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         - Updated the PWG raster support to match the current draft
   8           specification.
   9         - Fixed some IPP conformance issues in the scheduler.
  10         - Added ipptool support for repeating requests.
  11         - Added IPP/2.2 conformance tests and greatly improved the IPP/1.1
  12           conformance testing.
  13         - IPP messages containing mixed integer/rangeOfInteger values did not
  14           work (STR #3942)
  15         - The ipptool program now provides additional diagnostics for badly-
  16           formatted responses (STR #3857)
  17         - When possible, the IPP backend now stops sending job data early on a
  18           cancel.
  19         - cupsSendRequest and cupsWriteRequestData did not properly read all
  20           HTTP headers, preventing authentication and encryption upgrades from
  21           working in all cases.
  22         - The client.conf Server directive is no longer supported on Mac OS X
  23           10.7 and later.
  24         - The IPP backend sent the wrong margins in media-col.
  25         - The scheduler did not save or restore large Kerberos credentials for
  26           jobs.
  27         - The dnssd backend did not properly browse for secure IPP printers.
  28         - httpAssembleURI* did not properly escape all special characters in the
  29           username/password field.
  30         - The scheduler now logs config file errors to stderr (STR #3936)
  31         - The configure script incorrectly used bundle-based localizations on
  32           Linux (STR #3938)
  33         - The cups-driverd helper program did not cache .drv files properly,
  34           sometimes leading to a crash (STR #3921)
  35         - CUPS did not build on stock Mac OS X installations.
  36         - Encryption was broken with OpenSSL.
  37         - ipptool's XML output used date/time values with timezone offsets,
  38           which are not supported by Mac OS X's NSDate class.
  39         - Several programs did not support the cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files.
  40         - The IPP backend incorrectly reported spool-area-full states.
  41         - cupsMarkOptions() did not protect against a bad PPD that was missing
  42           one or more standard Duplex options.
  43         - The PostScript filter did not mirror N-up output properly.
  44         - The ipptool program did not validate UTF-8 strings in XML output.
  45         - Fixed supply level reporting for some printers.
  46         - The scheduler no longer automatically logs debug messages for jobs
  47           that were held or canceled.
  48         - The cupsSendRequest function did not flush remaining response data
  49           from a previous request, leading to apparent chunking issues.
  50         - The scheduler did not report the correct version in the Server: header
  51           (STR #3903)
  52         - The scheduler did not support 1284 device IDs reported by driver
  53           interface programs longer than 127 characters (STR #3871)
  54         - The image filters did not support loading images larger than the
  55           RIPCache setting (STR #3901)
  56         - "PAGE: total NNN" messages did not get logged properly (STR #3887)
  57         - Updated the PWG Raster support to conform to the current draft of the
  58           PWG Raster Format specification.
  59         - The PWG Raster filter did not always write the correct number of
  60           padding lines on the bottom of the page (STR #3904)
  61         - When reporting a denial-of-service attack from the domain socket, the
  62           address reported does not always contain the correct path (STR #3888)
  63         - Badly formed GIF files could cause the image filters to crash
  64           (STR #3914)
  65         - Jobs canceled at the printer were retried by the IPP backend.
  66         - "cupsfilter -u" deleted the input file instead of the PPD file.
  67         - The scheduler did not compute the cost of PPD filters defined using
  68           the cupsFilter2 keyword properly.
  69         - The scheduler did not correctly support the maxsize() attribute for
  70           PPD filters.
  71
  72
  73 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.0
  74
  75         - Documentation updates.
  76         - Localization update (STR #3865)
  77         - Needed to limit TLS to v1.0 on some versions of Mac OS X.
  78         - The snmp backend did not work with some printers.
  79
  80
  81 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5rc1
  82
  83         - Compile fixes (STR #3849, STR #3850)
  84         - The scheduler didn't check for empty values for several configuration
  85           directives (STR #3861)
  86         - ipptool didn't generate valid XML when a test was skipped.
  87         - Added additional error checking to the 1284 device ID code (STR #3858)
  88         - Fixed some compatibility issues migrating from the old usblp backend
  89           to the libusb backend (STR #3860)
  90         - Fixed the wake-from-sleep printing behavior on Mac OS X.
  91         - The scheduler incorrectly allowed jobs to be held from a terminating
  92           state.
  93         - The cups-driverd program could crash when a PPD was renamed.
  94         - The dnssd backend took too long to discover printers on large or busy
  95           networks with the new default timeout used by lpinfo and the web
  96           interface. This resulted in "lost" printers.
  97
  98
  99 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2
 100
 101         - Documentation updates.
 102         - Localization updates (STR #3845)
 103         - Compiler warning cleanup.
 104         - Fixed PIE support for Linux (STR #3846)
 105         - Made httpSetTimeout API public and use it in the IPP backend to avoid
 106           timeout errors.
 107         - The scheduler incorrectly set the "authenticated" printer-type bit for
 108           remote queues using authentication.
 109
 110
 111 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
 112
 113         - The CUPS library now supports per-connection HTTP timeouts and
 114           callbacks.
 115         - The CUPS library now supports (limited) SSL/TLS X.509 certificate
 116           validation and revocation (STR #1616)
 117         - Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more
 118           circumstances (STR #3417)
 119         - The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in
 120           the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533)
 121         - Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do
 122           not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800)
 123         - The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing
 124           was not enabled (STR #3639)
 125         - The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple
 126           hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813)
 127         - The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and
 128           manages the group (STR #2829)
 129         - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838)
 130         - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration,
 131           cache, and state files (STR #3715)
 132         - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
 133           (STR #2959)
 134         - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
 135           cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
 136         - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
 137         - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
 138           (STR #3605)
 139         - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
 140         - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
 141         - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
 142         - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
 143           (STR #3766)
 144         - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
 145           sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
 146           size (STR #3689)
 147         - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
 148         - Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes.
 149         - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
 150         - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
 151         - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
 152           drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
 153         - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
 154           the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
 155         - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
 156           authenticating (STR #3670)
 157         - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
 158           CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
 159           printers.
 160         - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
 161           pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
 162           Throughput keyword.
 163         - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
 164         - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
 165           CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
 166         - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
 167           STR #3753)
 168         - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
 169           to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
 170         - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
 171           in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
 172         - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
 173           (STR #2969)
 174         - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
 175           elements.
 176         - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
 177         - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
 178           default.
 179         - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
 180           support (STR #3097)
 181         - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
 182           Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
 183           PWG 5100.11.
 184         - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
 185           (<cups/ppd.h>).
 186         - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
 187           attribute.
 188         - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
 189           plugin.
 190         - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
 191           on Mac OS X.
 192         - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
 193           CUPS 1.1.x.  The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
 194           were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
 195         - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
 196           improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
 197         - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
 198           provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
 199         - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
 200         - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
 201           permissions disabled.
 202         - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
 203           PPD files.
 204         - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
 205         - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)