CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2008-12-08
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
   5
   6         - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
   7         - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
   8           and network backends (STR #3014)
   9         - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
  10         - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
  11           attributes.
  12         - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
  13         - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
  14           parameter.
  15         - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
  16           --exclude-schemes options.
  17         - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
  18           and exclude-schemes attributes.
  19         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
  20           attribute.
  21         - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
  22           option called "fit-to-page".
  23         - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
  24           information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
  25           prevent race conditions.
  26         - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
  27         - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
  28           CUPS 1.1.x.
  29         - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
  30         - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
  31           catalogs (STR #2990)
  32         - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
  33           (STR #2989)
  34         - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
  35           variable when running filters.
  36         - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
  37           have all stopped.
  38         - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
  39           progress messages.
  40
  41
  42 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
  43
  44         - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
  45         - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
  46           override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
  47         - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
  48           (STR #2863)
  49         - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
  50           Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
  51           cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
  52         - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
  53           status of a single printer (STR #2843)
  54         - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
  55           significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
  56           (STR #1293)
  57         - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
  58           on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
  59         - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
  60           the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
  61           levels.
  62         - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
  63           support and easier customization (STR #2490)
  64         - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
  65           environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
  66         - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
  67           stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
  68         - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
  69           the printer-state-reasons attribute.
  70         - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
  71           of printer options (STR #1440)
  72         - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
  73           form.
  74         - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
  75           easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
  76         - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
  77         - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
  78           Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
  79         - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
  80           they know whether they are printing a banner or document
  81           file (STR #2799)
  82         - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
  83           command (STR #2562)
  84         - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
  85           talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
  86         - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
  87           cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
  88         - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
  89           Google (STR #2882)
  90         - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
  91           default server (STR #2833)
  92         - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
  93           which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
  94         - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
  95           (STR #2923)
  96         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
  97           (STR #2848)
  98         - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
  99           value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
 100         - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
 101         - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
 102         - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
 103           print jobs (STR #2482)
 104         - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
 105           values.
 106         - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
 107           track the progress of individual pages.
 108         - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
 109         - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
 110           command, when available (STR #2724)
 111         - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
 112         - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
 113           PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
 114         - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
 115           file as errors (STR #2616)
 116         - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
 117           retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
 118           an error (STR #2555)
 119         - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
 120           correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
 121           continue further (STR #2101)
 122         - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
 123           (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
 124         - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
 125           (STR #2853)
 126         - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
 127           the physical location of a printer device.
 128         - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
 129           device data by a backend.
 130         - Added support for custom options in the web interface
 131           (STR #1729)
 132         - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
 133           and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
 134         - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
 135         - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
 136           to CUPS (STR #263)
 137         - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
 138         - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
 139           cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
 140         - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
 141         - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
 142           attributes for better option conflict detection and
 143           resolution.
 144         - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
 145           256 bytes (STR #2877)
 146         - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
 147           what is logged to the access_log file.
 148         - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
 149           the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
 150         - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
 151           files (STR #2871)
 152         - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
 153           information files.
 154         - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
 155         - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
 156           of an attribute.
 157         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
 158         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
 159           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
 160         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
 161           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
 162         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
 163           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
 164         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
 165           (STR #2738)
 166         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
 167           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
 168         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
 169           (STR #2636)
 170         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
 171           files (STR #2739)
 172         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
 173           ModelName value as the output filename.
 174         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
 175           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
 176         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
 177           standard network backends.
 178         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
 179           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
 180         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
 181           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
 182         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
 183           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
 184         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
 185           name resolution.
 186         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
 187           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
 188         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
 189           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
 190         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
 191           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
 192         - Driver information files can now be installed in
 193           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
 194         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
 195           than 2GB.
 196         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
 197           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
 198         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
 199           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
 200           backends are polled and for how long.
 201         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
 202           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
 203         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
 204         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
 205           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
 206         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
 207           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
 208         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
 209           for localization (STR #2737)
 210         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
 211           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
 212           file.
 213         - The build system has been updated to support separate
 214           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
 215         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
 216           by default.
 217         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
 218         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
 219           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
 220         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
 221           root to make the default installation more secure.
 222         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
 223           the localized version of a marker-names value.
 224         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
 225           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
 226         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
 227           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
 228         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
 229           global based on the current access policies for the
 230           printer.
 231         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
 232           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
 233         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
 234         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
 235           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
 236         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
 237           that support it (STR #2637)
 238         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
 239           possible.
 240         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
 241           attriibute to purge a specified job.
 242         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
 243           attributes for custom option selections.
 244         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
 245           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
 246           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
 247         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
 248           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
 249           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
 250         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 251           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 252           on the model page (STR #2436)
 253         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 254           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 255           of printers (STR #1175)
 256         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 257         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 258           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 259         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 260           to filter the document from the specified job.
 261         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 262           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 263         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 264           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 265         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
 266