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Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.9

Created at 13:39 Oct 09, 2008 by mike, last modified at 13:39 Oct 09, 2008

CUPS 1.3.9 is now available for download from:

    http://www.cups.org/software.php

It contains the following fixes:

• SECURITY: The HP-GL/2 filter did not range check pen numbers (STR #2911)
• SECURITY: The SGI image file reader did not range check 16-bit run lengths (STR #2918)
• SECURITY: The text filter did not range check cpi, lpi, or column values (STR #2919)
• Documentation updates (STR #2904, STR #2944)
• The French web admin page was never updated (STR #2963)
• The IPP backend did not retry print jobs when the printer reported itself as busy or unavailable (STR #2951)
• The "Set Allowed Users" web interface did not handle trailing whitespace correctly (STR #2956)
• The PostScript filter did not work with Adobe applications using custom page sizes (STR #2968)
• The Mac OS X USB backend did not work with some printers that reported a bad 1284 device ID.
• The scheduler incorrectly resolved the client connection address when HostNameLookups was set to Off (STR #2946)
• The IPP backend incorrectly stopped the local queue if the remote server reported the "paused" state.
• The cupsGetDests() function did not catch all types of request errors.
• The scheduler did not always log "job queued" messages (STR #2943)
• The scheduler did not support destination filtering using the printer-location attribute properly (STR #2945)
• The scheduler did not send the server-started, server-restarted, or server-stopped events (STR #2927)
• The scheduler no longer enforces configuration file permissions on symlinked files (STR #2937)
• CUPS now reinitializes the DNS resolver on failures (STR #2920)
• The CUPS desktop menu item was broken (STR #2924)
• The PPD parser was too strict about missing keyword values in "relaxed" mode.
• The PostScript filter incorrectly mirrored landscape documents.
• The scheduler did not correctly update the auth-info-required value(s) if the AuthType was Default.
• The scheduler required Kerberos authentication for all operations on remote Kerberized printers instead of just for the operations that needed it.
• The socket backend could wait indefinitely for back- channel data with some devices.
• PJL panel messages were not reset correctly on older printers (STR #2909)
• cupsfilter used the wrong default path (STR #2908)
• Fixed address matching for "BrowseAddress @IF(name)" (STR #2910)
• Fixed compiles on AIX.
• Firefox 3 did not work with the CUPS web interface in SSL mode (STR #2892)
• Custom options with multiple parameters were not emitted correctly.
• Refined the cupstestppd utility.
• ppdEmit*() did not support custom JCL options (STR #2889)
• The cupstestppd utility incorrectly reported missing "en" base translations (STR #2887)

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