CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2011-03-07
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
   5
   6         - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
   7         - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
   8           drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
   9         - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
  10           the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
  11         - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
  12           authenticating (STR #3670)
  13         - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
  14           CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
  15           printers.
  16         - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
  17           pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
  18           Throughput keyword.
  19         - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
  20         - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
  21           CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
  22         - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
  23           STR #3753)
  24         - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
  25           to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
  26         - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
  27           in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
  28         - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
  29           (STR #2969)
  30         - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
  31           elements.
  32         - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
  33         - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
  34           default.
  35         - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
  36           support (STR #3097)
  37         - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
  38           Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
  39           PWG 5100.11.
  40         - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
  41           (<cups/ppd.h>).
  42         - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
  43           attribute.
  44         - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
  45           plugin.
  46         - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
  47           on Mac OS X.
  48         - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
  49           CUPS 1.1.x.  The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
  50           were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
  51         - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
  52           improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
  53         - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
  54           provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
  55         - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
  56         - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
  57           permissions disabled.
  58         - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
  59           PPD files.
  60         - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
  61         - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)