| CHANGES-1.5.txt |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.4 |
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| - Documentation updates (STR #4112, STR #4130, STR #4134) |
| - Fixes for libusb-based USB backend (STR #4128) |
| - The lpq command did not show the owner or title of jobs unless passed |
| a username on the command-line (STR #4135) |
| - Localized empty strings contained the message catalog metadata |
| (STR #4119) |
| - Fixed a crash in the libusb-based USB backend (STR #4099) |
| - The cups-lpd mini-daemon no longer handled jobs with multiple copies |
| (STR #4118) |
| - Multiple libusb backend fixes (STR #4098, STR #4100) |
| - The IPP backend no longer tries to get the job status for printers |
| that do not implement the required operation (STR #4083) |
| - Sending a document in an unsupported format to an IPP printer now |
| automatically cancels the job (STR #4093) |
| - Fix some error reporting issues when printing from /dev/null and |
| other unusual situations (STR #4015) |
| - The scheduler now sets the CUPS_MAX_MESSAGE environment variable for |
| filters (STR #4074) |
| - Fixed a build issue when using older versions of autoconf (STR #4084) |
| - The IPP backend now treats the client-error-not-possible status code |
| as a job history issue, allowing IPP printing to Windows to work |
| (STR #4047) |
| - The IPP backend incorrectly included the document-format and |
| compression attributes in Create-Job requests (STR #4086) |
| - The libusb-based USB backend did not work on non-Linux platforms |
| (STR #4088) |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.3 |
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| - httpReconnect() did not reset the read/write buffers (STR #4065) |
| - Compiling without threading support failed (STR #4060) |
| - Fixed compile problem with old versions of OpenSSL (STR #4036) |
| - The network backends did not check SNMP supply levels regularly |
| (STR #4040) |
| - The online help always included the "help on help" text (STR #4042) |
| - Fixed a SSL handshake issue on OS X (STR #4045) |
| - The scheduler could crash if a PPD file contained an invalid paper |
| size (STR #4049) |
| - The CUPS polling daemon did not reinitialize its connection to the |
| remote server on errors in all cases (STR #4031) |
| - PostScript auto-configuration was slow and unreliable with some |
| printers (STR #4028) |
| - Missing localizations caused empty output (STR #4033) |
| - The cups-driverd program could temporarily "forget" a PPD file if it |
| was updated in place. |
| - The dnssd backend now prefers IPPS over IPP. |
| - The USB backend now uses and requires LIBUSB 1.0 or later (STR #3477) |
| - The LIBUSB-based USB backend now supports the back-channel (STR #2890) |
| - Changed how timeouts are implemented in the LPD backend (STR #4013) |
| - Added more supported color names for SNMP supplies (STR #3981) |
| - The default InputSlot setting was never used (STR #3957) |
| - POSIX ACLs are now set properly on certificate files (STR #3970) |
| - Supplies with commas in their names were not reported correctly |
| (STR #4020) |
| - The cupsGetPPD3() function created a temporary file when one was not |
| needed (STR #4018) |
| - The scheduler now ensures that job notifications contain a value for |
| the notify-printer-uri attribute (STR #4014) |
| - The lp and lpr commands did not cancel jobs queued from stdin on an |
| error (STR #4015) |
| - Fixed the IPP backend's handling of HTTP/1.0 compatibility (STR #3988) |
| - The IPP backend did not always setup username/password authentication |
| for printers (STR #3985) |
| - The IPP backend no longer re-queues print jobs that are too large for |
| the printer/server (STR #3977) |
| - The RPM spec file did not work (STR #4021, STR #4057) |
| - Encryption did not work when the server name ended with "." |
| (STR #4011) |
| - The multi-purpose tray is now mapped to the IPP "by-pass-tray" |
| (STR #4009) |
| - The correct media size was not always passed to IPP printers |
| (STR #4001) |
| - Finishing options were not passed to IPP printers (STR #3995) |
| - Fixed iCloud-based Back to My Mac printing (STR #3996) |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.2 |
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| - Reposted what should have been CUPS 1.5.1. |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.1 |
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| - Documentation updates (STR #3885, STR #3886, STR #3946, STR #3969) |
| - Localization updates (STR #3840, STR #3989, STR #3997) |
| - Build fixes (STR #3956, STR #3999) |
| - The SNMP backend did not validate the device URIs reported by printers |
| (STR #4004) |
| - cupsBackendReport() did not handle newlines in 1284 Device IDs |
| (STR #4005) |
| - USB backend fixes for libusb (STR #3965, STR #3978) |
| - The DBUS notifier did not validate string parameters (STR #3984) |
| - Group quota ACLs did not work with Kerberos (STR #3972) |
| - The IPP backend did not retry when a printer responded with |
| client-error-not-possible (STR #3963) |
| - PostScript PPDs with filters used the wrong command filter (STR #3973) |
| - The scheduler incorrectly used free() on a POSIX ACL value, which |
| could cause a crash (STR #3970) |
| - PPD files using the MacStandard encoding did not work. |
| - The web interface did not work on some platforms (STR #3902) |
| - The lpstat command would crash when then "-u" option was used by a |
| non-administrator (STR #3953) |
| - Japanese supply level reporting did not always work. |
| - The DBUS notifier could crash (STR #3947) |
| - Relaxed some of the page size checks in cupstestppd. |
| - The ipptool program now reports attributes that are repeated within |
| the same attribute group. |
| - Updated the PWG raster support to match the current draft |
| specification. |
| - Fixed some IPP conformance issues in the scheduler. |
| - Added ipptool support for repeating requests. |
| - Added IPP/2.2 conformance tests and greatly improved the IPP/1.1, |
| IPP/2.0, and IPP/2.1 conformance testing. |
| - IPP messages containing mixed integer/rangeOfInteger values did not |
| work (STR #3942) |
| - The ipptool program now provides additional diagnostics for badly- |
| formatted responses (STR #3857) |
| - When possible, the IPP backend now stops sending job data early on a |
| cancel. |
| - cupsSendRequest and cupsWriteRequestData did not properly read all |
| HTTP headers, preventing authentication and encryption upgrades from |
| working in all cases. |
| - The client.conf Server directive is no longer supported on Mac OS X |
| 10.7 and later. |
| - The IPP backend sent the wrong margins in media-col. |
| - The scheduler did not save or restore large Kerberos credentials for |
| jobs. |
| - The dnssd backend did not properly browse for secure IPP printers. |
| - httpAssembleURI* did not properly escape all special characters in the |
| username/password field. |
| - The scheduler now logs config file errors to stderr (STR #3936) |
| - The configure script incorrectly used bundle-based localizations on |
| Linux (STR #3938) |
| - The cups-driverd helper program did not cache .drv files properly, |
| sometimes leading to a crash (STR #3921) |
| - CUPS did not build on stock Mac OS X installations. |
| - Encryption was broken with OpenSSL. |
| - ipptool's XML output used date/time values with timezone offsets, |
| which are not supported by Mac OS X's NSDate class. |
| - Several programs did not support the cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files. |
| - The IPP backend incorrectly reported spool-area-full states. |
| - cupsMarkOptions() did not protect against a bad PPD that was missing |
| one or more standard Duplex options. |
| - The PostScript filter did not mirror N-up output properly. |
| - The ipptool program did not validate UTF-8 strings in XML output. |
| - Fixed supply level reporting for some printers. |
| - The scheduler no longer automatically logs debug messages for jobs |
| that were held or canceled. |
| - The cupsSendRequest function did not flush remaining response data |
| from a previous request, leading to apparent chunking issues. |
| - The scheduler did not report the correct version in the Server: header |
| (STR #3903) |
| - The scheduler did not support 1284 device IDs reported by driver |
| interface programs longer than 127 characters (STR #3871) |
| - The image filters did not support loading images larger than the |
| RIPCache setting (STR #3901) |
| - "PAGE: total NNN" messages did not get logged properly (STR #3887) |
| - Updated the PWG Raster support to conform to the current draft of the |
| PWG Raster Format specification. |
| - The PWG Raster filter did not always write the correct number of |
| padding lines on the bottom of the page (STR #3904) |
| - When reporting a denial-of-service attack from the domain socket, the |
| address reported does not always contain the correct path (STR #3888) |
| - Badly formed GIF files could cause the image filters to crash |
| (STR #3914) |
| - Jobs canceled at the printer were retried by the IPP backend. |
| - "cupsfilter -u" deleted the input file instead of the PPD file. |
| - The scheduler did not compute the cost of PPD filters defined using |
| the cupsFilter2 keyword properly. |
| - The scheduler did not correctly support the maxsize() attribute for |
| PPD filters. |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.0 |
| |
| - Documentation updates. |
| - Localization update (STR #3865) |
| - Needed to limit TLS to v1.0 on some versions of Mac OS X. |
| - The snmp backend did not work with some printers. |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5rc1 |
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| - Compile fixes (STR #3849, STR #3850) |
| - The scheduler didn't check for empty values for several configuration |
| directives (STR #3861) |
| - ipptool didn't generate valid XML when a test was skipped. |
| - Added additional error checking to the 1284 device ID code (STR #3858) |
| - Fixed some compatibility issues migrating from the old usblp backend |
| to the libusb backend (STR #3860) |
| - Fixed the wake-from-sleep printing behavior on Mac OS X. |
| - The scheduler incorrectly allowed jobs to be held from a terminating |
| state. |
| - The cups-driverd program could crash when a PPD was renamed. |
| - The dnssd backend took too long to discover printers on large or busy |
| networks with the new default timeout used by lpinfo and the web |
| interface. This resulted in "lost" printers. |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2 |
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| - Documentation updates. |
| - Localization updates (STR #3845) |
| - Compiler warning cleanup. |
| - Fixed PIE support for Linux (STR #3846) |
| - Made httpSetTimeout API public and use it in the IPP backend to avoid |
| timeout errors. |
| - The scheduler incorrectly set the "authenticated" printer-type bit for |
| remote queues using authentication. |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1 |
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| - The CUPS library now supports per-connection HTTP timeouts and |
| callbacks. |
| - The CUPS library now supports (limited) SSL/TLS X.509 certificate |
| validation and revocation (STR #1616) |
| - Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more |
| circumstances (STR #3417) |
| - The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in |
| the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533) |
| - Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do |
| not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800) |
| - The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing |
| was not enabled (STR #3639) |
| - The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple |
| hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813) |
| - The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and |
| manages the group (STR #2829) |
| - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838) |
| - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration, |
| cache, and state files (STR #3715) |
| - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted |
| (STR #2959) |
| - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and |
| cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825) |
| - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839) |
| - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled |
| (STR #3605) |
| - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806) |
| - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535) |
| - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410) |
| - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device |
| (STR #3766) |
| - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page |
| sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media |
| size (STR #3689) |
| - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support. |
| - Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes. |
| - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword. |
| - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654) |
| - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow |
| drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting. |
| - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for |
| the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter. |
| - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when |
| authenticating (STR #3670) |
| - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the |
| CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster |
| printers. |
| - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and |
| pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a |
| Throughput keyword. |
| - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X. |
| - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a |
| CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668) |
| - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719, |
| STR #3753) |
| - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles |
| to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons. |
| - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive |
| in cupsd.conf (STR #2625) |
| - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions |
| (STR #2969) |
| - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array |
| elements. |
| - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419) |
| - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by |
| default. |
| - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding |
| support (STR #3097) |
| - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and |
| Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from |
| PWG 5100.11. |
| - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header |
| (<cups/ppd.h>). |
| - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template |
| attribute. |
| - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota |
| plugin. |
| - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters |
| on Mac OS X. |
| - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from |
| CUPS 1.1.x. The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that |
| were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used. |
| - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several |
| improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484) |
| - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and |
| provides a way to ignore all filename warnings. |
| - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes. |
| - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write |
| permissions disabled. |
| - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing |
| PPD files. |
| - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322) |
| - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500) |