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Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.21rc2

Created at 09:00 Aug 23, 2004 by mike, last modified at 12:26 Aug 23, 2004

The second 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 Monday, September 6th 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 v1.1.21rc2:

        

• The scheduler used a select() timeout of INT_MAX
          seconds when there was nothing to do, which doesn't
          work on IRIX (STR #864)
          
• Updated the cupsaddsmb program to use the new Windows
          2000 PostScript drivers instead of the Windows NT
          printer drivers (STR #390)
          
• The gziptoany filter did not produce copies for raw
          print jobs (STR #808)
          
• The cupsLangGet() function now uses nl_langinfo(),
          when available, to get the current encoding (STR #856)
          
• Added a ReloadTimeout directive to control how long
          the scheduler waits for jobs to complete before
          restarting the scheduler (STR #861)
          
• Added a note to the default cupsd.conf file which
          mentions that you must allow connections from
          localhost for the command-line and web interfaces to
          work (STR #850)
          
• The IPP backend incorrectly used the local port when
          communicating with a remote server; this caused
          problems with some custom configurations (STR #852)
          
• The cups-lpd mini-daemon wasn't using the right
          default banner option (STR #851)
          
• Updated the new httpDecode64_2() and httpEncode64_2()
          functions to handle arbitrary binary data, not just
          text (STR #860)
          
• String options with quotes in their values were not
          quoted properly by the scheduler (STR #839)
          
• Configure script changes for GNU/Hurd (STR #838)
          
• The lppasswd program was not installed properly by GNU
          install when the installer was not root (STR #836)
          
• Updated the cups-lpd man page (STR #843)
          
• Fixed a typo in the cupsd man page (STR #833)
          
• The USB backend now defaults to using the newer
          /dev/usb/lpN filenames; this helps on systems which
          use the devfs filesystem type on Linux (STR #818)
          
• The config.h file did not define the HAVE_USERSEC_H
          constant when the configure script detected the
          usersec.h header file. This caused authentication
          errors on AIX (STR #832)
          
• The lp and lpr commands now report the temporary
          filename and error if they are unable to create a
          temporary file (STR #812)
          
• Added ServerTokens directive to control the Server
          header in HTTP responses (STR #792)
          
• Added new httpDecode64_2(), httpEncode64_2(), and
          httpSeparate2() functions which offer buffer size
          arguments (STR #797)
          
• The cupsGetFile() and cupsPutFile() code did not
          support CDSA or GNUTLS (STR #794)
          
• The httpSeparate() function did not decode all
          character escapes (STR #795)
          
• The cupstestppd program now checks for invalid Duplex
          option choices and fails PPD files that use
          non-standard values (STR #791)
          
• Updated the printer name error message to indicate
          that spaces are not allowed (STR #675)
          
• The scheduler didn't handle HTTP GET form data
          properly (STR #744)
          
• The pstops filter now makes sure that the prolog code
          is sent before the setup code (STR #776)
          
• The pstops filter now handles print files that
          incorrectly start @PJL commands without a language
          escape (STR #734)
          
• Miscellaneous build fixes for NetBSD (STR #788)
          
• Added support for quoted system group names (STR #784)
          
• Added "version" option to IPP backend to workaround
          serious bug in Linksys's IPP implementation (STR #767)
          
• Added Spanish translation of web interface (STR #772,
          STR #802)
          
• The LPD backend now uses geteuid() instead of getuid()
          when it is available (STR #752)
          
• The IPP backend did not report the printer state if
          the wait option was set to "no" (STR #761)
          
• The printer state was not updated for "STATE: foo,bar"
          messages (STR #745)
          
• Added new CUPS API convenience functions which accept
          a HTTP connection to eliminate extra username/password
          prompts. This resolves a previous authentication
          caching issue (STR #729, STR #743)
          
• The scheduler did not correctly throttle the browse
          broadcasts, resulting in missing printers on client
          machines (STR #754)
          
• The scheduler did not pass the correct CUPS_ENCRYPTION
          setting to CGI programs which caused problems on
          systems which used non-standard encryption settings
          (STR #773)
          
• The lpq command showed 11st, 12nd, and 13rd instead of
          11th, 12th, and 13th for the rank (STR #769)
          
• "make install" didn't work on some platforms due to an
          error in the man page makefiles (STR #775)
          
• Changed some calls to snprintf() in the scheduler to
          SetStringf() (STR #740)

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