CHANGES-1.7.txt

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