CHANGES.txt

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