CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2012-03-05
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1
   5
   6         - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010)
   7         - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in
   8           printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
   9         - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed
  10           cupsd (STR #3459)
  11         - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates
  12           (STR #3949)
  13         - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER
  14           environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
  15         - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
  16         - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters
  17           (STR #2856)
  18         - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that
  19           have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds
  20           (STR #2291)
  21         - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the
  22           local system (STR #2053)
  23         - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-
  24           per-centimeter (STR #4006)
  25         - The configure script and build system no longer support building of
  26           separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
  27         - The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
  28           "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
  29           "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
  30         - The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
  31           "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
  32         - The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
  33           instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
  34           job objects.
  35         - Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
  36         - Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
  37           not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
  38         - Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
  39           amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
  40         - The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
  41           characters.
  42         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
  43           automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
  44           (Kerberos) authentication.
  45         - cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
  46           length.
  47         - CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
  48           via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
  49         - The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
  50           version of CUPS (STR #3927)
  51         - The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
  52         - The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
  53           and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
  54         - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
  55         - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
  56         - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
  57           imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
  58           filters have been removed (STR #3930)
  59         - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)