CHANGES-1.7.txt

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CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.5

	- Security: Addressed some more situations where symlinked files would

	  be served by the web interface (STR #4455)

	- The LPD backend did not work with some versions of glibc (STR #4452)

	- CGI scripts did not work (STR #4454)

	- The cupsd.conf man page did not list the ErrorPolicy directive

	  (STR #4457)

	- Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4456)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.4

	- Security: The web interface incorrectly served symlinked files and

	  files that were not world-readable, potentially leading to a

	  disclosure of information (STR #4450)

	- The CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support

	  (STR #4397)

	- CUPS did not compile when Avahi or mDNSResponder was not present

	  (STR #4402, STR #4424)

	- The "snmp" option did not work with the network backends (STR #4422)

	- The User directive in client.conf did not override the USER

	  environment variable (STR #4426)

	- The web interface now properly shows a "Go" button for all text-based

	  browsers (STR #4425)

	- The MaxJobTime directive now properly supports time values (STR #4434)

	- The RPM spec file did not work due to the new Brazilian Portuguese

	  localization (STR #4436)

	- Fixed an "IPP read error" issue (STR #4440)

	- Fixed the --disable-libusb configure option (STR #4439)

	- Fixed the debug output from the DNS-SD backend when using Avahi

	  (STR #4444)

	- Fixed a bug in the CUPS_SC_GET_DEVICE_ID handling by the network

	  backends (STR #4447)

	- Added USB quirk rule for Lexmark E230 (STR #4448)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.3

	- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (STR #4409)

	- Fixed mapping of OutputBin values such as "Tray1"

	  (<rdar://problem/16685606>)

	- Several ippGet* functions incorrectly returned -1 instead of 0 on

	  error.

	- The cupsGetResponse function did not work properly with

	  CUPS_HTTP_DEFAULT (<rdar://problem/16762593>)

	- The IPP backend did not abort a job when the printer did not validate

	  the supplied options (<rdar://problem/16836752>)

	- Fixed an authentication race condition in cupsSendRequest (STR #4403)

	- The scheduler did not add the "job-hold-until-specified" reason when

	  holding a job using the lp command (STR #4405)

	- The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS

	  dependency (STR #4399)

	- cupsGetDestMediaCount did not work for CUPS_MEDIA_FLAGS DEFAULT

	  (STR #4414)

	- Auto-typing of PWG Raster files did not work (STR #4417)

	- IPP queues using hardcoded credentials would ask for credentials

	  (STR #4371)

	- Dates in non-UTF-8 locales did not display correctly (STR #4388)

	- The RPM spec file now looks for libusb-devel 1.0 or later.

	- Fixed the "create-printer-subscription.test" file for IPPTOOL

	  (STR #4420)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.2

	- Security: The scheduler now blocks URLs containing embedded HTML

	  (STR #4356)

	- Documentation fixes (STR #3259, STR #4346, STR #4355)

	- Fixed the Japanese localization (STR #4385)

	- Added a German localization (STR #4363)

	- The cupsfilter command incorrectly read the cupsd.conf file; it now

	  reads the cups-files.conf file instead.

	- Fixed OS X builds with Xcode 5.x (<rdar://problem/15914959>)

	- Fixed SSL support on Windows (STR #4358)

	- Fixed documentation and naming of Create-Job/Printer-Subscriptions

	  operations (STR #4389)

	- Phone numbers in fax jobs were not properly filtered for IPP FaxOut

	  (<rdar://problem/16351701>)

	- Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349)

	- Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393)

	- cupsEnumDests did not set the "is_default" field (STR #4332)

	- cupsDoIORequest could miss the server status, causing failed lpadmin

	  and other administrative commands (STR #4386)

	- cupsEnumDests didn't always call the callback function (STR #4380)

	- "lp -i job-id -H hold" did not work (STR #nnn)

	- CUPS didn't compile on older platforms (STR #4338)

	- Several libcups files did not have the Apple license exception

	  notice (STR #4361)

	- Fixed a D-BUS threading issue that caused the scheduler to crash

	  (STR #4347)

	- The scheduler now automatically reconnects to Avahi as needed

	  (STR #4370, STR #4373)

	- The scheduler did not handle GET requests for the log files properly

	  (STR #3265)

	- The dnssd backend did not always report all discovered printers using

	  Avahi (STR #4365)

	- The Zebra printer driver did not properly handle negative "label top"

	  values (STR #4354)

	- The scheduler did not always update the MakeModel value in

	  printers.conf after updating the driver (STR #4264)

	- The LPD mini daemon did not support print jobs larger than 2GB

	  (STR #4351)

	- Fixed a bug in the status reading code when sending a compressed data

	  stream to an IPP printer/server (<rdar://problem/16019623>)

	- The IPP backend might not include all job attributes in Validate-Job

	  operations (<rdar://problem/16025435>)

	- Fixed some clang-reported issues (<rdar://problem/15936066>)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.1

	- Security: the lppasswd program incorrectly used settings from

	  ~/.cups/client.conf (STR #4319)

	- Auto debug logging was broken in 1.7.0 (<rdar://problem/15331639>)

	- Some gzip'd PPD files could not be used (<rdar://problem/15386424>)

	- Cleaned up some job logging in the scheduler

	  (<rdar://problem/15332672>)

	- ATTR messages could cause string pool memory corruption in the

	  scheduler (<rdar://problem/15382819>)

	- The RPM spec file did not list the build requirements; this was on

	  purpose, but now we are listing the Red Hat package names

	  (<rdar://problem/15375760>, STR #4322)

	- Printing to a raw queue could result in corrupt output due to

	  opportunistic compression (<rdar://problem/15008524>)

	- The GNU TLS support code triggered many compiler warnings due to the

	  use of old GNU TLS compatibility type names

	  (<rdar://problem/15392966>)

	- The "make check" test suite did not work on Linux without the

	  cups-filters package installed (<rdar://problem/14292998>)

	- Japanese PPDs using with the Shift-JIS encoding did not work

	  (<rdar://problem/15427759>)

	- "tel:" URIs incorrectly had slashes (<rdar://problem/15418463>)

	- The libusb-based USB backend incorrectly used write timeouts

	  (<rdar://problem/15564888>)

	- Shared printers could become inaccessible after a few days on OS X

	  (<rdar://problem/15426838>)

	- The IPP backend did not wait for a busy printer to become available

	  before attempting to print (<rdar://problem/15465667>)

	- CUPS did not support "auto-monochrome" or "process-monochrome" for the

	  "print-color-mode" option (<rdar://problem/15482520>)

	- Using "@IF(name)" in an Allow or Deny rule did not work (STR #4328)

	- lpq and lpstat did not list jobs in the correct order when priorities

	  were specified (STR #4326)

	- The D-BUS notifier did not remove its lockfile (STR #4314)

	- CUPS incorrectly used the USER environment variable when the name did

	  not match the user ID (STR #4327)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7.0

	- Updated the Japanese localization.

	- The lpadmin command did not send the PPD name from the "-m" option

	  (<rdar://problem/15264697>)

	- Network backends now use the prtMarkerSuppliesClass property to

	  determine the direction of supply level values

	  (<rdar://problem/14302628>)

	- The scheduler did not remove backup PPD files when a printer was

	  deleted (<rdar://problem/15065555>)

	- The scheduler incorrectly responded to HEAD requests when the web

	  interface was disabled (<rdar://problem/15090332>)

	- The scheduler did not respond using the hostname specified by the

	  client (<rdar://problem/14583574>)

	- Fax queues did not work when shared via Bonjour

	  (<rdar://problem/14498310>)

	- Error messages from the scheduler were not localized using the

	  language specified in the client's IPP request

	  (<rdar://problem/14128011>)

	- Added an Italian localization (<rdar://problem/14481578>)

	- Fixed a couple memory leaks in ippfind that were reported by Clang.

	- Fixed a compile issue on 64-bit Linux with Clang - need to use the

	  -pie option instead of -Wl,-pie now (<rdar://problem/14480938>)

	- The ippfind utility reported the wrong port numbers when compiled

	  against Avahi (<rdar://problem/14508324>)

	- httpGetFd, httpGetFile, httpPutFd, and httpPutFile did not

	  automatically reconnect if the server closed the connecion after the

	  previous response.

	- Fixed a compile error in libcups (<rdar://problem/14467141>)

	- The scheduler incorrectly did not pass a FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE

	  environment variable to the filters or backend

	  (<rdar://problem/14355011>)

	- The cups-exec helper program could fail randomly on OS X due to

	  sandbox violations when closing excess file descriptors

	  (<rdar://problem/14421943>)

	- The scheduler incorrectly did not use the kqueue interface on OS X.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7rc1

	- Printer xxx-default values were not reported by Get-Printer-Attributes

	  or lpoptions (<rdar://problem/14401795>)

	- Fixed deprecation warnings for many functions on OS X so they are tied

	  to the deployment version when building (<rdar://problem/14210079>)

	- Fixed a build issue on ARM-based Linux systems - unable to validate

	  va_list arguments.

	- Added a new ippfind tool for finding IPP printers and other Bonjour

	  services (<rdar://problem/13876199>)

	- Fixed some issues with conversion of PWG media size names to

	  hundredths of millimeters (<rdar://problem/14065748>)

	- The IPP backend could crash on OS X when printing to a Kerberized

	  printer (<rdar://problem/14040186>)

	- The ipptool program now automatically extends timeouts when the

	  output buffer is filled (<rdar://problem/14016099>)

	- The ipptool program now supports the --help and --version options.

	- The ipptool program did not continue past include file errors by

	  default (<rdar://problem/13875803>)

	- The ipptool program now supports FILE-ID and TEST-ID directives and

	  includes their values in its XML output (<rdar://problem/13876038>)

	- The ipptool program now supports WITH-HOSTNAME, WITH-RESOURCE, and

	  WITH-SCHEME expect predicates to compare the corresponding URI

	  components (<rdar://problem/13876091>)

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.7b1

	- The configure script now supports a --with-rundir option to change

	  the transient run-time state directory from the default to other

	  locations like /run/cups (STR #4306)

	- The scheduler now supports PPD lookups for classes (STR #4296)

	- The cupsfilter program did not set the FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE

	  environment variable for filters.

	- Added a new "-x" option to the cancel command (STR #4103)

	- Made the PWG media handling APIs public (STR #4267)

	- Implemented ready media support for the cupsGetDestMediaXxx APIs

	  (STR #4289)

	- Added new cupsFindDestDefault, cupsFindDestReady, and

	  cupsFindDestSupported APIs (STR #4289)

	- Added new cupsGetDestMediaByIndex, cupsGetDestMediaCount, and

	  cupsGetDestMediaDefault APIs (STR #4289)

	- Added new ippGet/SetOctetString APIs for getting and setting an

	  octetString value (STR #4289)

	- Added new ippCreateRequestedArray API for generating a array of

	  attributes from the requested-attributes attribute.

	- The ipptool utility now supports compression, conditional tests based

	  on the presence of files, and new DEFINE predicates for STATUS.

	- Added new IPP APIs for checking values (STR #4167)

	- Added new IPP APis for adding and setting formatted strings.

	- Added new HTTP APIs to support basic server functionality via libcups.

	- The dnssd backend now generates a 1284 device ID as needed (STR #3702)

	- CUPS now supports compressing and decompressing streamed data

	  (STR #4168)

	- CUPS now supports higher-level PIN printing, external accounting

	  systems, and "print here" printing environments (STR #4169)

	- IRIX is no longer a supported operating system (STR #4092)

	- The PPD compiler now supports JCL options properly (STR #4115)

	- The web interface now checks whether the web browser has cookies

	  enabled and displays a suitable error message (STR #4141)