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CHANGES-1.2.txt
---------------
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.12
- The PHP cups_print_file() function crashed if the options
array contained non-string option values (STR #2430)
- The image/tiff file matching rule incorrectly identified
some text files as TIFF files (STR #2431)
- The filter(7) man page incorrectly documented the
"PAGE: total #-pages" message (STR #2427)
- PCL text files were mis-identified as HP-GL/2 and
caused the HP-GL/2 filter to hang (STR #2423)
- When printing to a queue with user ACLs, the scheduler
incorrectly returned a quota error instead of a "not
allowed to print" error (STR #2409)
- cupsaddsmb could get in a loop if no printer drivers
were installed (STR #2407)
- cupsRasterReadHeader() did not byte-swap the header
properly when compiled with certain versions of GCC.
- The IPP backend did not send the document-format
attribute for filtered jobs (STR #2411)
- Some PPD files could cause a crash in ppdOpen2 (STR
#2408)
- The web admin interface incorrectly handled the "share
printers" and "show remote printers" settings (STR
#2393)
- The scheduler's log messages about AuthClass and
AuthGroupName advised using a replacement directive but
had the wrong syntax (STR #2400)
- Updated the PostScript/PJL and HP-GL/2 MIME rules to
look in the first 4k of the file, not just the first 1k
(STR #2386)
- Updated the Italian localization (STR #2382)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.11
- Fixed the "relaying from" log message (STR #2376)
- Updated the launchd support on Mac OS X to better
support reconfiguration.
- "make distclean" didn't remove all generated files
(STR #2366)
- Fixed a bug in the advertisement of classes (STR
#2373)
- The IPP backend now stays running until the job is
actually printed by the remote server; previously
it would stop monitoring the job if it was held or
temporarily stopped (STR #2352)
- PDF files were not always printed using the correct
orientation (STR #2348)
- The scheduler could crash if you specified a bad file:
URI for a printer (STR #2351)
- The Renew-Subscription operation now returns the
notify-lease-duration value that was used (STR #2346)
- The IPP backend sent job options to IPP printers,
however some printers tried to override the options
embedded in the PS/PCL stream with those job options
(STR #2349)
- ppdLocalize() now also tries a country-specific
localization for when localizing to a generic locale
name.
- The cupstestppd program now allows for partial
localizations to reduce the size of universal PPD
files.
- Chinese PPD files were incorrectly tagged with the
"cn" locale (should have been "zh")
- The backends now manage the printer-state-reasons
attribute more accurately (STR #2345)
- Java, PHP, Perl, and Python scripts did not work
properly (STR #2342)
- The scheduler would take forever to start if the
maximum number of file descriptors was set to
"unlimited" (STR #2329)
- The page-ranges option was incorrectly applied to the
banner pages (STR #2336)
- Fixed some GCC compile warnings (STR #2340)
- The DBUS notification code was broken for older
versions of DBUS (STR #2327)
- The IPv6 code did not compile on HP-UX 11.23 (STR
#2331)
- PPD constraints did not work properly with custom
options.
- Regular PPD options with the name "CustomFoo" did
not work.
- The USB backend did not work on NetBSD (STR #2324)
- The printer-state-reasons attribute was incorrectly
cleared after a job completed (STR #2323)
- The scheduler did not set the printer operation policy
on startup, only on soft reload (STR #2319)
- The AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot option did not clear any
ManualFeed setting that was made, which caused problems
with some PPD files (STR #2318)
- cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() did not abort
when getting an error in the response (STR #2315)
- The scheduler did not schedule jobs properly to remote
or nested classes (STR #2317)
- Updated the mime.types and mime.convs headers to warn
that the files are overwritten when CUPS is installed.
Local changes should go in local.types or local.convs,
respectively (STR #2310)
- The scheduler could get in an infinite loop if a
printer in an implicit class disappeared (STR #2311)
- The pstops filter did not handle %%EndFeature comments
properly (STR #2306)
- Fixed a problem with the Polish web page printer icons
(STR #2305)
- ppdLocalize() now also localizes the cupsICCProfile
attributes.
- The scheduler still had a reference to the incorrect
"notify-recipient" attribute (STR #2307)
- The "make check" and "make test" subscription tests did
not set the locale (STR #2307)
- The "make check" and "make test" subscription tests
incorrectly used the notify-recipient attribute instead
of notify-recipient-uri (STR #2307)
- cupsRasterInterpretPPD() incorrectly limited the
cupsBorderlessScalingFactor when specified in the
job options.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.10
- ppdLocalize() now supports localizing for Japanese
using the "jp" locale name used by the ppdmerge
program from the CUPS DDK 1.1.0 (STR #2301)
- _cupsAdminSetServerSettings() did not support changing
of top-level directives as designed.
- The init script path check was broken.
- CUPS incorrectly used the attribute "notify-recipient"
instead of "notify-recicpient-uri" in several places
(STR #2297)
- Fixed a configure script bug on MirBSD (STR #2294)
- The pdftops filter did not limit the amount of recursion
of page sets (STR #2293)
- Custom page sizes with fractional point sizes did not
work (STR #2296)
- The lpoptions command would crash when adding or removing
options on a system with no printers (STR #2295)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.9
- The scheduler did not use the default job-sheets
(banners) for implicit classes (STR #2284)
- The scheduler could crash when listing complete jobs
that had been unloaded from memory (STR #2288)
- The French localization was doubled up (STR #2287)
- Build system fixes for several platforms (STR #2260,
STR #2275)
- The scheduler's openssl certificate generation code was
broken on some platforms (STR #2282)
- The scheduler's log rotation check for devices was
broken (STR #2278)
- The LPD mini-daemon did not handle the document-format
option correctly (STR #2266)
- The pdftops filter ignored the "match" size option in the
pdftops.conf file (STR #2285)
- cupstestppd now validates UTF-8 text strings in
globalized PPD files (STR #2283)
- The outputorder=reverse option did not work with all
printers (STR #2279)
- Classes containing other classes did not always work
(STR #2255)
- Printer location and description information was lost
if the corresponding string contained the "#" character
(STR #2254)
- cupsRemoveOption() did not work properly (STR #2264)
- The USB backend did not work with some USB to parallel
cables on Mac OS X.
- The test page did not print the rulers properly on
large media sizes (STR #2252)
- The text filter could crash when pretty printing certain
types of files (STR #2158)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.8
- Documentation fixes (STR #2141, STR #2157)
- The HTTP upgrade redirection used by the scheduler did
not work with Internet Explorer (STR #2235)
- Members of a class with Unicode names did not appear
correctly in the web interface (STR #2154)
- Changing the "Save debugging information" setting in
the web interface no longer affects the other server
settings (STR #1993)
- The scheduler did not choose SSL certificates correctly
on Mac OS X (STR #2225)
- The scheduler could get in an infinite loop when
printing to a remote class (STR #2228)
- The jobs web page did not have separating space after
the number of pages column (STR #2230)
- Added French localization (STR #2221)
- Updated Spanish localization (STR #2223)
- Updated Japanese localization (STR #2216)
- cupsBorderlessScalingFacter was limited to a range of
0.9 to 1.1, but some printers need larger values (STR
#2222)
- Landscape printing of PDF files did not always work
(STR #2149)
- Fixed slow USB printing on Minolta printers (STR #2104,
STR #2219)
- The ZPL label printer driver could produce stretched
output (PR #6448)
- The IPP backend now clears the printer-state-message
when there are no outstanding errors or warnings (STR
#2126)
- The CUPS Java scripting support did not work with
recent versions of Java due to the use of Sun's private
Base64 class (STR #2152)
- The scheduler did not pass HTTP GET form variables to
custom CGI programs (STR #2173)
- The lpoptions command now displays the reason why a PPD
file cannot be found (STR #2184)
- The scheduler did not accept "none" as a browse
protocol name (STR #2200)
- The scheduler still loaded the remote printer cache,
even when browsing was disabled (STR #2198)
- The SNMP backend now shows OfficeJet printers with the
"HP" manufacturer prefix (STR #2151)
- Web interface HTML cleanup (STR #2153)
- The parallel backend consumed 100% CPU on FreeBSD due
to an apparently common parallel port driver bug (STR
#2161)
- ippReadIO() incorrectly returned IPP_IDLE when the
initial IPP message header could not be read (STR
#2179)
- cupsRasterInterpretPPD() did not support custom options
(STR #1960)
- Collated output produced by the PostScript filter could
lose some options (STR #2137)
- job-hold-until with time values for the next day would
be held for 60 days (STR #2144)
- Some types of Sun raster files did not print correctly
(STR #2107)
- Raw PBM files did not print correctly (STR #2106)
- The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP with HP printers,
as some recent firmware versions appear to not work
(STR #2055)
- cupsMarkOptions() did not handle the
multiple-document-handling option (STR #2135)
- lpstat did not show the local job ID of active printers
(STR #2125)
- The backends incorrectly used STATUS:
media-tray-empty-error messages for out-of-paper
conditions (STR #2123, STR #2124)
- cupsGetPPD2() returned the wrong error when the PPD
file did not exist (STR #2122)
- cupsDoAuthentication() did not translate the password
prompt (STR #2121)
- httpGetLength2() did not handle error messages without
content correctly (STR #2133)
- Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX Itanium
systems (STR #2115)
- Fixed a configure script problem with the 32/64-bit
library support (STR #2114)
- The PostScript filter did not properly output document
setup commands for reversed output (STR #2111)
- The scheduler did not parse IPv6 netmasks properly (STR
#2117)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.7
- Documentation updates (STR #2089)
- Added an Italian translation (STR #2105)
- The PostScript filter now rotates the bounding box
values as needed (STR #2079)
- The scheduler no longer loads the remote printer cache
when browsing is disabled (STR #2084)
- The scheduler no longer writes a new launchd
configuration file if it doesn't have to (STR #2083)
- Updated the USB and PAP backends for Mac OS X (STR
#2086)
- The scheduler now picks up on changes to IPv6 and DNS
configuration on Mac OS X (STR #2085)
- The lpstat program could still hang (STR #2098)
- Fixed an inefficiency in the SNMP IPP detection code
(STR #2100)
- The SSL negotiation code did not implement short
timeouts (STR #2091)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.6
- The web interface was not localized on Mac OS X (STR
#2075)
- "lpc status" did not show the number of queued jobs for
disabled queues (STR #2069)
- The lpstat program could hang (STR #2073)
- The serial backend did not support the new USB serial
filenames on Linux (STR #2061)
- The parallel backend did not support bidirectional I/O
properly (STR #2056)
- The network backends now log the numeric address that
is being used (STR #2046)
- Fixed a compile error when using libpaper.
- Fixed a compile error when compiling on Solaris with
threading enabled (STR #2049, STR #2050)
- Missing printer-state-changed event for
printer-state-message updates (STR #2047)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.5
- Documentation updates (STR #2038)
- The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP for Epson printers
(STR #2028)
- Updated the configure script for Tru64 UNIX 5.1 (STR
#2033)
- Tru64 5.1B's getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() functions
leak file descriptors (STR #2034)
- cupsAddDest() didn't add the parent destination's
options and attributes.
- ppdConflicts() did not handle custom option
constraints.
- Raw printing of gzip'd files did not work (STR #2009)
- The scheduler no longer preserves default option
choices when the new PPD no longer provides the old
default choice (STR #1929)
- The Linux SCSI backend is now only built if the SCSI
development headers are installed.
- USB printing to Minolta printers did not work (STR
#2019)
- Windows clients could not monitor the queue status (STR
#2006)
- The scheduler didn't log the operation name in the
access_log file for Create-Job and Print-Job requests.
- The PostScript filter now separates collated copies
with any required JCL commands so that JCL-based
finishing options act on the individual copies and not
all of the copies as a single document.
- The PostScript filter now disables duplex printing when
printing a 1-page document.
- cups-lpd didn't pass the correct
job-originating-host-name value (STR #2023)
- Fixed some speling errors in the German message catalog
(STR #2012)
- cupstestppd did not catch PPD files with bad
UIConstraints values (STR #2016)
- The USB backend did not work with the current udev-
created printers if the first printer was disconnected
(STR #2017)
- Mirrored and rotated printing did not work with some
documents (STR #2004)
- 2-sided printing with banners did not work properly on
some printers (STR #2018)
- Updated the raw type rule to handle PJL within the
first 4k of a print job (STR #1969)
- Added an Estonian translation (STR #1957)
- Clarified the documentation for the cupsd.conf @LOCAL
and @IF(name) allow/deny functionality (STR #1992)
- The PostScript filters did not escape the Title and For
comments in the print job header (STR #1988)
- The scheduler would use 100% CPU if browsing was
disabled and the cupsd.conf file contained BrowsePoll
lines (STR #1994)
- The cupsDirRead() function did not work properly on
non-POSIX-compliant systems (STR #2001)
- The cupsFile functions didn't handle read/write errors
properly (STR #1996)
- The DBUS support now works with older versions of the
DBUS library.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.4
- The --with-printcap configure option did not work (STR
#1984)
- The character set reported by cupsLangGet() did not
always reflect the default character set of a given
locale (STR #1983)
- Older Lexmark and Tektronix printers did not work with
IPP (STR #1980)
- Failsafe printing did not work (PR #6328)
- Some web interface redirects did not work (STR #1978)
- The web interface change settings button could
introduce a "Port 0" line in cupsd.conf if there was no
loopback connection available (STR #1979)
- The web interface change settings and edit
configuration file buttons would truncate the
cupsd.conf file (STR #1976)
- The German web interface used the wrong printer icon
images (STR #1973)
- The "All Documents" link in the on-line help was
missing a trailing slash (STR #1971)
- The Polish web interface translation used the wrong
URLs for the job history (STR #1963)
- The "reprint job" button did not work (STR #1956)
- The scheduler did not always report printer or job
events properly (STR #1955)
- The scheduler always stopped the queue on error,
regardless of the exit code, if the error policy was
set to "stop-printer" (STR #1959)
- ppdEmitJCL() included UTF-8 characters in the JCL job
name, which caused problems on some printers (STR
#1959)
- Fixed a buffering problem that cause high CPU usage
(STR #1968)
- The command-line applications did not convert
command-line strings to UTF-8 as needed (STR #1958)
- cupsDirRead() incorrectly aborted when reading a
symbolic link that pointed to a file/directory that did
not exist (STR #1953)
- The cupsInterpretRasterPPD() function did not handle
custom page sizes properly.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.3
- The scheduler did not send job-state or
job-config-changed events when a job was held,
released, or changed (STR #1947)
- The scheduler now aborts if the configuration file and
directory checks fail (STR #1941)
- Fixed a problem with ippPort() not using the port
number that was set via the client.conf file or
CUPS_SERVER environment variable (STR #1945)
- HTTP headers were not buffered (STR #1899)
- Some IPP printers (HP) did not like UTF-8 job names
(STR #1837)
- The CUPS desktop icon is now localized for Polish (STR
#1920)
- Printer options were not always honored when printing
from Windows clients (STR #1839)
- The openssl command would lock up the scheduler when
generating an encryption certificate on some platforms
due to a lack of entropy for the random number
generator (STR #1876)
- The web admin page did not recognize that "Listen 631"
enabled remote access (STR #1908)
- The web admin page did not check whether changes were
made to the Basic Server Settings check boxes (STR
#1908)
- The IPP backend could generate N*N copies in certain
edge cases.
- The scheduler did not restore remote printers properly
when BrowseShortNames was enabled (STR #1893)
- Polling did not handle changes to the network
environment on Mac OS X (STR #1896)
- The "make test" subscription tests used invalid
notify-recipient-uri values (STR #1910)
- Printers could be left in an undefined state on system
sleep (STR #1905)
- The Berkeley and System V commands did not always use
the expected character set (STR #1915)
- Remote printing fixes (STR #1881)
- The cupstestppd utility did not validate translation
strings for custom options properly.
- Multi-language PPD files were not properly localized in
the web interface (STR #1913)
- The admin page's simple settings options did not check
for local domain socket or IPv6 addresses and did not
use "localhost" as the listen address.
- An empty BrowseProtocols, BrowseLocalProtocols, or
BrowseRemoteProtocols line would crash the scheduler
instead of disabling the corresponding browsing options.
- The scheduler now logs IPP operation status as debug
messages instead of info or error.
- cupsFileRewind() didn't clear the end-of-file state.
- cupstestppd didn't report the actual misspelling of the
1284DeviceID attribute (STR #1849)
- BrowseRelay didn't work on Debian (STR #1887)
- configure --without-languages didn't work (STR #1879)
- Manually added remote printers did not work (STR #1881)
- The <cups/backend.h> header was not installed.
- Updated the build files for Autoconf 2.60 (STR #1853)
- The scheduler incorrectly terminated the polling
processes after receiving a partial log line.
- The cups-lpd mini-daemon reported "No printer-state
attribute found" errors when reporting the queue status
(PR #6250, STR #1821)
- SNMP backend improvements (STR #1737, STR #1742, STR
#1790, STR #1835, STR #1880)
- The scheduler erroneously reported an error with the
CGI pipe (STR #1860)
- Fixed HP-UX compile problems (STR #1858, STR #1859)
- cupstestppd crashed with some PPD files (STR #1864)
- The <cups/dir.h> and <cups/file.h> header files did not
work with C++.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.2
- Documentation updates (STR #1765, STR #1780)
- CUPS didn't know about alternate character set names
for Asian text (STR #1819)
- The lpoptions -o and -r options did not work unless you
specified a printer.
- The lpoptions command incorrectly allowed users to set
printer attributes like printer-type (STR #1791)
- httpWait() did not flush the write buffer, causing "bad
request" errors when communicating with CUPS 1.1.x
servers (STR #1717)
- Polling did not sanitize the printer description,
location, or make and model strings like broadcasts
did.
- Polled printers did not show the server's default
job-sheets option value.
- The Samba password prompt was not properly localized
(STR #1814)
- Added a German translation (STR #1842)
- The scheduler now creates self-signed SSL certficates
automatically when using OpenSSL and CDSA for
encryption, just as for GNU TLS.
- The SNMP backend sporatically reported some printers as
"unknown" (STR #1774)
- The scheduler now forces BrowseTimeout to be at least
twice the BrowseInterval value and non-zero to avoid
common configuration errors.
- The scheduler incorrectly returned printer URIs of the
form "ipp://server/printers/classname" for classes (STR
#1813)
- Updated Japanese localization (STR #1805)
- The scheduler's SSL certificate/key directory was not
created on installation (STR #1788)
- Added a mailto.conf man page and help page (STR #1754)
- The parallel and USB backends no longer wait for the
printer to go on-line - this caused problems with
certain printers that don't follow with the IEEE-1284
standard (STR #1738)
- The scheduler could crash on a reload when implicit
classes were present (STR #1828)
- The IPP backend incorrectly used the CUPS_ENCRYPTION
environment variable to determine the default
encryption mode when printing (STR #1820)
- USB printing did not work on Solaris (STR #1756)
- The scheduler sorted job priorities in the wrong order
(STR #1811)
- The scheduler did not automatically restart notifiers
that exited or crashed (STR #1793)
- IPv6 support did not work on NetBSD (STR #1834)
- The EPM packaging file did not work (STR #1804)
- The scheduler used up the CPU if BrowseRemoteProtocols
was empty (STR #1792)
- Custom page sizes did not work (STR #1787)
- The SNMP backend could crash on some systems when SNMP
logging was enabled (STR #1789)
- Browsing could produce some funny printer names when
ServerName was set to an IP address (STR #1799)
- Fixed the log message for BrowseRelay (STR #1798)
- Fixes to allow CUPS to compile on MirBSD (STR #1796)
- The scheduler incorrectly set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE
environment variable (STR #1795)
- The pdftops filter incorrectly embedded a "produced by"
comment, causing PDF printing not to work on some
operating systems (STR #1801)
- Sending raw jobs from a client system could cause the
client's scheduler to eventually crash (STR #1786)
- The scheduler now checks that the notifier exists prior
to accepting a new subscription request.
- The scheduler now reports the supported
notify-recipient schemes based on the contents of the
ServerBin/notifier directory.
- Event notifications did not include the
notify-sequence-number or other required attributes
(STR #1747)
- Allow/Deny addresses of the form "11.22.33.*" did not
work on Linux (STR #1769)
- cupsGetPPD() did not work if the scheduler was only
listening on a domain socket (STR #1766)
- The scheduler could crash advertising a class (STR
#1768)
- The scheduler could crash if the default printer was
deleted (STR #1776)
- Added a new default CUPS raster format (v3) which does
not compress the raster stream in order to provide the
same cupsRasterReadPixels() and cupsRasterWritePixels()
performance as CUPS 1.1.x.
- The cupsaddsmb man page listed the wrong files for the
CUPS driver.
- Some configure --with options did not work (STR #1746)
- "Allow @IF(name)" didn't work if "name" wasn't the
first network interface (STR #1758)
- The lpstat command did not use the correct character
set when reporting the date and time (STR #1751)
- The cupsaddsmb command and web interface did not update
the Windows PPD files properly, resulting in corrupt
PPD files for the Windows client to use (STR #1750)
- The cupsd.conf man page didn't describe the Listen
domain socket syntax (STR #1753)
- The scheduler no longer tries to support more than
FD_SETSIZE file descriptors.
- CDSA (encryption) support fixes for MacOS X.
- The lppasswd program needs to be setuid to root to
create and update the /etc/cups/passwd.md5 file (STR
#1735)
- 32/64-bit library installation was broken (STR #1741)
- The USB backend now reports a "no such device" error
when using the old filename-based USB URIs instead of
the "success" error.
- Increased the HTTP and IPP read timeouts to 10 seconds,
as 1 second was too short on congested networks (STR
#1719)
- The SNMP backend now uses the device description over
the printer-make-and-model attribute when the attribute
contains a generic name (STR #1728)
- Fixed another file descriptor leak when printing raw
files (STR #1736)
- Raw queues were not shared via LDAP (STR #1739)
- The pstops filter didn't always embed PageSetup
commands from the PPD file (STR #1740)
- "make install" didn't work if you disabled all of the
localizations.
- The scheduler didn't always choose the least costly
filter.
- Fixed parsing of IPv6 addresses in Allow, Deny,
BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, and BrowseRelay directives
(STR #1713)
- Printers that were shared via LDAP did not get added to
the LDAP server properly (STR #1733)
- LDAP browsing would crash the scheduler if a required
value was missing (STR #1731)
- Special cases for the "localhost" hostname did not
work, causing printing to not work when the /etc/hosts
file did not contain a localhost entry (STR #1723)
- Updated the Spanish translation (STR #1720, STR #1770)
- Reverse-order page output was broken when N-up or
landscape orientations were used (STR #1725)
- The parallel, serial, socket, and USB backends needed
print data before they would report back-channel data,
causing problems with several new drivers (STR #1724)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.1
- "lprm -h hostname" did not work (STR #1800)
- The web interface did not handle reloads properly for
MSIE (STR #1716)
- The configure script no longer adds linker rpath
options when they are unnecessary.
- The scheduler could crash printing a debug message on
Solaris (STR #1714)
- The --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure options
did not always work.
- The password prompt showed the domain socket address
instead of "localhost" for local authentication (STR
#1706)
- The web interface filtered the list of printers even if
the user wasn't logged in (STR #1700)
- The IPP backend did not work reliably with some Xerox
printers (STR #1704)
- Trailing banners were not added when printing a single
file (STR #1698)
- The web interface support programs crashed on Solaris
(STR #1699)
- cupstestppd incorrectly reported problems with
*1284DeviceID attributes (STR #1710)
- Browsing could get disabled after a restart (STR #1670)
- Custom page sizes were not parsed properly (STR #1709)
- The -U option wasn't supported by lpadmin (STR #1702)
- The -u option didn't work with lpadmin (STR #1703)
- The scheduler did not create non-blocking back-channel
pipes, which caused problems when the printer driver
did not read the back-channel data (STR #1705)
- The scheduler no longer uses chunking in responses to
clients - this caused problems with older versions of
CUPS like 1.1.17 (PR #6143)
- Automatic raw printing was broken (STR #1667)
- 6-up printing was broken (STR #1697)
- The pstops filter did not disable CTRL-D processing on
the printer/RIP.
- ppdOpen*() did not load custom options properly (STR
#1680)
- "Set Printer Options" in the web interface did not
update the DefaultImageableArea or
DefaultPaperDimension attributes in the PPD file (STR
#1689)
- Fixed compile errors (STR #1682, STR #1684, STR #1685,
STR #1690)
- The lpstat command displayed the wrong error message
for a missing destination (STR #1683)
- Revised and completed the Polish translation (STR
#1669)
- Stopped jobs did not show up in the list of active jobs
(STR #1676)
- The configure script did not use the GNU TLS
"libgnutls-config" script to find the proper compiler
and linker options.
- The imagetoraster filter did not correctly generate
several 1, 2, and 4-bit color modes.
- cupsRasterWritePixels() could lose track of the current
output row.
- cupsRasterReadPixels() did not automatically swap
12/16-bit chunked pixel data.
- Moved the private _cups_raster_s structure out of the
public header.
- Updated the CUPS raster format specification to include
encoding rules and colorspace definitions.
- The Zebra PPD files had the wrong PostScript code for
the "default" option choices.
- The imagetoraster filter did not generate correct CIE
XYZ or Lab color data.
- The cups-config script did not work when invoked from a
source directory (STR #1673)
- The SNMP backend did not compile on systems that used
the getifaddrs emulation functions (STR #1668)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2.0
- Documentation updates (STR #1618, STR #1620, STR #1622,
STR #1637)
- Static file copy buffers reduced from 64k to 32k to
work around bogus MallocDebug library assumptions (STR
#1660)
- The scheduler did not decode the backend exit code
properly (STR #1648)
- The MacOS X USB backend did not report the 1284 device ID,
nor did it fix device IDs returned by HP printers.
- The scheduler started more slowly than 1.1.x with large
numbers of printers (STR #1653)
- cupsRasterInterpretPPD() didn't support the
cupsPreferredBitsPerColor attribute, and imagetoraster
didn't use the new API.
- The "make test" script did not create all of the necessary
subdirectories for testing (STR #1638)
- The scheduler did not prevent rotation of logs
redirected to /dev/null (STR #1651)
- "make test" did not include the SNMP backend in the
test environment (STR #1625)
- The EPM packaging files did not work (STR #1621)
- "Use Default Configuration" inserted a broken
configuration file (STR #1624)
- Redirects in the web interface did not always preserve
the encrypted status of a connection (STR #1603)
- Added the Apple "pap" backend.
- Added CUPS library to CUPS Image shared library
linkage to support Linux --as-needed linker option
(STR #1606)
- Fixed support for --enable-pie (STR #1609)
- The pdftops filter did not validate the length of the
encryption key (STR #1608)
- Updated the Polish localization.
- "Encryption Required" in the cupsd.conf file now only
requires encryption when the connection is not over the
loopback interface or domain socket.
- Printer names containing "+" were not quoted properly in
the web interface (STR #1600)
- The SNMP backend now reports the make and model in the
information string so that the auto-generated printer
name is more useful than just an IP address.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc3
- The cups-lpd program always did reverse lookups on the
client address, which could be a performance problem.
Added a "-n" option to disable lookups.
- When configured with SSL support, require encryption by
default when displaying the /admin location (STR #1592)
- The next job ID was not computed correctly if the job
cache file got out of sync with the spool directory
(STR #1582)
- The PNG image handling code used deprecated functions
from libpng (STR #1587)
- Added a Polish translation (STR #1584, STR #1586)
- More changes to the scheduler to improve battery life
on portable devices (STR #1583)
- Changed the default log level for status messages back
to "DEBUG" to be consistent with CUPS 1.1.x (STR #1579)
- The error string was not set properly when
cupsDoFileRequest() was given the name of a directory
(STR #1578)
- Fixed handling of job-hold-until (STR #1581)
- Added explicit notes to the cupsaddsmb man page
explaining that the driver filenames are case-sensitive
under UNIX and that they must be all lowercase (Windows
2000) or all UPPERCASE (Windows 95/98/Me) to work (STR
#1568)
- The USB backend incorrectly split the manufacturer name
if it contained spaces (STR #1566)
- The scheduler would hang when listing PPD files for a
manufacturer whose name contained spaces (STR #1567)
- Added the SNMP backend for network printer discovery
(STR #1555)
- cupstestppd now fails PPD files with 1284DeviceId
instead of 1284DeviceID, and cups-driverd uses a
case-insensitive comparison when looking for it (STR
#1573)
- cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() now work
properly with non-blocking HTTP connections.
- Added Swedish translation (STR #1569)
- "make install" now installs the MIME files with world
read permissions (STR #1565)
- More CDSA encryption support fixes (STR #1563)
- Updated the default mime.types file to support printing
of files that do not have a locally-recognized MIME
media type to raw or System V queues.
- Updated the serial port detection code on Linux (STR
#1562)
- Added some more error checking to httpGetHostname()
(STR #1561)
- The title of some administration pages was not
localized (STR #1548)
- The edit-config.tmpl file was not generated or
installed for the Spanish or Japanese localizations
(STR #1547)
- The mimeDelete() function freed the types before the
filters, but the filters needed the type data (STR #1558)
- The scheduler didn't keep track of the status pipes
properly, leading to a bad select() for multi-file jobs
(STR #1559)
- The cupstestdsc program didn't validate the ordinal
page number value for %%Page: comments.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc2
- The scheduler was not always using the string pool,
causing random crashes.
- The lpmove and the web interface's Move Job button did
not work with stopped jobs (STR #1534)
- The PostScript filter did not handle the page-set
option properly with number-up printing (STR #1543)
- The scheduler now only warns about unsupported ACLs
once (STR #1532)
- The "fitplot" option did not work with output from
Mozilla (STR #1542)
- The imagetops filter did not work with Level 2 or 3
printers (STR #1533)
- The scheduler now recognizes PostScript files with PJL
commands that do not include an ENTER LANGUAGE command.
- Added --with-printcap configure option.
- 64-bit SSL fixes for MacOS X.
- The scheduler didn't send some printer state change
events.
- The scheduler didn't send jobs to busy remote printers.
- Fixed some problems with the launchd support.
- Added new USB printer backend for MacOS X.
- The PostScript filter now handles files that start with
an incomplete PJL header (PR #6076)
- The web interface language selection code did not try
the generic language localization (STR #1531)
- The language cache, string pool, and transcoding caches
are now process global instead of per-thread to avoid
problems with GNOME and to allow for data sharing
between threads (STR #1530)
- Fixed a CUPS 1.1.x compatibility bug (STR #1528)
- The web interface redirection after certain printer
administration tasks was broken (STR #1516)
- Web interface authorization could get stuck (STR #1512)
- Localization updates (STR #1513, STR #1518, STR #1520)
- The pstops filter didn't work with some files (STR
#1523)
- "./configure --enable-static" didn't work (STR #1522)
- The scheduler was not using the configured default
Group (STR #1521)
- The web interface still did not show the localized time
and date for some locales and systems (STR #1509)
- httpAddrGetList() would crash on systems without
getaddrinfo().
- Socket URIs without a trailing slash would cause the
port number to not be accepted (STR #1519)
- Local raw and System V printers were not advertised as
such for printer browsing (STR #1502)
- The RPM spec file incorrectly put duplicate copies of
the Japanese and Spanish web interface templates in the
main cups package (STR #1517)
- cupsSetDests() did not explicitly set the permissions
of the /etc/cups/lpoptions file (STR #1508)
- The lpq command crashed with the -h option (STR #1515)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2rc1
- Documentation updates (STR #1497, STR #1498)
- The scheduler now redirects browsers to https: URLs
when encryption is required.
- The scheduler would crash when printing with a banner
(STR #1500)
- cups-driverd did not use the LanguageEncoding attribute
in PPD files to convert the NickName to UTF-8 (STR
#1503)
- The lpadmin command could not set the
printer-error-policy attribute (STR #1504)
- The web interface did not show the time and date in the
correct format for the locale (STR #1505)
- CUPS no longer accepts print jobs if a printer does not
support the file format (STR #1501)
- Cleaned up the PostScript filter (pstops) so that it
properly supports %%IncludeFeature and page scaling
(STR #1453)
- Fixed the cupsFileRewind() and cupsFileSeek() functions
to work properly with uncompressed files.
- Added cupsFileGetLine(), cupsFileStderr(),
cupsFileStdin(), and cupsFileStdout() functions to the
CUPS library.
- Added a new cupstestdsc program to test the DSC
conformance of PostScript files.
- Added KDE/GNOME icons and a Manage Printers menu item.
- Added --enable-image and --enable-pdftops configure
options to control whether the image and PDF filters
are built and installed (default = yes for all
platforms but MacOS X)
- Fixed a minor memory leak in the PPD API.
- Fixed transcoding issues (STR #1493)
- The scheduler now enforces a minimum job cost of 100
when doing FilterLimit checks.
- The scheduler would leak file descriptors when printing
to raw queues (STR #1491)
- The IPv6 support did not compile on Tru64 UNIX (STR
#1488)
- ppdOpen2() now converts the NickName and all UI text to
UTF-8 (STR #1475)
- The Set Allowed Users web page did not work (STR #1486)
- When the default policy was not set or set to a non-
existing policy, the scheduler did not set the default
policy name to "default" (STR #1484)
- The Zebra CPCL driver did not use the correct righthand
margin for the 4" wide label sizes.
- Fixed a problem with the parsing of fractional real
numbers in PPD files.
- Added Spanish localization files (STR #1480)
- Fixed localization of a few scheduler messages (STR
#1478)
- Fixed support for HEAD requests in the scheduler (STR
#1481)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b2
- Updated the CUPS design description.
- Added --enable-32bit and --enable-64bit configure
options to allow building of separate 32/64-bit
libraries on systems that support both environments
(STR #1472)
- Various compiler warning fixes.
- Fixes for Solaris 10 builds against old GNU TLS and
LDAP libraries.
- Added a cupsArrayUserData() function to retrieve the
user data pointer for an array (useful for typing
arrays)
- The ppdEmitString() function did not compute the
required buffer size properly, leading to dropped
characters on the end of the printer commands in pstops
and imagetops (STR #1470)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.2b1
- The serial backend now supports Equinox 8-port serial
hubs (STR #526)
- The IPP backend now supports a compression option to
compress print files as they are sent to the remote
server (STR #956)
- The CUPS browse protocol now supports passing of
default options and browse timeout values from the
server to the clients (STR #800)
- Implicit classes that timed out could cause the
scheduler to crash (STR #1439)
- Added DragonFly support in local device backends (STR
#1362)
- Added LDAP printer browsing support (STR #338)
- Added official support for printer maintenance commands
via the CUPS Command file format and hooks in the
printer-type and web interfaces (STR #932)
- The HP-GL/2 filter could get in an infinite loop trying
to convert HP-PCL files (STR #1415)
- CUPS now implements the HTTP/1.1 Expect header (STR
#1407)
- Options in PPD files are no longer automatically put in
an "Extra" group; rather, all options that are not
inside an Open/CloseGroup will be placed in the
"General" group (STR #1385)
- The scheduler now creates a job-uuid attribute that
uniquely identifies a job on a network (STR #1410)
- The init script now unsets the TMPDIR environment
variable to prevent user temporary directories from
being used by cupsd accidentally (STR #1424)
- Added support for launchd on MacOS X.
- Added support for notify_post on MacOS X.
- Added support for DBUS on Linux.
- All of the Berkeley (except for lpc) and System V
commands now support specification of user, host, and
port (STR #1028, STR #1029, STR #1087)
- The lpmove command now allows you to move all jobs for
a given queue (STR #56)
- The web interface now supports moving of a job or jobs
to another queue (STR #56)
- The web interface now provides searching, paging, and
changing of the sort/display order of classes, jobs,
and printers.
- cupsaddsmb now accepts a password on the command-line
and supports passwords with special characters (STR
#822, STR #1236)
- ppdLoad*() no longer tries to "fix" bad characters in
UI text (STR #1101)
- Printer names can now (reliably) contain Unicode
characters (STR #896)
- The lpstat command now shows the time and date of the
last printer state change instead of the hardcoded "Jan
01 00:00" (STR #659)
- The scheduler now adds a job-actual-printer-uri
attribute to job objects when printing to a class (STR
#116)
- The scheduler now logs log file open errors to the
system log (STR #1289)
- The scheduler now sets the job-originating-user-name to
the authenticated username, if available (STR #1318)