-CHANGES.txt - 2008-02-26
+CHANGES.txt - 2010-12-01
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-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
-
- - 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 V1.5b1
+ - 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)
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