4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.11
6 - The web interface could hang on OpenBSD (STR #3176)
7 - The scheduler and cupsfilter utility did not handle rules starting
8 with a negation operator properly (STR #3160)
9 - The scheduler and cupsfilter utility would crash with certain MIME
10 .types rules (STR #3159)
11 - httpSetField wasn't bracketing IPv6 numeric addresses for the Host:
13 - The ServerName, if specified, was not treated as a valid alias for the
14 local system (STR #3167)
15 - "make epm" did not work (STR #3166)
16 - "lpstat -h server" showed non-shared printers (STR #3147)
17 - "make check" did not work on Linux (STR #3161)
20 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.10
22 - Documentation fixes (STR #2994, STR #2995, STR #3008, STR #3056,
24 - SECURITY: The scheduler now protects against DNS rebinding attacks
26 - SECURITY: Fixed TIFF integer overflow in image filters (STR #3031)
27 - The scheduler did not support the job-hold-until attribute with the
28 Restart-Job operation (STR #3130)
29 - SECURITY: The PNG image reading code did not validate the
30 image size properly, leading to a potential buffer overflow
32 - The rastertohp driver did not set the 1-sided printing mode when
34 - Now use a wrapper program instead of our fork of the Xpdf code to
35 support printing of PDF files. The new wrapper supports using Xpdf,
36 poppler, or Ghostscript to convert PDF files to PostScript (STR #3129)
37 - Long job names caused problems with some PJL printers (STR #3125)
38 - The lpq command did not work when showing all destinations (STR #3117)
39 - The scheduler used a codeset name of UTF8 which is not supported on
41 - cupsGetJobs() did not work with a NULL destination (STR #3107)
42 - Fixed a localization problem for option choices (incorrectly) named
44 - The fallback OpenSSL random number seeding would not work (STR #3079)
45 - The scheduler might miss a child signal, causing high CPU usage.
46 - The scheduler did not enforce quotas after the job history was
48 - The job-k-limit, job-page-limit, and job-quota-period attributes
49 could not be set using the lpadmin command (STR #3077)
50 - httpSeparateURI() did not error out on URIs with a missing port
52 - Fixed a Valgrind-detected initialization error when creating a
53 missing directory on startup.
54 - The scheduler did not always read all of the HTTP headers from a
56 - The scheduler did not always set the "air" property in Bonjour/DNS-SD
58 - The scheduler incorrectly compared Mac OS X UUIDs for access
59 control, preventing access in certain configurations.
60 - The IPP backend incorrectly reset the required authentication
61 to Kerberos when authentication failed.
62 - The scheduler no longer looks up the local hostname by default;
63 turn on hostname lookups to restore the previous behavior.
64 - The scheduler did not always load MIME type rules correctly
66 - The test page did not format correctly on A4 paper (STR #3060)
67 - The web interface sometimes incorrectly redirected users to
69 - cupsPrintFile*() did not send the document filename for single
70 file submissions (STR #3055)
71 - The scheduler did not update the member-names attribute when
72 removing the last printer from a class.
73 - The scheduler did not report PPD Products with parenthesis
74 in them properly (STR #3046)
75 - The wrong italic fonts were listed in the UTF-8 charset file
77 - The backends did not return an OK status for the
78 CUPS_SC_CMD_GET_BIDI side-channel command (STR #3029)
79 - The scheduler did not purge jobs that were missing a
80 time-at-creation attribute, indicating a bad job control file
82 - The "-o job-hold-until=week-end" option did not work properly
84 - The Solaris USB printer device does not support select or poll
86 - The scheduler would crash if you exceeded the MaxSubscriptions
88 - The lp "-H immediate" option did not specify that the job
89 should not be held (STR #3013)
90 - The scheduler did not support the "Connection: close"
91 HTTP header (STR #3010)
92 - The mailto notifier didn't terminate messages properly
94 - Backends could spin trying to read back-channel data
96 - The HP-GL/2 filter was using the wrong default colors
98 - The scheduler incorrectly allowed Get-Jobs operations without a
99 printer-uri (STR #2996)
100 - The compression option was not being encoded properly
102 - Added a missing character map for JIS-X0213/ShiftJIS.
103 - The scheduler now rejects ATTR: messages with empty values.
104 - The scheduler could consume all CPU handling closed connections
106 - Fixed some configure script bugs with rc/xinetd directories
108 - The Epson sample driver PPDs contained errors (STR #2979)
111 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.9
113 - SECURITY: The HP-GL/2 filter did not range check pen numbers
115 - SECURITY: The SGI image file reader did not range check
116 16-bit run lengths (STR #2918)
117 - SECURITY: The text filter did not range check cpi, lpi, or
118 column values (STR #2919)
119 - Documentation updates (STR #2904, STR #2944)
120 - The French web admin page was never updated (STR #2963)
121 - The IPP backend did not retry print jobs when the printer
122 reported itself as busy or unavailable (STR #2951)
123 - The "Set Allowed Users" web interface did not handle trailing
124 whitespace correctly (STR #2956)
125 - The PostScript filter did not work with Adobe applications
126 using custom page sizes (STR #2968)
127 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not work with some printers
128 that reported a bad 1284 device ID.
129 - The scheduler incorrectly resolved the client connection
130 address when HostNameLookups was set to Off (STR #2946)
131 - The IPP backend incorrectly stopped the local queue if
132 the remote server reported the "paused" state.
133 - The cupsGetDests() function did not catch all types of
135 - The scheduler did not always log "job queued" messages
137 - The scheduler did not support destination filtering using
138 the printer-location attribute properly (STR #2945)
139 - The scheduler did not send the server-started,
140 server-restarted, or server-stopped events (STR #2927)
141 - The scheduler no longer enforces configuration file
142 permissions on symlinked files (STR #2937)
143 - CUPS now reinitializes the DNS resolver on failures
145 - The CUPS desktop menu item was broken (STR #2924)
146 - The PPD parser was too strict about missing keyword
147 values in "relaxed" mode.
148 - The PostScript filter incorrectly mirrored landscape
150 - The scheduler did not correctly update the
151 auth-info-required value(s) if the AuthType was Default.
152 - The scheduler required Kerberos authentication for
153 all operations on remote Kerberized printers instead
154 of just for the operations that needed it.
155 - The socket backend could wait indefinitely for back-
156 channel data with some devices.
157 - PJL panel messages were not reset correctly on older
159 - cupsfilter used the wrong default path (STR #2908)
160 - Fixed address matching for "BrowseAddress @IF(name)"
162 - Fixed compiles on AIX.
163 - Firefox 3 did not work with the CUPS web interface in SSL
165 - Custom options with multiple parameters were not emitted
167 - Refined the cupstestppd utility.
168 - ppdEmit*() did not support custom JCL options (STR #2889)
169 - The cupstestppd utility incorrectly reported missing
170 "en" base translations (STR #2887)
173 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.8
175 - Documentation updates (STR #2785, STR #2861, STR #2862)
176 - The scheduler did not add the ending job sheet when the
178 - The IPP backend did not relay marker-* attributes.
179 - The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for
181 - The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for
183 - The cupstestppd utility reported mixed line endings for
184 Mac OS and Windows PPD files (STR #2874)
185 - The pdftops filter did not print landscape orientation PDF
186 pages correctly on all printers (STR #2850)
187 - The scheduler did not handle expiring of implicit classes
188 or their members properly, leading to a configuration where
189 one of the members would have a short name (STR #2766)
190 - The scheduler and cupstestppd utilities did not support
191 cupsFilter and cupsPreFilter programs with spaces in their
193 - Removed unused variables and assignments found by the
195 - Added NULL checks recommended by the LLVM "clang" tool.
196 - The scheduler would crash if you started a printer that
197 pointed to a backend that did not exist (STR #2865)
198 - The ppdLocalize functions incorrectly mapped all generic
199 locales to country-specific locales.
200 - The cups-driverd program did not support Simplified Chinese
201 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
202 - Added an Indonesian translation (STR #2792)
203 - Fixed a timing issue in the backends that could cause data
204 corruption with the CUPS_SC_CMD_DRAIN_OUTPUT side-channel
206 - The scheduler did not support "HostNameLookups" with all of
207 the boolean names (STR #2861)
208 - Fixed a compile problem with glibc 2.8 (STR #2860)
209 - The scheduler incorrectly filtered out queues with ACLs and
211 - The PostScript filter did not support %%IncludeFeature lines
212 in the page setup section of each page (STR #2831)
213 - The scheduler did not generate printer-state events when the
214 default printer was changed (STR #2764)
215 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported a warning about the PPD format
216 version in some locales (STR #2854)
217 - cupsGetPPD() and friends incorrectly returned a PPD file for
218 a class with no printers.
219 - The member-uris values for local printers in a class returned
220 by the scheduler did not reflect the connected hostname or
222 - The CUPS PHP extension was not thread-safe (STR #2828)
223 - The scheduler incorrectly added the document-format-default
224 attribute to the list of "common" printer attributes, which
225 over time would slow down the printing system (STR #2755,
227 - The cups-deviced and cups-driverd helper programs did not set
228 the CFProcessPath environment variable on Mac OS X (STR #2837)
229 - "lpstat -p" could report the wrong job as printing (STR #2845)
230 - The scheduler would crash when some cupsd.conf directives
231 were missing values (STR #2849)
232 - The web interface "move jobs" operation redirected users to
233 the wrong URL (STR #2815)
234 - The Polish web interface translation contained errors
236 - The scheduler did not report PostScript printer PPDs with
237 filters as PostScript devices.
238 - The scheduler did not set the job document-format attribute
239 for jobs submitted using Create-Job and Send-Document.
240 - cupsFileTell() did not work for log files opened in append
242 - The scheduler did not set QUERY_STRING all of the time
243 for CGI scripts (STR #2781, STR #2816)
244 - The scheduler now returns an error for bad job-sheets
246 - Authenticated remote printing did not work over domain
248 - The scheduler incorrectly logged errors for print filters
249 when a job was canceled (STR #2806, #2808)
250 - The scheduler no longer allows multiple RSS subscriptions
251 with the same URI (STR #2789)
252 - The scheduler now supports Kerberized printing with
253 multiple server names (STR #2783)
254 - "Satisfy any" did not work in IPP policies (STR #2782)
255 - The CUPS imaging library would crash with very large
256 images - more than 16Mx16M pixels (STR #2805)
257 - The PNG image loading code would crash with large images
259 - The scheduler did not limit the total number of filters.
260 - The scheduler now ensures that the RSS directory has
261 the correct permissions.
262 - The RSS notifier did not quote the feed URL in the RSS
263 file it created (STR #2801)
264 - The web interface allowed the creation and cancellation
265 of RSS subscriptions without a username (STR #2774)
266 - Increased the default MaxCopies value on Mac OS X to
267 9999 to match the limit imposed by the print dialog.
268 - The scheduler did not reject requests with an empty
269 Content-Length field (STR #2787)
270 - The scheduler did not log the current date and time and
271 did not escape special characters in request URIs when
272 logging bad requests to the access_log file (STR #2788)
275 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.7
277 - CVE-2008-0047: cgiCompileSearch buffer overflow (STR #2729)
278 - CVE-2008-1373: CUPS GIF image filter overflow (STR #2765)
279 - Updated the "make check" tests to do a more thorough
281 - cups-driverd complained about missing directories (STR
283 - cupsaddsmb would leave the Samba username and password on
284 disk if no Windows drivers were installed (STR #2779)
285 - The Linux USB backend used 100% CPU when a printer was
286 disconnected (STR #2769)
287 - The sample raster drivers did not properly handle SIGTERM
289 - The scheduler sent notify_post() messages too often on
291 - Kerberos access to the web interface did not work
293 - The scheduler did not support "AuthType Default" in IPP
295 - The scheduler did not support the "HideImplicitMembers"
296 directive as documented (STR #2760)
297 - "make check" didn't return a non-zero exit code on
299 - The scheduler incorrectly logged AUTH_foo environment
300 variables in debug mode (STR #2751)
301 - The image filters inverted PBM files (STR #2746)
302 - cupsctl would crash if the scheduler was not running
304 - The scheduler could crash when printing using a port
306 - The scheduler would crash if PAM was broken (STR #2734)
307 - The image filters did not work with some CMYK JPEG files
308 produced by Adobe applications (STR #2727)
309 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not work with printers that
310 did not report a make or model.
311 - The job-sheets option was not encoded properly (STR #2715)
312 - The scheduler incorrectly complained about missing LSB
316 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.6
318 - Documentation updates (STR #2646, STR #2647, STR #2649)
319 - Fixed a problem with the web interface "Use Kerberos
320 Authentication" check box (STR #2703)
321 - The scheduler unconditionally overwrote the printer-state-
322 message with "process-name failed" when a filter or backend
323 failed, preventing a useful error message from being shown
325 - Policies on CUPS-Move-Job didn't work as expected (STR
327 - The configure script only supported D-BUS on Linux
329 - The scheduler did not support </LimitExcept> (STR #2701)
330 - The scheduler did not reset the job-hold-until attribute
331 after a job's hold time was reached.
332 - The scheduler did not support printer supply attributes
334 - The Kerberos credentials provided by some Windows KDCs
335 were still too large - now use a dynamic buffer to
336 support credentials up to 64k in size (STR #2695)
337 - Printing a test page from the web interface incorrectly
338 defaulted to the "guest" user (STR #2688)
339 - The cupsEncodeOptions2() function did not parse multiple-
340 value attribute values properly (STR #2690)
341 - The scheduler incorrectly sent printer-stopped events for
342 status updates from the print filters (STR #2680)
343 - The IPP backend could crash when handling printer errors
345 - Multi-file jobs did not print to remote CUPS servers
347 - The scheduler did not provide the Apple language ID to
349 - Kerberos authentication did not work with the web
350 interface (STR #2606, STR #2669)
351 - The requesing-user-name-allowed and -denied functionality
352 did not work for Kerberos-authenticated usernames (STR
354 - CUPS didn't compile on HP-UX 11i (STR #2679)
355 - cupsEncodeOptions2() did not handle option values like
356 "What's up, doc?" properly.
357 - Added lots of memory allocation checks (Fortify)
358 - The scheduler would crash if it was unable to add a job
360 - ppdOpen*() did not check all memory allocations (Coverity)
361 - ippReadIO() did not check all memory allocations (Coverity)
362 - The PostScript filter did not detect read errors (Coverity)
363 - The scheduler did not check for a missing job-sheets-completed
364 attribute when sending an event notification (Coverity)
365 - "Set Printer Options" might not work with raw queues (Coverity)
366 - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() could crash on certain PostScript
368 - The USB backend did not check for back-channel support
369 properly on all systems (Coverity)
370 - Fixed memory leaks in the GIF and PNM image loading code
372 - Removed some dead code in the CUPS API and scheduler (Coverity)
373 - Fixed two overflow bugs in the HP-GL/2 filter (Coverity)
374 - Fixed another ASN1 string parsing bug (STR #2665)
375 - The RSS notifier directory was not installed with the
377 - The standard CUPS backends could use 100% CPU while waiting
378 for print data (STR #2664)
379 - Filename-based MIME rules did not work (STR #2659)
380 - The cups-polld program did not exit if the scheduler crashed
382 - The scheduler would crash if you tried to set the port-monitor
383 on a raw queue (STR #2639)
384 - The scheduler could crash if a polled remote printer was
385 converted to a class (STR #2656)
386 - The web interface and cupsctl did not correctly reflect
387 the "allow printing from the Internet" state (STR #2650)
388 - The scheduler incorrectly treated MIME types as case-
389 sensitive (STR #2657)
390 - The Java support classes did not send UTF-8 strings to
391 the scheduler (STR #2651)
392 - The CGI code did not handle interrupted POST requests
394 - The PostScript filter incorrectly handled number-up when
395 the number of pages was evenly divisible by the number-up
397 - The PDF filter incorrectly filtered pages when page-ranges
398 and number-up were both specified (STR #2643)
399 - The IPP backend did not handle printing of pictwps files
400 to a non-Mac CUPS server properly.
401 - The scheduler did not detect network interface changes
402 on operating systems other than Mac OS X (STR #2631)
403 - The scheduler now logs the UNIX error message when it
404 is unable to create a request file such as a print job.
405 - Added support for --enable-pie on Mac OS X.
408 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.5
410 - The SNMP backend did not check for negative string
412 - The scheduler incorrectly removed auth-info attributes,
413 potentially leading to a loss of all options for a job.
414 - The scheduler stopped sending CUPS browse packets on a
415 restart when using fixed addresses (STR #2618)
416 - Fixed PDF filter security issues (CVE-2007-4352
417 CVE-2007-5392 CVE-2007-5393)
418 - Changing settings would always change the DefaultAuthType
419 and Allow lines (STR #2580)
420 - The scheduler would crash when submitting an undefined
421 format file from Samba with LogLevel debug2 (STR #2600)
422 - The scheduler did not use poll() when epoll() was not
423 supported by the running kernel (STR #2582)
424 - Fixed a compile problem with Heimdal Kerberos (STR #2592)
425 - The USB backend now retries connections to a printer
426 indefinitely rather than stopping the queue.
427 - Printers with untranslated JCL options were not exported
428 to Samba correctly (STR #2570)
429 - The USB backend did not work with some Minolta USB
431 - The strcasecmp() emulation code did not compile (STR
433 - The scheduler would crash if a job was sent to an empty
435 - The lpc command did not work in non-UTF-8 locales (STR
437 - Subscriptions for printer-stopped events also received
438 other state changes (STR #2572)
439 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported translation errors for
441 - ppdOpen() did not handle custom options properly when the
442 Custom attribute appeared before the OpenUI for that
444 - The scheduler could crash when deleting a printer or
446 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not allow for requeuing of
447 jobs submitted to a class.
448 - lpmove didn't accept a job ID by itself.
449 - The scheduler incorrectly removed job history information
450 for remote print jobs.
451 - The scheduler incorrectly sent the
452 "com.apple.printerListChanged" message for printer state
454 - The PostScript filter drew the page borders (when enabled)
455 outside the imageable area.
456 - The LPD and IPP backends did not default to the correct
457 port numbers when using alternate scheme names.
458 - The scheduler incorrectly deleted hardwired remote
459 printers on system sleep.
460 - The scheduler would abort if a bad browse protocol name
461 was listed in the cupsd.conf file.
462 - The online cupsd.conf help file incorrectly showed
463 "dns-sd" instead of "dnssd" for Bonjour sharing.
464 - The scheduler could crash changing the port-monitor value.
465 - The scheduler generated CoreFoundation errors when run as
466 a background process.
467 - When printing with number-up > 1, it was possible to get
471 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.4
473 - Documentation updates (STR #2560, STR #2563, STR #2569)
474 - CUPS now maps the "nb" locale to "no" on all platforms
476 - CUPS did not work with a Windows 2003 R2 KDC (STR #2568)
477 - ippReadIO() could read past the end of a buffer (STR
479 - The scheduler would crash on shutdown if it was unable
480 to create a Kerberos context.
481 - Multiple AuthTypes in cupsd.conf did not work (STR
483 - The snmp.conf file referenced the wrong man page (STR
485 - The cupsaddsmb program didn't handle domain sockets
487 - The scheduler now validates device URIs when adding
489 - Updated httpSeparateURI() to support hostnames with
490 the backslash character.
491 - Updated the Japanese localization (STR #2546)
492 - The parallel backend now gets the current IEEE-1284
493 device ID string on Linux (STR #2553)
494 - The IPP backend now checks the job status at
495 variable intervals (from 1 to 10 seconds) instead
496 of every 10 seconds for faster remote printing
498 - "lpr -p" and "lpr -l" did not work (STR #2544)
499 - Compilation failed when a previous version of CUPS
500 was installed and was included in the SSL include
502 - The scheduler did not reject requests with charsets
503 other than US-ASCII or UTF-8, and the CUPS API
504 incorrectly passed the locale charset to the scheduler
505 instead of UTF-8 (STR #2537)
506 - cups-deviced did not filter out duplicate devices.
507 - The AppleTalk backend incorrectly added a scheme
508 listing when AppleTalk was disabled or no printers
510 - The PostScript filter generated N^2 copies when the
511 printer supported collated copies and user requested
512 reverse-order output.
513 - The scheduler did not reprint all of the files in a
515 - The scheduler did not update the printcap file after
516 removing stale remote queues.
517 - The cupsd.conf man page incorrectly referenced
518 "AuthType Kerberos" instead of "AuthType Negotiate".
521 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.3
523 - The scheduler did not use the attributes-natural-language
524 attribute when passing the LANG environment variable to
525 cups-deviced or cups-driverd.
526 - The scheduler did not use the printer-op-policy when
527 modifying classes or printers (STR #2525)
528 - The auth-info-required attribute was not always updated
529 for remote queues that required authentication.
530 - The German web interface localization contained errors
532 - The Swedish localization contained errors (STR #2522)
535 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.2
537 - The 1.3.1 release was incorrectly created from the
538 1.4.x source tree (STR #2519)
539 - Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX
541 - The scheduler incorrectly used portrait as the default
542 orientation (STR #2513)
543 - The scheduler no longer writes the printcap file for
544 every remote printer update (STR #2512)
545 - Remote raw printing with multiple copies did not work
547 - Updated the configure script to require at least autoconf
549 - Some gzip'd PPD files were not read in their entirety
553 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.1
555 - Documentation updates.
556 - The USB backend on Mac OS X could hang if the driver and
557 printer did not match.
558 - Delegated Kerberos credentials were not working.
559 - "make distclean" incorrectly removed the edit-config.tmpl
561 - Fix compile problem on HP-UX (STR #2501)
562 - The cupstestppd utility now tests for resolutions greater
563 than 99999 DPI to detect a missing "x" between the X and Y
565 - Fixed many problems in the various translations and added
566 a new "checkpo" utility to validate them.
567 - The cupstestppd utility now tests the custom page size code
568 for CUPS raster drivers.
569 - cupsLangDefault() did not attempt to return a language that
570 was supported by the calling application.
571 - If a remote printer stopped while a job was being sent, the
572 local queue would also get stopped and the job re-queued,
573 resulting in duplicate prints in some cases.
574 - A few Apple-specific job options needed to be omitted when
575 printing a banner page.
576 - The new peer credential support did not compile on FreeBSD
578 - Direct links to help files did not set the current section
579 so the table-of-contents was not shown.
580 - The configure script did not support --localedir=foo (STR #2488)
581 - The backends were not displaying their localized messages.
582 - CUPS-Authenticate-Job did not require Kerberos authentication
583 on queues protected by Kerberos.
584 - The Zebra ZPL driver did not work with Brady label printers
586 - Norwegian wasn't localized on Mac OS X.
587 - getnameinfo() returns an error on some systems when DNS is
588 not available, leading to numerous problems (STR #2486)
589 - The cupsfilter command did not work properly on Mac OS X.
590 - The scheduler makefile contained a typo (STR #2483)
591 - The TBCP and BCP port monitors did not handle the trailing
592 CTRL-D in some PostScript output properly.
593 - Fixed the localization instructions and German template for
594 the "Find New Printers" button (STR #2478)
595 - The web interface did not work with the Chinese localization
597 - The web interface home page did not work for languages that
598 were only partially localized (STR #2472)
599 - Updated the Spanish web interface localization (STR #2473)
600 - ppdLocalize() did not work for country-specific localizations.
603 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.0
605 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-file conditions
606 gracefully when accepting new connections, leading to
608 - The scheduler did not detect ServerBin misconfigurations
610 - "AuthType Default" did not work as expected when the
611 "DefaultAuthType foo" line appeared after it in the
613 - The on-line help did not describe many common printing
615 - The IPP backend did not return the "auth required" status
616 when printing to a Kerberos-protected queue.
617 - The scheduler was not looking in the correct directories
618 for LSB PPD files (STR #2464)
619 - Changed references to ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript
621 - The PostScript filter did not cleanly terminate when
622 the job was canceled or stopped.
623 - Fixed generation of Kerberos credentials for remote
624 printing. Note that this requires a recent version of
625 MIT Kerberos with a working krb5_cc_new_unique()
626 function or Heimdal Kerberos.
627 - Added Portuguese and updated Italian message catalogs.
630 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc2
632 - Added more range checking to the pdftops filter.
633 - The scheduler would crash if a remote IPP queue was stopped
635 - The scheduler did not allow "DefaultAuthType None".
638 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc1
640 - Updated the German localization (STR #2443)
641 - cupsAdminGetServerSettings() did not handle </Foo> properly.
642 - When lprm and cancel are run with no job ID, they now will
643 cancel the first stopped job if no pending or processing
644 jobs are left in the queue.
645 - The scheduler now logs successful print jobs, filter
646 failures, and the job file types at the default log
648 - The scheduler now logs the usernames it is using for
649 authorization at LogLevel debug instead of debug2 (STR #2448)
650 - Added Intellitech Intellibar and Zebra CPCL PPDs to the list
652 - Added 6" and 8" wide label sizes for the Zebra ZPL Label
653 Printer driver (STR #2442)
654 - The cupsaddsmb program and web interface now support
655 exporting of 64-bit Windows drivers, when available
657 - Moving a job that was printing did not stop the job on the
658 original printer (STR #2262)
659 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not work on Mac OS X server.
660 - Added httpGetAuthString() and httpSetAuthString() APIs to get
661 and set the current (cached) authorization string to use for
663 - Updated the default cupsd.conf policy to list the
664 "administrative" operations separately from the "printer
665 control" operations so that it is easier to define a
666 group of users that are "printer operators".
667 - The web interface now pulls the default cupsd.conf file
668 from cupsd.conf.default in the CUPS config directory.
669 - Added a help file for using Kerberos with CUPS.
670 - The scheduler now strips the "@KDC" portion of Kerberos
671 usernames since those usernames typically do not appear in
672 the group membership lists used by CUPS.
673 - cupsMarkOptions() could (incorrectly) leave multiple option
675 - Backends could (incorrectly) run as root during discovery
677 - Avahi is now supported for DNS-SD (Bonjour) printer sharing
679 - The default cupsd.conf file had typos and old operation names
681 - The scheduler now erases authentication cache files using the
682 7-pass US DoD algorithm.
683 - Delegated Kerberos credentials (proxy authentication) did not
685 - The filter makefile did not optimize the libcupsimage.2.dylib
686 with a sectorder file.
687 - The IPP backend incorrectly wrote an empty printer message
688 when processing the "none" state reason.
689 - The USB backend could deadlock on Mac OS X while performing
690 a side-channel command.
691 - The scheduler did not prevent remote queues from being
693 - The scheduler did not remove the temporary request file on
694 authentication errors.
695 - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() did not handle "scheme:" schemes or
697 - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() was not exported on Mac OS X.
700 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3b1
702 - Copyright updates - CUPS is now owned by Apple Inc.
703 - Documentation updates (STR #1775, STR #2027, STR #2130,
704 STR #2131, STR #2263, STR #2356, STR #2397)
705 - Added new cupsfilter utility (STR #1734)
706 - Added new job-printer-state-message and
707 job-printer-state-reasons attributes to jobs (STR #2418)
708 - Added LDAP+SSL support (STR #1967)
709 - CUPS now supports authentication via peer credentials
710 over domain sockets (STR #2242, STR #2277)
711 - The CUPS sample driver PPDs are now generated by the PPD
712 compiler and include all of the localized languages by
714 - You can now specify "AuthType Default" in the cupsd.conf
715 file to use the default authentication defined by the
716 DefaultAuthType directive.
717 - The SNMP backend no longer adds a default Address line
718 when none is specified in the snmp.conf file; this allows
719 the backend to be easily disabled as needed (STR #2434)
720 - Added a new cupsctl command for doing basic changes to
721 the cupsd.conf file (STR #1777)
722 - Added a new ppdLocalizeIPPReason() function to get the
723 localized text/URI for a given IPP reason keyword for a
725 - Removed the deskjet2.ppd driver, as it only worked with
726 a very small subset of HP DeskJet printers and was
727 confusing to users. The rastertohp driver still
728 supports the deskjet2.ppd options for existing queues.
729 - The scheduler did not add a trailing banner page if a
730 client did not specify the last document in a job (STR
732 - The scheduler did not report Bonjour shared printers as
733 remote printers (STR #2384)
734 - Added new -R and -W options to the cupstestppd program
735 for greater control over the testing of PPDs.
736 - Added a new cupsGetServerPPD() function for getting
737 an available PPD from the server (STR #2334)
738 - Added a new cupsDoIORequest() function for reading
739 and writing files via IPP requests (STR #2334)
740 - Added a new CUPS_GET_PPD operation for getting an
741 available PPD file on the server (STR #2334)
742 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports multiple ppd-product values
743 based on the PPD ModelName and Product strings (STR
745 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the PSVersion attributes
746 from a PPD file in the ppd-psversion attribute
748 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the cupsModelNumber attribute
749 from a PPD file in the ppd-model-number attribute (STR
751 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports a driver type string in the
752 ppd-type attribute based on the cupsFax and cupsFilter
753 attributes in a PPD file (STR #2383)
754 - Added a new printer attribute called "cups-version"
755 which reports the version of CUPS that is running
757 - backendRunLoop() now aborts immediately on SIGTERM
758 if no data has been written yet (STR #2103)
759 - Due to poor IPP support from the vendors, the SNMP
760 backend no longer tries IPP connections; instead,
761 it now uses a lookup file with fallback to port 9100
762 (socket://address) and 515 (lpd://address) printing
763 (STR #2035, STR #2354)
764 - The scheduler now recreates the CUPS log directory as
766 - cupsLangDefault() now maps new-style Apple locale names
767 to the traditional ll_CC form (STR #2357)
768 - Add new cupsArrayNew2() API to support hashed lookups
769 of array elements (STR #2358)
770 - ppdConflicts() optimizations (STR #2358)
771 - The cupstestppd program now tests for existing filters,
772 icons, profiles, and dialog extensions (STR #2326)
773 - The web interface no longer lists new printers on the
774 main administration page. Instead, a new "List Available
775 Printers" button is provided that shows a separate page
776 with the list of printers.
777 - The web interface now supports setting the banner and
778 policy options on raw printers and classes (STR #2238)
779 - The socket backend now reads any pending back-channel
780 data before shutting down the socket (STR #2325)
781 - Added a new ErrorPolicy directive in the cupsd.conf
783 - Printers that use JCL options are now exported to Samba
784 correctly (STR #1985)
785 - The IPP backend now relays printer-state-message values
786 from the server to the client (STR #2109)
787 - Added support for the PWG printer-alert and
788 printer-alert-description attributes (STR #2088)
789 - Added support for LPD "stream" mode (STR #2036)
790 - The scheduler now reports the PostScript product string
791 from PPD files in CUPS-Get-PPDs responses (STR #1900)
792 - Raw printing with queues pointing to the file pseudo-
793 device and multiple files and/or banners now works (STR
795 - Added new public cupsAdminGetServerSettings() and
796 cupsAdminSetServerSettings() APIs.
797 - Added new "makebuttons" script in the "tools" directory
798 for creating web interface buttons (STR #2231)
799 - Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing
801 - Job operations (cancel, hold, release, etc.) from the
802 web interface now return back to the original page (STR
804 - The classes or printers list is now shown after a
805 successful deletion from the web interface (STR #1999)
806 - The default configuration now allows browse packets from
807 any address (STR #2008)
808 - The web interface now provides an "allow printing from the
809 Internet" check box (STR #1897)
810 - The notify-events-default and
811 notify-lease-duration-default attributes can now be set
813 - Server-side default options are now sent to clients when
814 the "printer-defaults" attribute group is requested (STR
816 - Added support for Linux "relro" linker option (STR #1614)
817 - CUPS now validates the number-up option value (STR #1329)
818 - The on-line help now provides better search capabilities
820 - The web interface "Add This Printer" button now allows you
821 to change the printer name, description, and location
823 - Added support for Mac OS X authorization services
825 - Added support for driver-specific pre-filters (STR #2108)
826 - Added a new side-channel API for drivers and backends
827 for basic device control and information queries (STR
829 - The scheduler now uses poll(), epoll(), or /dev/kqueue
830 instead of select() when possible (STR #1261)
831 - Added new cupsArrayGetIndex() and cupsArrayGetInsert()
832 functions to get the current index and insertion
833 positions of an array.
834 - Added a new --with-max-copies configure option (STR
836 - Added new cupsRemoveDest() and cupsSetDefaultDest()
838 - Added support for cupsPJLCharset attribute in PPD files
839 which specifies the character set that is used in PJL
841 - Moved the definition of the (private) _http_s structure
842 to http-private.h; code that directly accesses the
843 http_t members will no longer compile!
844 - Added support for setting the document-format-default
845 attribute on a per-printer basis.
846 - Added support for IntelliBar label printers.