6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750)
7 - The web interface now shows the manual URI entry form for auto-
8 detected LPD printers without a queue name (STR #3755)
9 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
10 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
11 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
12 conformance mode (STR #3747)
13 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
14 change notifications (STR #3739)
15 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
16 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
17 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
18 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
19 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
20 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
21 - PIE support was broken (STR #3691)
22 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
23 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
25 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
26 are enabled (STR #3737)
27 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
28 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
29 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
30 - The web interface did not allow setting of a default custom page size
32 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
33 is printing (STR #3754)
34 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
36 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
37 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
38 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
39 the print filters (STR #3731)
40 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
41 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
42 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
43 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
46 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
48 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
49 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
50 PostScript files (STR #3722)
51 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
53 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
54 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
57 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
59 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
60 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
61 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
63 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
64 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
65 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
66 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
67 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
68 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
69 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
70 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
72 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
73 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
75 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
77 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
79 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
80 did not work (STR #3485)
81 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
83 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
85 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
87 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
88 serial number (STR #3590)
89 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
91 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
92 description of a class (STR #3613)
93 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
95 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
96 change based on the locale's character set.
97 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
98 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
100 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
102 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
103 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
104 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
105 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
106 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
107 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
108 for the PPD compiler.
109 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
110 authentication (STR #3559)
111 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
113 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
114 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
115 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
117 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
118 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
119 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
120 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
124 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
126 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
127 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
128 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
130 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
132 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
133 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
134 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
136 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
137 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
138 attributes (STR #3554)
139 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
140 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
142 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
143 implementation (STR #3514)
144 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
145 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
146 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
148 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
150 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
151 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
152 the first page (STR #3525)
153 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
154 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
156 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
157 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
158 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
159 all cases (STR #3521)
160 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
161 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
162 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
164 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
165 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
166 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
168 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
169 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
170 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
171 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
172 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
174 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
175 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
176 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
177 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
178 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
181 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
183 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
184 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
185 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
186 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
187 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
188 STR #3473, STR #3502)
189 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
190 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
191 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
192 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
193 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
194 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
195 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
196 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
197 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
199 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
200 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
201 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
202 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
203 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
204 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
206 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
207 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
209 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
211 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
212 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
213 was turned off (STR #3425)
214 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
216 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
217 a remote server (STR #3435)
218 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
219 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
221 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
222 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
223 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
224 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
226 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
228 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
229 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
230 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
232 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
233 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
234 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
235 loading a job (STR #3407)
236 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
237 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
238 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
239 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
240 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
241 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
243 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
245 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
246 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
247 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
250 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
252 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
253 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
255 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
256 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
257 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
258 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
259 driver was changed (STR #3356)
260 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
261 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
262 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
263 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
264 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
266 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
267 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
268 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
269 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
270 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
271 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
272 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
273 characters (STR #3340)
274 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
276 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
277 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
278 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
279 SNMP implementations.
282 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
284 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
285 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
286 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
287 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
288 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
289 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
290 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
291 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
292 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
293 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
294 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
295 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
296 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
297 query job was held (STR #3302)
298 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
300 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
301 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
303 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
304 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
305 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
307 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
309 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
310 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
311 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
312 implementations (STR #3262)
313 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
315 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
319 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
321 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
322 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
323 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
325 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
327 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
328 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
329 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
331 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
333 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
334 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
335 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
336 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
338 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
339 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
340 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
342 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
343 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
344 templates (STR #3229)
345 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
346 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
348 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
349 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
350 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
352 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
353 reason on all platforms.
356 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
358 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
360 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
361 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
362 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
363 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
364 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
365 variables (STR #3210)
366 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
367 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
368 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
370 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
371 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
372 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
373 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
374 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
375 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
376 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
377 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
378 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
379 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
380 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
381 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
382 that cupstestppd looks for...)
383 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
384 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
385 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
386 pages when a job was canceled or held.
389 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
391 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
393 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
394 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
395 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
396 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
397 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
398 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
399 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
400 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
401 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
402 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
404 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
406 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
407 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
408 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
409 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
410 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
411 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
412 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
413 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
415 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
416 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
417 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
418 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
419 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
420 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
422 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
423 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
424 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
425 lack of kernel buffers.
426 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
427 while copying print data to a temporary file.
428 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
429 causing reduced performance in some situations.
430 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
431 would hang on the client.
432 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
434 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
435 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
436 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
437 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
438 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
439 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
440 filenames in the PPD file.
441 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
443 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
445 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
446 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
447 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
448 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
449 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
451 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
452 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
454 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
456 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
457 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
459 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
461 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
463 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
464 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
466 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
468 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
469 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
470 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
471 printer had other reasons associated with it.
472 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
473 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
475 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
476 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
477 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
478 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
479 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
480 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
481 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
482 printer discovery (STR #3065)
483 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
484 in length (STR #3072)
485 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
486 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
487 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
488 printers with no specified colorspace.
489 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
491 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
492 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
493 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
494 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
495 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
497 - The ppdi utility did not work.
498 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
499 web browsers (STR #3049)
500 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
501 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
503 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
504 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
505 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
506 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
507 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
508 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
509 present in most PPD files.
510 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
511 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
513 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
514 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
515 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
517 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
518 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
519 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
523 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
525 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
526 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
527 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
528 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
529 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
530 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
531 rather than copying them whenever possible.
532 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
533 options implementations.
534 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
536 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
537 was set to False in the PPD file.
538 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
539 and network backends (STR #3014)
540 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
541 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
543 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
544 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
546 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
547 --exclude-schemes options.
548 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
549 and exclude-schemes attributes.
550 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
552 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
553 option called "fit-to-page".
554 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
555 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
556 prevent race conditions.
557 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
558 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
560 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
561 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
563 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
565 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
566 variable when running filters.
567 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
569 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
573 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
575 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
576 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
577 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
578 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
580 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
581 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
582 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
583 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
584 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
585 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
586 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
588 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
589 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
590 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
591 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
593 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
594 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
595 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
596 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
597 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
598 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
599 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
600 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
601 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
602 of printer options (STR #1440)
603 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
605 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
606 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
607 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
608 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
609 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
610 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
611 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
613 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
615 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
616 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
617 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
618 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
619 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
621 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
622 default server (STR #2833)
623 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
624 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
625 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
627 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
629 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
630 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
631 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
632 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
633 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
634 print jobs (STR #2482)
635 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
637 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
638 track the progress of individual pages.
639 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
640 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
641 command, when available (STR #2724)
642 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
643 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
644 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
645 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
646 file as errors (STR #2616)
647 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
648 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
650 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
651 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
652 continue further (STR #2101)
653 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
654 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
655 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
657 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
658 the physical location of a printer device.
659 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
660 device data by a backend.
661 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
663 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
664 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
665 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
666 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
668 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
669 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
670 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
671 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
672 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
673 attributes for better option conflict detection and
675 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
676 256 bytes (STR #2877)
677 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
678 what is logged to the access_log file.
679 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
680 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
681 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
683 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
685 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
686 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
688 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
689 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
690 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
691 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
692 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
693 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
694 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
695 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
697 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
698 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
699 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
701 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
703 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
704 ModelName value as the output filename.
705 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
706 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
707 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
708 standard network backends.
709 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
710 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
711 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
712 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
713 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
714 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
715 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
717 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
718 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
719 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
720 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
721 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
722 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
723 - Driver information files can now be installed in
724 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
725 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
727 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
728 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
729 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
730 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
731 backends are polled and for how long.
732 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
733 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
734 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
735 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
736 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
737 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
738 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
739 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
740 for localization (STR #2737)
741 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
742 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
744 - The build system has been updated to support separate
745 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
746 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
748 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
749 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
750 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
751 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
752 root to make the default installation more secure.
753 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
754 the localized version of a marker-names value.
755 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
756 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
757 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
758 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
759 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
760 global based on the current access policies for the
762 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
763 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
764 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
765 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
766 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
767 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
768 that support it (STR #2637)
769 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
771 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
772 attriibute to purge a specified job.
773 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
774 attributes for custom option selections.
775 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
776 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
777 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
778 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
779 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
780 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
781 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
782 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
783 on the model page (STR #2436)
784 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
785 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
786 of printers (STR #1175)
787 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
788 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
789 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
790 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
791 to filter the document from the specified job.
792 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
793 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
794 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
795 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
796 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.