-CHANGES.txt - 2006-03-20
+CHANGES.txt - 2008-06-25
------------------------
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc1
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
- - Documentation updates (STR #1497)
- - Added KDE/GNOME icons and a Manage Printers menu item.
- - Added --enable-image and --enable-pdftops configure
- options to control whether the image and PDF filters
- are built and installed (default = yes for all
- platforms but MacOS X)
- - Fixed a minor memory leak in the PPD API.
- - Fixed transcoding issues (STR #1493)
- - The scheduler now enforces a minimum job cost of 100
- when doing FilterLimit checks.
- - The scheduler would leak file descriptors when printing
- to raw queues (STR #1491)
- - The IPv6 support did not compile on Tru64 UNIX (STR
- #1488)
- - ppdOpen2() now converts the NickName and all UI text to
- UTF-8 (STR #1475)
- - The Set Allows Users web page did not work (STR #1486)
- - When the default policy was not set or set to a non-
- existing policy, the scheduler did not set the default
- policy name to "default" (STR #1484)
- - The Zebra CPCL driver did not use the correct righthand
- margin for the 4" wide label sizes.
- - Fixed a problem with the parsing of fractional real
- numbers in PPD files.
- - Added Spanish localization files (STR #1480)
- - Fixed localization of a few scheduler messages (STR
- #1478)
- - Fixed support for HEAD requests in the scheduler (STR
- #1481)
+ - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
+ - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version
+ of an attribute.
+ - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
+ - The standard MIME types are now installed in
+ DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
+ - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and
+ the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
+ - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese
+ or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
+ - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes
+ (STR #2738)
+ - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in
+ the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
+ - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives
+ (STR #2636)
+ - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD
+ files (STR #2739)
+ - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the
+ ModelName value as the output filename.
+ - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to
+ set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
+ - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the
+ standard network backends.
+ - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to
+ control the format of lines in the page_log file.
+ - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD
+ keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
+ - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers
+ that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
+ - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service
+ name resolution.
+ - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for
+ all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
+ - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based
+ page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
+ - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what
+ PJL commands are used to display the job information.
+ - Driver information files can now be installed in
+ /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
+ - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger
+ than 2GB.
+ - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to
+ reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
+ - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the
+ exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which
+ backends are polled and for how long.
+ - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in
+ parallel to get the list of devices faster.
+ - Added --enable-pap configure option.
+ - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"
+ policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
+ - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files
+ (STR #2735, STR #2736)
+ - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files
+ for localization (STR #2737)
+ - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N
+ when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD
+ file.
+ - The build system has been updated to support separate
+ installation of data, program, header, and library files.
+ - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries
+ by default.
+ - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
+ - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support
+ SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
+ - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to
+ root to make the default installation more secure.
+ - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get
+ the localized version of a marker-names value.
+ - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name
+ attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
+ - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler
+ pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
+ - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or
+ global based on the current access policies for the
+ printer.
+ - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last
+ used printer preference on Mac OS X.
+ - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
+ - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS
+ library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
+ - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems
+ that support it (STR #2637)
+ - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when
+ possible.
+ - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job
+ attriibute to purge a specified job.
+ - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency
+ attributes for custom option selections.
+ - The web interface now enables/disables the printer
+ sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the
+ server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
+ - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the
+ server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD
+ and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
+ - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/
+ manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver
+ on the model page (STR #2436)
+ - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and
+ duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities
+ of printers (STR #1175)
+ - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
+ - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation
+ that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
+ - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option
+ to filter the document from the specified job.
+ - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to
+ do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
+ - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to
+ cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
+ - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b2
-
- - Updated the CUPS design description.
- - Added --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure
- options to allow building of separate 32/64-bit
- libraries on systems that support both environments
- (STR #1472)
- - Various compiler warning fixes.
- - Fixes for Solaris 10 builds against old GNU TLS and
- LDAP libraries.
- - Added a cupsArrayUserData() function to retrieve the
- user data pointer for an array (useful for typing
- arrays)
- - The ppdEmitString() function did not compute the
- required buffer size properly, leading to dropped
- characters on the end of the printer commands in pstops
- and imagetops (STR #1470)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b1
-
- - The serial backend now supports Equinox 8-port serial
- hubs (STR #526)
- - The IPP backend now supports a compression option to
- compress print files as they are sent to the remote
- server (STR #956)
- - The CUPS browse protocol now supports passing of
- default options and browse timeout values from the
- server to the clients (STR #800)
- - Implicit classes that timed out could cause the
- scheduler to crash (STR #1439)
- - Added DragonFly support in local device backends (STR
- #1362)
- - Added LDAP printer browsing support (STR #338)
- - Added official support for printer maintenance commands
- via the CUPS Command file format and hooks in the
- printer-type and web interfaces (STR #932)
- - The HP-GL/2 filter could get in an infinite loop trying
- to convert HP-PCL files (STR #1415)
- - CUPS now implements the HTTP/1.1 Expect header (STR
- #1407)
- - Options in PPD files are no longer automatically put in
- an "Extra" group; rather, all options that are not
- inside an Open/CloseGroup will be placed in the
- "General" group (STR #1385)
- - The scheduler now creates a job-uuid attribute that
- uniquely identifies a job on a network (STR #1410)
- - The init script now unsets the TMPDIR environment
- variable to prevent user temporary directories from
- being used by cupsd accidentally (STR #1424)
- - Added support for launchd on MacOS X.
- - Added support for notify_post on MacOS X.
- - Added support for DBUS on Linux.
- - All of the Berkeley (except for lpc) and System V
- commands now support specification of user, host, and
- port (STR #1028, STR #1029, STR #1087)
- - The lpmove command now allows you to move all jobs for
- a given queue (STR #56)
- - The web interface now supports moving of a job or jobs
- to another queue (STR #56)
- - The web interface now provides searching, paging, and
- changing of the sort/display order of classes, jobs,
- and printers.
- - cupsaddsmb now accepts a password on the command-line
- and supports passwords with special characters (STR
- #822, STR #1236)
- - ppdLoad*() no longer tries to "fix" bad characters in
- UI text (STR #1101)
- - Printer names can now (reliably) contain Unicode
- characters (STR #896)
- - The lpstat command now shows the time and date of the
- last printer state change instead of the hardcoded "Jan
- 01 00:00" (STR #659)
- - The scheduler now adds a job-actual-printer-uri
- attribute to job objects when printing to a class (STR
- #116)
- - The scheduler now logs log file open errors to the
- system log (STR #1289)
- - The scheduler now sets the job-originating-user-name to
- the authenticated username, if available (STR #1318)
- - The scheduler now only updates the permissions of SSL
- keys and certificates when they are under the
- ServerRoot directory (STR #1324)
- - The rastertodymo driver has been renamed to
- rastertolabel (a symlink is installed so that existing
- queues continue to work) and now also supports Zebra's
- CPCL language.
- - The lpstat command could show the wrong active job for
- a printer (STR #1301)
- - Fixed a potential crash problem in the scheduler when
- aborting a CGI program (STR #1290)
- - Added a "cancel all jobs" button to the class and
- printer web interfaces (STR #1140)
- - The add-printer web page now shows the
- set-printer-options page after the printer has been
- added (STR #690)
- - The classes web page now provides links to each of the
- member printers (STR #307)
- - CUPS now handles HTTP request/response lines up to 32k
- in length; this is mainly for better cookie support
- (STR #1274)
- - Added support for the Apache PassEnv and SetEnv
- directives to cupsd.conf (STR #853)
- - Added large file (64-bit) support (STR #541)
- - Fixed a performance issue with the ippReadIO()
- implementation (STR #1284)
- - Fixed a performance issue with the scheduler's implicit
- class implementation (STR #1283)
- - The pdftops filter now adds the Title and Creator
- fields from the PDF file to the PostScript document
- comments section (STR #539, STR #830)
- - Added a new cups_array_t and cupsArray*() functions to
- the CUPS API to support sorted lists of data.
- - Made the CUPS API library thread-safe (STR #1276)
- - Added "media" option support for EFI EFMediaType option
- (STR #902)
- - Added write buffering to the HTTP code to improve
- performance (STR #547)
- - The scheduler now uses the attributes-natural-language
- attribute to localize banner pages (STR #386)
- - The scheduler now returns the address that was used to
- connect to it (STR #1076)
- - Fixed a problem with N-up printing and OpenOffice (STR
- #576)
- - Added support for the GCC position independent
- executable options (STR #1209)
- - Added new BrowseLocalProtocols and
- BrowseRemoteProtocols directives to cupsd.conf,
- allowing for different browse protocols for local and
- remote printers (STR #877)
- - PPD files can now contain strings up to 256k in length
- (STR #1215)
- - The pstops filter now supports the IncludeFeature DSC
- comment (STR #1212)
- - The pstops filter now disables the setpagedevice
- procedure when doing N-up printing (STR #1161)
- - The serial backend now supports "stop=1", "stop=2",
- "parity=space", and "parity=mark" options (STR #1155)
- - "make install" no longer overwrites an existing PAM
- configuration file (STR #1064)
- - The scheduler now closes all files on startup when run
- in daemon mode (STR #1009)
- - Added a new RGBW colorspace to the CUPS raster format
- (STR #1071)
- - The pdftops filter now sets the page size based on the
- media box when not scaling the output (STR #912)
- - The pdftops filter now supports masked images (STR
- #281)
- - The pdftops filter produced large output when rendering
- PDF files containing lot of repeated images (STR #327)
- - The pdftops filter now minimizes print processing of
- PDF files when using the page-ranges option (STR #273)
- - Updated pdftops filter to Xpdf 3.01.
- - Added new cupsBackchannelRead() and
- cupsBackchannelWrite() functions, as well as
- backchannel support to the parallel, serial, socket,
- and USB backends (STR #1252)
- - The parallel and USB backends now treat a "no space
- available" error as an out-of-paper condition (STR
- #1225)
- - The "lpc" command now supports the "status all" command
- (STR #1004)
- - ippReadIO() did not read collections properly (STR
- #1249)
- - The "make test" script now creates the test files in
- "/tmp/cups-$USER" instead of "/tmp/$USER" (STR #981)
- - All backends now abort on error when printing a job to
- a class - this allows the next printer in the class to
- print the job (STR #1084)
- - The scheduler now verifies that a printer supports
- Letter or A4 media sizes before setting them as the
- initial default (STR #1250)
- - The cupstestppd program now flags bad Resolution
- options (STR #1269)
- - The USB backend now retries printing when the printer
- is disconnected or turned off (STR #1267)
- - Added new httpGetHostname() function to CUPS API, and
- use it instead of gethostname() so that the web
- interface will work correctly on systems whose hostname
- is not the FQDN (STR #1266)
- - The scheduler now stops printers if the backend for the
- queue is missing on startup (STR #1265)
- - The configure script now supports "--disable-library"
- to disable particular image file format support
- libraries, even if they are available on the build
- system (STR #1248)
- - The IPP backend did not always report on the total
- number of pages that were printed (STR #1251)
- - The lpstat program could display garbage date and time
- values for locales whose date format exceeded 31
- characters (STR #1263)
- - The cupstestppd program would segfault when testing
- certain broken PPD files (STR #1268)
- - Dramatically reduced the overhead of implicit classes.
- - Added new cupsDir*() functions to CUPS API.
- - Printers can now be published individually for sharing.
- - Fixed a bug in the scheduler's startup signalling code
- which caused cupsd to send the SIGUSR1 signal to the
- init process instead of the original parent process
- (STR #1258)
- - Added new on-line help CGI to web interface to provide
- searchable help.
- - Devices are now tracked dynamically, with each query
- doing a new device scan. This eliminates a previous
- startup delay caused by slow backends and allows new
- printers to be seen without restarting the server,
- however it limits the amount of device URI checking
- that can be done (basically now the scheduler only
- requires a URI with a method that is a listed backend)
- - Added new printer auto-detection, server configuration,
- and log file viewing to the administration web page.
- - Added new "set allowed users" web interface to set the
- list of allowed users for a printer or class.
- - The scheduler, command-line, and web interfaces now
- limit the list of printers and classes to those
- accessible by a user.
- - cupsMarkOptions() now handles more non-standard
- duplexing options and choices (STR #915)
- - cups-lpd now honors remote banner requests with the
- "standard" banner whenever a printer does not have one
- defined (STR #1220)
- - The scheduler's denial-of-service checks did not work
- properly with IPv6 addresses (STR #1134)
- - The lp and lpr commands did not error out properly when
- they were unable to write to a temporary file (STR
- #1129)
- - The pstops filter did not handle Adobe-specific
- comments in Windows NT driver output (STR #1085)
- - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly reported the printer
- interface (STR #936)
- - The web interface now operates exclusively with the
- UTF-8 encoding, and sends the appropriate character set
- and header information to the web browser (STR #919,
- STR #1007)
- - Added a "set allowed users" interface to the web
- interface so that you can set the list of allowed or
- denied users/groups for a printer or class.
- - Disallow the "#" character in printer names, since it
- has special meaning in the shell, config files, and in
- URIs (STR #917, STR #1202)
- - Added a new application/x-csource MIME type, and
- support for it to the texttops filter so that you can
- pretty print plain text files without the C/C++
- keywords being highlighted.
- - The pdftops filter did not compile with GCC 4.0 (STR
- #1226)
- - The texttops filter did not highlight preprocessor
- directives followed by a tab properly.
- - HP PJL output now uses both JOB DISPLAY and RDYMSG
- commands to show the current job on the printer's
- display (STR #1218)
- - Local authentication certificates are now stored in
- /var/run/cups/certs by default instead of
- /etc/cups/certs (STR #1211)
- - Backends now use "&" to separate options in device
- URIs; "+" is still recognized but is deprecated (STR
- #842)
- - The USB backend no longer supports the usb:/dev/foo
- format on systems that support device ID queries.
- - Forced classification markings did not work when the
- job-sheets parameters were "none,none".
- - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly showed all users as allowed,
- even if the queue was restricted to certain users (STR
- #801)
- - The scheduler now automatically detects SSL/TLS clients
- without using the SSLPort/SSLListen directives.
- - The CUPS API and scheduler no longer support SSLv2-
- encrypted connections.
- - Updated the cupsaddsmb utility to correctly export the
- CUPS driver for Windows.
- - Fixed a signal-handling bug in httpRead() which
- ultimately caused the server to print multiple copies
- when it was busy (STR #1184)
- - The cupsFile API now uses the O_APPEND option when
- opening files in append mode (STR #990)
- - The md5.h header and md5_* functions are now officially
- private and have been renamed to avoid conflicts with
- other implementations with the same name.
- - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded some Type1
- fonts (STR #1093)
- - The scheduler didn't detect a closed connection in the
- middle of an IPP request (STR #1153)
- - The scheduler could block trying to read the job status
- if there was input pending and the job was cancelled in
- the same input cycle (STR #1157)
- - The scheduler could crash when deleting a class due to
- infinite recursion.
- - Updated the Zebra ZPL label printer driver to use the
- run-length encoding and support more options.
- - Updated serial backend to scan for /dev/ttyC* as well
- as /dev/ttyc* for Cyclades serial ports (STR #1049)
- - The scheduler could hang reading the job status under
- certain circumstances (STR #1068)
- - The USB backend termination signal code was inverted
- (STR #1046)
- - Moved enable and disable commands to sbindir to be
- consistent.
- - Added new cupsRasterInterpretPPD() function for RIP
- filters to setup the raster page header from
- PostScript commands in a PPD file.
- - The CUPS browsing protocol now offers a "delete" bit
- to remove printers as soon as they are deleted on the
- server or as soon as the server shuts down gracefully
- (STR #793)
- - The CUPS_SERVER and ServerName directives (client.conf
- and ~/.cupsrc) may now contain names of the form
- "server:port" and "/path/to/domain/socket".
- - The "cancel -u user" command now works for ordinary
- users (STR #751)
- - Added test run support to "make test" target (STR #64)
- - Added domain socket support (STR #656)
- - Added BrowseLocalOptions directive to allow the
- administrator to add printer URI options to the browse
- URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR #732)
- - Added BrowseRemoteOptions directive to allow the
- administrator to add standard URI options to the
- remote printer URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR
- #732)
- - Now put "-I.." compiler option in front of all others
- to ensure that local CUPS headers are used before
- installed headers (STR #437)
- - New cupsLangPrintf() and cupsLangPuts() for localized
- interfaces.
- - Now support custom attributes and extended options in
- PPD files.
- - Now provide functions to save PPD files.
- - New policy mechanism allows per-operation and
- per-printer control over what users and groups are
- allowed to do various IPP operations.
- - New error policy mechanism to control how aborted
- backend errors are handled by the scheduler
- (abort-job, retry-job, requeue-job, stop-printer)
- - Updated the printer test page with a better color
- wheel and a separate grayscale ramp.
- - A single backend process is now run to send all print
- data for a job.
- - Backends and filters can now send and receive
- backchannel data over file descriptor 3.
- - Updated the raster stream format to support more
- user-defined attributes and to do compression of the
- page data.
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