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14fa8f01 | 1 | CHANGES.txt - 2008-09-24 |
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5afab2da | 4 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1 |
422aa985 | 5 | |
24875fef | 6 | - Documentation updates (STR #2567) |
14fa8f01 | 7 | - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration |
8 | of printer options (STR #1440) | |
83c07e4e | 9 | - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings |
10 | form. | |
68004203 | 11 | - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it |
12 | easier to change just one setting (STR #1919) | |
07d1f5b5 | 13 | - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat. |
fc0cb2df | 14 | - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and |
15 | Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947) | |
df4ac6f6 | 16 | - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so |
17 | they know whether they are printing a banner or document | |
18 | file (STR #2799) | |
c419cef2 | 19 | - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter |
20 | command (STR #2562) | |
1a1622bd | 21 | - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to |
22 | talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827) | |
91dad333 | 23 | - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and |
24 | cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936) | |
74cf39a0 | 25 | - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with |
26 | Google (STR #2882) | |
6a6fe174 | 27 | - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the |
28 | default server (STR #2833) | |
32cbd90e | 29 | - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control |
30 | which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536) | |
8a751c72 | 31 | - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available |
32 | (STR #2923) | |
85fe2342 | 33 | - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive |
34 | (STR #2848) | |
093556d7 | 35 | - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name |
36 | value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558) | |
d5a8fca5 | 37 | - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903) |
445c9aae | 38 | - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529) |
eae98867 | 39 | - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing |
40 | print jobs (STR #2482) | |
c11fea22 | 41 | - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message |
42 | values. | |
a39d88ea | 43 | - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to |
44 | track the progress of individual pages. | |
516b355a | 45 | - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798) |
ea101cc4 | 46 | - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open |
47 | command, when available (STR #2724) | |
48 | - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794) | |
6385e0cc | 49 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the |
50 | PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745) | |
5414b004 | 51 | - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log |
52 | file as errors (STR #2616) | |
258748b6 | 53 | - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that |
54 | retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters | |
55 | an error (STR #2555) | |
acd13551 | 56 | - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user |
57 | correctly authenticates but does not have permission to | |
58 | continue further (STR #2101) | |
9e6c9b90 | 59 | - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates |
60 | (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146) | |
76d54ec8 | 61 | - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately |
62 | (STR #2853) | |
2317ac1e | 63 | - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides |
64 | the physical location of a printer device. | |
65 | - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the | |
66 | device data by a backend. | |
04709c71 | 67 | - Added support for custom options in the web interface |
68 | (STR #1729) | |
d4609d64 | 69 | - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers, |
70 | and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962) | |
51dbcdb5 | 71 | - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477) |
5faeb470 | 72 | - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access |
73 | to CUPS (STR #263) | |
2c4bed11 | 74 | - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API. |
75 | - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3, | |
76 | cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes. | |
77 | - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs. | |
987c3d49 | 78 | - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver |
79 | attributes for better option conflict detection and | |
80 | resolution. | |
5298b60b | 81 | - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to |
82 | 256 bytes (STR #2877) | |
e1606ecf | 83 | - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control |
84 | what is logged to the access_log file. | |
d7e5dcfa | 85 | - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce |
86 | the amount of logging that is done to disk by default. | |
bd4a75c3 | 87 | - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD |
88 | files (STR #2871) | |
89 | - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver | |
90 | information files. | |
d11f579d | 91 | - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575) |
8f189c6c | 92 | - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version |
93 | of an attribute. | |
5ca995ba | 94 | - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719) |
95 | - The standard MIME types are now installed in | |
96 | DataDir/mime (STR #2719) | |
74fc878b | 97 | - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and |
98 | the necessary parameters (STR #2660) | |
e102f4c1 | 99 | - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese |
100 | or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851) | |
3c344ca6 | 101 | - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes |
102 | (STR #2738) | |
103 | - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in | |
104 | the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754) | |
604cabd7 | 105 | - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives |
106 | (STR #2636) | |
18d049b0 | 107 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD |
108 | files (STR #2739) | |
109 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the | |
110 | ModelName value as the output filename. | |
111 | - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to | |
112 | set an alternate output filename (STR #2740) | |
1e1d7a78 | 113 | - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the |
114 | standard network backends. | |
e1018101 | 115 | - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to |
116 | control the format of lines in the page_log file. | |
dab136f6 | 117 | - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD |
118 | keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing. | |
ad9fc101 | 119 | - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers |
120 | that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour) | |
121 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service | |
122 | name resolution. | |
123 | - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for | |
124 | all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674) | |
125 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based | |
126 | page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655) | |
c86a789f | 127 | - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what |
128 | PJL commands are used to display the job information. | |
b3c7c574 | 129 | - Driver information files can now be installed in |
130 | /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X. | |
3ada82ef | 131 | - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger |
132 | than 2GB. | |
5f8fccd6 | 133 | - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to |
134 | reduce disk activity (STR #2684) | |
5127c948 | 135 | - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the |
136 | exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which | |
137 | backends are polled and for how long. | |
f2b9668b | 138 | - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in |
139 | parallel to get the list of devices faster. | |
01e95b34 | 140 | - Added --enable-pap configure option. |
9387aaf1 | 141 | - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated" |
142 | policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs. | |
27a22dc8 | 143 | - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files |
144 | (STR #2735, STR #2736) | |
a1749f01 | 145 | - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files |
146 | for localization (STR #2737) | |
b6c39946 | 147 | - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N |
148 | when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD | |
149 | file. | |
ad63a394 | 150 | - The build system has been updated to support separate |
151 | installation of data, program, header, and library files. | |
152 | - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries | |
153 | by default. | |
f4eb7264 | 154 | - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X. |
5ba153ab | 155 | - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support |
156 | SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655) | |
6e170fd5 | 157 | - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to |
158 | root to make the default installation more secure. | |
89fa13e0 | 159 | - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get |
160 | the localized version of a marker-names value. | |
f25c5b34 | 161 | - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name |
162 | attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour. | |
e1c806ac | 163 | - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler |
164 | pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471) | |
6bfb0a3d | 165 | - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or |
166 | global based on the current access policies for the | |
167 | printer. | |
e0e669c6 | 168 | - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last |
169 | used printer preference on Mac OS X. | |
36883182 | 170 | - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261) |
ab7730df | 171 | - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS |
172 | library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638) | |
9dad4dd8 | 173 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems |
174 | that support it (STR #2637) | |
fc988006 | 175 | - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when |
176 | possible. | |
f6f37a30 | 177 | - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job |
178 | attriibute to purge a specified job. | |
be140c52 | 179 | - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency |
180 | attributes for custom option selections. | |
8a56c565 | 181 | - The web interface now enables/disables the printer |
182 | sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the | |
183 | server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233) | |
184 | - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the | |
185 | server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD | |
186 | and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233) | |
a25365e1 | 187 | - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/ |
188 | manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver | |
189 | on the model page (STR #2436) | |
256e92ca | 190 | - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and |
191 | duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities | |
192 | of printers (STR #1175) | |
193 | - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492) | |
87889b42 | 194 | - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation |
195 | that returns the specified print job document (STR #118) | |
196 | - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option | |
197 | to filter the document from the specified job. | |
cd0b47e5 | 198 | - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to |
199 | do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003) | |
bbf1b8dd | 200 | - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to |
201 | cache PPDs safely (STR #1473) | |
cd0b47e5 | 202 | - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs. |
422aa985 | 203 |