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3
4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7
5
6 - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
7 STR #3757)
8 - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
9 - The web interface now shows the manual URI entry form for auto-
10 detected LPD printers without a queue name (STR #3755)
11 - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
12 the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
13 - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
14 conformance mode (STR #3747)
15 - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
16 change notifications (STR #3739)
17 - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
18 to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
19 - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
20 - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
21 sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
22 - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
23 - PIE support was broken (STR #3691)
24 - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
25 - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
26 (STR #3761)
27 - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
28 are enabled (STR #3737)
29 - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
30 - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
31 from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
32 - The web interface did not allow setting of a default custom page size
33 (STR #3707)
34 - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
35 is printing (STR #3754)
36 - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
37 (STR #3764)
38 - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
39 a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
40 - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
41 the print filters (STR #3731)
42 - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
43 properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
44 - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
45 states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
46
47
48 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6
49
50 - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)
51 - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of
52 PostScript files (STR #3722)
53 - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them
54 (STR #3697)
55 - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when
56 debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)
57
58
59 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5
60
61 - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
62 - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
63 - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941
64 (STR #3648)
65 - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the
66 IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be
67 the correct mapping (STR #3684)
68 - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
69 - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
70 - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
71 - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
72 - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines
73 (STR #3645)
74 - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
75 - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous
76 choices (STR #3642)
77 - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled
78 (STR #3649)
79 - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain
80 printers (STR #3622)
81 - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"
82 did not work (STR #3485)
83 - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly
84 (STR #3466)
85 - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared
86 printers (STR #3627)
87 - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5
88 minutes (STR #3595)
89 - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a
90 serial number (STR #3590)
91 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values
92 (STR #3631)
93 - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or
94 description of a class (STR #3613)
95 - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts
96 (STR #3615)
97 - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that
98 change based on the locale's character set.
99 - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
100 - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault
101 (STR #3620)
102 - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface
103 (STR #3624)
104 - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
105 - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when
106 delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
107 - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
108 - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
109 - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions
110 for the PPD compiler.
111 - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for
112 authentication (STR #3559)
113 - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is
114 changed (STR #3570)
115 - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver
116 (STR #3537, STR #3601)
117 - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when
118 needed (STR #3600)
119 - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment
120 variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
121 - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
122 - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the
123 scheduler.
124
125
126 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4
127
128 - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)
129 - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)
130 - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations
131 (STR #3516)
132 - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of
133 memory (STR #3577)
134 - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or
135 writable by non-root users (STR #3510)
136 - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on
137 AIX (STR #3587)
138 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's
139 ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides
140 attributes (STR #3554)
141 - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS
142 interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled
143 (STR #3461)
144 - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document
145 implementation (STR #3514)
146 - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)
147 - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)
148 - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified
149 printers (STR #3541)
150 - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment
151 variable (STR #3531)
152 - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)
153 - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for
154 the first page (STR #3525)
155 - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)
156 - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined
157 (STR #3524)
158 - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by
159 default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)
160 - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in
161 all cases (STR #3521)
162 - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box
163 (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)
164 - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default
165 printers (STR #3503)
166 - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues
167 (STR #3325, STR #3519)
168 - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3
169 failures (STR #3518)
170 - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)
171 - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)
172 - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a
173 printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)
174 - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts
175 (STR #3492)
176 - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms
177 other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)
178 - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or
179 rejecting jobs (STR #3480)
180 - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)
181
182
183 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3
184
185 - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client
186 connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)
187 - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be
188 overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)
189 - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,
190 STR #3473, STR #3502)
191 - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)
192 - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to
193 print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)
194 - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output
195 filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)
196 - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-
197 Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)
198 - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.
199 - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes
200 (STR #3383)
201 - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)
202 - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)
203 - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)
204 - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.
205 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)
206 - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting
207 options (STR #3440)
208 - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)
209 - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer
210 (STR #3431)
211 - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object
212 (STR #3428)
213 - CSS files would not print (STR #3442)
214 - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory
215 was turned off (STR #3425)
216 - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer
217 (STR #3436)
218 - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to
219 a remote server (STR #3435)
220 - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)
221 - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions
222 (STR #3421)
223 - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.
224 - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.
225 - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.
226 - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning
227 state.
228 - The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial
229 printers (STR #3391)
230 - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)
231 - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.
232 - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly
233 (STR #3386)
234 - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong
235 driver to be selected (STR #3418)
236 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when
237 loading a job (STR #3407)
238 - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of
239 the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)
240 - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)
241 - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when
242 modifying a printer (STR #3390)
243 - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings
244 (STR #3411)
245 - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes
246 (STR #3399)
247 - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the
248 named printer did not exist (STR #3397)
249 - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)
250
251
252 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2
253
254 - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and
255 HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,
256 STR #3401)
257 - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)
258 - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide
259 the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)
260 - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the
261 driver was changed (STR #3356)
262 - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using
263 newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)
264 - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the
265 default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)
266 - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support
267 (STR #3346)
268 - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad
269 permisssions as missing (STR #3363)
270 - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)
271 - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.
272 - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options
273 with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)
274 - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special
275 characters (STR #3340)
276 - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer
277 driver (STR #3342)
278 - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)
279 - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)
280 - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken
281 SNMP implementations.
282
283
284 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1
285
286 - Documention fixes (STR #3296)
287 - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.
288 - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.
289 - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job
290 (STR #3315, STR #3318)
291 - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)
292 - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)
293 - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named
294 destination did not exist (STR #3285)
295 - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)
296 - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)
297 - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)
298 - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the
299 query job was held (STR #3302)
300 - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface
301 (STR #3303)
302 - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files
303 correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,
304 STR #3305)
305 - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)
306 - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)
307 - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing
308 setting (STR #3287)
309 - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format
310 (STR #3308)
311 - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used
312 something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)
313 - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer
314 implementations (STR #3262)
315 - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter
316 (STR #3263)
317 - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15
318 seconds (STR #3307)
319
320
321 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
322
323 - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)
324 - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)
325 - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the
326 filter (STR #3278)
327 - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly
328 (STR #3277)
329 - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)
330 - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)
331 - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in
332 CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)
333 - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote
334 queues (STR #3258)
335 - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.
336 - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the
337 kqueue interface (STR #3256)
338 - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all
339 cases (STR #3253)
340 - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)
341 - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
342 - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
343 SNMP query.
344 - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
345 - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
346 templates (STR #3229)
347 - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
348 were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
349 performance.
350 - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
351 - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
352 reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
353 for consistency.
354 - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
355 reason on all platforms.
356
357
358 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
359
360 - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
361 (STR #3212)
362 - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
363 printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
364 - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
365 Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
366 - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
367 variables (STR #3210)
368 - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
369 needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
370 - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
371 for print jobs.
372 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
373 - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
374 libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
375 - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
376 CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
377 PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
378 - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
379 - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
380 users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
381 - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
382 file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
383 - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
384 that cupstestppd looks for...)
385 - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
386 - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
387 conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
388 pages when a job was canceled or held.
389
390
391 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
392
393 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
394 STR #3173)
395 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
396 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
397 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
398 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
399 - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
400 - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
401 UTF-8 encoding as needed.
402 - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
403 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
404 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
405 (STR #2624)
406 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
407 failed print jobs.
408 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
409 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
410 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
411 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
412 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
413 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
414 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
415 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
416 (STR #3171)
417 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
418 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
419 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
420 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
421 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
422 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
423 all work.
424 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
425 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
426 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
427 lack of kernel buffers.
428 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
429 while copying print data to a temporary file.
430 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
431 causing reduced performance in some situations.
432 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
433 would hang on the client.
434 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
435 work (STR #3132)
436 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
437 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
438 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
439 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
440 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
441 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
442 filenames in the PPD file.
443 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
444 values.
445 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
446 devices (STR #3108)
447 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
448 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
449 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
450 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
451 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
452 permissions.
453 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
454 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
455 device URI.
456 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
457 seconds.
458 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
459 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
460 them failed.
461 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
462 status operations.
463 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
464 keywords.
465 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
466 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
467 often unreliable.
468 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
469 "crashed".
470 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
471 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
472 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
473 printer had other reasons associated with it.
474 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
475 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
476 (STR #3084)
477 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
478 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
479 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
480 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
481 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
482 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
483 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
484 printer discovery (STR #3065)
485 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
486 in length (STR #3072)
487 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
488 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
489 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
490 printers with no specified colorspace.
491 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
492 file on Mac OS X.
493 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
494 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
495 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
496 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
497 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
498 for some PPDs.
499 - The ppdi utility did not work.
500 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
501 web browsers (STR #3049)
502 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
503 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
504 options.
505 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
506 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
507 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
508 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
509 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
510 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
511 present in most PPD files.
512 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
513 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
514 its jobs.
515 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
516 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
517 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
518 printers.
519 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
520 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
521 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
522 when a job finished.
523
524
525 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
526
527 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
528 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
529 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
530 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
531 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
532 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
533 rather than copying them whenever possible.
534 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
535 options implementations.
536 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
537 attributes.
538 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
539 was set to False in the PPD file.
540 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
541 and network backends (STR #3014)
542 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
543 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
544 attributes.
545 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
546 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
547 parameter.
548 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
549 --exclude-schemes options.
550 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
551 and exclude-schemes attributes.
552 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
553 attribute.
554 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
555 option called "fit-to-page".
556 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
557 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
558 prevent race conditions.
559 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
560 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
561 CUPS 1.1.x.
562 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
563 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
564 catalogs (STR #2990)
565 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
566 (STR #2989)
567 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
568 variable when running filters.
569 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
570 have all stopped.
571 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
572 progress messages.
573
574
575 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
576
577 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
578 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
579 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
580 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
581 (STR #2863)
582 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
583 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
584 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
585 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
586 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
587 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
588 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
589 (STR #1293)
590 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
591 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
592 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
593 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
594 levels.
595 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
596 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
597 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
598 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
599 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
600 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
601 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
602 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
603 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
604 of printer options (STR #1440)
605 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
606 form.
607 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
608 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
609 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
610 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
611 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
612 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
613 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
614 file (STR #2799)
615 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
616 command (STR #2562)
617 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
618 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
619 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
620 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
621 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
622 Google (STR #2882)
623 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
624 default server (STR #2833)
625 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
626 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
627 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
628 (STR #2923)
629 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
630 (STR #2848)
631 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
632 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
633 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
634 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
635 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
636 print jobs (STR #2482)
637 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
638 values.
639 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
640 track the progress of individual pages.
641 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
642 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
643 command, when available (STR #2724)
644 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
645 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
646 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
647 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
648 file as errors (STR #2616)
649 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
650 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
651 an error (STR #2555)
652 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
653 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
654 continue further (STR #2101)
655 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
656 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
657 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
658 (STR #2853)
659 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
660 the physical location of a printer device.
661 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
662 device data by a backend.
663 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
664 (STR #1729)
665 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
666 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
667 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
668 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
669 to CUPS (STR #263)
670 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
671 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
672 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
673 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
674 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
675 attributes for better option conflict detection and
676 resolution.
677 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
678 256 bytes (STR #2877)
679 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
680 what is logged to the access_log file.
681 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
682 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
683 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
684 files (STR #2871)
685 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
686 information files.
687 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
688 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
689 of an attribute.
690 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
691 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
692 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
693 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
694 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
695 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
696 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
697 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
698 (STR #2738)
699 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
700 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
701 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
702 (STR #2636)
703 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
704 files (STR #2739)
705 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
706 ModelName value as the output filename.
707 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
708 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
709 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
710 standard network backends.
711 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
712 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
713 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
714 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
715 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
716 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
717 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
718 name resolution.
719 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
720 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
721 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
722 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
723 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
724 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
725 - Driver information files can now be installed in
726 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
727 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
728 than 2GB.
729 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
730 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
731 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
732 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
733 backends are polled and for how long.
734 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
735 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
736 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
737 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
738 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
739 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
740 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
741 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
742 for localization (STR #2737)
743 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
744 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
745 file.
746 - The build system has been updated to support separate
747 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
748 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
749 by default.
750 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
751 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
752 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
753 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
754 root to make the default installation more secure.
755 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
756 the localized version of a marker-names value.
757 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
758 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
759 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
760 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
761 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
762 global based on the current access policies for the
763 printer.
764 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
765 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
766 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
767 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
768 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
769 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
770 that support it (STR #2637)
771 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
772 possible.
773 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
774 attriibute to purge a specified job.
775 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
776 attributes for custom option selections.
777 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
778 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
779 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
780 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
781 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
782 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
783 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
784 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
785 on the model page (STR #2436)
786 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
787 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
788 of printers (STR #1175)
789 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
790 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
791 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
792 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
793 to filter the document from the specified job.
794 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
795 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
796 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
797 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
798 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.