-CHANGES.txt - 2008-10-10
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+CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2011-08-30
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-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
-
- - Documentation updates (STR #2567)
- - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to
- override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
- - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings
- (STR #2863)
- - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and
- Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the
- cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
- - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the
- status of a single printer (STR #2843)
- - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide
- significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs
- (STR #1293)
- - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based
- on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
- - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether
- the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply
- levels.
- - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text
- support and easier customization (STR #2490)
- - 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
- 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 V1.6b1
+ - The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
+ - The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
+ - The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
+ imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
+ filters have been removed (STR #3930)
+ - The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)
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