the installed files are not automatically included in the right place in
the system path and need to be either copied in /usr/bin or dealt with in
another way.
The saves a lot of frustration and puzzling esp. for the beginning user.
- security fix to scheduler to address a DoS attack
- improve conformance to IPP specification
- miscellaneous bug fixes to server and userland utilities
- plug memory leaks
- bug fixes to SSL code
- the mime.convs file was missing the filter definition for Windows BMP
(image/x-bitmap) files
- improved test suite
- added CUPS support files for Java, Perl, and PHP
- The cups-lpd mini-daemon now sends jobs to the default queue when an
empty queue name (or "lp" and there is no "lp" queue) is sent.
- The scheduler now supports fax queues identified by a "*cupsFax: True"
attribute in the PPD file.
- The scheduler now supports print files that have been compressed using
gzip.
- Added a robots.txt file to the standard install to prevent search
engines from indexing the CUPS server.
- When writing BSD printcap files, the scheduler now includes the rm and
rp attributes, allowing the file to be exported to LPD clients.
- The pdftops filter now scales PDF pages within the printable area of the
page.
- The PostScript filter now supports binary PostScript files and files
beginning with the PJL language escape sequence.
- Fixed the CIE colorspace support code in the image and PS RIPs.
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* Removed the pstoraster filter (based on GNU Ghostscript 5.50) and now
* provide the raster "driver" and patch file necessary to use the current
* GNU Ghostscript 7.05 release. Pkgsrc users should install the
* print/ghostscript-esp package.
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- Many, many bug fixes.
- Improvements to polling and scheduling of jobs to CUPS and to connected
printers.
- Updated the CUPS license agreement for the new MacOS and OpenSSL license
exceptions.
- The jobs.cgi web interface now handles all job operations, allowing the
administrator to allow "job administrators" or operators to manage jobs
(but not queues) on the server.
- New SCSI printer backend.
- The PostScript filter now supports 6, 9, and 16-up output, as well as new
page-border and number-up-layout options.
- Added ConfigFilePerm and LogFilePerm directives.
- The HTML job operation templates now link back to the destination printer
or class.
- Removed unnecessary fonts and updated the Courier and Symbol fonts to the
latest versions to better support non-ISOLatin1 text.
- The text filter now always embeds the Courier and Symbol fonts to ensure
that they contain the full set of glyphs.
- The PostScript image filter (imagetops) now supports printing CMYK images
using the CMYK colorspace.
- The cupsaddsmb program was updated to use the setdriver command instead of
addprinter.
- The Allow, Deny, BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, and BrowseAddress directives
now support the network interface names "@LOCAL" and "@IF(name)" for
access control and browsing based on the current interface addresses
instead of fixed names or IP addresses.
- The cupsaddsmb program now supports alternative CUPS and SAMBA server names.
- The PostScript filter now supports the Orientation comment and rotates the
page as needed automatically.
