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