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