CHANGES.txt - 2.0rc1 - 2014-08-29
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CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0rc1
- Documentation updates (STR #4464)
- The scheduler now monitors the AC power status on OS X, allowing for
"sleep printing" when sharing printers (<rdar://problem/17325852>)
- The scheduler incorrectly called launch_activate_socket multiple times
on OS X (<rdar://problem/17523218>)
- The ippserver test program now passes the IPP Everywhere self-
certification tests (STR #4101)
- Relaxed the new OS X filter sandbox slightly (STR #4471,
<rdar://problem/17483959>)
- Dropped the old Epson Stylus Color/Photo sample drivers since they
don't work with any current printers and there are free alternatives
that produce much better output (<rdar://problem/18036889>)
- Log and configuration files that are not world-readable are again
accessible via the web interface (STR #4461)
- PPD files are now created using the permissions specified by the
ConfigFilePerm directive.
- Fixed RPM build issues (STR #4459)
- Fixed the spinner image and restart page when reconfiguring the
scheduler through the web interface (STR #4475)
CHANGES IN CUPS V2.0b1
- Added a "--list-filters" option to the cupsfilter command (STR #4325)
- Added systemd support (STR #3917)
- Added support for re-sending a job as a raster file if a higher-level
format such as PDF fails (<rdar://problem/15583721>)
- Added support for regular expression matching in the MIME type rules
(<rdar://problem/11131245>)
- Added support for TLS certificate validation and policy enforcement
(STR #1616)
- Added support for simultaneous XML and test output from ipptool.
- Added support for PAUSE directive in ipptool test files.
- Added support for auto-typing of TIFF files by ipptool (STR #4418)
- The scheduler now returns completed jobs in the correct newest-to-
oldest order (STR #4396)
- The configure script now supports target-specific tools for pkg-config
and others (STR #4423)
- The ipptool program now supports EXPECT statements for collection
member attributes (<rdar://problem/15355218>)
- The ipptool program now supports collection attributes with multiple
values (<rdar://problem/15355124>)
- The sample drivers now include all of the installed localizations by
default (<rdar://problem/14756625>)
- Adopted Linux man page conventions and updated all man pages
(STR #4372, STR #4329)
- The scheduler now supports the "first-index" operation attribute for
the Get-Jobs operation (STR #2913)
- Changed the default AccessLogLevel and PageLogFormat to disable the
access_log and page_log files by default (<rdar://problem/16495000>)
- cupsRasterInterpretPPD now supports the Orientation header in order to
support long-edge feed raster printers (<rdar://problem/15837926>)
- The scheduler now allows run-as-root backends to have group read and
execute permissions (STR #2935)
- The ippFindAttribute and ippFindNextAttribute functions now support
hierarchical searches (STR #4395)
- Dropped OpenSSL support in favor of GNU TLS.
- Dropped "dark wake" support on OS X, which was preventing portables
from going to sleep when there was a stuck job. We now use a variation
of the CUPS 1.4 sleep support to do a cleaner sleep
(<rdar://problem/14323704>)
- Dropped support for AIX, HP-UX, and OSF/1 (aka Digital UNIX)
- Dropped lppasswd and support for Digest authentication in in the
scheduler (STR #4321)
- The cupsGetClasses, cupsGetPrinters, and cupsTempFile functions are no
longer supported.
- The scheduler now caches more job history data and limits the number
of completed jobs returned by Get-Jobs as needed in order to prevent a
denial-of-service on busy servers (STR #2913)
- The filter/backend sandbox on OS X now defaults to a more strict
whitelist (<rdar://problem/15939788>)
- Increased the default idle exit timeout to 60 seconds on OS X
(<rdar://problem/16041820>)
- Printer classes were not accessible on OS X
(<rdar://problem/16385643>)
- The scheduler now uses </DefaultPrinter> to close the default printer
definition in printers.conf (STR #4153)
- Canceling all jobs in the web interface now just cancels the jobs
(STR #1914)