| CHANGES-1.6.txt |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.4 |
| |
| - Removed some duplicate size definitions for some ISO sizes that were |
| causing problems (<rdar://problem/14722721>) |
| - The IPP backend did not add the "last-document" attribute |
| (<rdar://problem/114660379>) |
| - Added a SyncOnClose directive to cups-files.conf to force cupsd to |
| call fsync before closing any configuration/state files it writes |
| (<rdar://problem/14523043>) |
| - Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E238 (<rdar://problem/14493054>) |
| - Closed server connections were still not always detected |
| (<rdar://problem/14484313>) |
| - The libusb-based USB backend now loads its list of quirks from files |
| in /usr/share/cups/usb instead of using a hardcoded table |
| (<rdar://problem/14442769>) |
| - The scheduler did not properly register ICC color profiles with |
| colord (<rdar://problem/14455625>) |
| |
| |
| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.3 |
| |
| - The configure script now prefers Clang over GCC. |
| - Fixed a compile problem on AIX (STR #4307) |
| - The default IPP version did not always get set before creating a new |
| IPP request message (<rdar://problem/14401718>) |
| - The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat now display an error message advising the |
| use of the /version=1.1 ServerName option (<rdar://problem/14290628>) |
| - Added documentation about the /version=1.1 option to ServerName in |
| client.conf (<rdar://problem/14216262>) |
| - httpStatus(HTTP_ERROR) did not return a useful error message |
| (<rdar://problem/14217326>) |
| - The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat commands incorrectly ignored the default |
| printer set in the lpoptions file (<rdar://problem/14216472>) |
| - Fixed a URI encoding issue for hostnames containing the ` (backquote) |
| character (<rdar://problem/14243133>) |
| - Added support for RFC 6874's IPv6 link local address format in URIs |
| (<rdar://problem/13979453>) |
| - The USB backend could crash on libusb-based systems if USB was |
| disabled in the BIOS (<rdar://problem/13875729>) |
| - Fixed a rounding error in the PWG media size mapping code |
| (<rdar://problem/13493241>) |
| - Fixed several ipptool test files that used old STATUS names. |
| - Kerberos credentials could get truncated when printing to a shared |
| printer. |
| - Printing using "ipps" URIs was not encrypted. |
| - Insecure ICC profiles prevented installation of user profiles for a |
| printer on OS X. |
| - Added more USB quirks for the libusb-based backend (STR #4311, |
| <rdar://problem/13736470>) |
| - The Russian web interface templates were broken (STR #4310) |
| - The scheduler no longer tries to do Kerberos authentication over the |
| loopback interface. |
| - The IPP backend could fail to pause a job for authentication |
| (STR #4298) |
| - Fixed a regression on the handling of auth keys on OS X if the |
| cups-files.conf was not present or did not contain a SystemAuthKey |
| value. |
| - The scheduler incorrectly did a reverse lookup of the server address |
| when HostNameLookups was turned off (STR #4302) |
| - The scheduler incorrectly computed the final content type value when |
| null filters were present. |
| |
| |
| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.2 |
| |
| - Documentation fixes (STR #4229, STR #4239, STR #4234, STR #4248, |
| STR #4259) |
| - Security: All file, directory, user, and group settings are now stored |
| in a separate cups-files.conf configuration file that cannot be set |
| through the CUPS web interface or APIs (STR #4223) |
| - Added a Czech localization (STR #4201) |
| - Added a French localization (STR #4247) |
| - Added a Russian localization (STR #4228, STR #4285) |
| - Updated the Catalan localization (STR #4202) |
| - Local certificate authentication did not guard against an empty |
| certification file (STR #4293) |
| - The scheduler did not reject device URIs with spaces. |
| - Added USB quirk rule for Epson Stylus Photo 750 (STR #4286) |
| - The IPP backend could crash if the printer disconnects early |
| (STR #4284) |
| - cupsGetPPD did not work with statically-configured CUPS shared |
| queues (STR #4178) |
| - The scheduler did not support long MIME media types (STR #4270) |
| - The cupsfilter command did not set the CHARSET environment variable |
| for the text filters (STR #4273) |
| - The lp command did not show errors for unknown "--foo" (STR #4261) |
| - Bad IPP responses could crash ipptool (STR #4262) |
| - Updated USB quirk rules for Canon and Xerox printers (STR #4217, |
| STR #4263) |
| - Added USB blacklisting for printers that require a custom backend |
| (STR #4218) |
| - The PPD compiler did not correctly JCL options (STR #4115, STR #4203) |
| - The ipptool program now supports DEFINE-MATCH and DEFINE-NO-MATCH |
| predicates for STATUS directives. |
| - Fixed a problem with local Kerberos authentication (STR #4140) |
| - Coverity scan: fixed some minor issues (STR #4242) |
| - The scheduler did not remove color profiles after deleting a printer |
| (STR #4232, STR #4276) |
| - The CUPS library did not always detect a timed out connection to the |
| server which could cause temporary loss of printing from applications |
| (STR #4187) |
| - The ipptool program now supports variable substitution in OPERATION |
| and DELAY directives (STR #4175) |
| - The IPP backend now stops queues when the server configuration |
| prevents successful job submission (STR #4125) |
| - The XML output of ipptool contained empty dictionaries (STR #4136) |
| - The scheduler did not delete job control backup files (STR #4244) |
| - cupsGetPPD3 could return a local PPD instead of the correct remote |
| PPD. |
| - The scheduler incorrectly advertised auth-info-required for local |
| queues needing local authentication (STR #4205) |
| - CUPS 1.6 clients using the ServerName directive in client.conf did not |
| work with CUPS 1.3.x or older servers (STR #4231, STR #4291) |
| - The SNMP backend now tries to work around broken printers that use a |
| newline to separate key/value pairs. |
| - The IPP backend did not send a cancel request to printers when a job |
| was canceled and the printer did not support Create-Job. |
| - Fixed EPM packaging files (STR #4199) |
| - OpenBSD build fix (STR #4195, STR #4196, STR #4197) |
| - The scheduler could crash when using Avahi (STR #4183, STR #4192, |
| STR #4200, STR #4213) |
| - The IPP backend could get stuck in an endless loop on certain network |
| errors (STR #4194) |
| - 32-bit builds failed on Debian (STR #4133) |
| - The scheduler no longer accepts or sends job description attributes. |
| - The IPP backend now works around some conformance issues for broken |
| printers (STR #4190) |
| - cupsBackendReport() now filters out all control characters from the |
| reported 1284 device IDs (STR #4124) |
| - The scheduler no longer allows job-name values that are not valid |
| network Unicode strings (STR #4072) |
| - The web interface did not preserve the order of classes, jobs, or |
| printers (STR #4170) |
| - The network backends now support disabling of SNMP supply level |
| queries via the "snmp" URI option (STR #4106) |
| - The IPP backend did not specify the compression used (STR #4181) |
| - ipptool did not support octetString values. |
| - The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared |
| queues (STR #4158) |
| - Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured |
| Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159) |
| - The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157) |
| - Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb |
| (STR #4155, STR #4191) |
| - Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi |
| (STR #4156) |
| - CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP |
| requests. |
| - Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring |
| out. |
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| |
| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.1 |
| |
| - Documentation fix (STR #4149) |
| - RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145) |
| - The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped |
| (STR #4148) |
| |
| |
| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.0 |
| |
| - Document changes (STR #4131) |
| - Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations. |
| |
| |
| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6rc1 |
| |
| - Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122) |
| - The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6 |
| socket (STR #4109) |
| - The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file |
| instead of the current hostname. |
| |
| |
| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1 |
| |
| - Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068) |
| - The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the |
| end of the job (STR #4075) |
| - CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808) |
| - CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066) |
| - The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support |
| specification of a time interval (STR #3143) |
| - PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce |
| the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772) |
| - The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels |
| in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551) |
| - The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in |
| printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017) |
| - Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed |
| cupsd (STR #3459) |
| - Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates |
| (STR #3949) |
| - CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER |
| environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114) |
| - Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100) |
| - Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters |
| (STR #2856) |
| - Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that |
| have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds |
| (STR #2291) |
| - The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the |
| local system (STR #2053) |
| - CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots- |
| per-centimeter (STR #4006) |
| - 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) |
