CHANGES-1.6.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.6.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.4
   5
   6         - The IPP backend did not add the "last-document" attribute
   7           (<rdar://problem/114660379>)
   8         - Added a SyncOnClose directive to cups-files.conf to force cupsd to
   9           call fsync before closing any configuration/state files it writes
  10           (<rdar://problem/14523043>)
  11         - Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E238 (<rdar://problem/14493054>)
  12         - Closed server connections were still not always detected
  13           (<rdar://problem/14484313>)
  14         - The libusb-based USB backend now loads its list of quirks from files
  15           in /usr/share/cups/usb instead of using a hardcoded table
  16           (<rdar://problem/14442769>)
  17         - The scheduler did not properly register ICC color profiles with
  18           colord (<rdar://problem/14455625>)
  19
  20
  21 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.3
  22
  23         - The configure script now prefers Clang over GCC.
  24         - Fixed a compile problem on AIX (STR #4307)
  25         - The default IPP version did not always get set before creating a new
  26           IPP request message (<rdar://problem/14401718>)
  27         - The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat now display an error message advising the
  28           use of the /version=1.1 ServerName option (<rdar://problem/14290628>)
  29         - Added documentation about the /version=1.1 option to ServerName in
  30           client.conf (<rdar://problem/14216262>)
  31         - httpStatus(HTTP_ERROR) did not return a useful error message
  32           (<rdar://problem/14217326>)
  33         - The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat commands incorrectly ignored the default
  34           printer set in the lpoptions file (<rdar://problem/14216472>)
  35         - Fixed a URI encoding issue for hostnames containing the ` (backquote)
  36           character (<rdar://problem/14243133>)
  37         - Added support for RFC 6874's IPv6 link local address format in URIs
  38           (<rdar://problem/13979453>)
  39         - The USB backend could crash on libusb-based systems if USB was
  40           disabled in the BIOS (<rdar://problem/13875729>)
  41         - Fixed a rounding error in the PWG media size mapping code
  42           (<rdar://problem/13493241>)
  43         - Fixed several ipptool test files that used old STATUS names.
  44         - Kerberos credentials could get truncated when printing to a shared
  45           printer.
  46         - Printing using "ipps" URIs was not encrypted.
  47         - Insecure ICC profiles prevented installation of user profiles for a
  48           printer on OS X.
  49         - Added more USB quirks for the libusb-based backend (STR #4311,
  50           <rdar://problem/13736470>)
  51         - The Russian web interface templates were broken (STR #4310)
  52         - The scheduler no longer tries to do Kerberos authentication over the
  53           loopback interface.
  54         - The IPP backend could fail to pause a job for authentication
  55           (STR #4298)
  56         - Fixed a regression on the handling of auth keys on OS X if the
  57           cups-files.conf was not present or did not contain a SystemAuthKey
  58           value.
  59         - The scheduler incorrectly did a reverse lookup of the server address
  60           when HostNameLookups was turned off (STR #4302)
  61         - The scheduler incorrectly computed the final content type value when
  62           null filters were present.
  63
  64
  65 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.2
  66
  67         - Documentation fixes (STR #4229, STR #4239, STR #4234, STR #4248,
  68           STR #4259)
  69         - Security: All file, directory, user, and group settings are now stored
  70           in a separate cups-files.conf configuration file that cannot be set
  71           through the CUPS web interface or APIs (STR #4223)
  72         - Added a Czech localization (STR #4201)
  73         - Added a French localization (STR #4247)
  74         - Added a Russian localization (STR #4228, STR #4285)
  75         - Updated the Catalan localization (STR #4202)
  76         - Local certificate authentication did not guard against an empty
  77           certification file (STR #4293)
  78         - The scheduler did not reject device URIs with spaces.
  79         - Added USB quirk rule for Epson Stylus Photo 750 (STR #4286)
  80         - The IPP backend could crash if the printer disconnects early
  81           (STR #4284)
  82         - cupsGetPPD did not work with statically-configured CUPS shared
  83           queues (STR #4178)
  84         - The scheduler did not support long MIME media types (STR #4270)
  85         - The cupsfilter command did not set the CHARSET environment variable
  86           for the text filters (STR #4273)
  87         - The lp command did not show errors for unknown "--foo" (STR #4261)
  88         - Bad IPP responses could crash ipptool (STR #4262)
  89         - Updated USB quirk rules for Canon and Xerox printers (STR #4217,
  90           STR #4263)
  91         - Added USB blacklisting for printers that require a custom backend
  92           (STR #4218)
  93         - The PPD compiler did not correctly JCL options (STR #4115, STR #4203)
  94         - The ipptool program now supports DEFINE-MATCH and DEFINE-NO-MATCH
  95           predicates for STATUS directives.
  96         - Fixed a problem with local Kerberos authentication (STR #4140)
  97         - Coverity scan: fixed some minor issues (STR #4242)
  98         - The scheduler did not remove color profiles after deleting a printer
  99           (STR #4232, STR #4276)
 100         - The CUPS library did not always detect a timed out connection to the
 101           server which could cause temporary loss of printing from applications
 102           (STR #4187)
 103         - The ipptool program now supports variable substitution in OPERATION
 104           and DELAY directives (STR #4175)
 105         - The IPP backend now stops queues when the server configuration
 106           prevents successful job submission (STR #4125)
 107         - The XML output of ipptool contained empty dictionaries (STR #4136)
 108         - The scheduler did not delete job control backup files (STR #4244)
 109         - cupsGetPPD3 could return a local PPD instead of the correct remote
 110           PPD.
 111         - The scheduler incorrectly advertised auth-info-required for local
 112           queues needing local authentication (STR #4205)
 113         - CUPS 1.6 clients using the ServerName directive in client.conf did not
 114           work with CUPS 1.3.x or older servers (STR #4231, STR #4291)
 115         - The SNMP backend now tries to work around broken printers that use a
 116           newline to separate key/value pairs.
 117         - The IPP backend did not send a cancel request to printers when a job
 118           was canceled and the printer did not support Create-Job.
 119         - Fixed EPM packaging files (STR #4199)
 120         - OpenBSD build fix (STR #4195, STR #4196, STR #4197)
 121         - The scheduler could crash when using Avahi (STR #4183, STR #4192,
 122           STR #4200, STR #4213)
 123         - The IPP backend could get stuck in an endless loop on certain network
 124           errors (STR #4194)
 125         - 32-bit builds failed on Debian (STR #4133)
 126         - The scheduler no longer accepts or sends job description attributes.
 127         - The IPP backend now works around some conformance issues for broken
 128           printers (STR #4190)
 129         - cupsBackendReport() now filters out all control characters from the
 130           reported 1284 device IDs (STR #4124)
 131         - The scheduler no longer allows job-name values that are not valid
 132           network Unicode strings (STR #4072)
 133         - The web interface did not preserve the order of classes, jobs, or
 134           printers (STR #4170)
 135         - The network backends now support disabling of SNMP supply level
 136           queries via the "snmp" URI option (STR #4106)
 137         - The IPP backend did not specify the compression used (STR #4181)
 138         - ipptool did not support octetString values.
 139         - The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared
 140           queues (STR #4158)
 141         - Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured
 142           Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159)
 143         - The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157)
 144         - Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb
 145           (STR #4155, STR #4191)
 146         - Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi
 147           (STR #4156)
 148         - CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP
 149           requests.
 150         - Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring
 151           out.
 152
 153
 154 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.1
 155
 156         - Documentation fix (STR #4149)
 157         - RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145)
 158         - The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped
 159           (STR #4148)
 160
 161
 162 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.0
 163
 164         - Document changes (STR #4131)
 165         - Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations.
 166
 167
 168 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6rc1
 169
 170         - Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122)
 171         - The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6
 172           socket (STR #4109)
 173         - The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file
 174           instead of the current hostname.
 175
 176
 177 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
 178
 179         - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
 180         - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the
 181           end of the job (STR #4075)
 182         - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
 183         - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
 184         - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support
 185           specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
 186         - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce
 187           the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
 188         - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels
 189           in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
 190         - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in
 191           printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
 192         - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed
 193           cupsd (STR #3459)
 194         - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates
 195           (STR #3949)
 196         - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
 197           environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
 198         - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
 199         - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
 200           (STR #2856)
 201         - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
 202           have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
 203           (STR #2291)
 204         - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
 205           local system (STR #2053)
 206         - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
 207           per-centimeter (STR #4006)
 208         - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
 209           separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
 210         - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
 211           "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
 212           "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
 213         - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
 214           "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
 215         - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
 216           instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
 217           job objects.
 218         - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
 219         - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
 220           not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
 221         - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
 222           amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
 223         - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
 224           characters.
 225         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
 226           automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
 227           (Kerberos) authentication.
 228         - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
 229           length.
 230         - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
 231           via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
 232         - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
 233           version of CUPS (STR #3927)
 234         - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
 235         - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
 236           and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
 237         - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
 238         - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
 239         - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
 240           imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
 241           filters have been removed (STR #3930)
 242         - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)