CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-08-04
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
   7         - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
   8           command, when available (STR #2724)
   9         - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
  10         - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
  11           PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
  12         - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
  13           file as errors (STR #2616)
  14         - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
  15           retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
  16           an error (STR #2555)
  17         - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
  18           correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
  19           continue further (STR #2101)
  20         - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
  21           (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
  22         - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
  23           (STR #2853)
  24         - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
  25           the physical location of a printer device.
  26         - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
  27           device data by a backend.
  28         - Added support for custom options in the web interface
  29           (STR #1729)
  30         - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
  31           and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
  32         - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
  33         - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
  34           to CUPS (STR #263)
  35         - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
  36         - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
  37           cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
  38         - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
  39         - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
  40           attributes for better option conflict detection and
  41           resolution.
  42         - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
  43           256 bytes (STR #2877)
  44         - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
  45           what is logged to the access_log file.
  46         - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
  47           the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
  48         - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
  49           files (STR #2871)
  50         - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
  51           information files.
  52         - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
  53         - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
  54           of an attribute.
  55         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
  56         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
  57           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
  58         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
  59           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
  60         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
  61           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
  62         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
  63           (STR #2738)
  64         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
  65           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
  66         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
  67           (STR #2636)
  68         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
  69           files (STR #2739)
  70         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
  71           ModelName value as the output filename.
  72         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
  73           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
  74         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
  75           standard network backends.
  76         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
  77           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
  78         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
  79           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
  80         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
  81           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
  82         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
  83           name resolution.
  84         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
  85           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
  86         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
  87           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
  88         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
  89           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
  90         - Driver information files can now be installed in
  91           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
  92         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
  93           than 2GB.
  94         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
  95           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
  96         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
  97           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
  98           backends are polled and for how long.
  99         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
 100           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
 101         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
 102         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
 103           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
 104         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
 105           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
 106         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
 107           for localization (STR #2737)
 108         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
 109           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
 110           file.
 111         - The build system has been updated to support separate
 112           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
 113         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
 114           by default.
 115         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
 116         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
 117           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
 118         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
 119           root to make the default installation more secure.
 120         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
 121           the localized version of a marker-names value.
 122         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
 123           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
 124         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
 125           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
 126         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
 127           global based on the current access policies for the
 128           printer.
 129         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
 130           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
 131         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
 132         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
 133           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
 134         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
 135           that support it (STR #2637)
 136         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
 137           possible.
 138         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
 139           attriibute to purge a specified job.
 140         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
 141           attributes for custom option selections.
 142         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
 143           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
 144           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
 145         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
 146           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
 147           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
 148         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 149           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 150           on the model page (STR #2436)
 151         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 152           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 153           of printers (STR #1175)
 154         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 155         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 156           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 157         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 158           to filter the document from the specified job.
 159         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 160           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 161         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 162           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 163         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
 164