CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-09-20
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
   7         - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
   8           form.
   9         - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
  10           easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
  11         - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
  12         - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
  13           Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
  14         - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
  15           they know whether they are printing a banner or document
  16           file (STR #2799)
  17         - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
  18           command (STR #2562)
  19         - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
  20           talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
  21         - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
  22           cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
  23         - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
  24           Google (STR #2882)
  25         - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
  26           default server (STR #2833)
  27         - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
  28           which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
  29         - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
  30           (STR #2923)
  31         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
  32           (STR #2848)
  33         - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
  34           value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
  35         - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
  36         - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
  37         - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
  38           print jobs (STR #2482)
  39         - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
  40           values.
  41         - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
  42           track the progress of individual pages.
  43         - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
  44         - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
  45           command, when available (STR #2724)
  46         - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
  47         - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
  48           PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
  49         - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
  50           file as errors (STR #2616)
  51         - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
  52           retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
  53           an error (STR #2555)
  54         - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
  55           correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
  56           continue further (STR #2101)
  57         - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
  58           (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
  59         - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
  60           (STR #2853)
  61         - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
  62           the physical location of a printer device.
  63         - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
  64           device data by a backend.
  65         - Added support for custom options in the web interface
  66           (STR #1729)
  67         - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
  68           and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
  69         - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
  70         - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
  71           to CUPS (STR #263)
  72         - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
  73         - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
  74           cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
  75         - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
  76         - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
  77           attributes for better option conflict detection and
  78           resolution.
  79         - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
  80           256 bytes (STR #2877)
  81         - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
  82           what is logged to the access_log file.
  83         - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
  84           the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
  85         - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
  86           files (STR #2871)
  87         - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
  88           information files.
  89         - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
  90         - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
  91           of an attribute.
  92         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
  93         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
  94           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
  95         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
  96           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
  97         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
  98           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
  99         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
 100           (STR #2738)
 101         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
 102           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
 103         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
 104           (STR #2636)
 105         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
 106           files (STR #2739)
 107         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
 108           ModelName value as the output filename.
 109         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
 110           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
 111         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
 112           standard network backends.
 113         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
 114           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
 115         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
 116           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
 117         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
 118           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
 119         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
 120           name resolution.
 121         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
 122           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
 123         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
 124           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
 125         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
 126           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
 127         - Driver information files can now be installed in
 128           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
 129         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
 130           than 2GB.
 131         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
 132           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
 133         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
 134           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
 135           backends are polled and for how long.
 136         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
 137           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
 138         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
 139         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
 140           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
 141         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
 142           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
 143         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
 144           for localization (STR #2737)
 145         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
 146           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
 147           file.
 148         - The build system has been updated to support separate
 149           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
 150         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
 151           by default.
 152         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
 153         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
 154           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
 155         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
 156           root to make the default installation more secure.
 157         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
 158           the localized version of a marker-names value.
 159         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
 160           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
 161         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
 162           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
 163         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
 164           global based on the current access policies for the
 165           printer.
 166         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
 167           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
 168         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
 169         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
 170           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
 171         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
 172           that support it (STR #2637)
 173         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
 174           possible.
 175         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
 176           attriibute to purge a specified job.
 177         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
 178           attributes for custom option selections.
 179         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
 180           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
 181           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
 182         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
 183           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
 184           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
 185         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 186           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 187           on the model page (STR #2436)
 188         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 189           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 190           of printers (STR #1175)
 191         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 192         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 193           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 194         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 195           to filter the document from the specified job.
 196         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 197           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 198         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 199           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 200         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
 201