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         - Fixed the --disable-libusb configure option (STR #4439)
  18
  19
  20 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.3
  21
  22         - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4409)
  23         - Fixed mapping of OutputBin values such as "Tray1"
  24           (<rdar://problem/16685606>)
  25         - Several ippGet* functions incorrectly returned -1 instead of 0 on
  26           error.
  27         - The cupsGetResponse function did not work properly with
  28           CUPS_HTTP_DEFAULT (<rdar://problem/16762593>)
  29         - The IPP backend did not abort a job when the printer did not validate
  30           the supplied options (<rdar://problem/16836752>)
  31         - Fixed an authentication race condition in cupsSendRequest (STR #4403)
  32         - The scheduler did not add the "job-hold-until-specified" reason when
  33           holding a job using the lp command (STR #4405)
  34         - The CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support
  35           (STR #4397)
  36         - The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS
  37           dependency (STR #4399)
  38         - cupsGetDestMediaCount did not work for CUPS_MEDIA_FLAGS DEFAULT
  39           (STR #4414)
  40         - Auto-typing of PWG Raster files did not work (STR #4417)
  41         - IPP queues using hardcoded credentials would ask for credentials
  42           (STR #4371)
  43         - Dates in non-UTF-8 locales did not display correctly (STR #4388)
  44         - The RPM spec file now looks for libusb-devel 1.0 or later.
  45         - Fixed the "create-printer-subscription.test" file for IPPTOOL
  46           (STR #4420)
  47
  48
  49 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2
  50
  51         - Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML
  52           (STR #4356)
  53         - Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346, STR #4355)
  54         - Fixed the Japanese localization (STR #4385)
  55         - Added a German localization (STR #4363)
  56         - The cupsfilter command incorrectly read the cupsd.conf file; it now
  57           reads the cups-files.conf file instead.
  58         - Fixed OS X builds with Xcode 5.x (<rdar://problem/15914959>)
  59         - Fixed SSL support on Windows (STR #4358)
  60         - Fixed documentation and naming of Create-Job/Printer-Subscriptions
  61           operations (STR #4389)
  62         - Phone numbers in fax jobs were not properly filtered for IPP FaxOut
  63           (<rdar://problem/16351701>)
  64         - Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349)
  65         - Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393)
  66         - cupsEnumDests did not set the "is_default" field (STR #4332)
  67         - cupsDoIORequest could miss the server status, causing failed lpadmin
  68           and other administrative commands (STR #4386)
  69         - cupsEnumDests didn't always call the callback function (STR #4380)
  70         - "lp -i job-id -H hold" did not work (STR #nnn)
  71         - CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338)
  72         - Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception
  73           notice (STR #4361)
  74         - Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash
  75           (STR #4347)
  76         - The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed
  77           (STR #4370, STR #4373)
  78         - The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly
  79           (STR #3265)
  80         - The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using
  81           Avahi (STR #4365)
  82         - The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top"
  83           values (STR #4354)
  84         - The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in
  85           printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264)
  86         - The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB
  87           (STR #4351)
  88         - Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data
  89           stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>)
  90         - The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job
  91           operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>)
  92         - Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>)
  93
  94
  95 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
  96
  97         - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
  98           ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
  99         - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
 100         - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
 101         - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
 102           (<rdar://problem/15332672>)
 103         - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
 104           scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
 105         - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
 106           purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
 107           (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)
 108         - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
 109           opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
 110         - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
 111           use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
 112           (<rdar://problem/15392966>)
 113         - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
 114           cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
 115         - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
 116           (<rdar://problem/15427759>)
 117         - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
 118         - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
 119           (<rdar://problem/15564888>)
 120         - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
 121           (<rdar://problem/15426838>)
 122         - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
 123           before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
 124         - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
 125           "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
 126         - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
 127         - lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities
 128           were specified (STR #4326)
 129         - The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)
 130         - CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did
 131           not match the user ID (STR #4327)
 132
 133
 134 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
 135
 136         - Updated the Japanese localization.
 137         - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
 138           (<rdar://problem/15264697>)
 139         - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
 140           determine the direction of supply level values
 141           (<rdar://problem/14302628>)
 142         - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
 143           deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
 144         - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
 145           interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
 146         - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
 147           client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
 148         - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
 149           (<rdar://problem/14498310>)
 150         - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
 151           language specified in the client's IPP request
 152           (<rdar://problem/14128011>)
 153         - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
 154         - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
 155         - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
 156           -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
 157         - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
 158           against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
 159         - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
 160           automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
 161           previous response.
 162         - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
 163         - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 164           environment variable to the filters or backend
 165           (<rdar://problem/14355011>)
 166         - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
 167           sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
 168           (<rdar://problem/14421943>)
 169         - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
 170
 171
 172 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
 173
 174         - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
 175           or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
 176         - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
 177           to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
 178         - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
 179           va_list arguments.
 180         - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
 181           services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
 182         - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
 183           hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
 184         - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
 185           printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
 186         - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
 187           output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
 188         - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
 189         - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
 190           default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
 191         - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
 192           includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
 193         - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
 194           WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
 195           components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
 196
 197
 198 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
 199
 200         - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
 201           the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
 202           locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
 203         - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
 204         - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 205           environment variable for filters.
 206         - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
 207         - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
 208         - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
 209           (STR #4289)
 210         - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
 211           cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
 212         - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
 213           cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
 214         - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
 215           octetString value (STR #4289)
 216         - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
 217           attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
 218         - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
 219           on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
 220         - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
 221         - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
 222         - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
 223         - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
 224         - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
 225           (STR #4168)
 226         - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
 227           systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
 228         - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
 229         - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
 230         - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
 231           enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)