587)
50cd8ff5 57 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
58 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
59 attributes (STR #3554)
b44f284a 60 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
61 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
89813a30 62 (STR #3461)
63 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
64 implementation (STR #3514)
31e254f1 65 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
b78f304d 66 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
be2173d2 67 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
68 printers (STR #3541)
ba198c74 69 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
70 variable (STR #3531)
64dd1836 71 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
1473a062 72 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
73 the first page (STR #3525)
74b4f71d 74 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
715a3e88 75 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
76 (STR #3524)
f84d5d12 77 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
78 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
adf04fdc 79 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
80 all cases (STR #3521)
d5d5fa4f 81 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
82 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
29b7b002 83 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
84 printers (STR #3503)
c5f61b8b 85 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
86 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
87 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
88 failures (STR #3518)
ed82e18d 89 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
6f51f57b 90 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
e8c1c86e 91 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
92 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 93 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
94 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 95 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
96 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 97 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
98 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 99 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
100
101
dbf4ca8b 102CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
103
d164b5f8 104 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
105 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
30dd0ced 106 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
107 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
ffe61cc3 108 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 109 STR #3473, STR #3502)
d67d4aba 110 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
83d83f7a 111 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
112 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 113 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
114 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 115 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
116 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 117 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 118 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
119 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 120 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 121 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 122 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 123 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 124 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 125 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
126 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 127 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 128 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
129 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 130 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
131 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 132 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 133 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
134 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 135 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
136 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 137 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
138 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 139 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 140 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
141 (STR #3421)
14026560 142 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 143 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 144 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 145 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
146 state.
41dc2e8d 147 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
148 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 149 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 150 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 151 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
152 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 153 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
154 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 155 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
156 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 157 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
158 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
159 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 160 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
161 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 162 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
163 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 164 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
165 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 166 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
167 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 168 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
169
170
2c7c8794 171CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
172
faee5ab9 173 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
174 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
175 STR #3401)
2197464b 176 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 177 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
178 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 179 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
180 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 181 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
182 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 183 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
184 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 185 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
186 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 187 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
188 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 189 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 190 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 191 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
192 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 193 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
194 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 195 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
196 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 197 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 198 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 199 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
200 SNMP implementations.
201
202
6c472821 203CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
204
e0b93db4 205 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 206 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
207 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 208 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 209 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 210 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
211 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 212 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
213 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 214 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 215 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 216 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 217 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
218 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 219 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
220 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 221 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 222 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
223 STR #3305)
74e726de 224 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 225 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 226 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
227 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 228 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
229 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 230 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
231 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 232 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
233 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 234 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
235 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 236 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
237 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 238
239
240CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
241
242 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
243 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
244 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
245 filter (STR #3278)
246 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
247 (STR #3277)
248 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
249 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
250 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
251 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
252 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
253 queues (STR #3258)
254 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
255 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
256 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
257 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
258 cases (STR #3253)
259 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
260 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
261 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
262 SNMP query.
263 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
264 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
265 templates (STR #3229)
266 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
267 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
268 performance.
269 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
270 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
271 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
272 for consistency.
273 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
274 reason on all platforms.
275
276
277CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
278
279 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
280 (STR #3212)
281 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
282 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
283 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
284 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
285 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
286 variables (STR #3210)
287 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
288 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
289 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
290 for print jobs.
291 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
292 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
293 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
294 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
295 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
296 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
297 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
298 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
299 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
300 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
301 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
302 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
303 that cupstestppd looks for...)
304 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
305 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
306 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
307 pages when a job was canceled or held.
308
309
310CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
311
312 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
313 STR #3173)
314 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
315 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
316 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
317 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
318 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
319 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
320 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
321 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
322 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
323 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
324 (STR #2624)
325 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
326 failed print jobs.
327 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
328 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
329 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
330 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
331 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
332 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
333 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
334 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
335 (STR #3171)
336 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
337 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
338 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
339 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
340 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
341 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
342 all work.
343 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
344 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
345 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
346 lack of kernel buffers.
347 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
348 while copying print data to a temporary file.
349 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
350 causing reduced performance in some situations.
351 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
352 would hang on the client.
353 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
354 work (STR #3132)
355 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
356 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
357 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
358 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
359 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
360 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
361 filenames in the PPD file.
362 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
363 values.
364 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
365 devices (STR #3108)
366 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
367 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
368 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
369 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
370 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
371 permissions.
372 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
373 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
374 device URI.
375 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
376 seconds.
377 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
378 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
379 them failed.
380 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
381 status operations.
382 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
383 keywords.
384 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
385 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
386 often unreliable.
387 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
388 "crashed".
389 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
390 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
391 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
392 printer had other reasons associated with it.
393 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
394 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
395 (STR #3084)
396 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
397 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
398 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
399 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
400 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
401 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
402 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
403 printer discovery (STR #3065)
404 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
405 in length (STR #3072)
406 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
407 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
408 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
409 printers with no specified colorspace.
410 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
411 file on Mac OS X.
412 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
413 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
414 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
415 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
416 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
417 for some PPDs.
418 - The ppdi utility did not work.
419 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
420 web browsers (STR #3049)
421 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
422 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
423 options.
424 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
425 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
426 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
427 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
428 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
429 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
430 present in most PPD files.
431 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
432 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
433 its jobs.
434 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
435 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
436 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
437 printers.
438 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
439 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
440 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
441 when a job finished.
442
443
444CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
445
446 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
447 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
448 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
449 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
450 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
451 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
452 rather than copying them whenever possible.
453 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
454 options implementations.
455 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
456 attributes.
457 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
458 was set to False in the PPD file.
459 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
460 and network backends (STR #3014)
461 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
462 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
463 attributes.
464 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
465 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
466 parameter.
467 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
468 --exclude-schemes options.
469 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
470 and exclude-schemes attributes.
471 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
472 attribute.
473 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
474 option called "fit-to-page".
475 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
476 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
477 prevent race conditions.
478 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
479 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
480 CUPS 1.1.x.
481 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
482 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
483 catalogs (STR #2990)
484 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
485 (STR #2989)
486 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
487 variable when running filters.
488 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
489 have all stopped.
490 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
491 progress messages.
492
493
494CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
495
496 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
497 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
498 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
499 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
500 (STR #2863)
501 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
502 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
503 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
504 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
505 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
506 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
507 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
508 (STR #1293)
509 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
510 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
511 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
512 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
513 levels.
514 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
515 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
516 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
517 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
518 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
519 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
520 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
521 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
522 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
523 of printer options (STR #1440)
524 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
525 form.
526 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
527 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
528 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
529 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
530 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
531 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
532 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
533 file (STR #2799)
534 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
535 command (STR #2562)
536 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
537 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
538 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
539 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
540 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
541 Google (STR #2882)
542 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
543 default server (STR #2833)
544 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
545 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
546 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
547 (STR #2923)
548 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
549 (STR #2848)
550 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
551 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
552 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
553 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
554 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
555 print jobs (STR #2482)
556 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
557 values.
558 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
559 track the progress of individual pages.
560 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
561 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
562 command, when available (STR #2724)
563 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
564 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
565 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
566 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
567 file as errors (STR #2616)
568 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
569 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
570 an error (STR #2555)
571 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
572 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
573 continue further (STR #2101)
574 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
575 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
576 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
577 (STR #2853)
578 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
579 the physical location of a printer device.
580 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
581 device data by a backend.
582 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
583 (STR #1729)
584 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
585 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
586 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
587 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
588 to CUPS (STR #263)
589 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
590 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
591 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
592 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
593 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
594 attributes for better option conflict detection and
595 resolution.
596 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
597 256 bytes (STR #2877)
598 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
599 what is logged to the access_log file.
600 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
601 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
602 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
603 files (STR #2871)
604 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
605 information files.
606 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
607 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
608 of an attribute.
609 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
610 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
611 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
612 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
613 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
614 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
615 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
616 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
617 (STR #2738)
618 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
619 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
620 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
621 (STR #2636)
622 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
623 files (STR #2739)
624 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
625 ModelName value as the output filename.
626 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
627 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
628 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
629 standard network backends.
630 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
631 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
632 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
633 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
634 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
635 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
636 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
637 name resolution.
638 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
639 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
640 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
641 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
642 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
643 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
644 - Driver information files can now be installed in
645 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
646 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
647 than 2GB.
648 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
649 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
650 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
651 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
652 backends are polled and for how long.
653 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
654 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
655 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
656 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
657 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
658 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
659 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
660 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
661 for localization (STR #2737)
662 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
663 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
664 file.
665 - The build system has been updated to support separate
666 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
667 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
668 by default.
669 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
670 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
671 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
672 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
673 root to make the default installation more secure.
674 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
675 the localized version of a marker-names value.
676 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
677 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
678 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
679 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
680 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
681 global based on the current access policies for the
682 printer.
683 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
684 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
685 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
686 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
687 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
688 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
689 that support it (STR #2637)
690 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
691 possible.
692 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
693 attriibute to purge a specified job.
694 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
695 attributes for custom option selections.
696 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
697 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
698 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
699 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
700 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
701 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
702 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
703 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
704 on the model page (STR #2436)
705 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
706 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
707 of printers (STR #1175)
708 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
709 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
710 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
711 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
712 to filter the document from the specified job.
713 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
714 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
715 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
716 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
717 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.