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Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.19rc2

Created at 09:00 Apr 18, 2003 by mike, last modified at 08:21 Apr 18, 2003

Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.19rc2

The second release candidate for version 1.1.19 of the Common UNIX Printing System ("CUPS") is now available for download from the CUPS web site at:

    http://www.cups.org/software.php

In accordance with the CUPS Configuration Management Plan, you now have until Friday, May 2nd to test this release candidate to determine if there are any high-priority problems and report them using the Software Trouble Report form at:

    http://www.cups.org/str.php

Reports sent to the CUPS newsgroups or mailing lists are not automatically entered into the trouble report database and will not influence the final production release of 1.1.19, so it is very important that you report any problems you identify using the form.

CUPS 1.1.19 adds support for fast reconfiguration, option retension and defaulting when adding and modifying printers, binary PostScript printing, fax device features, custom web applications via CGI, PHP, Java, and Python, and simple scripting support for Java, Perl, and PHP.  The new release also contains bug fixes including the LPD printing and Solaris signal handling bugs.

Changes in CUPS v1.1.19rc2:

        

• cupsLangGet() now sets the encoding field based on the
          trailing charset in the locale name, and doesn't look
          for a message catalog in a specific locale.charset
          directory.  This fixes STR #26 and is more in line
          with the CUPS 1.2 implementation.
          
• The configure script now aborts if the "ar" command or
          compilers cannot be found.
          
• The static cupsimage library was not built by default.
          
• The path for the "ln" command was hardcoded in
          Makedefs.in instead of being checked at configure time
          (STR #28).
          
• Banner pages containing unescaped { characters would
          not work.
          
• The printer-state-time collection attribute was
          encoded as an enumeration instead of an integer.
          
• The printer-is-accepting-jobs collection attribute was
          was not added to the collection value.
          
• The printer-state-sequence-number collection attribute
          was not added to the collection value.
          
• Fixed typo and const mismatch in IPP backend.
          
• Updated the man pages for the new configuration
          directives.
          
• Updated the SAM for MacOS 10.2, the CUPS drivers for
          windows, the available LPD backend options, and the
          new configuration directives.
          
• The imagetops filter didn't position images properly
          on the page (STR #18)
          
• The configure script didn't add CPPFLAGS to the
          compiler options or LDFLAGS to the DSO options (STR
          #13)
          
• The scheduler would try to write a debug log message
          when starting a job that contained a NULL string.
          Since not all versions of snprintf() support NULL
          string pointers this caused some problems (STR #20)
          
• The testipp program now supports reading of IPP
          message files such as those used for the job history
          in /var/spool/cups.

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