6 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
7 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
8 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
10 - Documentation update (STR #3451)
11 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
12 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
13 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
14 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
15 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
16 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
17 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
18 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
20 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
21 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
22 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
23 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
24 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
25 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
27 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
28 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
30 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
32 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
33 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
34 was turned off (STR #3425)
35 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
37 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
38 a remote server (STR #3435)
39 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
40 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
42 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
43 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
44 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
45 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
47 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
49 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
50 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
51 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
53 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
54 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
55 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
56 loading a job (STR #3407)
57 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
58 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
59 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
60 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
61 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
62 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
64 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
66 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
67 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
68 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
71 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
73 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
74 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
76 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
77 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
78 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
79 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
80 driver was changed (STR #3356)
81 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
82 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
83 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
84 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
85 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
87 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
88 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
89 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
90 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
91 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
92 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
93 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
94 characters (STR #3340)
95 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
97 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
98 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
99 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
100 SNMP implementations.
103 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
105 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
106 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
107 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
108 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
109 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
110 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
111 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
112 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
113 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
114 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
115 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
116 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
117 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
118 query job was held (STR #3302)
119 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
121 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
122 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
124 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
125 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
126 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
128 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
130 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
131 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
132 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
133 implementations (STR #3262)
134 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
136 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
140 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
142 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
143 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
144 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
146 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
148 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
149 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
150 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
152 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
154 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
155 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
156 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
157 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
159 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
160 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
161 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
163 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
164 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
165 templates (STR #3229)
166 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
167 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
169 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
170 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
171 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
173 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
174 reason on all platforms.
177 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
179 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
181 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
182 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
183 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
184 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
185 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
186 variables (STR #3210)
187 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
188 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
189 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
191 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
192 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
193 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
194 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
195 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
196 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
197 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
198 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
199 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
200 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
201 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
202 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
203 that cupstestppd looks for...)
204 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
205 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
206 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
207 pages when a job was canceled or held.
210 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
212 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
214 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
215 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
216 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
217 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
218 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
219 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
220 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
221 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
222 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
223 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
225 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
227 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
228 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
229 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
230 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
231 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
232 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
233 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
234 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
236 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
237 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
238 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
239 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
240 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
241 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
243 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
244 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
245 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
246 lack of kernel buffers.
247 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
248 while copying print data to a temporary file.
249 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
250 causing reduced performance in some situations.
251 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
252 would hang on the client.
253 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
255 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
256 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
257 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
258 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
259 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
260 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
261 filenames in the PPD file.
262 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
264 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
266 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
267 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
268 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
269 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
270 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
272 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
273 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
275 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
277 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
278 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
280 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
282 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
284 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
285 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
287 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
289 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
290 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
291 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
292 printer had other reasons associated with it.
293 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
294 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
296 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
297 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
298 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
299 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
300 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
301 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
302 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
303 printer discovery (STR #3065)
304 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
305 in length (STR #3072)
306 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
307 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
308 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
309 printers with no specified colorspace.
310 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
312 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
313 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
314 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
315 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
316 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
318 - The ppdi utility did not work.
319 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
320 web browsers (STR #3049)
321 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
322 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
324 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
325 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
326 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
327 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
328 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
329 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
330 present in most PPD files.
331 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
332 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
334 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
335 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
336 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
338 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
339 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
340 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
344 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
346 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
347 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
348 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
349 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
350 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
351 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
352 rather than copying them whenever possible.
353 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
354 options implementations.
355 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
357 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
358 was set to False in the PPD file.
359 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
360 and network backends (STR #3014)
361 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
362 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
364 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
365 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
367 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
368 --exclude-schemes options.
369 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
370 and exclude-schemes attributes.
371 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
373 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
374 option called "fit-to-page".
375 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
376 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
377 prevent race conditions.
378 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
379 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
381 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
382 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
384 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
386 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
387 variable when running filters.
388 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
390 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
394 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
396 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
397 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
398 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
399 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
401 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
402 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
403 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
404 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
405 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
406 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
407 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
409 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
410 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
411 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
412 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
414 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
415 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
416 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
417 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
418 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
419 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
420 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
421 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
422 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
423 of printer options (STR #1440)
424 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
426 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
427 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
428 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
429 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
430 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
431 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
432 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
434 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
436 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
437 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
438 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
439 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
440 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
442 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
443 default server (STR #2833)
444 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
445 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
446 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
448 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
450 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
451 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
452 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
453 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
454 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
455 print jobs (STR #2482)
456 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
458 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
459 track the progress of individual pages.
460 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
461 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
462 command, when available (STR #2724)
463 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
464 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
465 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
466 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
467 file as errors (STR #2616)
468 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
469 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
471 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
472 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
473 continue further (STR #2101)
474 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
475 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
476 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
478 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
479 the physical location of a printer device.
480 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
481 device data by a backend.
482 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
484 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
485 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
486 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
487 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
489 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
490 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
491 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
492 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
493 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
494 attributes for better option conflict detection and
496 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
497 256 bytes (STR #2877)
498 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
499 what is logged to the access_log file.
500 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
501 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
502 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
504 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
506 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
507 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
509 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
510 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
511 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
512 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
513 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
514 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
515 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
516 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
518 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
519 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
520 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
522 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
524 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
525 ModelName value as the output filename.
526 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
527 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
528 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
529 standard network backends.
530 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
531 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
532 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
533 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
534 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
535 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
536 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
538 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
539 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
540 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
541 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
542 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
543 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
544 - Driver information files can now be installed in
545 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
546 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
548 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
549 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
550 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
551 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
552 backends are polled and for how long.
553 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
554 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
555 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
556 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
557 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
558 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
559 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
560 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
561 for localization (STR #2737)
562 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
563 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
565 - The build system has been updated to support separate
566 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
567 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
569 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
570 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
571 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
572 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
573 root to make the default installation more secure.
574 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
575 the localized version of a marker-names value.
576 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
577 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
578 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
579 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
580 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
581 global based on the current access policies for the
583 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
584 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
585 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
586 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
587 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
588 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
589 that support it (STR #2637)
590 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
592 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
593 attriibute to purge a specified job.
594 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
595 attributes for custom option selections.
596 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
597 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
598 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
599 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
600 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
601 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
602 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
603 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
604 on the model page (STR #2436)
605 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
606 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
607 of printers (STR #1175)
608 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
609 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
610 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
611 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
612 to filter the document from the specified job.
613 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
614 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
615 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
616 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
617 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.