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CUPS 1.6 Documentation

List of CUPS 1.6 Documents

Release Notes

CUPS 1.6.2 (March 18, 2013)

Documentation fixes (STR #4229, STR #4239, STR #4234, STR #4248, STR #4259)
Security: All file, directory, user, and group settings are now stored in a separate cups-files.conf configuration file that cannot be set through the CUPS web interface or APIs (STR #4223)
Added a Czech localization (STR #4201)
Added a French localization (STR #4247)
Added a Russian localization (STR #4228, STR #4285)
Updated the Catalan localization (STR #4202)
Local certificate authentication did not guard against an empty certification file (STR #4293)
The scheduler did not reject device URIs with spaces.
Added USB quirk rule for Epson Stylus Photo 750 (STR #4286)
The IPP backend could crash if the printer disconnects early (STR #4284)
cupsGetPPD did not work with statically-configured CUPS shared queues (STR #4178)
The scheduler did not support long MIME media types (STR #4270)
The cupsfilter command did not set the CHARSET environment variable for the text filters (STR #4273)
The lp command did not show errors for unknown "--foo" (STR #4261)
Bad IPP responses could crash ipptool (STR #4262)
Updated USB quirk rules for Canon and Xerox printers (STR #4217, STR #4263)
Added USB blacklisting for printers that require a custom backend (STR #4218)
The PPD compiler did not correctly JCL options (STR #4115, STR #4203)
The ipptool program now supports DEFINE-MATCH and DEFINE-NO-MATCH predicates for STATUS directives.
Fixed a problem with local Kerberos authentication (STR #4140)
Coverity scan: fixed some minor issues (STR #4242)
The scheduler did not remove color profiles after deleting a printer (STR #4232, STR #4276)
The CUPS library did not always detect a timed out connection to the server which could cause temporary loss of printing from applications (STR #4187)
The ipptool program now supports variable substitution in OPERATION and DELAY directives (STR #4175)
The IPP backend now stops queues when the server configuration prevents successful job submission (STR #4125)
The XML output of ipptool contained empty dictionaries (STR #4136)
The scheduler did not delete job control backup files (STR #4244)
cupsGetPPD3 could return a local PPD instead of the correct remote PPD.
The scheduler incorrectly advertised auth-info-required for local queues needing local authentication (STR #4205)
CUPS 1.6 clients using the ServerName directive in client.conf did not work with CUPS 1.3.x or older servers (STR #4231, STR #4291)
The SNMP backend now tries to work around broken printers that use a newline to separate key/value pairs.
The IPP backend did not send a cancel request to printers when a job was canceled and the printer did not support Create-Job.
Fixed EPM packaging files (STR #4199)
OpenBSD build fix (STR #4195, STR #4196, STR #4197)
The scheduler could crash when using Avahi (STR #4183, STR #4192, STR #4200, STR #4213)
The IPP backend could get stuck in an endless loop on certain network errors (STR #4194)
32-bit builds failed on Debian (STR #4133)
The scheduler no longer accepts or sends job description attributes.
The IPP backend now works around some conformance issues for broken printers (STR #4190)
cupsBackendReport() now filters out all control characters from the reported 1284 device IDs (STR #4124)
The scheduler no longer allows job-name values that are not valid network Unicode strings (STR #4072)
The web interface did not preserve the order of classes, jobs, or printers (STR #4170)
The network backends now support disabling of SNMP supply level queries via the "snmp" URI option (STR #4106)
The IPP backend did not specify the compression used (STR #4181)
ipptool did not support octetString values.
The scheduler did not recognize dnssd: or ipps: URIs as Bonjour shared queues (STR #4158)
Applications could not get the PPD file for statically-configured Bonjour-shared print queues (STR #4159)
The cupsd.conf file included obsolete browsing directives (STR #4157)
Fixed a USB backend compatibility issue on systems using libusb (STR #4155, STR #4191)
Some Bonjour features were not available on systems with Avahi (STR #4156)
CUPS now includes the port number in the Host: header for HTTP requests.
Fixed REPEAT-MATCH for STATUS and EXPECT - was incorrectly erroring out.

CUPS 1.6.1 (July 27, 2012)

Documentation fix (STR #4149)
RPM packaging fixes (STR #4129, #4145)
The Japanese and English web interface headers were swapped (STR #4148)

CUPS 1.6.0 (July 25, 2012)

Document changes (STR #4131)
Added new Catalan (STR #4107) and Spanish (STR #4137) localizations.

CUPS 1.6rc1 (June 21, 2012)

Added a new Japanese localization (STR #4122)
The SNMP backend no longer exits if it is unable to obtain an IPv6 socket (STR #4109)
The LPD backend incorrectly used "localhost" in the control file instead of the current hostname.

CUPS 1.6b1 (May 24, 2012)

Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the end of the job (STR #4075)
CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed cupsd (STR #3459)
Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates (STR #3949)
CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters (STR #2856)
Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds (STR #2291)
The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the local system (STR #2053)
CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots- per-centimeter (STR #4006)
The configure script and build system no longer support building of separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue", "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top", "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in job objects.
Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127 characters.
The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate (Kerberos) authentication.
cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in length.
CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future version of CUPS (STR #3927)
The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops, imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops filters have been removed (STR #3930)
The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)