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