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-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.12
-
- - The PHP cups_print_file() function crashed if the options
- array contained non-string option values (STR #2430)
- - The image/tiff file matching rule incorrectly identified
- some text files as TIFF files (STR #2431)
- - The filter(7) man page incorrectly documented the
- "PAGE: total #-pages" message (STR #2427)
- - PCL text files were mis-identified as HP-GL/2 and
- caused the HP-GL/2 filter to hang (STR #2423)
- - When printing to a queue with user ACLs, the scheduler
- incorrectly returned a quota error instead of a "not
- allowed to print" error (STR #2409)
- - cupsaddsmb could get in a loop if no printer drivers
- were installed (STR #2407)
- - cupsRasterReadHeader() did not byte-swap the header
- properly when compiled with certain versions of GCC.
- - The IPP backend did not send the document-format
- attribute for filtered jobs (STR #2411)
- - Some PPD files could cause a crash in ppdOpen2 (STR
- #2408)
- - The web admin interface incorrectly handled the "share
- printers" and "show remote printers" settings (STR
- #2393)
- - The scheduler's log messages about AuthClass and
- AuthGroupName advised using a replacement directive but
- had the wrong syntax (STR #2400)
- - Updated the PostScript/PJL and HP-GL/2 MIME rules to
- look in the first 4k of the file, not just the first 1k
- (STR #2386)
- - Updated the Italian localization (STR #2382)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.11
-
- - Fixed the "relaying from" log message (STR #2376)
- - Updated the launchd support on Mac OS X to better
- support reconfiguration.
- - "make distclean" didn't remove all generated files
- (STR #2366)
- - Fixed a bug in the advertisement of classes (STR
- #2373)
- - The IPP backend now stays running until the job is
- actually printed by the remote server; previously
- it would stop monitoring the job if it was held or
- temporarily stopped (STR #2352)
- - PDF files were not always printed using the correct
- orientation (STR #2348)
- - The scheduler could crash if you specified a bad file:
- URI for a printer (STR #2351)
- - The Renew-Subscription operation now returns the
- notify-lease-duration value that was used (STR #2346)
- - The IPP backend sent job options to IPP printers,
- however some printers tried to override the options
- embedded in the PS/PCL stream with those job options
- (STR #2349)
- - ppdLocalize() now also tries a country-specific
- localization for when localizing to a generic locale
- name.
- - The cupstestppd program now allows for partial
- localizations to reduce the size of universal PPD
- files.
- - Chinese PPD files were incorrectly tagged with the
- "cn" locale (should have been "zh")
- - The backends now manage the printer-state-reasons
- attribute more accurately (STR #2345)
- - Java, PHP, Perl, and Python scripts did not work
- properly (STR #2342)
- - The scheduler would take forever to start if the
- maximum number of file descriptors was set to
- "unlimited" (STR #2329)
- - The page-ranges option was incorrectly applied to the
- banner pages (STR #2336)
- - Fixed some GCC compile warnings (STR #2340)
- - The DBUS notification code was broken for older
- versions of DBUS (STR #2327)
- - The IPv6 code did not compile on HP-UX 11.23 (STR
- #2331)
- - PPD constraints did not work properly with custom
- options.
- - Regular PPD options with the name "CustomFoo" did
- not work.
- - The USB backend did not work on NetBSD (STR #2324)
- - The printer-state-reasons attribute was incorrectly
- cleared after a job completed (STR #2323)
- - The scheduler did not set the printer operation policy
- on startup, only on soft reload (STR #2319)
- - The AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot option did not clear any
- ManualFeed setting that was made, which caused problems
- with some PPD files (STR #2318)
- - cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() did not abort
- when getting an error in the response (STR #2315)
- - The scheduler did not schedule jobs properly to remote
- or nested classes (STR #2317)
- - Updated the mime.types and mime.convs headers to warn
- that the files are overwritten when CUPS is installed.
- Local changes should go in local.types or local.convs,
- respectively (STR #2310)
- - The scheduler could get in an infinite loop if a
- printer in an implicit class disappeared (STR #2311)
- - The pstops filter did not handle %%EndFeature comments
- properly (STR #2306)
- - Fixed a problem with the Polish web page printer icons
- (STR #2305)
- - ppdLocalize() now also localizes the cupsICCProfile
- attributes.
- - The scheduler still had a reference to the incorrect
- "notify-recipient" attribute (STR #2307)
- - The "make check" and "make test" subscription tests did
- not set the locale (STR #2307)
- - The "make check" and "make test" subscription tests
- incorrectly used the notify-recipient attribute instead
- of notify-recipient-uri (STR #2307)
- - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() incorrectly limited the
- cupsBorderlessScalingFactor when specified in the
- job options.
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.10
-
- - ppdLocalize() now supports localizing for Japanese
- using the "jp" locale name used by the ppdmerge
- program from the CUPS DDK 1.1.0 (STR #2301)
- - _cupsAdminSetServerSettings() did not support changing
- of top-level directives as designed.
- - The init script path check was broken.
- - CUPS incorrectly used the attribute "notify-recipient"
- instead of "notify-recicpient-uri" in several places
- (STR #2297)
- - Fixed a configure script bug on MirBSD (STR #2294)
- - The pdftops filter did not limit the amount of recursion
- of page sets (STR #2293)
- - Custom page sizes with fractional point sizes did not
- work (STR #2296)
- - The lpoptions command would crash when adding or removing
- options on a system with no printers (STR #2295)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.9
-
- - The scheduler did not use the default job-sheets
- (banners) for implicit classes (STR #2284)
- - The scheduler could crash when listing complete jobs
- that had been unloaded from memory (STR #2288)
- - The French localization was doubled up (STR #2287)
- - Build system fixes for several platforms (STR #2260,
- STR #2275)
- - The scheduler's openssl certificate generation code was
- broken on some platforms (STR #2282)
- - The scheduler's log rotation check for devices was
- broken (STR #2278)
- - The LPD mini-daemon did not handle the document-format
- option correctly (STR #2266)
- - The pdftops filter ignored the "match" size option in the
- pdftops.conf file (STR #2285)
- - cupstestppd now validates UTF-8 text strings in
- globalized PPD files (STR #2283)
- - The outputorder=reverse option did not work with all
- printers (STR #2279)
- - Classes containing other classes did not always work
- (STR #2255)
- - Printer location and description information was lost
- if the corresponding string contained the "#" character
- (STR #2254)
- - cupsRemoveOption() did not work properly (STR #2264)
- - The USB backend did not work with some USB to parallel
- cables on Mac OS X.
- - The test page did not print the rulers properly on
- large media sizes (STR #2252)
- - The text filter could crash when pretty printing certain
- types of files (STR #2158)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.8
-
- - Documentation fixes (STR #2141, STR #2157)
- - The HTTP upgrade redirection used by the scheduler did
- not work with Internet Explorer (STR #2235)
- - Members of a class with Unicode names did not appear
- correctly in the web interface (STR #2154)
- - Changing the "Save debugging information" setting in
- the web interface no longer affects the other server
- settings (STR #1993)
- - The scheduler did not choose SSL certificates correctly
- on Mac OS X (STR #2225)
- - The scheduler could get in an infinite loop when
- printing to a remote class (STR #2228)
- - The jobs web page did not have separating space after
- the number of pages column (STR #2230)
- - Added French localization (STR #2221)
- - Updated Spanish localization (STR #2223)
- - Updated Japanese localization (STR #2216)
- - cupsBorderlessScalingFacter was limited to a range of
- 0.9 to 1.1, but some printers need larger values (STR
- #2222)
- - Landscape printing of PDF files did not always work
- (STR #2149)
- - Fixed slow USB printing on Minolta printers (STR #2104,
- STR #2219)
- - The ZPL label printer driver could produce stretched
- output (PR #6448)
- - The IPP backend now clears the printer-state-message
- when there are no outstanding errors or warnings (STR
- #2126)
- - The CUPS Java scripting support did not work with
- recent versions of Java due to the use of Sun's private
- Base64 class (STR #2152)
- - The scheduler did not pass HTTP GET form variables to
- custom CGI programs (STR #2173)
- - The lpoptions command now displays the reason why a PPD
- file cannot be found (STR #2184)
- - The scheduler did not accept "none" as a browse
- protocol name (STR #2200)
- - The scheduler still loaded the remote printer cache,
- even when browsing was disabled (STR #2198)
- - The SNMP backend now shows OfficeJet printers with the
- "HP" manufacturer prefix (STR #2151)
- - Web interface HTML cleanup (STR #2153)
- - The parallel backend consumed 100% CPU on FreeBSD due
- to an apparently common parallel port driver bug (STR
- #2161)
- - ippReadIO() incorrectly returned IPP_IDLE when the
- initial IPP message header could not be read (STR
- #2179)
- - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() did not support custom options
- (STR #1960)
- - Collated output produced by the PostScript filter could
- lose some options (STR #2137)
- - job-hold-until with time values for the next day would
- be held for 60 days (STR #2144)
- - Some types of Sun raster files did not print correctly
- (STR #2107)
- - Raw PBM files did not print correctly (STR #2106)
- - The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP with HP printers,
- as some recent firmware versions appear to not work
- (STR #2055)
- - cupsMarkOptions() did not handle the
- multiple-document-handling option (STR #2135)
- - lpstat did not show the local job ID of active printers
- (STR #2125)
- - The backends incorrectly used STATUS:
- media-tray-empty-error messages for out-of-paper
- conditions (STR #2123, STR #2124)
- - cupsGetPPD2() returned the wrong error when the PPD
- file did not exist (STR #2122)
- - cupsDoAuthentication() did not translate the password
- prompt (STR #2121)
- - httpGetLength2() did not handle error messages without
- content correctly (STR #2133)
- - Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX Itanium
- systems (STR #2115)
- - Fixed a configure script problem with the 32/64-bit
- library support (STR #2114)
- - The PostScript filter did not properly output document
- setup commands for reversed output (STR #2111)
- - The scheduler did not parse IPv6 netmasks properly (STR
- #2117)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.7
-
- - Documentation updates (STR #2089)
- - Added an Italian translation (STR #2105)
- - The PostScript filter now rotates the bounding box
- values as needed (STR #2079)
- - The scheduler no longer loads the remote printer cache
- when browsing is disabled (STR #2084)
- - The scheduler no longer writes a new launchd
- configuration file if it doesn't have to (STR #2083)
- - Updated the USB and PAP backends for Mac OS X (STR
- #2086)
- - The scheduler now picks up on changes to IPv6 and DNS
- configuration on Mac OS X (STR #2085)
- - The lpstat program could still hang (STR #2098)
- - Fixed an inefficiency in the SNMP IPP detection code
- (STR #2100)
- - The SSL negotiation code did not implement short
- timeouts (STR #2091)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.6
-
- - The web interface was not localized on Mac OS X (STR
- #2075)
- - "lpc status" did not show the number of queued jobs for
- disabled queues (STR #2069)
- - The lpstat program could hang (STR #2073)
- - The serial backend did not support the new USB serial
- filenames on Linux (STR #2061)
- - The parallel backend did not support bidirectional I/O
- properly (STR #2056)
- - The network backends now log the numeric address that
- is being used (STR #2046)
- - Fixed a compile error when using libpaper.
- - Fixed a compile error when compiling on Solaris with
- threading enabled (STR #2049, STR #2050)
- - Missing printer-state-changed event for
- printer-state-message updates (STR #2047)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.5
-
- - Documentation updates (STR #2038)
- - The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP for Epson printers
- (STR #2028)
- - Updated the configure script for Tru64 UNIX 5.1 (STR
- #2033)
- - Tru64 5.1B's getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() functions
- leak file descriptors (STR #2034)
- - cupsAddDest() didn't add the parent destination's
- options and attributes.
- - ppdConflicts() did not handle custom option
- constraints.
- - Raw printing of gzip'd files did not work (STR #2009)
- - The scheduler no longer preserves default option
- choices when the new PPD no longer provides the old
- default choice (STR #1929)
- - The Linux SCSI backend is now only built if the SCSI
- development headers are installed.
- - USB printing to Minolta printers did not work (STR
- #2019)
- - Windows clients could not monitor the queue status (STR
- #2006)
- - The scheduler didn't log the operation name in the
- access_log file for Create-Job and Print-Job requests.
- - The PostScript filter now separates collated copies
- with any required JCL commands so that JCL-based
- finishing options act on the individual copies and not
- all of the copies as a single document.
- - The PostScript filter now disables duplex printing when
- printing a 1-page document.
- - cups-lpd didn't pass the correct
- job-originating-host-name value (STR #2023)
- - Fixed some speling errors in the German message catalog
- (STR #2012)
- - cupstestppd did not catch PPD files with bad
- UIConstraints values (STR #2016)
- - The USB backend did not work with the current udev-
- created printers if the first printer was disconnected
- (STR #2017)
- - Mirrored and rotated printing did not work with some
- documents (STR #2004)
- - 2-sided printing with banners did not work properly on
- some printers (STR #2018)
- - Updated the raw type rule to handle PJL within the
- first 4k of a print job (STR #1969)
- - Added an Estonian translation (STR #1957)
- - Clarified the documentation for the cupsd.conf @LOCAL
- and @IF(name) allow/deny functionality (STR #1992)
- - The PostScript filters did not escape the Title and For
- comments in the print job header (STR #1988)
- - The scheduler would use 100% CPU if browsing was
- disabled and the cupsd.conf file contained BrowsePoll
- lines (STR #1994)
- - The cupsDirRead() function did not work properly on
- non-POSIX-compliant systems (STR #2001)
- - The cupsFile functions didn't handle read/write errors
- properly (STR #1996)
- - The DBUS support now works with older versions of the
- DBUS library.
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.4
-
- - The --with-printcap configure option did not work (STR
- #1984)
- - The character set reported by cupsLangGet() did not
- always reflect the default character set of a given
- locale (STR #1983)
- - Older Lexmark and Tektronix printers did not work with
- IPP (STR #1980)
- - Failsafe printing did not work (PR #6328)
- - Some web interface redirects did not work (STR #1978)
- - The web interface change settings button could
- introduce a "Port 0" line in cupsd.conf if there was no
- loopback connection available (STR #1979)
- - The web interface change settings and edit
- configuration file buttons would truncate the
- cupsd.conf file (STR #1976)
- - The German web interface used the wrong printer icon
- images (STR #1973)
- - The "All Documents" link in the on-line help was
- missing a trailing slash (STR #1971)
- - The Polish web interface translation used the wrong
- URLs for the job history (STR #1963)
- - The "reprint job" button did not work (STR #1956)
- - The scheduler did not always report printer or job
- events properly (STR #1955)
- - The scheduler always stopped the queue on error,
- regardless of the exit code, if the error policy was
- set to "stop-printer" (STR #1959)
- - ppdEmitJCL() included UTF-8 characters in the JCL job
- name, which caused problems on some printers (STR
- #1959)
- - Fixed a buffering problem that cause high CPU usage
- (STR #1968)
- - The command-line applications did not convert
- command-line strings to UTF-8 as needed (STR #1958)
- - cupsDirRead() incorrectly aborted when reading a
- symbolic link that pointed to a file/directory that did
- not exist (STR #1953)
- - The cupsInterpretRasterPPD() function did not handle
- custom page sizes properly.
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.3
-
- - The scheduler did not send job-state or
- job-config-changed events when a job was held,
- released, or changed (STR #1947)
- - The scheduler now aborts if the configuration file and
- directory checks fail (STR #1941)
- - Fixed a problem with ippPort() not using the port
- number that was set via the client.conf file or
- CUPS_SERVER environment variable (STR #1945)
- - HTTP headers were not buffered (STR #1899)
- - Some IPP printers (HP) did not like UTF-8 job names
- (STR #1837)
- - The CUPS desktop icon is now localized for Polish (STR
- #1920)
- - Printer options were not always honored when printing
- from Windows clients (STR #1839)
- - The openssl command would lock up the scheduler when
- generating an encryption certificate on some platforms
- due to a lack of entropy for the random number
- generator (STR #1876)
- - The web admin page did not recognize that "Listen 631"
- enabled remote access (STR #1908)
- - The web admin page did not check whether changes were
- made to the Basic Server Settings check boxes (STR
- #1908)
- - The IPP backend could generate N*N copies in certain
- edge cases.
- - The scheduler did not restore remote printers properly
- when BrowseShortNames was enabled (STR #1893)
- - Polling did not handle changes to the network
- environment on Mac OS X (STR #1896)
- - The "make test" subscription tests used invalid
- notify-recipient-uri values (STR #1910)
- - Printers could be left in an undefined state on system
- sleep (STR #1905)
- - The Berkeley and System V commands did not always use
- the expected character set (STR #1915)
- - Remote printing fixes (STR #1881)
- - The cupstestppd utility did not validate translation
- strings for custom options properly.
- - Multi-language PPD files were not properly localized in
- the web interface (STR #1913)
- - The admin page's simple settings options did not check
- for local domain socket or IPv6 addresses and did not
- use "localhost" as the listen address.
- - An empty BrowseProtocols, BrowseLocalProtocols, or
- BrowseRemoteProtocols line would crash the scheduler
- instead of disabling the corresponding browsing options.
- - The scheduler now logs IPP operation status as debug
- messages instead of info or error.
- - cupsFileRewind() didn't clear the end-of-file state.
- - cupstestppd didn't report the actual misspelling of the
- 1284DeviceID attribute (STR #1849)
- - BrowseRelay didn't work on Debian (STR #1887)
- - configure --without-languages didn't work (STR #1879)
- - Manually added remote printers did not work (STR #1881)
- - The <cups/backend.h> header was not installed.
- - Updated the build files for Autoconf 2.60 (STR #1853)
- - The scheduler incorrectly terminated the polling
- processes after receiving a partial log line.
- - The cups-lpd mini-daemon reported "No printer-state
- attribute found" errors when reporting the queue status
- (PR #6250, STR #1821)
- - SNMP backend improvements (STR #1737, STR #1742, STR
- #1790, STR #1835, STR #1880)
- - The scheduler erroneously reported an error with the
- CGI pipe (STR #1860)
- - Fixed HP-UX compile problems (STR #1858, STR #1859)
- - cupstestppd crashed with some PPD files (STR #1864)
- - The <cups/dir.h> and <cups/file.h> header files did not
- work with C++.
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.2
-
- - Documentation updates (STR #1765, STR #1780)
- - CUPS didn't know about alternate character set names
- for Asian text (STR #1819)
- - The lpoptions -o and -r options did not work unless you
- specified a printer.
- - The lpoptions command incorrectly allowed users to set
- printer attributes like printer-type (STR #1791)
- - httpWait() did not flush the write buffer, causing "bad
- request" errors when communicating with CUPS 1.1.x
- servers (STR #1717)
- - Polling did not sanitize the printer description,
- location, or make and model strings like broadcasts
- did.
- - Polled printers did not show the server's default
- job-sheets option value.
- - The Samba password prompt was not properly localized
- (STR #1814)
- - Added a German translation (STR #1842)
- - The scheduler now creates self-signed SSL certficates
- automatically when using OpenSSL and CDSA for
- encryption, just as for GNU TLS.
- - The SNMP backend sporatically reported some printers as
- "unknown" (STR #1774)
- - The scheduler now forces BrowseTimeout to be at least
- twice the BrowseInterval value and non-zero to avoid
- common configuration errors.
- - The scheduler incorrectly returned printer URIs of the
- form "ipp://server/printers/classname" for classes (STR
- #1813)
- - Updated Japanese localization (STR #1805)
- - The scheduler's SSL certificate/key directory was not
- created on installation (STR #1788)
- - Added a mailto.conf man page and help page (STR #1754)
- - The parallel and USB backends no longer wait for the
- printer to go on-line - this caused problems with
- certain printers that don't follow with the IEEE-1284
- standard (STR #1738)
- - The scheduler could crash on a reload when implicit
- classes were present (STR #1828)
- - The IPP backend incorrectly used the CUPS_ENCRYPTION
- environment variable to determine the default
- encryption mode when printing (STR #1820)
- - USB printing did not work on Solaris (STR #1756)
- - The scheduler sorted job priorities in the wrong order
- (STR #1811)
- - The scheduler did not automatically restart notifiers
- that exited or crashed (STR #1793)
- - IPv6 support did not work on NetBSD (STR #1834)
- - The EPM packaging file did not work (STR #1804)
- - The scheduler used up the CPU if BrowseRemoteProtocols
- was empty (STR #1792)
- - Custom page sizes did not work (STR #1787)
- - The SNMP backend could crash on some systems when SNMP
- logging was enabled (STR #1789)
- - Browsing could produce some funny printer names when
- ServerName was set to an IP address (STR #1799)
- - Fixed the log message for BrowseRelay (STR #1798)
- - Fixes to allow CUPS to compile on MirBSD (STR #1796)
- - The scheduler incorrectly set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
- environment variable (STR #1795)
- - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded a "produced by"
- comment, causing PDF printing not to work on some
- operating systems (STR #1801)
- - Sending raw jobs from a client system could cause the
- client's scheduler to eventually crash (STR #1786)
- - The scheduler now checks that the notifier exists prior
- to accepting a new subscription request.
- - The scheduler now reports the supported
- notify-recipient schemes based on the contents of the
- ServerBin/notifier directory.
- - Event notifications did not include the
- notify-sequence-number or other required attributes
- (STR #1747)
- - Allow/Deny addresses of the form "11.22.33.*" did not
- work on Linux (STR #1769)
- - cupsGetPPD() did not work if the scheduler was only
- listening on a domain socket (STR #1766)
- - The scheduler could crash advertising a class (STR
- #1768)
- - The scheduler could crash if the default printer was
- deleted (STR #1776)
- - Added a new default CUPS raster format (v3) which does
- not compress the raster stream in order to provide the
- same cupsRasterReadPixels() and cupsRasterWritePixels()
- performance as CUPS 1.1.x.
- - The cupsaddsmb man page listed the wrong files for the
- CUPS driver.
- - Some configure --with options did not work (STR #1746)
- - "Allow @IF(name)" didn't work if "name" wasn't the
- first network interface (STR #1758)
- - The lpstat command did not use the correct character
- set when reporting the date and time (STR #1751)
- - The cupsaddsmb command and web interface did not update
- the Windows PPD files properly, resulting in corrupt
- PPD files for the Windows client to use (STR #1750)
- - The cupsd.conf man page didn't describe the Listen
- domain socket syntax (STR #1753)
- - The scheduler no longer tries to support more than
- FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
- - CDSA (encryption) support fixes for MacOS X.
- - The lppasswd program needs to be setuid to root to
- create and update the /etc/cups/passwd.md5 file (STR
- #1735)
- - 32/64-bit library installation was broken (STR #1741)
- - The USB backend now reports a "no such device" error
- when using the old filename-based USB URIs instead of
- the "success" error.
- - Increased the HTTP and IPP read timeouts to 10 seconds,
- as 1 second was too short on congested networks (STR
- #1719)
- - The SNMP backend now uses the device description over
- the printer-make-and-model attribute when the attribute
- contains a generic name (STR #1728)
- - Fixed another file descriptor leak when printing raw
- files (STR #1736)
- - Raw queues were not shared via LDAP (STR #1739)
- - The pstops filter didn't always embed PageSetup
- commands from the PPD file (STR #1740)
- - "make install" didn't work if you disabled all of the
- localizations.
- - The scheduler didn't always choose the least costly
- filter.
- - Fixed parsing of IPv6 addresses in Allow, Deny,
- BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, and BrowseRelay directives
- (STR #1713)
- - Printers that were shared via LDAP did not get added to
- the LDAP server properly (STR #1733)
- - LDAP browsing would crash the scheduler if a required
- value was missing (STR #1731)
- - Special cases for the "localhost" hostname did not
- work, causing printing to not work when the /etc/hosts
- file did not contain a localhost entry (STR #1723)
- - Updated the Spanish translation (STR #1720, STR #1770)
- - Reverse-order page output was broken when N-up or
- landscape orientations were used (STR #1725)
- - The parallel, serial, socket, and USB backends needed
- print data before they would report back-channel data,
- causing problems with several new drivers (STR #1724)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.1
-
- - "lprm -h hostname" did not work (STR #1800)
- - The web interface did not handle reloads properly for
- MSIE (STR #1716)
- - The configure script no longer adds linker rpath
- options when they are unnecessary.
- - The scheduler could crash printing a debug message on
- Solaris (STR #1714)
- - The --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure options
- did not always work.
- - The password prompt showed the domain socket address
- instead of "localhost" for local authentication (STR
- #1706)
- - The web interface filtered the list of printers even if
- the user wasn't logged in (STR #1700)
- - The IPP backend did not work reliably with some Xerox
- printers (STR #1704)
- - Trailing banners were not added when printing a single
- file (STR #1698)
- - The web interface support programs crashed on Solaris
- (STR #1699)
- - cupstestppd incorrectly reported problems with
- *1284DeviceID attributes (STR #1710)
- - Browsing could get disabled after a restart (STR #1670)
- - Custom page sizes were not parsed properly (STR #1709)
- - The -U option wasn't supported by lpadmin (STR #1702)
- - The -u option didn't work with lpadmin (STR #1703)
- - The scheduler did not create non-blocking back-channel
- pipes, which caused problems when the printer driver
- did not read the back-channel data (STR #1705)
- - The scheduler no longer uses chunking in responses to
- clients - this caused problems with older versions of
- CUPS like 1.1.17 (PR #6143)
- - Automatic raw printing was broken (STR #1667)
- - 6-up printing was broken (STR #1697)
- - The pstops filter did not disable CTRL-D processing on
- the printer/RIP.
- - ppdOpen*() did not load custom options properly (STR
- #1680)
- - "Set Printer Options" in the web interface did not
- update the DefaultImageableArea or
- DefaultPaperDimension attributes in the PPD file (STR
- #1689)
- - Fixed compile errors (STR #1682, STR #1684, STR #1685,
- STR #1690)
- - The lpstat command displayed the wrong error message
- for a missing destination (STR #1683)
- - Revised and completed the Polish translation (STR
- #1669)
- - Stopped jobs did not show up in the list of active jobs
- (STR #1676)
- - The configure script did not use the GNU TLS
- "libgnutls-config" script to find the proper compiler
- and linker options.
- - The imagetoraster filter did not correctly generate
- several 1, 2, and 4-bit color modes.
- - cupsRasterWritePixels() could lose track of the current
- output row.
- - cupsRasterReadPixels() did not automatically swap
- 12/16-bit chunked pixel data.
- - Moved the private _cups_raster_s structure out of the
- public header.
- - Updated the CUPS raster format specification to include
- encoding rules and colorspace definitions.
- - The Zebra PPD files had the wrong PostScript code for
- the "default" option choices.
- - The imagetoraster filter did not generate correct CIE
- XYZ or Lab color data.
- - The cups-config script did not work when invoked from a
- source directory (STR #1673)
- - The SNMP backend did not compile on systems that used
- the getifaddrs emulation functions (STR #1668)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.0
-
- - Documentation updates (STR #1618, STR #1620, STR #1622,
- STR #1637)
- - Static file copy buffers reduced from 64k to 32k to
- work around bogus MallocDebug library assumptions (STR
- #1660)
- - The scheduler did not decode the backend exit code
- properly (STR #1648)
- - The MacOS X USB backend did not report the 1284 device ID,
- nor did it fix device IDs returned by HP printers.
- - The scheduler started more slowly than 1.1.x with large
- numbers of printers (STR #1653)
- - cupsRasterInterpretPPD() didn't support the
- cupsPreferredBitsPerColor attribute, and imagetoraster
- didn't use the new API.
- - The "make test" script did not create all of the necessary
- subdirectories for testing (STR #1638)
- - The scheduler did not prevent rotation of logs
- redirected to /dev/null (STR #1651)
- - "make test" did not include the SNMP backend in the
- test environment (STR #1625)
- - The EPM packaging files did not work (STR #1621)
- - "Use Default Configuration" inserted a broken
- configuration file (STR #1624)
- - Redirects in the web interface did not always preserve
- the encrypted status of a connection (STR #1603)
- - Added the Apple "pap" backend.
- - Added CUPS library to CUPS Image shared library
- linkage to support Linux --as-needed linker option
- (STR #1606)
- - Fixed support for --enable-pie (STR #1609)
- - The pdftops filter did not validate the length of the
- encryption key (STR #1608)
- - Updated the Polish localization.
- - "Encryption Required" in the cupsd.conf file now only
- requires encryption when the connection is not over the
- loopback interface or domain socket.
- - Printer names containing "+" were not quoted properly in
- the web interface (STR #1600)
- - The SNMP backend now reports the make and model in the
- information string so that the auto-generated printer
- name is more useful than just an IP address.
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc3
-
- - The cups-lpd program always did reverse lookups on the
- client address, which could be a performance problem.
- Added a "-n" option to disable lookups.
- - When configured with SSL support, require encryption by
- default when displaying the /admin location (STR #1592)
- - The next job ID was not computed correctly if the job
- cache file got out of sync with the spool directory
- (STR #1582)
- - The PNG image handling code used deprecated functions
- from libpng (STR #1587)
- - Added a Polish translation (STR #1584, STR #1586)
- - More changes to the scheduler to improve battery life
- on portable devices (STR #1583)
- - Changed the default log level for status messages back
- to "DEBUG" to be consistent with CUPS 1.1.x (STR #1579)
- - The error string was not set properly when
- cupsDoFileRequest() was given the name of a directory
- (STR #1578)
- - Fixed handling of job-hold-until (STR #1581)
- - Added explicit notes to the cupsaddsmb man page
- explaining that the driver filenames are case-sensitive
- under UNIX and that they must be all lowercase (Windows
- 2000) or all UPPERCASE (Windows 95/98/Me) to work (STR
- #1568)
- - The USB backend incorrectly split the manufacturer name
- if it contained spaces (STR #1566)
- - The scheduler would hang when listing PPD files for a
- manufacturer whose name contained spaces (STR #1567)
- - Added the SNMP backend for network printer discovery
- (STR #1555)
- - cupstestppd now fails PPD files with 1284DeviceId
- instead of 1284DeviceID, and cups-driverd uses a
- case-insensitive comparison when looking for it (STR
- #1573)
- - cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() now work
- properly with non-blocking HTTP connections.
- - Added Swedish translation (STR #1569)
- - "make install" now installs the MIME files with world
- read permissions (STR #1565)
- - More CDSA encryption support fixes (STR #1563)
- - Updated the default mime.types file to support printing
- of files that do not have a locally-recognized MIME
- media type to raw or System V queues.
- - Updated the serial port detection code on Linux (STR
- #1562)
- - Added some more error checking to httpGetHostname()
- (STR #1561)
- - The title of some administration pages was not
- localized (STR #1548)
- - The edit-config.tmpl file was not generated or
- installed for the Spanish or Japanese localizations
- (STR #1547)
- - The mimeDelete() function freed the types before the
- filters, but the filters needed the type data (STR #1558)
- - The scheduler didn't keep track of the status pipes
- properly, leading to a bad select() for multi-file jobs
- (STR #1559)
- - The cupstestdsc program didn't validate the ordinal
- page number value for %%Page: comments.
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc2
-
- - The scheduler was not always using the string pool,
- causing random crashes.
- - The lpmove and the web interface's Move Job button did
- not work with stopped jobs (STR #1534)
- - The PostScript filter did not handle the page-set
- option properly with number-up printing (STR #1543)
- - The scheduler now only warns about unsupported ACLs
- once (STR #1532)
- - The "fitplot" option did not work with output from
- Mozilla (STR #1542)
- - The imagetops filter did not work with Level 2 or 3
- printers (STR #1533)
- - The scheduler now recognizes PostScript files with PJL
- commands that do not include an ENTER LANGUAGE command.
- - Added --with-printcap configure option.
- - 64-bit SSL fixes for MacOS X.
- - The scheduler didn't send some printer state change
- events.
- - The scheduler didn't send jobs to busy remote printers.
- - Fixed some problems with the launchd support.
- - Added new USB printer backend for MacOS X.
- - The PostScript filter now handles files that start with
- an incomplete PJL header (PR #6076)
- - The web interface language selection code did not try
- the generic language localization (STR #1531)
- - The language cache, string pool, and transcoding caches
- are now process global instead of per-thread to avoid
- problems with GNOME and to allow for data sharing
- between threads (STR #1530)
- - Fixed a CUPS 1.1.x compatibility bug (STR #1528)
- - The web interface redirection after certain printer
- administration tasks was broken (STR #1516)
- - Web interface authorization could get stuck (STR #1512)
- - Localization updates (STR #1513, STR #1518, STR #1520)
- - The pstops filter didn't work with some files (STR
- #1523)
- - "./configure --enable-static" didn't work (STR #1522)
- - The scheduler was not using the configured default
- Group (STR #1521)
- - The web interface still did not show the localized time
- and date for some locales and systems (STR #1509)
- - httpAddrGetList() would crash on systems without
- getaddrinfo().
- - Socket URIs without a trailing slash would cause the
- port number to not be accepted (STR #1519)
- - Local raw and System V printers were not advertised as
- such for printer browsing (STR #1502)
- - The RPM spec file incorrectly put duplicate copies of
- the Japanese and Spanish web interface templates in the
- main cups package (STR #1517)
- - cupsSetDests() did not explicitly set the permissions
- of the /etc/cups/lpoptions file (STR #1508)
- - The lpq command crashed with the -h option (STR #1515)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc1
-
- - Documentation updates (STR #1497, STR #1498)
- - The scheduler now redirects browsers to https: URLs
- when encryption is required.
- - The scheduler would crash when printing with a banner
- (STR #1500)
- - cups-driverd did not use the LanguageEncoding attribute
- in PPD files to convert the NickName to UTF-8 (STR
- #1503)
- - The lpadmin command could not set the
- printer-error-policy attribute (STR #1504)
- - The web interface did not show the time and date in the
- correct format for the locale (STR #1505)
- - CUPS no longer accepts print jobs if a printer does not
- support the file format (STR #1501)
- - Cleaned up the PostScript filter (pstops) so that it
- properly supports %%IncludeFeature and page scaling
- (STR #1453)
- - Fixed the cupsFileRewind() and cupsFileSeek() functions
- to work properly with uncompressed files.
- - Added cupsFileGetLine(), cupsFileStderr(),
- cupsFileStdin(), and cupsFileStdout() functions to the
- CUPS library.
- - Added a new cupstestdsc program to test the DSC
- conformance of PostScript files.
- - Added KDE/GNOME icons and a Manage Printers menu item.
- - Added --enable-image and --enable-pdftops configure
- options to control whether the image and PDF filters
- are built and installed (default = yes for all
- platforms but MacOS X)
- - Fixed a minor memory leak in the PPD API.
- - Fixed transcoding issues (STR #1493)
- - The scheduler now enforces a minimum job cost of 100
- when doing FilterLimit checks.
- - The scheduler would leak file descriptors when printing
- to raw queues (STR #1491)
- - The IPv6 support did not compile on Tru64 UNIX (STR
- #1488)
- - ppdOpen2() now converts the NickName and all UI text to
- UTF-8 (STR #1475)
- - The Set Allowed Users web page did not work (STR #1486)
- - When the default policy was not set or set to a non-
- existing policy, the scheduler did not set the default
- policy name to "default" (STR #1484)
- - The Zebra CPCL driver did not use the correct righthand
- margin for the 4" wide label sizes.
- - Fixed a problem with the parsing of fractional real
- numbers in PPD files.
- - Added Spanish localization files (STR #1480)
- - Fixed localization of a few scheduler messages (STR
- #1478)
- - Fixed support for HEAD requests in the scheduler (STR
- #1481)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b2
-
- - Updated the CUPS design description.
- - Added --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure
- options to allow building of separate 32/64-bit
- libraries on systems that support both environments
- (STR #1472)
- - Various compiler warning fixes.
- - Fixes for Solaris 10 builds against old GNU TLS and
- LDAP libraries.
- - Added a cupsArrayUserData() function to retrieve the
- user data pointer for an array (useful for typing
- arrays)
- - The ppdEmitString() function did not compute the
- required buffer size properly, leading to dropped
- characters on the end of the printer commands in pstops
- and imagetops (STR #1470)
-
-
-CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b1
-
- - The serial backend now supports Equinox 8-port serial
- hubs (STR #526)
- - The IPP backend now supports a compression option to
- compress print files as they are sent to the remote
- server (STR #956)
- - The CUPS browse protocol now supports passing of
- default options and browse timeout values from the
- server to the clients (STR #800)
- - Implicit classes that timed out could cause the
- scheduler to crash (STR #1439)
- - Added DragonFly support in local device backends (STR
- #1362)
- - Added LDAP printer browsing support (STR #338)
- - Added official support for printer maintenance commands
- via the CUPS Command file format and hooks in the
- printer-type and web interfaces (STR #932)
- - The HP-GL/2 filter could get in an infinite loop trying
- to convert HP-PCL files (STR #1415)
- - CUPS now implements the HTTP/1.1 Expect header (STR
- #1407)
- - Options in PPD files are no longer automatically put in
- an "Extra" group; rather, all options that are not
- inside an Open/CloseGroup will be placed in the
- "General" group (STR #1385)
- - The scheduler now creates a job-uuid attribute that
- uniquely identifies a job on a network (STR #1410)
- - The init script now unsets the TMPDIR environment
- variable to prevent user temporary directories from
- being used by cupsd accidentally (STR #1424)
- - Added support for launchd on MacOS X.
- - Added support for notify_post on MacOS X.
- - Added support for DBUS on Linux.
- - All of the Berkeley (except for lpc) and System V
- commands now support specification of user, host, and
- port (STR #1028, STR #1029, STR #1087)
- - The lpmove command now allows you to move all jobs for
- a given queue (STR #56)
- - The web interface now supports moving of a job or jobs
- to another queue (STR #56)
- - The web interface now provides searching, paging, and
- changing of the sort/display order of classes, jobs,
- and printers.
- - cupsaddsmb now accepts a password on the command-line
- and supports passwords with special characters (STR
- #822, STR #1236)
- - ppdLoad*() no longer tries to "fix" bad characters in
- UI text (STR #1101)
- - Printer names can now (reliably) contain Unicode
- characters (STR #896)
- - The lpstat command now shows the time and date of the
- last printer state change instead of the hardcoded "Jan
- 01 00:00" (STR #659)
- - The scheduler now adds a job-actual-printer-uri
- attribute to job objects when printing to a class (STR
- #116)
- - The scheduler now logs log file open errors to the
- system log (STR #1289)
- - The scheduler now sets the job-originating-user-name to
- the authenticated username, if available (STR #1318)
- - The scheduler now only updates the permissions of SSL
- keys and certificates when they are under the
- ServerRoot directory (STR #1324)
- - The rastertodymo driver has been renamed to
- rastertolabel (a symlink is installed so that existing
- queues continue to work) and now also supports Zebra's
- CPCL language.
- - The lpstat command could show the wrong active job for
- a printer (STR #1301)
- - Fixed a potential crash problem in the scheduler when
- aborting a CGI program (STR #1290)
- - Added a "cancel all jobs" button to the class and
- printer web interfaces (STR #1140)
- - The add-printer web page now shows the
- set-printer-options page after the printer has been
- added (STR #690)
- - The classes web page now provides links to each of the
- member printers (STR #307)
- - CUPS now handles HTTP request/response lines up to 32k
- in length; this is mainly for better cookie support
- (STR #1274)
- - Added support for the Apache PassEnv and SetEnv
- directives to cupsd.conf (STR #853)
- - Added large file (64-bit) support (STR #541)
- - Fixed a performance issue with the ippReadIO()
- implementation (STR #1284)
- - Fixed a performance issue with the scheduler's implicit
- class implementation (STR #1283)
- - The pdftops filter now adds the Title and Creator
- fields from the PDF file to the PostScript document
- comments section (STR #539, STR #830)
- - Added a new cups_array_t and cupsArray*() functions to
- the CUPS API to support sorted lists of data.
- - Made the CUPS API library thread-safe (STR #1276)
- - Added "media" option support for EFI EFMediaType option
- (STR #902)
- - Added write buffering to the HTTP code to improve
- performance (STR #547)
- - The scheduler now uses the attributes-natural-language
- attribute to localize banner pages (STR #386)
- - The scheduler now returns the address that was used to
- connect to it (STR #1076)
- - Fixed a problem with N-up printing and OpenOffice (STR
- #576)
- - Added support for the GCC position independent
- executable options (STR #1209)
- - Added new BrowseLocalProtocols and
- BrowseRemoteProtocols directives to cupsd.conf,
- allowing for different browse protocols for local and
- remote printers (STR #877)
- - PPD files can now contain strings up to 256k in length
- (STR #1215)
- - The pstops filter now supports the IncludeFeature DSC
- comment (STR #1212)
- - The pstops filter now disables the setpagedevice
- procedure when doing N-up printing (STR #1161)
- - The serial backend now supports "stop=1", "stop=2",
- "parity=space", and "parity=mark" options (STR #1155)
- - "make install" no longer overwrites an existing PAM
- configuration file (STR #1064)
- - The scheduler now closes all files on startup when run
- in daemon mode (STR #1009)
- - Added a new RGBW colorspace to the CUPS raster format
- (STR #1071)
- - The pdftops filter now sets the page size based on the
- media box when not scaling the output (STR #912)
- - The pdftops filter now supports masked images (STR
- #281)
- - The pdftops filter produced large output when rendering
- PDF files containing lot of repeated images (STR #327)
- - The pdftops filter now minimizes print processing of
- PDF files when using the page-ranges option (STR #273)
- - Updated pdftops filter to Xpdf 3.01.
- - Added new cupsBackchannelRead() and
- cupsBackchannelWrite() functions, as well as
- backchannel support to the parallel, serial, socket,
- and USB backends (STR #1252)
- - The parallel and USB backends now treat a "no space
- available" error as an out-of-paper condition (STR
- #1225)
- - The "lpc" command now supports the "status all" command
- (STR #1004)
- - ippReadIO() did not read collections properly (STR
- #1249)
- - The "make test" script now creates the test files in
- "/tmp/cups-$USER" instead of "/tmp/$USER" (STR #981)
- - All backends now abort on error when printing a job to
- a class - this allows the next printer in the class to
- print the job (STR #1084)
- - The scheduler now verifies that a printer supports
- Letter or A4 media sizes before setting them as the
- initial default (STR #1250)
- - The cupstestppd program now flags bad Resolution
- options (STR #1269)
- - The USB backend now retries printing when the printer
- is disconnected or turned off (STR #1267)
- - Added new httpGetHostname() function to CUPS API, and
- use it instead of gethostname() so that the web
- interface will work correctly on systems whose hostname
- is not the FQDN (STR #1266)
- - The scheduler now stops printers if the backend for the
- queue is missing on startup (STR #1265)
- - The configure script now supports "--disable-library"
- to disable particular image file format support
- libraries, even if they are available on the build
- system (STR #1248)
- - The IPP backend did not always report on the total
- number of pages that were printed (STR #1251)
- - The lpstat program could display garbage date and time
- values for locales whose date format exceeded 31
- characters (STR #1263)
- - The cupstestppd program would segfault when testing
- certain broken PPD files (STR #1268)
- - Dramatically reduced the overhead of implicit classes.
- - Added new cupsDir*() functions to CUPS API.
- - Printers can now be published individually for sharing.
- - Fixed a bug in the scheduler's startup signalling code
- which caused cupsd to send the SIGUSR1 signal to the
- init process instead of the original parent process
- (STR #1258)
- - Added new on-line help CGI to web interface to provide
- searchable help.
- - Devices are now tracked dynamically, with each query
- doing a new device scan. This eliminates a previous
- startup delay caused by slow backends and allows new
- printers to be seen without restarting the server,
- however it limits the amount of device URI checking
- that can be done (basically now the scheduler only
- requires a URI with a method that is a listed backend)
- - Added new printer auto-detection, server configuration,
- and log file viewing to the administration web page.
- - Added new "set allowed users" web interface to set the
- list of allowed users for a printer or class.
- - The scheduler, command-line, and web interfaces now
- limit the list of printers and classes to those
- accessible by a user.
- - cupsMarkOptions() now handles more non-standard
- duplexing options and choices (STR #915)
- - cups-lpd now honors remote banner requests with the
- "standard" banner whenever a printer does not have one
- defined (STR #1220)
- - The scheduler's denial-of-service checks did not work
- properly with IPv6 addresses (STR #1134)
- - The lp and lpr commands did not error out properly when
- they were unable to write to a temporary file (STR
- #1129)
- - The pstops filter did not handle Adobe-specific
- comments in Windows NT driver output (STR #1085)
- - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly reported the printer
- interface (STR #936)
- - The web interface now operates exclusively with the
- UTF-8 encoding, and sends the appropriate character set
- and header information to the web browser (STR #919,
- STR #1007)
- - Added a "set allowed users" interface to the web
- interface so that you can set the list of allowed or
- denied users/groups for a printer or class.
- - Disallow the "#" character in printer names, since it
- has special meaning in the shell, config files, and in
- URIs (STR #917, STR #1202)
- - Added a new application/x-csource MIME type, and
- support for it to the texttops filter so that you can
- pretty print plain text files without the C/C++
- keywords being highlighted.
- - The pdftops filter did not compile with GCC 4.0 (STR
- #1226)
- - The texttops filter did not highlight preprocessor
- directives followed by a tab properly.
- - HP PJL output now uses both JOB DISPLAY and RDYMSG
- commands to show the current job on the printer's
- display (STR #1218)
- - Local authentication certificates are now stored in
- /var/run/cups/certs by default instead of
- /etc/cups/certs (STR #1211)
- - Backends now use "&" to separate options in device
- URIs; "+" is still recognized but is deprecated (STR
- #842)
- - The USB backend no longer supports the usb:/dev/foo
- format on systems that support device ID queries.
- - Forced classification markings did not work when the
- job-sheets parameters were "none,none".
- - "lpstat -l -p" incorrectly showed all users as allowed,
- even if the queue was restricted to certain users (STR
- #801)
- - The scheduler now automatically detects SSL/TLS clients
- without using the SSLPort/SSLListen directives.
- - The CUPS API and scheduler no longer support SSLv2-
- encrypted connections.
- - Updated the cupsaddsmb utility to correctly export the
- CUPS driver for Windows.
- - Fixed a signal-handling bug in httpRead() which
- ultimately caused the server to print multiple copies
- when it was busy (STR #1184)
- - The cupsFile API now uses the O_APPEND option when
- opening files in append mode (STR #990)
- - The md5.h header and md5_* functions are now officially
- private and have been renamed to avoid conflicts with
- other implementations with the same name.
- - The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded some Type1
- fonts (STR #1093)
- - The scheduler didn't detect a closed connection in the
- middle of an IPP request (STR #1153)
- - The scheduler could block trying to read the job status
- if there was input pending and the job was cancelled in
- the same input cycle (STR #1157)
- - The scheduler could crash when deleting a class due to
- infinite recursion.
- - Updated the Zebra ZPL label printer driver to use the
- run-length encoding and support more options.
- - Updated serial backend to scan for /dev/ttyC* as well
- as /dev/ttyc* for Cyclades serial ports (STR #1049)
- - The scheduler could hang reading the job status under
- certain circumstances (STR #1068)
- - The USB backend termination signal code was inverted
- (STR #1046)
- - Moved enable and disable commands to sbindir to be
- consistent.
- - Added new cupsRasterInterpretPPD() function for RIP
- filters to setup the raster page header from
- PostScript commands in a PPD file.
- - The CUPS browsing protocol now offers a "delete" bit
- to remove printers as soon as they are deleted on the
- server or as soon as the server shuts down gracefully
- (STR #793)
- - The CUPS_SERVER and ServerName directives (client.conf
- and ~/.cupsrc) may now contain names of the form
- "server:port" and "/path/to/domain/socket".
- - The "cancel -u user" command now works for ordinary
- users (STR #751)
- - Added test run support to "make test" target (STR #64)
- - Added domain socket support (STR #656)
- - Added BrowseLocalOptions directive to allow the
- administrator to add printer URI options to the browse
- URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR #732)
- - Added BrowseRemoteOptions directive to allow the
- administrator to add standard URI options to the
- remote printer URI, e.g. "encryption=required" (STR
- #732)
- - Now put "-I.." compiler option in front of all others
- to ensure that local CUPS headers are used before
- installed headers (STR #437)
- - New cupsLangPrintf() and cupsLangPuts() for localized
- interfaces.
- - Now support custom attributes and extended options in
- PPD files.
- - Now provide functions to save PPD files.
- - New policy mechanism allows per-operation and
- per-printer control over what users and groups are
- allowed to do various IPP operations.
- - New error policy mechanism to control how aborted
- backend errors are handled by the scheduler
- (abort-job, retry-job, requeue-job, stop-printer)
- - Updated the printer test page with a better color
- wheel and a separate grayscale ramp.
- - A single backend process is now run to send all print
- data for a job.
- - Backends and filters can now send and receive
- backchannel data over file descriptor 3.
- - Updated the raster stream format to support more
- user-defined attributes and to do compression of the
- page data.