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