Additionally, remove patch-au since it is now superfluous.
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 CUPS headers incorrectly needed libdispatch for blocks support
(STR #4397)
- The configure script incorrectly added libgcrypt as a GNU TLS
dependency (STR #4399)
- CUPS did not compile when Avahi or mDNSResponder was not present
(STR #4402)
- 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>)
- Fixed a memory leak in the label printer driver (STR #4393)
- Updated Linux "relro" support (STR #4349)
- 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 #4401)
- 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 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)
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)
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