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CHANGES.txt - 2008-09-10
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CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1
- Documentation updates (STR #2567)
- 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.
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