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CHANGES.txt - 1.6b1 - 2012-01-30
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CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1

	- The configure script and build system no longer support building of
	  separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
	- The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",
	  "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and
	  "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
	- The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",
	  "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
	- The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute
	  instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in
	  job objects.
	- Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
	- Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do
	  not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
	- Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum
	  amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
	- The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127
	  characters.
	- The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to
	  automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate
	  (Kerberos) authentication.
	- cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in
	  length.
	- CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes
	  via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
	- The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future
	  version of CUPS (STR #3927)
	- The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
	- The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures
	  and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
	- The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
	- The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
	- The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,
	  imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops
	  filters have been removed (STR #3930)
	- The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)