CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-05-15
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
   7           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
   8         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
   9           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
  10         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
  11           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
  12         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
  13           name resolution.
  14         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
  15           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
  16         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
  17           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
  18         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
  19           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
  20         - Driver information files can now be installed in
  21           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
  22         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
  23           than 2GB.
  24         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
  25           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
  26         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
  27           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
  28           backends are polled and for how long.
  29         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
  30           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
  31         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
  32         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
  33           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
  34         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
  35           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
  36         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
  37           for localization (STR #2737)
  38         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
  39           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
  40           file.
  41         - The build system has been updated to support separate
  42           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
  43         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
  44           by default.
  45         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
  46         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
  47           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
  48         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
  49           root to make the default installation more secure.
  50         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
  51           the localized version of a marker-names value.
  52         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
  53           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
  54         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
  55           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
  56         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
  57           global based on the current access policies for the
  58           printer.
  59         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
  60           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
  61         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
  62         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
  63           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
  64         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
  65           that support it (STR #2637)
  66         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
  67           possible.
  68         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
  69           attriibute to purge a specified job.
  70         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
  71           attributes for custom option selections.
  72         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
  73           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
  74           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
  75         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
  76           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
  77           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
  78         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
  79           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
  80           on the model page (STR #2436)
  81         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
  82           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
  83           of printers (STR #1175)
  84         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
  85         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
  86           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
  87         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
  88           to filter the document from the specified job.
  89         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
  90           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
  91         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
  92           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
  93         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
  94