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