CHANGES-1.4.txt

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CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.8

	- The scheduler would delete job data files when restarted (STR #3880)

	- The network backends could crash if a printer returned a value of 0

	  for the maximum capacity for a supply (STR #3875)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7

	- Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,

	  STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782, STR #3826, STR #3829, STR #3837)

	- Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,

	  STR #3755, STR #3769, STR #3783)

	- Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)

	- Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774)

	- The imageto* filters could crash with bad GIF files (STR #3867)

	- The scheduler might leave old job data files in the spool directory

	  (STR #3795)

	- CUPS did not work with locales using the ASCII character set

	  (STR #3832)

	- httpAddrString() did not return a URI-style IPv6 numeric address

	  (STR #3814)

	- Fixed an issue when reading compressed CUPS raster streams (STR #3812)

	- Fixed an issue with PostScript printer auto-configuration (STR #3443)

	- Fixed some compatibility issues with the libusb-based USB backend

	  (STR #3799)

	- The network backends no longer try to collect SNMP supply and status

	  information for raw queues (STR #3809)

	- The DBUS notifier did not report job state changes (STR #3805)

	- The scheduler did not always report that the "normal" print-quality

	  value was supported (STR #3803)

	- The gziptoany filter did not report the correct error if it was unable

	  to write the uncompressed document to the next filter or backend in

	  the chain (STR #3797)

	- The Epson and Oki 9-pin drivers had a bad resolution option

	  (STR #3798)

	- The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile

	  on Mac OS X.

	- The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for

	  the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing

	  their own jobs.

	- CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the

	  HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791)

	- The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.

	- The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as

	  meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)

	- Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream

	  MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)

	- Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)

	- cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints

	  issues (STR #3705)

	- The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)

	- The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and

	  other printers (STR #3405)

	- "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)

	- The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set

	  the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)

	- PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed

	  conformance mode (STR #3747)

	- The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state

	  change notifications (STR #3739)

	- The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed

	  to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)

	- Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)

	- Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would

	  sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)

	- Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)

	- "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)

	- Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script

	  (STR #3761)

	- The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups

	  are enabled (STR #3737)

	- Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)

	- The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped

	  from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)

	- The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job

	  is printing (STR #3754)

	- The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes

	  (STR #3764)

	- cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to

	  a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)

	- The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from

	  the print filters (STR #3731)

	- The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options

	  properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)

	- The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"

	  states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.6

	- Fixed a "make check" issue on Solaris (STR #3729)

	- Regression: The pstops filter did not support landscape printing of

	  PostScript files (STR #3722)

	- The scheduler killed retried (fax) jobs after restarting them

	  (STR #3697)

	- The cupsAdminSetServerSettings() function disabled sharing when

	  debug logging was enabled (STR #3712)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.5

	- Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)

	- Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)

	- Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941

	  (STR #3648)

	- The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the

	  IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be

	  the correct mapping (STR #3684)

	- The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)

	- Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)

	- Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)

	- The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)

	- cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines

	  (STR #3645)

	- Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)

	- ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous

	  choices (STR #3642)

	- The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled

	  (STR #3649)

	- The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain

	  printers (STR #3622)

	- Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance"

	  did not work (STR #3485)

	- The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly

	  (STR #3466)

	- The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared

	  printers (STR #3627)

	- Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5

	  minutes (STR #3595)

	- The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a

	  serial number (STR #3590)

	- The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values

	  (STR #3631)

	- The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or

	  description of a class (STR #3613)

	- The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts

	  (STR #3615)

	- The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that

	  change based on the locale's character set.

	- PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)

	- Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault

	  (STR #3620)

	- Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface

	  (STR #3624)

	- Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)

	- The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when

	  delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)

	- The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)

	- Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.

	- Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions

	  for the PPD compiler.

	- Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for

	  authentication (STR #3559)

	- The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is

	  changed (STR #3570)

	- The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver

	  (STR #3537, STR #3601)

	- The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when

	  needed (STR #3600)

	- The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment

	  variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)

	- Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)

	- Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the

	  scheduler.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.4

	- Documentation updates (STR #3453, STR #3527, STR #3528, STR #3529)

	- Security: The fix for CVE-2009-3553 was incomplete (STR #3490)

	- Security: The texttops filter did not check the results of allocations

	  (STR #3516)

	- Security: The web admin interface could disclose the contents of

	  memory (STR #3577)

	- Security: CUPS could overwrite files as root in directories owned or

	  writable by non-root users (STR #3510)

	- The cups-config utility did not return the correct linker options on

	  AIX (STR #3587)

	- Fixed some IPP conformance issues with the scheduler's

	  ippget-event-life, operations-supported, output-bin, and sides

	  attributes (STR #3554)

	- The OpenSSL interfaces have been made thread-safe and the GNU TLS

	  interface is explicitly forbidden when threading is enabled

	  (STR #3461)

	- Fixed an IPP conformance issue with the scheduler's Send-Document

	  implementation (STR #3514)

	- Added additional validation checks for the 1284 device ID (STR #3534)

	- Fixed a problem with the RPM spec file (STR #3544)

	- The lpstat command did not limit the job list to the specified

	  printers (STR #3541)

	- The cupsfilter command did not set the RIP_MAX_CACHE environment

	  variable (STR #3531)

	- Fixed support for media-col and page size variants (STR #3394)

	- The PostScript filter did not support all media selection options for

	  the first page (STR #3525)

	- The scheduler did not always remove job control files (STR #3425)

	- The scheduler could crash on restart if classes were defined

	  (STR #3524)

	- The scheduler no longer looks up network interface hostnames by

	  default on Mac OS X (STR #3523)

	- ippWriteIO did not write collection (member) attributes properly in

	  all cases (STR #3521)

	- The "cupsctl --remote-any" and corresponding web interface check box

	  (allow printing from the Internet) did not work reliably (STR #3520)

	- The lpq and lpr commands would sometimes choose different default

	  printers (STR #3503)

	- cupsDo*Request did not flush error text, leading to multiple issues

	  (STR #3325, STR #3519)

	- cupsDoAuthentication did not cancel password authentication after 3

	  failures (STR #3518)

	- Fixed several LDAP browsing bugs (STR #3392)

	- The Dymo driver did not support copies (STR #3457)

	- The scheduler did not update the classes.conf file when deleting a

	  printer belonging to a class (STR #3505)

	- The lppasswd command did not use localized password prompts

	  (STR #3492)

	- The socket backend no longer waits for back-channel data on platforms

	  other than Mac OS X (STR #3495)

	- The scheduler didn't send events when a printer started accepting or

	  rejecting jobs (STR #3480)

	- The web interface now includes additional CSRF protection (STR #3498)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.3

	- SECURITY: The scheduler could try responding on a closed client

	  connection, leading to a crash (STR #3200)

	- SECURITY: The lppasswd program allowed the localization files to be

	  overridden when running in setuid mode (STR #3482)

	- Localization updates (STR #3352, STR #3409, STR #3422, STR #3452,

	  STR #3473, STR #3502)

	- Documentation updates (STR #3451, STR #3504)

	- The IPP backend now sets the printer-state-message to "Ready to

	  print." at the end of a successful job (STR #3460)

	- The PPD compiler did not correctly add the manufacturer to the output

	  filename when using the "-m" option (STR #3469)

	- The IPP backend did not handle authentication properly for the Get-

	  Printer-Attributes operation (STR 3458)

	- Getting SNMP values larger than 127 bytes did not work.

	- IPP conformance: Get-Jobs has a default value for requested-attributes

	  (STR #3383)

	- cupsPrintFiles() did not report all errors (STR #3449)

	- cupsAddDest() could read freed memory (STR #3448)

	- The DBUS notifier did not build (STR #3447)

	- The scheduler would crash when an active printer was deleted.

	- The snmp backend did not work with some printers (STR #3413)

	- The web interface did not show the conflicting values when setting

	  options (STR #3440)

	- Setting options in the web interface did not always work (STR #3439)

	- The scheduler did not use the Get-Job-Attributes policy for a printer

	  (STR #3431)

	- The scheduler added two job-name attributes to each job object

	  (STR #3428)

	- CSS files would not print (STR #3442)

	- The scheduler did not clean out completed jobs when PreserveJobHistory

	  was turned off (STR #3425)

	- The web interface did not show completed jobs for a printer

	  (STR #3436)

	- Authenticated printing did not always work when printing directly to

	  a remote server (STR #3435)

	- The USB backend did not work on Solaris (STR #3423)

	- cupstestppd didn't catch problems with JobPatchFile definitions

	  (STR #3421)

	- The socket backend could crash if a SNMP string had a negative length.

	- Fixed some termination issues with the USB backend on Mac OS X.

	- The side-channel APIs did not handle interrupts properly.

	- The network backends incorrectly cleared the media-empty-warning

	  state.

	- The web interface did not allow users to successfully add serial

	  printers (STR #3391)

	- cupsTempFd() did not work in some situations (STR #3382)

	- Some C API headers were missing C++ wrapper logic.

	- The PPD compiler did not localize single-language PPD options properly

	  (STR #3386)

	- Modifying a printer from the web interface sometimes caused the wrong

	  driver to be selected (STR #3418)

	- The scheduler did not handle out-of-memory conditions properly when

	  loading a job (STR #3407)

	- When adding printers from the web interface, the dynamic updates of

	  the device list made it hard to pick a device (STR #3406)

	- Fixed a typo in the web interface admin page template (STR 3403)

	- The web interface did not preserve the "printer is shared" state when

	  modifying a printer (STR #3390)

	- The PPD compiler incorrectly inserted translations of empty strings

	  (STR #3411)

	- The scheduler did not reset the SIGPIPE handler of child processes

	  (STR #3399)

	- cupsGetNamedDest() incorrectly returned the default printer if the

	  named printer did not exist (STR #3397)

	- Fixed a GNU TLS error handling bug (STR #3381)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.2

	- SECURITY: The CUPS web interface was vulnerable to several XSS and

	  HTTP header/body attacks via attribute injection (STR #3367,

	  STR #3401)

	- Fixed localization errors (STR #3359, STR #3372, STR #3380, STR #3387)

	- The documentation for classes.conf and printers.conf did not provide

	  the correct instructions for manual changes (STR #3351)

	- The scheduler did not always rebuild printer cache files when the

	  driver was changed (STR #3356)

	- The documentation makefile failed to install localizations when using

	  newer versions of Bash (STR #3360)

	- The configure script did not use the --with-xinetd value for the

	  default LPD configuration path (STR #3347)

	- The configure script incorrectly required glib for DBUS support

	  (STR #3346)

	- The cupstestppd program incorrectly reported filters with bad

	  permisssions as missing (STR #3363)

	- The cups.desktop file used the wrong locale names (STR #3358)

	- cupsSideChannelRead() did not return an error for short reads.

	- The installed PAM configuration file did not use the correct options

	  with the pam_unix2 module (STR #3313)

	- The scheduler did not preserve default options that contained special

	  characters (STR #3340)

	- The scheduler did not remove old pre-filters when updating a printer

	  driver (STR #3342)

	- The HP/GL-2 filter did not check for early end-of-file (STR #3319)

	- The USB backend did not compile on some platforms (STR #3332)

	- cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk() could go into an infinite loop with broken

	  SNMP implementations.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.1

	- Documention fixes (STR #3296)

	- SNMP supply levels and states were wrong for some printers.

	- The IPP backend did not update the auth-info-required value.

	- The libusb-based USB backend would hang at the end of the job

	  (STR #3315, STR #3318)

	- DNS-SD registrations for raw queues had an empty "ty" key (STR #3299)

	- The JPEG and BMP MIME type rules were broken (STR #3284)

	- cupsGetNamedDest returned the default printer when the named

	  destination did not exist (STR #3285)

	- The JobKillDelay was not triggered for canceled jobs (STR #3292)

	- The PPD compiler could get in an infinite loop (STR #3293)

	- The configure check for dns-sd.h was broken (STR #3297)

	- The "Query Printer for Default Options" page did not go away if the

	  query job was held (STR #3302)

	- Boolean options did not show up as selected in the web interface

	  (STR #3303)

      	- The scheduler did not cache or report driver information files

	  correctly, leading to a variety of issues (STR #3283, STR #3297,

	  STR #3305)

	- cupsDoIORequest() did not abort on permanent errors (STR #3311)

	- Modifying a class in the web interface did not work (STR #3312)

	- BrowseLocalProtocols could be cleared when changing the sharing

	  setting (STR #3287)

	- The scheduler could return an empty supported document format

	  (STR #3308)

	- The PPD compiler generated invalid PPD files when the locale used

	  something other than "." for the decimal point (STR #3300)

	- The IPP backend did not handle some non-comforming IPP printer

	  implementations (STR #3262)

	- The scheduler leaked three file descriptors to each job filter

	  (STR #3263)

	- The scheduler now uses a default CUPS-Get-Devices timeout of 15

	  seconds (STR #3307)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.0

	- Localization updates (STR #3223, STR #3246, STR #3248, STR #3250)

	- Documentation updates (STR #3225, STR #3230, STR #3242, STR #3260)

	- The --with-pdftops configure option did not accept a full path to the

	  filter (STR #3278)

	- The banner filter did not position the back side image correctly

	  (STR #3277)

	- The dnssd backend could crash (STR #3272)

	- The 1284 device ID sometimes contained trailing garbage (STR #3266)

	- The USB backend returned different URIs for some printers than in

	  CUPS 1.3 (STR #3259)

	- The scheduler did not do local job-hold-until processing for remote

	  queues (STR #3258)

	- The scheduler did not try all possible SSL certificates on Mac OS X.

	- The scheduler did not always remove a file descriptor when using the

	  kqueue interface (STR #3256)

	- The scheduler did not protect against bad job control files in all

	  cases (STR #3253)

	- The scheduler did not encode "+" in model names (STR #3254)

	- The web interface didn't show the default options (STR #3244)

	- The IPP and LPD backends needed print data before they would do an

	  SNMP query.

	- Fixed a GNU TLS compatibility issue (STR #3231)

	- Fixed a HTML error in the add and modify printer web interface

	  templates (STR #3229)

	- The scheduler did not minimize the number of printer state events that

	  were generated by filter STATE: messages, which could lead to poor

	  performance.

	- The USB backend on Mac OS X did not cleanly cancel a job.

	- The network backends now set the connecting-to-device printer-state-

	  reasons value when looking up the address and copying the print data

	  for consistency.

	- The scheduler now supports the com.apple.print.recoverable-warning

	  reason on all platforms.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4rc1

	- The PPD compiler documentation was missing information on localization

	  (STR #3212)

	- The IPP backend now reconnects after every request when talking to

	  printers that claim IPP support but only use HTTP/1.0.

	- The PPD compiler crashed when both "Resolution" and "Group foo Option

	  Resolution" were specified in the .drv file.

	- The PPD compiler's #if/#elif/#else/#endif did not work for undefined

	  variables (STR #3210)

	- Static libraries could not be installed by a non-root user on systems

	  needing a ranlib program (STR #3209)

	- The scheduler incorrectly always tried to copy Kerberos credentials

	  for print jobs.

	- Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3204)

	- The scheduler crashed when getting the default paper size from

	  libpaper (STR #3205, STR #3206)

	- The PPD compiler now defines six variables: CUPS_VERSION,

	  CUPS_VERSION_MAJOR, CUPS_VERSION_MINOR, CUPS_VERSION_PATCH,

	  PLATFORM_NAME, and PLATFORM_ARCH (STR #3203)

	- Fixed a whitespace skipping bug in cupsRasterInterpretPPD.

	- The scheduler did not return HTTP 403 (Forbidden) for authenticated

	  users that were not authorized to do IPP operations (STR #3193)

	- The scheduler did not report more than 8 Product strings from a PPD

	  file.  Some PPD files have as many as 24.

	- ppdOpen*() could crash if a keyword had no value string (something

	  that cupstestppd looks for...)

	- cupsLangDefault() did not return the correct language on Mac OS X.

	- The Mac OS X USB backend did not handle aborted or stalled pipe

	  conditions properly, which prevented drivers from ejecting partial

	  pages when a job was canceled or held.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b3

	- Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158,

	  STR #3173)

	- Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and

	  Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish,

	  French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish

	  (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)

	- Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)

	- The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to

	  UTF-8 encoding as needed.

	- The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)

	- The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)

	- The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount

	  (STR #2624)

	- The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for

	  failed print jobs.

	- You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)

        - Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that

	  ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)

	- Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have

	  one printer or class added (STR #3094)

	- Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy

	  stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current

	  reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now

	  (STR #3171)

	- Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)

	- ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.

	- Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so

	  that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require

	  delegatable credentials.  Shared printing still requires delegation,

	  however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this

	  all work.

	- "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.

	- AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.

	- cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a

	  lack of kernel buffers.

	- The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests

	  while copying print data to a temporary file.

	- cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily,

	  causing reduced performance in some situations.

	- If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request

	  would hang on the client.

	- The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not

	  work (STR #3132)

	- The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.

	- CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language,

	  product, or psversion (STR #3136)

	- The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds

	  (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.

	- The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of

	  filenames in the PPD file.

	- The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion

	  values.

	- The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend

	  devices (STR #3108)

	- The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.

	- The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.

	- Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface

	  incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)

	- The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file

	  permissions.

	- httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.

	- The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the

	  device URI.

	- The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10

	  seconds.

	- Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)

	- The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating

	  them failed.

	- The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for

	  status operations.

	- ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile

	  keywords.

	- The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or

	  maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and

	  often unreliable.

	- The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as

	  "crashed".

	- The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)

	- Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)

	- The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a

	  printer had other reasons associated with it.

	- cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.

	- The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly

	  (STR #3084)

	- cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like

	  cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)

	- The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable

	  microseconds in the date and time that are logged.

	- The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to

	  control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.

	- The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD

	  printer discovery (STR #3065)

	- The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes

	  in length (STR #3072)

	- Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)

	- Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)

	- The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript

	  printers with no specified colorspace.

	- The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist

	  file on Mac OS X.

	- cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.

	- SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and

	  and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.

	- The libusb-based USB backend did not work.

	- The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly

	  for some PPDs.

	- The ppdi utility did not work.

	- The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken

	  web browsers (STR #3049)

	- CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.

	- Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting

	  options.

	- The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not

	  have associated translation text (STR #3045)

	- Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)

	- Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)

	- cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option

	  choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are

	  present in most PPD files.

	- The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.

	- The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end

	  its jobs.

	- The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.

	- Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels

	  all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS

	  printers.

	- The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update

	  printer attributes when a job was canceled.

	- The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword

	  when a job finished.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b2

	- Documentation updates (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #3021)

	- The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and

	  FormatVersion values in PPD files.

	- The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the

	  --with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (STR #3037)

	- The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files

	  rather than copying them whenever possible.

	- Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and

	  options implementations.

	- The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands

	  attributes.

	- Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies

	  was set to False in the PPD file.

	- Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial,

	  and network backends (STR #3014)

	- Added a Spanish localization (STR #3015)

	- Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels

	  attributes.

	- The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.

	- The cupsGetDevices() function now has an "include_schemes"

	  parameter.

	- The lpinfo command now supports --include-schemes and

	  --exclude-schemes options.

	- The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes

	  and exclude-schemes attributes.

        - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes

	  attribute.

	- The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot

	  option called "fit-to-page".

	- The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting

	  information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to

	  prevent race conditions.

	- The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.

	- Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including

	  CUPS 1.1.x.

	- Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (STR #3012)

	- Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message

	  catalogs (STR #2990)

	- Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files

	  (STR #2989)

	- The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment

	  variable when running filters.

	- The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs

	  have all stopped.

	- The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different "connecting"

	  progress messages.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1

	- Documentation updates (STR #2567)

	- The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to

	  override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)

	- The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings

	  (STR #2863)

	- The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and

	  Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the

	  cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)

	- The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the

	  status of a single printer (STR #2843)

	- The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide

	  significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs

	  (STR #1293)

	- CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based

	  on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)

	- Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether

	  the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply

	  levels.

	- Now support and use a new banner file format for better text

	  support and easier customization (STR #2490)

	- The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION

	  environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.

	- The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a

	  stack-based buffer (STR #2388)

	- The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set

	  the printer-state-reasons attribute.

	- The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration

	  of printer options (STR #1440)

	- The web interface now provides an advanced server settings

	  form.

	- The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it

	  easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)

	- The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.

	- The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and

	  Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)

	- Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so

	  they know whether they are printing a banner or document

	  file (STR #2799)

	- Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter

	  command (STR #2562)

	- Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to

	  talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)

	- Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and

	  cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)

	- The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with

	  Google (STR #2882)

	- The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the

	  default server (STR #2833)

	- The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control

	  which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)

	- The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available

	  (STR #2923)

	- The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive

	  (STR #2848)

	- The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name

	  value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)

	- CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)

	- Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)

	- The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing

	  print jobs (STR #2482)

	- The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message

	  values.

	- The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to

	  track the progress of individual pages.

	- The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)

	- The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open

	  command, when available (STR #2724)

	- The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)

	- The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the

	  PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)

	- The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log

	  file as errors (STR #2616)

	- Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that

	  retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters

	  an error (STR #2555)

	- The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user

	  correctly authenticates but does not have permission to

	  continue further (STR #2101)

	- The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates

	  (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)

	- New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately

	  (STR #2853)

	- Added support for a device-location attribute which provides

	  the physical location of a printer device.

	- Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the

	  device data by a backend.

	- Added support for custom options in the web interface

	  (STR #1729)

	- Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers,

	  and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)

	- Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)

	- Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access

	  to CUPS (STR #263)

	- Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.

	- Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3,

	  cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.

	- Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.

	- Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver

	  attributes for better option conflict detection and

	  resolution.

	- Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to

	  256 bytes (STR #2877)

	- Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control

	  what is logged to the access_log file.

	- The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce

	  the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.

	- The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD

	  files (STR #2871)

	- The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver

	  information files.

	- The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)

	- Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version

	  of an attribute.

	- MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)

	- The standard MIME types are now installed in

	  DataDir/mime (STR #2719)

	- The lpoptions command now describes custom options and

	  the necessary parameters (STR #2660)

	- The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese

	  or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)

	- The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes

	  (STR #2738)

	- The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in

	  the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)

	- The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives

	  (STR #2636)

	- The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD

	  files (STR #2739)

	- The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the

	  ModelName value as the output filename.

	- The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to

	  set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)

	- The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the

	  standard network backends.

	- Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to

	  control the format of lines in the page_log file.

	- Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD

	  keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.

	- Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers

	  that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)

	- The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service

	  name resolution.

	- The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for

	  all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)

	- The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based

	  page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)

	- Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what

	  PJL commands are used to display the job information.

	- Driver information files can now be installed in

	  /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.

	- The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger

	  than 2GB.

	- The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to

	  reduce disk activity (STR #2684)

	- The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the

	  exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which

	  backends are polled and for how long.

	- The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in

	  parallel to get the list of devices faster.

	- Added --enable-pap configure option.

	- The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated"

	  policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.

	- Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files

	  (STR #2735, STR #2736)

	- The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files

	  for localization (STR #2737)

	- ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N

	  when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD

	  file.

	- The build system has been updated to support separate

	  installation of data, program, header, and library files.

	- All support libraries are now built as shared libraries

	  by default.

	- The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.

	- The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support

	  SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)

	- The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to

	  root to make the default installation more secure.

	- Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get

	  the localized version of a marker-names value.

	- The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name

	  attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.

	- The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler

	  pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)

	- Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or

	  global based on the current access policies for the

	  printer.

	- cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last

	  used printer preference on Mac OS X.

	- Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)

	- Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS

	  library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)

	- The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems

	  that support it (STR #2637)

	- The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when

	  possible.

	- The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job

	  attriibute to purge a specified job.

	- ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency

	  attributes for custom option selections.

	- The web interface now enables/disables the printer

	  sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the

	  server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)

	- The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the

	  server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD

	  and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)

	- The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/

	  manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver

	  on the model page (STR #2436)

	- The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and

	  duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities

	  of printers (STR #1175)

	- The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)

	- The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation

	  that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)

	- The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option

	  to filter the document from the specified job.

	- The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to

	  do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)

	- Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to

	  cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)

	- Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.