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Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.21rc1

Created at 09:00 May 27, 2004 by mike, last modified at 12:18 May 27, 2004

The first release candidate for version 1.1.21 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 Thursday, June 10th 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 1.1.21, so it is very important that you report any problems you identify using the form.

CUPS 1.1.21 is primarily a bug fix and performance tuning release and includes fixes for the IPP, LPD, parallel, serial, and USB backends, authentication and status processing issues in the CUPS API, and various PostScript and PDF printing issues. The new release also adds support for Zebra label printers and IPP device URI options.

Changes in CUPS v1.1.21rc1:

        

• Fixed some "type-punned" warnings produced by GCC when
          -fstrict-aliasing is specified (STR #679)
          
• The PDF filter incorrectly calculated the bounding box
          of a page (STR #682)
          
• The IPP backend did not use SSL when printing over a
          port other than 443 (STR #730)
          
• The scheduler could crash when processing a Limit or
          LimitExcept directive (STR #728)
          
• The lpq, lpr, and lp commands did not differentiate
          between the server being unresponsive and the lack of
          a default printer (STR #728)
          
• The PAM checks in the configure script did not stop
          after the first match (STR #728)
          
• The cups-config man page was incorrectly placed in
          section 3 (STR #728)
          
• The cupstestppd utility did not show a warning message
          when a PPD file indicated BCP protocol support with
          PJL (STR #720)
          
• The scheduler did not return the correct exit code
          when startup failed (STR #718)
          
• The cupsRasterReadPixels() function checked for
          EAGAIN, which caused problems on FreeBSD (STR #723)
          
• The cupsGetDests() function did not use the current
          encryption setting (STR #653)
          
• The scheduler did not properly parse name-based
          BrowseRelay directives in the cupsd.conf file (STR
          #711)
          
• The IPP backend now supports the following options in
          the device URI: encryption, waitjob, and waitprinter
          (STR #699)
          
• The parallel, serial, socket, and USB backends did not
          return a non-zero exit status when a job failed to
          print in the middle of sending it (STR #715)
          
• Location directives in the cupsd.conf file were
          case-sensitive for printer and class names, so
          queue-specific access control was not reliable (STR
          #700)
          
• cupsDoFileRequest() did not handle HTTP continue
          status messages in all cases, causing sporatic
          problems with IPP printers from some vendors (STR
          #716)
          
• The rastertodymo driver now supports the Zebra ZPL
          language (STR #713)
          
• The test suite no longer generates a printcap file,
          which caused problems when testing as the root user
          (STR #693)
          
• The scheduler now updates the accepting state of an
          implicit class based upon the accepting state of its
          member printers (STR #697)
          
• The pstops filter didn't properly skip leading PJL
          commands (STR #664)
          
• The reinterpret_cast keyword was not highlighted when
          printing C/C++ source files in prettyprint mode (STR
          #694)
          
• Fixed a segfault problem with some of the client
          programs (STR #668)
          
• When using RunAsUser, the scheduler did not correctly
          set the ownership of the log files, preventing log
          file rotation (STR #686)
          
• The image filters did not correctly load 1-bit PNG
          files (STR #687)
          
• The pdftops filter did not show all annotation objects
          in a PDF file (STR #674)
          
• The pdftops filter did not print the contents of
          textual form elements, making it impossible to print a
          filled-in form (STR #663)
          
• Integrated the MacOS X/Darwin USB backend into the
          CUPS baseline (STR #661)
          
• The USB backend incorrectly reported "media tray
          empty" (STR #660)
          
• The scheduler did not use a case-insensitive
          comparison when checking for group membership, which
          caused problems with Win9x clients printing via SAMBA
          (STR #647)
          
• The scheduler did not report the addresses associated
          with certain network errors, making troubleshooting
          difficult (STR #648, #649)
          
• The cupstestppd program did not allow a default choice
          of "Unknown" as required by the PPD spec (STR #651)
          
• The select() buffers are now allocated to be at least
          as large as sizeof(fd_set) (STR #639)
          
• The LPD backend now supports overriding the print job
          username via the device URI (STR #631)
          
• The scheduler did not handle an unknown MIME type when
          checking for a CGI script (STR #603)
          
• Added a timeout optimization to the scheduler's main
          loop to allow CUPS to sleep more of the time (STR
          #629)
          
• The USB backend now retries printing to devices of the
          form "usb://make/model" if any USB port shows up as
          "busy" (STR #617)
          
• The httpGetHostByName() function did not range check
          IP address values (STR #608)
          
• The httpUpdate() function could return HTTP_ERROR
          instead of the HTTP status if the server closed the
          connection before the client received the whole
          response (STR #611)
          
• The LPD mini-daemon did not allow the administrator to
          force banner pages on (STR #605)
          
• Added PAM support for Darwin/MacOS X (STR #550)
          
• The web interface now provides a "Set As Default"
          button to set the default printer or class on a server
          (STR #577)
          
• The HTTP authentication cache was broken (STR #517)
          
• The cupstestppd utility now fails PPD files that have
          a DefaultOption keyword for a non-existance option
          name (STR #476)
          
• Optimized the scanning of new PPD files on scheduler
          startup (STR #424)
          
• The EPM list file did not include the bin, lib, or
          sbin directories (STR #598)
          
• The web interface did not redirect administration
          tasks to the primary server for a class or printer
          (STR #491, STR #652)
          
• The cups-lpd mini-daemon did not reject print jobs to
          queues that were rejecting new print jobs (STR #515)
          
• Some calls to the ctype functions did not account for
          platforms that use a signed char type by default (STR
          #518)
          
• The scheduler could use excess amounts of CPU if a CGI
          program was sending data faster than the client could
          take it (STR #595)
          
• Updated the Ghostscript 8.x integration stuff (STR
          #484)
          
• The lpd backend used a source port of 732 by default,
          which is outside of the range defined by RFC 1179;
          also added a new (default) "reserve=any" option for
          any priviledged port from 1 to 1023 (STR #474)
          
• The scheduler did not check for a valid Listen/Port
          configuration (STR #499)
          
• The cupsPrintFiles() function did not always set the
          last IPP error message (STR #538)
          
• The pstops filter did not write the PostScript header
          line if the file began with a PJL escape sequence (STR
          #574)
          
• The printer-is-accepting-jobs status of remote
          printers was not sent to clients via browsing or
          polling (STR #571)
          
• The web interface did not show the printer state
          history information (STR #592)
          
• The rastertoepson filter would crash under certain
          cirsumstances (STR #583)
          
• The USB backend did not handle serial numbers using
          the (incorrect) SN keyword and did not terminate the
          make and model name strings properly (STR #471,
          STR #588)
          
• The USB backend did not build on Solaris x86 (STR
          #585)
          
• The cupsDoAuthentication() function did not use the
          method name for Digest authentication (STR #584)
          
• The scheduler could crash if a print job could not be
          printed and the PreserveJobHistory option was turned
          off (STR #535)
          
• cups-lpd now logs the temporary filenames that could
          not be opened in order to make troubleshooting easier
          (STR #565)
          
• cupsGetJobs() now returns -1 on error (STR #569)
          
• Added localization for Belarusian (STR #575)
          
• The LPD backend used the full length of the hostname
          when creating the data and control filenames, which
          causes problems with older systems that can't handle
          long filenames (STR #560)
          
• The scheduler did not refresh the common printer data
          after a fast reload; this prevented banner and other
          information from being updated (STR #562)
          
• The scheduler did not send common or history data to
          the client when processing a CUPS-Get-Default request
          (STR #559)
          
• The httpFlush() function did not always flush the
          remaining response data in requests (STR #558)
          
• The scheduler could complete a job before it collected
          the exit status from all filters and the backend (STR
          #448)
          
• The PPD conformance tests did not catch group
          translation strings that exceeded the maximum allowed
          size (STR #454)
          
• Updated the client code in the scheduler to close the
          client connection on errors rather than shutting down
          the receive end of the socket; this caused resource
          problems on some systems (STR #434)
          
• cups-polld didn't compile on Tru64 5.1B (STR #436)
          
• "lpc stat" crashed if the device URI was empty (STR
          #548)
          
• The scheduler did not compile without zlib (STR #433)
          
• std:floor() cast needed on IRIX 6.5 with SGI C++
          compiler (STR #497)
          
• cupsRasterReadPixels() and cupsRasterWritePixels() did
          not handle EAGAIN and EINTR properly (STR #473)
          
• RequiresPageRegion should not be consulted for Manual
          Feed (STR #514)
          
• International characters were not substituted in
          banner files properly (STR #468)
          
• Updated pdftops to Xpdf 2.03 code to fix printing bugs
          (STR #470)
          
• The Digest authentication code did not include the
          (required) "uri" attribute in the Authorization
          response, preventing interoperation with Apache
          (STR #408)
          
• The web interface could lockup when displaying certain
          URLs (STR #459)
          
• The PostScript filters now convert underscores ("_")
          to spaces for custom classification names (STR #555)

Comments

From Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, 03:05 Jun 17, 2004 (score=5)

make install fails:

./configure --prefix /my/place && make

[root@bgnl4 cups-1.1.21rc1]# make install Installing in cups... Installing in backend... Installing in berkeley... Installing in cgi-bin... Installing in filter... Installing in man... Making all in man/fr... Installing backend.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing cups-config.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing cupstestppd.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing filter.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing lp.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing lpoptions.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing lppasswd.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing lpq.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing lprm.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing lpr.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... Installing lpstat.man in /root/cups-devel/man/man1... /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `for file in ; do  echo Installing $file in /root/cups-devel/man/man3...;  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $file /root/cups-devel/man/man3/`basename $file man`3;  done' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make: *** [install] Error 1 Reply

From Anonymous, 11:13 Jun 06, 2004 (score=3)

all i wanted was to connect to cups with the browser - to configure the printer - after 1 hour i have still not found the adress - something is fucking wrong with this system. Reply

From Anonymous, 10:12 Jul 01, 2004 (score=2)

Hi,

I know this doesn't clearly fit here but I would like to inform you that I am against moderation of feedback.

A couple of weeks ago there was Three (3) comments here under this news, then someone deleted a someway harsh reply to it which made it become only Two (2) comments. Today I am coming back here visiting this site and I saw that ALL comments that users made have been removed.

I think it's ok removing insulting, slandering, badmouth and badworded comments which are not nice but the other ones should clearly stay and the problems and questions should be answered.

In case you do not like ANY comments under your releases then I would recommend that you entirely remove any commenting functions so you make sure that your users and customers reply to you on your newsgroups or mailinglists. Reply

From Anonymous, 06:42 Jun 08, 2004 (score=2)

I can't figure out what changed but since I upgraded I can't get browsing to work. See log snippet below.

I worked fine before the upgrade. Any suggestion?

D [08/Jun/2004:15:11:24 +0200] StartListening: NumListeners=1 D [08/Jun/2004:15:11:24 +0200] StartListening: address=00000000 port=631 D [08/Jun/2004:15:11:24 +0200] ResumeListening: setting input bits... E [08/Jun/2004:15:11:54 +0200] Browse recv failed - Resource temporarily unavailable. E [08/Jun/2004:15:11:54 +0200] Browsing turned off. Reply

From Anonymous, 14:59 May 28, 2004 (score=1)

Awesome!  This should fix the last problem with printing from Mac OS X boxes to non-OS X boxes (the pstops filter wasn't stripping PJL commands from the head of the postscript file created by pictwpstops). 

Thanks! Reply