6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
7 STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782)
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 scheduler did not always report that the "normal" print-quality
13 value was supported (STR #3803)
14 - The gziptoany filter did not report the correct error if it was unable
15 to write the uncompressed document to the next filter or backend in
17 - The Epson and Oki 9-pin drivers had a bad resolution option
19 - The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile
21 - The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for
22 the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing
24 - CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the
25 HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791)
26 - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
27 - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
28 meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
29 - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
30 MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
31 - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
32 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
34 - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
35 - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
36 other printers (STR #3405)
37 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
38 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
39 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
40 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
41 conformance mode (STR #3747)
42 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
43 change notifications (STR #3739)
44 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
45 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
46 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
47 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
48 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
49 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
50 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
51 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
53 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
54 are enabled (STR #3737)
55 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
56 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
57 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
58 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
59 is printing (STR #3754)
60 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
62 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
63 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
64 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
65 the print filters (STR #3731)
66 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
67 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
68 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
69 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
72 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
74 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
75 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
76 PostScript files (STR #3722)
77 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
79 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
80 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
83 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
85 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
86 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
87 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
89 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
90 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
91 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
92 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
93 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
94 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
95 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
96 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
98 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
99 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
101 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
103 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
105 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
106 did not work (STR #3485)
107 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
109 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
111 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
113 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
114 serial number (STR #3590)
115 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
117 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
118 description of a class (STR #3613)
119 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
121 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
122 change based on the locale's character set.
123 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
124 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
126 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
128 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
129 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
130 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
131 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
132 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
133 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
134 for the PPD compiler.
135 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
136 authentication (STR #3559)
137 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
139 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
140 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
141 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
143 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
144 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
145 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
146 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
150 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
152 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
153 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
154 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
156 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
158 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
159 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
160 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
162 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
163 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
164 attributes (STR #3554)
165 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
166 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
168 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
169 implementation (STR #3514)
170 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
171 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
172 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
174 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
176 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
177 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
178 the first page (STR #3525)
179 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
180 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
182 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
183 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
184 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
185 all cases (STR #3521)
186 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
187 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
188 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
190 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
191 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
192 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
194 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
195 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
196 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
197 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
198 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
200 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
201 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
202 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
203 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
204 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
207 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
209 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
210 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
211 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
212 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
213 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
214 STR #3473, STR #3502)
215 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
216 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
217 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
218 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
219 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
220 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
221 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
222 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
223 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
225 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
226 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
227 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
228 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
229 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
230 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
232 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
233 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
235 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
237 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
238 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
239 was turned off (STR #3425)
240 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
242 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
243 a remote server (STR #3435)
244 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
245 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
247 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
248 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
249 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
250 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
252 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
254 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
255 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
256 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
258 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
259 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
260 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
261 loading a job (STR #3407)
262 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
263 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
264 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
265 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
266 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
267 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
269 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
271 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
272 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
273 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
276 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
278 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
279 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
281 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
282 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
283 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
284 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
285 driver was changed (STR #3356)
286 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
287 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
288 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
289 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
290 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
292 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
293 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
294 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
295 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
296 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
297 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
298 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
299 characters (STR #3340)
300 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
302 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
303 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
304 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
305 SNMP implementations.
308 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
310 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
311 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
312 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
313 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
314 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
315 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
316 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
317 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
318 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
319 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
320 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
321 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
322 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
323 query job was held (STR #3302)
324 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
326 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
327 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
329 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
330 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
331 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
333 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
335 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
336 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
337 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
338 implementations (STR #3262)
339 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
341 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
345 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
347 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
348 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
349 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
351 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
353 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
354 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
355 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
357 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
359 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
360 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
361 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
362 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
364 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
365 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
366 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
368 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
369 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
370 templates (STR #3229)
371 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
372 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
374 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
375 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
376 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
378 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
379 reason on all platforms.
382 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
384 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
386 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
387 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
388 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
389 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
390 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
391 variables (STR #3210)
392 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
393 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
394 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
396 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
397 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
398 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
399 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
400 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
401 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
402 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
403 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
404 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
405 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
406 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
407 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
408 that cupstestppd looks for...)
409 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
410 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
411 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
412 pages when a job was canceled or held.
415 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
417 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
419 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
420 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
421 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
422 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
423 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
424 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
425 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
426 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
427 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
428 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
430 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
432 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
433 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
434 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
435 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
436 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
437 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
438 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
439 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
441 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
442 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
443 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
444 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
445 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
446 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
448 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
449 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
450 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
451 lack of kernel buffers.
452 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
453 while copying print data to a temporary file.
454 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
455 causing reduced performance in some situations.
456 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
457 would hang on the client.
458 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
460 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
461 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
462 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
463 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
464 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
465 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
466 filenames in the PPD file.
467 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
469 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
471 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
472 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
473 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
474 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
475 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
477 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
478 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
480 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
482 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
483 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
485 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
487 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
489 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
490 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
492 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
494 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
495 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
496 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
497 printer had other reasons associated with it.
498 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
499 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
501 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
502 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
503 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
504 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
505 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
506 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
507 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
508 printer discovery (STR #3065)
509 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
510 in length (STR #3072)
511 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
512 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
513 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
514 printers with no specified colorspace.
515 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
517 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
518 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
519 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
520 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
521 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
523 - The ppdi utility did not work.
524 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
525 web browsers (STR #3049)
526 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
527 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
529 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
530 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
531 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
532 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
533 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
534 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
535 present in most PPD files.
536 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
537 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
539 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
540 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
541 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
543 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
544 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
545 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
549 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
551 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
552 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
553 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
554 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
555 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
556 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
557 rather than copying them whenever possible.
558 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
559 options implementations.
560 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
562 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
563 was set to False in the PPD file.
564 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
565 and network backends (STR #3014)
566 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
567 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
569 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
570 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
572 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
573 --exclude-schemes options.
574 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
575 and exclude-schemes attributes.
576 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
578 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
579 option called "fit-to-page".
580 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
581 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
582 prevent race conditions.
583 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
584 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
586 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
587 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
589 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
591 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
592 variable when running filters.
593 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
595 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
599 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
601 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
602 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
603 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
604 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
606 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
607 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
608 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
609 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
610 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
611 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
612 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
614 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
615 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
616 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
617 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
619 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
620 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
621 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
622 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
623 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
624 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
625 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
626 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
627 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
628 of printer options (STR #1440)
629 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
631 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
632 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
633 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
634 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
635 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
636 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
637 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
639 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
641 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
642 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
643 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
644 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
645 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
647 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
648 default server (STR #2833)
649 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
650 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
651 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
653 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
655 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
656 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
657 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
658 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
659 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
660 print jobs (STR #2482)
661 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
663 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
664 track the progress of individual pages.
665 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
666 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
667 command, when available (STR #2724)
668 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
669 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
670 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
671 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
672 file as errors (STR #2616)
673 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
674 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
676 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
677 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
678 continue further (STR #2101)
679 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
680 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
681 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
683 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
684 the physical location of a printer device.
685 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
686 device data by a backend.
687 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
689 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
690 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
691 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
692 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
694 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
695 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
696 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
697 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
698 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
699 attributes for better option conflict detection and
701 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
702 256 bytes (STR #2877)
703 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
704 what is logged to the access_log file.
705 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
706 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
707 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
709 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
711 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
712 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
714 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
715 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
716 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
717 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
718 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
719 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
720 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
721 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
723 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
724 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
725 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
727 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
729 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
730 ModelName value as the output filename.
731 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
732 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
733 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
734 standard network backends.
735 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
736 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
737 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
738 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
739 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
740 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
741 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
743 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
744 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
745 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
746 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
747 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
748 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
749 - Driver information files can now be installed in
750 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
751 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
753 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
754 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
755 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
756 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
757 backends are polled and for how long.
758 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
759 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
760 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
761 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
762 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
763 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
764 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
765 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
766 for localization (STR #2737)
767 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
768 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
770 - The build system has been updated to support separate
771 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
772 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
774 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
775 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
776 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
777 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
778 root to make the default installation more secure.
779 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
780 the localized version of a marker-names value.
781 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
782 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
783 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
784 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
785 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
786 global based on the current access policies for the
788 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
789 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
790 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
791 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
792 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
793 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
794 that support it (STR #2637)
795 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
797 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
798 attriibute to purge a specified job.
799 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
800 attributes for custom option selections.
801 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
802 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
803 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
804 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
805 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
806 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
807 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
808 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
809 on the model page (STR #2436)
810 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
811 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
812 of printers (STR #1175)
813 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
814 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
815 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
816 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
817 to filter the document from the specified job.
818 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
819 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
820 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
821 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
822 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.