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58dc1933 | 1 | CHANGES.txt - 2008-10-08 |
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2e4ff8af MS |
4 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1 |
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b19ccc9e | 6 | - Documentation updates (STR #2567) |
58dc1933 MS |
7 | - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based |
8 | on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707) | |
9 | - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether | |
10 | the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply | |
11 | levels. | |
cda47a96 MS |
12 | - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text |
13 | support and easier customization (STR #2490) | |
1f6f3dbc MS |
14 | - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION |
15 | environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes. | |
16 | - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a | |
17 | stack-based buffer (STR #2388) | |
18 | - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set | |
19 | the printer-state-reasons attribute. | |
20 | - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration | |
21 | of printer options (STR #1440) | |
0af14961 MS |
22 | - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings |
23 | form. | |
24 | - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it | |
25 | easier to change just one setting (STR #1919) | |
26 | - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat. | |
27 | - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and | |
28 | Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947) | |
29 | - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so | |
30 | they know whether they are printing a banner or document | |
31 | file (STR #2799) | |
b19ccc9e MS |
32 | - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter |
33 | command (STR #2562) | |
34 | - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to | |
35 | talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827) | |
49d87452 MS |
36 | - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and |
37 | cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936) | |
38 | - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with | |
39 | Google (STR #2882) | |
40 | - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the | |
41 | default server (STR #2833) | |
42 | - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control | |
43 | which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536) | |
44 | - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available | |
45 | (STR #2923) | |
c5571a1d MS |
46 | - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive |
47 | (STR #2848) | |
48 | - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name | |
49 | value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558) | |
50 | - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903) | |
51 | - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529) | |
52 | - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing | |
53 | print jobs (STR #2482) | |
54 | - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message | |
55 | values. | |
9a4f8274 MS |
56 | - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to |
57 | track the progress of individual pages. | |
ee571f26 MS |
58 | - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798) |
59 | - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open | |
60 | command, when available (STR #2724) | |
61 | - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794) | |
62 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the | |
63 | PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745) | |
64 | - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log | |
65 | file as errors (STR #2616) | |
66 | - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that | |
67 | retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters | |
68 | an error (STR #2555) | |
69 | - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user | |
70 | correctly authenticates but does not have permission to | |
71 | continue further (STR #2101) | |
72 | - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates | |
73 | (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146) | |
74 | - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately | |
75 | (STR #2853) | |
749b1e90 MS |
76 | - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides |
77 | the physical location of a printer device. | |
78 | - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the | |
79 | device data by a backend. | |
80 | - Added support for custom options in the web interface | |
81 | (STR #1729) | |
82 | - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers, | |
83 | and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962) | |
84 | - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477) | |
85 | - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access | |
86 | to CUPS (STR #263) | |
005dd1eb MS |
87 | - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API. |
88 | - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3, | |
89 | cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes. | |
90 | - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs. | |
66ab9486 MS |
91 | - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver |
92 | attributes for better option conflict detection and | |
93 | resolution. | |
94 | - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to | |
95 | 256 bytes (STR #2877) | |
1f0275e3 MS |
96 | - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control |
97 | what is logged to the access_log file. | |
98 | - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce | |
99 | the amount of logging that is done to disk by default. | |
4509bb49 MS |
100 | - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD |
101 | files (STR #2871) | |
102 | - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver | |
103 | information files. | |
75bd9771 MS |
104 | - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575) |
105 | - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version | |
106 | of an attribute. | |
dd1abb6b MS |
107 | - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719) |
108 | - The standard MIME types are now installed in | |
109 | DataDir/mime (STR #2719) | |
110 | - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and | |
111 | the necessary parameters (STR #2660) | |
112 | - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese | |
113 | or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851) | |
bdd6c45b MS |
114 | - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes |
115 | (STR #2738) | |
116 | - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in | |
117 | the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754) | |
118 | - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives | |
119 | (STR #2636) | |
120 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD | |
121 | files (STR #2739) | |
122 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the | |
123 | ModelName value as the output filename. | |
124 | - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to | |
125 | set an alternate output filename (STR #2740) | |
20fbc903 MS |
126 | - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the |
127 | standard network backends. | |
01ce6322 MS |
128 | - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to |
129 | control the format of lines in the page_log file. | |
c9fc04c6 MS |
130 | - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD |
131 | keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing. | |
7a14d768 MS |
132 | - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers |
133 | that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour) | |
134 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service | |
135 | name resolution. | |
136 | - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for | |
137 | all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674) | |
138 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based | |
139 | page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655) | |
634763e8 MS |
140 | - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what |
141 | PJL commands are used to display the job information. | |
3dfe78b3 MS |
142 | - Driver information files can now be installed in |
143 | /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X. | |
144 | - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger | |
145 | than 2GB. | |
146 | - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to | |
147 | reduce disk activity (STR #2684) | |
ae71f5de MS |
148 | - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the |
149 | exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which | |
150 | backends are polled and for how long. | |
151 | - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in | |
152 | parallel to get the list of devices faster. | |
839a51c8 MS |
153 | - Added --enable-pap configure option. |
154 | - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated" | |
155 | policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs. | |
156 | - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files | |
157 | (STR #2735, STR #2736) | |
158 | - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files | |
159 | for localization (STR #2737) | |
160 | - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N | |
161 | when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD | |
162 | file. | |
50fe7201 MS |
163 | - The build system has been updated to support separate |
164 | installation of data, program, header, and library files. | |
165 | - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries | |
166 | by default. | |
568fa3fa MS |
167 | - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X. |
168 | - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support | |
169 | SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655) | |
170 | - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to | |
171 | root to make the default installation more secure. | |
5a738aea MS |
172 | - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get |
173 | the localized version of a marker-names value. | |
d9bca400 MS |
174 | - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name |
175 | attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour. | |
91c84a35 MS |
176 | - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler |
177 | pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471) | |
080811b1 MS |
178 | - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or |
179 | global based on the current access policies for the | |
180 | printer. | |
181 | - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last | |
182 | used printer preference on Mac OS X. | |
3d052e43 | 183 | - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261) |
a4924f6c MS |
184 | - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS |
185 | library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638) | |
186 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems | |
187 | that support it (STR #2637) | |
188 | - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when | |
189 | possible. | |
0a682745 MS |
190 | - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job |
191 | attriibute to purge a specified job. | |
192 | - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency | |
193 | attributes for custom option selections. | |
2e4ff8af MS |
194 | - The web interface now enables/disables the printer |
195 | sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the | |
196 | server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233) | |
197 | - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the | |
198 | server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD | |
199 | and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233) | |
200 | - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/ | |
201 | manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver | |
202 | on the model page (STR #2436) | |
203 | - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and | |
204 | duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities | |
205 | of printers (STR #1175) | |
206 | - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492) | |
207 | - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation | |
208 | that returns the specified print job document (STR #118) | |
209 | - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option | |
210 | to filter the document from the specified job. | |
211 | - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to | |
212 | do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003) | |
213 | - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to | |
214 | cache PPDs safely (STR #1473) | |
215 | - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs. | |
56ab62c6 | 216 |