-CHANGES.txt - 2006-06-06
+CHANGES.txt - 2008-06-25
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-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
+
+ - 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.
- - Moved the definition of the (private) _http_s structure
- to http-private.h; code that directly accesses the
- http_t members will no longer compile!
- - Added support for setting the document-format-default
- attribute on a per-printer basis.
- - Added support for IntelliBar label printers.
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