| CHANGES.txt - 2008-05-14 |
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| CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4b1 |
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| - Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD |
| keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing. |
| - Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers |
| that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour) |
| - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service |
| name resolution. |
| - The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for |
| all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674) |
| - The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based |
| page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655) |
| - Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what |
| PJL commands are used to display the job information. |
| - Driver information files can now be installed in |
| /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X. |
| - The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger |
| than 2GB. |
| - The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to |
| reduce disk activity (STR #2684) |
| - The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the |
| exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which |
| backends are polled and for how long. |
| - The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in |
| parallel to get the list of devices faster. |
| - Added --enable-pap configure option. |
| - The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated" |
| policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs. |
| - Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files |
| (STR #2735, STR #2736) |
| - The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files |
| for localization (STR #2737) |
| - ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N |
| when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD |
| file. |
| - The build system has been updated to support separate |
| installation of data, program, header, and library files. |
| - All support libraries are now built as shared libraries |
| by default. |
| - The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X. |
| - The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support |
| SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655) |
| - The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to |
| root to make the default installation more secure. |
| - Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get |
| the localized version of a marker-names value. |
| - The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name |
| attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour. |
| - The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler |
| pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471) |
| - Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or |
| global based on the current access policies for the |
| printer. |
| - cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last |
| used printer preference on Mac OS X. |
| - Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261) |
| - Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS |
| library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638) |
| - The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems |
| that support it (STR #2637) |
| - The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when |
| possible. |
| - The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job |
| attriibute to purge a specified job. |
| - ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency |
| attributes for custom option selections. |
| - The web interface now enables/disables the printer |
| sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the |
| server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233) |
| - The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the |
| server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD |
| and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233) |
| - The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/ |
| manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver |
| on the model page (STR #2436) |
| - The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and |
| duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities |
| of printers (STR #1175) |
| - The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492) |
| - The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation |
| that returns the specified print job document (STR #118) |
| - The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option |
| to filter the document from the specified job. |
| - The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to |
| do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003) |
| - Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to |
| cache PPDs safely (STR #1473) |
| - Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs. |
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