CHANGES-1.6.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.6.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.4
   5
   6         - Removed some duplicate size definitions for some ISO sizes that were
   7           causing problems (<rdar://problem/14722721>)
   8         - The IPP backend did not add the "last-document" attribute
   9           (<rdar://problem/114660379>)
  10         - Added a SyncOnClose directive to cups-files.conf to force cupsd to
  11           call fsync before closing any configuration/state files it writes
  12           (<rdar://problem/14523043>)
  13         - Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E238 (<rdar://problem/14493054>)
  14         - Closed server connections were still not always detected
  15           (<rdar://problem/14484313>)
  16         - The libusb-based USB backend now loads its list of quirks from files
  17           in /usr/share/cups/usb instead of using a hardcoded table
  18           (<rdar://problem/14442769>)
  19         - The scheduler did not properly register ICC color profiles with
  20           colord (<rdar://problem/14455625>)
  21
  22
  23 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.3
  24
  25         - The configure script now prefers Clang over GCC.
  26         - Fixed a compile problem on AIX (STR #4307)
  27         - The default IPP version did not always get set before creating a new
  28           IPP request message (<rdar://problem/14401718>)
  29         - The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat now display an error message advising the
  30           use of the /version=1.1 ServerName option (<rdar://problem/14290628>)
  31         - Added documentation about the /version=1.1 option to ServerName in
  32           client.conf (<rdar://problem/14216262>)
  33         - httpStatus(HTTP_ERROR) did not return a useful error message
  34           (<rdar://problem/14217326>)
  35         - The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat commands incorrectly ignored the default
  36           printer set in the lpoptions file (<rdar://problem/14216472>)
  37         - Fixed a URI encoding issue for hostnames containing the ` (backquote)
  38           character (<rdar://problem/14243133>)
  39         - Added support for RFC 6874's IPv6 link local address format in URIs
  40           (<rdar://problem/13979453>)
  41         - The USB backend could crash on libusb-based systems if USB was
  42           disabled in the BIOS (<rdar://problem/13875729>)
  43         - Fixed a rounding error in the PWG media size mapping code
  44           (<rdar://problem/13493241>)
  45         - Fixed several ipptool test files that used old STATUS names.
  46         - Kerberos credentials could get truncated when printing to a shared
  47           printer.
  48         - Printing using "ipps" URIs was not encrypted.
  49         - Insecure ICC profiles prevented installation of user profiles for a
  50           printer on OS X.
  51         - Added more USB quirks for the libusb-based backend (STR #4311,
  52           <rdar://problem/13736470>)
  53         - The Russian web interface templates were broken (STR #4310)
  54         - The scheduler no longer tries to do Kerberos authentication over the
  55           loopback interface.
  56         - The IPP backend could fail to pause a job for authentication
  57           (STR #4298)
  58         - Fixed a regression on the handling of auth keys on OS X if the
  59           cups-files.conf was not present or did not contain a SystemAuthKey
  60           value.
  61         - The scheduler incorrectly did a reverse lookup of the server address
  62           when HostNameLookups was turned off (STR #4302)
  63         - The scheduler incorrectly computed the final content type value when
  64           null filters were present.
  65
  66
  67 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.2
  68
  69         - Documentation fixes (STR #4229, STR #4239, STR #4234, STR #4248,
  70           STR #4259)
  71         - Security: All file, directory, user, and group settings are now stored
  72           in a separate cups-files.conf configuration file that cannot be set
  73           through the CUPS web interface or APIs (STR #4223)
  74         - Added a Czech localization (STR #4201)
  75         - Added a French localization (STR #4247)
  76         - Added a Russian localization (STR #4228, STR #4285)
  77         - Updated the Catalan localization (STR #4202)
  78         - Local certificate authentication did not guard against an empty
  79           certification file (STR #4293)
  80         - The scheduler did not reject device URIs with spaces.
  81         - Added USB quirk rule for Epson Stylus Photo 750 (STR #4286)
  82         - The IPP backend could crash if the printer disconnects early
  83           (STR #4284)
  84         - cupsGetPPD did not work with statically-configured CUPS shared
  85           queues (STR #4178)
  86         - The scheduler did not support long MIME media types (STR #4270)
  87         - The cupsfilter command did not set the CHARSET environment variable
  88           for the text filters (STR #4273)
  89         - The lp command did not show errors for unknown "--foo" (STR #4261)
  90         - Bad IPP responses could crash ipptool (STR #4262)
  91         - Updated USB quirk rules for Canon and Xerox printers (STR #4217,
  92           STR #4263)
  93         - Added USB blacklisting for printers that require a custom backend
  94           (STR #4218)
  95         - The PPD compiler did not correctly JCL options (STR #4115, STR #4203)
  96         - The ipptool program now supports DEFINE-MATCH and DEFINE-NO-MATCH
  97           predicates for STATUS directives.
  98         - Fixed a problem with local Kerberos authentication (STR #4140)
  99         - Coverity scan: fixed some minor issues (STR #4242)
 100         - The scheduler did not remove color profiles after deleting a printer
 101           (STR #4232, STR #4276)
 102         - The CUPS library did not always detect a timed out connection to the
 103           server which could cause temporary loss of printing from applications
 104           (STR #4187)
 105         - The ipptool program now supports variable substitution in OPERATION
 106           and DELAY directives (STR #4175)
 107         - The IPP backend now stops queues when the server configuration
 108           prevents successful job submission (STR #4125)
 109         - The XML output of ipptool contained empty dictionaries (STR #4136)
 110         - The scheduler did not delete job control backup files (STR #4244)
 111         - cupsGetPPD3 could return a local PPD instead of the correct remote
 112           PPD.
 113         - The scheduler incorrectly advertised auth-info-required for local
 114           queues needing local authentication (STR #4205)
 115         - CUPS 1.6 clients using the ServerName directive in client.conf did not
 116           work with CUPS 1.3.x or older servers (STR #4231, STR #4291)
 117         - The SNMP backend now tries to work around broken printers that use a
 118           newline to separate key/value pairs.
 119         - The IPP backend did not send a cancel request to printers when a job
 120           was canceled and the printer did not support Create-Job.
 121         - Fixed EPM packaging files (STR #4199)
 122         - OpenBSD build fix (STR #4195, STR #4196, STR #4197)
 123         - The scheduler could crash when using Avahi (STR #4183, STR #4192,
 124           STR #4200, STR #4213)
 125         - The IPP backend could get stuck in an endless loop on certain network
 126           errors (STR #4194)
 127         - 32-bit builds failed on Debian (STR #4133)
 128         - The scheduler no longer accepts or sends job description attributes.
 129         - The IPP backend now works around some conformance issues for broken
 130           printers (STR #4190)
 131         - cupsBackendReport() now filters out all control characters from the
 132           reported 1284 device IDs (STR #4124)
 133         - The scheduler no longer allows job-name values that are not valid
 134           network Unicode strings (STR #4072)
 135         - The web interface did not preserve the order of classes, jobs, or
 136           printers (STR #4170)
 137         - The network backends now support disabling of SNMP supply level
 138           queries via the "snmp" URI option (STR #4106)
 139         - The IPP backend did not specify the compression used (STR #4181)
 140         - ipptool did not support octetString values.
 141         - The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared
 142           queues (STR #4158)
 143         - Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured
 144           Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159)
 145         - The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157)
 146         - Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb
 147           (STR #4155, STR #4191)
 148         - Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi
 149           (STR #4156)
 150         - CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP
 151           requests.
 152         - Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring
 153           out.
 154
 155
 156 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.1
 157
 158         - Documentation fix (STR #4149)
 159         - RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145)
 160         - The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped
 161           (STR #4148)
 162
 163
 164 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.0
 165
 166         - Document changes (STR #4131)
 167         - Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations.
 168
 169
 170 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6rc1
 171
 172         - Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122)
 173         - The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6
 174           socket (STR #4109)
 175         - The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file
 176           instead of the current hostname.
 177
 178
 179 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
 180
 181         - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
 182         - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the
 183           end of the job (STR #4075)
 184         - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
 185         - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
 186         - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support
 187           specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
 188         - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce
 189           the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
 190         - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels
 191           in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
 192         - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in
 193           printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
 194         - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed
 195           cupsd (STR #3459)
 196         - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates
 197           (STR #3949)
 198         - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
 199           environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
 200         - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
 201         - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
 202           (STR #2856)
 203         - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
 204           have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
 205           (STR #2291)
 206         - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
 207           local system (STR #2053)
 208         - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
 209           per-centimeter (STR #4006)
 210         - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
 211           separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
 212         - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
 213           "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
 214           "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
 215         - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
 216           "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
 217         - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
 218           instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
 219           job objects.
 220         - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
 221         - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
 222           not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
 223         - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
 224           amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
 225         - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
 226           characters.
 227         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
 228           automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
 229           (Kerberos) authentication.
 230         - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
 231           length.
 232         - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
 233           via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
 234         - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
 235           version of CUPS (STR #3927)
 236         - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
 237         - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
 238           and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
 239         - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
 240         - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
 241         - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
 242           imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
 243           filters have been removed (STR #3930)
 244         - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)