CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-07-23
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   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
   5
   6         - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
   7         - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
   8           cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
   9         - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
  10         - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
  11           attributes for better option conflict detection and
  12           resolution.
  13         - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
  14           256 bytes (STR #2877)
  15         - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
  16           what is logged to the access_log file.
  17         - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
  18           the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
  19         - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
  20           files (STR #2871)
  21         - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
  22           information files.
  23         - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
  24         - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
  25           of an attribute.
  26         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
  27         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
  28           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
  29         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
  30           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
  31         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
  32           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
  33         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
  34           (STR #2738)
  35         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
  36           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
  37         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
  38           (STR #2636)
  39         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
  40           files (STR #2739)
  41         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
  42           ModelName value as the output filename.
  43         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
  44           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
  45         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
  46           standard network backends.
  47         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
  48           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
  49         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
  50           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
  51         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
  52           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
  53         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
  54           name resolution.
  55         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
  56           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
  57         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
  58           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
  59         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
  60           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
  61         - Driver information files can now be installed in
  62           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
  63         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
  64           than 2GB.
  65         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
  66           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
  67         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
  68           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
  69           backends are polled and for how long.
  70         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
  71           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
  72         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
  73         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
  74           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
  75         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
  76           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
  77         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
  78           for localization (STR #2737)
  79         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
  80           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
  81           file.
  82         - The build system has been updated to support separate
  83           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
  84         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
  85           by default.
  86         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
  87         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
  88           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
  89         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
  90           root to make the default installation more secure.
  91         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
  92           the localized version of a marker-names value.
  93         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
  94           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
  95         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
  96           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
  97         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
  98           global based on the current access policies for the
  99           printer.
 100         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
 101           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
 102         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
 103         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
 104           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
 105         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
 106           that support it (STR #2637)
 107         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
 108           possible.
 109         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
 110           attriibute to purge a specified job.
 111         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
 112           attributes for custom option selections.
 113         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
 114           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
 115           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
 116         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
 117           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
 118           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
 119         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 120           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 121           on the model page (STR #2436)
 122         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 123           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 124           of printers (STR #1175)
 125         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 126         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 127           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 128         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 129           to filter the document from the specified job.
 130         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 131           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 132         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 133           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 134         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
 135