CHANGES.txt - 2007-09-28 ------------------------ CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.3 - The scheduler did not use the attributes-natural-language attribute when passing the LANG environment variable to cups-deviced or cups-driverd. - The scheduler did not use the printer-op-policy when modifying classes or printers (STR #2525) - The auth-info-required attribute was not always updated for remote queues that required authentication. - The German web interface localization contained errors (STR #2523) - The Swedish localization contained errors (STR #2522) CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.2 - The 1.3.1 release was incorrectly created from the 1.4.x source tree (STR #2519) - Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX (STR #2520) - The scheduler incorrectly used portrait as the default orientation (STR #2513) - The scheduler no longer writes the printcap file for every remote printer update (STR #2512) - Remote raw printing with multiple copies did not work (STR #2518) - Updated the configure script to require at least autoconf 2.60 (STR #2515) - Some gzip'd PPD files were not read in their entirety (STR #2510) CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.1 - Documentation updates. - The USB backend on Mac OS X could hang if the driver and printer did not match. - Delegated Kerberos credentials were not working. - "make distclean" incorrectly removed the edit-config.tmpl files (STR #2508) - Fix compile problem on HP-UX (STR #2501) - The cupstestppd utility now tests for resolutions greater than 99999 DPI to detect a missing "x" between the X and Y resolutions. - Fixed many problems in the various translations and added a new "checkpo" utility to validate them. - The cupstestppd utility now tests the custom page size code for CUPS raster drivers. - cupsLangDefault() did not attempt to return a language that was supported by the calling application. - If a remote printer stopped while a job was being sent, the local queue would also get stopped and the job re-queued, resulting in duplicate prints in some cases. - A few Apple-specific job options needed to be omitted when printing a banner page. - The new peer credential support did not compile on FreeBSD (STR #2495) - Direct links to help files did not set the current section so the table-of-contents was not shown. - The configure script did not support --localedir=foo (STR #2488) - The backends were not displaying their localized messages. - CUPS-Authenticate-Job did not require Kerberos authentication on queues protected by Kerberos. - The Zebra ZPL driver did not work with Brady label printers (STR #2487) - Norwegian wasn't localized on Mac OS X. - getnameinfo() returns an error on some systems when DNS is not available, leading to numerous problems (STR #2486) - The cupsfilter command did not work properly on Mac OS X. - The scheduler makefile contained a typo (STR #2483) - The TBCP and BCP port monitors did not handle the trailing CTRL-D in some PostScript output properly. - Fixed the localization instructions and German template for the "Find New Printers" button (STR #2478) - The web interface did not work with the Chinese localization (STR #2477) - The web interface home page did not work for languages that were only partially localized (STR #2472) - Updated the Spanish web interface localization (STR #2473) - ppdLocalize() did not work for country-specific localizations. CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3.0 - The scheduler did not handle out-of-file conditions gracefully when accepting new connections, leading to heavy CPU usage. - The scheduler did not detect ServerBin misconfigurations (STR #2470) - "AuthType Default" did not work as expected when the "DefaultAuthType foo" line appeared after it in the cupsd.conf file. - The on-line help did not describe many common printing options (STR #1846) - The IPP backend did not return the "auth required" status when printing to a Kerberos-protected queue. - The scheduler was not looking in the correct directories for LSB PPD files (STR #2464) - Changed references to ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript (STR #2463) - The PostScript filter did not cleanly terminate when the job was canceled or stopped. - Fixed generation of Kerberos credentials for remote printing. Note that this requires a recent version of MIT Kerberos with a working krb5_cc_new_unique() function or Heimdal Kerberos. - Added Portuguese and updated Italian message catalogs. CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc2 - Added more range checking to the pdftops filter. - The scheduler would crash if a remote IPP queue was stopped (STR #2460) - The scheduler did not allow "DefaultAuthType None". CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3rc1 - Updated the German localization (STR #2443) - cupsAdminGetServerSettings() did not handle properly. - When lprm and cancel are run with no job ID, they now will cancel the first stopped job if no pending or processing jobs are left in the queue. - The scheduler now logs successful print jobs, filter failures, and the job file types at the default log level (STR #2458) - The scheduler now logs the usernames it is using for authorization at LogLevel debug instead of debug2 (STR #2448) - Added Intellitech Intellibar and Zebra CPCL PPDs to the list of installed PPDs. - Added 6" and 8" wide label sizes for the Zebra ZPL Label Printer driver (STR #2442) - The cupsaddsmb program and web interface now support exporting of 64-bit Windows drivers, when available (STR #2439) - Moving a job that was printing did not stop the job on the original printer (STR #2262) - The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not work on Mac OS X server. - Added httpGetAuthString() and httpSetAuthString() APIs to get and set the current (cached) authorization string to use for HTTP requests. - Updated the default cupsd.conf policy to list the "administrative" operations separately from the "printer control" operations so that it is easier to define a group of users that are "printer operators". - The web interface now pulls the default cupsd.conf file from cupsd.conf.default in the CUPS config directory. - Added a help file for using Kerberos with CUPS. - The scheduler now strips the "@KDC" portion of Kerberos usernames since those usernames typically do not appear in the group membership lists used by CUPS. - cupsMarkOptions() could (incorrectly) leave multiple option choices marked. - Backends could (incorrectly) run as root during discovery (STR #2454) - Avahi is now supported for DNS-SD (Bonjour) printer sharing (STR #2455) - The default cupsd.conf file had typos and old operation names (STR #2450) - The scheduler now erases authentication cache files using the 7-pass US DoD algorithm. - Delegated Kerberos credentials (proxy authentication) did not work. - The filter makefile did not optimize the libcupsimage.2.dylib with a sectorder file. - The IPP backend incorrectly wrote an empty printer message when processing the "none" state reason. - The USB backend could deadlock on Mac OS X while performing a side-channel command. - The scheduler did not prevent remote queues from being shared/published. - The scheduler did not remove the temporary request file on authentication errors. - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() did not handle "scheme:" schemes or "file" URLs. - ppdLocalizeIPPReason() was not exported on Mac OS X. CHANGES IN CUPS V1.3b1 - Copyright updates - CUPS is now owned by Apple Inc. - Documentation updates (STR #1775, STR #2027, STR #2130, STR #2131, STR #2263, STR #2356, STR #2397) - Added new cupsfilter utility (STR #1734) - Added new job-printer-state-message and job-printer-state-reasons attributes to jobs (STR #2418) - Added LDAP+SSL support (STR #1967) - CUPS now supports authentication via peer credentials over domain sockets (STR #2242, STR #2277) - The CUPS sample driver PPDs are now generated by the PPD compiler and include all of the localized languages by default (STR #2164) - You can now specify "AuthType Default" in the cupsd.conf file to use the default authentication defined by the DefaultAuthType directive. - The SNMP backend no longer adds a default Address line when none is specified in the snmp.conf file; this allows the backend to be easily disabled as needed (STR #2434) - Added a new cupsctl command for doing basic changes to the cupsd.conf file (STR #1777) - Added a new ppdLocalizeIPPReason() function to get the localized text/URI for a given IPP reason keyword for a driver. - Removed the deskjet2.ppd driver, as it only worked with a very small subset of HP DeskJet printers and was confusing to users. The rastertohp driver still supports the deskjet2.ppd options for existing queues. - The scheduler did not add a trailing banner page if a client did not specify the last document in a job (STR #1711) - The scheduler did not report Bonjour shared printers as remote printers (STR #2384) - Added new -R and -W options to the cupstestppd program for greater control over the testing of PPDs. - Added a new cupsGetServerPPD() function for getting an available PPD from the server (STR #2334) - Added a new cupsDoIORequest() function for reading and writing files via IPP requests (STR #2334) - Added a new CUPS_GET_PPD operation for getting an available PPD file on the server (STR #2334) - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports multiple ppd-product values based on the PPD ModelName and Product strings (STR #2334, STR #2383) - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the PSVersion attributes from a PPD file in the ppd-psversion attribute (STR #2334) - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports the cupsModelNumber attribute from a PPD file in the ppd-model-number attribute (STR #2383) - CUPS_GET_PPDS now reports a driver type string in the ppd-type attribute based on the cupsFax and cupsFilter attributes in a PPD file (STR #2383) - Added a new printer attribute called "cups-version" which reports the version of CUPS that is running (STR #2240) - backendRunLoop() now aborts immediately on SIGTERM if no data has been written yet (STR #2103) - Due to poor IPP support from the vendors, the SNMP backend no longer tries IPP connections; instead, it now uses a lookup file with fallback to port 9100 (socket://address) and 515 (lpd://address) printing (STR #2035, STR #2354) - The scheduler now recreates the CUPS log directory as needed (STR #2353) - cupsLangDefault() now maps new-style Apple locale names to the traditional ll_CC form (STR #2357) - Add new cupsArrayNew2() API to support hashed lookups of array elements (STR #2358) - ppdConflicts() optimizations (STR #2358) - The cupstestppd program now tests for existing filters, icons, profiles, and dialog extensions (STR #2326) - The web interface no longer lists new printers on the main administration page. Instead, a new "List Available Printers" button is provided that shows a separate page with the list of printers. - The web interface now supports setting the banner and policy options on raw printers and classes (STR #2238) - The socket backend now reads any pending back-channel data before shutting down the socket (STR #2325) - Added a new ErrorPolicy directive in the cupsd.conf file (STR #1871) - Printers that use JCL options are now exported to Samba correctly (STR #1985) - The IPP backend now relays printer-state-message values from the server to the client (STR #2109) - Added support for the PWG printer-alert and printer-alert-description attributes (STR #2088) - Added support for LPD "stream" mode (STR #2036) - 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.