-CHANGES.txt - 02/17/2006
+CHANGES.txt - 2006-08-29
------------------------
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.0b1
+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
+ to accepting a new subscription request.
+ - The scheduler now reports the supported
+ notify-recipient schemes based on the contents of the
+ ServerBin/notifier directory.
+ - Event notifications did not include the
+ notify-sequence-number or other required attributes
+ (STR #1747)
+ - Allow/Deny addresses of the form "11.22.33.*" did not
+ work on Linux (STR #1769)
+ - cupsGetPPD() did not work if the scheduler was only
+ listening on a domain socket (STR #1766)
+ - The scheduler could crash advertising a class (STR
+ #1768)
+ - The scheduler could crash if the default printer was
+ deleted (STR #1776)
+ - Added a new default CUPS raster format (v3) which does
+ not compress the raster stream in order to provide the
+ same cupsRasterReadPixels() and cupsRasterWritePixels()
+ performance as CUPS 1.1.x.
+ - The cupsaddsmb man page listed the wrong files for the
+ CUPS driver.
+ - Some configure --with options did not work (STR #1746)
+ - "Allow @IF(name)" didn't work if "name" wasn't the
+ first network interface (STR #1758)
+ - The lpstat command did not use the correct character
+ set when reporting the date and time (STR #1751)
+ - The cupsaddsmb command and web interface did not update
+ the Windows PPD files properly, resulting in corrupt
+ PPD files for the Windows client to use (STR #1750)
+ - The cupsd.conf man page didn't describe the Listen
+ domain socket syntax (STR #1753)
+ - The scheduler no longer tries to support more than
+ FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
+ - CDSA (encryption) support fixes for MacOS X.
+ - The lppasswd program needs to be setuid to root to
+ create and update the /etc/cups/passwd.md5 file (STR
+ #1735)
+ - 32/64-bit library installation was broken (STR #1741)
+ - The USB backend now reports a "no such device" error
+ when using the old filename-based USB URIs instead of
+ the "success" error.
+ - Increased the HTTP and IPP read timeouts to 10 seconds,
+ as 1 second was too short on congested networks (STR
+ #1719)
+ - The SNMP backend now uses the device description over
+ the printer-make-and-model attribute when the attribute
+ contains a generic name (STR #1728)
+ - Fixed another file descriptor leak when printing raw
+ files (STR #1736)
+ - Raw queues were not shared via LDAP (STR #1739)
+ - The pstops filter didn't always embed PageSetup
+ commands from the PPD file (STR #1740)
+ - "make install" didn't work if you disabled all of the
+ localizations.
+ - The scheduler didn't always choose the least costly
+ filter.
+ - Fixed parsing of IPv6 addresses in Allow, Deny,
+ BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, and BrowseRelay directives
+ (STR #1713)
+ - Printers that were shared via LDAP did not get added to
+ the LDAP server properly (STR #1733)
+ - LDAP browsing would crash the scheduler if a required
+ value was missing (STR #1731)
+ - 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, 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
+ print data before they would report back-channel data,
+ causing problems with several new drivers (STR #1724)
+
+
+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
+ *1284DeviceID attributes (STR #1710)
+ - Browsing could get disabled after a restart (STR #1670)
+ - Custom page sizes were not parsed properly (STR #1709)
+ - The -U option wasn't supported by lpadmin (STR #1702)
+ - The -u option didn't work with lpadmin (STR #1703)
+ - The scheduler did not create non-blocking back-channel
+ pipes, which caused problems when the printer driver
+ did not read the back-channel data (STR #1705)
+ - The scheduler no longer uses chunking in responses to
+ clients - this caused problems with older versions of
+ CUPS like 1.1.17 (PR #6143)
+ - Automatic raw printing was broken (STR #1667)
+ - 6-up printing was broken (STR #1697)
+ - The pstops filter did not disable CTRL-D processing on
+ the printer/RIP.
+ - ppdOpen*() did not load custom options properly (STR
+ #1680)
+ - "Set Printer Options" in the web interface did not
+ update the DefaultImageableArea or
+ DefaultPaperDimension attributes in the PPD file (STR
+ #1689)
+ - Fixed compile errors (STR #1682, STR #1684, STR #1685,
+ STR #1690)
+ - The lpstat command displayed the wrong error message
+ for a missing destination (STR #1683)
+ - Revised and completed the Polish translation (STR
+ #1669)
+ - Stopped jobs did not show up in the list of active jobs
+ (STR #1676)
+ - The configure script did not use the GNU TLS
+ "libgnutls-config" script to find the proper compiler
+ and linker options.
+ - The imagetoraster filter did not correctly generate
+ several 1, 2, and 4-bit color modes.
+ - cupsRasterWritePixels() could lose track of the current
+ output row.
+ - cupsRasterReadPixels() did not automatically swap
+ 12/16-bit chunked pixel data.
+ - Moved the private _cups_raster_s structure out of the
+ public header.
+ - Updated the CUPS raster format specification to include
+ encoding rules and colorspace definitions.
+ - The Zebra PPD files had the wrong PostScript code for
+ the "default" option choices.
+ - The imagetoraster filter did not generate correct CIE
+ XYZ or Lab color data.
+ - The cups-config script did not work when invoked from a
+ source directory (STR #1673)
+ - The SNMP backend did not compile on systems that used
+ the getifaddrs emulation functions (STR #1668)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.0
+
+ - Documentation updates (STR #1618, STR #1620, STR #1622,
+ STR #1637)
+ - Static file copy buffers reduced from 64k to 32k to
+ work around bogus MallocDebug library assumptions (STR
+ #1660)
+ - The scheduler did not decode the backend exit code
+ properly (STR #1648)
+ - The MacOS X USB backend did not report the 1284 device ID,
+ nor did it fix device IDs returned by HP printers.
+ - The scheduler started more slowly than 1.1.x with large
+ numbers of printers (STR #1653)
+ - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() didn't support the
+ cupsPreferredBitsPerColor attribute, and imagetoraster
+ didn't use the new API.
+ - The "make test" script did not create all of the necessary
+ subdirectories for testing (STR #1638)
+ - The scheduler did not prevent rotation of logs
+ redirected to /dev/null (STR #1651)
+ - "make test" did not include the SNMP backend in the
+ test environment (STR #1625)
+ - The EPM packaging files did not work (STR #1621)
+ - "Use Default Configuration" inserted a broken
+ configuration file (STR #1624)
+ - Redirects in the web interface did not always preserve
+ the encrypted status of a connection (STR #1603)
+ - Added the Apple "pap" backend.
+ - Added CUPS library to CUPS Image shared library
+ linkage to support Linux --as-needed linker option
+ (STR #1606)
+ - Fixed support for --enable-pie (STR #1609)
+ - The pdftops filter did not validate the length of the
+ encryption key (STR #1608)
+ - Updated the Polish localization.
+ - "Encryption Required" in the cupsd.conf file now only
+ requires encryption when the connection is not over the
+ loopback interface or domain socket.
+ - Printer names containing "+" were not quoted properly in
+ the web interface (STR #1600)
+ - The SNMP backend now reports the make and model in the
+ information string so that the auto-generated printer
+ name is more useful than just an IP address.
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc3
+
+ - The cups-lpd program always did reverse lookups on the
+ client address, which could be a performance problem.
+ Added a "-n" option to disable lookups.
+ - When configured with SSL support, require encryption by
+ default when displaying the /admin location (STR #1592)
+ - The next job ID was not computed correctly if the job
+ cache file got out of sync with the spool directory
+ (STR #1582)
+ - The PNG image handling code used deprecated functions
+ from libpng (STR #1587)
+ - Added a Polish translation (STR #1584, STR #1586)
+ - More changes to the scheduler to improve battery life
+ on portable devices (STR #1583)
+ - Changed the default log level for status messages back
+ to "DEBUG" to be consistent with CUPS 1.1.x (STR #1579)
+ - The error string was not set properly when
+ cupsDoFileRequest() was given the name of a directory
+ (STR #1578)
+ - Fixed handling of job-hold-until (STR #1581)
+ - Added explicit notes to the cupsaddsmb man page
+ explaining that the driver filenames are case-sensitive
+ under UNIX and that they must be all lowercase (Windows
+ 2000) or all UPPERCASE (Windows 95/98/Me) to work (STR
+ #1568)
+ - The USB backend incorrectly split the manufacturer name
+ if it contained spaces (STR #1566)
+ - The scheduler would hang when listing PPD files for a
+ manufacturer whose name contained spaces (STR #1567)
+ - Added the SNMP backend for network printer discovery
+ (STR #1555)
+ - cupstestppd now fails PPD files with 1284DeviceId
+ instead of 1284DeviceID, and cups-driverd uses a
+ case-insensitive comparison when looking for it (STR
+ #1573)
+ - cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() now work
+ properly with non-blocking HTTP connections.
+ - Added Swedish translation (STR #1569)
+ - "make install" now installs the MIME files with world
+ read permissions (STR #1565)
+ - More CDSA encryption support fixes (STR #1563)
+ - Updated the default mime.types file to support printing
+ of files that do not have a locally-recognized MIME
+ media type to raw or System V queues.
+ - Updated the serial port detection code on Linux (STR
+ #1562)
+ - Added some more error checking to httpGetHostname()
+ (STR #1561)
+ - The title of some administration pages was not
+ localized (STR #1548)
+ - The edit-config.tmpl file was not generated or
+ installed for the Spanish or Japanese localizations
+ (STR #1547)
+ - The mimeDelete() function freed the types before the
+ filters, but the filters needed the type data (STR #1558)
+ - The scheduler didn't keep track of the status pipes
+ properly, leading to a bad select() for multi-file jobs
+ (STR #1559)
+ - The cupstestdsc program didn't validate the ordinal
+ page number value for %%Page: comments.
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc2
+
+ - The scheduler was not always using the string pool,
+ causing random crashes.
+ - The lpmove and the web interface's Move Job button did
+ not work with stopped jobs (STR #1534)
+ - The PostScript filter did not handle the page-set
+ option properly with number-up printing (STR #1543)
+ - The scheduler now only warns about unsupported ACLs
+ once (STR #1532)
+ - The "fitplot" option did not work with output from
+ Mozilla (STR #1542)
+ - The imagetops filter did not work with Level 2 or 3
+ printers (STR #1533)
+ - The scheduler now recognizes PostScript files with PJL
+ commands that do not include an ENTER LANGUAGE command.
+ - Added --with-printcap configure option.
+ - 64-bit SSL fixes for MacOS X.
+ - The scheduler didn't send some printer state change
+ events.
+ - The scheduler didn't send jobs to busy remote printers.
+ - Fixed some problems with the launchd support.
+ - Added new USB printer backend for MacOS X.
+ - The PostScript filter now handles files that start with
+ an incomplete PJL header (PR #6076)
+ - The web interface language selection code did not try
+ the generic language localization (STR #1531)
+ - The language cache, string pool, and transcoding caches
+ are now process global instead of per-thread to avoid
+ problems with GNOME and to allow for data sharing
+ between threads (STR #1530)
+ - Fixed a CUPS 1.1.x compatibility bug (STR #1528)
+ - The web interface redirection after certain printer
+ administration tasks was broken (STR #1516)
+ - Web interface authorization could get stuck (STR #1512)
+ - Localization updates (STR #1513, STR #1518, STR #1520)
+ - The pstops filter didn't work with some files (STR
+ #1523)
+ - "./configure --enable-static" didn't work (STR #1522)
+ - The scheduler was not using the configured default
+ Group (STR #1521)
+ - The web interface still did not show the localized time
+ and date for some locales and systems (STR #1509)
+ - httpAddrGetList() would crash on systems without
+ getaddrinfo().
+ - Socket URIs without a trailing slash would cause the
+ port number to not be accepted (STR #1519)
+ - Local raw and System V printers were not advertised as
+ such for printer browsing (STR #1502)
+ - The RPM spec file incorrectly put duplicate copies of
+ the Japanese and Spanish web interface templates in the
+ main cups package (STR #1517)
+ - cupsSetDests() did not explicitly set the permissions
+ of the /etc/cups/lpoptions file (STR #1508)
+ - The lpq command crashed with the -h option (STR #1515)
+
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc1
+
+ - Documentation updates (STR #1497, STR #1498)
+ - The scheduler now redirects browsers to https: URLs
+ when encryption is required.
+ - The scheduler would crash when printing with a banner
+ (STR #1500)
+ - cups-driverd did not use the LanguageEncoding attribute
+ in PPD files to convert the NickName to UTF-8 (STR
+ #1503)
+ - The lpadmin command could not set the
+ printer-error-policy attribute (STR #1504)
+ - The web interface did not show the time and date in the
+ correct format for the locale (STR #1505)
+ - CUPS no longer accepts print jobs if a printer does not
+ support the file format (STR #1501)
+ - Cleaned up the PostScript filter (pstops) so that it
+ properly supports %%IncludeFeature and page scaling
+ (STR #1453)
+ - Fixed the cupsFileRewind() and cupsFileSeek() functions
+ to work properly with uncompressed files.
+ - Added cupsFileGetLine(), cupsFileStderr(),
+ cupsFileStdin(), and cupsFileStdout() functions to the
+ CUPS library.
+ - Added a new cupstestdsc program to test the DSC
+ conformance of PostScript files.
+ - 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 Allowed 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)
+
+
+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
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