1 CHANGES.txt - 2006-10-20
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6 - Documentation updates (STR #2038)
7 - The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP for Epson printers
9 - Updated the configure script for Tru64 UNIX 5.1 (STR
11 - Tru64 5.1B's getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() functions
12 leak file descriptors (STR #2034)
13 - cupsAddDest() didn't add the parent destination's
14 options and attributes.
15 - ppdConflicts() did not handle custom option
17 - Raw printing of gzip'd files did not work (STR #2009)
18 - The scheduler no longer preserves default option
19 choices when the new PPD no longer provides the old
20 default choice (STR #1929)
21 - The Linux SCSI backend is now only built if the SCSI
22 development headers are installed.
23 - USB printing to Minolta printers did not work (STR
25 - Windows clients could not monitor the queue status (STR
27 - The scheduler didn't log the operation name in the
28 access_log file for Create-Job and Print-Job requests.
29 - The PostScript filter now separates collated copies
30 with any required JCL commands so that JCL-based
31 finishing options act on the individual copies and not
32 all of the copies as a single document.
33 - The PostScript filter now disables duplex printing when
34 printing a 1-page document.
35 - cups-lpd didn't pass the correct
36 job-originating-host-name value (STR #2023)
37 - Fixed some speling errors in the German message catalog
39 - cupstestppd did not catch PPD files with bad
40 UIConstraints values (STR #2016)
41 - The USB backend did not work with the current udev-
42 created printers if the first printer was disconnected
44 - Mirrored and rotated printing did not work with some
46 - 2-sided printing with banners did not work properly on
47 some printers (STR #2018)
48 - Updated the raw type rule to handle PJL within the
49 first 4k of a print job (STR #1969)
50 - Added an Estonian translation (STR #1957)
51 - Clarified the documentation for the cupsd.conf @LOCAL
52 and @IF(name) allow/deny functionality (STR #1992)
53 - The PostScript filters did not escape the Title and For
54 comments in the print job header (STR #1988)
55 - The scheduler would use 100% CPU if browsing was
56 disabled and the cupsd.conf file contained BrowsePoll
58 - The cupsDirRead() function did not work properly on
59 non-POSIX-compliant systems (STR #2001)
60 - The cupsFile functions didn't handle read/write errors
62 - The DBUS support now works with older versions of the
66 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.4
68 - The --with-printcap configure option did not work (STR
70 - The character set reported by cupsLangGet() did not
71 always reflect the default character set of a given
73 - Older Lexmark and Tektronix printers did not work with
75 - Failsafe printing did not work (PR #6328)
76 - Some web interface redirects did not work (STR #1978)
77 - The web interface change settings button could
78 introduce a "Port 0" line in cupsd.conf if there was no
79 loopback connection available (STR #1979)
80 - The web interface change settings and edit
81 configuration file buttons would truncate the
82 cupsd.conf file (STR #1976)
83 - The German web interface used the wrong printer icon
85 - The "All Documents" link in the on-line help was
86 missing a trailing slash (STR #1971)
87 - The Polish web interface translation used the wrong
88 URLs for the job history (STR #1963)
89 - The "reprint job" button did not work (STR #1956)
90 - The scheduler did not always report printer or job
91 events properly (STR #1955)
92 - The scheduler always stopped the queue on error,
93 regardless of the exit code, if the error policy was
94 set to "stop-printer" (STR #1959)
95 - ppdEmitJCL() included UTF-8 characters in the JCL job
96 name, which caused problems on some printers (STR
98 - Fixed a buffering problem that cause high CPU usage
100 - The command-line applications did not convert
101 command-line strings to UTF-8 as needed (STR #1958)
102 - cupsDirRead() incorrectly aborted when reading a
103 symbolic link that pointed to a file/directory that did
104 not exist (STR #1953)
105 - The cupsInterpretRasterPPD() function did not handle
106 custom page sizes properly.
109 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.3
111 - The scheduler did not send job-state or
112 job-config-changed events when a job was held,
113 released, or changed (STR #1947)
114 - The scheduler now aborts if the configuration file and
115 directory checks fail (STR #1941)
116 - Fixed a problem with ippPort() not using the port
117 number that was set via the client.conf file or
118 CUPS_SERVER environment variable (STR #1945)
119 - HTTP headers were not buffered (STR #1899)
120 - Some IPP printers (HP) did not like UTF-8 job names
122 - The CUPS desktop icon is now localized for Polish (STR
124 - Printer options were not always honored when printing
125 from Windows clients (STR #1839)
126 - The openssl command would lock up the scheduler when
127 generating an encryption certificate on some platforms
128 due to a lack of entropy for the random number
129 generator (STR #1876)
130 - The web admin page did not recognize that "Listen 631"
131 enabled remote access (STR #1908)
132 - The web admin page did not check whether changes were
133 made to the Basic Server Settings check boxes (STR
135 - The IPP backend could generate N*N copies in certain
137 - The scheduler did not restore remote printers properly
138 when BrowseShortNames was enabled (STR #1893)
139 - Polling did not handle changes to the network
140 environment on Mac OS X (STR #1896)
141 - The "make test" subscription tests used invalid
142 notify-recipient-uri values (STR #1910)
143 - Printers could be left in an undefined state on system
145 - The Berkeley and System V commands did not always use
146 the expected character set (STR #1915)
147 - Remote printing fixes (STR #1881)
148 - The cupstestppd utility did not validate translation
149 strings for custom options properly.
150 - Multi-language PPD files were not properly localized in
151 the web interface (STR #1913)
152 - The admin page's simple settings options did not check
153 for local domain socket or IPv6 addresses and did not
154 use "localhost" as the listen address.
155 - An empty BrowseProtocols, BrowseLocalProtocols, or
156 BrowseRemoteProtocols line would crash the scheduler
157 instead of disabling the corresponding browsing options.
158 - The scheduler now logs IPP operation status as debug
159 messages instead of info or error.
160 - cupsFileRewind() didn't clear the end-of-file state.
161 - cupstestppd didn't report the actual misspelling of the
162 1284DeviceID attribute (STR #1849)
163 - BrowseRelay didn't work on Debian (STR #1887)
164 - configure --without-languages didn't work (STR #1879)
165 - Manually added remote printers did not work (STR #1881)
166 - The <cups/backend.h> header was not installed.
167 - Updated the build files for Autoconf 2.60 (STR #1853)
168 - The scheduler incorrectly terminated the polling
169 processes after receiving a partial log line.
170 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon reported "No printer-state
171 attribute found" errors when reporting the queue status
172 (PR #6250, STR #1821)
173 - SNMP backend improvements (STR #1737, STR #1742, STR
174 #1790, STR #1835, STR #1880)
175 - The scheduler erroneously reported an error with the
177 - Fixed HP-UX compile problems (STR #1858, STR #1859)
178 - cupstestppd crashed with some PPD files (STR #1864)
179 - The <cups/dir.h> and <cups/file.h> header files did not
183 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.2
185 - Documentation updates (STR #1765, STR #1780)
186 - CUPS didn't know about alternate character set names
187 for Asian text (STR #1819)
188 - The lpoptions -o and -r options did not work unless you
190 - The lpoptions command incorrectly allowed users to set
191 printer attributes like printer-type (STR #1791)
192 - httpWait() did not flush the write buffer, causing "bad
193 request" errors when communicating with CUPS 1.1.x
195 - Polling did not sanitize the printer description,
196 location, or make and model strings like broadcasts
198 - Polled printers did not show the server's default
199 job-sheets option value.
200 - The Samba password prompt was not properly localized
202 - Added a German translation (STR #1842)
203 - The scheduler now creates self-signed SSL certficates
204 automatically when using OpenSSL and CDSA for
205 encryption, just as for GNU TLS.
206 - The SNMP backend sporatically reported some printers as
207 "unknown" (STR #1774)
208 - The scheduler now forces BrowseTimeout to be at least
209 twice the BrowseInterval value and non-zero to avoid
210 common configuration errors.
211 - The scheduler incorrectly returned printer URIs of the
212 form "ipp://server/printers/classname" for classes (STR
214 - Updated Japanese localization (STR #1805)
215 - The scheduler's SSL certificate/key directory was not
216 created on installation (STR #1788)
217 - Added a mailto.conf man page and help page (STR #1754)
218 - The parallel and USB backends no longer wait for the
219 printer to go on-line - this caused problems with
220 certain printers that don't follow with the IEEE-1284
222 - The scheduler could crash on a reload when implicit
223 classes were present (STR #1828)
224 - The IPP backend incorrectly used the CUPS_ENCRYPTION
225 environment variable to determine the default
226 encryption mode when printing (STR #1820)
227 - USB printing did not work on Solaris (STR #1756)
228 - The scheduler sorted job priorities in the wrong order
230 - The scheduler did not automatically restart notifiers
231 that exited or crashed (STR #1793)
232 - IPv6 support did not work on NetBSD (STR #1834)
233 - The EPM packaging file did not work (STR #1804)
234 - The scheduler used up the CPU if BrowseRemoteProtocols
235 was empty (STR #1792)
236 - Custom page sizes did not work (STR #1787)
237 - The SNMP backend could crash on some systems when SNMP
238 logging was enabled (STR #1789)
239 - Browsing could produce some funny printer names when
240 ServerName was set to an IP address (STR #1799)
241 - Fixed the log message for BrowseRelay (STR #1798)
242 - Fixes to allow CUPS to compile on MirBSD (STR #1796)
243 - The scheduler incorrectly set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
244 environment variable (STR #1795)
245 - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded a "produced by"
246 comment, causing PDF printing not to work on some
247 operating systems (STR #1801)
248 - Sending raw jobs from a client system could cause the
249 client's scheduler to eventually crash (STR #1786)
250 - The scheduler now checks that the notifier exists prior
251 to accepting a new subscription request.
252 - The scheduler now reports the supported
253 notify-recipient schemes based on the contents of the
254 ServerBin/notifier directory.
255 - Event notifications did not include the
256 notify-sequence-number or other required attributes
258 - Allow/Deny addresses of the form "11.22.33.*" did not
259 work on Linux (STR #1769)
260 - cupsGetPPD() did not work if the scheduler was only
261 listening on a domain socket (STR #1766)
262 - The scheduler could crash advertising a class (STR
264 - The scheduler could crash if the default printer was
266 - Added a new default CUPS raster format (v3) which does
267 not compress the raster stream in order to provide the
268 same cupsRasterReadPixels() and cupsRasterWritePixels()
269 performance as CUPS 1.1.x.
270 - The cupsaddsmb man page listed the wrong files for the
272 - Some configure --with options did not work (STR #1746)
273 - "Allow @IF(name)" didn't work if "name" wasn't the
274 first network interface (STR #1758)
275 - The lpstat command did not use the correct character
276 set when reporting the date and time (STR #1751)
277 - The cupsaddsmb command and web interface did not update
278 the Windows PPD files properly, resulting in corrupt
279 PPD files for the Windows client to use (STR #1750)
280 - The cupsd.conf man page didn't describe the Listen
281 domain socket syntax (STR #1753)
282 - The scheduler no longer tries to support more than
283 FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
284 - CDSA (encryption) support fixes for MacOS X.
285 - The lppasswd program needs to be setuid to root to
286 create and update the /etc/cups/passwd.md5 file (STR
288 - 32/64-bit library installation was broken (STR #1741)
289 - The USB backend now reports a "no such device" error
290 when using the old filename-based USB URIs instead of
292 - Increased the HTTP and IPP read timeouts to 10 seconds,
293 as 1 second was too short on congested networks (STR
295 - The SNMP backend now uses the device description over
296 the printer-make-and-model attribute when the attribute
297 contains a generic name (STR #1728)
298 - Fixed another file descriptor leak when printing raw
300 - Raw queues were not shared via LDAP (STR #1739)
301 - The pstops filter didn't always embed PageSetup
302 commands from the PPD file (STR #1740)
303 - "make install" didn't work if you disabled all of the
305 - The scheduler didn't always choose the least costly
307 - Fixed parsing of IPv6 addresses in Allow, Deny,
308 BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, and BrowseRelay directives
310 - Printers that were shared via LDAP did not get added to
311 the LDAP server properly (STR #1733)
312 - LDAP browsing would crash the scheduler if a required
313 value was missing (STR #1731)
314 - Special cases for the "localhost" hostname did not
315 work, causing printing to not work when the /etc/hosts
316 file did not contain a localhost entry (STR #1723)
317 - Updated the Spanish translation (STR #1720, STR #1770)
318 - Reverse-order page output was broken when N-up or
319 landscape orientations were used (STR #1725)
320 - The parallel, serial, socket, and USB backends needed
321 print data before they would report back-channel data,
322 causing problems with several new drivers (STR #1724)
325 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.1
327 - "lprm -h hostname" did not work (STR #1800)
328 - The web interface did not handle reloads properly for
330 - The configure script no longer adds linker rpath
331 options when they are unnecessary.
332 - The scheduler could crash printing a debug message on
334 - The --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure options
336 - The password prompt showed the domain socket address
337 instead of "localhost" for local authentication (STR
339 - The web interface filtered the list of printers even if
340 the user wasn't logged in (STR #1700)
341 - The IPP backend did not work reliably with some Xerox
343 - Trailing banners were not added when printing a single
345 - The web interface support programs crashed on Solaris
347 - cupstestppd incorrectly reported problems with
348 *1284DeviceID attributes (STR #1710)
349 - Browsing could get disabled after a restart (STR #1670)
350 - Custom page sizes were not parsed properly (STR #1709)
351 - The -U option wasn't supported by lpadmin (STR #1702)
352 - The -u option didn't work with lpadmin (STR #1703)
353 - The scheduler did not create non-blocking back-channel
354 pipes, which caused problems when the printer driver
355 did not read the back-channel data (STR #1705)
356 - The scheduler no longer uses chunking in responses to
357 clients - this caused problems with older versions of
358 CUPS like 1.1.17 (PR #6143)
359 - Automatic raw printing was broken (STR #1667)
360 - 6-up printing was broken (STR #1697)
361 - The pstops filter did not disable CTRL-D processing on
363 - ppdOpen*() did not load custom options properly (STR
365 - "Set Printer Options" in the web interface did not
366 update the DefaultImageableArea or
367 DefaultPaperDimension attributes in the PPD file (STR
369 - Fixed compile errors (STR #1682, STR #1684, STR #1685,
371 - The lpstat command displayed the wrong error message
372 for a missing destination (STR #1683)
373 - Revised and completed the Polish translation (STR
375 - Stopped jobs did not show up in the list of active jobs
377 - The configure script did not use the GNU TLS
378 "libgnutls-config" script to find the proper compiler
380 - The imagetoraster filter did not correctly generate
381 several 1, 2, and 4-bit color modes.
382 - cupsRasterWritePixels() could lose track of the current
384 - cupsRasterReadPixels() did not automatically swap
385 12/16-bit chunked pixel data.
386 - Moved the private _cups_raster_s structure out of the
388 - Updated the CUPS raster format specification to include
389 encoding rules and colorspace definitions.
390 - The Zebra PPD files had the wrong PostScript code for
391 the "default" option choices.
392 - The imagetoraster filter did not generate correct CIE
393 XYZ or Lab color data.
394 - The cups-config script did not work when invoked from a
395 source directory (STR #1673)
396 - The SNMP backend did not compile on systems that used
397 the getifaddrs emulation functions (STR #1668)
400 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.0
402 - Documentation updates (STR #1618, STR #1620, STR #1622,
404 - Static file copy buffers reduced from 64k to 32k to
405 work around bogus MallocDebug library assumptions (STR
407 - The scheduler did not decode the backend exit code
409 - The MacOS X USB backend did not report the 1284 device ID,
410 nor did it fix device IDs returned by HP printers.
411 - The scheduler started more slowly than 1.1.x with large
412 numbers of printers (STR #1653)
413 - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() didn't support the
414 cupsPreferredBitsPerColor attribute, and imagetoraster
415 didn't use the new API.
416 - The "make test" script did not create all of the necessary
417 subdirectories for testing (STR #1638)
418 - The scheduler did not prevent rotation of logs
419 redirected to /dev/null (STR #1651)
420 - "make test" did not include the SNMP backend in the
421 test environment (STR #1625)
422 - The EPM packaging files did not work (STR #1621)
423 - "Use Default Configuration" inserted a broken
424 configuration file (STR #1624)
425 - Redirects in the web interface did not always preserve
426 the encrypted status of a connection (STR #1603)
427 - Added the Apple "pap" backend.
428 - Added CUPS library to CUPS Image shared library
429 linkage to support Linux --as-needed linker option
431 - Fixed support for --enable-pie (STR #1609)
432 - The pdftops filter did not validate the length of the
433 encryption key (STR #1608)
434 - Updated the Polish localization.
435 - "Encryption Required" in the cupsd.conf file now only
436 requires encryption when the connection is not over the
437 loopback interface or domain socket.
438 - Printer names containing "+" were not quoted properly in
439 the web interface (STR #1600)
440 - The SNMP backend now reports the make and model in the
441 information string so that the auto-generated printer
442 name is more useful than just an IP address.
445 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc3
447 - The cups-lpd program always did reverse lookups on the
448 client address, which could be a performance problem.
449 Added a "-n" option to disable lookups.
450 - When configured with SSL support, require encryption by
451 default when displaying the /admin location (STR #1592)
452 - The next job ID was not computed correctly if the job
453 cache file got out of sync with the spool directory
455 - The PNG image handling code used deprecated functions
456 from libpng (STR #1587)
457 - Added a Polish translation (STR #1584, STR #1586)
458 - More changes to the scheduler to improve battery life
459 on portable devices (STR #1583)
460 - Changed the default log level for status messages back
461 to "DEBUG" to be consistent with CUPS 1.1.x (STR #1579)
462 - The error string was not set properly when
463 cupsDoFileRequest() was given the name of a directory
465 - Fixed handling of job-hold-until (STR #1581)
466 - Added explicit notes to the cupsaddsmb man page
467 explaining that the driver filenames are case-sensitive
468 under UNIX and that they must be all lowercase (Windows
469 2000) or all UPPERCASE (Windows 95/98/Me) to work (STR
471 - The USB backend incorrectly split the manufacturer name
472 if it contained spaces (STR #1566)
473 - The scheduler would hang when listing PPD files for a
474 manufacturer whose name contained spaces (STR #1567)
475 - Added the SNMP backend for network printer discovery
477 - cupstestppd now fails PPD files with 1284DeviceId
478 instead of 1284DeviceID, and cups-driverd uses a
479 case-insensitive comparison when looking for it (STR
481 - cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() now work
482 properly with non-blocking HTTP connections.
483 - Added Swedish translation (STR #1569)
484 - "make install" now installs the MIME files with world
485 read permissions (STR #1565)
486 - More CDSA encryption support fixes (STR #1563)
487 - Updated the default mime.types file to support printing
488 of files that do not have a locally-recognized MIME
489 media type to raw or System V queues.
490 - Updated the serial port detection code on Linux (STR
492 - Added some more error checking to httpGetHostname()
494 - The title of some administration pages was not
495 localized (STR #1548)
496 - The edit-config.tmpl file was not generated or
497 installed for the Spanish or Japanese localizations
499 - The mimeDelete() function freed the types before the
500 filters, but the filters needed the type data (STR #1558)
501 - The scheduler didn't keep track of the status pipes
502 properly, leading to a bad select() for multi-file jobs
504 - The cupstestdsc program didn't validate the ordinal
505 page number value for %%Page: comments.
508 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc2
510 - The scheduler was not always using the string pool,
511 causing random crashes.
512 - The lpmove and the web interface's Move Job button did
513 not work with stopped jobs (STR #1534)
514 - The PostScript filter did not handle the page-set
515 option properly with number-up printing (STR #1543)
516 - The scheduler now only warns about unsupported ACLs
518 - The "fitplot" option did not work with output from
520 - The imagetops filter did not work with Level 2 or 3
522 - The scheduler now recognizes PostScript files with PJL
523 commands that do not include an ENTER LANGUAGE command.
524 - Added --with-printcap configure option.
525 - 64-bit SSL fixes for MacOS X.
526 - The scheduler didn't send some printer state change
528 - The scheduler didn't send jobs to busy remote printers.
529 - Fixed some problems with the launchd support.
530 - Added new USB printer backend for MacOS X.
531 - The PostScript filter now handles files that start with
532 an incomplete PJL header (PR #6076)
533 - The web interface language selection code did not try
534 the generic language localization (STR #1531)
535 - The language cache, string pool, and transcoding caches
536 are now process global instead of per-thread to avoid
537 problems with GNOME and to allow for data sharing
538 between threads (STR #1530)
539 - Fixed a CUPS 1.1.x compatibility bug (STR #1528)
540 - The web interface redirection after certain printer
541 administration tasks was broken (STR #1516)
542 - Web interface authorization could get stuck (STR #1512)
543 - Localization updates (STR #1513, STR #1518, STR #1520)
544 - The pstops filter didn't work with some files (STR
546 - "./configure --enable-static" didn't work (STR #1522)
547 - The scheduler was not using the configured default
549 - The web interface still did not show the localized time
550 and date for some locales and systems (STR #1509)
551 - httpAddrGetList() would crash on systems without
553 - Socket URIs without a trailing slash would cause the
554 port number to not be accepted (STR #1519)
555 - Local raw and System V printers were not advertised as
556 such for printer browsing (STR #1502)
557 - The RPM spec file incorrectly put duplicate copies of
558 the Japanese and Spanish web interface templates in the
559 main cups package (STR #1517)
560 - cupsSetDests() did not explicitly set the permissions
561 of the /etc/cups/lpoptions file (STR #1508)
562 - The lpq command crashed with the -h option (STR #1515)
565 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc1
567 - Documentation updates (STR #1497, STR #1498)
568 - The scheduler now redirects browsers to https: URLs
569 when encryption is required.
570 - The scheduler would crash when printing with a banner
572 - cups-driverd did not use the LanguageEncoding attribute
573 in PPD files to convert the NickName to UTF-8 (STR
575 - The lpadmin command could not set the
576 printer-error-policy attribute (STR #1504)
577 - The web interface did not show the time and date in the
578 correct format for the locale (STR #1505)
579 - CUPS no longer accepts print jobs if a printer does not
580 support the file format (STR #1501)
581 - Cleaned up the PostScript filter (pstops) so that it
582 properly supports %%IncludeFeature and page scaling
584 - Fixed the cupsFileRewind() and cupsFileSeek() functions
585 to work properly with uncompressed files.
586 - Added cupsFileGetLine(), cupsFileStderr(),
587 cupsFileStdin(), and cupsFileStdout() functions to the
589 - Added a new cupstestdsc program to test the DSC
590 conformance of PostScript files.
591 - Added KDE/GNOME icons and a Manage Printers menu item.
592 - Added --enable-image and --enable-pdftops configure
593 options to control whether the image and PDF filters
594 are built and installed (default = yes for all
595 platforms but MacOS X)
596 - Fixed a minor memory leak in the PPD API.
597 - Fixed transcoding issues (STR #1493)
598 - The scheduler now enforces a minimum job cost of 100
599 when doing FilterLimit checks.
600 - The scheduler would leak file descriptors when printing
601 to raw queues (STR #1491)
602 - The IPv6 support did not compile on Tru64 UNIX (STR
604 - ppdOpen2() now converts the NickName and all UI text to
606 - The Set Allowed Users web page did not work (STR #1486)
607 - When the default policy was not set or set to a non-
608 existing policy, the scheduler did not set the default
609 policy name to "default" (STR #1484)
610 - The Zebra CPCL driver did not use the correct righthand
611 margin for the 4" wide label sizes.
612 - Fixed a problem with the parsing of fractional real
613 numbers in PPD files.
614 - Added Spanish localization files (STR #1480)
615 - Fixed localization of a few scheduler messages (STR
617 - Fixed support for HEAD requests in the scheduler (STR
621 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b2
623 - Updated the CUPS design description.
624 - Added --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure
625 options to allow building of separate 32/64-bit
626 libraries on systems that support both environments
628 - Various compiler warning fixes.
629 - Fixes for Solaris 10 builds against old GNU TLS and
631 - Added a cupsArrayUserData() function to retrieve the
632 user data pointer for an array (useful for typing
634 - The ppdEmitString() function did not compute the
635 required buffer size properly, leading to dropped
636 characters on the end of the printer commands in pstops
637 and imagetops (STR #1470)
640 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b1
642 - The serial backend now supports Equinox 8-port serial
644 - The IPP backend now supports a compression option to
645 compress print files as they are sent to the remote
647 - The CUPS browse protocol now supports passing of
648 default options and browse timeout values from the
649 server to the clients (STR #800)
650 - Implicit classes that timed out could cause the
651 scheduler to crash (STR #1439)
652 - Added DragonFly support in local device backends (STR
654 - Added LDAP printer browsing support (STR #338)
655 - Added official support for printer maintenance commands
656 via the CUPS Command file format and hooks in the
657 printer-type and web interfaces (STR #932)
658 - The HP-GL/2 filter could get in an infinite loop trying
659 to convert HP-PCL files (STR #1415)
660 - CUPS now implements the HTTP/1.1 Expect header (STR
662 - Options in PPD files are no longer automatically put in
663 an "Extra" group; rather, all options that are not
664 inside an Open/CloseGroup will be placed in the
665 "General" group (STR #1385)
666 - The scheduler now creates a job-uuid attribute that
667 uniquely identifies a job on a network (STR #1410)
668 - The init script now unsets the TMPDIR environment
669 variable to prevent user temporary directories from
670 being used by cupsd accidentally (STR #1424)
671 - Added support for launchd on MacOS X.
672 - Added support for notify_post on MacOS X.
673 - Added support for DBUS on Linux.
674 - All of the Berkeley (except for lpc) and System V
675 commands now support specification of user, host, and
676 port (STR #1028, STR #1029, STR #1087)
677 - The lpmove command now allows you to move all jobs for
678 a given queue (STR #56)
679 - The web interface now supports moving of a job or jobs
680 to another queue (STR #56)
681 - The web interface now provides searching, paging, and
682 changing of the sort/display order of classes, jobs,
684 - cupsaddsmb now accepts a password on the command-line
685 and supports passwords with special characters (STR
687 - ppdLoad*() no longer tries to "fix" bad characters in
689 - Printer names can now (reliably) contain Unicode
690 characters (STR #896)
691 - The lpstat command now shows the time and date of the
692 last printer state change instead of the hardcoded "Jan
694 - The scheduler now adds a job-actual-printer-uri
695 attribute to job objects when printing to a class (STR
697 - The scheduler now logs log file open errors to the
698 system log (STR #1289)
699 - The scheduler now sets the job-originating-user-name to
700 the authenticated username, if available (STR #1318)
701 - The scheduler now only updates the permissions of SSL
702 keys and certificates when they are under the
703 ServerRoot directory (STR #1324)
704 - The rastertodymo driver has been renamed to
705 rastertolabel (a symlink is installed so that existing
706 queues continue to work) and now also supports Zebra's
708 - The lpstat command could show the wrong active job for
709 a printer (STR #1301)
710 - Fixed a potential crash problem in the scheduler when
711 aborting a CGI program (STR #1290)
712 - Added a "cancel all jobs" button to the class and
713 printer web interfaces (STR #1140)
714 - The add-printer web page now shows the
715 set-printer-options page after the printer has been
717 - The classes web page now provides links to each of the
718 member printers (STR #307)
719 - CUPS now handles HTTP request/response lines up to 32k
720 in length; this is mainly for better cookie support
722 - Added support for the Apache PassEnv and SetEnv
723 directives to cupsd.conf (STR #853)
724 - Added large file (64-bit) support (STR #541)
725 - Fixed a performance issue with the ippReadIO()
726 implementation (STR #1284)
727 - Fixed a performance issue with the scheduler's implicit
728 class implementation (STR #1283)
729 - The pdftops filter now adds the Title and Creator
730 fields from the PDF file to the PostScript document
731 comments section (STR #539, STR #830)
732 - Added a new cups_array_t and cupsArray*() functions to
733 the CUPS API to support sorted lists of data.
734 - Made the CUPS API library thread-safe (STR #1276)
735 - Added "media" option support for EFI EFMediaType option
737 - Added write buffering to the HTTP code to improve
738 performance (STR #547)
739 - The scheduler now uses the attributes-natural-language
740 attribute to localize banner pages (STR #386)
741 - The scheduler now returns the address that was used to
742 connect to it (STR #1076)
743 - Fixed a problem with N-up printing and OpenOffice (STR
745 - Added support for the GCC position independent
746 executable options (STR #1209)
747 - Added new BrowseLocalProtocols and
748 BrowseRemoteProtocols directives to cupsd.conf,
749 allowing for different browse protocols for local and
750 remote printers (STR #877)
751 - PPD files can now contain strings up to 256k in length
753 - The pstops filter now supports the IncludeFeature DSC
755 - The pstops filter now disables the setpagedevice
756 procedure when doing N-up printing (STR #1161)
757 - The serial backend now supports "stop=1", "stop=2",
758 "parity=space", and "parity=mark" options (STR #1155)
759 - "make install" no longer overwrites an existing PAM
760 configuration file (STR #1064)
761 - The scheduler now closes all files on startup when run
762 in daemon mode (STR #1009)
763 - Added a new RGBW colorspace to the CUPS raster format
765 - The pdftops filter now sets the page size based on the
766 media box when not scaling the output (STR #912)
767 - The pdftops filter now supports masked images (STR
769 - The pdftops filter produced large output when rendering
770 PDF files containing lot of repeated images (STR #327)
771 - The pdftops filter now minimizes print processing of
772 PDF files when using the page-ranges option (STR #273)
773 - Updated pdftops filter to Xpdf 3.01.
774 - Added new cupsBackchannelRead() and
775 cupsBackchannelWrite() functions, as well as
776 backchannel support to the parallel, serial, socket,
777 and USB backends (STR #1252)
778 - The parallel and USB backends now treat a "no space
779 available" error as an out-of-paper condition (STR
781 - The "lpc" command now supports the "status all" command
783 - ippReadIO() did not read collections properly (STR
785 - The "make test" script now creates the test files in
786 "/tmp/cups-$USER" instead of "/tmp/$USER" (STR #981)
787 - All backends now abort on error when printing a job to
788 a class - this allows the next printer in the class to
789 print the job (STR #1084)
790 - The scheduler now verifies that a printer supports
791 Letter or A4 media sizes before setting them as the
792 initial default (STR #1250)
793 - The cupstestppd program now flags bad Resolution
795 - The USB backend now retries printing when the printer
796 is disconnected or turned off (STR #1267)
797 - Added new httpGetHostname() function to CUPS API, and
798 use it instead of gethostname() so that the web
799 interface will work correctly on systems whose hostname
800 is not the FQDN (STR #1266)
801 - The scheduler now stops printers if the backend for the
802 queue is missing on startup (STR #1265)
803 - The configure script now supports "--disable-library"
804 to disable particular image file format support
805 libraries, even if they are available on the build
807 - The IPP backend did not always report on the total
808 number of pages that were printed (STR #1251)
809 - The lpstat program could display garbage date and time
810 values for locales whose date format exceeded 31
811 characters (STR #1263)
812 - The cupstestppd program would segfault when testing
813 certain broken PPD files (STR #1268)
814 - Dramatically reduced the overhead of implicit classes.
815 - Added new cupsDir*() functions to CUPS API.
816 - Printers can now be published individually for sharing.
817 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler's startup signalling code
818 which caused cupsd to send the SIGUSR1 signal to the
819 init process instead of the original parent process
821 - Added new on-line help CGI to web interface to provide
823 - Devices are now tracked dynamically, with each query
824 doing a new device scan. This eliminates a previous
825 startup delay caused by slow backends and allows new
826 printers to be seen without restarting the server,
827 however it limits the amount of device URI checking
828 that can be done (basically now the scheduler only
829 requires a URI with a method that is a listed backend)
830 - Added new printer auto-detection, server configuration,
831 and log file viewing to the administration web page.
832 - Added new "set allowed users" web interface to set the
833 list of allowed users for a printer or class.
834 - The scheduler, command-line, and web interfaces now
835 limit the list of printers and classes to those
836 accessible by a user.
837 - cupsMarkOptions() now handles more non-standard
838 duplexing options and choices (STR #915)
839 - cups-lpd now honors remote banner requests with the
840 "standard" banner whenever a printer does not have one
842 - The scheduler's denial-of-service checks did not work
843 properly with IPv6 addresses (STR #1134)
844 - The lp and lpr commands did not error out properly when
845 they were unable to write to a temporary file (STR
847 - The pstops filter did not handle Adobe-specific
848 comments in Windows NT driver output (STR #1085)
849 - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly reported the printer
851 - The web interface now operates exclusively with the
852 UTF-8 encoding, and sends the appropriate character set
853 and header information to the web browser (STR #919,
855 - Added a "set allowed users" interface to the web
856 interface so that you can set the list of allowed or
857 denied users/groups for a printer or class.
858 - Disallow the "#" character in printer names, since it
859 has special meaning in the shell, config files, and in
860 URIs (STR #917, STR #1202)
861 - Added a new application/x-csource MIME type, and
862 support for it to the texttops filter so that you can
863 pretty print plain text files without the C/C++
864 keywords being highlighted.
865 - The pdftops filter did not compile with GCC 4.0 (STR
867 - The texttops filter did not highlight preprocessor
868 directives followed by a tab properly.
869 - HP PJL output now uses both JOB DISPLAY and RDYMSG
870 commands to show the current job on the printer's
872 - Local authentication certificates are now stored in
873 /var/run/cups/certs by default instead of
874 /etc/cups/certs (STR #1211)
875 - Backends now use "&" to separate options in device
876 URIs; "+" is still recognized but is deprecated (STR
878 - The USB backend no longer supports the usb:/dev/foo
879 format on systems that support device ID queries.
880 - Forced classification markings did not work when the
881 job-sheets parameters were "none,none".
882 - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly showed all users as allowed,
883 even if the queue was restricted to certain users (STR
885 - The scheduler now automatically detects SSL/TLS clients
886 without using the SSLPort/SSLListen directives.
887 - The CUPS API and scheduler no longer support SSLv2-
888 encrypted connections.
889 - Updated the cupsaddsmb utility to correctly export the
890 CUPS driver for Windows.
891 - Fixed a signal-handling bug in httpRead() which
892 ultimately caused the server to print multiple copies
893 when it was busy (STR #1184)
894 - The cupsFile API now uses the O_APPEND option when
895 opening files in append mode (STR #990)
896 - The md5.h header and md5_* functions are now officially
897 private and have been renamed to avoid conflicts with
898 other implementations with the same name.
899 - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded some Type1
901 - The scheduler didn't detect a closed connection in the
902 middle of an IPP request (STR #1153)
903 - The scheduler could block trying to read the job status
904 if there was input pending and the job was cancelled in
905 the same input cycle (STR #1157)
906 - The scheduler could crash when deleting a class due to
908 - Updated the Zebra ZPL label printer driver to use the
909 run-length encoding and support more options.
910 - Updated serial backend to scan for /dev/ttyC* as well
911 as /dev/ttyc* for Cyclades serial ports (STR #1049)
912 - The scheduler could hang reading the job status under
913 certain circumstances (STR #1068)
914 - The USB backend termination signal code was inverted
916 - Moved enable and disable commands to sbindir to be
918 - Added new cupsRasterInterpretPPD() function for RIP
919 filters to setup the raster page header from
920 PostScript commands in a PPD file.
921 - The CUPS browsing protocol now offers a "delete" bit
922 to remove printers as soon as they are deleted on the
923 server or as soon as the server shuts down gracefully
925 - The CUPS_SERVER and ServerName directives (client.conf
926 and ~/.cupsrc) may now contain names of the form
927 "server:port" and "/path/to/domain/socket".
928 - The "cancel -u user" command now works for ordinary
930 - Added test run support to "make test" target (STR #64)
931 - Added domain socket support (STR #656)
932 - Added BrowseLocalOptions directive to allow the
933 administrator to add printer URI options to the browse
934 URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR #732)
935 - Added BrowseRemoteOptions directive to allow the
936 administrator to add standard URI options to the
937 remote printer URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR
939 - Now put "-I.." compiler option in front of all others
940 to ensure that local CUPS headers are used before
941 installed headers (STR #437)
942 - New cupsLangPrintf() and cupsLangPuts() for localized
944 - Now support custom attributes and extended options in
946 - Now provide functions to save PPD files.
947 - New policy mechanism allows per-operation and
948 per-printer control over what users and groups are
949 allowed to do various IPP operations.
950 - New error policy mechanism to control how aborted
951 backend errors are handled by the scheduler
952 (abort-job, retry-job, requeue-job, stop-printer)
953 - Updated the printer test page with a better color
954 wheel and a separate grayscale ramp.
955 - A single backend process is now run to send all print
957 - Backends and filters can now send and receive
958 backchannel data over file descriptor 3.
959 - Updated the raster stream format to support more
960 user-defined attributes and to do compression of the
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