CHANGES-1.6.txt

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