CHANGES.txt - 2007-09-28
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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 </Foo> 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.