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