CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2007-08-13
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   3
   4
   5 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.0
   6
   7         - The scheduler did not handle out-of-file conditions
   8           gracefully when accepting new connections, leading to
   9           heavy CPU usage.
  10         - The scheduler did not detect ServerBin misconfigurations
  11           (STR #2470)
  12         - "AuthType Default" did not work as expected when the
  13           "DefaultAuthType foo" line appeared after it in the
  14           cupsd.conf file.
  15         - The on-line help did not describe many common printing
  16           options (STR #1846)
  17         - The IPP backend did not return the "auth required" status
  18           when printing to a Kerberos-protected queue.
  19         - The scheduler was not looking in the correct directories
  20           for LSB PPD files (STR #2464)
  21         - Changed references to ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript
  22           (STR #2463)
  23         - The PostScript filter did not cleanly terminate when
  24           the job was canceled or stopped.
  25         - Fixed generation of Kerberos credentials for remote
  26           printing.  Note that this requires a recent version of
  27           MIT Kerberos with a working krb5_cc_new_unique()
  28           function or Heimdal Kerberos.
  29         - Added Portuguese and updated Italian message catalogs.
  30
  31
  32 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc2
  33
  34         - Added more range checking to the pdftops filter.
  35         - The scheduler would crash if a remote IPP queue was stopped
  36           (STR #2460)
  37         - The scheduler did not allow "DefaultAuthType None".
  38
  39
  40 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc1
  41
  42         - Updated the German localization (STR #2443)
  43         - cupsAdminGetServerSettings() did not handle </Foo> properly.
  44         - When lprm and cancel are run with no job ID, they now will
  45           cancel the first stopped job if no pending or processing
  46           jobs are left in the queue.
  47         - The scheduler now logs successful print jobs, filter
  48           failures, and the job file types at the default log
  49           level (STR #2458)
  50         - The scheduler now logs the usernames it is using for
  51           authorization at LogLevel debug instead of debug2 (STR #2448)
  52         - Added Intellitech Intellibar and Zebra CPCL PPDs to the list
  53           of installed PPDs.
  54         - Added 6" and 8" wide label sizes for the Zebra ZPL Label
  55           Printer driver (STR #2442)
  56         - The cupsaddsmb program and web interface now support
  57           exporting of 64-bit Windows drivers, when available
  58           (STR #2439)
  59         - Moving a job that was printing did not stop the job on the
  60           original printer (STR #2262)
  61         - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not work on Mac OS X server.
  62         - Added httpGetAuthString() and httpSetAuthString() APIs to get
  63           and set the current (cached) authorization string to use for
  64           HTTP requests.
  65         - Updated the default cupsd.conf policy to list the
  66           "administrative" operations separately from the "printer
  67           control" operations so that it is easier to define a
  68           group of users that are "printer operators".
  69         - The web interface now pulls the default cupsd.conf file
  70           from cupsd.conf.default in the CUPS config directory.
  71         - Added a help file for using Kerberos with CUPS.
  72         - The scheduler now strips the "@KDC" portion of Kerberos
  73           usernames since those usernames typically do not appear in
  74           the group membership lists used by CUPS.
  75         - cupsMarkOptions() could (incorrectly) leave multiple option
  76           choices marked.
  77         - Backends could (incorrectly) run as root during discovery
  78           (STR #2454)
  79         - Avahi is now supported for DNS-SD (Bonjour) printer sharing
  80           (STR #2455)
  81         - The default cupsd.conf file had typos and old operation names
  82           (STR #2450)
  83         - The scheduler now erases authentication cache files using the
  84           7-pass US DoD algorithm.
  85         - Delegated Kerberos credentials (proxy authentication) did not
  86           work.
  87         - The filter makefile did not optimize the libcupsimage.2.dylib
  88           with a sectorder file.
  89         - The IPP backend incorrectly wrote an empty printer message
  90           when processing the "none" state reason.
  91         - The USB backend could deadlock on Mac OS X while performing
  92           a side-channel command.
  93         - The scheduler did not prevent remote queues from being
  94           shared/published.
  95         - The scheduler did not remove the temporary request file on
  96           authentication errors.
  97         - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() did not handle "scheme:" schemes or
  98           "file" URLs.
  99         - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() was not exported on Mac OS X.
 100
 101
 102 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3b1
 103
 104         - Copyright updates - CUPS is now owned by Apple Inc.
 105         - Documentation updates (STR #1775, STR #2027, STR #2130,
 106           STR #2131, STR #2263, STR #2356, STR #2397)
 107         - Added new cupsfilter utility (STR #1734)
 108         - Added new job-printer-state-message and
 109           job-printer-state-reasons attributes to jobs (STR #2418)
 110         - Added LDAP+SSL support (STR #1967)
 111         - CUPS now supports authentication via peer credentials
 112           over domain sockets (STR #2242, STR #2277)
 113         - The CUPS sample driver PPDs are now generated by the PPD
 114           compiler and include all of the localized languages by
 115           default (STR #2164)
 116         - You can now specify "AuthType Default" in the cupsd.conf
 117           file to use the default authentication defined by the
 118           DefaultAuthType directive.
 119         - The SNMP backend no longer adds a default Address line
 120           when none is specified in the snmp.conf file; this allows
 121           the backend to be easily disabled as needed (STR #2434)
 122         - Added a new cupsctl command for doing basic changes to
 123           the cupsd.conf file (STR #1777)
 124         - Added a new ppdLocalizeIPPReason() function to get the
 125           localized text/URI for a given IPP reason keyword for a
 126           driver.
 127         - Removed the deskjet2.ppd driver, as it only worked with
 128           a very small subset of HP DeskJet printers and was
 129           confusing to users.  The rastertohp driver still
 130           supports the deskjet2.ppd options for existing queues.
 131         - The scheduler did not add a trailing banner page if a
 132           client did not specify the last document in a job (STR
 133           #1711)
 134         - The scheduler did not report Bonjour shared printers as
 135           remote printers (STR #2384)
 136         - Added new -R and -W options to the cupstestppd program
 137           for greater control over the testing of PPDs.
 138         - Added a new cupsGetServerPPD() function for getting
 139           an available PPD from the server (STR #2334)
 140         - Added a new cupsDoIORequest() function for reading
 141           and writing files via IPP requests (STR #2334)
 142         - Added a new CUPS_GET_PPD operation for getting an
 143           available PPD file on the server (STR #2334)
 144         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports multiple ppd-product values
 145           based on the PPD ModelName and Product strings (STR
 146           #2334, STR #2383)
 147         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the PSVersion attributes
 148           from a PPD file in the ppd-psversion attribute
 149           (STR #2334)
 150         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the cupsModelNumber attribute
 151           from a PPD file in the ppd-model-number attribute (STR
 152           #2383)
 153         - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports a driver type string in the
 154           ppd-type attribute based on the cupsFax and cupsFilter
 155           attributes in a PPD file (STR #2383)
 156         - Added a new printer attribute called "cups-version"
 157           which reports the version of CUPS that is running
 158           (STR #2240)
 159         - backendRunLoop() now aborts immediately on SIGTERM
 160           if no data has been written yet (STR #2103)
 161         - Due to poor IPP support from the vendors, the SNMP
 162           backend no longer tries IPP connections; instead,
 163           it now uses a lookup file with fallback to port 9100
 164           (socket://address) and 515 (lpd://address) printing
 165           (STR #2035, STR #2354)
 166         - The scheduler now recreates the CUPS log directory as
 167           needed (STR #2353)
 168         - cupsLangDefault() now maps new-style Apple locale names
 169           to the traditional ll_CC form (STR #2357)
 170         - Add new cupsArrayNew2() API to support hashed lookups
 171           of array elements (STR #2358)
 172         - ppdConflicts() optimizations (STR #2358)
 173         - The cupstestppd program now tests for existing filters,
 174           icons, profiles, and dialog extensions (STR #2326)
 175         - The web interface no longer lists new printers on the
 176           main administration page.  Instead, a new "List Available
 177           Printers" button is provided that shows a separate page
 178           with the list of printers.
 179         - The web interface now supports setting the banner and
 180           policy options on raw printers and classes (STR #2238)
 181         - The socket backend now reads any pending back-channel
 182           data before shutting down the socket (STR #2325)
 183         - Added a new ErrorPolicy directive in the cupsd.conf
 184           file (STR #1871)
 185         - Printers that use JCL options are now exported to Samba
 186           correctly (STR #1985)
 187         - The IPP backend now relays printer-state-message values
 188           from the server to the client (STR #2109)
 189         - Added support for the PWG printer-alert and
 190           printer-alert-description attributes (STR #2088)
 191         - Added support for LPD "stream" mode (STR #2036)
 192         - The scheduler now reports the PostScript product string
 193           from PPD files in CUPS-Get-PPDs responses (STR #1900)
 194         - Raw printing with queues pointing to the file pseudo-
 195           device and multiple files and/or banners now works (STR
 196           #1933)
 197         - Added new public cupsAdminGetServerSettings() and
 198           cupsAdminSetServerSettings() APIs.
 199         - Added new "makebuttons" script in the "tools" directory
 200           for creating web interface buttons (STR #2231)
 201         - Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing
 202           (STR #1171)
 203         - Job operations (cancel, hold, release, etc.) from the
 204           web interface now return back to the original page (STR
 205           #2239)
 206         - The classes or printers list is now shown after a
 207           successful deletion from the web interface (STR #1999)
 208         - The default configuration now allows browse packets from
 209           any address (STR #2008)
 210         - The web interface now provides an "allow printing from the
 211           Internet" check box (STR #1897)
 212         - The notify-events-default and
 213           notify-lease-duration-default attributes can now be set
 214           (STR #1671)
 215         - Server-side default options are now sent to clients when
 216           the "printer-defaults" attribute group is requested (STR
 217           #1923)
 218         - Added support for Linux "relro" linker option (STR #1614)
 219         - CUPS now validates the number-up option value (STR #1329)
 220         - The on-line help now provides better search capabilities
 221           (STR #1701)
 222         - The web interface "Add This Printer" button now allows you
 223           to change the printer name, description,  and location
 224           (STR #1646)
 225         - Added support for Mac OS X authorization services
 226           (STR #2206)
 227         - Added support for driver-specific pre-filters (STR #2108)
 228         - Added a new side-channel API for drivers and backends
 229           for basic device control and information queries (STR
 230           #1898)
 231         - The scheduler now uses poll(), epoll(), or /dev/kqueue
 232           instead of select() when possible (STR #1261)
 233         - Added new cupsArrayGetIndex() and cupsArrayGetInsert()
 234           functions to get the current index and insertion
 235           positions of an array.
 236         - Added a new --with-max-copies configure option (STR
 237           #2090)
 238         - Added new cupsRemoveDest() and cupsSetDefaultDest()
 239           functions.
 240         - Added support for cupsPJLCharset attribute in PPD files
 241           which specifies the character set that is used in PJL
 242           strings (STR #1969)
 243         - Moved the definition of the (private) _http_s structure
 244           to http-private.h; code that directly accesses the
 245           http_t members will no longer compile!
 246         - Added support for setting the document-format-default
 247           attribute on a per-printer basis.
 248         - Added support for IntelliBar label printers.