CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-10-08
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
   7         - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
   8           on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
   9         - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
  10           the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
  11           levels.
  12         - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
  13           support and easier customization (STR #2490)
  14         - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
  15           environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
  16         - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
  17           stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
  18         - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
  19           the printer-state-reasons attribute.
  20         - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
  21           of printer options (STR #1440)
  22         - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
  23           form.
  24         - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
  25           easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
  26         - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
  27         - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
  28           Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
  29         - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
  30           they know whether they are printing a banner or document
  31           file (STR #2799)
  32         - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
  33           command (STR #2562)
  34         - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
  35           talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
  36         - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
  37           cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
  38         - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
  39           Google (STR #2882)
  40         - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
  41           default server (STR #2833)
  42         - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
  43           which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
  44         - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
  45           (STR #2923)
  46         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
  47           (STR #2848)
  48         - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
  49           value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
  50         - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
  51         - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
  52         - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
  53           print jobs (STR #2482)
  54         - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
  55           values.
  56         - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
  57           track the progress of individual pages.
  58         - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
  59         - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
  60           command, when available (STR #2724)
  61         - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
  62         - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
  63           PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
  64         - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
  65           file as errors (STR #2616)
  66         - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
  67           retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
  68           an error (STR #2555)
  69         - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
  70           correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
  71           continue further (STR #2101)
  72         - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
  73           (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
  74         - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
  75           (STR #2853)
  76         - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
  77           the physical location of a printer device.
  78         - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
  79           device data by a backend.
  80         - Added support for custom options in the web interface
  81           (STR #1729)
  82         - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
  83           and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
  84         - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
  85         - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
  86           to CUPS (STR #263)
  87         - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
  88         - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
  89           cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
  90         - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
  91         - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
  92           attributes for better option conflict detection and
  93           resolution.
  94         - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
  95           256 bytes (STR #2877)
  96         - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
  97           what is logged to the access_log file.
  98         - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
  99           the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
 100         - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
 101           files (STR #2871)
 102         - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
 103           information files.
 104         - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
 105         - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
 106           of an attribute.
 107         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
 108         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
 109           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
 110         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
 111           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
 112         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
 113           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
 114         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
 115           (STR #2738)
 116         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
 117           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
 118         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
 119           (STR #2636)
 120         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
 121           files (STR #2739)
 122         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
 123           ModelName value as the output filename.
 124         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
 125           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
 126         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
 127           standard network backends.
 128         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
 129           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
 130         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
 131           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
 132         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
 133           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
 134         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
 135           name resolution.
 136         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
 137           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
 138         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
 139           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
 140         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
 141           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
 142         - Driver information files can now be installed in
 143           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
 144         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
 145           than 2GB.
 146         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
 147           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
 148         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
 149           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
 150           backends are polled and for how long.
 151         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
 152           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
 153         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
 154         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
 155           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
 156         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
 157           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
 158         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
 159           for localization (STR #2737)
 160         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
 161           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
 162           file.
 163         - The build system has been updated to support separate
 164           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
 165         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
 166           by default.
 167         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
 168         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
 169           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
 170         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
 171           root to make the default installation more secure.
 172         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
 173           the localized version of a marker-names value.
 174         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
 175           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
 176         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
 177           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
 178         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
 179           global based on the current access policies for the
 180           printer.
 181         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
 182           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
 183         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
 184         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
 185           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
 186         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
 187           that support it (STR #2637)
 188         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
 189           possible.
 190         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
 191           attriibute to purge a specified job.
 192         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
 193           attributes for custom option selections.
 194         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
 195           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
 196           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
 197         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
 198           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
 199           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
 200         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 201           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 202           on the model page (STR #2436)
 203         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 204           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 205           of printers (STR #1175)
 206         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 207         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 208           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 209         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 210           to filter the document from the specified job.
 211         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 212           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 213         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 214           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 215         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
 216