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