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Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.20rc6

Created at 09:00 Nov 07, 2003 by mike, last modified at 12:46 Nov 07, 2003

The sixth release candidate for version 1.1.20 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, November 21st 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 1.1.20, so it is very important that you report any problems you identify using the form.

CUPS 1.1.20 is primarily a bug fix and performance tuning release and includes fixes for 64-bit platforms, deadlock problems in the signal handling code, PDF printing issues, web interface issues, and various operating system-specific issues. The new release also adds new CUPS API functions for reading and writing files via HTTP, performing authentication, and controlling the required PPD conformance level.

Changes in CUPS v1.1.20rc6:

        

• "lp -i jobid -H restart" would often return an error
          even though the job restarted successfully (STR #362)
          
• The scheduler did not check for invalid allow/deny
          addresses such as "11.22.33.44/24". It now masks off
          the extra address bits and logs a warning message in
          the error_log file (STR #337)
          
• The cupstestppd utility now checks for missing
          ImageableArea and PaperDimension attributes for each
          defined PageSize (STR #365)
          
• The IPP code did not wait for a reply indefinitely on
          HTTP connections in "blocking" mode (STR #377)
          
• The web interfaces did not rewrite the default printer
          URI properly (STR #369 and #299)
          
• The LPD backend passed the C and L commands in the
          wrong order (STR #378)
          
• The Dymo label printer driver did not set the label
          length properly (STR #373)
          
• The scheduler did not support job IDs higher than
          99999 (STR #371)
          
• The Visual C++ project files did not work (STR #366)
          
• The scheduler's cupsLangSeek() function did not reset
          the "EOF" flag, preventing compressed files from being
          typed properly in some cases (STR #368)
          
• The cupsLangGet() cache was only used if the locale
          name provided an explicit character set name (STR
          #354)
          
• The CUPS API convenience functions did not call
          cupsLangFree() when they were done with the
          localization data (STR #354)
          
• The scheduler did not return the
          job-hold-until-supported or job-hold-until-default
          attributes (STR #356)
          
• The cupsaddsmb program did not support the new CUPS
          driver for Windows (STR #357)

Comments

From Stefan Hildenbrand, 22:31 Nov 10, 2003 (score=4)

I don't get landscape printing to work: I get a portrait printout in landscape mode, meaning things get clipped off. When looking into the PS-file generated I can see that the bounding box is somehow messed up. Reply

From Anonymous, 06:56 Nov 09, 2003 (score=2)

seems like there's a bug in scheduler/file.c, it doesn't compile. A `diff` with Version 1.1.19 says: [...] 835c833 <     fp->stream.next_out  = (Bytef *)fp->buf; --- >     fp->stream.next_out  = fp->buf; [...] I copied the old file and it compiles now. Reply