CHANGES-1.7.txt

   1 CHANGES-1.7.txt
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2
   5
   6         - Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML
   7           (STR #4356)
   8         - Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346)
   9         - CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338)
  10         - Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception
  11           notice (STR #4361)
  12         - Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash
  13           (STR #4347)
  14         - The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed
  15           (STR #4370)
  16         - The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly
  17           (STR #3265)
  18         - The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using
  19           Avahi (STR #4365)
  20         - The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top"
  21           values (STR #4354)
  22         - The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in
  23           printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264)
  24         - The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB
  25           (STR #4351)
  26         - Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data
  27           stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>)
  28         - The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job
  29           operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>)
  30         - Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>)
  31
  32
  33 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
  34
  35         - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
  36           ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
  37         - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
  38         - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
  39         - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
  40           (<rdar://problem/15332672>)
  41         - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
  42           scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
  43         - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
  44           purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
  45           (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)
  46         - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
  47           opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
  48         - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
  49           use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
  50           (<rdar://problem/15392966>)
  51         - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
  52           cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
  53         - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
  54           (<rdar://problem/15427759>)
  55         - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
  56         - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
  57           (<rdar://problem/15564888>)
  58         - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
  59           (<rdar://problem/15426838>)
  60         - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
  61           before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
  62         - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
  63           "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
  64         - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
  65         - lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities
  66           were specified (STR #4326)
  67         - The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)
  68         - CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did
  69           not match the user ID (STR #4327)
  70
  71
  72 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
  73
  74         - Updated the Japanese localization.
  75         - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
  76           (<rdar://problem/15264697>)
  77         - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
  78           determine the direction of supply level values
  79           (<rdar://problem/14302628>)
  80         - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
  81           deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
  82         - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
  83           interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
  84         - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
  85           client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
  86         - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
  87           (<rdar://problem/14498310>)
  88         - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
  89           language specified in the client's IPP request
  90           (<rdar://problem/14128011>)
  91         - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
  92         - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
  93         - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
  94           -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
  95         - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
  96           against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
  97         - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
  98           automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
  99           previous response.
 100         - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
 101         - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 102           environment variable to the filters or backend
 103           (<rdar://problem/14355011>)
 104         - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
 105           sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
 106           (<rdar://problem/14421943>)
 107         - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
 108
 109
 110 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
 111
 112         - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
 113           or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
 114         - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
 115           to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
 116         - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
 117           va_list arguments.
 118         - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
 119           services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
 120         - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
 121           hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
 122         - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
 123           printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
 124         - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
 125           output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
 126         - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
 127         - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
 128           default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
 129         - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
 130           includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
 131         - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
 132           WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
 133           components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
 134
 135
 136 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
 137
 138         - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
 139           the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
 140           locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
 141         - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
 142         - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 143           environment variable for filters.
 144         - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
 145         - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
 146         - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
 147           (STR #4289)
 148         - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
 149           cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
 150         - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
 151           cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
 152         - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
 153           octetString value (STR #4289)
 154         - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
 155           attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
 156         - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
 157           on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
 158         - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
 159         - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
 160         - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
 161         - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
 162         - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
 163           (STR #4168)
 164         - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
 165           systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
 166         - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
 167         - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
 168         - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
 169           enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)