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2e4ff8af MS |
4 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1 |
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b19ccc9e | 6 | - Documentation updates (STR #2567) |
1f6f3dbc MS |
7 | - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION |
8 | environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes. | |
9 | - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a | |
10 | stack-based buffer (STR #2388) | |
11 | - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set | |
12 | the printer-state-reasons attribute. | |
13 | - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration | |
14 | of printer options (STR #1440) | |
0af14961 MS |
15 | - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings |
16 | form. | |
17 | - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it | |
18 | easier to change just one setting (STR #1919) | |
19 | - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat. | |
20 | - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and | |
21 | Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947) | |
22 | - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so | |
23 | they know whether they are printing a banner or document | |
24 | file (STR #2799) | |
b19ccc9e MS |
25 | - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter |
26 | command (STR #2562) | |
27 | - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to | |
28 | talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827) | |
49d87452 MS |
29 | - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and |
30 | cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936) | |
31 | - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with | |
32 | Google (STR #2882) | |
33 | - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the | |
34 | default server (STR #2833) | |
35 | - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control | |
36 | which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536) | |
37 | - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available | |
38 | (STR #2923) | |
c5571a1d MS |
39 | - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive |
40 | (STR #2848) | |
41 | - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name | |
42 | value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558) | |
43 | - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903) | |
44 | - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529) | |
45 | - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing | |
46 | print jobs (STR #2482) | |
47 | - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message | |
48 | values. | |
9a4f8274 MS |
49 | - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to |
50 | track the progress of individual pages. | |
ee571f26 MS |
51 | - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798) |
52 | - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open | |
53 | command, when available (STR #2724) | |
54 | - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794) | |
55 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the | |
56 | PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745) | |
57 | - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log | |
58 | file as errors (STR #2616) | |
59 | - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that | |
60 | retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters | |
61 | an error (STR #2555) | |
62 | - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user | |
63 | correctly authenticates but does not have permission to | |
64 | continue further (STR #2101) | |
65 | - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates | |
66 | (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146) | |
67 | - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately | |
68 | (STR #2853) | |
749b1e90 MS |
69 | - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides |
70 | the physical location of a printer device. | |
71 | - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the | |
72 | device data by a backend. | |
73 | - Added support for custom options in the web interface | |
74 | (STR #1729) | |
75 | - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers, | |
76 | and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962) | |
77 | - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477) | |
78 | - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access | |
79 | to CUPS (STR #263) | |
005dd1eb MS |
80 | - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API. |
81 | - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3, | |
82 | cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes. | |
83 | - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs. | |
66ab9486 MS |
84 | - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver |
85 | attributes for better option conflict detection and | |
86 | resolution. | |
87 | - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to | |
88 | 256 bytes (STR #2877) | |
1f0275e3 MS |
89 | - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control |
90 | what is logged to the access_log file. | |
91 | - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce | |
92 | the amount of logging that is done to disk by default. | |
4509bb49 MS |
93 | - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD |
94 | files (STR #2871) | |
95 | - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver | |
96 | information files. | |
75bd9771 MS |
97 | - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575) |
98 | - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version | |
99 | of an attribute. | |
dd1abb6b MS |
100 | - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719) |
101 | - The standard MIME types are now installed in | |
102 | DataDir/mime (STR #2719) | |
103 | - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and | |
104 | the necessary parameters (STR #2660) | |
105 | - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese | |
106 | or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851) | |
bdd6c45b MS |
107 | - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes |
108 | (STR #2738) | |
109 | - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in | |
110 | the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754) | |
111 | - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives | |
112 | (STR #2636) | |
113 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD | |
114 | files (STR #2739) | |
115 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the | |
116 | ModelName value as the output filename. | |
117 | - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to | |
118 | set an alternate output filename (STR #2740) | |
20fbc903 MS |
119 | - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the |
120 | standard network backends. | |
01ce6322 MS |
121 | - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to |
122 | control the format of lines in the page_log file. | |
c9fc04c6 MS |
123 | - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD |
124 | keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing. | |
7a14d768 MS |
125 | - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers |
126 | that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour) | |
127 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service | |
128 | name resolution. | |
129 | - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for | |
130 | all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674) | |
131 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based | |
132 | page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655) | |
634763e8 MS |
133 | - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what |
134 | PJL commands are used to display the job information. | |
3dfe78b3 MS |
135 | - Driver information files can now be installed in |
136 | /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X. | |
137 | - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger | |
138 | than 2GB. | |
139 | - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to | |
140 | reduce disk activity (STR #2684) | |
ae71f5de MS |
141 | - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the |
142 | exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which | |
143 | backends are polled and for how long. | |
144 | - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in | |
145 | parallel to get the list of devices faster. | |
839a51c8 MS |
146 | - Added --enable-pap configure option. |
147 | - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated" | |
148 | policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs. | |
149 | - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files | |
150 | (STR #2735, STR #2736) | |
151 | - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files | |
152 | for localization (STR #2737) | |
153 | - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N | |
154 | when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD | |
155 | file. | |
50fe7201 MS |
156 | - The build system has been updated to support separate |
157 | installation of data, program, header, and library files. | |
158 | - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries | |
159 | by default. | |
568fa3fa MS |
160 | - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X. |
161 | - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support | |
162 | SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655) | |
163 | - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to | |
164 | root to make the default installation more secure. | |
5a738aea MS |
165 | - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get |
166 | the localized version of a marker-names value. | |
d9bca400 MS |
167 | - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name |
168 | attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour. | |
91c84a35 MS |
169 | - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler |
170 | pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471) | |
080811b1 MS |
171 | - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or |
172 | global based on the current access policies for the | |
173 | printer. | |
174 | - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last | |
175 | used printer preference on Mac OS X. | |
3d052e43 | 176 | - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261) |
a4924f6c MS |
177 | - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS |
178 | library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638) | |
179 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems | |
180 | that support it (STR #2637) | |
181 | - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when | |
182 | possible. | |
0a682745 MS |
183 | - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job |
184 | attriibute to purge a specified job. | |
185 | - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency | |
186 | attributes for custom option selections. | |
2e4ff8af MS |
187 | - The web interface now enables/disables the printer |
188 | sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the | |
189 | server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233) | |
190 | - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the | |
191 | server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD | |
192 | and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233) | |
193 | - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/ | |
194 | manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver | |
195 | on the model page (STR #2436) | |
196 | - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and | |
197 | duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities | |
198 | of printers (STR #1175) | |
199 | - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492) | |
200 | - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation | |
201 | that returns the specified print job document (STR #118) | |
202 | - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option | |
203 | to filter the document from the specified job. | |
204 | - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to | |
205 | do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003) | |
206 | - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to | |
207 | cache PPDs safely (STR #1473) | |
208 | - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs. | |
56ab62c6 | 209 |