CHANGES-1.2.txt
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+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.12
+
+ - The PHP cups_print_file() function crashed if the options
+ array contained non-string option values (STR #2430)
+ - The image/tiff file matching rule incorrectly identified
+ some text files as TIFF files (STR #2431)
+ - The filter(7) man page incorrectly documented the
+ "PAGE: total #-pages" message (STR #2427)
+ - PCL text files were mis-identified as HP-GL/2 and
+ caused the HP-GL/2 filter to hang (STR #2423)
+ - When printing to a queue with user ACLs, the scheduler
+ incorrectly returned a quota error instead of a "not
+ allowed to print" error (STR #2409)
+ - cupsaddsmb could get in a loop if no printer drivers
+ were installed (STR #2407)
+ - cupsRasterReadHeader() did not byte-swap the header
+ properly when compiled with certain versions of GCC.
+ - The IPP backend did not send the document-format
+ attribute for filtered jobs (STR #2411)
+ - Some PPD files could cause a crash in ppdOpen2 (STR
+ #2408)
+ - The web admin interface incorrectly handled the "share
+ printers" and "show remote printers" settings (STR
+ #2393)
+ - The scheduler's log messages about AuthClass and
+ AuthGroupName advised using a replacement directive but
+ had the wrong syntax (STR #2400)
+ - Updated the PostScript/PJL and HP-GL/2 MIME rules to
+ look in the first 4k of the file, not just the first 1k
+ (STR #2386)
+ - Updated the Italian localization (STR #2382)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.11
+
+ - Fixed the "relaying from" log message (STR #2376)
+ - Updated the launchd support on Mac OS X to better
+ support reconfiguration.
+ - "make distclean" didn't remove all generated files
+ (STR #2366)
+ - Fixed a bug in the advertisement of classes (STR
+ #2373)
+ - The IPP backend now stays running until the job is
+ actually printed by the remote server; previously
+ it would stop monitoring the job if it was held or
+ temporarily stopped (STR #2352)
+ - PDF files were not always printed using the correct
+ orientation (STR #2348)
+ - The scheduler could crash if you specified a bad file:
+ URI for a printer (STR #2351)
+ - The Renew-Subscription operation now returns the
+ notify-lease-duration value that was used (STR #2346)
+ - The IPP backend sent job options to IPP printers,
+ however some printers tried to override the options
+ embedded in the PS/PCL stream with those job options
+ (STR #2349)
+ - ppdLocalize() now also tries a country-specific
+ localization for when localizing to a generic locale
+ name.
+ - The cupstestppd program now allows for partial
+ localizations to reduce the size of universal PPD
+ files.
+ - Chinese PPD files were incorrectly tagged with the
+ "cn" locale (should have been "zh")
+ - The backends now manage the printer-state-reasons
+ attribute more accurately (STR #2345)
+ - Java, PHP, Perl, and Python scripts did not work
+ properly (STR #2342)
+ - The scheduler would take forever to start if the
+ maximum number of file descriptors was set to
+ "unlimited" (STR #2329)
+ - The page-ranges option was incorrectly applied to the
+ banner pages (STR #2336)
+ - Fixed some GCC compile warnings (STR #2340)
+ - The DBUS notification code was broken for older
+ versions of DBUS (STR #2327)
+ - The IPv6 code did not compile on HP-UX 11.23 (STR
+ #2331)
+ - PPD constraints did not work properly with custom
+ options.
+ - Regular PPD options with the name "CustomFoo" did
+ not work.
+ - The USB backend did not work on NetBSD (STR #2324)
+ - The printer-state-reasons attribute was incorrectly
+ cleared after a job completed (STR #2323)
+ - The scheduler did not set the printer operation policy
+ on startup, only on soft reload (STR #2319)
+ - The AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot option did not clear any
+ ManualFeed setting that was made, which caused problems
+ with some PPD files (STR #2318)
+ - cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() did not abort
+ when getting an error in the response (STR #2315)
+ - The scheduler did not schedule jobs properly to remote
+ or nested classes (STR #2317)
+ - Updated the mime.types and mime.convs headers to warn
+ that the files are overwritten when CUPS is installed.
+ Local changes should go in local.types or local.convs,
+ respectively (STR #2310)
+ - The scheduler could get in an infinite loop if a
+ printer in an implicit class disappeared (STR #2311)
+ - The pstops filter did not handle %%EndFeature comments
+ properly (STR #2306)
+ - Fixed a problem with the Polish web page printer icons
+ (STR #2305)
+ - ppdLocalize() now also localizes the cupsICCProfile
+ attributes.
+ - The scheduler still had a reference to the incorrect
+ "notify-recipient" attribute (STR #2307)
+ - The "make check" and "make test" subscription tests did
+ not set the locale (STR #2307)
+ - The "make check" and "make test" subscription tests
+ incorrectly used the notify-recipient attribute instead
+ of notify-recipient-uri (STR #2307)
+ - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() incorrectly limited the
+ cupsBorderlessScalingFactor when specified in the
+ job options.
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.10
+
+ - ppdLocalize() now supports localizing for Japanese
+ using the "jp" locale name used by the ppdmerge
+ program from the CUPS DDK 1.1.0 (STR #2301)
+ - _cupsAdminSetServerSettings() did not support changing
+ of top-level directives as designed.
+ - The init script path check was broken.
+ - CUPS incorrectly used the attribute "notify-recipient"
+ instead of "notify-recicpient-uri" in several places
+ (STR #2297)
+ - Fixed a configure script bug on MirBSD (STR #2294)
+ - The pdftops filter did not limit the amount of recursion
+ of page sets (STR #2293)
+ - Custom page sizes with fractional point sizes did not
+ work (STR #2296)
+ - The lpoptions command would crash when adding or removing
+ options on a system with no printers (STR #2295)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.9
+
+ - The scheduler did not use the default job-sheets
+ (banners) for implicit classes (STR #2284)
+ - The scheduler could crash when listing complete jobs
+ that had been unloaded from memory (STR #2288)
+ - The French localization was doubled up (STR #2287)
+ - Build system fixes for several platforms (STR #2260,
+ STR #2275)
+ - The scheduler's openssl certificate generation code was
+ broken on some platforms (STR #2282)
+ - The scheduler's log rotation check for devices was
+ broken (STR #2278)
+ - The LPD mini-daemon did not handle the document-format
+ option correctly (STR #2266)
+ - The pdftops filter ignored the "match" size option in the
+ pdftops.conf file (STR #2285)
+ - cupstestppd now validates UTF-8 text strings in
+ globalized PPD files (STR #2283)
+ - The outputorder=reverse option did not work with all
+ printers (STR #2279)
+ - Classes containing other classes did not always work
+ (STR #2255)
+ - Printer location and description information was lost
+ if the corresponding string contained the "#" character
+ (STR #2254)
+ - cupsRemoveOption() did not work properly (STR #2264)
+ - The USB backend did not work with some USB to parallel
+ cables on Mac OS X.
+ - The test page did not print the rulers properly on
+ large media sizes (STR #2252)
+ - The text filter could crash when pretty printing certain
+ types of files (STR #2158)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.8
+
+ - Documentation fixes (STR #2141, STR #2157)
+ - The HTTP upgrade redirection used by the scheduler did
+ not work with Internet Explorer (STR #2235)
+ - Members of a class with Unicode names did not appear
+ correctly in the web interface (STR #2154)
+ - Changing the "Save debugging information" setting in
+ the web interface no longer affects the other server
+ settings (STR #1993)
+ - The scheduler did not choose SSL certificates correctly
+ on Mac OS X (STR #2225)
+ - The scheduler could get in an infinite loop when
+ printing to a remote class (STR #2228)
+ - The jobs web page did not have separating space after
+ the number of pages column (STR #2230)
+ - Added French localization (STR #2221)
+ - Updated Spanish localization (STR #2223)
+ - Updated Japanese localization (STR #2216)
+ - cupsBorderlessScalingFacter was limited to a range of
+ 0.9 to 1.1, but some printers need larger values (STR
+ #2222)
+ - Landscape printing of PDF files did not always work
+ (STR #2149)
+ - Fixed slow USB printing on Minolta printers (STR #2104,
+ STR #2219)
+ - The ZPL label printer driver could produce stretched
+ output (PR #6448)
+ - The IPP backend now clears the printer-state-message
+ when there are no outstanding errors or warnings (STR
+ #2126)
+ - The CUPS Java scripting support did not work with
+ recent versions of Java due to the use of Sun's private
+ Base64 class (STR #2152)
+ - The scheduler did not pass HTTP GET form variables to
+ custom CGI programs (STR #2173)
+ - The lpoptions command now displays the reason why a PPD
+ file cannot be found (STR #2184)
+ - The scheduler did not accept "none" as a browse
+ protocol name (STR #2200)
+ - The scheduler still loaded the remote printer cache,
+ even when browsing was disabled (STR #2198)
+ - The SNMP backend now shows OfficeJet printers with the
+ "HP" manufacturer prefix (STR #2151)
+ - Web interface HTML cleanup (STR #2153)
+ - The parallel backend consumed 100% CPU on FreeBSD due
+ to an apparently common parallel port driver bug (STR
+ #2161)
+ - ippReadIO() incorrectly returned IPP_IDLE when the
+ initial IPP message header could not be read (STR
+ #2179)
+ - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() did not support custom options
+ (STR #1960)
+ - Collated output produced by the PostScript filter could
+ lose some options (STR #2137)
+ - job-hold-until with time values for the next day would
+ be held for 60 days (STR #2144)
+ - Some types of Sun raster files did not print correctly
+ (STR #2107)
+ - Raw PBM files did not print correctly (STR #2106)
+ - The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP with HP printers,
+ as some recent firmware versions appear to not work
+ (STR #2055)
+ - cupsMarkOptions() did not handle the
+ multiple-document-handling option (STR #2135)
+ - lpstat did not show the local job ID of active printers
+ (STR #2125)
+ - The backends incorrectly used STATUS:
+ media-tray-empty-error messages for out-of-paper
+ conditions (STR #2123, STR #2124)
+ - cupsGetPPD2() returned the wrong error when the PPD
+ file did not exist (STR #2122)
+ - cupsDoAuthentication() did not translate the password
+ prompt (STR #2121)
+ - httpGetLength2() did not handle error messages without
+ content correctly (STR #2133)
+ - Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX Itanium
+ systems (STR #2115)
+ - Fixed a configure script problem with the 32/64-bit
+ library support (STR #2114)
+ - The PostScript filter did not properly output document
+ setup commands for reversed output (STR #2111)
+ - The scheduler did not parse IPv6 netmasks properly (STR
+ #2117)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.7
+
+ - Documentation updates (STR #2089)
+ - Added an Italian translation (STR #2105)
+ - The PostScript filter now rotates the bounding box
+ values as needed (STR #2079)
+ - The scheduler no longer loads the remote printer cache
+ when browsing is disabled (STR #2084)
+ - The scheduler no longer writes a new launchd
+ configuration file if it doesn't have to (STR #2083)
+ - Updated the USB and PAP backends for Mac OS X (STR
+ #2086)
+ - The scheduler now picks up on changes to IPv6 and DNS
+ configuration on Mac OS X (STR #2085)
+ - The lpstat program could still hang (STR #2098)
+ - Fixed an inefficiency in the SNMP IPP detection code
+ (STR #2100)
+ - The SSL negotiation code did not implement short
+ timeouts (STR #2091)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.6
+
+ - The web interface was not localized on Mac OS X (STR
+ #2075)
+ - "lpc status" did not show the number of queued jobs for
+ disabled queues (STR #2069)
+ - The lpstat program could hang (STR #2073)
+ - The serial backend did not support the new USB serial
+ filenames on Linux (STR #2061)
+ - The parallel backend did not support bidirectional I/O
+ properly (STR #2056)
+ - The network backends now log the numeric address that
+ is being used (STR #2046)
+ - Fixed a compile error when using libpaper.
+ - Fixed a compile error when compiling on Solaris with
+ threading enabled (STR #2049, STR #2050)
+ - Missing printer-state-changed event for
+ printer-state-message updates (STR #2047)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.5
+
+ - Documentation updates (STR #2038)
+ - The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP for Epson printers
+ (STR #2028)
+ - Updated the configure script for Tru64 UNIX 5.1 (STR
+ #2033)
+ - Tru64 5.1B's getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() functions
+ leak file descriptors (STR #2034)
+ - cupsAddDest() didn't add the parent destination's
+ options and attributes.
+ - ppdConflicts() did not handle custom option
+ constraints.
+ - Raw printing of gzip'd files did not work (STR #2009)
+ - The scheduler no longer preserves default option
+ choices when the new PPD no longer provides the old
+ default choice (STR #1929)
+ - The Linux SCSI backend is now only built if the SCSI
+ development headers are installed.
+ - USB printing to Minolta printers did not work (STR
+ #2019)
+ - Windows clients could not monitor the queue status (STR
+ #2006)
+ - The scheduler didn't log the operation name in the
+ access_log file for Create-Job and Print-Job requests.
+ - The PostScript filter now separates collated copies
+ with any required JCL commands so that JCL-based
+ finishing options act on the individual copies and not
+ all of the copies as a single document.
+ - The PostScript filter now disables duplex printing when
+ printing a 1-page document.
+ - cups-lpd didn't pass the correct
+ job-originating-host-name value (STR #2023)
+ - Fixed some speling errors in the German message catalog
+ (STR #2012)
+ - cupstestppd did not catch PPD files with bad
+ UIConstraints values (STR #2016)
+ - The USB backend did not work with the current udev-
+ created printers if the first printer was disconnected
+ (STR #2017)
+ - Mirrored and rotated printing did not work with some
+ documents (STR #2004)
+ - 2-sided printing with banners did not work properly on
+ some printers (STR #2018)
+ - Updated the raw type rule to handle PJL within the
+ first 4k of a print job (STR #1969)
+ - Added an Estonian translation (STR #1957)
+ - Clarified the documentation for the cupsd.conf @LOCAL
+ and @IF(name) allow/deny functionality (STR #1992)
+ - The PostScript filters did not escape the Title and For
+ comments in the print job header (STR #1988)
+ - The scheduler would use 100% CPU if browsing was
+ disabled and the cupsd.conf file contained BrowsePoll
+ lines (STR #1994)
+ - The cupsDirRead() function did not work properly on
+ non-POSIX-compliant systems (STR #2001)
+ - The cupsFile functions didn't handle read/write errors
+ properly (STR #1996)
+ - The DBUS support now works with older versions of the
+ DBUS library.
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.4
+
+ - The --with-printcap configure option did not work (STR
+ #1984)
+ - The character set reported by cupsLangGet() did not
+ always reflect the default character set of a given
+ locale (STR #1983)
+ - Older Lexmark and Tektronix printers did not work with
+ IPP (STR #1980)
+ - Failsafe printing did not work (PR #6328)
+ - Some web interface redirects did not work (STR #1978)
+ - The web interface change settings button could
+ introduce a "Port 0" line in cupsd.conf if there was no
+ loopback connection available (STR #1979)
+ - The web interface change settings and edit
+ configuration file buttons would truncate the
+ cupsd.conf file (STR #1976)
+ - The German web interface used the wrong printer icon
+ images (STR #1973)
+ - The "All Documents" link in the on-line help was
+ missing a trailing slash (STR #1971)
+ - The Polish web interface translation used the wrong
+ URLs for the job history (STR #1963)
+ - The "reprint job" button did not work (STR #1956)
+ - The scheduler did not always report printer or job
+ events properly (STR #1955)
+ - The scheduler always stopped the queue on error,
+ regardless of the exit code, if the error policy was
+ set to "stop-printer" (STR #1959)
+ - ppdEmitJCL() included UTF-8 characters in the JCL job
+ name, which caused problems on some printers (STR
+ #1959)
+ - Fixed a buffering problem that cause high CPU usage
+ (STR #1968)
+ - The command-line applications did not convert
+ command-line strings to UTF-8 as needed (STR #1958)
+ - cupsDirRead() incorrectly aborted when reading a
+ symbolic link that pointed to a file/directory that did
+ not exist (STR #1953)
+ - The cupsInterpretRasterPPD() function did not handle
+ custom page sizes properly.
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.3
+
+ - The scheduler did not send job-state or
+ job-config-changed events when a job was held,
+ released, or changed (STR #1947)
+ - The scheduler now aborts if the configuration file and
+ directory checks fail (STR #1941)
+ - Fixed a problem with ippPort() not using the port
+ number that was set via the client.conf file or
+ CUPS_SERVER environment variable (STR #1945)
+ - HTTP headers were not buffered (STR #1899)
+ - Some IPP printers (HP) did not like UTF-8 job names
+ (STR #1837)
+ - The CUPS desktop icon is now localized for Polish (STR
+ #1920)
+ - Printer options were not always honored when printing
+ from Windows clients (STR #1839)
+ - The openssl command would lock up the scheduler when
+ generating an encryption certificate on some platforms
+ due to a lack of entropy for the random number
+ generator (STR #1876)
+ - The web admin page did not recognize that "Listen 631"
+ enabled remote access (STR #1908)
+ - The web admin page did not check whether changes were
+ made to the Basic Server Settings check boxes (STR
+ #1908)
+ - The IPP backend could generate N*N copies in certain
+ edge cases.
+ - The scheduler did not restore remote printers properly
+ when BrowseShortNames was enabled (STR #1893)
+ - Polling did not handle changes to the network
+ environment on Mac OS X (STR #1896)
+ - The "make test" subscription tests used invalid
+ notify-recipient-uri values (STR #1910)
+ - Printers could be left in an undefined state on system
+ sleep (STR #1905)
+ - The Berkeley and System V commands did not always use
+ the expected character set (STR #1915)
+ - Remote printing fixes (STR #1881)
+ - The cupstestppd utility did not validate translation
+ strings for custom options properly.
+ - Multi-language PPD files were not properly localized in
+ the web interface (STR #1913)
+ - The admin page's simple settings options did not check
+ for local domain socket or IPv6 addresses and did not
+ use "localhost" as the listen address.
+ - An empty BrowseProtocols, BrowseLocalProtocols, or
+ BrowseRemoteProtocols line would crash the scheduler
+ instead of disabling the corresponding browsing options.
+ - The scheduler now logs IPP operation status as debug
+ messages instead of info or error.
+ - cupsFileRewind() didn't clear the end-of-file state.
+ - cupstestppd didn't report the actual misspelling of the
+ 1284DeviceID attribute (STR #1849)
+ - BrowseRelay didn't work on Debian (STR #1887)
+ - configure --without-languages didn't work (STR #1879)
+ - Manually added remote printers did not work (STR #1881)
+ - The <cups/backend.h> header was not installed.
+ - Updated the build files for Autoconf 2.60 (STR #1853)
+ - The scheduler incorrectly terminated the polling
+ processes after receiving a partial log line.
+ - The cups-lpd mini-daemon reported "No printer-state
+ attribute found" errors when reporting the queue status
+ (PR #6250, STR #1821)
+ - SNMP backend improvements (STR #1737, STR #1742, STR
+ #1790, STR #1835, STR #1880)
+ - The scheduler erroneously reported an error with the
+ CGI pipe (STR #1860)
+ - Fixed HP-UX compile problems (STR #1858, STR #1859)
+ - cupstestppd crashed with some PPD files (STR #1864)
+ - The <cups/dir.h> and <cups/file.h> header files did not
+ work with C++.
+
+
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.2
+ - Documentation updates (STR #1765, STR #1780)
+ - CUPS didn't know about alternate character set names
+ for Asian text (STR #1819)
+ - The lpoptions -o and -r options did not work unless you
+ specified a printer.
+ - The lpoptions command incorrectly allowed users to set
+ printer attributes like printer-type (STR #1791)
+ - httpWait() did not flush the write buffer, causing "bad
+ request" errors when communicating with CUPS 1.1.x
+ servers (STR #1717)
+ - Polling did not sanitize the printer description,
+ location, or make and model strings like broadcasts
+ did.
+ - Polled printers did not show the server's default
+ job-sheets option value.
+ - The Samba password prompt was not properly localized
+ (STR #1814)
+ - Added a German translation (STR #1842)
+ - The scheduler now creates self-signed SSL certficates
+ automatically when using OpenSSL and CDSA for
+ encryption, just as for GNU TLS.
+ - The SNMP backend sporatically reported some printers as
+ "unknown" (STR #1774)
+ - The scheduler now forces BrowseTimeout to be at least
+ twice the BrowseInterval value and non-zero to avoid
+ common configuration errors.
+ - The scheduler incorrectly returned printer URIs of the
+ form "ipp://server/printers/classname" for classes (STR
+ #1813)
+ - Updated Japanese localization (STR #1805)
+ - The scheduler's SSL certificate/key directory was not
+ created on installation (STR #1788)
+ - Added a mailto.conf man page and help page (STR #1754)
+ - The parallel and USB backends no longer wait for the
+ printer to go on-line - this caused problems with
+ certain printers that don't follow with the IEEE-1284
+ standard (STR #1738)
+ - The scheduler could crash on a reload when implicit
+ classes were present (STR #1828)
+ - The IPP backend incorrectly used the CUPS_ENCRYPTION
+ environment variable to determine the default
+ encryption mode when printing (STR #1820)
+ - USB printing did not work on Solaris (STR #1756)
+ - The scheduler sorted job priorities in the wrong order
+ (STR #1811)
+ - The scheduler did not automatically restart notifiers
+ that exited or crashed (STR #1793)
+ - IPv6 support did not work on NetBSD (STR #1834)
+ - The EPM packaging file did not work (STR #1804)
+ - The scheduler used up the CPU if BrowseRemoteProtocols
+ was empty (STR #1792)
+ - Custom page sizes did not work (STR #1787)
+ - The SNMP backend could crash on some systems when SNMP
+ logging was enabled (STR #1789)
+ - Browsing could produce some funny printer names when
+ ServerName was set to an IP address (STR #1799)
+ - Fixed the log message for BrowseRelay (STR #1798)
+ - Fixes to allow CUPS to compile on MirBSD (STR #1796)
+ - The scheduler incorrectly set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
+ environment variable (STR #1795)
+ - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded a "produced by"
+ comment, causing PDF printing not to work on some
+ operating systems (STR #1801)
- Sending raw jobs from a client system could cause the
client's scheduler to eventually crash (STR #1786)
- The scheduler now checks that the notifier exists prior
- Special cases for the "localhost" hostname did not
work, causing printing to not work when the /etc/hosts
file did not contain a localhost entry (STR #1723)
- - Updated the Spanish translation (STR #1720)
+ - Updated the Spanish translation (STR #1720, STR #1770)
- Reverse-order page output was broken when N-up or
landscape orientations were used (STR #1725)
- The parallel, serial, socket, and USB backends needed
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.1
+ - "lprm -h hostname" did not work (STR #1800)
+ - The web interface did not handle reloads properly for
+ MSIE (STR #1716)
+ - The configure script no longer adds linker rpath
+ options when they are unnecessary.
+ - The scheduler could crash printing a debug message on
+ Solaris (STR #1714)
+ - The --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure options
+ did not always work.
+ - The password prompt showed the domain socket address
+ instead of "localhost" for local authentication (STR
+ #1706)
+ - The web interface filtered the list of printers even if
+ the user wasn't logged in (STR #1700)
+ - The IPP backend did not work reliably with some Xerox
+ printers (STR #1704)
+ - Trailing banners were not added when printing a single
+ file (STR #1698)
- The web interface support programs crashed on Solaris
(STR #1699)
- cupstestppd incorrectly reported problems with
the getifaddrs emulation functions (STR #1668)
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.0
- Documentation updates (STR #1618, STR #1620, STR #1622,
STR #1637)