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CHANGES-1.7.txt
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CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.5
- Security: Addressed some more situations where symlinked files would
be served by the web interface (STR #4455)
- The LPD backend did not work with some versions of glibc (STR #4452)
- CGI scripts did not work (STR #4454)
- The cupsd.conf man page did not list the ErrorPolicy directive
(STR #4457)
- Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4456)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.4
- Security: The web interface incorrectly served symlinked files and
files that were not world-readable, potentially leading to a
disclosure of information (STR #4450)
- The CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support
(STR #4397)
- CUPS did not compile when Avahi or mDNSResponder was not present
(STR #4402, STR #4424)
- The "snmp" option did not work with the network backends (STR #4422)
- The User directive in client.conf did not override the USER
environment variable (STR #4426)
- The web interface now properly shows a "Go" button for all text-based
browsers (STR #4425)
- The MaxJobTime directive now properly supports time values (STR #4434)
- The RPM spec file did not work due to the new Brazilian Portuguese
localization (STR #4436)
- Fixed an "IPP read error" issue (STR #4440)
- Fixed the --disable-libusb configure option (STR #4439)
- Fixed the debug output from the DNS-SD backend when using Avahi
(STR #4444)
- Fixed a bug in the CUPS_SC_GET_DEVICE_ID handling by the network
backends (STR #4447)
- Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E230 (STR #4448)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.3
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4409)
- Fixed mapping of OutputBin values such as "Tray1"
(<rdar://problem/16685606>)
- Several ippGet* functions incorrectly returned -1 instead of 0 on
error.
- The cupsGetResponse function did not work properly with
CUPS_HTTP_DEFAULT (<rdar://problem/16762593>)
- The IPP backend did not abort a job when the printer did not validate
the supplied options (<rdar://problem/16836752>)
- Fixed an authentication race condition in cupsSendRequest (STR #4403)
- The scheduler did not add the "job-hold-until-specified" reason when
holding a job using the lp command (STR #4405)
- The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS
dependency (STR #4399)
- cupsGetDestMediaCount did not work for CUPS_MEDIA_FLAGS DEFAULT
(STR #4414)
- Auto-typing of PWG Raster files did not work (STR #4417)
- IPP queues using hardcoded credentials would ask for credentials
(STR #4371)
- Dates in non-UTF-8 locales did not display correctly (STR #4388)
- The RPM spec file now looks for libusb-devel 1.0 or later.
- Fixed the "create-printer-subscription.test" file for IPPTOOL
(STR #4420)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2
- Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML
(STR #4356)
- Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346, STR #4355)
- Fixed the Japanese localization (STR #4385)
- Added a German localization (STR #4363)
- The cupsfilter command incorrectly read the cupsd.conf file; it now
reads the cups-files.conf file instead.
- Fixed OS X builds with Xcode 5.x (<rdar://problem/15914959>)
- Fixed SSL support on Windows (STR #4358)
- Fixed documentation and naming of Create-Job/Printer-Subscriptions
operations (STR #4389)
- Phone numbers in fax jobs were not properly filtered for IPP FaxOut
(<rdar://problem/16351701>)
- Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349)
- Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393)
- cupsEnumDests did not set the "is_default" field (STR #4332)
- cupsDoIORequest could miss the server status, causing failed lpadmin
and other administrative commands (STR #4386)
- cupsEnumDests didn't always call the callback function (STR #4380)
- "lp -i job-id -H hold" did not work (STR #nnn)
- CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338)
- Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception
notice (STR #4361)
- Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash
(STR #4347)
- The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed
(STR #4370, STR #4373)
- The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly
(STR #3265)
- The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using
Avahi (STR #4365)
- The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top"
values (STR #4354)
- The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in
printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264)
- The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB
(STR #4351)
- Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data
stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>)
- The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job
operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>)
- Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1
- Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from
~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)
- Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)
- Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)
- Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler
(<rdar://problem/15332672>)
- ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the
scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)
- The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on
purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names
(<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)
- Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to
opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)
- The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the
use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names
(<rdar://problem/15392966>)
- The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the
cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)
- Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work
(<rdar://problem/15427759>)
- "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)
- The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts
(<rdar://problem/15564888>)
- Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X
(<rdar://problem/15426838>)
- The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available
before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)
- CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the
"print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)
- Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)
- lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities
were specified (STR #4326)
- The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)
- CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did
not match the user ID (STR #4327)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0
- Updated the Japanese localization.
- The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option
(<rdar://problem/15264697>)
- Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to
determine the direction of supply level values
(<rdar://problem/14302628>)
- The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was
deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)
- The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web
interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)
- The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the
client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)
- Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour
(<rdar://problem/14498310>)
- Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the
language specified in the client's IPP request
(<rdar://problem/14128011>)
- Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)
- Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.
- Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the
-pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)
- The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled
against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)
- httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not
automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the
previous response.
- Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)
- The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
environment variable to the filters or backend
(<rdar://problem/14355011>)
- The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to
sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors
(<rdar://problem/14421943>)
- The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1
- Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes
or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)
- Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied
to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)
- Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate
va_list arguments.
- Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour
services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)
- Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to
hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)
- The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized
printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)
- The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the
output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)
- The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.
- The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by
default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)
- The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and
includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)
- The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and
WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI
components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1
- The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change
the transient run-time state directory from the default to other
locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)
- The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)
- The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
environment variable for filters.
- Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)
- Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)
- Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs
(STR #4289)
- Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and
cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)
- Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and
cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)
- Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an
octetString value (STR #4289)
- Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of
attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.
- The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based
on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.
- Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)
- Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.
- Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.
- The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)
- CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data
(STR #4168)
- CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting
systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)
- IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)
- The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)
- The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies
enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)