CHANGES-1.6.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.6.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.2
   5
   6         - The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared
   7           queues (STR #4158)
   8         - Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured
   9           Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159)
  10         - The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157)
  11         - Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb
  12           (STR #4155)
  13         - Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi
  14           (STR #4156)
  15         - CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP
  16           requests.
  17         - Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring
  18           out.
  19
  20
  21 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.1
  22
  23         - Documentation fix (STR #4149)
  24         - RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145)
  25         - The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped
  26           (STR #4148)
  27
  28
  29 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.0
  30
  31         - Document changes (STR #4131)
  32         - Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations.
  33
  34
  35 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6rc1
  36
  37         - Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122)
  38         - The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6
  39           socket (STR #4109)
  40         - The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file
  41           instead of the current hostname.
  42
  43
  44 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
  45
  46         - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
  47         - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the
  48           end of the job (STR #4075)
  49         - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
  50         - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
  51         - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support
  52           specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
  53         - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce
  54           the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
  55         - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels
  56           in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
  57         - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in
  58           printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
  59         - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed
  60           cupsd (STR #3459)
  61         - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates
  62           (STR #3949)
  63         - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
  64           environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
  65         - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
  66         - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
  67           (STR #2856)
  68         - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
  69           have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
  70           (STR #2291)
  71         - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
  72           local system (STR #2053)
  73         - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
  74           per-centimeter (STR #4006)
  75         - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
  76           separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
  77         - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
  78           "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
  79           "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
  80         - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
  81           "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
  82         - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
  83           instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
  84           job objects.
  85         - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
  86         - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
  87           not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
  88         - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
  89           amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
  90         - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
  91           characters.
  92         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
  93           automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
  94           (Kerberos) authentication.
  95         - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
  96           length.
  97         - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
  98           via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
  99         - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
 100           version of CUPS (STR #3927)
 101         - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
 102         - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
 103           and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
 104         - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
 105         - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
 106         - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
 107           imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
 108           filters have been removed (STR #3930)
 109         - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)