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