]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/cups.git/blame - CHANGES-1.4.txt
The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-Printer-
[thirdparty/cups.git] / CHANGES-1.4.txt
CommitLineData
6c472821 1CHANGES-1.4.txt
2---------------
3
dbf4ca8b 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
5
d164b5f8 6 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
7 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
c14c690a 8 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422)
ccdadf80 9 - Documentation update (STR #3451)
fc7e68cf 10 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
11 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
6c0b0c85 12 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
b5d5e2a2 13 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
14 (STR #3383)
96bbbc47 15 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
fadeb840 16 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
5ee514f9 17 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
1f2c8829 18 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
e54a41b1 19 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
2f9e1934 20 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
21 options (STR #3440)
d4e11981 22 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
af5a2723 23 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
24 (STR #3431)
3d6e0032 25 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
26 (STR #3428)
c16cd138 27 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
f7923037 28 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
29 was turned off (STR #3425)
d263b883 30 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
31 (STR #3436)
8e3e9993 32 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
33 a remote server (STR #3435)
96014e4a 34 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
b45cde5d 35 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
36 (STR #3421)
14026560 37 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
53902f8a 38 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
63061ede 39 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
0592de24 40 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
41 state.
41dc2e8d 42 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
43 printers (STR #3391)
fcfc3d82 44 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
243eb82f 45 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
a4d1a4bd 46 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
47 (STR #3386)
31c3342d 48 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
49 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
03a762e2 50 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
51 loading a job (STR #3407)
85bd57e8 52 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
53 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
54 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
d7755b6c 55 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
56 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
1aef37fa 57 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
58 (STR #3411)
f84ede6e 59 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
60 (STR #3399)
ffdce996 61 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
62 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
dbf4ca8b 63 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
64
65
2c7c8794 66CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
67
faee5ab9 68 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
69 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
70 STR #3401)
2197464b 71 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
5f20b48d 72 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
73 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
9b0dd527 74 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
75 driver was changed (STR #3356)
7ba04ca5 76 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
77 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
b29a274f 78 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
79 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
0c60f0aa 80 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
81 (STR #3346)
cc6fafd7 82 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
83 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
6d74fe0c 84 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
57dfddf6 85 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
f9fa8438 86 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
87 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
9dde69fa 88 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
89 characters (STR #3340)
3fe0dbff 90 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
91 driver (STR #3342)
97badf71 92 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
679b3d39 93 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
2c7c8794 94 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
95 SNMP implementations.
96
97
6c472821 98CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
99
e0b93db4 100 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
4233257e 101 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
102 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
a806b4ec 103 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
1ac626aa 104 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
2aadca54 105 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
106 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
7dbcf7ec 107 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
108 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
a98a0f7b 109 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
56a13d44 110 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
81ed7e71 111 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
653972cc 112 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
113 query job was held (STR #3302)
f957247d 114 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
115 (STR #3303)
b85b2ba5 116 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
d9e4e4da 117 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
118 STR #3305)
74e726de 119 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
75fde508 120 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
2f150abd 121 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
122 setting (STR #3287)
659ca617 123 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
124 (STR #3308)
10e8f916 125 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
126 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
f3fdb6b2 127 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
128 implementations (STR #3262)
a519bc52 129 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
130 (STR #3263)
d9e4e4da 131 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
132 seconds (STR #3307)
6c472821 133
134
135CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
136
137 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
138 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
139 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
140 filter (STR #3278)
141 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
142 (STR #3277)
143 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
144 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
145 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
146 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
147 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
148 queues (STR #3258)
149 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
150 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
151 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
152 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
153 cases (STR #3253)
154 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
155 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
156 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
157 SNMP query.
158 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
159 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
160 templates (STR #3229)
161 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
162 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
163 performance.
164 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
165 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
166 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
167 for consistency.
168 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
169 reason on all platforms.
170
171
172CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
173
174 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
175 (STR #3212)
176 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
177 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
178 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
179 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
180 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
181 variables (STR #3210)
182 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
183 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
184 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
185 for print jobs.
186 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
187 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
188 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
189 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
190 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
191 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
192 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
193 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
194 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
195 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
196 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
197 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
198 that cupstestppd looks for...)
199 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
200 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
201 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
202 pages when a job was canceled or held.
203
204
205CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
206
207 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
208 STR #3173)
209 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
210 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
211 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
212 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
213 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
214 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
215 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
216 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
217 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
218 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
219 (STR #2624)
220 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
221 failed print jobs.
222 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
223 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
224 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
225 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
226 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
227 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
228 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
229 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
230 (STR #3171)
231 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
232 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
233 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
234 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
235 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
236 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
237 all work.
238 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
239 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
240 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
241 lack of kernel buffers.
242 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
243 while copying print data to a temporary file.
244 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
245 causing reduced performance in some situations.
246 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
247 would hang on the client.
248 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
249 work (STR #3132)
250 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
251 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
252 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
253 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
254 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
255 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
256 filenames in the PPD file.
257 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
258 values.
259 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
260 devices (STR #3108)
261 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
262 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
263 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
264 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
265 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
266 permissions.
267 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
268 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
269 device URI.
270 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
271 seconds.
272 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
273 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
274 them failed.
275 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
276 status operations.
277 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
278 keywords.
279 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
280 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
281 often unreliable.
282 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
283 "crashed".
284 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
285 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
286 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
287 printer had other reasons associated with it.
288 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
289 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
290 (STR #3084)
291 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
292 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
293 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
294 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
295 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
296 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
297 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
298 printer discovery (STR #3065)
299 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
300 in length (STR #3072)
301 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
302 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
303 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
304 printers with no specified colorspace.
305 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
306 file on Mac OS X.
307 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
308 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
309 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
310 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
311 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
312 for some PPDs.
313 - The ppdi utility did not work.
314 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
315 web browsers (STR #3049)
316 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
317 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
318 options.
319 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
320 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
321 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
322 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
323 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
324 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
325 present in most PPD files.
326 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
327 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
328 its jobs.
329 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
330 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
331 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
332 printers.
333 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
334 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
335 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
336 when a job finished.
337
338
339CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
340
341 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
342 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
343 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
344 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
345 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
346 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
347 rather than copying them whenever possible.
348 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
349 options implementations.
350 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
351 attributes.
352 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
353 was set to False in the PPD file.
354 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
355 and network backends (STR #3014)
356 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
357 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
358 attributes.
359 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
360 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
361 parameter.
362 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
363 --exclude-schemes options.
364 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
365 and exclude-schemes attributes.
366 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
367 attribute.
368 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
369 option called "fit-to-page".
370 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
371 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
372 prevent race conditions.
373 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
374 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
375 CUPS 1.1.x.
376 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
377 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
378 catalogs (STR #2990)
379 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
380 (STR #2989)
381 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
382 variable when running filters.
383 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
384 have all stopped.
385 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
386 progress messages.
387
388
389CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
390
391 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
392 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
393 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
394 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
395 (STR #2863)
396 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
397 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
398 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
399 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
400 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
401 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
402 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
403 (STR #1293)
404 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
405 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
406 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
407 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
408 levels.
409 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
410 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
411 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
412 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
413 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
414 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
415 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
416 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
417 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
418 of printer options (STR #1440)
419 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
420 form.
421 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
422 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
423 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
424 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
425 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
426 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
427 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
428 file (STR #2799)
429 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
430 command (STR #2562)
431 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
432 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
433 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
434 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
435 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
436 Google (STR #2882)
437 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
438 default server (STR #2833)
439 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
440 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
441 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
442 (STR #2923)
443 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
444 (STR #2848)
445 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
446 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
447 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
448 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
449 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
450 print jobs (STR #2482)
451 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
452 values.
453 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
454 track the progress of individual pages.
455 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
456 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
457 command, when available (STR #2724)
458 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
459 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
460 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
461 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
462 file as errors (STR #2616)
463 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
464 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
465 an error (STR #2555)
466 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
467 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
468 continue further (STR #2101)
469 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
470 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
471 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
472 (STR #2853)
473 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
474 the physical location of a printer device.
475 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
476 device data by a backend.
477 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
478 (STR #1729)
479 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
480 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
481 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
482 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
483 to CUPS (STR #263)
484 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
485 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
486 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
487 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
488 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
489 attributes for better option conflict detection and
490 resolution.
491 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
492 256 bytes (STR #2877)
493 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
494 what is logged to the access_log file.
495 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
496 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
497 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
498 files (STR #2871)
499 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
500 information files.
501 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
502 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
503 of an attribute.
504 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
505 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
506 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
507 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
508 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
509 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
510 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
511 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
512 (STR #2738)
513 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
514 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
515 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
516 (STR #2636)
517 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
518 files (STR #2739)
519 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
520 ModelName value as the output filename.
521 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
522 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
523 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
524 standard network backends.
525 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
526 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
527 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
528 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
529 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
530 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
531 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
532 name resolution.
533 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
534 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
535 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
536 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
537 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
538 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
539 - Driver information files can now be installed in
540 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
541 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
542 than 2GB.
543 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
544 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
545 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
546 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
547 backends are polled and for how long.
548 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
549 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
550 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
551 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
552 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
553 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
554 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
555 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
556 for localization (STR #2737)
557 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
558 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
559 file.
560 - The build system has been updated to support separate
561 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
562 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
563 by default.
564 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
565 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
566 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
567 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
568 root to make the default installation more secure.
569 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
570 the localized version of a marker-names value.
571 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
572 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
573 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
574 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
575 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
576 global based on the current access policies for the
577 printer.
578 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
579 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
580 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
581 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
582 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
583 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
584 that support it (STR #2637)
585 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
586 possible.
587 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
588 attriibute to purge a specified job.
589 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
590 attributes for custom option selections.
591 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
592 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
593 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
594 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
595 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
596 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
597 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
598 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
599 on the model page (STR #2436)
600 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
601 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
602 of printers (STR #1175)
603 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
604 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
605 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
606 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
607 to filter the document from the specified job.
608 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
609 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
610 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
611 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
612 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.