CHANGES.txt

   1 CHANGES.txt - 2011-05-26
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   3
   4 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2
   5
   6         - Documentation updates.
   7         - Compiler warning cleanup.
   8         - Fixed PIE support for Linux (STR #3846)
   9
  10
  11 CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
  12
  13         - The CUPS library now supports per-connection HTTP timeouts and
  14           callbacks.
  15         - The CUPS library now supports (limited) SSL/TLS X.509 certificate
  16           validation and revocation (STR #1616)
  17         - Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more
  18           circumstances (STR #3417)
  19         - The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in
  20           the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533)
  21         - Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do
  22           not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800)
  23         - The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing
  24           was not enabled (STR #3639)
  25         - The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple
  26           hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813)
  27         - The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and
  28           manages the group (STR #2829)
  29         - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838)
  30         - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration,
  31           cache, and state files (STR #3715)
  32         - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
  33           (STR #2959)
  34         - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
  35           cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
  36         - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
  37         - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
  38           (STR #3605)
  39         - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
  40         - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
  41         - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
  42         - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
  43           (STR #3766)
  44         - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
  45           sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
  46           size (STR #3689)
  47         - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
  48         - Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes.
  49         - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
  50         - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
  51         - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
  52           drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
  53         - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
  54           the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
  55         - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
  56           authenticating (STR #3670)
  57         - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
  58           CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
  59           printers.
  60         - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
  61           pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
  62           Throughput keyword.
  63         - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
  64         - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
  65           CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
  66         - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
  67           STR #3753)
  68         - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
  69           to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
  70         - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
  71           in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
  72         - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
  73           (STR #2969)
  74         - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
  75           elements.
  76         - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
  77         - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
  78           default.
  79         - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
  80           support (STR #3097)
  81         - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
  82           Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
  83           PWG 5100.11.
  84         - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
  85           (<cups/ppd.h>).
  86         - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
  87           attribute.
  88         - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
  89           plugin.
  90         - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
  91           on Mac OS X.
  92         - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
  93           CUPS 1.1.x.  The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
  94           were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
  95         - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
  96           improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
  97         - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
  98           provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
  99         - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
 100         - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
 101           permissions disabled.
 102         - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
 103           PPD files.
 104         - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
 105         - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)