CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2011-03-18
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
   5
   6         - Added printer-uuid attribute.
   7         - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
   8         - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
   9         - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
  10           drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
  11         - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
  12           the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
  13         - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
  14           authenticating (STR #3670)
  15         - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
  16           CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
  17           printers.
  18         - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
  19           pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
  20           Throughput keyword.
  21         - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
  22         - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
  23           CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
  24         - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
  25           STR #3753)
  26         - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
  27           to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
  28         - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
  29           in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
  30         - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
  31           (STR #2969)
  32         - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
  33           elements.
  34         - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
  35         - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
  36           default.
  37         - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
  38           support (STR #3097)
  39         - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
  40           Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
  41           PWG 5100.11.
  42         - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
  43           (<cups/ppd.h>).
  44         - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
  45           attribute.
  46         - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
  47           plugin.
  48         - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
  49           on Mac OS X.
  50         - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
  51           CUPS 1.1.x.  The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
  52           were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
  53         - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
  54           improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
  55         - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
  56           provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
  57         - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
  58         - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
  59           permissions disabled.
  60         - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
  61           PPD files.
  62         - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
  63         - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)