CHANGES-1.6.txt

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CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.4

	- Removed some duplicate size definitions for some ISO sizes that were

	  causing problems (<rdar://problem/14722721>)

	- The IPP backend did not add the "last-document" attribute

	  (<rdar://problem/114660379>)

	- Added a SyncOnClose directive to cups-files.conf to force cupsd to

	  call fsync before closing any configuration/state files it writes

	  (<rdar://problem/14523043>)

	- Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E238 (<rdar://problem/14493054>)

	- Closed server connections were still not always detected

	  (<rdar://problem/14484313>)

	- The libusb-based USB backend now loads its list of quirks from files

	  in /usr/share/cups/usb instead of using a hardcoded table

	  (<rdar://problem/14442769>)

	- The scheduler did not properly register ICC color profiles with

	  colord (<rdar://problem/14455625>)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.3

	- The configure script now prefers Clang over GCC.

	- Fixed a compile problem on AIX (STR #4307)

	- The default IPP version did not always get set before creating a new

	  IPP request message (<rdar://problem/14401718>)

	- The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat now display an error message advising the

	  use of the /version=1.1 ServerName option (<rdar://problem/14290628>)

	- Added documentation about the /version=1.1 option to ServerName in

	  client.conf (<rdar://problem/14216262>)

	- httpStatus(HTTP_ERROR) did not return a useful error message

	  (<rdar://problem/14217326>)

	- The lp, lpq, lpr, and lpstat commands incorrectly ignored the default

	  printer set in the lpoptions file (<rdar://problem/14216472>)

	- Fixed a URI encoding issue for hostnames containing the ` (backquote)

	  character (<rdar://problem/14243133>)

	- Added support for RFC 6874's IPv6 link local address format in URIs

	  (<rdar://problem/13979453>)

	- The USB backend could crash on libusb-based systems if USB was

	  disabled in the BIOS (<rdar://problem/13875729>)

	- Fixed a rounding error in the PWG media size mapping code

	  (<rdar://problem/13493241>)

	- Fixed several ipptool test files that used old STATUS names.

	- Kerberos credentials could get truncated when printing to a shared

	  printer.

	- Printing using "ipps" URIs was not encrypted.

	- Insecure ICC profiles prevented installation of user profiles for a

	  printer on OS X.

	- Added more USB quirks for the libusb-based backend (STR #4311,

	  <rdar://problem/13736470>)

	- The Russian web interface templates were broken (STR #4310)

	- The scheduler no longer tries to do Kerberos authentication over the

	  loopback interface.

	- The IPP backend could fail to pause a job for authentication

	  (STR #4298)

	- Fixed a regression on the handling of auth keys on OS X if the

	  cups-files.conf was not present or did not contain a SystemAuthKey

	  value.

	- The scheduler incorrectly did a reverse lookup of the server address

	  when HostNameLookups was turned off (STR #4302)

	- The scheduler incorrectly computed the final content type value when

	  null filters were present.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.2

	- Documentation fixes (STR #4229, STR #4239, STR #4234, STR #4248,

	  STR #4259)

	- Security: All file, directory, user, and group settings are now stored

	  in a separate cups-files.conf configuration file that cannot be set

	  through the CUPS web interface or APIs (STR #4223)

	- Added a Czech localization (STR #4201)

	- Added a French localization (STR #4247)

	- Added a Russian localization (STR #4228, STR #4285)

	- Updated the Catalan localization (STR #4202)

	- Local certificate authentication did not guard against an empty

	  certification file (STR #4293)

	- The scheduler did not reject device URIs with spaces.

	- Added USB quirk rule for Epson Stylus Photo 750 (STR #4286)

	- The IPP backend could crash if the printer disconnects early

	  (STR #4284)

	- cupsGetPPD did not work with statically-configured CUPS shared

	  queues (STR #4178)

	- The scheduler did not support long MIME media types (STR #4270)

	- The cupsfilter command did not set the CHARSET environment variable

	  for the text filters (STR #4273)

	- The lp command did not show errors for unknown "--foo" (STR #4261)

	- Bad IPP responses could crash ipptool (STR #4262)

	- Updated USB quirk rules for Canon and Xerox printers (STR #4217,

	  STR #4263)

	- Added USB blacklisting for printers that require a custom backend

	  (STR #4218)

	- The PPD compiler did not correctly JCL options (STR #4115, STR #4203)

	- The ipptool program now supports DEFINE-MATCH and DEFINE-NO-MATCH

	  predicates for STATUS directives.

	- Fixed a problem with local Kerberos authentication (STR #4140)

	- Coverity scan: fixed some minor issues (STR #4242)

	- The scheduler did not remove color profiles after deleting a printer

	  (STR #4232, STR #4276)

	- The CUPS library did not always detect a timed out connection to the

	  server which could cause temporary loss of printing from applications

	  (STR #4187)

	- The ipptool program now supports variable substitution in OPERATION

	  and DELAY directives (STR #4175)

	- The IPP backend now stops queues when the server configuration

	  prevents successful job submission (STR #4125)

	- The XML output of ipptool contained empty dictionaries (STR #4136)

	- The scheduler did not delete job control backup files (STR #4244)

	- cupsGetPPD3 could return a local PPD instead of the correct remote

	  PPD.

	- The scheduler incorrectly advertised auth-info-required for local

	  queues needing local authentication (STR #4205)

	- CUPS 1.6 clients using the ServerName directive in client.conf did not

	  work with CUPS 1.3.x or older servers (STR #4231, STR #4291)

	- The SNMP backend now tries to work around broken printers that use a

	  newline to separate key/value pairs.

	- The IPP backend did not send a cancel request to printers when a job

	  was canceled and the printer did not support Create-Job.

	- Fixed EPM packaging files (STR #4199)

	- OpenBSD build fix (STR #4195, STR #4196, STR #4197)

	- The scheduler could crash when using Avahi (STR #4183, STR #4192,

	  STR #4200, STR #4213)

	- The IPP backend could get stuck in an endless loop on certain network

	  errors (STR #4194)

	- 32-bit builds failed on Debian (STR #4133)

	- The scheduler no longer accepts or sends job description attributes.

	- The IPP backend now works around some conformance issues for broken

	  printers (STR #4190)

	- cupsBackendReport() now filters out all control characters from the

	  reported 1284 device IDs (STR #4124)

	- The scheduler no longer allows job-name values that are not valid

	  network Unicode strings (STR #4072)

	- The web interface did not preserve the order of classes, jobs, or

	  printers (STR #4170)

	- The network backends now support disabling of SNMP supply level

	  queries via the "snmp" URI option (STR #4106)

	- The IPP backend did not specify the compression used (STR #4181)

	- ipptool did not support octetString values.

	- The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared

	  queues (STR #4158)

	- Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured

	  Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159)

	- The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157)

	- Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb

	  (STR #4155, STR #4191)

	- Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi

	  (STR #4156)

	- CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP

	  requests.

	- Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring

	  out.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.1

	- Documentation fix (STR #4149)

	- RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145)

	- The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped

	  (STR #4148)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6.0

	- Document changes (STR #4131)

	- Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6rc1

	- Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122)

	- The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6

	  socket (STR #4109)

	- The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file

	  instead of the current hostname.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.6b1

	- Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)

	- The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the

	  end of the job (STR #4075)

	- CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)

	- CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)

	- The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support

	  specification of a time interval (STR #3143)

	- PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce

	  the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)

	- The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels

	  in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)

	- The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in

	  printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)

	- Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed

	  cupsd (STR #3459)

	- Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates

	  (STR #3949)

	- CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER

	  environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)

	- Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)

	- Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters

	  (STR #2856)

	- Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that

	  have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds

	  (STR #2291)

	- The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the

	  local system (STR #2053)

	- CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-

	  per-centimeter (STR #4006)

	- The configure script and build system no longer support building of

	  separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.

	- The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue",

	  "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and

	  "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)

	- The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top",

	  "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)

	- The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute

	  instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in

	  job objects.

	- Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)

	- Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do

	  not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)

	- Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum

	  amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.

	- The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127

	  characters.

	- The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to

	  automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate

	  (Kerberos) authentication.

	- cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in

	  length.

	- CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes

	  via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)

	- The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future

	  version of CUPS (STR #3927)

	- The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)

	- The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures

	  and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)

	- The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.

	- The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)

	- The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops,

	  imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops

	  filters have been removed (STR #3930)

	- The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)