6 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
7 the print filters (STR #3731)
8 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
9 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
10 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
11 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
14 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
16 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
17 PostScript files (STR #3722)
18 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
20 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
21 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
24 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
26 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
27 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
28 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
30 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
31 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
32 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
33 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
34 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
35 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
36 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
37 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
39 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
40 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
42 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
44 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
46 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
47 did not work (STR #3485)
48 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
50 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
52 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
54 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
55 serial number (STR #3590)
56 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
58 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
59 description of a class (STR #3613)
60 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
62 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
63 change based on the locale's character set.
64 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
65 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
67 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
69 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
70 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
71 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
72 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
73 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
74 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
76 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
77 authentication (STR #3559)
78 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
80 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
81 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
82 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
84 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
85 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
86 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
87 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
91 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
93 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
94 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
95 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
97 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
99 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
100 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
101 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
103 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
104 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
105 attributes (STR #3554)
106 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
107 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
109 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
110 implementation (STR #3514)
111 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
112 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
113 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
115 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
117 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
118 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
119 the first page (STR #3525)
120 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
121 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
123 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
124 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
125 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
126 all cases (STR #3521)
127 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
128 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
129 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
131 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
132 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
133 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
135 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
136 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
137 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
138 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
139 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
141 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
142 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
143 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
144 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
145 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
148 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
150 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
151 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
152 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
153 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
154 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
155 STR #3473, STR #3502)
156 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
157 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
158 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
159 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
160 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
161 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
162 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
163 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
164 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
166 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
167 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
168 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
169 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
170 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
171 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
173 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
174 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
176 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
178 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
179 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
180 was turned off (STR #3425)
181 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
183 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
184 a remote server (STR #3435)
185 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
186 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
188 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
189 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
190 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
191 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
193 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
195 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
196 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
197 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
199 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
200 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
201 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
202 loading a job (STR #3407)
203 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
204 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
205 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
206 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
207 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
208 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
210 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
212 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
213 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
214 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
217 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
219 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
220 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
222 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
223 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
224 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
225 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
226 driver was changed (STR #3356)
227 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
228 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
229 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
230 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
231 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
233 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
234 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
235 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
236 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
237 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
238 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
239 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
240 characters (STR #3340)
241 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
243 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
244 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
245 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
246 SNMP implementations.
249 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
251 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
252 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
253 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
254 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
255 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
256 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
257 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
258 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
259 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
260 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
261 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
262 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
263 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
264 query job was held (STR #3302)
265 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
267 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
268 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
270 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
271 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
272 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
274 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
276 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
277 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
278 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
279 implementations (STR #3262)
280 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
282 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
286 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
288 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
289 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
290 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
292 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
294 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
295 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
296 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
298 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
300 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
301 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
302 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
303 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
305 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
306 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
307 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
309 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
310 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
311 templates (STR #3229)
312 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
313 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
315 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
316 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
317 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
319 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
320 reason on all platforms.
323 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
325 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
327 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
328 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
329 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
330 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
331 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
332 variables (STR #3210)
333 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
334 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
335 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
337 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
338 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
339 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
340 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
341 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
342 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
343 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
344 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
345 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
346 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
347 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
348 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
349 that cupstestppd looks for...)
350 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
351 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
352 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
353 pages when a job was canceled or held.
356 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
358 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
360 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
361 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
362 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
363 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
364 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
365 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
366 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
367 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
368 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
369 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
371 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
373 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
374 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
375 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
376 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
377 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
378 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
379 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
380 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
382 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
383 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
384 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
385 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
386 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
387 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
389 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
390 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
391 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
392 lack of kernel buffers.
393 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
394 while copying print data to a temporary file.
395 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
396 causing reduced performance in some situations.
397 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
398 would hang on the client.
399 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
401 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
402 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
403 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
404 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
405 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
406 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
407 filenames in the PPD file.
408 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
410 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
412 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
413 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
414 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
415 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
416 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
418 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
419 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
421 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
423 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
424 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
426 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
428 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
430 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
431 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
433 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
435 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
436 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
437 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
438 printer had other reasons associated with it.
439 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
440 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
442 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
443 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
444 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
445 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
446 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
447 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
448 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
449 printer discovery (STR #3065)
450 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
451 in length (STR #3072)
452 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
453 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
454 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
455 printers with no specified colorspace.
456 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
458 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
459 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
460 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
461 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
462 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
464 - The ppdi utility did not work.
465 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
466 web browsers (STR #3049)
467 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
468 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
470 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
471 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
472 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
473 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
474 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
475 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
476 present in most PPD files.
477 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
478 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
480 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
481 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
482 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
484 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
485 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
486 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
490 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
492 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
493 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
494 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
495 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
496 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
497 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
498 rather than copying them whenever possible.
499 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
500 options implementations.
501 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
503 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
504 was set to False in the PPD file.
505 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
506 and network backends (STR #3014)
507 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
508 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
510 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
511 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
513 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
514 --exclude-schemes options.
515 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
516 and exclude-schemes attributes.
517 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
519 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
520 option called "fit-to-page".
521 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
522 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
523 prevent race conditions.
524 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
525 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
527 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
528 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
530 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
532 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
533 variable when running filters.
534 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
536 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
540 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
542 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
543 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
544 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
545 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
547 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
548 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
549 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
550 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
551 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
552 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
553 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
555 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
556 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
557 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
558 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
560 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
561 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
562 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
563 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
564 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
565 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
566 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
567 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
568 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
569 of printer options (STR #1440)
570 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
572 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
573 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
574 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
575 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
576 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
577 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
578 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
580 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
582 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
583 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
584 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
585 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
586 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
588 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
589 default server (STR #2833)
590 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
591 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
592 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
594 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
596 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
597 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
598 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
599 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
600 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
601 print jobs (STR #2482)
602 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
604 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
605 track the progress of individual pages.
606 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
607 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
608 command, when available (STR #2724)
609 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
610 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
611 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
612 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
613 file as errors (STR #2616)
614 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
615 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
617 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
618 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
619 continue further (STR #2101)
620 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
621 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
622 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
624 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
625 the physical location of a printer device.
626 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
627 device data by a backend.
628 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
630 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
631 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
632 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
633 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
635 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
636 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
637 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
638 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
639 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
640 attributes for better option conflict detection and
642 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
643 256 bytes (STR #2877)
644 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
645 what is logged to the access_log file.
646 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
647 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
648 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
650 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
652 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
653 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
655 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
656 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
657 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
658 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
659 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
660 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
661 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
662 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
664 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
665 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
666 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
668 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
670 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
671 ModelName value as the output filename.
672 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
673 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
674 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
675 standard network backends.
676 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
677 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
678 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
679 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
680 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
681 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
682 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
684 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
685 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
686 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
687 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
688 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
689 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
690 - Driver information files can now be installed in
691 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
692 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
694 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
695 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
696 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
697 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
698 backends are polled and for how long.
699 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
700 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
701 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
702 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
703 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
704 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
705 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
706 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
707 for localization (STR #2737)
708 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
709 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
711 - The build system has been updated to support separate
712 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
713 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
715 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
716 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
717 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
718 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
719 root to make the default installation more secure.
720 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
721 the localized version of a marker-names value.
722 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
723 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
724 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
725 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
726 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
727 global based on the current access policies for the
729 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
730 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
731 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
732 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
733 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
734 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
735 that support it (STR #2637)
736 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
738 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
739 attriibute to purge a specified job.
740 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
741 attributes for custom option selections.
742 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
743 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
744 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
745 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
746 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
747 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
748 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
749 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
750 on the model page (STR #2436)
751 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
752 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
753 of printers (STR #1175)
754 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
755 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
756 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
757 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
758 to filter the document from the specified job.
759 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
760 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
761 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
762 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
763 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.