1CHANGES-1.5.txt 2--------------- 3 4CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.4 5 6 - Documentation updates (STR #4112, STR #4130, STR #4134) 7 - Fixes for libusb-based USB backend (STR #4128) 8 - The lpq command did not show the owner or title of jobs unless passed 9 a username on the command-line (STR #4135) 10 - Localized empty strings contained the message catalog metadata 11 (STR #4119) 12 - Fixed a crash in the libusb-based USB backend (STR #4099) 13 - The cups-lpd mini-daemon no longer handled jobs with multiple copies 14 (STR #4118) 15 - Multiple libusb backend fixes (STR #4098, STR #4100) 16 - The IPP backend no longer tries to get the job status for printers 17 that do not implement the required operation (STR #4083) 18 - Sending a document in an unsupported format to an IPP printer now 19 automatically cancels the job (STR #4093) 20 - Fix some error reporting issues when printing from /dev/null and 21 other unusual situations (STR #4015) 22 - The scheduler now sets the CUPS_MAX_MESSAGE environment variable for 23 filters (STR #4074) 24 - Fixed a build issue when using older versions of autoconf (STR #4084) 25 - The IPP backend now treats the client-error-not-possible status code 26 as a job history issue, allowing IPP printing to Windows to work 27 (STR #4047) 28 - The IPP backend incorrectly included the document-format and 29 compression attributes in Create-Job requests (STR #4086) 30 - The libusb-based USB backend did not work on non-Linux platforms 31 (STR #4088) 32 33 34CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.3 35 36 - httpReconnect() did not reset the read/write buffers (STR #4065) 37 - Compiling without threading support failed (STR #4060) 38 - Fixed compile problem with old versions of OpenSSL (STR #4036) 39 - The network backends did not check SNMP supply levels regularly 40 (STR #4040) 41 - The online help always included the "help on help" text (STR #4042) 42 - Fixed a SSL handshake issue on OS X (STR #4045) 43 - The scheduler could crash if a PPD file contained an invalid paper 44 size (STR #4049) 45 - The CUPS polling daemon did not reinitialize its connection to the 46 remote server on errors in all cases (STR #4031) 47 - PostScript auto-configuration was slow and unreliable with some 48 printers (STR #4028) 49 - Missing localizations caused empty output (STR #4033) 50 - The cups-driverd program could temporarily "forget" a PPD file if it 51 was updated in place. 52 - The dnssd backend now prefers IPPS over IPP. 53 - The USB backend now uses and requires LIBUSB 1.0 or later (STR #3477) 54 - The LIBUSB-based USB backend now supports the back-channel (STR #2890) 55 - Changed how timeouts are implemented in the LPD backend (STR #4013) 56 - Added more supported color names for SNMP supplies (STR #3981) 57 - The default InputSlot setting was never used (STR #3957) 58 - POSIX ACLs are now set properly on certificate files (STR #3970) 59 - Supplies with commas in their names were not reported correctly 60 (STR #4020) 61 - The cupsGetPPD3() function created a temporary file when one was not 62 needed (STR #4018) 63 - The scheduler now ensures that job notifications contain a value for 64 the notify-printer-uri attribute (STR #4014) 65 - The lp and lpr commands did not cancel jobs queued from stdin on an 66 error (STR #4015) 67 - Fixed the IPP backend's handling of HTTP/1.0 compatibility (STR #3988) 68 - The IPP backend did not always setup username/password authentication 69 for printers (STR #3985) 70 - The IPP backend no longer re-queues print jobs that are too large for 71 the printer/server (STR #3977) 72 - The RPM spec file did not work (STR #4021, STR #4057) 73 - Encryption did not work when the server name ended with "." 74 (STR #4011) 75 - The multi-purpose tray is now mapped to the IPP "by-pass-tray" 76 (STR #4009) 77 - The correct media size was not always passed to IPP printers 78 (STR #4001) 79 - Finishing options were not passed to IPP printers (STR #3995) 80 - Fixed iCloud-based Back to My Mac printing (STR #3996) 81 82 83CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.2 84 85 - Reposted what should have been CUPS 1.5.1. 86 87 88CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.1 89 90 - Documentation updates (STR #3885, STR #3886, STR #3946, STR #3969) 91 - Localization updates (STR #3840, STR #3989, STR #3997) 92 - Build fixes (STR #3956, STR #3999) 93 - The SNMP backend did not validate the device URIs reported by printers 94 (STR #4004) 95 - cupsBackendReport() did not handle newlines in 1284 Device IDs 96 (STR #4005) 97 - USB backend fixes for libusb (STR #3965, STR #3978) 98 - The DBUS notifier did not validate string parameters (STR #3984) 99 - Group quota ACLs did not work with Kerberos (STR #3972) 100 - The IPP backend did not retry when a printer responded with 101 client-error-not-possible (STR #3963) 102 - PostScript PPDs with filters used the wrong command filter (STR #3973) 103 - The scheduler incorrectly used free() on a POSIX ACL value, which 104 could cause a crash (STR #3970) 105 - PPD files using the MacStandard encoding did not work. 106 - The web interface did not work on some platforms (STR #3902) 107 - The lpstat command would crash when then "-u" option was used by a 108 non-administrator (STR #3953) 109 - Japanese supply level reporting did not always work. 110 - The DBUS notifier could crash (STR #3947) 111 - Relaxed some of the page size checks in cupstestppd. 112 - The ipptool program now reports attributes that are repeated within 113 the same attribute group. 114 - Updated the PWG raster support to match the current draft 115 specification. 116 - Fixed some IPP conformance issues in the scheduler. 117 - Added ipptool support for repeating requests. 118 - Added IPP/2.2 conformance tests and greatly improved the IPP/1.1, 119 IPP/2.0, and IPP/2.1 conformance testing. 120 - IPP messages containing mixed integer/rangeOfInteger values did not 121 work (STR #3942) 122 - The ipptool program now provides additional diagnostics for badly- 123 formatted responses (STR #3857) 124 - When possible, the IPP backend now stops sending job data early on a 125 cancel. 126 - cupsSendRequest and cupsWriteRequestData did not properly read all 127 HTTP headers, preventing authentication and encryption upgrades from 128 working in all cases. 129 - The client.conf Server directive is no longer supported on Mac OS X 130 10.7 and later. 131 - The IPP backend sent the wrong margins in media-col. 132 - The scheduler did not save or restore large Kerberos credentials for 133 jobs. 134 - The dnssd backend did not properly browse for secure IPP printers. 135 - httpAssembleURI* did not properly escape all special characters in the 136 username/password field. 137 - The scheduler now logs config file errors to stderr (STR #3936) 138 - The configure script incorrectly used bundle-based localizations on 139 Linux (STR #3938) 140 - The cups-driverd helper program did not cache .drv files properly, 141 sometimes leading to a crash (STR #3921) 142 - CUPS did not build on stock Mac OS X installations. 143 - Encryption was broken with OpenSSL. 144 - ipptool's XML output used date/time values with timezone offsets, 145 which are not supported by Mac OS X's NSDate class. 146 - Several programs did not support the cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files. 147 - The IPP backend incorrectly reported spool-area-full states. 148 - cupsMarkOptions() did not protect against a bad PPD that was missing 149 one or more standard Duplex options. 150 - The PostScript filter did not mirror N-up output properly. 151 - The ipptool program did not validate UTF-8 strings in XML output. 152 - Fixed supply level reporting for some printers. 153 - The scheduler no longer automatically logs debug messages for jobs 154 that were held or canceled. 155 - The cupsSendRequest function did not flush remaining response data 156 from a previous request, leading to apparent chunking issues. 157 - The scheduler did not report the correct version in the Server: header 158 (STR #3903) 159 - The scheduler did not support 1284 device IDs reported by driver 160 interface programs longer than 127 characters (STR #3871) 161 - The image filters did not support loading images larger than the 162 RIPCache setting (STR #3901) 163 - "PAGE: total NNN" messages did not get logged properly (STR #3887) 164 - Updated the PWG Raster support to conform to the current draft of the 165 PWG Raster Format specification. 166 - The PWG Raster filter did not always write the correct number of 167 padding lines on the bottom of the page (STR #3904) 168 - When reporting a denial-of-service attack from the domain socket, the 169 address reported does not always contain the correct path (STR #3888) 170 - Badly formed GIF files could cause the image filters to crash 171 (STR #3914) 172 - Jobs canceled at the printer were retried by the IPP backend. 173 - "cupsfilter -u" deleted the input file instead of the PPD file. 174 - The scheduler did not compute the cost of PPD filters defined using 175 the cupsFilter2 keyword properly. 176 - The scheduler did not correctly support the maxsize() attribute for 177 PPD filters. 178 179 180CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.0 181 182 - Documentation updates. 183 - Localization update (STR #3865) 184 - Needed to limit TLS to v1.0 on some versions of Mac OS X. 185 - The snmp backend did not work with some printers. 186 187 188CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5rc1 189 190 - Compile fixes (STR #3849, STR #3850) 191 - The scheduler didn't check for empty values for several configuration 192 directives (STR #3861) 193 - ipptool didn't generate valid XML when a test was skipped. 194 - Added additional error checking to the 1284 device ID code (STR #3858) 195 - Fixed some compatibility issues migrating from the old usblp backend 196 to the libusb backend (STR #3860) 197 - Fixed the wake-from-sleep printing behavior on Mac OS X. 198 - The scheduler incorrectly allowed jobs to be held from a terminating 199 state. 200 - The cups-driverd program could crash when a PPD was renamed. 201 - The dnssd backend took too long to discover printers on large or busy 202 networks with the new default timeout used by lpinfo and the web 203 interface. This resulted in "lost" printers. 204 205 206CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2 207 208 - Documentation updates. 209 - Localization updates (STR #3845) 210 - Compiler warning cleanup. 211 - Fixed PIE support for Linux (STR #3846) 212 - Made httpSetTimeout API public and use it in the IPP backend to avoid 213 timeout errors. 214 - The scheduler incorrectly set the "authenticated" printer-type bit for 215 remote queues using authentication. 216 217 218CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1 219 220 - The CUPS library now supports per-connection HTTP timeouts and 221 callbacks. 222 - The CUPS library now supports (limited) SSL/TLS X.509 certificate 223 validation and revocation (STR #1616) 224 - Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more 225 circumstances (STR #3417) 226 - The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in 227 the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533) 228 - Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do 229 not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800) 230 - The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing 231 was not enabled (STR #3639) 232 - The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple 233 hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813) 234 - The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and 235 manages the group (STR #2829) 236 - Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838) 237 - The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration, 238 cache, and state files (STR #3715) 239 - The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted 240 (STR #2959) 241 - The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and 242 cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825) 243 - Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839) 244 - Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled 245 (STR #3605) 246 - Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806) 247 - Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535) 248 - MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410) 249 - Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device 250 (STR #3766) 251 - Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page 252 sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media 253 size (STR #3689) 254 - Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support. 255 - Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes. 256 - Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword. 257 - Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654) 258 - Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow 259 drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting. 260 - Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for 261 the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter. 262 - The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when 263 authenticating (STR #3670) 264 - Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the 265 CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster 266 printers. 267 - The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and 268 pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a 269 Throughput keyword. 270 - Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X. 271 - The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a 272 CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668) 273 - Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719, 274 STR #3753) 275 - Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles 276 to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons. 277 - The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive 278 in cupsd.conf (STR #2625) 279 - The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions 280 (STR #2969) 281 - Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array 282 elements. 283 - Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419) 284 - The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by 285 default. 286 - CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding 287 support (STR #3097) 288 - The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and 289 Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from 290 PWG 5100.11. 291 - The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header 292 (<cups/ppd.h>). 293 - The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template 294 attribute. 295 - The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota 296 plugin. 297 - The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters 298 on Mac OS X. 299 - CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from 300 CUPS 1.1.x. The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that 301 were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used. 302 - The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several 303 improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484) 304 - The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and 305 provides a way to ignore all filename warnings. 306 - Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes. 307 - The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write 308 permissions disabled. 309 - The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing 310 PPD files. 311 - The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322) 312 - The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500) 313