CHANGES-1.7.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.7.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.5
   5
   6         - Security: Addressed some more situations where symlinked files would
   7           be served by the web interface (STR #4455)
   8         - The LPD backend did not work with some versions of glibc (STR #4452)
   9         - CGI scripts did not work (STR #4454)
  10         - The cupsd.conf man page did not list the ErrorPolicy directive
  11           (STR #4457)
  12         - Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4456)
  13
  14
  15 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.4
  16
  17         - Security: The web interface incorrectly served symlinked files and
  18           files that were not world-readable, potentially leading to a
  19           disclosure of information (STR #4450)
  20         - The CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support
  21           (STR #4397)
  22         - CUPS did not compile when Avahi or mDNSResponder was not present
  23           (STR #4402, STR #4424)
  24         - The "snmp" option did not work with the network backends (STR #4422)
  25         - The User directive in client.conf did not override the USER
  26           environment variable (STR #4426)
  27         - The web interface now properly shows a "Go" button for all text-based
  28           browsers (STR #4425)
  29         - The MaxJobTime directive now properly supports time values (STR #4434)
  30         - The RPM spec file did not work due to the new Brazilian Portuguese
  31           localization (STR #4436)
  32         - Fixed an "IPP read error" issue (STR #4440)
  33         - Fixed the --disable-libusb configure option (STR #4439)
  34         - Fixed the debug output from the DNS-SD backend when using Avahi
  35           (STR #4444)
  36         - Fixed a bug in the CUPS_SC_GET_DEVICE_ID handling by the network
  37           backends (STR #4447)
  38         - Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E230 (STR #4448)
  39
  40
  41 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.3
  42
  43         - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4409)
  44         - Fixed mapping of OutputBin values such as "Tray1"
  45           (<rdar://problem/16685606>)
  46         - Several ippGet* functions incorrectly returned -1 instead of 0 on
  47           error.
  48         - The cupsGetResponse function did not work properly with
  49           CUPS_HTTP_DEFAULT (<rdar://problem/16762593>)
  50         - The IPP backend did not abort a job when the printer did not validate
  51           the supplied options (<rdar://problem/16836752>)
  52         - Fixed an authentication race condition in cupsSendRequest (STR #4403)
  53         - The scheduler did not add the "job-hold-until-specified" reason when
  54           holding a job using the lp command (STR #4405)
  55         - The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS
  56           dependency (STR #4399)
  57         - cupsGetDestMediaCount did not work for CUPS_MEDIA_FLAGS DEFAULT
  58           (STR #4414)
  59         - Auto-typing of PWG Raster files did not work (STR #4417)
  60         - IPP queues using hardcoded credentials would ask for credentials
  61           (STR #4371)
  62         - Dates in non-UTF-8 locales did not display correctly (STR #4388)
  63         - The RPM spec file now looks for libusb-devel 1.0 or later.
  64         - Fixed the "create-printer-subscription.test" file for IPPTOOL
  65           (STR #4420)
  66
  67
  68 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2
  69
  70         - Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML
  71           (STR #4356)
  72         - Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346, STR #4355)
  73         - Fixed the Japanese localization (STR #4385)
  74         - Added a German localization (STR #4363)
  75         - The cupsfilter command incorrectly read the cupsd.conf file; it now
  76           reads the cups-files.conf file instead.
  77         - Fixed OS X builds with Xcode 5.x (<rdar://problem/15914959>)
  78         - Fixed SSL support on Windows (STR #4358)
  79         - Fixed documentation and naming of Create-Job/Printer-Subscriptions
  80           operations (STR #4389)
  81         - Phone numbers in fax jobs were not properly filtered for IPP FaxOut
  82           (<rdar://problem/16351701>)
  83         - Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349)
  84         - Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393)
  85         - cupsEnumDests did not set the "is_default" field (STR #4332)
  86         - cupsDoIORequest could miss the server status, causing failed lpadmin
  87           and other administrative commands (STR #4386)
  88         - cupsEnumDests didn't always call the callback function (STR #4380)
  89         - "lp -i job-id -H hold" did not work (STR #nnn)
  90         - CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338)
  91         - Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception
  92           notice (STR #4361)
  93         - Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash
  94           (STR #4347)
  95         - The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed
  96           (STR #4370, STR #4373)
  97         - The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly
  98           (STR #3265)
  99         - The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using
 100           Avahi (STR #4365)
 101         - The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top"
 102           values (STR #4354)
 103         - The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in
 104           printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264)
 105         - The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB
 106           (STR #4351)
 107         - Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data
 108           stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>)
 109         - The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job
 110           operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>)
 111         - Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>)
 112
 113
 114 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
 115
 116         - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
 117           ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
 118         - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
 119         - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
 120         - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
 121           (<rdar://problem/15332672>)
 122         - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
 123           scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
 124         - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
 125           purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
 126           (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)
 127         - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
 128           opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
 129         - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
 130           use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
 131           (<rdar://problem/15392966>)
 132         - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
 133           cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
 134         - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
 135           (<rdar://problem/15427759>)
 136         - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
 137         - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
 138           (<rdar://problem/15564888>)
 139         - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
 140           (<rdar://problem/15426838>)
 141         - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
 142           before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
 143         - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
 144           "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
 145         - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
 146         - lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities
 147           were specified (STR #4326)
 148         - The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)
 149         - CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did
 150           not match the user ID (STR #4327)
 151
 152
 153 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
 154
 155         - Updated the Japanese localization.
 156         - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
 157           (<rdar://problem/15264697>)
 158         - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
 159           determine the direction of supply level values
 160           (<rdar://problem/14302628>)
 161         - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
 162           deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
 163         - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
 164           interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
 165         - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
 166           client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
 167         - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
 168           (<rdar://problem/14498310>)
 169         - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
 170           language specified in the client's IPP request
 171           (<rdar://problem/14128011>)
 172         - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
 173         - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
 174         - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
 175           -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
 176         - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
 177           against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
 178         - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
 179           automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
 180           previous response.
 181         - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
 182         - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 183           environment variable to the filters or backend
 184           (<rdar://problem/14355011>)
 185         - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
 186           sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
 187           (<rdar://problem/14421943>)
 188         - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
 189
 190
 191 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
 192
 193         - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
 194           or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
 195         - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
 196           to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
 197         - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
 198           va_list arguments.
 199         - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
 200           services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
 201         - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
 202           hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
 203         - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
 204           printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
 205         - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
 206           output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
 207         - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
 208         - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
 209           default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
 210         - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
 211           includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
 212         - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
 213           WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
 214           components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
 215
 216
 217 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
 218
 219         - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
 220           the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
 221           locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
 222         - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
 223         - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 224           environment variable for filters.
 225         - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
 226         - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
 227         - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
 228           (STR #4289)
 229         - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
 230           cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
 231         - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
 232           cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
 233         - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
 234           octetString value (STR #4289)
 235         - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
 236           attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
 237         - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
 238           on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
 239         - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
 240         - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
 241         - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
 242         - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
 243         - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
 244           (STR #4168)
 245         - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
 246           systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
 247         - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
 248         - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
 249         - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
 250           enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)