CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-02-26
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
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   6         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
   7         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
   8           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
   9         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
  10           root to make the default installation more secure.
  11         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
  12           the localized version of a marker-names value.
  13         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
  14           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
  15         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
  16           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
  17         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
  18           global based on the current access policies for the
  19           printer.
  20         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
  21           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
  22         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
  23         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
  24           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
  25         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
  26           that support it (STR #2637)
  27         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
  28           possible.
  29         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
  30           attriibute to purge a specified job.
  31         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
  32           attributes for custom option selections.
  33         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
  34           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
  35           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
  36         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
  37           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
  38           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
  39         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
  40           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
  41           on the model page (STR #2436)
  42         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
  43           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
  44           of printers (STR #1175)
  45         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
  46         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
  47           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
  48         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
  49           to filter the document from the specified job.
  50         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
  51           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
  52         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
  53           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
  54         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
  55