1 CHANGES.txt - 2009-05-13
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6 - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153)
7 - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
8 Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
9 French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
10 (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
11 - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
12 - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
14 - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
16 - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
17 - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
18 ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
19 - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
20 one printer or class added (STR #3094)
21 - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
22 stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
23 reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
25 - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
26 - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
27 - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
28 that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
29 delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
30 however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
32 - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
33 - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
34 - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
35 lack of kernel buffers.
36 - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
37 while copying print data to a temporary file.
38 - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
39 causing reduced performance in some situations.
40 - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
41 would hang on the client.
42 - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
44 - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
45 - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
46 product, or psversion (STR #3136)
47 - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
48 (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
49 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
50 filenames in the PPD file.
51 - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
53 - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
55 - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
56 - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
57 - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
58 incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
59 - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
61 - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
62 - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
64 - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
66 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
67 - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
69 - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
71 - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
73 - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
74 maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
76 - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
78 - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
79 - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
80 - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
81 printer had other reasons associated with it.
82 - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
83 - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
85 - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
86 cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
87 - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
88 microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
89 - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
90 control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
91 - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
92 printer discovery (STR #3065)
93 - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
95 - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
96 - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
97 - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
98 printers with no specified colorspace.
99 - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
101 - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
102 - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
103 and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
104 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
105 - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
107 - The ppdi utility did not work.
108 - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
109 web browsers (STR #3049)
110 - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
111 - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
113 - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
114 have associated translation text (STR #3045)
115 - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
116 - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
117 - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
118 choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
119 present in most PPD files.
120 - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
121 - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
123 - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
124 - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
125 all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
127 - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
128 printer attributes when a job was canceled.
129 - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
133 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
135 - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
136 - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
137 FormatVersion values in PPD files.
138 - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
139 --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
140 - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
141 rather than copying them whenever possible.
142 - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
143 options implementations.
144 - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
146 - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
147 was set to False in the PPD file.
148 - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
149 and network backends (STR #3014)
150 - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
151 - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
153 - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
154 - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
156 - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
157 --exclude-schemes options.
158 - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
159 and exclude-schemes attributes.
160 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
162 - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
163 option called "fit-to-page".
164 - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
165 information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
166 prevent race conditions.
167 - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
168 - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
170 - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
171 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
173 - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
175 - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
176 variable when running filters.
177 - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
179 - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
183 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
185 - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
186 - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
187 override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
188 - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
190 - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
191 Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
192 cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
193 - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
194 status of a single printer (STR #2843)
195 - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
196 significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
198 - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
199 on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
200 - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
201 the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
203 - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
204 support and easier customization (STR #2490)
205 - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
206 environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
207 - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
208 stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
209 - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
210 the printer-state-reasons attribute.
211 - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
212 of printer options (STR #1440)
213 - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
215 - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
216 easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
217 - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
218 - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
219 Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
220 - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
221 they know whether they are printing a banner or document
223 - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
225 - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
226 talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
227 - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
228 cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
229 - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
231 - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
232 default server (STR #2833)
233 - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
234 which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
235 - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
237 - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
239 - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
240 value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
241 - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
242 - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
243 - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
244 print jobs (STR #2482)
245 - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
247 - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
248 track the progress of individual pages.
249 - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
250 - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
251 command, when available (STR #2724)
252 - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
253 - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
254 PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
255 - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
256 file as errors (STR #2616)
257 - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
258 retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
260 - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
261 correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
262 continue further (STR #2101)
263 - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
264 (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
265 - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
267 - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
268 the physical location of a printer device.
269 - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
270 device data by a backend.
271 - Added support for custom options in the web interface
273 - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
274 and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
275 - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
276 - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
278 - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
279 - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
280 cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
281 - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
282 - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
283 attributes for better option conflict detection and
285 - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
286 256 bytes (STR #2877)
287 - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
288 what is logged to the access_log file.
289 - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
290 the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
291 - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
293 - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
295 - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
296 - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
298 - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
299 - The standard MIME types are now installed in
300 DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
301 - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
302 the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
303 - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
304 or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
305 - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
307 - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
308 the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
309 - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
311 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
313 - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
314 ModelName value as the output filename.
315 - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
316 set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
317 - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
318 standard network backends.
319 - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
320 control the format of lines in the page_log file.
321 - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
322 keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
323 - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
324 that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
325 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
327 - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
328 all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
329 - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
330 page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
331 - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
332 PJL commands are used to display the job information.
333 - Driver information files can now be installed in
334 /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
335 - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
337 - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
338 reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
339 - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
340 exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
341 backends are polled and for how long.
342 - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
343 parallel to get the list of devices faster.
344 - Added --enable-pap configure option.
345 - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
346 policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
347 - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
348 (STR #2735, STR #2736)
349 - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
350 for localization (STR #2737)
351 - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
352 when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
354 - The build system has been updated to support separate
355 installation of data, program, header, and library files.
356 - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
358 - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
359 - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
360 SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
361 - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
362 root to make the default installation more secure.
363 - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
364 the localized version of a marker-names value.
365 - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
366 attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
367 - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
368 pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
369 - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
370 global based on the current access policies for the
372 - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
373 used printer preference on Mac OS X.
374 - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
375 - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
376 library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
377 - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
378 that support it (STR #2637)
379 - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
381 - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
382 attriibute to purge a specified job.
383 - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
384 attributes for custom option selections.
385 - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
386 sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
387 server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
388 - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
389 server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
390 and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
391 - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
392 manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
393 on the model page (STR #2436)
394 - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
395 duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
396 of printers (STR #1175)
397 - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
398 - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
399 that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
400 - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
401 to filter the document from the specified job.
402 - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
403 do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
404 - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
405 cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
406 - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.