-CHANGES.txt - 2009-07-01
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+CHANGES.txt - 2.0b1 - 2013-10-18
+--------------------------------
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0
+CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0b1
- - Localization updates (STR #3223)
- - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230)
- - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)
- - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an
- SNMP query.
- - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)
- - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface
- templates (STR #3229)
- - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that
- were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor
- performance.
- - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.
- - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-
- reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data
- for consistency.
- - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning
- reason on all platforms.
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1
-
- - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization
- (STR #3212)
- - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to
- printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.
- - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option
- Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.
- - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined
- variables (STR #3210)
- - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems
- needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)
- - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials
- for print jobs.
- - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)
- - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from
- libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)
- - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,
- CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,
- PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)
- - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.
- - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated
- users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)
- - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD
- file. Some PPD files have as many as 24.
- - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something
- that cupstestppd looks for...)
- - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.
- - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe
- conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial
- pages when a job was canceled or held.
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
-
- - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,
- STR #3173)
- - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and
- Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,
- French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish
- (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
- - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
- - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to
- UTF-8 encoding as needed.
- - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
- - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
- - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount
- (STR #2624)
- - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for
- failed print jobs.
- - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
- - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that
- ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
- - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have
- one printer or class added (STR #3094)
- - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy
- stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current
- reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now
- (STR #3171)
- - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
- - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
- - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so
- that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require
- delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation,
- however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this
- all work.
- - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
- - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
- - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a
- lack of kernel buffers.
- - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests
- while copying print data to a temporary file.
- - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,
- causing reduced performance in some situations.
- - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request
- would hang on the client.
- - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not
- work (STR #3132)
- - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
- - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,
- product, or psversion (STR #3136)
- - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds
- (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
- - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of
- filenames in the PPD file.
- - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion
- values.
- - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend
- devices (STR #3108)
- - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
- - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
- - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface
- incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
- - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file
- permissions.
- - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
- - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the
- device URI.
- - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10
- seconds.
- - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
- - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating
- them failed.
- - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for
- status operations.
- - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile
- keywords.
- - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or
- maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and
- often unreliable.
- - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as
- "crashed".
- - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
- - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
- - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a
- printer had other reasons associated with it.
- - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
- - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly
- (STR #3084)
- - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like
- cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
- - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable
- microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
- - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to
- control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
- - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD
- printer discovery (STR #3065)
- - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes
- in length (STR #3072)
- - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
- - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
- - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript
- printers with no specified colorspace.
- - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist
- file on Mac OS X.
- - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
- - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and
- and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
- - The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
- - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly
- for some PPDs.
- - The ppdi utility did not work.
- - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken
- web browsers (STR #3049)
- - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
- - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting
- options.
- - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not
- have associated translation text (STR #3045)
- - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
- - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
- - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option
- choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are
- present in most PPD files.
- - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
- - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end
- its jobs.
- - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
- - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels
- all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS
- printers.
- - The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update
- printer attributes when a job was canceled.
- - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword
- when a job finished.
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2
-
- - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)
- - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and
- FormatVersion values in PPD files.
- - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the
- --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)
- - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files
- rather than copying them whenever possible.
- - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and
- options implementations.
- - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands
- attributes.
- - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies
- was set to False in the PPD file.
- - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,
- and network backends (STR #3014)
- - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)
- - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels
- attributes.
- - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
- - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"
- parameter.
- - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and
- --exclude-schemes options.
- - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes
- and exclude-schemes attributes.
- - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes
- attribute.
- - The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot
- option called "fit-to-page".
- - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting
- information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to
- prevent race conditions.
- - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
- - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including
- CUPS 1.1.x.
- - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)
- - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message
- catalogs (STR #2990)
- - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files
- (STR #2989)
- - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment
- variable when running filters.
- - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs
- have all stopped.
- - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"
- progress messages.
-
-
-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.
+ - Added support for regular expression matching in the MIME type rules
+ (<rdar://problem/11131245>)
+ - Dropped support for AIX, HP-UX, and OSF/1 (aka Digital UNIX)
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