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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt index 70e42ba4..95935d2d 100644 --- a/CHANGES.txt +++ b/CHANGES.txt @@ -1,845 +1,136 @@ CHANGES.txt - 2011-07-25 ------------------------ -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.8 +CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.0 - - The scheduler would delete job data files when restarted (STR #3880) - - The network backends could crash if a printer returned a value of 0 - for the maximum capacity for a supply (STR #3875) + - 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. -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7 +CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5rc1 - - Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750, - STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782, STR #3826, STR #3829, STR #3837) - - Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707, - STR #3755, STR #3769, STR #3783) - - Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691) - - Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774) - - The imageto* filters could crash with bad GIF files (STR #3867) - - The scheduler might leave old job data files in the spool directory - (STR #3795) - - CUPS did not work with locales using the ASCII character set - (STR #3832) - - httpAddrString() did not return a URI-style IPv6 numeric address - (STR #3814) - - Fixed an issue when reading compressed CUPS raster streams (STR #3812) - - Fixed an issue with PostScript printer auto-configuration (STR #3443) - - Fixed some compatibility issues with the libusb-based USB backend - (STR #3799) - - The network backends no longer try to collect SNMP supply and status - information for raw queues (STR #3809) - - The DBUS notifier did not report job state changes (STR #3805) - - The scheduler did not always report that the "normal" print-quality - value was supported (STR #3803) - - The gziptoany filter did not report the correct error if it was unable - to write the uncompressed document to the next filter or backend in - the chain (STR #3797) - - The Epson and Oki 9-pin drivers had a bad resolution option - (STR #3798) - - The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile - on Mac OS X. - - The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for - the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing - their own jobs. - - CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the - HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791) - - The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly. - - The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as - meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773) - - Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream - MIME type was not defined (STR #3690) - - Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574) - - cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints - issues (STR #3705) - - The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664) - - The web interface no longer tries to use multi-part delivery when - adding printers (STR #3455) - - The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and - other printers (STR #3405) - - "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768) - - The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set - the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749) - - PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed - conformance mode (STR #3747) - - The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state - change notifications (STR #3739) - - The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed - to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726) - - Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717) - - Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would - sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701) - - Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693) - - "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765) - - Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script - (STR #3761) - - The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups - are enabled (STR #3737) - - Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738) - - The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped - from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727) - - The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job - is printing (STR #3754) - - The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes - (STR #3764) - - cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to - a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756) - - The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from - the print filters (STR #3731) - - The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options - properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732) - - The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner" - states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733) - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6 - - - Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729) - - Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of - PostScript files (STR #3722) - - The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them - (STR #3697) - - The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when - debug logging was enabled (STR #3712) - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5 - - - Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650) - - Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666) - - Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941 - (STR #3648) - - The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the - IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be - the correct mapping (STR #3684) - - The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679) - - Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680) - - Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671) - - The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662) - - cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines - (STR #3645) - - Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419) - - ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous - choices (STR #3642) - - The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled - (STR #3649) - - The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain - printers (STR #3622) - - Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance" - did not work (STR #3485) - - The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly - (STR #3466) - - The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared - printers (STR #3627) - - Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5 - minutes (STR #3595) - - The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a - serial number (STR #3590) - - The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values - (STR #3631) - - The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or - description of a class (STR #3613) - - The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts - (STR #3615) - - The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that - change based on the locale's character set. - - PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621) - - Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault - (STR #3620) - - Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface - (STR #3624) - - Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611) - - The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when - delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608) - - The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609) - - Date/time information was not shown in banner pages. - - Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions - for the PPD compiler. - - Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for - authentication (STR #3559) - - The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is - changed (STR #3570) - - The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver - (STR #3537, STR #3601) - - The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when - needed (STR #3600) - - The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment - variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599) - - Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594) - - Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the - scheduler. - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4 - - - Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529) - - Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations - (STR #3516) - - Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490) - - Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of - memory (STR #3577) - - Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or - writable by non-root users (STR #3510) - - The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on - AIX (STR #3587) - - Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's - ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides - attributes (STR #3554) - - The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS - interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled - (STR #3461) - - Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document - implementation (STR #3514) - - Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534) - - Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544) - - The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified - printers (STR #3541) - - The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment - variable (STR #3531) - - Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394) - - The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for - the first page (STR #3525) - - The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425) - - The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined - (STR #3524) - - The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by - default on Mac OS X (STR #3523) - - ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in - all cases (STR #3521) - - The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box - (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520) - - The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default - printers (STR #3503) - - cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues - (STR #3325, STR #3519) - - cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3 - failures (STR #3518) - - Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392) - - The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457) - - The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a - printer belonging to a class (STR #3505) - - The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts - (STR #3492) - - The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms - other than Mac OS X (STR #3495) - - The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or - rejecting jobs (STR #3480) - - The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498) - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3 - - - SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client - connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200) - - SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be - overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482) - - Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452, - STR #3473, STR #3502) - - Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504) - - The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to - print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460) - - The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output - filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469) - - The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get- - Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458) - - Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work. - - IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes - (STR #3383) - - cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449) - - cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448) - - The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447) - - The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted. - - The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413) - - The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting - options (STR #3440) - - Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439) - - The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer - (STR #3431) - - The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object - (STR #3428) - - CSS files would not print (STR #3442) - - The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory - was turned off (STR #3425) - - The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer - (STR #3436) - - Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to - a remote server (STR #3435) - - The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423) - - cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions - (STR #3421) - - The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length. - - Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X. - - The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly. - - The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning + - 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 web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial - printers (STR #3391) - - cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382) - - Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic. - - The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly - (STR #3386) - - Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong - driver to be selected (STR #3418) - - The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when - loading a job (STR #3407) - - When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of - the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406) - - Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403) - - The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when - modifying a printer (STR #3390) - - The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings - (STR #3411) - - The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes - (STR #3399) - - cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the - named printer did not exist (STR #3397) - - Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381) - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2 - - - SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and - HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367, - STR #3401) - - Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387) - - The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide - the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351) - - The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the - driver was changed (STR #3356) - - The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using - newer versions of Bash (STR #3360) - - The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the - default LPD configuration path (STR #3347) - - The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support - (STR #3346) - - The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad - permisssions as missing (STR #3363) - - The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358) - - cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads. - - The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options - with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313) - - The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special - characters (STR #3340) - - The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer - driver (STR #3342) - - The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319) - - The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332) - - cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken - SNMP implementations. - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1 - - - Documention fixes (STR #3296) - - SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers. - - The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value. - - The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job - (STR #3315, STR #3318) - - DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299) - - The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284) - - cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named - destination did not exist (STR #3285) - - The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292) - - The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293) - - The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297) - - The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the - query job was held (STR #3302) - - Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface - (STR #3303) - - The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files - correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297, - STR #3305) - - cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311) - - Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312) - - BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing - setting (STR #3287) - - The scheduler could return an empty supported document format - (STR #3308) - - The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used - something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300) - - The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer - implementations (STR #3262) - - The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter - (STR #3263) - - The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15 - seconds (STR #3307) - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0 - - - Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250) - - Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260) - - The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the - filter (STR #3278) - - The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly - (STR #3277) - - The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272) - - The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266) - - The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in - CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259) - - The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote - queues (STR #3258) - - The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X. - - The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the - kqueue interface (STR #3256) - - The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all - cases (STR #3253) - - The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254) - - The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244) - - The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an - SNMP query. - - Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231) - - Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface - templates (STR #3229) - - The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that - were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor - performance. - - The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job. - - The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state- - reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data - for consistency. - - The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning - reason on all platforms. - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1 - - - The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization - (STR #3212) - - The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to - printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0. - - The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option - Resolution" were specified in the .drv file. - - The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined - variables (STR #3210) - - Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems - needing a ranlib program (STR #3209) - - The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials - for print jobs. - - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204) - - The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from - libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206) - - The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION, - CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH, - PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203) - - Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD. - - The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated - users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193) - - The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD - file. Some PPD files have as many as 24. - - ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something - that cupstestppd looks for...) - - cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X. - - The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe - conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial - pages when a job was canceled or held. - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3 - - - Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158, - STR #3173) - - Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and - Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish, - French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish - (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141) - - Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198) - - The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to - UTF-8 encoding as needed. - - The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197) - - The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185) - - The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount - (STR #2624) - - The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for - failed print jobs. - - You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133) - - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that - ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152) - - Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have - one printer or class added (STR #3094) - - Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy - stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current - reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now - (STR #3171) - - Revised the password callback support (STR #2953) - - ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly. - - Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so - that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require - delegatable credentials. Shared printing still requires delegation, - however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this - all work. - - "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors. - - AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up. - - cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a - lack of kernel buffers. - - The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests - while copying print data to a temporary file. - - cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily, - causing reduced performance in some situations. - - If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request - would hang on the client. - - The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not - work (STR #3132) - - The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes. - - CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language, - product, or psversion (STR #3136) - - The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds - (configurable) to cancel or hold the job. - - The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of - filenames in the PPD file. - - The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion - values. - - The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend - devices (STR #3108) - - The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work. - - The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled. - - Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface - incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095) - - The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file - permissions. - - httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames. - - The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the - device URI. - - The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10 - seconds. - - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090) - - The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating - them failed. - - The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for - status operations. - - ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile - keywords. - - The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or - maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and - often unreliable. - - The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as - "crashed". - - The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085) - - Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086) - - The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a - printer had other reasons associated with it. - - cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data. - - The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly - (STR #3084) - - cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like - cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082) - - The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable - microseconds in the date and time that are logged. - - The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to - control the timeout for multi-file print jobs. - - The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD - printer discovery (STR #3065) - - The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes - in length (STR #3072) - - Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063) - - Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062) - - The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript - printers with no specified colorspace. - - The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist - file on Mac OS X. - - cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory. - - SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and - and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters. - - The libusb-based USB backend did not work. - - The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly - for some PPDs. - - The ppdi utility did not work. - - The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken - web browsers (STR #3049) - - CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification. - - Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting - options. - - The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not - have associated translation text (STR #3045) - - Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043) - - Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047) - - cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option - choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are - present in most PPD files. - - The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities. - - The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end - its jobs. - - The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly. - - Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels - all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS + - 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. + + +CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2 + + - 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. + + +CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1 + + - 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 did not give filters a chance to log errors or update - printer attributes when a job was canceled. - - The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword - when a job finished. - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2 - - - Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021) - - The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and - FormatVersion values in PPD files. - - The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the - --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037) - - The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files - rather than copying them whenever possible. - - Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and - options implementations. - - The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands - attributes. - - Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies - was set to False in the PPD file. - - Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial, - and network backends (STR #3014) - - Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015) - - Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels - attributes. - - The scheduler could hang writing a long log line. - - The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes" - parameter. - - The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and - --exclude-schemes options. - - The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes - and exclude-schemes attributes. - - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes + - 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 print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot - option called "fit-to-page". - - The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting - information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to - prevent race conditions. - - The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value. - - Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including - CUPS 1.1.x. - - Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012) - - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message - catalogs (STR #2990) - - Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files - (STR #2989) - - The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment - variable when running filters. - - The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs - have all stopped. - - The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting" - progress messages. - - -CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1 - - - Documentation updates (STR #2567) - - The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to - override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642) - - The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings - (STR #2863) - - The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and - Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the - cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332) - - The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the - status of a single printer (STR #2843) - - The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide - significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs - (STR #1293) - - CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based - on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707) - - Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether - the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply - levels. - - Now support and use a new banner file format for better text - support and easier customization (STR #2490) - - The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION - environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes. - - The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a - stack-based buffer (STR #2388) - - The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set - the printer-state-reasons attribute. - - The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration - of printer options (STR #1440) - - The web interface now provides an advanced server settings - form. - - The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it - easier to change just one setting (STR #1919) - - The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat. - - The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and - Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947) - - Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so - they know whether they are printing a banner or document - file (STR #2799) - - Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter - command (STR #2562) - - Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to - talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827) - - Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and - cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936) - - The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with - Google (STR #2882) - - The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the - default server (STR #2833) - - The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control - which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536) - - The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available - (STR #2923) - - The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive - (STR #2848) - - The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name - value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558) - - CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903) - - Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529) - - The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing - print jobs (STR #2482) - - The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message - values. - - The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to - track the progress of individual pages. - - The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798) - - The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open - command, when available (STR #2724) - - The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794) - - The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the - PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745) - - The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log - file as errors (STR #2616) - - Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that - retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters - an error (STR #2555) - - The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user - correctly authenticates but does not have permission to - continue further (STR #2101) - - The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates - (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146) - - New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately - (STR #2853) - - Added support for a device-location attribute which provides - the physical location of a printer device. - - Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the - device data by a backend. - - Added support for custom options in the web interface - (STR #1729) - - Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers, - and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962) - - Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477) - - Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access - to CUPS (STR #263) - - Added ppdPageSizeLimits API. - - Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3, - cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes. - - Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs. - - Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver - attributes for better option conflict detection and - resolution. - - Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to - 256 bytes (STR #2877) - - Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control - what is logged to the access_log file. - - The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce - the amount of logging that is done to disk by default. - - The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD - files (STR #2871) - - The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver - information files. - - The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575) - - Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version - of an attribute. - - MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719) - - The standard MIME types are now installed in - DataDir/mime (STR #2719) - - The lpoptions command now describes custom options and - the necessary parameters (STR #2660) - - The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese - or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851) - - The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes - (STR #2738) - - The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in - the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754) - - The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives - (STR #2636) - - The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD - files (STR #2739) - - The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the - ModelName value as the output filename. - - The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to - set an alternate output filename (STR #2740) - - The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the - standard network backends. - - Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to - control the format of lines in the page_log file. - - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD - keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing. - - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers - that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour) - - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service - name resolution. - - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for - all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674) - - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based - page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655) - - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what - PJL commands are used to display the job information. - - Driver information files can now be installed in - /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X. - - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger - than 2GB. - - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to - reduce disk activity (STR #2684) - - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the - exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which - backends are polled and for how long. - - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in - parallel to get the list of devices faster. - - Added --enable-pap configure option. - - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated" - policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs. - - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files - (STR #2735, STR #2736) - - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files - for localization (STR #2737) - - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N - when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD - file. - - The build system has been updated to support separate - installation of data, program, header, and library files. - - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries - by default. - - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X. - - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support - SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655) - - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to - root to make the default installation more secure. - - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get - the localized version of a marker-names value. - - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name - attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour. - - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler - pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471) - - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or - global based on the current access policies for the - printer. - - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last - used printer preference on Mac OS X. - - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261) - - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS - library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638) - - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems - that support it (STR #2637) - - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when - possible. - - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job - attriibute to purge a specified job. - - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency - attributes for custom option selections. - - The web interface now enables/disables the printer - sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the - server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233) - - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the - server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD - and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233) - - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/ - manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver - on the model page (STR #2436) - - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and - duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities - of printers (STR #1175) - - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492) - - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation - that returns the specified print job document (STR #118) - - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option - to filter the document from the specified job. - - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to - do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003) - - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to - cache PPDs safely (STR #1473) - - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs. + - 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) |