CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 1.7.1 - 2014-01-08
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
   5
   6         - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
   7           ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
   8         - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
   9         - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
  10         - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
  11           (<rdar://problem/15332672>)
  12         - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
  13           scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
  14         - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
  15           purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
  16           (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)
  17         - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
  18           opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
  19         - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
  20           use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
  21           (<rdar://problem/15392966>)
  22         - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
  23           cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
  24         - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
  25           (<rdar://problem/15427759>)
  26         - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
  27         - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
  28           (<rdar://problem/15564888>)
  29         - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
  30           (<rdar://problem/15426838>)
  31         - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
  32           before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
  33         - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
  34           "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
  35         - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
  36         - lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities
  37           were specified (STR #4326)
  38         - The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)
  39         - CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did
  40           not match the user ID (STR #4327)
  41
  42
  43 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
  44
  45         - Updated Japanese localization.
  46         - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
  47           (<rdar://problem/15264697>)
  48         - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
  49           determine the direction of supply level values
  50           (<rdar://problem/14302628>)
  51         - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
  52           deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
  53         - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
  54           interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
  55         - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
  56           client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
  57         - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
  58           (<rdar://problem/14498310>)
  59         - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
  60           language specified in the client's IPP request
  61           (<rdar://problem/14128011>)
  62         - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
  63         - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
  64         - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
  65           -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
  66         - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
  67           against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
  68         - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
  69           automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
  70           previous response.
  71         - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
  72         - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
  73           environment variable to the filters or backend
  74           (<rdar://problem/14355011>)
  75         - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
  76           sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
  77           (<rdar://problem/14421943>)
  78         - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
  79
  80
  81 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
  82
  83         - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
  84           or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
  85         - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
  86           to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
  87         - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
  88           va_list arguments.
  89         - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
  90           services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
  91         - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
  92           hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
  93         - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
  94           printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
  95         - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
  96           output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
  97         - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
  98         - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
  99           default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
 100         - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
 101           includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
 102         - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
 103           WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
 104           components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
 105
 106
 107 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
 108
 109         - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
 110           the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
 111           locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
 112         - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
 113         - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
 114           environment variable for filters.
 115         - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
 116         - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
 117         - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
 118           (STR #4289)
 119         - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
 120           cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
 121         - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
 122           cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
 123         - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
 124           octetString value (STR #4289)
 125         - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
 126           attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
 127         - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
 128           on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
 129         - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
 130         - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
 131         - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
 132         - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
 133         - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
 134           (STR #4168)
 135         - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
 136           systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
 137         - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
 138         - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
 139         - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
 140           enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)