6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
7 STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782, STR #3826, STR #3829, STR #3837)
8 - Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,
9 STR #3755, STR #3769, STR #3783)
10 - Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)
11 - Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774)
12 - The imageto* filters could crash with bad GIF files (STR #3867)
13 - The scheduler might leave old job data files in the spool directory
15 - CUPS did not work with locales using the ASCII character set
17 - httpAddrString() did not return a URI-style IPv6 numeric address
19 - Fixed an issue when reading compressed CUPS raster streams (STR #3812)
20 - Fixed an issue with PostScript printer auto-configuration (STR #3443)
21 - Fixed some compatibility issues with the libusb-based USB backend
23 - The network backends no longer try to collect SNMP supply and status
24 information for raw queues (STR #3809)
25 - The DBUS notifier did not report job state changes (STR #3805)
26 - The scheduler did not always report that the "normal" print-quality
27 value was supported (STR #3803)
28 - The gziptoany filter did not report the correct error if it was unable
29 to write the uncompressed document to the next filter or backend in
31 - The Epson and Oki 9-pin drivers had a bad resolution option
33 - The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile
35 - The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for
36 the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing
38 - CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the
39 HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791)
40 - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
41 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
42 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
43 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
44 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
45 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
46 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
48 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
49 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
50 other printers (STR #3405)
51 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
52 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
53 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
54 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
55 conformance mode (STR #3747)
56 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
57 change notifications (STR #3739)
58 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
59 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
60 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
61 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
62 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
63 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
64 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
65 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
67 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
68 are enabled (STR #3737)
69 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
70 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
71 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
72 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
73 is printing (STR #3754)
74 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
76 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
77 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
78 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
79 the print filters (STR #3731)
80 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
81 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
82 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
83 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
86 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
88 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
89 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
90 PostScript files (STR #3722)
91 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
93 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
94 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
97 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
99 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
100 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
101 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
103 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
104 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
105 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
106 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
107 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
108 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
109 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
110 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
112 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
113 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
115 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
117 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
119 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
120 did not work (STR #3485)
121 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
123 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
125 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
127 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
128 serial number (STR #3590)
129 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
131 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
132 description of a class (STR #3613)
133 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
135 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
136 change based on the locale's character set.
137 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
138 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
140 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
142 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
143 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
144 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
145 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
146 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
147 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
148 for the PPD compiler.
149 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
150 authentication (STR #3559)
151 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
153 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
154 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
155 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
157 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
158 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
159 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
160 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
164 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
166 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
167 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
168 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
170 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
172 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
173 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
174 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
176 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
177 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
178 attributes (STR #3554)
179 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
180 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
182 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
183 implementation (STR #3514)
184 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
185 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
186 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
188 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
190 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
191 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
192 the first page (STR #3525)
193 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
194 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
196 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
197 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
198 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
199 all cases (STR #3521)
200 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
201 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
202 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
204 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
205 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
206 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
208 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
209 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
210 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
211 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
212 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
214 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
215 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
216 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
217 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
218 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
221 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
223 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
224 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
225 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
226 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
227 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
228 STR #3473, STR #3502)
229 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
230 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
231 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
232 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
233 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
234 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
235 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
236 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
237 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
239 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
240 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
241 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
242 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
243 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
244 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
246 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
247 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
249 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
251 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
252 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
253 was turned off (STR #3425)
254 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
256 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
257 a remote server (STR #3435)
258 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
259 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
261 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
262 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
263 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
264 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
266 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
268 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
269 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
270 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
272 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
273 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
274 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
275 loading a job (STR #3407)
276 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
277 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
278 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
279 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
280 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
281 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
283 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
285 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
286 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
287 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
290 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
292 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
293 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
295 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
296 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
297 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
298 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
299 driver was changed (STR #3356)
300 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
301 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
302 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
303 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
304 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
306 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
307 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
308 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
309 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
310 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
311 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
312 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
313 characters (STR #3340)
314 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
316 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
317 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
318 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
319 SNMP implementations.
322 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
324 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
325 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
326 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
327 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
328 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
329 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
330 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
331 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
332 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
333 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
334 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
335 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
336 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
337 query job was held (STR #3302)
338 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
340 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
341 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
343 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
344 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
345 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
347 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
349 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
350 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
351 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
352 implementations (STR #3262)
353 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
355 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
359 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
361 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
362 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
363 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
365 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
367 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
368 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
369 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
371 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
373 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
374 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
375 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
376 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
378 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
379 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
380 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
382 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
383 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
384 templates (STR #3229)
385 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
386 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
388 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
389 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
390 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
392 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
393 reason on all platforms.
396 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
398 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
400 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
401 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
402 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
403 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
404 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
405 variables (STR #3210)
406 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
407 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
408 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
410 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
411 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
412 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
413 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
414 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
415 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
416 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
417 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
418 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
419 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
420 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
421 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
422 that cupstestppd looks for...)
423 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
424 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
425 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
426 pages when a job was canceled or held.
429 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
431 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
433 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
434 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
435 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
436 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
437 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
438 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
439 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
440 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
441 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
442 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
444 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
446 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
447 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
448 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
449 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
450 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
451 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
452 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
453 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
455 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
456 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
457 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
458 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
459 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
460 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
462 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
463 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
464 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
465 lack of kernel buffers.
466 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
467 while copying print data to a temporary file.
468 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
469 causing reduced performance in some situations.
470 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
471 would hang on the client.
472 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
474 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
475 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
476 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
477 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
478 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
479 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
480 filenames in the PPD file.
481 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
483 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
485 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
486 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
487 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
488 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
489 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
491 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
492 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
494 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
496 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
497 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
499 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
501 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
503 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
504 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
506 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
508 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
509 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
510 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
511 printer had other reasons associated with it.
512 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
513 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
515 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
516 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
517 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
518 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
519 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
520 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
521 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
522 printer discovery (STR #3065)
523 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
524 in length (STR #3072)
525 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
526 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
527 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
528 printers with no specified colorspace.
529 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
531 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
532 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
533 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
534 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
535 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
537 - The ppdi utility did not work.
538 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
539 web browsers (STR #3049)
540 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
541 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
543 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
544 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
545 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
546 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
547 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
548 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
549 present in most PPD files.
550 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
551 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
553 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
554 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
555 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
557 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
558 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
559 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
563 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
565 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
566 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
567 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
568 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
569 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
570 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
571 rather than copying them whenever possible.
572 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
573 options implementations.
574 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
576 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
577 was set to False in the PPD file.
578 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
579 and network backends (STR #3014)
580 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
581 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
583 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
584 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
586 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
587 --exclude-schemes options.
588 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
589 and exclude-schemes attributes.
590 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
592 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
593 option called "fit-to-page".
594 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
595 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
596 prevent race conditions.
597 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
598 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
600 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
601 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
603 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
605 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
606 variable when running filters.
607 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
609 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
613 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
615 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
616 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
617 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
618 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
620 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
621 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
622 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
623 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
624 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
625 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
626 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
628 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
629 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
630 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
631 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
633 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
634 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
635 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
636 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
637 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
638 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
639 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
640 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
641 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
642 of printer options (STR #1440)
643 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
645 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
646 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
647 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
648 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
649 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
650 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
651 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
653 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
655 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
656 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
657 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
658 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
659 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
661 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
662 default server (STR #2833)
663 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
664 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
665 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
667 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
669 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
670 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
671 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
672 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
673 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
674 print jobs (STR #2482)
675 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
677 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
678 track the progress of individual pages.
679 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
680 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
681 command, when available (STR #2724)
682 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
683 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
684 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
685 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
686 file as errors (STR #2616)
687 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
688 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
690 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
691 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
692 continue further (STR #2101)
693 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
694 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
695 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
697 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
698 the physical location of a printer device.
699 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
700 device data by a backend.
701 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
703 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
704 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
705 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
706 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
708 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
709 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
710 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
711 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
712 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
713 attributes for better option conflict detection and
715 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
716 256 bytes (STR #2877)
717 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
718 what is logged to the access_log file.
719 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
720 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
721 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
723 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
725 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
726 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
728 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
729 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
730 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
731 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
732 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
733 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
734 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
735 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
737 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
738 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
739 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
741 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
743 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
744 ModelName value as the output filename.
745 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
746 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
747 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
748 standard network backends.
749 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
750 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
751 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
752 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
753 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
754 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
755 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
757 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
758 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
759 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
760 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
761 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
762 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
763 - Driver information files can now be installed in
764 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
765 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
767 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
768 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
769 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
770 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
771 backends are polled and for how long.
772 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
773 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
774 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
775 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
776 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
777 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
778 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
779 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
780 for localization (STR #2737)
781 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
782 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
784 - The build system has been updated to support separate
785 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
786 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
788 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
789 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
790 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
791 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
792 root to make the default installation more secure.
793 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
794 the localized version of a marker-names value.
795 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
796 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
797 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
798 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
799 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
800 global based on the current access policies for the
802 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
803 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
804 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
805 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
806 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
807 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
808 that support it (STR #2637)
809 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
811 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
812 attriibute to purge a specified job.
813 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
814 attributes for custom option selections.
815 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
816 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
817 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
818 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
819 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
820 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
821 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
822 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
823 on the model page (STR #2436)
824 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
825 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
826 of printers (STR #1175)
827 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
828 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
829 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
830 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
831 to filter the document from the specified job.
832 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
833 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
834 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
835 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
836 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.