CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2009-02-25
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
   5
   6         - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057)
   7         - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
   8           devices (STR #3108)
   9         - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
  10         - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
  11         - Added complete localizations for Japanese, Polish, and Russian and
  12           partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, German, Finnish, French,
  13           Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish (STR #3096,
  14           STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111)
  15         - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
  16           incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
  17         - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
  18           permissions.
  19         - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
  20         - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
  21           device URI.
  22         - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
  23           seconds.
  24         - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
  25         - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
  26           them failed.
  27         - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
  28           status operations.
  29         - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
  30           keywords.
  31         - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" status bit
  32           since some printers report this status when the printer is busy
  33           printing, warming up, etc.
  34         - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
  35           "crashed".
  36         - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
  37         - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
  38         - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
  39           printer had other reasons associated with it.
  40         - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
  41         - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
  42           (STR #3084)
  43         - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
  44           cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
  45         - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
  46           microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
  47         - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
  48           control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
  49         - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
  50           printer discovery (STR #3065)
  51         - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
  52           in length (STR #3072)
  53         - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
  54         - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
  55         - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
  56           printers with no specified colorspace.
  57         - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
  58           file on Mac OS X.
  59         - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
  60         - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
  61           and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
  62         - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
  63         - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
  64           for some PPDs.
  65         - The ppdi utility did not work.
  66         - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
  67           web browsers (STR #3049)
  68         - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
  69         - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
  70           options.
  71         - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
  72           have associated translation text (STR #3045)
  73         - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
  74         - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
  75         - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
  76           choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
  77           present in most PPD files.
  78         - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
  79         - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
  80           its jobs.
  81         - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
  82         - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
  83           all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
  84           printers.
  85         - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
  86           printer attributes when a job was canceled.
  87         - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
  88           when a job finished.
  89
  90
  91 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
  92
  93         - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
  94         - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
  95           FormatVersion values in PPD files.
  96         - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
  97           --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
  98         - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
  99           rather than copying them whenever possible.
 100         - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
 101           options implementations.
 102         - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
 103           attributes.
 104         - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
 105           was set to False in the PPD file.
 106         - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
 107           and network backends (STR #3014)
 108         - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
 109         - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
 110           attributes.
 111         - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
 112         - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
 113           parameter.
 114         - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
 115           --exclude-schemes options.
 116         - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
 117           and exclude-schemes attributes.
 118         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
 119           attribute.
 120         - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
 121           option called "fit-to-page".
 122         - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
 123           information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
 124           prevent race conditions.
 125         - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
 126         - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
 127           CUPS 1.1.x.
 128         - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
 129         - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
 130           catalogs (STR #2990)
 131         - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
 132           (STR #2989)
 133         - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
 134           variable when running filters.
 135         - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
 136           have all stopped.
 137         - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
 138           progress messages.
 139
 140
 141 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
 142
 143         - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
 144         - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
 145           override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
 146         - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
 147           (STR #2863)
 148         - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
 149           Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
 150           cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
 151         - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
 152           status of a single printer (STR #2843)
 153         - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
 154           significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
 155           (STR #1293)
 156         - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
 157           on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
 158         - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
 159           the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
 160           levels.
 161         - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
 162           support and easier customization (STR #2490)
 163         - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
 164           environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
 165         - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
 166           stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
 167         - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
 168           the printer-state-reasons attribute.
 169         - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
 170           of printer options (STR #1440)
 171         - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
 172           form.
 173         - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
 174           easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
 175         - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
 176         - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
 177           Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
 178         - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
 179           they know whether they are printing a banner or document
 180           file (STR #2799)
 181         - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
 182           command (STR #2562)
 183         - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
 184           talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
 185         - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
 186           cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
 187         - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
 188           Google (STR #2882)
 189         - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
 190           default server (STR #2833)
 191         - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
 192           which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
 193         - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
 194           (STR #2923)
 195         - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
 196           (STR #2848)
 197         - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
 198           value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
 199         - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
 200         - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
 201         - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
 202           print jobs (STR #2482)
 203         - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
 204           values.
 205         - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
 206           track the progress of individual pages.
 207         - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
 208         - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
 209           command, when available (STR #2724)
 210         - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
 211         - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
 212           PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
 213         - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
 214           file as errors (STR #2616)
 215         - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
 216           retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
 217           an error (STR #2555)
 218         - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
 219           correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
 220           continue further (STR #2101)
 221         - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
 222           (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
 223         - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
 224           (STR #2853)
 225         - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
 226           the physical location of a printer device.
 227         - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
 228           device data by a backend.
 229         - Added support for custom options in the web interface
 230           (STR #1729)
 231         - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
 232           and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
 233         - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
 234         - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
 235           to CUPS (STR #263)
 236         - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
 237         - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
 238           cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
 239         - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
 240         - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
 241           attributes for better option conflict detection and
 242           resolution.
 243         - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
 244           256 bytes (STR #2877)
 245         - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
 246           what is logged to the access_log file.
 247         - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
 248           the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
 249         - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
 250           files (STR #2871)
 251         - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
 252           information files.
 253         - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
 254         - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
 255           of an attribute.
 256         - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
 257         - The standard MIME types are now installed in
 258           DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
 259         - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
 260           the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
 261         - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
 262           or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
 263         - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
 264           (STR #2738)
 265         - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
 266           the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
 267         - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
 268           (STR #2636)
 269         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
 270           files (STR #2739)
 271         - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
 272           ModelName value as the output filename.
 273         - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
 274           set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
 275         - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
 276           standard network backends.
 277         - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
 278           control the format of lines in the page_log file.
 279         - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
 280           keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
 281         - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
 282           that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
 283         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
 284           name resolution.
 285         - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
 286           all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
 287         - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
 288           page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
 289         - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
 290           PJL commands are used to display the job information.
 291         - Driver information files can now be installed in
 292           /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
 293         - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
 294           than 2GB.
 295         - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
 296           reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
 297         - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
 298           exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
 299           backends are polled and for how long.
 300         - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
 301           parallel to get the list of devices faster.
 302         - Added --enable-pap configure option.
 303         - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
 304           policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
 305         - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
 306           (STR #2735, STR #2736)
 307         - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
 308           for localization (STR #2737)
 309         - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
 310           when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
 311           file.
 312         - The build system has been updated to support separate
 313           installation of data, program, header, and library files.
 314         - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
 315           by default.
 316         - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
 317         - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
 318           SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
 319         - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
 320           root to make the default installation more secure.
 321         - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
 322           the localized version of a marker-names value.
 323         - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
 324           attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
 325         - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
 326           pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
 327         - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
 328           global based on the current access policies for the
 329           printer.
 330         - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
 331           used printer preference on Mac OS X.
 332         - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
 333         - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
 334           library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
 335         - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
 336           that support it (STR #2637)
 337         - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
 338           possible.
 339         - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
 340           attriibute to purge a specified job.
 341         - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
 342           attributes for custom option selections.
 343         - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
 344           sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
 345           server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
 346         - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
 347           server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
 348           and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
 349         - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
 350           manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
 351           on the model page (STR #2436)
 352         - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
 353           duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
 354           of printers (STR #1175)
 355         - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
 356         - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
 357           that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
 358         - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
 359           to filter the document from the specified job.
 360         - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
 361           do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
 362         - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
 363           cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
 364         - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.