CHANGES-1.7.txt --------------- CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.5 - Security: Addressed some more situations where symlinked files would be served by the web interface (STR #4455) - The LPD backend did not work with some versions of glibc (STR #4452) - CGI scripts did not work (STR #4454) - The cupsd.conf man page did not list the ErrorPolicy directive (STR #4457) - Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4456) CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.4 - Security: The web interface incorrectly served symlinked files and files that were not world-readable, potentially leading to a disclosure of information (STR #4450) - The CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support (STR #4397) - CUPS did not compile when Avahi or mDNSResponder was not present (STR #4402, STR #4424) - The "snmp" option did not work with the network backends (STR #4422) - The User directive in client.conf did not override the USER environment variable (STR #4426) - The web interface now properly shows a "Go" button for all text-based browsers (STR #4425) - The MaxJobTime directive now properly supports time values (STR #4434) - The RPM spec file did not work due to the new Brazilian Portuguese localization (STR #4436) - Fixed an "IPP read error" issue (STR #4440) - Fixed the --disable-libusb configure option (STR #4439) - Fixed the debug output from the DNS-SD backend when using Avahi (STR #4444) - Fixed a bug in the CUPS_SC_GET_DEVICE_ID handling by the network backends (STR #4447) - Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E230 (STR #4448) CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.3 - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4409) - Fixed mapping of OutputBin values such as "Tray1" (<rdar://problem/16685606>) - Several ippGet* functions incorrectly returned -1 instead of 0 on error. - The cupsGetResponse function did not work properly with CUPS_HTTP_DEFAULT (<rdar://problem/16762593>) - The IPP backend did not abort a job when the printer did not validate the supplied options (<rdar://problem/16836752>) - Fixed an authentication race condition in cupsSendRequest (STR #4403) - The scheduler did not add the "job-hold-until-specified" reason when holding a job using the lp command (STR #4405) - The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS dependency (STR #4399) - cupsGetDestMediaCount did not work for CUPS_MEDIA_FLAGS DEFAULT (STR #4414) - Auto-typing of PWG Raster files did not work (STR #4417) - IPP queues using hardcoded credentials would ask for credentials (STR #4371) - Dates in non-UTF-8 locales did not display correctly (STR #4388) - The RPM spec file now looks for libusb-devel 1.0 or later. - Fixed the "create-printer-subscription.test" file for IPPTOOL (STR #4420) CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2 - Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML (STR #4356) - Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346, STR #4355) - Fixed the Japanese localization (STR #4385) - Added a German localization (STR #4363) - The cupsfilter command incorrectly read the cupsd.conf file; it now reads the cups-files.conf file instead. - Fixed OS X builds with Xcode 5.x (<rdar://problem/15914959>) - Fixed SSL support on Windows (STR #4358) - Fixed documentation and naming of Create-Job/Printer-Subscriptions operations (STR #4389) - Phone numbers in fax jobs were not properly filtered for IPP FaxOut (<rdar://problem/16351701>) - Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349) - Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393) - cupsEnumDests did not set the "is_default" field (STR #4332) - cupsDoIORequest could miss the server status, causing failed lpadmin and other administrative commands (STR #4386) - cupsEnumDests didn't always call the callback function (STR #4380) - "lp -i job-id -H hold" did not work (STR #nnn) - CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338) - Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception notice (STR #4361) - Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash (STR #4347) - The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed (STR #4370, STR #4373) - The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly (STR #3265) - The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using Avahi (STR #4365) - The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top" values (STR #4354) - The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264) - The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB (STR #4351) - Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>) - The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>) - Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>) CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1 - Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319) - Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>) - Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>) - Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler (<rdar://problem/15332672>) - ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>) - The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322) - Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>) - The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names (<rdar://problem/15392966>) - The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>) - Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work (<rdar://problem/15427759>) - "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>) - The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts (<rdar://problem/15564888>) - Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X (<rdar://problem/15426838>) - The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>) - CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>) - Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328) - lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities were specified (STR #4326) - The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314) - CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did not match the user ID (STR #4327) CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0 - Updated the Japanese localization. - The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option (<rdar://problem/15264697>) - Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to determine the direction of supply level values (<rdar://problem/14302628>) - The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>) - The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>) - The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the client (<rdar://problem/14583574>) - Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour (<rdar://problem/14498310>) - Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the language specified in the client's IPP request (<rdar://problem/14128011>) - Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>) - Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang. - Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>) - The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>) - httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the previous response. - Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>) - The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE environment variable to the filters or backend (<rdar://problem/14355011>) - The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors (<rdar://problem/14421943>) - The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X. CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1 - Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>) - Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>) - Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate va_list arguments. - Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour services (<rdar://problem/13876199>) - Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>) - The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>) - The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>) - The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options. - The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by default (<rdar://problem/13875803>) - The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>) - The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI components (<rdar://problem/13876091>) 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)