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   8 <P>CUPS 1.4 adds over ?? changes and new features to CUPS 1.3.x. This page provides a high-level outline of these changes. If you have never used CUPS before, read the <A HREF="overview.html">"Overview of CUPS"</A> document instead.</P>
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  10 <H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="COMMANDS">Commands</A></H2>
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  14         <LI><EM>lppasswd;</EM> the lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid by default.</LI>
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  16         <LI><EM>cupsfilter;</EM> the cupsfilter program now supports filtering of already-queued print job files.</LI>
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  27 <H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="WEBIF">Web Interface</A></H2>
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  31         <LI><EM>Look-n-feel;</EM> the web interface has been given a new look with a new CUPS logo.</LI>
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  33         <LI><EM>Security;</EM> the web interface has been updated to require authentication for printing of test pages and RSS subscription operations.</LI>
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  35         <LI><EM>Printer sharing;</EM> the "share printer" and "unshare printer" buttons are now only shown when printer sharing is enabled in the scheduler.</LI>
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  37         <LI><EM>Printer configuration;</EM> improvements have been made to the add and modify printer pages.</LI>
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  50 <H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="NETWORKING">Networking</A></H2>
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  54         <LI><EM>Bonjour (DNS-SD) printing support;</EM> a new mdns backend provides Bonjour-based printer discovery and the ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support Bonjour address resolution.</LI>
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  56         <LI><EM>Bonjour (DNS-SD) perforance tuning;</EM> the scheduler now only uses a single file descriptor for printer sharing. It previously used one per printer.</LI>
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  58         <LI><EM>Bonjour (DNS-SD) web interface registry;</EM> when remote access is enabled, the scheduler registers the web interface for easier access</LI>
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  60         <LI><EM>SNMP-based monitoring;</EM> the ipp, lpd, and socket backends now report supply levels and printer status using SNMP queries.</LI>
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  62         <LI><EM>SNMP port monitor MIB;</EM> the ipp, lpd, snmp, and socket now support the PWG port monitor MIB</LI>
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  71 <H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="IPP">IPP Support</A></H2>
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  75         <LI><EM>CUPS-Get-Document operation;</EM> the scheduler now supports a "get document" operation to download files from a print job.</LI>
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  90 <H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="SCHEDULER">Scheduler</A></H2>
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  94         <LI><EM>Performance tuning;</EM> the scheduler now coalesces  configuration and state file changes to reduce the amount of disk activity.</LI>
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  96         <LI><EM>Configuration files;</EM> the default cupsd.conf file now provides an "authenticated" policy for easy authenticated sharing of printers.</LI>
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  98         <LI><EM>Seatbelt support;</EM> the scheduler now runs child processes using restrictive policies on Mac OS X for improved security and job isolation.</LI>
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 100         <LI><EM>PAM support;</EM> the scheduler now sets more PAM attributes to better support third-party authentication schemes.</LI>
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 102         <LI><EM>Test option;</EM> the scheduler now supports a test mode via the "-t" option.</LI>
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 104         <LI><EM>Page logging;</EM> the scheduler now supports a <code>PageLogFormat</code> directive to control the format of the page_log file.</LI>
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 123         <LI><EM>Dynamic PPD support;</EM> drivers can now set PPD keywords
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 126         <LI><EM>Generic PostScript command filter;</EM> a new CUPS command file filter for PostScript printers provides auto-configuration, self-test page, and status and supply level reporting functions.</LI>
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 128         <LI><EM>PJL support;</EM> the cupsPJLDisplay PPD attribute controls the PJL commands used to display the current user and job on the printer.</LI>
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 130         <LI><EM>Driver development kit;</EM> the CUPS DDK is now a standard part of CUPS</LI>
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 132         <LI><EM>PPD compiler improvements;</EM> the PPD compiler now supports Mac OS X .strings files for localization and ... </LI>
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 134         <LI><EM>Generic PostScript and PCL drivers;</EM> new generic PostScript and PCL drivers provide improved support for laser printers.</LI>
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 163 <H2 CLASS="title"><A NAME="FILTERS">Print Filters</A></H2>
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 167         <LI><EM>Image filters;</EM> the standard image filters now support image files larger than 2GB.</LI>
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 169         <LI><EM>Device discovery;</EM> the cups-deviced helper now runs backends in parallel for faster discovery and streams the results of discovery as the backends provide them.</LI>
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 171         <LI><EM>PDF filter;</EM> the pdftops filter has been replaced with a wrapper program that runs the Xpdf, poppler, or Ghostscript PDF to PostScript utilities.</LI>
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 188         <LI><EM>Streaming API;</EM> a new streaming request API provides asynchronous job creation and request submission.</LI>
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 190         <LI><EM>Device discovery;</EM> the new <code>cupsGetDevices</code> function streams discovered devices to an application-provided callback function.</LI>
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 192         <LI><EM>PPD support;</EM> two new functions are provided, cupsGetPPD3 and ppdLocalizeMarkerName, to update the local copy of a printers's PPD file and get a localized marker (supply) name, respectively.</LI>
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