CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-04-23
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
   7           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
   8         - Driver information files can now be installed in
   9           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
  10         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
  11           than 2GB.
  12         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
  13           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
  14         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
  15           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
  16           backends are polled and for how long.
  17         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
  18           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
  19         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
  20         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
  21           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
  22         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
  23           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
  24         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
  25           for localization (STR #2737)
  26         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
  27           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
  28           file.
  29         - The build system has been updated to support separate
  30           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
  31         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
  32           by default.
  33         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
  34         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
  35           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
  36         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
  37           root to make the default installation more secure.
  38         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
  39           the localized version of a marker-names value.
  40         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
  41           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
  42         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
  43           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
  44         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
  45           global based on the current access policies for the
  46           printer.
  47         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
  48           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
  49         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
  50         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
  51           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
  52         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
  53           that support it (STR #2637)
  54         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
  55           possible.
  56         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
  57           attriibute to purge a specified job.
  58         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
  59           attributes for custom option selections.
  60         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
  61           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
  62           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
  63         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
  64           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
  65           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
  66         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
  67           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
  68           on the model page (STR #2436)
  69         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
  70           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
  71           of printers (STR #1175)
  72         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
  73         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
  74           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
  75         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
  76           to filter the document from the specified job.
  77         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
  78           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
  79         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
  80           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
  81         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
  82