CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2011-08-06
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.1
   5
   6         - Documentation updates (STR #3885)
   7         - The scheduler did not report the correct version in the Server: header
   8           (STR #3903)
   9         - The scheduler did not support 1284 device IDs reported by driver
  10           interface programs longer than 127 characters (STR #3871)
  11         - The image filters did not support loading images larger than the
  12           RIPCache setting (STR #3901)
  13         - "PAGE: total NNN" messages did not get logged properly (STR #3887)
  14         - Updated the PWG Raster support to conform to the current draft of the
  15           PWG Raster Format specification.
  16         - The PWG Raster filter did not always write the correct number of
  17           padding lines on the bottom of the page (STR #3904)
  18         - When reporting a denial-of-service attack from the domain socket, the
  19           address reported does not always contain the correct path (STR #3888)
  20         - Badly formed GIF files could cause the image filters to crash
  21           (STR #3914)
  22         - Jobs canceled at the printer were retried by the IPP backend.
  23         - "cupsfilter -u" deleted the input file instead of the PPD file.
  24         - The scheduler did not compute the cost of PPD filters defined using
  25           the cupsFilter2 keyword properly.
  26         - The scheduler did not correctly support the maxsize() attribute for
  27           PPD filters.
  28
  29
  30 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.0
  31
  32         - Documentation updates.
  33         - Localization update (STR #3865)
  34         - Needed to limit TLS to v1.0 on some versions of Mac OS X.
  35         - The snmp backend did not work with some printers.
  36
  37
  38 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5rc1
  39
  40         - Compile fixes (STR #3849, STR #3850)
  41         - The scheduler didn't check for empty values for several configuration
  42           directives (STR #3861)
  43         - ipptool didn't generate valid XML when a test was skipped.
  44         - Added additional error checking to the 1284 device ID code (STR #3858)
  45         - Fixed some compatibility issues migrating from the old usblp backend
  46           to the libusb backend (STR #3860)
  47         - Fixed the wake-from-sleep printing behavior on Mac OS X.
  48         - The scheduler incorrectly allowed jobs to be held from a terminating
  49           state.
  50         - The cups-driverd program could crash when a PPD was renamed.
  51         - The dnssd backend took too long to discover printers on large or busy
  52           networks with the new default timeout used by lpinfo and the web
  53           interface. This resulted in "lost" printers.
  54
  55
  56 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2
  57
  58         - Documentation updates.
  59         - Localization updates (STR #3845)
  60         - Compiler warning cleanup.
  61         - Fixed PIE support for Linux (STR #3846)
  62         - Made httpSetTimeout API public and use it in the IPP backend to avoid
  63           timeout errors.
  64         - The scheduler incorrectly set the "authenticated" printer-type bit for
  65           remote queues using authentication.
  66
  67
  68 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
  69
  70         - The CUPS library now supports per-connection HTTP timeouts and
  71           callbacks.
  72         - The CUPS library now supports (limited) SSL/TLS X.509 certificate
  73           validation and revocation (STR #1616)
  74         - Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more
  75           circumstances (STR #3417)
  76         - The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in
  77           the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533)
  78         - Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do
  79           not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800)
  80         - The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing
  81           was not enabled (STR #3639)
  82         - The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple
  83           hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813)
  84         - The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and
  85           manages the group (STR #2829)
  86         - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838)
  87         - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration,
  88           cache, and state files (STR #3715)
  89         - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
  90           (STR #2959)
  91         - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
  92           cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
  93         - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
  94         - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
  95           (STR #3605)
  96         - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
  97         - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
  98         - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
  99         - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
 100           (STR #3766)
 101         - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
 102           sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
 103           size (STR #3689)
 104         - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
 105         - Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes.
 106         - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
 107         - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
 108         - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
 109           drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
 110         - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
 111           the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
 112         - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
 113           authenticating (STR #3670)
 114         - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
 115           CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
 116           printers.
 117         - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
 118           pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
 119           Throughput keyword.
 120         - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
 121         - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
 122           CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
 123         - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
 124           STR #3753)
 125         - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
 126           to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
 127         - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
 128           in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
 129         - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
 130           (STR #2969)
 131         - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
 132           elements.
 133         - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
 134         - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
 135           default.
 136         - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
 137           support (STR #3097)
 138         - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
 139           Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
 140           PWG 5100.11.
 141         - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
 142           (<cups/ppd.h>).
 143         - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
 144           attribute.
 145         - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
 146           plugin.
 147         - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
 148           on Mac OS X.
 149         - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
 150           CUPS 1.1.x.  The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
 151           were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
 152         - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
 153           improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
 154         - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
 155           provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
 156         - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
 157         - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
 158           permissions disabled.
 159         - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
 160           PPD files.
 161         - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
 162         - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)