CHANGES-1.7.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.7.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.4
   5
   6         - CUPS did not compile when Avahi or mDNSResponder was not present
   7           (STR #4402, STR #4424)
   8         - The "snmp" option did not work with the network backends (STR #4422)
   9         - The User directive in client.conf did not override the USER
  10           environment variable (STR #4426)
  11         - The web interface now properly shows a "Go" button for all text-based
  12           browsers (STR #4425)
  13         - The MaxJobTime directive now properly supports time values (STR #4434)
  14         - The RPM spec file did not work due to the new Brazilian Portuguese
  15           localization (STR #4436)
  16         - Fixed an "IPP read error" issue (STR #4440)
  17
  18
  19 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.3
  20
  21         - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4409)
  22         - Fixed mapping of OutputBin values such as "Tray1"
  23           (<rdar://problem/16685606>)
  24         - Several ippGet* functions incorrectly returned -1 instead of 0 on
  25           error.
  26         - The cupsGetResponse function did not work properly with
  27           CUPS_HTTP_DEFAULT (<rdar://problem/16762593>)
  28         - The IPP backend did not abort a job when the printer did not validate
  29           the supplied options (<rdar://problem/16836752>)
  30         - Fixed an authentication race condition in cupsSendRequest (STR #4403)
  31         - The scheduler did not add the "job-hold-until-specified" reason when
  32           holding a job using the lp command (STR #4405)
  33         - The CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support
  34           (STR #4397)
  35         - The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS
  36           dependency (STR #4399)
  37         - cupsGetDestMediaCount did not work for CUPS_MEDIA_FLAGS DEFAULT
  38           (STR #4414)
  39         - Auto-typing of PWG Raster files did not work (STR #4417)
  40         - IPP queues using hardcoded credentials would ask for credentials
  41           (STR #4371)
  42         - Dates in non-UTF-8 locales did not display correctly (STR #4388)
  43         - The RPM spec file now looks for libusb-devel 1.0 or later.
  44         - Fixed the "create-printer-subscription.test" file for IPPTOOL
  45           (STR #4420)
  46
  47
  48 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2
  49
  50         - Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML
  51           (STR #4356)
  52         - Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346, STR #4355)
  53         - Fixed the Japanese localization (STR #4385)
  54         - Added a German localization (STR #4363)
  55         - The cupsfilter command incorrectly read the cupsd.conf file; it now
  56           reads the cups-files.conf file instead.
  57         - Fixed OS X builds with Xcode 5.x (<rdar://problem/15914959>)
  58         - Fixed SSL support on Windows (STR #4358)
  59         - Fixed documentation and naming of Create-Job/Printer-Subscriptions
  60           operations (STR #4389)
  61         - Phone numbers in fax jobs were not properly filtered for IPP FaxOut
  62           (<rdar://problem/16351701>)
  63         - Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349)
  64         - Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393)
  65         - cupsEnumDests did not set the "is_default" field (STR #4332)
  66         - cupsDoIORequest could miss the server status, causing failed lpadmin
  67           and other administrative commands (STR #4386)
  68         - cupsEnumDests didn't always call the callback function (STR #4380)
  69         - "lp -i job-id -H hold" did not work (STR #nnn)
  70         - CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338)
  71         - Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception
  72           notice (STR #4361)
  73         - Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash
  74           (STR #4347)
  75         - The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed
  76           (STR #4370, STR #4373)
  77         - The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly
  78           (STR #3265)
  79         - The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using
  80           Avahi (STR #4365)
  81         - The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top"
  82           values (STR #4354)
  83         - The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in
  84           printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264)
  85         - The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB
  86           (STR #4351)
  87         - Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data
  88           stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>)
  89         - The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job
  90           operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>)
  91         - Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>)
  92
  93
  94 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
  95
  96         - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
  97           ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
  98         - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
  99         - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
 100         - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
 101           (<rdar://problem/15332672>)
 102         - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
 103           scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
 104         - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
 105           purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
 106           (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)
 107         - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
 108           opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
 109         - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
 110           use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
 111           (<rdar://problem/15392966>)
 112         - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
 113           cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
 114         - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
 115           (<rdar://problem/15427759>)
 116         - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
 117         - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
 118           (<rdar://problem/15564888>)
 119         - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
 120           (<rdar://problem/15426838>)
 121         - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
 122           before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
 123         - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
 124           "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
 125         - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
 126         - lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities
 127           were specified (STR #4326)
 128         - The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)
 129         - CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did
 130           not match the user ID (STR #4327)
 131
 132
 133 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
 134
 135         - Updated the Japanese localization.
 136         - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
 137           (<rdar://problem/15264697>)
 138         - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
 139           determine the direction of supply level values
 140           (<rdar://problem/14302628>)
 141         - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
 142           deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
 143         - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
 144           interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
 145         - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
 146           client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
 147         - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
 148           (<rdar://problem/14498310>)
 149         - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
 150           language specified in the client's IPP request
 151           (<rdar://problem/14128011>)
 152         - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
 153         - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
 154         - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
 155           -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
 156         - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
 157           against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
 158         - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
 159           automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
 160           previous response.
 161         - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
 162         - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 163           environment variable to the filters or backend
 164           (<rdar://problem/14355011>)
 165         - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
 166           sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
 167           (<rdar://problem/14421943>)
 168         - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
 169
 170
 171 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
 172
 173         - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
 174           or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
 175         - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
 176           to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
 177         - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
 178           va_list arguments.
 179         - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
 180           services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
 181         - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
 182           hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
 183         - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
 184           printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
 185         - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
 186           output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
 187         - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
 188         - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
 189           default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
 190         - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
 191           includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
 192         - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
 193           WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
 194           components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
 195
 196
 197 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
 198
 199         - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
 200           the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
 201           locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
 202         - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
 203         - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 204           environment variable for filters.
 205         - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
 206         - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
 207         - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
 208           (STR #4289)
 209         - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
 210           cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
 211         - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
 212           cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
 213         - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
 214           octetString value (STR #4289)
 215         - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
 216           attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
 217         - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
 218           on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
 219         - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
 220         - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
 221         - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
 222         - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
 223         - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
 224           (STR #4168)
 225         - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
 226           systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
 227         - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
 228         - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
 229         - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
 230           enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)