CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-05-19
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
   7           standard network backends.
   8         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
   9           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
  10         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
  11           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
  12         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
  13           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
  14         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
  15           name resolution.
  16         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
  17           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
  18         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
  19           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
  20         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
  21           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
  22         - Driver information files can now be installed in
  23           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
  24         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
  25           than 2GB.
  26         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
  27           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
  28         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
  29           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
  30           backends are polled and for how long.
  31         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
  32           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
  33         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
  34         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
  35           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
  36         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
  37           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
  38         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
  39           for localization (STR #2737)
  40         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
  41           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
  42           file.
  43         - The build system has been updated to support separate
  44           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
  45         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
  46           by default.
  47         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
  48         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
  49           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
  50         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
  51           root to make the default installation more secure.
  52         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
  53           the localized version of a marker-names value.
  54         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
  55           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
  56         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
  57           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
  58         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
  59           global based on the current access policies for the
  60           printer.
  61         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
  62           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
  63         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
  64         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
  65           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
  66         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
  67           that support it (STR #2637)
  68         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
  69           possible.
  70         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
  71           attriibute to purge a specified job.
  72         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
  73           attributes for custom option selections.
  74         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
  75           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
  76           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
  77         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
  78           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
  79           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
  80         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
  81           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
  82           on the model page (STR #2436)
  83         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
  84           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
  85           of printers (STR #1175)
  86         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
  87         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
  88           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
  89         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
  90           to filter the document from the specified job.
  91         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
  92           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
  93         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
  94           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
  95         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
  96