CHANGES-1.6.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.6.txt
   2 ---------------
   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.3
   5
   6         - The configure script now prefers Clang over GCC.
   7         - Fixed a compile problem on AIX (STR #4307)
   8         - httpStatus(HTTP_ERROR) did not return a useful error message
   9           (<rdar://problem/14217326>)
  10         - Added documentation about the /version=1.1 option to ServerName in
  11           client.conf (<rdar://problem/14216262>)
  12         - The lp and lpr commands incorrectly ignored the default printer set
  13           in the lpoptions file (<rdar://problem/14216472>)
  14         - Fixed a URI encoding issue for hostnames containing the ` (backquote)
  15           character (<rdar://problem/14243133>)
  16         - Added support for RFC 6874's IPv6 link local address format in URIs
  17           (<rdar://problem/13979453>)
  18         - The USB backend could crash on libusb-based systems if USB was
  19           disabled in the BIOS (<rdar://problem/13875729>)
  20         - Fixed a rounding error in the PWG media size mapping code
  21           (<rdar://problem/13493241>)
  22         - Fixed several ipptool test files that used old STATUS names.
  23         - Kerberos credentials could get truncated when printing to a shared
  24           printer.
  25         - Printing using "ipps" URIs was not encrypted.
  26         - Insecure ICC profiles prevented installation of user profiles for a
  27           printer on OS X.
  28         - Added more USB quirks for the libusb-based backend (STR #4311,
  29           <rdar://problem/13736470>)
  30         - The Russian web interface templates were broken (STR #4310)
  31         - The scheduler no longer tries to do Kerberos authentication over the
  32           loopback interface.
  33         - The IPP backend could fail to pause a job for authentication
  34           (STR #4298)
  35         - Fixed a regression on the handling of auth keys on OS X if the
  36           cups-files.conf was not present or did not contain a SystemAuthKey
  37           value.
  38         - The scheduler incorrectly did a reverse lookup of the server address
  39           when HostNameLookups was turned off (STR #4302)
  40         - The scheduler incorrectly computed the final content type value when
  41           null filters were present.
  42
  43
  44 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.2
  45
  46         - Documentation fixes (STR #4229, STR #4239, STR #4234, STR #4248,
  47           STR #4259)
  48         - Security: All file, directory, user, and group settings are now stored
  49           in a separate cups-files.conf configuration file that cannot be set
  50           through the CUPS web interface or APIs (STR #4223)
  51         - Added a Czech localization (STR #4201)
  52         - Added a French localization (STR #4247)
  53         - Added a Russian localization (STR #4228, STR #4285)
  54         - Updated the Catalan localization (STR #4202)
  55         - Local certificate authentication did not guard against an empty
  56           certification file (STR #4293)
  57         - The scheduler did not reject device URIs with spaces.
  58         - Added USB quirk rule for Epson Stylus Photo 750 (STR #4286)
  59         - The IPP backend could crash if the printer disconnects early
  60           (STR #4284)
  61         - cupsGetPPD did not work with statically-configured CUPS shared
  62           queues (STR #4178)
  63         - The scheduler did not support long MIME media types (STR #4270)
  64         - The cupsfilter command did not set the CHARSET environment variable
  65           for the text filters (STR #4273)
  66         - The lp command did not show errors for unknown "--foo" (STR #4261)
  67         - Bad IPP responses could crash ipptool (STR #4262)
  68         - Updated USB quirk rules for Canon and Xerox printers (STR #4217,
  69           STR #4263)
  70         - Added USB blacklisting for printers that require a custom backend
  71           (STR #4218)
  72         - The PPD compiler did not correctly JCL options (STR #4115, STR #4203)
  73         - The ipptool program now supports DEFINE-MATCH and DEFINE-NO-MATCH
  74           predicates for STATUS directives.
  75         - Fixed a problem with local Kerberos authentication (STR #4140)
  76         - Coverity scan: fixed some minor issues (STR #4242)
  77         - The scheduler did not remove color profiles after deleting a printer
  78           (STR #4232, STR #4276)
  79         - The CUPS library did not always detect a timed out connection to the
  80           server which could cause temporary loss of printing from applications
  81           (STR #4187)
  82         - The ipptool program now supports variable substitution in OPERATION
  83           and DELAY directives (STR #4175)
  84         - The IPP backend now stops queues when the server configuration
  85           prevents successful job submission (STR #4125)
  86         - The XML output of ipptool contained empty dictionaries (STR #4136)
  87         - The scheduler did not delete job control backup files (STR #4244)
  88         - cupsGetPPD3 could return a local PPD instead of the correct remote
  89           PPD.
  90         - The scheduler incorrectly advertised auth-info-required for local
  91           queues needing local authentication (STR #4205)
  92         - CUPS 1.6 clients using the ServerName directive in client.conf did not
  93           work with CUPS 1.3.x or older servers (STR #4231, STR #4291)
  94         - The SNMP backend now tries to work around broken printers that use a
  95           newline to separate key/value pairs.
  96         - The IPP backend did not send a cancel request to printers when a job
  97           was canceled and the printer did not support Create-Job.
  98         - Fixed EPM packaging files (STR #4199)
  99         - OpenBSD build fix (STR #4195, STR #4196, STR #4197)
 100         - The scheduler could crash when using Avahi (STR #4183, STR #4192,
 101           STR #4200, STR #4213)
 102         - The IPP backend could get stuck in an endless loop on certain network
 103           errors (STR #4194)
 104         - 32-bit builds failed on Debian (STR #4133)
 105         - The scheduler no longer accepts or sends job description attributes.
 106         - The IPP backend now works around some conformance issues for broken
 107           printers (STR #4190)
 108         - cupsBackendReport() now filters out all control characters from the
 109           reported 1284 device IDs (STR #4124)
 110         - The scheduler no longer allows job-name values that are not valid
 111           network Unicode strings (STR #4072)
 112         - The web interface did not preserve the order of classes, jobs, or
 113           printers (STR #4170)
 114         - The network backends now support disabling of SNMP supply level
 115           queries via the "snmp" URI option (STR #4106)
 116         - The IPP backend did not specify the compression used (STR #4181)
 117         - ipptool did not support octetString values.
 118         - The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared
 119           queues (STR #4158)
 120         - Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured
 121           Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159)
 122         - The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157)
 123         - Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb
 124           (STR #4155, STR #4191)
 125         - Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi
 126           (STR #4156)
 127         - CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP
 128           requests.
 129         - Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring
 130           out.
 131
 132
 133 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.1
 134
 135         - Documentation fix (STR #4149)
 136         - RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145)
 137         - The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped
 138           (STR #4148)
 139
 140
 141 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.0
 142
 143         - Document changes (STR #4131)
 144         - Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations.
 145
 146
 147 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6rc1
 148
 149         - Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122)
 150         - The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6
 151           socket (STR #4109)
 152         - The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file
 153           instead of the current hostname.
 154
 155
 156 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
 157
 158         - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
 159         - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the
 160           end of the job (STR #4075)
 161         - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
 162         - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
 163         - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support
 164           specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
 165         - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce
 166           the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
 167         - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels
 168           in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
 169         - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in
 170           printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
 171         - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed
 172           cupsd (STR #3459)
 173         - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates
 174           (STR #3949)
 175         - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
 176           environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
 177         - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
 178         - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
 179           (STR #2856)
 180         - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
 181           have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
 182           (STR #2291)
 183         - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
 184           local system (STR #2053)
 185         - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
 186           per-centimeter (STR #4006)
 187         - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
 188           separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
 189         - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
 190           "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
 191           "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
 192         - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
 193           "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
 194         - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
 195           instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
 196           job objects.
 197         - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
 198         - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
 199           not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
 200         - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
 201           amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
 202         - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
 203           characters.
 204         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
 205           automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
 206           (Kerberos) authentication.
 207         - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
 208           length.
 209         - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
 210           via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
 211         - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
 212           version of CUPS (STR #3927)
 213         - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
 214         - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
 215           and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
 216         - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
 217         - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
 218         - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
 219           imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
 220           filters have been removed (STR #3930)
 221         - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)