15 Dec 2008Common UNIX Printing System 1.4b2

CUPS 1.4b2 is now available for download from:

http://www.cups.org/software.html

The second beta release of CUPS 1.4 fixes several localization, scheduler, and utility issues, improves the performance of several key CUPS APIs, and adds a Spanish localization. Changes include:

• Documentation updates (Issue #2983, Issue #2998, Issue #3021)
• The cupstestppd utility now validates the FileVersion and FormatVersion values in PPD files.
• The default cupsd.conf file did not reflect the –with-local-protocols value set at compile-time (Issue #3037)
• The cupsGetPPD* APIs now create symlinks to local PPD files rather than copying them whenever possible.
• Various performance optimizations in the string pool, dests, and options implementations.
• The cupsGetDests* APIs now return the marker and printer-commands attributes.
• Side-channel SNMP lookups would not work when cupsSNMPSupplies was set to False in the PPD file.
• Localized the device descriptions for the SCSI, serial, and network backends (Issue #3014)
• Added a Spanish localization (Issue #3015)
• Added support for marker-low-levels and marker-high-levels attributes.
• The scheduler could hang writing a long log line.
• The cupsGetDevices() function now has an “include_schemes” parameter.
• The lpinfo command now supports –include-schemes and –exclude-schemes options.
• The CUPS-Get-PPDs operation now supports the include-schemes and exclude-schemes attributes.
• The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the include-schemes attribute.
• The print filters now support a replacement for the fitplot option called “fit-to-page”.
• The LPD backend no longer tries to collect page accounting information since the LPD protocol does not allow us to prevent race conditions.
• The scheduler did not save the last marker-change-time value.
• Fixed a problem with printing to some IPP printers, including CUPS 1.1.x.
• Fixed a redirection problem with the printer web page (Issue #3012)
• Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message catalogs (Issue #2990)
• Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files (Issue #2989)
• The cupsfilter utility did not set the CONTENT_TYPE environment variable when running filters.
• The scheduler now waits to allow system sleep until the jobs have all stopped.
• The IPP, LPD, and socket backends used different “connecting” progress messages.