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Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.8

Created at 13:37 Jul 22, 2008 by mike, last modified at 13:44 Jul 22, 2008

CUPS 1.3.8 is now available for download from the CUPS web site:

    http://www.cups.org/software.php

The new release fixes some performance and printing bugs. Changes include:

• Documentation updates (STR #2785, STR #2861, STR #2862)
• The scheduler did not add the ending job sheet when the job was released.
• The IPP backend did not relay marker-* attributes.
• The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for Chinese (STR #2880)
• The CUPS GNOME/KDE menu item was not localized for Japanese (STR #2876)
• The cupstestppd utility reported mixed line endings for Mac OS and Windows PPD files (STR #2874)
• The pdftops filter did not print landscape orientation PDF pages correctly on all printers (STR #2850)
• The scheduler did not handle expiring of implicit classes or their members properly, leading to a configuration where one of the members would have a short name (STR #2766)
• The scheduler and cupstestppd utilities did not support cupsFilter and cupsPreFilter programs with spaces in their names (STR #2866)
• Removed unused variables and assignments found by the LLVM "clang" tool.
• Added NULL checks recommended by the LLVM "clang" tool.
• The scheduler would crash if you started a printer that pointed to a backend that did not exist (STR #2865)
• The ppdLocalize functions incorrectly mapped all generic locales to country-specific locales.
• The cups-driverd program did not support Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
• Added an Indonesian translation (STR #2792)
• Fixed a timing issue in the backends that could cause data corruption with the CUPS_SC_CMD_DRAIN_OUTPUT side-channel command (STR #2858)
• The scheduler did not support "HostNameLookups" with all of the boolean names (STR #2861)
• Fixed a compile problem with glibc 2.8 (STR #2860)
• The PostScript filter did not support %%IncludeFeature lines in the page setup section of each page (STR #2831)
• The scheduler did not generate printer-state events when the default printer was changed (STR #2764)
• cupstestppd incorrectly reported a warning about the PPD format version in some locales (STR #2854)
• cupsGetPPD() and friends incorrectly returned a PPD file for a class with no printers.
• The member-uris values for local printers in a class returned by the scheduler did not reflect the connected hostname or port.
• The CUPS PHP extension was not thread-safe (STR #2828)
• The scheduler incorrectly added the document-format-default attribute to the list of "common" printer attributes, which over time would slow down the printing system (STR #2755, STR #2836)
• The cups-deviced and cups-driverd helper programs did not set the CFProcessPath environment variable on Mac OS X (STR #2837)
• "lpstat -p" could report the wrong job as printing (STR #2845)
• The scheduler would crash when some cupsd.conf directives were missing values (STR #2849)
• The web interface "move jobs" operation redirected users to the wrong URL (STR #2815)
• The Polish web interface translation contained errors (STR #2815)
• The scheduler did not report PostScript printer PPDs with filters as PostScript devices.
• The scheduler did not set the job document-format attribute for jobs submitted using Create-Job and Send-Document.
• cupsFileTell() did not work for log files opened in append mode (STR #2810)
• The scheduler did not set QUERY_STRING all of the time for CGI scripts (STR #2781, STR #2816)
• The scheduler now returns an error for bad job-sheets values (STR #2775)
• Authenticated remote printing did not work over domain sockets (STR #2750)
• The scheduler incorrectly logged errors for print filters when a job was canceled (STR #2806, #2808)
• The scheduler no longer allows multiple RSS subscriptions with the same URI (STR #2789)
• The scheduler now supports Kerberized printing with multiple server names (STR #2783)
• "Satisfy any" did not work in IPP policies (STR #2782)
• The CUPS imaging library would crash with very large images - more than 16Mx16M pixels (STR #2805)
• The PNG image loading code would crash with large images (STR #2790)
• The scheduler did not limit the total number of filters.
• The scheduler now ensures that the RSS directory has the correct permissions.
• The RSS notifier did not quote the feed URL in the RSS file it created (STR #2801)
• The web interface allowed the creation and cancellation of RSS subscriptions without a username (STR #2774)
• Increased the default MaxCopies value on Mac OS X to 9999 to match the limit imposed by the print dialog.
• The scheduler did not reject requests with an empty Content-Length field (STR #2787)
• The scheduler did not log the current date and time and did not escape special characters in request URIs when logging bad requests to the access_log file (STR #2788)

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