CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2009-03-18
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
   5
   6         - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057)
   7         - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
   8           product, or psversion (STR #3136)
   9         - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
  10           (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
  11         - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
  12           filenames in the PPD file.
  13         - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
  14           values.
  15         - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
  16           devices (STR #3108)
  17         - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
  18         - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
  19         - Added complete localizations for Japanese, Polish, and Russian and
  20           partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, German, Finnish, French,
  21           Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish (STR #3096,
  22           STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111)
  23         - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
  24           incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
  25         - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
  26           permissions.
  27         - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
  28         - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
  29           device URI.
  30         - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
  31           seconds.
  32         - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
  33         - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
  34           them failed.
  35         - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
  36           status operations.
  37         - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
  38           keywords.
  39         - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" status bit
  40           since some printers report this status when the printer is busy
  41           printing, warming up, etc.
  42         - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
  43           "crashed".
  44         - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
  45         - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
  46         - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
  47           printer had other reasons associated with it.
  48         - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
  49         - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
  50           (STR #3084)
  51         - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
  52           cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
  53         - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
  54           microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
  55         - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
  56           control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
  57         - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
  58           printer discovery (STR #3065)
  59         - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
  60           in length (STR #3072)
  61         - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
  62         - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
  63         - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
  64           printers with no specified colorspace.
  65         - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
  66           file on Mac OS X.
  67         - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
  68         - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
  69           and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
  70         - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
  71         - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
  72           for some PPDs.
  73         - The ppdi utility did not work.
  74         - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
  75           web browsers (STR #3049)
  76         - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
  77         - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
  78           options.
  79         - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
  80           have associated translation text (STR #3045)
  81         - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
  82         - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
  83         - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
  84           choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
  85           present in most PPD files.
  86         - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
  87         - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
  88           its jobs.
  89         - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
  90         - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
  91           all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
  92           printers.
  93         - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
  94           printer attributes when a job was canceled.
  95         - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
  96           when a job finished.
  97
  98
  99 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
 100
 101         - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
 102         - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
 103           FormatVersion values in PPD files.
 104         - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
 105           --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
 106         - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
 107           rather than copying them whenever possible.
 108         - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
 109           options implementations.
 110         - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
 111           attributes.
 112         - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
 113           was set to False in the PPD file.
 114         - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
 115           and network backends (STR #3014)
 116         - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
 117         - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
 118           attributes.
 119         - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
 120         - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
 121           parameter.
 122         - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
 123           --exclude-schemes options.
 124         - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
 125           and exclude-schemes attributes.
 126         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
 127           attribute.
 128         - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
 129           option called "fit-to-page".
 130         - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
 131           information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
 132           prevent race conditions.
 133         - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
 134         - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
 135           CUPS 1.1.x.
 136         - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
 137         - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
 138           catalogs (STR #2990)
 139         - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
 140           (STR #2989)
 141         - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
 142           variable when running filters.
 143         - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
 144           have all stopped.
 145         - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
 146           progress messages.
 147
 148
 149 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
 150
 151         - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
 152         - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
 153           override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
 154         - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
 155           (STR #2863)
 156         - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
 157           Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
 158           cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
 159         - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
 160           status of a single printer (STR #2843)
 161         - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
 162           significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
 163           (STR #1293)
 164         - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
 165           on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
 166         - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
 167           the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
 168           levels.
 169         - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
 170           support and easier customization (STR #2490)
 171         - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
 172           environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
 173         - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
 174           stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
 175         - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
 176           the printer-state-reasons attribute.
 177         - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
 178           of printer options (STR #1440)
 179         - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
 180           form.
 181         - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
 182           easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
 183         - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
 184         - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
 185           Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
 186         - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
 187           they know whether they are printing a banner or document
 188           file (STR #2799)
 189         - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
 190           command (STR #2562)
 191         - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
 192           talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
 193         - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
 194           cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
 195         - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
 196           Google (STR #2882)
 197         - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
 198           default server (STR #2833)
 199         - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
 200           which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
 201         - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
 202           (STR #2923)
 203         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
 204           (STR #2848)
 205         - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
 206           value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
 207         - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
 208         - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
 209         - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
 210           print jobs (STR #2482)
 211         - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
 212           values.
 213         - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
 214           track the progress of individual pages.
 215         - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
 216         - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
 217           command, when available (STR #2724)
 218         - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
 219         - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
 220           PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
 221         - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
 222           file as errors (STR #2616)
 223         - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
 224           retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
 225           an error (STR #2555)
 226         - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
 227           correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
 228           continue further (STR #2101)
 229         - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
 230           (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
 231         - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
 232           (STR #2853)
 233         - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
 234           the physical location of a printer device.
 235         - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
 236           device data by a backend.
 237         - Added support for custom options in the web interface
 238           (STR #1729)
 239         - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
 240           and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
 241         - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
 242         - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
 243           to CUPS (STR #263)
 244         - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
 245         - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
 246           cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
 247         - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
 248         - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
 249           attributes for better option conflict detection and
 250           resolution.
 251         - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
 252           256 bytes (STR #2877)
 253         - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
 254           what is logged to the access_log file.
 255         - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
 256           the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
 257         - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
 258           files (STR #2871)
 259         - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
 260           information files.
 261         - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
 262         - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
 263           of an attribute.
 264         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
 265         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
 266           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
 267         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
 268           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
 269         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
 270           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
 271         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
 272           (STR #2738)
 273         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
 274           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
 275         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
 276           (STR #2636)
 277         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
 278           files (STR #2739)
 279         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
 280           ModelName value as the output filename.
 281         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
 282           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
 283         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
 284           standard network backends.
 285         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
 286           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
 287         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
 288           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
 289         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
 290           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
 291         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
 292           name resolution.
 293         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
 294           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
 295         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
 296           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
 297         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
 298           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
 299         - Driver information files can now be installed in
 300           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
 301         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
 302           than 2GB.
 303         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
 304           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
 305         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
 306           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
 307           backends are polled and for how long.
 308         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
 309           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
 310         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
 311         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
 312           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
 313         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
 314           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
 315         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
 316           for localization (STR #2737)
 317         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
 318           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
 319           file.
 320         - The build system has been updated to support separate
 321           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
 322         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
 323           by default.
 324         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
 325         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
 326           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
 327         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
 328           root to make the default installation more secure.
 329         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
 330           the localized version of a marker-names value.
 331         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
 332           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
 333         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
 334           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
 335         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
 336           global based on the current access policies for the
 337           printer.
 338         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
 339           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
 340         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
 341         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
 342           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
 343         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
 344           that support it (STR #2637)
 345         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
 346           possible.
 347         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
 348           attriibute to purge a specified job.
 349         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
 350           attributes for custom option selections.
 351         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
 352           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
 353           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
 354         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
 355           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
 356           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
 357         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 358           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 359           on the model page (STR #2436)
 360         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 361           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 362           of printers (STR #1175)
 363         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 364         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 365           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 366         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 367           to filter the document from the specified job.
 368         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 369           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 370         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 371           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 372         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.