-CHANGES.txt - 2008-01-08
+CHANGES.txt - 2008-09-27
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CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
+ - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
+ - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION
+ environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
+ - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a
+ stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
+ - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set
+ the printer-state-reasons attribute.
+ - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration
+ of printer options (STR #1440)
+ - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings
+ form.
+ - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it
+ easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
+ - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
+ - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and
+ Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
+ - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so
+ they know whether they are printing a banner or document
+ file (STR #2799)
+ - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter
+ command (STR #2562)
+ - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to
+ talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
+ - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and
+ cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
+ - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with
+ Google (STR #2882)
+ - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the
+ default server (STR #2833)
+ - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control
+ which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
+ - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available
+ (STR #2923)
+ - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive
+ (STR #2848)
+ - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name
+ value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
+ - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
+ - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
+ - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing
+ print jobs (STR #2482)
+ - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message
+ values.
+ - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to
+ track the progress of individual pages.
+ - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
+ - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open
+ command, when available (STR #2724)
+ - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
+ - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the
+ PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
+ - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log
+ file as errors (STR #2616)
+ - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that
+ retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters
+ an error (STR #2555)
+ - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user
+ correctly authenticates but does not have permission to
+ continue further (STR #2101)
+ - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates
+ (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
+ - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately
+ (STR #2853)
+ - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides
+ the physical location of a printer device.
+ - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the
+ device data by a backend.
+ - Added support for custom options in the web interface
+ (STR #1729)
+ - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,
+ and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
+ - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
+ - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access
+ to CUPS (STR #263)
+ - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
+ - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,
+ cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
+ - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
+ - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver
+ attributes for better option conflict detection and
+ resolution.
+ - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to
+ 256 bytes (STR #2877)
+ - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control
+ what is logged to the access_log file.
+ - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce
+ the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
+ - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD
+ files (STR #2871)
+ - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver
+ information files.
+ - 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
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