CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2007-09-28
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.3
   5
   6         - The scheduler did not use the attributes-natural-language
   7           attribute when passing the LANG environment variable to
   8           cups-deviced or cups-driverd.
   9         - The scheduler did not use the printer-op-policy when
  10           modifying classes or printers (STR #2525)
  11         - The auth-info-required attribute was not always updated
  12           for remote queues that required authentication.
  13         - The German web interface localization contained errors
  14           (STR #2523)
  15         - The Swedish localization contained errors (STR #2522)
  16
  17
  18 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.2
  19
  20         - The 1.3.1 release was incorrectly created from the
  21           1.4.x source tree (STR #2519)
  22         - Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX
  23           (STR #2520)
  24         - The scheduler incorrectly used portrait as the default
  25           orientation (STR #2513)
  26         - The scheduler no longer writes the printcap file for
  27           every remote printer update (STR #2512)
  28         - Remote raw printing with multiple copies did not work
  29           (STR #2518)
  30         - Updated the configure script to require at least autoconf
  31           2.60 (STR #2515)
  32         - Some gzip'd PPD files were not read in their entirety
  33           (STR #2510)
  34
  35
  36 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.1
  37
  38         - Documentation updates.
  39         - The USB backend on Mac OS X could hang if the driver and
  40           printer did not match.
  41         - Delegated Kerberos credentials were not working.
  42         - "make distclean" incorrectly removed the edit-config.tmpl
  43           files (STR #2508)
  44         - Fix compile problem on HP-UX (STR #2501)
  45         - The cupstestppd utility now tests for resolutions greater
  46           than 99999 DPI to detect a missing  "x" between the X and Y
  47           resolutions.
  48         - Fixed many problems in the various translations and added
  49           a new "checkpo" utility to validate them.
  50         - The cupstestppd utility now tests the custom page size code
  51           for CUPS raster drivers.
  52         - cupsLangDefault() did not attempt to return a language that
  53           was supported by the calling application.
  54         - If a remote printer stopped while a job was being sent, the
  55           local queue would also get stopped and the job re-queued,
  56           resulting in duplicate prints in some cases.
  57         - A few Apple-specific job options needed to be omitted when
  58           printing a banner page.
  59         - The new peer credential support did not compile on FreeBSD
  60           (STR #2495)
  61         - Direct links to help files did not set the current section
  62           so the table-of-contents was not shown.
  63         - The configure script did not support --localedir=foo (STR #2488)
  64         - The backends were not displaying their localized messages.
  65         - CUPS-Authenticate-Job did not require Kerberos authentication
  66           on queues protected by Kerberos.
  67         - The Zebra ZPL driver did not work with Brady label printers
  68           (STR #2487)
  69         - Norwegian wasn't localized on Mac OS X.
  70         - getnameinfo() returns an error on some systems when DNS is
  71           not available, leading to numerous problems (STR #2486)
  72         - The cupsfilter command did not work properly on Mac OS X.
  73         - The scheduler makefile contained a typo (STR #2483)
  74         - The TBCP and BCP port monitors did not handle the trailing
  75           CTRL-D in some PostScript output properly.
  76         - Fixed the localization instructions and German template for
  77           the "Find New Printers" button (STR #2478)
  78         - The web interface did not work with the Chinese localization
  79           (STR #2477)
  80         - The web interface home page did not work for languages that
  81           were only partially localized (STR #2472)
  82         - Updated the Spanish web interface localization (STR #2473)
  83         - ppdLocalize() did not work for country-specific localizations.
  84
  85
  86 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.0
  87
  88         - The scheduler did not handle out-of-file conditions
  89           gracefully when accepting new connections, leading to
  90           heavy CPU usage.
  91         - The scheduler did not detect ServerBin misconfigurations
  92           (STR #2470)
  93         - "AuthType Default" did not work as expected when the
  94           "DefaultAuthType foo" line appeared after it in the
  95           cupsd.conf file.
  96         - The on-line help did not describe many common printing
  97           options (STR #1846)
  98         - The IPP backend did not return the "auth required" status
  99           when printing to a Kerberos-protected queue.
 100         - The scheduler was not looking in the correct directories
 101           for LSB PPD files (STR #2464)
 102         - Changed references to ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript
 103           (STR #2463)
 104         - The PostScript filter did not cleanly terminate when
 105           the job was canceled or stopped.
 106         - Fixed generation of Kerberos credentials for remote
 107           printing.  Note that this requires a recent version of
 108           MIT Kerberos with a working krb5_cc_new_unique()
 109           function or Heimdal Kerberos.
 110         - Added Portuguese and updated Italian message catalogs.
 111
 112
 113 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc2
 114
 115         - Added more range checking to the pdftops filter.
 116         - The scheduler would crash if a remote IPP queue was stopped
 117           (STR #2460)
 118         - The scheduler did not allow "DefaultAuthType None".
 119
 120
 121 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc1
 122
 123         - Updated the German localization (STR #2443)
 124         - cupsAdminGetServerSettings() did not handle </Foo> properly.
 125         - When lprm and cancel are run with no job ID, they now will
 126           cancel the first stopped job if no pending or processing
 127           jobs are left in the queue.
 128         - The scheduler now logs successful print jobs, filter
 129           failures, and the job file types at the default log
 130           level (STR #2458)
 131         - The scheduler now logs the usernames it is using for
 132           authorization at LogLevel debug instead of debug2 (STR #2448)
 133         - Added Intellitech Intellibar and Zebra CPCL PPDs to the list
 134           of installed PPDs.
 135         - Added 6" and 8" wide label sizes for the Zebra ZPL Label
 136           Printer driver (STR #2442)
 137         - The cupsaddsmb program and web interface now support
 138           exporting of 64-bit Windows drivers, when available
 139           (STR #2439)
 140         - Moving a job that was printing did not stop the job on the
 141           original printer (STR #2262)
 142         - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not work on Mac OS X server.
 143         - Added httpGetAuthString() and httpSetAuthString() APIs to get
 144           and set the current (cached) authorization string to use for
 145           HTTP requests.
 146         - Updated the default cupsd.conf policy to list the
 147           "administrative" operations separately from the "printer
 148           control" operations so that it is easier to define a
 149           group of users that are "printer operators".
 150         - The web interface now pulls the default cupsd.conf file
 151           from cupsd.conf.default in the CUPS config directory.
 152         - Added a help file for using Kerberos with CUPS.
 153         - The scheduler now strips the "@KDC" portion of Kerberos
 154           usernames since those usernames typically do not appear in
 155           the group membership lists used by CUPS.
 156         - cupsMarkOptions() could (incorrectly) leave multiple option
 157           choices marked.
 158         - Backends could (incorrectly) run as root during discovery
 159           (STR #2454)
 160         - Avahi is now supported for DNS-SD (Bonjour) printer sharing
 161           (STR #2455)
 162         - The default cupsd.conf file had typos and old operation names
 163           (STR #2450)
 164         - The scheduler now erases authentication cache files using the
 165           7-pass US DoD algorithm.
 166         - Delegated Kerberos credentials (proxy authentication) did not
 167           work.
 168         - The filter makefile did not optimize the libcupsimage.2.dylib
 169           with a sectorder file.
 170         - The IPP backend incorrectly wrote an empty printer message
 171           when processing the "none" state reason.
 172         - The USB backend could deadlock on Mac OS X while performing
 173           a side-channel command.
 174         - The scheduler did not prevent remote queues from being
 175           shared/published.
 176         - The scheduler did not remove the temporary request file on
 177           authentication errors.
 178         - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() did not handle "scheme:" schemes or
 179           "file" URLs.
 180         - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() was not exported on Mac OS X.
 181
 182
 183 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3b1
 184
 185         - Copyright updates - CUPS is now owned by Apple Inc.
 186         - Documentation updates (STR #1775, STR #2027, STR #2130,
 187           STR #2131, STR #2263, STR #2356, STR #2397)
 188         - Added new cupsfilter utility (STR #1734)
 189         - Added new job-printer-state-message and
 190           job-printer-state-reasons attributes to jobs (STR #2418)
 191         - Added LDAP+SSL support (STR #1967)
 192         - CUPS now supports authentication via peer credentials
 193           over domain sockets (STR #2242, STR #2277)
 194         - The CUPS sample driver PPDs are now generated by the PPD
 195           compiler and include all of the localized languages by
 196           default (STR #2164)
 197         - You can now specify "AuthType Default" in the cupsd.conf
 198           file to use the default authentication defined by the
 199           DefaultAuthType directive.
 200         - The SNMP backend no longer adds a default Address line
 201           when none is specified in the snmp.conf file; this allows
 202           the backend to be easily disabled as needed (STR #2434)
 203         - Added a new cupsctl command for doing basic changes to
 204           the cupsd.conf file (STR #1777)
 205         - Added a new ppdLocalizeIPPReason() function to get the
 206           localized text/URI for a given IPP reason keyword for a
 207           driver.
 208         - Removed the deskjet2.ppd driver, as it only worked with
 209           a very small subset of HP DeskJet printers and was
 210           confusing to users.  The rastertohp driver still
 211           supports the deskjet2.ppd options for existing queues.
 212         - The scheduler did not add a trailing banner page if a
 213           client did not specify the last document in a job (STR
 214           #1711)
 215         - The scheduler did not report Bonjour shared printers as
 216           remote printers (STR #2384)
 217         - Added new -R and -W options to the cupstestppd program
 218           for greater control over the testing of PPDs.
 219         - Added a new cupsGetServerPPD() function for getting
 220           an available PPD from the server (STR #2334)
 221         - Added a new cupsDoIORequest() function for reading
 222           and writing files via IPP requests (STR #2334)
 223         - Added a new CUPS_GET_PPD operation for getting an
 224           available PPD file on the server (STR #2334)
 225         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports multiple ppd-product values
 226           based on the PPD ModelName and Product strings (STR
 227           #2334, STR #2383)
 228         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the PSVersion attributes
 229           from a PPD file in the ppd-psversion attribute
 230           (STR #2334)
 231         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the cupsModelNumber attribute
 232           from a PPD file in the ppd-model-number attribute (STR
 233           #2383)
 234         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports a driver type string in the
 235           ppd-type attribute based on the cupsFax and cupsFilter
 236           attributes in a PPD file (STR #2383)
 237         - Added a new printer attribute called "cups-version"
 238           which reports the version of CUPS that is running
 239           (STR #2240)
 240         - backendRunLoop() now aborts immediately on SIGTERM
 241           if no data has been written yet (STR #2103)
 242         - Due to poor IPP support from the vendors, the SNMP
 243           backend no longer tries IPP connections; instead,
 244           it now uses a lookup file with fallback to port 9100
 245           (socket://address) and 515 (lpd://address) printing
 246           (STR #2035, STR #2354)
 247         - The scheduler now recreates the CUPS log directory as
 248           needed (STR #2353)
 249         - cupsLangDefault() now maps new-style Apple locale names
 250           to the traditional ll_CC form (STR #2357)
 251         - Add new cupsArrayNew2() API to support hashed lookups
 252           of array elements (STR #2358)
 253         - ppdConflicts() optimizations (STR #2358)
 254         - The cupstestppd program now tests for existing filters,
 255           icons, profiles, and dialog extensions (STR #2326)
 256         - The web interface no longer lists new printers on the
 257           main administration page.  Instead, a new "List Available
 258           Printers" button is provided that shows a separate page
 259           with the list of printers.
 260         - The web interface now supports setting the banner and
 261           policy options on raw printers and classes (STR #2238)
 262         - The socket backend now reads any pending back-channel
 263           data before shutting down the socket (STR #2325)
 264         - Added a new ErrorPolicy directive in the cupsd.conf
 265           file (STR #1871)
 266         - Printers that use JCL options are now exported to Samba
 267           correctly (STR #1985)
 268         - The IPP backend now relays printer-state-message values
 269           from the server to the client (STR #2109)
 270         - Added support for the PWG printer-alert and
 271           printer-alert-description attributes (STR #2088)
 272         - Added support for LPD "stream" mode (STR #2036)
 273         - The scheduler now reports the PostScript product string
 274           from PPD files in CUPS-Get-PPDs responses (STR #1900)
 275         - Raw printing with queues pointing to the file pseudo-
 276           device and multiple files and/or banners now works (STR
 277           #1933)
 278         - Added new public cupsAdminGetServerSettings() and
 279           cupsAdminSetServerSettings() APIs.
 280         - Added new "makebuttons" script in the "tools" directory
 281           for creating web interface buttons (STR #2231)
 282         - Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing
 283           (STR #1171)
 284         - Job operations (cancel, hold, release, etc.) from the
 285           web interface now return back to the original page (STR
 286           #2239)
 287         - The classes or printers list is now shown after a
 288           successful deletion from the web interface (STR #1999)
 289         - The default configuration now allows browse packets from
 290           any address (STR #2008)
 291         - The web interface now provides an "allow printing from the
 292           Internet" check box (STR #1897)
 293         - The notify-events-default and
 294           notify-lease-duration-default attributes can now be set
 295           (STR #1671)
 296         - Server-side default options are now sent to clients when
 297           the "printer-defaults" attribute group is requested (STR
 298           #1923)
 299         - Added support for Linux "relro" linker option (STR #1614)
 300         - CUPS now validates the number-up option value (STR #1329)
 301         - The on-line help now provides better search capabilities
 302           (STR #1701)
 303         - The web interface "Add This Printer" button now allows you
 304           to change the printer name, description,  and location
 305           (STR #1646)
 306         - Added support for Mac OS X authorization services
 307           (STR #2206)
 308         - Added support for driver-specific pre-filters (STR #2108)
 309         - Added a new side-channel API for drivers and backends
 310           for basic device control and information queries (STR
 311           #1898)
 312         - The scheduler now uses poll(), epoll(), or /dev/kqueue
 313           instead of select() when possible (STR #1261)
 314         - Added new cupsArrayGetIndex() and cupsArrayGetInsert()
 315           functions to get the current index and insertion
 316           positions of an array.
 317         - Added a new --with-max-copies configure option (STR
 318           #2090)
 319         - Added new cupsRemoveDest() and cupsSetDefaultDest()
 320           functions.
 321         - Added support for cupsPJLCharset attribute in PPD files
 322           which specifies the character set that is used in PJL
 323           strings (STR #1969)
 324         - Moved the definition of the (private) _http_s structure
 325           to http-private.h; code that directly accesses the
 326           http_t members will no longer compile!
 327         - Added support for setting the document-format-default
 328           attribute on a per-printer basis.
 329         - Added support for IntelliBar label printers.