CUPS 1.2.5 is now available for download from the CUPS web site at:
http://www.cups.org/software.html
CUPS 1.2.5 fixes minor printing, networking, and documentation issues and adds support for older versions of DBUS and a translation for Estonian. Changes include:
Documentation updates (Issue #2038)
The SNMP backend no longer uses IPP for Epson printers (Issue #2028)
Updated the configure script for Tru64 UNIX 5.1 (Issue #2033)
Tru64 5.1B’s getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() functions leak file descriptors (Issue #2034)
cupsAddDest() didn’t add the parent destination’s options and attributes.
ppdConflicts() did not handle custom option constraints.
Raw printing of gzip’d files did not work (Issue #2009)
The scheduler no longer preserves default option choices when the new PPD no longer provides the old default choice (Issue #1929)
The Linux SCSI backend is now only built if the SCSI development headers are installed.
USB printing to Minolta printers did not work (Issue #2019)
Windows clients could not monitor the queue status (Issue #2006)
The scheduler didn’t log the operation name in the access_log file for Create-Job and Print-Job requests.
The PostScript filter now separates collated copies with any required JCL commands so that JCL-based finishing options act on the individual copies and not all of the copies as a single document.
The PostScript filter now disables duplex printing when printing a 1-page document.
cups-lpd didn’t pass the correct job-originating-host-name value (Issue #2023)
Fixed some speling errors in the German message catalog (Issue #2012)
cupstestppd did not catch PPD files with bad UIConstraints values (Issue #2016)
The USB backend did not work with the current udev- created printers if the first printer was disconnected (Issue #2017)
Mirrored and rotated printing did not work with some documents (Issue #2004)
2-sided printing with banners did not work properly on some printers (Issue #2018)
Updated the raw type rule to handle PJL within the first 4k of a print job (Issue #1969)
Added an Estonian translation (Issue #1957)
Clarified the documentation for the cupsd.conf @LOCAL and @IF(name) allow/deny functionality (Issue #1992)
The PostScript filters did not escape the Title and For comments in the print job header (Issue #1988)
The scheduler would use 100% CPU if browsing was disabled and the cupsd.conf file contained BrowsePoll lines (Issue #1994)
The cupsDirRead() function did not work properly on non-POSIX-compliant systems (Issue #2001)
The cupsFile functions didn’t handle read/write errors properly (Issue #1996)
The DBUS support now works with older versions of the DBUS library.