-CHANGES.txt - 2011-03-31
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+CHANGES.txt - 1.7b1 - 2012-09-30
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-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
- - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
- - Added printer-uuid attribute.
- - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
- - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
- - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
- drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
- - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
- the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
- - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
- authenticating (STR #3670)
- - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
- CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
- printers.
- - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
- pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
- Throughput keyword.
- - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
- - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
- CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
- - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
- STR #3753)
- - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
- to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
- - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
- in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
- - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
- (STR #2969)
- - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
- elements.
- - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
- - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
- default.
- - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
- support (STR #3097)
- - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
- Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
- PWG 5100.11.
- - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
- (<cups/ppd.h>).
- - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
- attribute.
- - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
- plugin.
- - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
- on Mac OS X.
- - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
- CUPS 1.1.x. The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
- were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
- - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
- improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
- - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
- provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
- - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
- - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
- permissions disabled.
- - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
- PPD files.
- - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
- - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)
+ - CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
+ systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
+ - IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
+ - The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
+ - The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
+ enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)
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