v1.3.0

Changes in CUPS v1.3.0:

• The scheduler did not handle out-of-file conditions gracefully when accepting new connections, leading to heavy CPU usage.
• The scheduler did not detect ServerBin misconfigurations (Issue #2470)
• "AuthType Default" did not work as expected when the "DefaultAuthType foo" line appeared after it in the cupsd.conf file.
• The on-line help did not describe many common printing options (Issue #1846)
• The IPP backend did not return the "auth required" status when printing to a Kerberos-protected queue.
• The scheduler was not looking in the correct directories for LSB PPD files (Issue #2464)
• Changed references to ESP Ghostscript to GPL Ghostscript (Issue #2463)
• The PostScript filter did not cleanly terminate when the job was canceled or stopped.
• Fixed generation of Kerberos credentials for remote printing. Note that this requires a recent version of MIT Kerberos with a working krb5_cc_new_unique() function or Heimdal Kerberos.
• Added Portuguese and updated Italian message catalogs.

v1.2rc3

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 (Issue #1592)
• The next job ID was not computed correctly if the job cache file got out of sync with the spool directory (Issue #1582)
• The PNG image handling code used deprecated functions from libpng (Issue #1587)
• Added a Polish translation (Issue #1584, Issue #1586)
• More changes to the scheduler to improve battery life on portable devices (Issue #1583)
• Changed the default log level for status messages back to "DEBUG" to be consistent with CUPS 1.1.x (Issue #1579)
• The error string was not set properly when cupsDoFileRequest() was given the name of a directory (Issue #1578)
• Fixed handling of job-hold-until (Issue #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 (Issue #1568)
• The USB backend incorrectly split the manufacturer name if it contained spaces (Issue #1566)
• The scheduler would hang when listing PPD files for a manufacturer whose name contained spaces (Issue #1567)
• Added the SNMP backend for network printer discovery (Issue #1555)
• cupstestppd now fails PPD files with 1284DeviceId instead of 1284DeviceID, and cups-driverd uses a case-insensitive comparison when looking for it (Issue #1573)
• cupsDoFileRequest() and cupsDoRequest() now work properly with non-blocking HTTP connections.
• Added Swedish translation (Issue #1569)
• "make install" now installs the MIME files with world read permissions (Issue #1565)
• More CDSA encryption support fixes (Issue #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 (Issue #1562)
• Added some more error checking to httpGetHostname() (Issue #1561)
• The title of some administration pages was not localized (Issue #1548)
• The edit-config.tmpl file was not generated or installed for the Spanish or Japanese localizations (Issue #1547)
• The mimeDelete() function freed the types before the filters, but the filters needed the type data (Issue #1558)
• The scheduler didn't keep track of the status pipes properly, leading to a bad select() for multi-file jobs (Issue #1559)
• The cupstestdsc program didn't validate the ordinal page number value for %%Page: comments.

v1.2rc2

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 (Issue #1534)
• The PostScript filter did not handle the page-set option properly with number-up printing (Issue #1543)
• The scheduler now only warns about unsupported ACLs once (Issue #1532)
• The "fitplot" option did not work with output from Mozilla (Issue #1542)
• The imagetops filter did not work with Level 2 or 3 printers (Issue #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 (Issue #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 (Issue #1530)
• Fixed a CUPS 1.1.x compatibility bug (Issue #1528)
• The web interface redirection after certain printer administration tasks was broken (Issue #1516)
• Web interface authorization could get stuck (Issue #1512)
• Localization updates (Issue #1513, Issue #1518, Issue #1520)
• The pstops filter didn't work with some files (Issue #1523)
• "./configure --enable-static" didn't work (Issue #1522)
• The scheduler was not using the configured default Group (Issue #1521)
• The web interface still did not show the localized time and date for some locales and systems (Issue #1509)
• httpAddrGetList() would crash on systems without getaddrinfo().
• Socket URIs without a trailing slash would cause the port number to not be accepted (Issue #1519)
• Local raw and System V printers were not advertised as such for printer browsing (Issue #1502)
• The RPM spec file incorrectly put duplicate copies of the Japanese and Spanish web interface templates in the main cups package (Issue #1517)
• cupsSetDests() did not explicitly set the permissions of the /etc/cups/lpoptions file (Issue #1508)
• The lpq command crashed with the -h option (Issue #1515)

v1.2rc1

Changes in CUPS v1.2rc1:

• Documentation updates (Issue #1497, Issue #1498)
• The scheduler now redirects browsers to https: URLs when encryption is required.
• The scheduler would crash when printing with a banner (Issue #1500)
• cups-driverd did not use the LanguageEncoding attribute in PPD files to convert the NickName to UTF-8 (Issue #1503)
• The lpadmin command could not set the printer-error-policy attribute (Issue #1504)
• The web interface did not show the time and date in the correct format for the locale (Issue #1505)
• CUPS no longer accepts print jobs if a printer does not support the file format (Issue #1501)
• Cleaned up the PostScript filter (pstops) so that it properly supports %%IncludeFeature and page scaling (Issue #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 (Issue #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 (Issue #1491)
• The IPv6 support did not compile on Tru64 UNIX (Issue #1488)
• ppdOpen2() now converts the NickName and all UI text to UTF-8 (Issue #1475)
• The Set Allowed Users web page did not work (Issue #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" (Issue #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 (Issue #1480)
• Fixed localization of a few scheduler messages (Issue #1478)
• Fixed support for HEAD requests in the scheduler (Issue #1481)

v1.2b2

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 (Issue #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 (Issue #1470)

v1.2b1

Changes in CUPS v1.2b1:

• The serial backend now supports Equinox 8-port serial hubs (Issue #526)
• The IPP backend now supports a compression option to compress print files as they are sent to the remote server (Issue #956)
• The CUPS browse protocol now supports passing of default options and browse timeout values from the server to the clients (Issue #800)
• Implicit classes that timed out could cause the scheduler to crash (Issue #1439)
• Added DragonFly support in local device backends (Issue #1362)
• Added LDAP printer browsing support (Issue #338)
• Added official support for printer maintenance commands via the CUPS Command file format and hooks in the printer-type and web interfaces (Issue #932)
• The HP-GL/2 filter could get in an infinite loop trying to convert HP-PCL files (Issue #1415)
• CUPS now implements the HTTP/1.1 Expect header (Issue #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 (Issue #1385)
• The scheduler now creates a job-uuid attribute that uniquely identifies a job on a network (Issue #1410)
• The init script now unsets the TMPDIR environment variable to prevent user temporary directories from being used by cupsd accidentally (Issue #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 (Issue #1028, Issue #1029, Issue #1087)
• The lpmove command now allows you to move all jobs for a given queue (Issue #56)
• The web interface now supports moving of a job or jobs to another queue (Issue #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 (Issue #822, Issue #1236)
• ppdLoad*() no longer tries to "fix" bad characters in UI text (Issue #1101)
• Printer names can now (reliably) contain Unicode characters (Issue #896)
• The lpstat command now shows the time and date of the last printer state change instead of the hardcoded "Jan 01 00:00" (Issue #659)
• The scheduler now adds a job-actual-printer-uri attribute to job objects when printing to a class (Issue #116)
• The scheduler now logs log file open errors to the system log (Issue #1289)
• The scheduler now sets the job-originating-user-name to the authenticated username, if available (Issue #1318)
• The scheduler now only updates the permissions of SSL keys and certificates when they are under the ServerRoot directory (Issue #1324)
• The rastertodymo driver has been renamed to rastertolabel (a symlink is installed so that existing queues continue to work) and now also supports Zebra's CPCL language.
• The lpstat command could show the wrong active job for a printer (Issue #1301)
• Fixed a potential crash problem in the scheduler when aborting a CGI program (Issue #1290)
• Added a "cancel all jobs" button to the class and printer web interfaces (Issue #1140)
• The add-printer web page now shows the set-printer-options page after the printer has been added (Issue #690)
• The classes web page now provides links to each of the member printers (Issue #307)
• CUPS now handles HTTP request/response lines up to 32k in length; this is mainly for better cookie support (Issue #1274)
• Added support for the Apache PassEnv and SetEnv directives to cupsd.conf (Issue #853)
• Added large file (64-bit) support (Issue #541)
• Fixed a performance issue with the ippReadIO() implementation (Issue #1284)
• Fixed a performance issue with the scheduler's implicit class implementation (Issue #1283)
• The pdftops filter now adds the Title and Creator fields from the PDF file to the PostScript document comments section (Issue #539, Issue #830)
• Added a new cups_array_t and cupsArray*() functions to the CUPS API to support sorted lists of data.
• Made the CUPS API library thread-safe (Issue #1276)
• Added "media" option support for EFI EFMediaType option (Issue #902)
• Added write buffering to the HTTP code to improve performance (Issue #547)
• The scheduler now uses the attributes-natural-language attribute to localize banner pages (Issue #386)
• The scheduler now returns the address that was used to connect to it (Issue #1076)
• Fixed a problem with N-up printing and OpenOffice (Issue #576)
• Added support for the GCC position independent executable options (Issue #1209)
• Added new BrowseLocalProtocols and BrowseRemoteProtocols directives to cupsd.conf, allowing for different browse protocols for local and remote printers (Issue #877)
• PPD files can now contain strings up to 256k in length (Issue #1215)
• The pstops filter now supports the IncludeFeature DSC comment (Issue #1212)
• The pstops filter now disables the setpagedevice procedure when doing N-up printing (Issue #1161)
• The serial backend now supports "stop=1", "stop=2", "parity=space", and "parity=mark" options (Issue #1155)
• "make install" no longer overwrites an existing PAM configuration file (Issue #1064)
• The scheduler now closes all files on startup when run in daemon mode (Issue #1009)
• Added a new RGBW colorspace to the CUPS raster format (Issue #1071)
• The pdftops filter now sets the page size based on the media box when not scaling the output (Issue #912)
• The pdftops filter now supports masked images (Issue #281)
• The pdftops filter produced large output when rendering PDF files containing lot of repeated images (Issue #327)
• The pdftops filter now minimizes print processing of PDF files when using the page-ranges option (Issue #273)
• Updated pdftops filter to Xpdf 3.01.
• Added new cupsBackchannelRead() and cupsBackchannelWrite() functions, as well as backchannel support to the parallel, serial, socket, and USB backends (Issue #1252)
• The parallel and USB backends now treat a "no space available" error as an out-of-paper condition (Issue #1225)
• The "lpc" command now supports the "status all" command (Issue #1004)
• ippReadIO() did not read collections properly (Issue #1249)
• The "make test" script now creates the test files in "/tmp/cups-$USER" instead of "/tmp/$USER" (Issue #981)
• All backends now abort on error when printing a job to a class - this allows the next printer in the class to print the job (Issue #1084)
• The scheduler now verifies that a printer supports Letter or A4 media sizes before setting them as the initial default (Issue #1250)
• The cupstestppd program now flags bad Resolution options (Issue #1269)
• The USB backend now retries printing when the printer is disconnected or turned off (Issue #1267)
• Added new httpGetHostname() function to CUPS API, and use it instead of gethostname() so that the web interface will work correctly on systems whose hostname is not the FQDN (Issue #1266)
• The scheduler now stops printers if the backend for ...

v1.2.9

Changes in CUPS v1.2.9:

• The scheduler did not use the default job-sheets (banners) for implicit classes (Issue #2284)
• The scheduler could crash when listing complete jobs that had been unloaded from memory (Issue #2288)
• The French localization was doubled up (Issue #2287)
• Build system fixes for several platforms (Issue #2260, Issue #2275)
• The scheduler's openssl certificate generation code was broken on some platforms (Issue #2282)
• The scheduler's log rotation check for devices was broken (Issue #2278)
• The LPD mini-daemon did not handle the document-format option correctly (Issue #2266)
• The pdftops filter ignored the "match" size option in the pdftops.conf file (Issue #2285)
• cupstestppd now validates UTF-8 text strings in globalized PPD files (Issue #2283)
• The outputorder=reverse option did not work with all printers (Issue #2279)
• Classes containing other classes did not always work (Issue #2255)
• Printer location and description information was lost if the corresponding string contained the "#" character (Issue #2254)
• cupsRemoveOption() did not work properly (Issue #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 (Issue #2252)
• The text filter could crash when pretty printing certain types of files (Issue #2158)

v1.2.8

Changes in CUPS v1.2.8:

• Documentation fixes (Issue #2141, Issue #2157)
• The HTTP upgrade redirection used by the scheduler did not work with Internet Explorer (Issue #2235)
• Members of a class with Unicode names did not appear correctly in the web interface (Issue #2154)
• Changing the "Save debugging information" setting in the web interface no longer affects the other server settings (Issue #1993)
• The scheduler did not choose SSL certificates correctly on Mac OS X (Issue #2225)
• The scheduler could get in an infinite loop when printing to a remote class (Issue #2228)
• The jobs web page did not have separating space after the number of pages column (Issue #2230)
• Added French localization (Issue #2221)
• Updated Spanish localization (Issue #2223)
• Updated Japanese localization (Issue #2216)
• cupsBorderlessScalingFacter was limited to a range of 0.9 to 1.1, but some printers need larger values (Issue #2222)
• Landscape printing of PDF files did not always work (Issue #2149)
• Fixed slow USB printing on Minolta printers (Issue #2104, Issue #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 (Issue #2126)
• The CUPS Java scripting support did not work with recent versions of Java due to the use of Sun's private Base64 class (Issue #2152)
• The scheduler did not pass HTTP GET form variables to custom CGI programs (Issue #2173)
• The lpoptions command now displays the reason why a PPD file cannot be found (Issue #2184)
• The scheduler did not accept "none" as a browse protocol name (Issue #2200)
• The scheduler still loaded the remote printer cache, even when browsing was disabled (Issue #2198)
• The SNMP backend now shows OfficeJet printers with the "HP" manufacturer prefix (Issue #2151)
• Web interface HTML cleanup (Issue #2153)
• The parallel backend consumed 100% CPU on FreeBSD due to an apparently common parallel port driver bug (Issue #2161)
• ippReadIO() incorrectly returned IPP_IDLE when the initial IPP message header could not be read (Issue #2179)
• cupsRasterInterpretPPD() did not support custom options (Issue #1960)
• Collated output produced by the PostScript filter could lose some options (Issue #2137)
• job-hold-until with time values for the next day would be held for 60 days (Issue #2144)
• Some types of Sun raster files did not print correctly (Issue #2107)
• Raw PBM files did not print correctly (Issue #2106)
• The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP with HP printers, as some recent firmware versions appear to not work (Issue #2055)
• cupsMarkOptions() did not handle the multiple-document-handling option (Issue #2135)
• lpstat did not show the local job ID of active printers (Issue #2125)
• The backends incorrectly used STATUS: media-tray-empty-error messages for out-of-paper conditions (Issue #2123, Issue #2124)
• cupsGetPPD2() returned the wrong error when the PPD file did not exist (Issue #2122)
• cupsDoAuthentication() did not translate the password prompt (Issue #2121)
• httpGetLength2() did not handle error messages without content correctly (Issue #2133)
• Added support for 32/64-bit libraries on HP-UX Itanium systems (Issue #2115)
• Fixed a configure script problem with the 32/64-bit library support (Issue #2114)
• The PostScript filter did not properly output document setup commands for reversed output (Issue #2111)
• The scheduler did not parse IPv6 netmasks properly (Issue #2117)

v1.2.7

Changes in CUPS v1.2.7:

• Documentation updates (Issue #2089)
• Added an Italian translation (Issue #2105)
• The PostScript filter now rotates the bounding box values as needed (Issue #2079)
• The scheduler no longer loads the remote printer cache when browsing is disabled (Issue #2084)
• The scheduler no longer writes a new launchd configuration file if it doesn't have to (Issue #2083)
• Updated the USB and PAP backends for Mac OS X (Issue #2086)
• The scheduler now picks up on changes to IPv6 and DNS configuration on Mac OS X (Issue #2085)
• The lpstat program could still hang (Issue #2098)
• Fixed an inefficiency in the SNMP IPP detection code (Issue #2100)
• The SSL negotiation code did not implement short timeouts (Issue #2091)

v1.2.6

Changes in CUPS v1.2.6:

• The web interface was not localized on Mac OS X (Issue #2075)
• "lpc status" did not show the number of queued jobs for disabled queues (Issue #2069)
• The lpstat program could hang (Issue #2073)
• The serial backend did not support the new USB serial filenames on Linux (Issue #2061)
• The parallel backend did not support bidirectional I/O properly (Issue #2056)
• The network backends now log the numeric address that is being used (Issue #2046)
• Fixed a compile error when using libpaper.
• Fixed a compile error when compiling on Solaris with threading enabled (Issue #2049, Issue #2050)
• Missing printer-state-changed event for printer-state-message updates (Issue #2047)