CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2007-09-13
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.1
   5
   6         - Documentation updates.
   7         - The USB backend on Mac OS X could hang if the driver and
   8           printer did not match.
   9         - Delegated Kerberos credentials were not working.
  10         - "make distclean" incorrectly removed the edit-config.tmpl
  11           files (STR #2508)
  12         - Fix compile problem on HP-UX (STR #2501)
  13         - The cupstestppd utility now tests for resolutions greater
  14           than 99999 DPI to detect a missing  "x" between the X and Y
  15           resolutions.
  16         - Fixed many problems in the various translations and added
  17           a new "checkpo" utility to validate them.
  18         - The cupstestppd utility now tests the custom page size code
  19           for CUPS raster drivers.
  20         - cupsLangDefault() did not attempt to return a language that
  21           was supported by the calling application.
  22         - If a remote printer stopped while a job was being sent, the
  23           local queue would also get stopped and the job re-queued,
  24           resulting in duplicate prints in some cases.
  25         - A few Apple-specific job options needed to be omitted when
  26           printing a banner page.
  27         - The new peer credential support did not compile on FreeBSD
  28           (STR #2495)
  29         - Direct links to help files did not set the current section
  30           so the table-of-contents was not shown.
  31         - The configure script did not support --localedir=foo (STR #2488)
  32         - The backends were not displaying their localized messages.
  33         - CUPS-Authenticate-Job did not require Kerberos authentication
  34           on queues protected by Kerberos.
  35         - The Zebra ZPL driver did not work with Brady label printers
  36           (STR #2487)
  37         - Norwegian wasn't localized on Mac OS X.
  38         - getnameinfo() returns an error on some systems when DNS is
  39           not available, leading to numerous problems (STR #2486)
  40         - The cupsfilter command did not work properly on Mac OS X.
  41         - The scheduler makefile contained a typo (STR #2483)
  42         - The TBCP and BCP port monitors did not handle the trailing
  43           CTRL-D in some PostScript output properly.
  44         - Fixed the localization instructions and German template for
  45           the "Find New Printers" button (STR #2478)
  46         - The web interface did not work with the Chinese localization
  47           (STR #2477)
  48         - The web interface home page did not work for languages that
  49           were only partially localized (STR #2472)
  50         - Updated the Spanish web interface localization (STR #2473)
  51         - ppdLocalize() did not work for country-specific localizations.
  52
  53
  54 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.0
  55
  56         - The scheduler did not handle out-of-file conditions
  57           gracefully when accepting new connections, leading to
  58           heavy CPU usage.
  59         - The scheduler did not detect ServerBin misconfigurations
  60           (STR #2470)
  61         - "AuthType Default" did not work as expected when the
  62           "DefaultAuthType foo" line appeared after it in the
  63           cupsd.conf file.
  64         - The on-line help did not describe many common printing
  65           options (STR #1846)
  66         - The IPP backend did not return the "auth required" status
  67           when printing to a Kerberos-protected queue.
  68         - The scheduler was not looking in the correct directories
  69           for LSB PPD files (STR #2464)
  70         - Changed references to ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript
  71           (STR #2463)
  72         - The PostScript filter did not cleanly terminate when
  73           the job was canceled or stopped.
  74         - Fixed generation of Kerberos credentials for remote
  75           printing.  Note that this requires a recent version of
  76           MIT Kerberos with a working krb5_cc_new_unique()
  77           function or Heimdal Kerberos.
  78         - Added Portuguese and updated Italian message catalogs.
  79
  80
  81 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc2
  82
  83         - Added more range checking to the pdftops filter.
  84         - The scheduler would crash if a remote IPP queue was stopped
  85           (STR #2460)
  86         - The scheduler did not allow "DefaultAuthType None".
  87
  88
  89 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc1
  90
  91         - Updated the German localization (STR #2443)
  92         - cupsAdminGetServerSettings() did not handle </Foo> properly.
  93         - When lprm and cancel are run with no job ID, they now will
  94           cancel the first stopped job if no pending or processing
  95           jobs are left in the queue.
  96         - The scheduler now logs successful print jobs, filter
  97           failures, and the job file types at the default log
  98           level (STR #2458)
  99         - The scheduler now logs the usernames it is using for
 100           authorization at LogLevel debug instead of debug2 (STR #2448)
 101         - Added Intellitech Intellibar and Zebra CPCL PPDs to the list
 102           of installed PPDs.
 103         - Added 6" and 8" wide label sizes for the Zebra ZPL Label
 104           Printer driver (STR #2442)
 105         - The cupsaddsmb program and web interface now support
 106           exporting of 64-bit Windows drivers, when available
 107           (STR #2439)
 108         - Moving a job that was printing did not stop the job on the
 109           original printer (STR #2262)
 110         - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not work on Mac OS X server.
 111         - Added httpGetAuthString() and httpSetAuthString() APIs to get
 112           and set the current (cached) authorization string to use for
 113           HTTP requests.
 114         - Updated the default cupsd.conf policy to list the
 115           "administrative" operations separately from the "printer
 116           control" operations so that it is easier to define a
 117           group of users that are "printer operators".
 118         - The web interface now pulls the default cupsd.conf file
 119           from cupsd.conf.default in the CUPS config directory.
 120         - Added a help file for using Kerberos with CUPS.
 121         - The scheduler now strips the "@KDC" portion of Kerberos
 122           usernames since those usernames typically do not appear in
 123           the group membership lists used by CUPS.
 124         - cupsMarkOptions() could (incorrectly) leave multiple option
 125           choices marked.
 126         - Backends could (incorrectly) run as root during discovery
 127           (STR #2454)
 128         - Avahi is now supported for DNS-SD (Bonjour) printer sharing
 129           (STR #2455)
 130         - The default cupsd.conf file had typos and old operation names
 131           (STR #2450)
 132         - The scheduler now erases authentication cache files using the
 133           7-pass US DoD algorithm.
 134         - Delegated Kerberos credentials (proxy authentication) did not
 135           work.
 136         - The filter makefile did not optimize the libcupsimage.2.dylib
 137           with a sectorder file.
 138         - The IPP backend incorrectly wrote an empty printer message
 139           when processing the "none" state reason.
 140         - The USB backend could deadlock on Mac OS X while performing
 141           a side-channel command.
 142         - The scheduler did not prevent remote queues from being
 143           shared/published.
 144         - The scheduler did not remove the temporary request file on
 145           authentication errors.
 146         - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() did not handle "scheme:" schemes or
 147           "file" URLs.
 148         - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() was not exported on Mac OS X.
 149
 150
 151 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3b1
 152
 153         - Copyright updates - CUPS is now owned by Apple Inc.
 154         - Documentation updates (STR #1775, STR #2027, STR #2130,
 155           STR #2131, STR #2263, STR #2356, STR #2397)
 156         - Added new cupsfilter utility (STR #1734)
 157         - Added new job-printer-state-message and
 158           job-printer-state-reasons attributes to jobs (STR #2418)
 159         - Added LDAP+SSL support (STR #1967)
 160         - CUPS now supports authentication via peer credentials
 161           over domain sockets (STR #2242, STR #2277)
 162         - The CUPS sample driver PPDs are now generated by the PPD
 163           compiler and include all of the localized languages by
 164           default (STR #2164)
 165         - You can now specify "AuthType Default" in the cupsd.conf
 166           file to use the default authentication defined by the
 167           DefaultAuthType directive.
 168         - The SNMP backend no longer adds a default Address line
 169           when none is specified in the snmp.conf file; this allows
 170           the backend to be easily disabled as needed (STR #2434)
 171         - Added a new cupsctl command for doing basic changes to
 172           the cupsd.conf file (STR #1777)
 173         - Added a new ppdLocalizeIPPReason() function to get the
 174           localized text/URI for a given IPP reason keyword for a
 175           driver.
 176         - Removed the deskjet2.ppd driver, as it only worked with
 177           a very small subset of HP DeskJet printers and was
 178           confusing to users.  The rastertohp driver still
 179           supports the deskjet2.ppd options for existing queues.
 180         - The scheduler did not add a trailing banner page if a
 181           client did not specify the last document in a job (STR
 182           #1711)
 183         - The scheduler did not report Bonjour shared printers as
 184           remote printers (STR #2384)
 185         - Added new -R and -W options to the cupstestppd program
 186           for greater control over the testing of PPDs.
 187         - Added a new cupsGetServerPPD() function for getting
 188           an available PPD from the server (STR #2334)
 189         - Added a new cupsDoIORequest() function for reading
 190           and writing files via IPP requests (STR #2334)
 191         - Added a new CUPS_GET_PPD operation for getting an
 192           available PPD file on the server (STR #2334)
 193         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports multiple ppd-product values
 194           based on the PPD ModelName and Product strings (STR
 195           #2334, STR #2383)
 196         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the PSVersion attributes
 197           from a PPD file in the ppd-psversion attribute
 198           (STR #2334)
 199         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the cupsModelNumber attribute
 200           from a PPD file in the ppd-model-number attribute (STR
 201           #2383)
 202         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports a driver type string in the
 203           ppd-type attribute based on the cupsFax and cupsFilter
 204           attributes in a PPD file (STR #2383)
 205         - Added a new printer attribute called "cups-version"
 206           which reports the version of CUPS that is running
 207           (STR #2240)
 208         - backendRunLoop() now aborts immediately on SIGTERM
 209           if no data has been written yet (STR #2103)
 210         - Due to poor IPP support from the vendors, the SNMP
 211           backend no longer tries IPP connections; instead,
 212           it now uses a lookup file with fallback to port 9100
 213           (socket://address) and 515 (lpd://address) printing
 214           (STR #2035, STR #2354)
 215         - The scheduler now recreates the CUPS log directory as
 216           needed (STR #2353)
 217         - cupsLangDefault() now maps new-style Apple locale names
 218           to the traditional ll_CC form (STR #2357)
 219         - Add new cupsArrayNew2() API to support hashed lookups
 220           of array elements (STR #2358)
 221         - ppdConflicts() optimizations (STR #2358)
 222         - The cupstestppd program now tests for existing filters,
 223           icons, profiles, and dialog extensions (STR #2326)
 224         - The web interface no longer lists new printers on the
 225           main administration page.  Instead, a new "List Available
 226           Printers" button is provided that shows a separate page
 227           with the list of printers.
 228         - The web interface now supports setting the banner and
 229           policy options on raw printers and classes (STR #2238)
 230         - The socket backend now reads any pending back-channel
 231           data before shutting down the socket (STR #2325)
 232         - Added a new ErrorPolicy directive in the cupsd.conf
 233           file (STR #1871)
 234         - Printers that use JCL options are now exported to Samba
 235           correctly (STR #1985)
 236         - The IPP backend now relays printer-state-message values
 237           from the server to the client (STR #2109)
 238         - Added support for the PWG printer-alert and
 239           printer-alert-description attributes (STR #2088)
 240         - Added support for LPD "stream" mode (STR #2036)
 241         - The scheduler now reports the PostScript product string
 242           from PPD files in CUPS-Get-PPDs responses (STR #1900)
 243         - Raw printing with queues pointing to the file pseudo-
 244           device and multiple files and/or banners now works (STR
 245           #1933)
 246         - Added new public cupsAdminGetServerSettings() and
 247           cupsAdminSetServerSettings() APIs.
 248         - Added new "makebuttons" script in the "tools" directory
 249           for creating web interface buttons (STR #2231)
 250         - Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing
 251           (STR #1171)
 252         - Job operations (cancel, hold, release, etc.) from the
 253           web interface now return back to the original page (STR
 254           #2239)
 255         - The classes or printers list is now shown after a
 256           successful deletion from the web interface (STR #1999)
 257         - The default configuration now allows browse packets from
 258           any address (STR #2008)
 259         - The web interface now provides an "allow printing from the
 260           Internet" check box (STR #1897)
 261         - The notify-events-default and
 262           notify-lease-duration-default attributes can now be set
 263           (STR #1671)
 264         - Server-side default options are now sent to clients when
 265           the "printer-defaults" attribute group is requested (STR
 266           #1923)
 267         - Added support for Linux "relro" linker option (STR #1614)
 268         - CUPS now validates the number-up option value (STR #1329)
 269         - The on-line help now provides better search capabilities
 270           (STR #1701)
 271         - The web interface "Add This Printer" button now allows you
 272           to change the printer name, description,  and location
 273           (STR #1646)
 274         - Added support for Mac OS X authorization services
 275           (STR #2206)
 276         - Added support for driver-specific pre-filters (STR #2108)
 277         - Added a new side-channel API for drivers and backends
 278           for basic device control and information queries (STR
 279           #1898)
 280         - The scheduler now uses poll(), epoll(), or /dev/kqueue
 281           instead of select() when possible (STR #1261)
 282         - Added new cupsArrayGetIndex() and cupsArrayGetInsert()
 283           functions to get the current index and insertion
 284           positions of an array.
 285         - Added a new --with-max-copies configure option (STR
 286           #2090)
 287         - Added new cupsRemoveDest() and cupsSetDefaultDest()
 288           functions.
 289         - Added support for cupsPJLCharset attribute in PPD files
 290           which specifies the character set that is used in PJL
 291           strings (STR #1969)
 292         - Moved the definition of the (private) _http_s structure
 293           to http-private.h; code that directly accesses the
 294           http_t members will no longer compile!
 295         - Added support for setting the document-format-default
 296           attribute on a per-printer basis.
 297         - Added support for IntelliBar label printers.