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