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1 | CHANGES.txt - 2008-08-04 | |
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4 | CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1 | |
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6 | - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798) | |
7 | - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open | |
8 | command, when available (STR #2724) | |
9 | - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794) | |
10 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the | |
11 | PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745) | |
12 | - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log | |
13 | file as errors (STR #2616) | |
14 | - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that | |
15 | retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters | |
16 | an error (STR #2555) | |
17 | - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user | |
18 | correctly authenticates but does not have permission to | |
19 | continue further (STR #2101) | |
20 | - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates | |
21 | (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146) | |
22 | - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately | |
23 | (STR #2853) | |
24 | - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides | |
25 | the physical location of a printer device. | |
26 | - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the | |
27 | device data by a backend. | |
28 | - Added support for custom options in the web interface | |
29 | (STR #1729) | |
30 | - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers, | |
31 | and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962) | |
32 | - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477) | |
33 | - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access | |
34 | to CUPS (STR #263) | |
35 | - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API. | |
36 | - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3, | |
37 | cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes. | |
38 | - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs. | |
39 | - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver | |
40 | attributes for better option conflict detection and | |
41 | resolution. | |
42 | - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to | |
43 | 256 bytes (STR #2877) | |
44 | - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control | |
45 | what is logged to the access_log file. | |
46 | - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce | |
47 | the amount of logging that is done to disk by default. | |
48 | - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD | |
49 | files (STR #2871) | |
50 | - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver | |
51 | information files. | |
52 | - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575) | |
53 | - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version | |
54 | of an attribute. | |
55 | - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719) | |
56 | - The standard MIME types are now installed in | |
57 | DataDir/mime (STR #2719) | |
58 | - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and | |
59 | the necessary parameters (STR #2660) | |
60 | - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese | |
61 | or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851) | |
62 | - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes | |
63 | (STR #2738) | |
64 | - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in | |
65 | the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754) | |
66 | - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives | |
67 | (STR #2636) | |
68 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD | |
69 | files (STR #2739) | |
70 | - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the | |
71 | ModelName value as the output filename. | |
72 | - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to | |
73 | set an alternate output filename (STR #2740) | |
74 | - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the | |
75 | standard network backends. | |
76 | - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to | |
77 | control the format of lines in the page_log file. | |
78 | - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD | |
79 | keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing. | |
80 | - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers | |
81 | that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour) | |
82 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service | |
83 | name resolution. | |
84 | - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for | |
85 | all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674) | |
86 | - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based | |
87 | page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655) | |
88 | - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what | |
89 | PJL commands are used to display the job information. | |
90 | - Driver information files can now be installed in | |
91 | /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X. | |
92 | - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger | |
93 | than 2GB. | |
94 | - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to | |
95 | reduce disk activity (STR #2684) | |
96 | - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the | |
97 | exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which | |
98 | backends are polled and for how long. | |
99 | - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in | |
100 | parallel to get the list of devices faster. | |
101 | - Added --enable-pap configure option. | |
102 | - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated" | |
103 | policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs. | |
104 | - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files | |
105 | (STR #2735, STR #2736) | |
106 | - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files | |
107 | for localization (STR #2737) | |
108 | - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N | |
109 | when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD | |
110 | file. | |
111 | - The build system has been updated to support separate | |
112 | installation of data, program, header, and library files. | |
113 | - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries | |
114 | by default. | |
115 | - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X. | |
116 | - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support | |
117 | SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655) | |
118 | - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to | |
119 | root to make the default installation more secure. | |
120 | - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get | |
121 | the localized version of a marker-names value. | |
122 | - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name | |
123 | attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour. | |
124 | - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler | |
125 | pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471) | |
126 | - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or | |
127 | global based on the current access policies for the | |
128 | printer. | |
129 | - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last | |
130 | used printer preference on Mac OS X. | |
131 | - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261) | |
132 | - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS | |
133 | library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638) | |
134 | - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems | |
135 | that support it (STR #2637) | |
136 | - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when | |
137 | possible. | |
138 | - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job | |
139 | attriibute to purge a specified job. | |
140 | - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency | |
141 | attributes for custom option selections. | |
142 | - The web interface now enables/disables the printer | |
143 | sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the | |
144 | server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233) | |
145 | - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the | |
146 | server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD | |
147 | and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233) | |
148 | - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/ | |
149 | manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver | |
150 | on the model page (STR #2436) | |
151 | - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and | |
152 | duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities | |
153 | of printers (STR #1175) | |
154 | - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492) | |
155 | - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation | |
156 | that returns the specified print job document (STR #118) | |
157 | - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option | |
158 | to filter the document from the specified job. | |
159 | - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to | |
160 | do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003) | |
161 | - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to | |
162 | cache PPDs safely (STR #1473) | |
163 | - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs. | |
164 |