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37e7e6e0 MS |
1 | CHANGES-1.6.txt |
2 | --------------- | |
3 | ||
4 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.2 | |
5 | ||
db8b865d MS |
6 | - Documentation fixes (STR #4229, STR #4239, STR #4234, STR #4248, |
7 | STR #4259) | |
c41769ff MS |
8 | - Security: All file, directory, user, and group settings are now stored |
9 | in a separate cups-files.conf configuration file that cannot be set | |
10 | through the CUPS web interface or APIs (STR #4223) | |
0cb67df3 MS |
11 | - Added a Czech localization (STR #4201) |
12 | - Added a French localization (STR #4247) | |
13 | - Added a Russian localization (STR #4228) | |
14 | - Updated the Catalan localization (STR #4202) | |
c5b24bfa MS |
15 | - cupsGetPPD did not work with statically-configured CUPS shared |
16 | queues (STR #4178) | |
17 | - The scheduler did not support long MIME media types (STR #4270) | |
18 | - The cupsfilter command did not set the CHARSET environment variable | |
19 | for the text filters (STR #4273) | |
db8b865d MS |
20 | - The lp command did not show errors for unknown "--foo" (STR #4261) |
21 | - Bad IPP responses could crash ipptool (STR #4262) | |
22 | - Updated USB quirk rules for Canon and Xerox printers (STR #4217, | |
23 | STR #4263) | |
0cb67df3 MS |
24 | - Added USB blacklisting for printers that require a custom backend |
25 | (STR #4218) | |
26 | - The PPD compiler did not correctly JCL options (STR #4115, STR #4203) | |
0fa6c7fa MS |
27 | - The ipptool program now supports DEFINE-MATCH and DEFINE-NO-MATCH |
28 | predicates for STATUS directives. | |
29 | - Fixed a problem with local Kerberos authentication (STR #4140) | |
30 | - Coverity scan: fixed some minor issues (STR #4242) | |
31 | - The scheduler did not remove color profiles after deleting a printer | |
c5b24bfa | 32 | (STR #4232, STR #4276) |
0fa6c7fa MS |
33 | - The CUPS library did not always detect a timed out connection to the |
34 | server which could cause temporary loss of printing from applications | |
35 | (STR #4187) | |
36 | - The ipptool program now supports variable substitution in OPERATION | |
37 | and DELAY directives (STR #4175) | |
38 | - The IPP backend now stops queues when the server configuration | |
39 | prevents successful job submission (STR #4125) | |
c1420c87 MS |
40 | - The XML output of ipptool contained empty dictionaries (STR #4136) |
41 | - The scheduler did not delete job control backup files (STR #4244) | |
42 | - cupsGetPPD3 could return a local PPD instead of the correct remote | |
43 | PPD. | |
44 | - The scheduler incorrectly advertised auth-info-required for local | |
45 | queues needing local authentication (STR #4205) | |
46 | - CUPS 1.6 clients using the ServerName directive in client.conf did not | |
47 | work with CUPS 1.3.x or older servers (STR #4231) | |
3dd9c340 MS |
48 | - The SNMP backend now tries to work around broken printers that use a |
49 | newline to separate key/value pairs. | |
50 | - The IPP backend did not send a cancel request to printers when a job | |
51 | was canceled and the printer did not support Create-Job. | |
52 | - Fixed EPM packaging files (STR #4199) | |
53 | - OpenBSD build fix (STR #4195, STR #4196, STR #4197) | |
54 | - The scheduler could crash when using Avahi (STR #4183, STR #4192, | |
a469f8a5 | 55 | STR #4200, STR #4213) |
5a9febac MS |
56 | - The IPP backend could get stuck in an endless loop on certain network |
57 | errors (STR #4194) | |
58 | - 32-bit builds failed on Debian (STR #4133) | |
59 | - The scheduler no longer accepts or sends job description attributes. | |
60 | - The IPP backend now works around some conformance issues for broken | |
61 | printers (STR #4190) | |
62 | - cupsBackendReport() now filters out all control characters from the | |
63 | reported 1284 device IDs (STR #4124) | |
64 | - The scheduler no longer allows job-name values that are not valid | |
65 | network Unicode strings (STR #4072) | |
66 | - The web interface did not preserve the order of classes, jobs, or | |
67 | printers (STR #4170) | |
68 | - The network backends now support disabling of SNMP supply level | |
69 | queries via the "snmp" URI option (STR #4106) | |
70 | - The IPP backend did not specify the compression used (STR #4181) | |
71 | - ipptool did not support octetString values. | |
37e7e6e0 MS |
72 | - The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared |
73 | queues (STR #4158) | |
74 | - Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured | |
75 | Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159) | |
76 | - The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157) | |
77 | - Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb | |
5a9febac | 78 | (STR #4155, STR #4191) |
37e7e6e0 MS |
79 | - Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi |
80 | (STR #4156) | |
81 | - CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP | |
82 | requests. | |
83 | - Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring | |
84 | out. | |
85 | ||
86 | ||
87 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.1 | |
88 | ||
89 | - Documentation fix (STR #4149) | |
90 | - RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145) | |
91 | - The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped | |
92 | (STR #4148) | |
93 | ||
94 | ||
95 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.0 | |
96 | ||
97 | - Document changes (STR #4131) | |
98 | - Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations. | |
99 | ||
100 | ||
101 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6rc1 | |
102 | ||
103 | - Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122) | |
104 | - The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6 | |
105 | socket (STR #4109) | |
106 | - The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file | |
107 | instead of the current hostname. | |
108 | ||
109 | ||
110 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1 | |
111 | ||
112 | - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068) | |
113 | - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the | |
114 | end of the job (STR #4075) | |
115 | - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808) | |
116 | - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066) | |
117 | - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support | |
118 | specification of a time interval (STR #3143) | |
119 | - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce | |
120 | the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772) | |
121 | - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels | |
122 | in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551) | |
123 | - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in | |
124 | printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017) | |
125 | - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed | |
126 | cupsd (STR #3459) | |
127 | - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates | |
128 | (STR #3949) | |
129 | - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER | |
130 | environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114) | |
131 | - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100) | |
132 | - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters | |
133 | (STR #2856) | |
134 | - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that | |
135 | have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds | |
136 | (STR #2291) | |
137 | - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the | |
138 | local system (STR #2053) | |
139 | - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots- | |
140 | per-centimeter (STR #4006) | |
141 | - The configure script and build system no longer support building of | |
142 | separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries. | |
143 | - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue", | |
144 | "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and | |
145 | "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010) | |
146 | - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top", | |
147 | "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010) | |
148 | - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute | |
149 | instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in | |
150 | job objects. | |
151 | - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924) | |
152 | - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do | |
153 | not depend on PPD files (STR #3925) | |
154 | - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum | |
155 | amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled. | |
156 | - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127 | |
157 | characters. | |
158 | - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to | |
159 | automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate | |
160 | (Kerberos) authentication. | |
161 | - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in | |
162 | length. | |
163 | - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes | |
164 | via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923) | |
165 | - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future | |
166 | version of CUPS (STR #3927) | |
167 | - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929) | |
168 | - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures | |
169 | and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928) | |
170 | - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission. | |
171 | - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932) | |
172 | - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops, | |
173 | imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops | |
174 | filters have been removed (STR #3930) | |
175 | - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935) |