-CHANGES.txt - 2007-03-21
+CHANGES.txt - 2009-05-08
------------------------
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3
-
- - Documentation updates (STR #2130, STR #2131)
- - The scheduler now reports the PostScript product string
- from PPD files in CUPS-Get-PPDs responses (STR #1900)
- - Raw printing with queues pointing to the file pseudo-
- device and multiple files and/or banners now works (STR
- #1933)
- - Added new public cupsAdminGetServerSettings() and
- cupsAdminSetServerSettings() APIs.
- - Added new "makebuttons" script in the "tools" directory
- for creating web interface buttons (STR #2231)
- - Added support for DNS-SD (aka "Bonjour") printer sharing
- (STR #1171)
- - Job operations (cancel, hold, release, etc.) from the
- web interface now return back to the original page (STR
- #2239)
- - The classes or printers list is now shown after a
- successful deletion from the web interface (STR #1999)
- - The default configuration now allows browse packets from
- any address (STR #2008)
- - The web interface now provides an "allow printing from the
- Internet" check box (STR #1897)
- - The notify-events-default and
- notify-lease-duration-default attributes can now be set
- (STR #1671)
- - Server-side default options are now sent to clients when
- the "printer-defaults" attribute group is requested (STR
- #1923)
- - Added support for Linux "relro" linker option (STR #1614)
- - CUPS now validates the number-up option value (STR #1329)
- - The on-line help now provides better search capabilities
- (STR #1701)
- - The web interface "Add This Printer" button now allows you
- to change the printer name, description, and location
- (STR #1646)
- - Added support for Mac OS X authorization services
- (STR #2206)
- - Added support for driver-specific pre-filters (STR #2108)
- - Added a new side-channel API for drivers and backends
- for basic device control and information queries (STR
- #1898)
- - The scheduler now uses poll(), epoll(), or /dev/kqueue
- instead of select() when possible (STR #1261)
- - Added new cupsArrayGetIndex() and cupsArrayGetInsert()
- functions to get the current index and insertion
- positions of an array.
- - Added a new --with-max-copies configure option (STR
- #2090)
- - Added new cupsRemoveDest() and cupsSetDefaultDest()
- functions.
- - Added support for cupsPJLCharset attribute in PPD files
- which specifies the character set that is used in PJL
- strings (STR #1969)
- - Moved the definition of the (private) _http_s structure
- to http-private.h; code that directly accesses the
- http_t members will no longer compile!
- - Added support for setting the document-format-default
- attribute on a per-printer basis.
- - Added support for IntelliBar label printers.
+CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3
+
+ - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057)
+ - 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)
+ - 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.
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