-CHANGES.txt - 2008-06-17
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+CHANGES.txt - 1.7b1 - 2013-05-13
+--------------------------------
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b2
- - 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.
+ - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
+ default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
+
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
+
+ - 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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