-CHANGES.txt - 2011-05-26
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+CHANGES.txt - 1.7b1 - 2013-05-13
+--------------------------------
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b2
- - Documentation updates.
- - Localization updates (STR #3845)
- - Compiler warning cleanup.
- - Fixed PIE support for Linux (STR #3846)
- - Made httpSetTimeout API public and use it in the IPP backend to avoid
- timeout errors.
- - The scheduler incorrectly set the "authenticated" printer-type bit for
- remote queues using authentication.
+ - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
+ default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
- - The CUPS library now supports per-connection HTTP timeouts and
- callbacks.
- - The CUPS library now supports (limited) SSL/TLS X.509 certificate
- validation and revocation (STR #1616)
- - Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more
- circumstances (STR #3417)
- - The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in
- the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533)
- - Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do
- not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800)
- - The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing
- was not enabled (STR #3639)
- - The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple
- hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813)
- - The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and
- manages the group (STR #2829)
- - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838)
- - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration,
- cache, and state files (STR #3715)
- - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
- (STR #2959)
- - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
- cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
- - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
- - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
- (STR #3605)
- - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
- - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
- - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
- - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
- (STR #3766)
- - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
- sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
- size (STR #3689)
- - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
- - Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes.
- - 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)
+ - The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
+ the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
+ locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
+ - The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
+ - The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
+ environment variable for filters.
+ - Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
+ - Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
+ - Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
+ (STR #4289)
+ - Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
+ cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
+ - Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
+ cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
+ - Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
+ octetString value (STR #4289)
+ - Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
+ attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
+ - The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
+ on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
+ - Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
+ - Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
+ - Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
+ - The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
+ - CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
+ (STR #4168)
+ - 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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