Article #450: Common UNIX Printing System 1.2.9

Common UNIX Printing System 1.2.9

Created at 08:11 Mar 15, 2007 by mike, last modified at 08:17 Mar 15, 2007

CUPS 1.2.9 is now available for download from the CUPS web site at:

    http://www.cups.org/software.php

CUPS 1.2.9 fixes several printing issues and scheduler crash bug. Changes include:

The scheduler did not use the default job-sheets (banners) for implicit classes (STR #2284)
The scheduler could crash when listing complete jobs that had been unloaded from memory (STR #2288)
The French localization was doubled up (STR #2287)
Build system fixes for several platforms (STR #2260, STR #2275)
The scheduler's openssl certificate generation code was broken on some platforms (STR #2282)
The scheduler's log rotation check for devices was broken (STR #2278)
The LPD mini-daemon did not handle the document-format option correctly (STR #2266)
The pdftops filter ignored the "match" size option in the pdftops.conf file (STR #2285)
cupstestppd now validates UTF-8 text strings in globalized PPD files (STR #2283)
The outputorder=reverse option did not work with all printers (STR #2279)
Classes containing other classes did not always work (STR #2255)
Printer location and description information was lost if the corresponding string contained the "#" character (STR #2254)
cupsRemoveOption() did not work properly (STR #2264)
The USB backend did not work with some USB to parallel cables on Mac OS X.
The test page did not print the rulers properly on large media sizes (STR #2252)
The text filter could crash when pretty printing certain types of files (STR #2158)