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Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.19rc5

Created at 09:00 May 13, 2003 by mike, last modified at 11:43 May 13, 2003

The fifth 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 Tuesday, May 27th 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 v1.1.19rc5:

        

• Jobs with banner pages that were printed to implicit
          classes would get double banner pages for each
          file/banner in the job (STR #68)
          
• The mime.convs file was missing the filter definition
          for Windows BMP (image/x-bitmap) files (STR #85)
          
• The scheduler allowed some READ-ONLY job attributes to
          be set, which could cause the scheduler to fail on the
          next restart (STR #82)
          
• The lp and lpr commands did not report when the
          scheduler was not responding; instead, the user would
          incorrectly see a "no default destination" error (STR
          #70)
          
• cupsLangGet() could fail on OSX due to a corrupt
          language preference (STR #78)
          
• Added more checks for HTTP request timeouts.
          
• The scheduler dropped the first non-alpha character
          after an open brace when doing attribute substitutions
          in banner pages (STR #77)
          
• The scheduler child might send SIGUSR1 to the parent
          before the signal handler was installed; this didn't
          prevent the scheduler from starting but produced an
          annoying error message (STR #45)

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