6 - Documentation updates (STR #2904, STR #2944)
7 - The scheduler did not support destination filtering using
8 the printer-location attribute properly (STR #2945)
9 - The scheduler did not send the server-started,
10 server-restarted, or server-stopped events (STR #2927)
11 - The scheduler no longer enforces configuration file
12 permissions on symlinked files (STR #2937)
13 - CUPS now reinitializes the DNS resolver on failures
15 - The CUPS desktop menu item was broken (STR #2924)
16 - The PPD parser was too strict about missing keyword
17 values in "relaxed" mode.
18 - The PostScript filter incorrectly mirrored landscape
20 - The scheduler did not correctly update the
21 auth-info-required value(s) if the AuthType was Default.
22 - The scheduler required Kerberos authentication for
23 all operations on remote Kerberized printers instead
24 of just for the operations that needed it.
25 - The socket backend could wait indefinitely for back-
26 channel data with some devices.
27 - PJL panel messages were not reset correctly on older
29 - cupsfilter used the wrong default path (STR #2908)
30 - Fixed address matching for "BrowseAddress @IF(name)"
32 - Fixed compiles on AIX.
33 - Firefox 3 did not work with the CUPS web interface in SSL
35 - Custom options with multiple parameters were not emitted
37 - Refined the cupstestppd utility.
38 - ppdEmit*() did not support custom JCL options (STR #2889)
39 - The cupstestppd utility incorrectly reported missing
40 "en" base translations (STR #2887)
43 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.8
45 - Documentation updates (STR #2785, STR #2861, STR #2862)
46 - The scheduler did not add the ending job sheet when the
48 - The IPP backend did not relay marker-* attributes.
49 - The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for
51 - The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for
53 - The cupstestppd utility reported mixed line endings for
54 Mac OS and Windows PPD files (STR #2874)
55 - The pdftops filter did not print landscape orientation PDF
56 pages correctly on all printers (STR #2850)
57 - The scheduler did not handle expiring of implicit classes
58 or their members properly, leading to a configuration where
59 one of the members would have a short name (STR #2766)
60 - The scheduler and cupstestppd utilities did not support
61 cupsFilter and cupsPreFilter programs with spaces in their
63 - Removed unused variables and assignments found by the
65 - Added NULL checks recommended by the LLVM "clang" tool.
66 - The scheduler would crash if you started a printer that
67 pointed to a backend that did not exist (STR #2865)
68 - The ppdLocalize functions incorrectly mapped all generic
69 locales to country-specific locales.
70 - The cups-driverd program did not support Simplified Chinese
71 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
72 - Added an Indonesian translation (STR #2792)
73 - Fixed a timing issue in the backends that could cause data
74 corruption with the CUPS_SC_CMD_DRAIN_OUTPUT side-channel
76 - The scheduler did not support "HostNameLookups" with all of
77 the boolean names (STR #2861)
78 - Fixed a compile problem with glibc 2.8 (STR #2860)
79 - The scheduler incorrectly filtered out queues with ACLs and
81 - The PostScript filter did not support %%IncludeFeature lines
82 in the page setup section of each page (STR #2831)
83 - The scheduler did not generate printer-state events when the
84 default printer was changed (STR #2764)
85 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported a warning about the PPD format
86 version in some locales (STR #2854)
87 - cupsGetPPD() and friends incorrectly returned a PPD file for
88 a class with no printers.
89 - The member-uris values for local printers in a class returned
90 by the scheduler did not reflect the connected hostname or
92 - The CUPS PHP extension was not thread-safe (STR #2828)
93 - The scheduler incorrectly added the document-format-default
94 attribute to the list of "common" printer attributes, which
95 over time would slow down the printing system (STR #2755,
97 - The cups-deviced and cups-driverd helper programs did not set
98 the CFProcessPath environment variable on Mac OS X (STR #2837)
99 - "lpstat -p" could report the wrong job as printing (STR #2845)
100 - The scheduler would crash when some cupsd.conf directives
101 were missing values (STR #2849)
102 - The web interface "move jobs" operation redirected users to
103 the wrong URL (STR #2815)
104 - The Polish web interface translation contained errors
106 - The scheduler did not report PostScript printer PPDs with
107 filters as PostScript devices.
108 - The scheduler did not set the job document-format attribute
109 for jobs submitted using Create-Job and Send-Document.
110 - cupsFileTell() did not work for log files opened in append
112 - The scheduler did not set QUERY_STRING all of the time
113 for CGI scripts (STR #2781, STR #2816)
114 - The scheduler now returns an error for bad job-sheets
116 - Authenticated remote printing did not work over domain
118 - The scheduler incorrectly logged errors for print filters
119 when a job was canceled (STR #2806, #2808)
120 - The scheduler no longer allows multiple RSS subscriptions
121 with the same URI (STR #2789)
122 - The scheduler now supports Kerberized printing with
123 multiple server names (STR #2783)
124 - "Satisfy any" did not work in IPP policies (STR #2782)
125 - The CUPS imaging library would crash with very large
126 images - more than 16Mx16M pixels (STR #2805)
127 - The PNG image loading code would crash with large images
129 - The scheduler did not limit the total number of filters.
130 - The scheduler now ensures that the RSS directory has
131 the correct permissions.
132 - The RSS notifier did not quote the feed URL in the RSS
133 file it created (STR #2801)
134 - The web interface allowed the creation and cancellation
135 of RSS subscriptions without a username (STR #2774)
136 - Increased the default MaxCopies value on Mac OS X to
137 9999 to match the limit imposed by the print dialog.
138 - The scheduler did not reject requests with an empty
139 Content-Length field (STR #2787)
140 - The scheduler did not log the current date and time and
141 did not escape special characters in request URIs when
142 logging bad requests to the access_log file (STR #2788)
145 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.7
147 - CVE-2008-0047: cgiCompileSearch buffer overflow (STR #2729)
148 - CVE-2008-1373: CUPS GIF image filter overflow (STR #2765)
149 - Updated the "make check" tests to do a more thorough
151 - cups-driverd complained about missing directories (STR
153 - cupsaddsmb would leave the Samba username and password on
154 disk if no Windows drivers were installed (STR #2779)
155 - The Linux USB backend used 100% CPU when a printer was
156 disconnected (STR #2769)
157 - The sample raster drivers did not properly handle SIGTERM
159 - The scheduler sent notify_post() messages too often on
161 - Kerberos access to the web interface did not work
163 - The scheduler did not support "AuthType Default" in IPP
165 - The scheduler did not support the "HideImplicitMembers"
166 directive as documented (STR #2760)
167 - "make check" didn't return a non-zero exit code on
169 - The scheduler incorrectly logged AUTH_foo environment
170 variables in debug mode (STR #2751)
171 - The image filters inverted PBM files (STR #2746)
172 - cupsctl would crash if the scheduler was not running
174 - The scheduler could crash when printing using a port
176 - The scheduler would crash if PAM was broken (STR #2734)
177 - The image filters did not work with some CMYK JPEG files
178 produced by Adobe applications (STR #2727)
179 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not work with printers that
180 did not report a make or model.
181 - The job-sheets option was not encoded properly (STR #2715)
182 - The scheduler incorrectly complained about missing LSB
186 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.6
188 - Documentation updates (STR #2646, STR #2647, STR #2649)
189 - Fixed a problem with the web interface "Use Kerberos
190 Authentication" check box (STR #2703)
191 - The scheduler unconditionally overwrote the printer-state-
192 message with "process-name failed" when a filter or backend
193 failed, preventing a useful error message from being shown
195 - Policies on CUPS-Move-Job didn't work as expected (STR
197 - The configure script only supported D-BUS on Linux
199 - The scheduler did not support </LimitExcept> (STR #2701)
200 - The scheduler did not reset the job-hold-until attribute
201 after a job's hold time was reached.
202 - The scheduler did not support printer supply attributes
204 - The Kerberos credentials provided by some Windows KDCs
205 were still too large - now use a dynamic buffer to
206 support credentials up to 64k in size (STR #2695)
207 - Printing a test page from the web interface incorrectly
208 defaulted to the "guest" user (STR #2688)
209 - The cupsEncodeOptions2() function did not parse multiple-
210 value attribute values properly (STR #2690)
211 - The scheduler incorrectly sent printer-stopped events for
212 status updates from the print filters (STR #2680)
213 - The IPP backend could crash when handling printer errors
215 - Multi-file jobs did not print to remote CUPS servers
217 - The scheduler did not provide the Apple language ID to
219 - Kerberos authentication did not work with the web
220 interface (STR #2606, STR #2669)
221 - The requesing-user-name-allowed and -denied functionality
222 did not work for Kerberos-authenticated usernames (STR
224 - CUPS didn't compile on HP-UX 11i (STR #2679)
225 - cupsEncodeOptions2() did not handle option values like
226 "What's up, doc?" properly.
227 - Added lots of memory allocation checks (Fortify)
228 - The scheduler would crash if it was unable to add a job
230 - ppdOpen*() did not check all memory allocations (Coverity)
231 - ippReadIO() did not check all memory allocations (Coverity)
232 - The PostScript filter did not detect read errors (Coverity)
233 - The scheduler did not check for a missing job-sheets-completed
234 attribute when sending an event notification (Coverity)
235 - "Set Printer Options" might not work with raw queues (Coverity)
236 - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() could crash on certain PostScript
238 - The USB backend did not check for back-channel support
239 properly on all systems (Coverity)
240 - Fixed memory leaks in the GIF and PNM image loading code
242 - Removed some dead code in the CUPS API and scheduler (Coverity)
243 - Fixed two overflow bugs in the HP-GL/2 filter (Coverity)
244 - Fixed another ASN1 string parsing bug (STR #2665)
245 - The RSS notifier directory was not installed with the
247 - The standard CUPS backends could use 100% CPU while waiting
248 for print data (STR #2664)
249 - Filename-based MIME rules did not work (STR #2659)
250 - The cups-polld program did not exit if the scheduler crashed
252 - The scheduler would crash if you tried to set the port-monitor
253 on a raw queue (STR #2639)
254 - The scheduler could crash if a polled remote printer was
255 converted to a class (STR #2656)
256 - The web interface and cupsctl did not correctly reflect
257 the "allow printing from the Internet" state (STR #2650)
258 - The scheduler incorrectly treated MIME types as case-
259 sensitive (STR #2657)
260 - The Java support classes did not send UTF-8 strings to
261 the scheduler (STR #2651)
262 - The CGI code did not handle interrupted POST requests
264 - The PostScript filter incorrectly handled number-up when
265 the number of pages was evenly divisible by the number-up
267 - The PDF filter incorrectly filtered pages when page-ranges
268 and number-up were both specified (STR #2643)
269 - The IPP backend did not handle printing of pictwps files
270 to a non-Mac CUPS server properly.
271 - The scheduler did not detect network interface changes
272 on operating systems other than Mac OS X (STR #2631)
273 - The scheduler now logs the UNIX error message when it
274 is unable to create a request file such as a print job.
275 - Added support for --enable-pie on Mac OS X.
278 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.5
280 - The SNMP backend did not check for negative string
282 - The scheduler incorrectly removed auth-info attributes,
283 potentially leading to a loss of all options for a job.
284 - The scheduler stopped sending CUPS browse packets on a
285 restart when using fixed addresses (STR #2618)
286 - Fixed PDF filter security issues (CVE-2007-4352
287 CVE-2007-5392 CVE-2007-5393)
288 - Changing settings would always change the DefaultAuthType
289 and Allow lines (STR #2580)
290 - The scheduler would crash when submitting an undefined
291 format file from Samba with LogLevel debug2 (STR #2600)
292 - The scheduler did not use poll() when epoll() was not
293 supported by the running kernel (STR #2582)
294 - Fixed a compile problem with Heimdal Kerberos (STR #2592)
295 - The USB backend now retries connections to a printer
296 indefinitely rather than stopping the queue.
297 - Printers with untranslated JCL options were not exported
298 to Samba correctly (STR #2570)
299 - The USB backend did not work with some Minolta USB
301 - The strcasecmp() emulation code did not compile (STR
303 - The scheduler would crash if a job was sent to an empty
305 - The lpc command did not work in non-UTF-8 locales (STR
307 - Subscriptions for printer-stopped events also received
308 other state changes (STR #2572)
309 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported translation errors for
311 - ppdOpen() did not handle custom options properly when the
312 Custom attribute appeared before the OpenUI for that
314 - The scheduler could crash when deleting a printer or
316 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not allow for requeuing of
317 jobs submitted to a class.
318 - lpmove didn't accept a job ID by itself.
319 - The scheduler incorrectly removed job history information
320 for remote print jobs.
321 - The scheduler incorrectly sent the
322 "com.apple.printerListChanged" message for printer state
324 - The PostScript filter drew the page borders (when enabled)
325 outside the imageable area.
326 - The LPD and IPP backends did not default to the correct
327 port numbers when using alternate scheme names.
328 - The scheduler incorrectly deleted hardwired remote
329 printers on system sleep.
330 - The scheduler would abort if a bad browse protocol name
331 was listed in the cupsd.conf file.
332 - The online cupsd.conf help file incorrectly showed
333 "dns-sd" instead of "dnssd" for Bonjour sharing.
334 - The scheduler could crash changing the port-monitor value.
335 - The scheduler generated CoreFoundation errors when run as
336 a background process.
337 - When printing with number-up > 1, it was possible to get
341 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.4
343 - Documentation updates (STR #2560, STR #2563, STR #2569)
344 - CUPS now maps the "nb" locale to "no" on all platforms
346 - CUPS did not work with a Windows 2003 R2 KDC (STR #2568)
347 - ippReadIO() could read past the end of a buffer (STR
349 - The scheduler would crash on shutdown if it was unable
350 to create a Kerberos context.
351 - Multiple AuthTypes in cupsd.conf did not work (STR
353 - The snmp.conf file referenced the wrong man page (STR
355 - The cupsaddsmb program didn't handle domain sockets
357 - The scheduler now validates device URIs when adding
359 - Updated httpSeparateURI() to support hostnames with
360 the backslash character.
361 - Updated the Japanese localization (STR #2546)
362 - The parallel backend now gets the current IEEE-1284
363 device ID string on Linux (STR #2553)
364 - The IPP backend now checks the job status at
365 variable intervals (from 1 to 10 seconds) instead
366 of every 10 seconds for faster remote printing
368 - "lpr -p" and "lpr -l" did not work (STR #2544)
369 - Compilation failed when a previous version of CUPS
370 was installed and was included in the SSL include
372 - The scheduler did not reject requests with charsets
373 other than US-ASCII or UTF-8, and the CUPS API
374 incorrectly passed the locale charset to the scheduler
375 instead of UTF-8 (STR #2537)
376 - cups-deviced did not filter out duplicate devices.
377 - The AppleTalk backend incorrectly added a scheme
378 listing when AppleTalk was disabled or no printers
380 - The PostScript filter generated N^2 copies when the
381 printer supported collated copies and user requested
382 reverse-order output.
383 - The scheduler did not reprint all of the files in a
385 - The scheduler did not update the printcap file after
386 removing stale remote queues.
387 - The cupsd.conf man page incorrectly referenced
388 "AuthType Kerberos" instead of "AuthType Negotiate".
391 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.3
393 - The scheduler did not use the attributes-natural-language
394 attribute when passing the LANG environment variable to
395 cups-deviced or cups-driverd.
396 - The scheduler did not use the printer-op-policy when
397 modifying classes or printers (STR #2525)
398 - The auth-info-required attribute was not always updated
399 for remote queues that required authentication.
400 - The German web interface localization contained errors
402 - The Swedish localization contained errors (STR #2522)
405 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.2
407 - The 1.3.1 release was incorrectly created from the
408 1.4.x source tree (STR #2519)
409 - Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX
411 - The scheduler incorrectly used portrait as the default
412 orientation (STR #2513)
413 - The scheduler no longer writes the printcap file for
414 every remote printer update (STR #2512)
415 - Remote raw printing with multiple copies did not work
417 - Updated the configure script to require at least autoconf
419 - Some gzip'd PPD files were not read in their entirety
423 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.1
425 - Documentation updates.
426 - The USB backend on Mac OS X could hang if the driver and
427 printer did not match.
428 - Delegated Kerberos credentials were not working.
429 - "make distclean" incorrectly removed the edit-config.tmpl
431 - Fix compile problem on HP-UX (STR #2501)
432 - The cupstestppd utility now tests for resolutions greater
433 than 99999 DPI to detect a missing "x" between the X and Y
435 - Fixed many problems in the various translations and added
436 a new "checkpo" utility to validate them.
437 - The cupstestppd utility now tests the custom page size code
438 for CUPS raster drivers.
439 - cupsLangDefault() did not attempt to return a language that
440 was supported by the calling application.
441 - If a remote printer stopped while a job was being sent, the
442 local queue would also get stopped and the job re-queued,
443 resulting in duplicate prints in some cases.
444 - A few Apple-specific job options needed to be omitted when
445 printing a banner page.
446 - The new peer credential support did not compile on FreeBSD
448 - Direct links to help files did not set the current section
449 so the table-of-contents was not shown.
450 - The configure script did not support --localedir=foo (STR #2488)
451 - The backends were not displaying their localized messages.
452 - CUPS-Authenticate-Job did not require Kerberos authentication
453 on queues protected by Kerberos.
454 - The Zebra ZPL driver did not work with Brady label printers
456 - Norwegian wasn't localized on Mac OS X.
457 - getnameinfo() returns an error on some systems when DNS is
458 not available, leading to numerous problems (STR #2486)
459 - The cupsfilter command did not work properly on Mac OS X.
460 - The scheduler makefile contained a typo (STR #2483)
461 - The TBCP and BCP port monitors did not handle the trailing
462 CTRL-D in some PostScript output properly.
463 - Fixed the localization instructions and German template for
464 the "Find New Printers" button (STR #2478)
465 - The web interface did not work with the Chinese localization
467 - The web interface home page did not work for languages that
468 were only partially localized (STR #2472)
469 - Updated the Spanish web interface localization (STR #2473)
470 - ppdLocalize() did not work for country-specific localizations.
473 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.0
475 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-file conditions
476 gracefully when accepting new connections, leading to
478 - The scheduler did not detect ServerBin misconfigurations
480 - "AuthType Default" did not work as expected when the
481 "DefaultAuthType foo" line appeared after it in the
483 - The on-line help did not describe many common printing
485 - The IPP backend did not return the "auth required" status
486 when printing to a Kerberos-protected queue.
487 - The scheduler was not looking in the correct directories
488 for LSB PPD files (STR #2464)
489 - Changed references to ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript
491 - The PostScript filter did not cleanly terminate when
492 the job was canceled or stopped.
493 - Fixed generation of Kerberos credentials for remote
494 printing. Note that this requires a recent version of
495 MIT Kerberos with a working krb5_cc_new_unique()
496 function or Heimdal Kerberos.
497 - Added Portuguese and updated Italian message catalogs.
500 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc2
502 - Added more range checking to the pdftops filter.
503 - The scheduler would crash if a remote IPP queue was stopped
505 - The scheduler did not allow "DefaultAuthType None".
508 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc1
510 - Updated the German localization (STR #2443)
511 - cupsAdminGetServerSettings() did not handle </Foo> properly.
512 - When lprm and cancel are run with no job ID, they now will
513 cancel the first stopped job if no pending or processing
514 jobs are left in the queue.
515 - The scheduler now logs successful print jobs, filter
516 failures, and the job file types at the default log
518 - The scheduler now logs the usernames it is using for
519 authorization at LogLevel debug instead of debug2 (STR #2448)
520 - Added Intellitech Intellibar and Zebra CPCL PPDs to the list
522 - Added 6" and 8" wide label sizes for the Zebra ZPL Label
523 Printer driver (STR #2442)
524 - The cupsaddsmb program and web interface now support
525 exporting of 64-bit Windows drivers, when available
527 - Moving a job that was printing did not stop the job on the
528 original printer (STR #2262)
529 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not work on Mac OS X server.
530 - Added httpGetAuthString() and httpSetAuthString() APIs to get
531 and set the current (cached) authorization string to use for
533 - Updated the default cupsd.conf policy to list the
534 "administrative" operations separately from the "printer
535 control" operations so that it is easier to define a
536 group of users that are "printer operators".
537 - The web interface now pulls the default cupsd.conf file
538 from cupsd.conf.default in the CUPS config directory.
539 - Added a help file for using Kerberos with CUPS.
540 - The scheduler now strips the "@KDC" portion of Kerberos
541 usernames since those usernames typically do not appear in
542 the group membership lists used by CUPS.
543 - cupsMarkOptions() could (incorrectly) leave multiple option
545 - Backends could (incorrectly) run as root during discovery
547 - Avahi is now supported for DNS-SD (Bonjour) printer sharing
549 - The default cupsd.conf file had typos and old operation names
551 - The scheduler now erases authentication cache files using the
552 7-pass US DoD algorithm.
553 - Delegated Kerberos credentials (proxy authentication) did not
555 - The filter makefile did not optimize the libcupsimage.2.dylib
556 with a sectorder file.
557 - The IPP backend incorrectly wrote an empty printer message
558 when processing the "none" state reason.
559 - The USB backend could deadlock on Mac OS X while performing
560 a side-channel command.
561 - The scheduler did not prevent remote queues from being
563 - The scheduler did not remove the temporary request file on
564 authentication errors.
565 - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() did not handle "scheme:" schemes or
567 - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() was not exported on Mac OS X.
570 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3b1
572 - Copyright updates - CUPS is now owned by Apple Inc.
573 - Documentation updates (STR #1775, STR #2027, STR #2130,
574 STR #2131, STR #2263, STR #2356, STR #2397)
575 - Added new cupsfilter utility (STR #1734)
576 - Added new job-printer-state-message and
577 job-printer-state-reasons attributes to jobs (STR #2418)
578 - Added LDAP+SSL support (STR #1967)
579 - CUPS now supports authentication via peer credentials
580 over domain sockets (STR #2242, STR #2277)
581 - The CUPS sample driver PPDs are now generated by the PPD
582 compiler and include all of the localized languages by
584 - You can now specify "AuthType Default" in the cupsd.conf
585 file to use the default authentication defined by the
586 DefaultAuthType directive.
587 - The SNMP backend no longer adds a default Address line
588 when none is specified in the snmp.conf file; this allows
589 the backend to be easily disabled as needed (STR #2434)
590 - Added a new cupsctl command for doing basic changes to
591 the cupsd.conf file (STR #1777)
592 - Added a new ppdLocalizeIPPReason() function to get the
593 localized text/URI for a given IPP reason keyword for a
595 - Removed the deskjet2.ppd driver, as it only worked with
596 a very small subset of HP DeskJet printers and was
597 confusing to users. The rastertohp driver still
598 supports the deskjet2.ppd options for existing queues.
599 - The scheduler did not add a trailing banner page if a
600 client did not specify the last document in a job (STR
602 - The scheduler did not report Bonjour shared printers as
603 remote printers (STR #2384)
604 - Added new -R and -W options to the cupstestppd program
605 for greater control over the testing of PPDs.
606 - Added a new cupsGetServerPPD() function for getting
607 an available PPD from the server (STR #2334)
608 - Added a new cupsDoIORequest() function for reading
609 and writing files via IPP requests (STR #2334)
610 - Added a new CUPS_GET_PPD operation for getting an
611 available PPD file on the server (STR #2334)
612 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports multiple ppd-product values
613 based on the PPD ModelName and Product strings (STR
615 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the PSVersion attributes
616 from a PPD file in the ppd-psversion attribute
618 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the cupsModelNumber attribute
619 from a PPD file in the ppd-model-number attribute (STR
621 - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports a driver type string in the
622 ppd-type attribute based on the cupsFax and cupsFilter
623 attributes in a PPD file (STR #2383)
624 - Added a new printer attribute called "cups-version"
625 which reports the version of CUPS that is running
627 - backendRunLoop() now aborts immediately on SIGTERM
628 if no data has been written yet (STR #2103)
629 - Due to poor IPP support from the vendors, the SNMP
630 backend no longer tries IPP connections; instead,
631 it now uses a lookup file with fallback to port 9100
632 (socket://address) and 515 (lpd://address) printing
633 (STR #2035, STR #2354)
634 - The scheduler now recreates the CUPS log directory as
636 - cupsLangDefault() now maps new-style Apple locale names
637 to the traditional ll_CC form (STR #2357)
638 - Add new cupsArrayNew2() API to support hashed lookups
639 of array elements (STR #2358)
640 - ppdConflicts() optimizations (STR #2358)
641 - The cupstestppd program now tests for existing filters,
642 icons, profiles, and dialog extensions (STR #2326)
643 - The web interface no longer lists new printers on the
644 main administration page. Instead, a new "List Available
645 Printers" button is provided that shows a separate page
646 with the list of printers.
647 - The web interface now supports setting the banner and
648 policy options on raw printers and classes (STR #2238)
649 - The socket backend now reads any pending back-channel
650 data before shutting down the socket (STR #2325)
651 - Added a new ErrorPolicy directive in the cupsd.conf
653 - Printers that use JCL options are now exported to Samba
654 correctly (STR #1985)
655 - The IPP backend now relays printer-state-message values
656 from the server to the client (STR #2109)
657 - Added support for the PWG printer-alert and
658 printer-alert-description attributes (STR #2088)
659 - Added support for LPD "stream" mode (STR #2036)
660 - The scheduler now reports the PostScript product string
661 from PPD files in CUPS-Get-PPDs responses (STR #1900)
662 - Raw printing with queues pointing to the file pseudo-
663 device and multiple files and/or banners now works (STR
665 - Added new public cupsAdminGetServerSettings() and
666 cupsAdminSetServerSettings() APIs.
667 - Added new "makebuttons" script in the "tools" directory
668 for creating web interface buttons (STR #2231)
669 - Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing
671 - Job operations (cancel, hold, release, etc.) from the
672 web interface now return back to the original page (STR
674 - The classes or printers list is now shown after a
675 successful deletion from the web interface (STR #1999)
676 - The default configuration now allows browse packets from
677 any address (STR #2008)
678 - The web interface now provides an "allow printing from the
679 Internet" check box (STR #1897)
680 - The notify-events-default and
681 notify-lease-duration-default attributes can now be set
683 - Server-side default options are now sent to clients when
684 the "printer-defaults" attribute group is requested (STR
686 - Added support for Linux "relro" linker option (STR #1614)
687 - CUPS now validates the number-up option value (STR #1329)
688 - The on-line help now provides better search capabilities
690 - The web interface "Add This Printer" button now allows you
691 to change the printer name, description, and location
693 - Added support for Mac OS X authorization services
695 - Added support for driver-specific pre-filters (STR #2108)
696 - Added a new side-channel API for drivers and backends
697 for basic device control and information queries (STR
699 - The scheduler now uses poll(), epoll(), or /dev/kqueue
700 instead of select() when possible (STR #1261)
701 - Added new cupsArrayGetIndex() and cupsArrayGetInsert()
702 functions to get the current index and insertion
703 positions of an array.
704 - Added a new --with-max-copies configure option (STR
706 - Added new cupsRemoveDest() and cupsSetDefaultDest()
708 - Added support for cupsPJLCharset attribute in PPD files
709 which specifies the character set that is used in PJL
711 - Moved the definition of the (private) _http_s structure
712 to http-private.h; code that directly accesses the
713 http_t members will no longer compile!
714 - Added support for setting the document-format-default
715 attribute on a per-printer basis.
716 - Added support for IntelliBar label printers.