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@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +2014-09-06 +- Relaese version 2.0 of cups-bjnp + This version: + - adds reporting of ink levels to Cups + - improves error hendling + +2014-03-05 +- This is a beta version of the upcoming bjnp 2.0 release + Ink level reporting is added as well as improved error handling. + If there are issues (e.g. one or more cartridges not recognized and showing as + white or any other issues, please report them in the bug-tracker on sourceforge. + Please provide the bjnp_log file with debuglevel set to DEBUG (see README for details + on how to set debugging. For most errors just ading the printer status string + (grep the debug output for BST) should be sufficient + +2014-01-22 +- This is the 1.2.2 release. The changes are quite limited: + bugfix for newer Canon printers that send an XML-document for the printer status + fix for a possible buffer overflow in parsing of reponses + +2013-02-23 +- versions 1.2.1 + Fix issue where printer sent responses in 2 TCP packets + +2012-11-27 +- Version 1.2 + Adds support from printing over IPv6 + major code restructuring and rwrite + +2012-09-25 +- This is the 1.1 release. IPv6 is now supported for printing and printer detection. +- We now really use only port 8611 for printer detection. +- The long standing "failed to read side channel" bug is solved. + The source code has received a major overhaul: lots of refactoring. The code has been + split into a number of C-files. The protocol depedent definitions are now in a + separate header file + +2011-06-25 +- This is the 1.0 release. Not that much changed, but the package is apparently ok as is + In this release some unused code is removed and the name resolution is changed to + verify after a reverse lookup that a normal (forward) lookup indeed returns the right + ip-address. This fixes the case where a buggy name server (some CPE) returns a bogus + name. Some IPv6 related fixes. + +2009-05-29 0.5.4 +- This release only changes the rpm-spec handling in preparation for release in Fedora. + There are no other functional changes. So for most people there is no need to update. + +2009-02-11 Version 0.5 +- Corrected a bug where the backend would crash during printer discovery when it encountered + a point to point link. +- Added autoconf/automake support. + +2008-11-18 Fourth beta release +- Added keep-alive for TCP connection as printer may time out if for any reason (slow filter) + connection is inactive for 30 sec (reportd by ZEDO) +- added a 15 sec delay at end of printjob as printer may otherwise not accept new printjob + (also reported by Zedo) +- Rewrote specfile so it works for all redhat based releases + +2008-08-09 Second beta release +- added out of paper support +- improved logging/debugging support: + Normally we log to the cups error log + For debugging of printer discover we can set env. var BJNP_DEBUG + For debugging of printing we can set the debuglevel as part of the device URI: + bjnp://printer-1.pheasant:8611/?debuglevel=DEBUG + Debugging levels are named as in CUPS + +2008-08-07 First beta release of CUPS-bjnp. +- This release adds a number of additions over the alpha versions released before on fazant.net: +- Adds spec files for Fedora and Centos 5 (RHEL5) +- Compiles without the need for the CUPS sources +- Supports CUPS 1.2 and 1.3 with the same source files +- Ink level support is not included but planned to be added to Turboprint + |