CUPS 1.4.5
Created at 10:15 Nov 11, 2010 by mike, last modified at 12:18 Nov 11, 2010
CUPS 1.4.5 is now available for download from:
http://www.cups.org/software.php
The new release fixes several scheduler and printing bugs as well as a reported security bug. Changes include:
- Documentation fixes (STR #3542, STR #3650)
- Localization fixes (STR #3635, STR #3636, STR #3647, STR #3666)
- Security: Fixed a memory corruption bug reported in CVE-2010-2941 (STR #3648)
- The CUPS API incorrectly mapped the HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED status to the IPP_NOT_AUTHORIZED status code, when IPP_NOT_AUTHENTICATED would be the correct mapping (STR #3684)
- The scheduler would restart jobs while shutting down (STR #3679)
- Fixed a PPD loader bug that could cause a crash in cupsd (STR #3680)
- Improved the mapping of non-standard PPD and PWG names (STR #3671)
- The scheduler did not initialize Kerberos in all cases (STR #3662)
- cupsAdminSetServerSettings duplicated Listen and Order lines (STR #3645)
- Added DeviceN colorspace support to the CUPS Raster format (STR #3419)
- ppdMarkDefaults() did not clear the marked field of the previous choices (STR #3642)
- The serial backend would not allow a raw job to be canceled (STR #3649)
- The socket backend could go into an infinite loop with certain printers (STR #3622)
- Setting the PRINTER or LPDEST environment variables to "name/instance" did not work (STR #3485)
- The scheduler did not handle the JobRetryLimit setting properly (STR #3466)
- The lpstat command always showed a remote job ID of 0 for shared printers (STR #3627)
- Increased the write timeout for the libusb-based USB backend to 5 minutes (STR #3595)
- The libusb-base USB backend did not check whether the printer has a serial number (STR #3590)
- The lpadmin command did not support setting of custom option values (STR #3631)
- The lpadmin command did not support setting of the location or description of a class (STR #3613)
- The cupsaddsmb command did not give up after too many failed attempts (STR #3615)
- The CUPS library no longer uses certain problematic ctype macros that change based on the locale's character set.
- PJL value substitution of more than 9 values was broken (STR #3621)
- Custom options with missing string values caused ppdEmit* to segfault (STR #3620)
- Fixed an issue with the Italian version of the web interface (STR #3624)
- Fixed the Solaris SMF configuration file for cups-lpd (STR #3611)
- The scheduler did not set the notify-subscribed-event attribute when delivering printer-added or printer-modified events (STR #3608)
- The mailto notifier could get into an infinite loop (STR #3609)
- Date/time information was not shown in banner pages.
- Relational operators were broken in #if/#elif/#else/#endif expressions for the PPD compiler.
- Moving a job via the web interface failed without asking for authentication (STR #3559)
- The scheduler now clears the printer-state-reasons when the driver is changed (STR #3570)
- The web interface did not allow a user to change the driver (STR #3537, STR #3601)
- The scheduler was not setting the PATH_INFO environment variable when needed (STR #3600)
- The scheduler incorrectly set the CUPSD_AUTH_TYPE environment variable instead of AUTH_TYPE (STR #3599)
- Fixed a buffer overrun in the PPD compiler (STR #3594)
- Fixed some additional IPP job template attribute mapping issues in the scheduler.
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