CHANGES.txt

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