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f7cdb9b3 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
5
e8c1c86e 6 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
7 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
f76cd2f4 8 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
9 (STR #3492)
a52a4879 10 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
11 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
c84ba26d 12 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
13 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
f7cdb9b3 14 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
15
16
dbf4ca8b 17CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
18
d164b5f8 19 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
20 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
ffe61cc3 21 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
66caa842 22 STR #3473, STR #3502)
ccdadf80 23 - Documentation update (STR #3451)
83d83f7a 24 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
25 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
e9c5ba49 26 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
27 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
fc7e68cf 28 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
29 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 30 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 31 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
32 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 33 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 34 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 35 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 36 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 37 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 38 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
39 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 40 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 41 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
42 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 43 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
44 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 45 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 46 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
47 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 48 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
49 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 50 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
51 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 52 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 53 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
54 (STR #3421)
14026560 55 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 56 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 57 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 58 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
59 state.
41dc2e8d 60 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
61 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 62 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 63 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 64 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
65 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 66 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
67 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 68 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
69 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 70 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
71 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
72 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 73 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
74 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 75 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
76 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 77 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
78 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 79 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
80 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 81 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
82
83
2c7c8794 84CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
85
faee5ab9 86 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
87 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
88 STR #3401)
2197464b 89 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 90 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
91 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 92 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
93 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 94 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
95 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 96 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
97 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 98 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
99 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 100 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
101 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 102 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 103 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 104 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
105 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 106 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
107 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 108 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
109 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 110 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 111 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 112 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
113 SNMP implementations.
114
115
6c472821 116CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
117
e0b93db4 118 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 119 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
120 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 121 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 122 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 123 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
124 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 125 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
126 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 127 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 128 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 129 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 130 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
131 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 132 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
133 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 134 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 135 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
136 STR #3305)
74e726de 137 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 138 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 139 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
140 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 141 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
142 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 143 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
144 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 145 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
146 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 147 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
148 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 149 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
150 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 151
152
153CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
154
155 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
156 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
157 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
158 filter (STR #3278)
159 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
160 (STR #3277)
161 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
162 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
163 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
164 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
165 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
166 queues (STR #3258)
167 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
168 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
169 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
170 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
171 cases (STR #3253)
172 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
173 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
174 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
175 SNMP query.
176 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
177 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
178 templates (STR #3229)
179 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
180 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
181 performance.
182 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
183 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
184 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
185 for consistency.
186 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
187 reason on all platforms.
188
189
190CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
191
192 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
193 (STR #3212)
194 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
195 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
196 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
197 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
198 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
199 variables (STR #3210)
200 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
201 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
202 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
203 for print jobs.
204 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
205 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
206 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
207 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
208 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
209 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
210 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
211 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
212 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
213 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
214 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
215 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
216 that cupstestppd looks for...)
217 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
218 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
219 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
220 pages when a job was canceled or held.
221
222
223CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
224
225 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
226 STR #3173)
227 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
228 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
229 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
230 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
231 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
232 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
233 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
234 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
235 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
236 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
237 (STR #2624)
238 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
239 failed print jobs.
240 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
241 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
242 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
243 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
244 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
245 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
246 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
247 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
248 (STR #3171)
249 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
250 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
251 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
252 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
253 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
254 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
255 all work.
256 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
257 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
258 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
259 lack of kernel buffers.
260 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
261 while copying print data to a temporary file.
262 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
263 causing reduced performance in some situations.
264 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
265 would hang on the client.
266 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
267 work (STR #3132)
268 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
269 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
270 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
271 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
272 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
273 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
274 filenames in the PPD file.
275 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
276 values.
277 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
278 devices (STR #3108)
279 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
280 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
281 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
282 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
283 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
284 permissions.
285 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
286 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
287 device URI.
288 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
289 seconds.
290 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
291 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
292 them failed.
293 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
294 status operations.
295 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
296 keywords.
297 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
298 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
299 often unreliable.
300 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
301 "crashed".
302 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
303 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
304 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
305 printer had other reasons associated with it.
306 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
307 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
308 (STR #3084)
309 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
310 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
311 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
312 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
313 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
314 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
315 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
316 printer discovery (STR #3065)
317 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
318 in length (STR #3072)
319 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
320 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
321 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
322 printers with no specified colorspace.
323 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
324 file on Mac OS X.
325 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
326 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
327 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
328 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
329 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
330 for some PPDs.
331 - The ppdi utility did not work.
332 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
333 web browsers (STR #3049)
334 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
335 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
336 options.
337 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
338 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
339 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
340 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
341 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
342 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
343 present in most PPD files.
344 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
345 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
346 its jobs.
347 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
348 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
349 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
350 printers.
351 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
352 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
353 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
354 when a job finished.
355
356
357CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
358
359 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
360 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
361 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
362 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
363 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
364 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
365 rather than copying them whenever possible.
366 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
367 options implementations.
368 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
369 attributes.
370 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
371 was set to False in the PPD file.
372 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
373 and network backends (STR #3014)
374 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
375 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
376 attributes.
377 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
378 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
379 parameter.
380 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
381 --exclude-schemes options.
382 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
383 and exclude-schemes attributes.
384 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
385 attribute.
386 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
387 option called "fit-to-page".
388 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
389 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
390 prevent race conditions.
391 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
392 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
393 CUPS 1.1.x.
394 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
395 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
396 catalogs (STR #2990)
397 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
398 (STR #2989)
399 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
400 variable when running filters.
401 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
402 have all stopped.
403 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
404 progress messages.
405
406
407CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
408
409 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
410 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
411 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
412 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
413 (STR #2863)
414 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
415 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
416 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
417 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
418 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
419 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
420 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
421 (STR #1293)
422 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
423 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
424 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
425 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
426 levels.
427 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
428 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
429 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
430 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
431 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
432 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
433 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
434 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
435 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
436 of printer options (STR #1440)
437 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
438 form.
439 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
440 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
441 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
442 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
443 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
444 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
445 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
446 file (STR #2799)
447 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
448 command (STR #2562)
449 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
450 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
451 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
452 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
453 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
454 Google (STR #2882)
455 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
456 default server (STR #2833)
457 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
458 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
459 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
460 (STR #2923)
461 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
462 (STR #2848)
463 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
464 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
465 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
466 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
467 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
468 print jobs (STR #2482)
469 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
470 values.
471 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
472 track the progress of individual pages.
473 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
474 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
475 command, when available (STR #2724)
476 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
477 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
478 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
479 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
480 file as errors (STR #2616)
481 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
482 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
483 an error (STR #2555)
484 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
485 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
486 continue further (STR #2101)
487 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
488 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
489 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
490 (STR #2853)
491 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
492 the physical location of a printer device.
493 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
494 device data by a backend.
495 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
496 (STR #1729)
497 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
498 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
499 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
500 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
501 to CUPS (STR #263)
502 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
503 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
504 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
505 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
506 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
507 attributes for better option conflict detection and
508 resolution.
509 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
510 256 bytes (STR #2877)
511 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
512 what is logged to the access_log file.
513 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
514 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
515 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
516 files (STR #2871)
517 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
518 information files.
519 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
520 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
521 of an attribute.
522 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
523 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
524 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
525 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
526 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
527 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
528 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
529 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
530 (STR #2738)
531 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
532 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
533 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
534 (STR #2636)
535 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
536 files (STR #2739)
537 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
538 ModelName value as the output filename.
539 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
540 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
541 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
542 standard network backends.
543 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
544 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
545 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
546 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
547 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
548 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
549 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
550 name resolution.
551 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
552 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
553 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
554 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
555 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
556 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
557 - Driver information files can now be installed in
558 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
559 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
560 than 2GB.
561 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
562 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
563 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
564 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
565 backends are polled and for how long.
566 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
567 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
568 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
569 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
570 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
571 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
572 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
573 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
574 for localization (STR #2737)
575 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
576 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
577 file.
578 - The build system has been updated to support separate
579 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
580 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
581 by default.
582 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
583 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
584 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
585 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
586 root to make the default installation more secure.
587 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
588 the localized version of a marker-names value.
589 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
590 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
591 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
592 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
593 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
594 global based on the current access policies for the
595 printer.
596 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
597 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
598 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
599 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
600 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
601 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
602 that support it (STR #2637)
603 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
604 possible.
605 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
606 attriibute to purge a specified job.
607 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
608 attributes for custom option selections.
609 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
610 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
611 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
612 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
613 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
614 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
615 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
616 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
617 on the model page (STR #2436)
618 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
619 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
620 of printers (STR #1175)
621 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
622 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
623 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
624 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
625 to filter the document from the specified job.
626 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
627 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
628 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
629 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
630 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.