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