CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2011-05-11
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
   5
   6         - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838)
   7         - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration,
   8           cache, and state files (STR #3715)
   9         - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
  10           (STR #2959)
  11         - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
  12           cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
  13         - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
  14         - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
  15           (STR #3605)
  16         - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
  17         - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
  18         - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
  19         - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
  20           (STR #3766)
  21         - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
  22           sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
  23           size (STR #3689)
  24         - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
  25         - Added printer-uuid attribute.
  26         - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
  27         - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
  28         - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
  29           drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
  30         - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
  31           the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
  32         - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
  33           authenticating (STR #3670)
  34         - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
  35           CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
  36           printers.
  37         - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
  38           pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
  39           Throughput keyword.
  40         - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
  41         - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
  42           CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
  43         - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
  44           STR #3753)
  45         - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
  46           to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
  47         - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
  48           in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
  49         - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
  50           (STR #2969)
  51         - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
  52           elements.
  53         - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
  54         - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
  55           default.
  56         - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
  57           support (STR #3097)
  58         - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
  59           Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
  60           PWG 5100.11.
  61         - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
  62           (<cups/ppd.h>).
  63         - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
  64           attribute.
  65         - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
  66           plugin.
  67         - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
  68           on Mac OS X.
  69         - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
  70           CUPS 1.1.x.  The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
  71           were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
  72         - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
  73           improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
  74         - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
  75           provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
  76         - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
  77         - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
  78           permissions disabled.
  79         - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
  80           PPD files.
  81         - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
  82         - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)