CHANGES-1.5.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.5.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.1
   5
   6         - Documentation updates (STR #3885)
   7         - The scheduler now logs config file errors to stderr (STR #3936)
   8         - The configure script incorrectly used bundle-based localizations on
   9           Linux (STR #3938)
  10         - The cups-driverd helper program did not cache .drv files properly,
  11           sometimes leading to a crash (STR #3921)
  12         - CUPS did not build on stock Mac OS X installations.
  13         - Encryption was broken with OpenSSL.
  14         - ipptool's XML output used date/time values with timezone offsets,
  15           which are not supported by Mac OS X's NSDate class.
  16         - Several programs did not support the cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files.
  17         - The IPP backend incorrectly reported spool-area-full states.
  18         - cupsMarkOptions() did not protect against a bad PPD that was missing
  19           one or more standard Duplex options.
  20         - The PostScript filter did not mirror N-up output properly.
  21         - The ipptool program did not validate UTF-8 strings in XML output.
  22         - Fixed supply level reporting for some printers.
  23         - The scheduler no longer automatically logs debug messages for jobs
  24           that were held or canceled.
  25         - The cupsSendRequest function did not flush remaining response data
  26           from a previous request, leading to apparent chunking issues.
  27         - The scheduler did not report the correct version in the Server: header
  28           (STR #3903)
  29         - The scheduler did not support 1284 device IDs reported by driver
  30           interface programs longer than 127 characters (STR #3871)
  31         - The image filters did not support loading images larger than the
  32           RIPCache setting (STR #3901)
  33         - "PAGE: total NNN" messages did not get logged properly (STR #3887)
  34         - Updated the PWG Raster support to conform to the current draft of the
  35           PWG Raster Format specification.
  36         - The PWG Raster filter did not always write the correct number of
  37           padding lines on the bottom of the page (STR #3904)
  38         - When reporting a denial-of-service attack from the domain socket, the
  39           address reported does not always contain the correct path (STR #3888)
  40         - Badly formed GIF files could cause the image filters to crash
  41           (STR #3914)
  42         - Jobs canceled at the printer were retried by the IPP backend.
  43         - "cupsfilter -u" deleted the input file instead of the PPD file.
  44         - The scheduler did not compute the cost of PPD filters defined using
  45           the cupsFilter2 keyword properly.
  46         - The scheduler did not correctly support the maxsize() attribute for
  47           PPD filters.
  48
  49
  50 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.0
  51
  52         - Documentation updates.
  53         - Localization update (STR #3865)
  54         - Needed to limit TLS to v1.0 on some versions of Mac OS X.
  55         - The snmp backend did not work with some printers.
  56
  57
  58 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5rc1
  59
  60         - Compile fixes (STR #3849, STR #3850)
  61         - The scheduler didn't check for empty values for several configuration
  62           directives (STR #3861)
  63         - ipptool didn't generate valid XML when a test was skipped.
  64         - Added additional error checking to the 1284 device ID code (STR #3858)
  65         - Fixed some compatibility issues migrating from the old usblp backend
  66           to the libusb backend (STR #3860)
  67         - Fixed the wake-from-sleep printing behavior on Mac OS X.
  68         - The scheduler incorrectly allowed jobs to be held from a terminating
  69           state.
  70         - The cups-driverd program could crash when a PPD was renamed.
  71         - The dnssd backend took too long to discover printers on large or busy
  72           networks with the new default timeout used by lpinfo and the web
  73           interface. This resulted in "lost" printers.
  74
  75
  76 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2
  77
  78         - Documentation updates.
  79         - Localization updates (STR #3845)
  80         - Compiler warning cleanup.
  81         - Fixed PIE support for Linux (STR #3846)
  82         - Made httpSetTimeout API public and use it in the IPP backend to avoid
  83           timeout errors.
  84         - The scheduler incorrectly set the "authenticated" printer-type bit for
  85           remote queues using authentication.
  86
  87
  88 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
  89
  90         - The CUPS library now supports per-connection HTTP timeouts and
  91           callbacks.
  92         - The CUPS library now supports (limited) SSL/TLS X.509 certificate
  93           validation and revocation (STR #1616)
  94         - Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more
  95           circumstances (STR #3417)
  96         - The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in
  97           the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533)
  98         - Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do
  99           not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800)
 100         - The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing
 101           was not enabled (STR #3639)
 102         - The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple
 103           hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813)
 104         - The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and
 105           manages the group (STR #2829)
 106         - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838)
 107         - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration,
 108           cache, and state files (STR #3715)
 109         - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
 110           (STR #2959)
 111         - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
 112           cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
 113         - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
 114         - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
 115           (STR #3605)
 116         - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
 117         - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
 118         - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
 119         - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
 120           (STR #3766)
 121         - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
 122           sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
 123           size (STR #3689)
 124         - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
 125         - Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes.
 126         - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
 127         - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
 128         - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
 129           drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
 130         - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
 131           the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
 132         - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
 133           authenticating (STR #3670)
 134         - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
 135           CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
 136           printers.
 137         - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
 138           pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
 139           Throughput keyword.
 140         - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
 141         - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
 142           CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
 143         - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
 144           STR #3753)
 145         - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
 146           to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
 147         - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
 148           in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
 149         - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
 150           (STR #2969)
 151         - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
 152           elements.
 153         - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
 154         - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
 155           default.
 156         - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
 157           support (STR #3097)
 158         - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
 159           Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
 160           PWG 5100.11.
 161         - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
 162           (<cups/ppd.h>).
 163         - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
 164           attribute.
 165         - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
 166           plugin.
 167         - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
 168           on Mac OS X.
 169         - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
 170           CUPS 1.1.x.  The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
 171           were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
 172         - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
 173           improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
 174         - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
 175           provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
 176         - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
 177         - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
 178           permissions disabled.
 179         - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
 180           PPD files.
 181         - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
 182         - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)