cups 1.4.0~svn8773-1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

cups (1.4.0~svn8773-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream prerelease snapshot.
    [ Changes listed explicitly here as they are not yet available on
      www.cups.org ]
    1. accept and reject; the accept and reject commands have been
       officially renamed to cupsaccept and cupsreject. The old names are
       still supported via symlinks.
    2. cupsdisable and cupsenable; the cupsdisable command now supports a
       --hold option to stop printing after the current job and the
       cupsenable command now supports a --release option to release
       pending jobs for printing.
    3. cupsfilter; the cupsfilter program now supports filtering of
       already-queued print job files and can also run printer-specific
       filters specified in the PPD file.
    4. cupstestdsc; the cupstestdsc utility has been improved to better
       detect problems with PostScript print files.
    5. cupstestppd; the cupstestppd utility has been improved to test new
       PPD keywords and better detect impossible constraints.
    6. lpadmin; the lpadmin command now supports options to hold and
       release new jobs on a printer or all printers.
    7. lpoptions; the lpoptions command now describes custom options and
       their parameters.
    8. lppasswd; the lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid by
       default.
    9. lpstat; the lpstat command now supports a -H option to show the
       current default server and no longer slows down when a printer is
       specified.
   10. Look-n-feel; the web interface has been given a new look.
   11. PHP support; the "php-cgi" program is used, when available, to
       process PHP pages in the CUPS web interface.
   12. Printer configuration; improvements have been made to the add and
       modify printer pages.
   13. Printer options; the Set Default Options page now provides a
       "query" button that queries the default and installed options from
       the printer.
   14. Printer sharing; the "share printer" and "unshare printer" buttons
       are now only shown when printer sharing is enabled in the
       scheduler.
   15. Security; the web interface has been updated to support
       authentication for printing of test pages and RSS subscription
       operations.
   16. Server settings; the Administration page now provides access to
       common "advanced" server settings.
   17. Bonjour (DNS-SD) printing support; a new mdns backend provides
       Bonjour-based printer discovery and the ipp, lpd, and socket
       backends now support Bonjour address resolution.
   18. Bonjour (DNS-SD) perforance tuning; the scheduler now only uses a
       single file descriptor for printer sharing. It previously used one
       per printer.
   19. Bonjour (DNS-SD) web interface registry; when remote access is
       enabled, the scheduler can register the web interface for easier
       access.
   20. LPD client support; the cups-lpd mini-daemon now provides the
       document-name for print jobs and supports specification of a CUPS
       server.
   21. PWG Port Monitor MIB; the snmp backend now supports the PWG Port
       Monitor MIB to better choose the device URI to use.
   22. SNMP-based monitoring; the ipp, lpd, and socket backends now report
       supply levels and printer status using SNMP queries.
   23. IPP/2.x support; CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1
       specifications.
   24. CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation; the scheduler now supports
       setting the printer-state-reasons attribute using this operation.
   25. CUPS-Get-Document operation; the scheduler now supports a "get
       document" operation to download files from a print job.
   26. Device location; the scheduler and backend discovery interface now
       support a device-location attribute.
   27. Hold-New-Jobs and Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; the scheduler
       now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and Release-Held-New-Jobs
       operations.
   28. Access control; the scheduler now supports multiple addresses in
       Allow and Deny lines. It also now returns a HTTP 403 (forbidden)
       status when a user authenticates successfully but is not allowed to
       perform an operation.
   29. Access logging; the scheduler now supports an AccessLogLevel
       directive to control what is logged in the access_log file.
   30. Configuration files; the default cupsd.conf file now provides an
       "authenticated" policy for easy authenticated sharing of printers.
   31. Default LogLevel; the default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of
       "info".
   32. Automatic debug logging; the scheduler now records up to the last N
       (default 200) debug messages for failed print jobs.
   33. Default paper size; the scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize
       directive to override the default paper size defined by the locale
       or libpaper configuration.
   34. Encryption support; the scheduler now supports a SSLOptions
       directive to optionally support Windows clients in "FIPS" mode. It
       also now loads both the server and CA certificates (if present)
       from the ServerCertificate file.
   35. Error logging; the scheduler now logs unsuccessful operations as
       errors in the error_log file.
   36. Error policies; the scheduler now supports a retry-current-job
       error policy that retries the current job immediately.
   37. Fatal error handling; the scheduler now supports a FatalErrors
       directive to control which startup errors should be considered
       fatal.
   38. Filter command-line; the scheduer now passes the
       job-originating-host-name attribute as a CUPS option to filters and
       backends.
   39. Filter environment; the scheduler now includes CUPS_JOBTYPE,
       PRINTER_INFO, and PRINTER_LOCATION variables in the environment
       passed to filters and backends.
   40. Job progress; the scheduler now supports a job-media-progress
       attribute to track the printing progress of each page.
   41. MIME database; MIME types now support a priority attribute to
       override the default (alphabetical) rules of precedence.
   42. Page logging; the scheduler now supports a PageLogFormat directive
       to control the format of the page_log file.
   43. PAM support; the scheduler now sets more PAM attributes to better
       support third-party authentication schemes.
   44. PDF job ticket support; the scheduler now supports cupsJobTicket
       comments at the beginning of PDF print jobs.
   45. Performance tuning; the scheduler now coalesces configuration and
       state file changes to reduce the amount of disk activity and caches
       printer attributes to further reduce startup time.
   46. Printcap support; the scheduler no longer clears the printcap file
       when shutting down, and can now create XML "plist" printcap files
       as well.
   47. RSS subscriptions; the scheduler now starts the notifier for RSS
       subscriptions after creation so the feed is available immediately.
   48. Sandbox support; the scheduler now runs child processes using
       restrictive policies on Mac OS X for improved security and job
       isolation.
   49. Test option; the scheduler now supports a test mode via the "-t"
       option.
   50. Device discovery; the cups-deviced helper now runs backends in
       parallel for faster discovery and streams the results of discovery
       as the backends provide them.
   51. Driver development kit; the CUPS DDK is now a standard part of
       CUPS.
   52. Driver information file support; the cups-driverd helper program
       now directly supports PPD compiler driver information files.
   53. Dynamic PPD support; drivers can now set PPD keywords dynamically
       using PPD: messages.
   54. Generic PostScript command filter; a new CUPS command file filter
       for PostScript printers provides auto-configuration, self-test
       page, and status and supply level reporting functions.
   55. New printer drivers; new generic PostScript and PCL drivers provide
       improved support for laser printers, the CUPS DDK drivers offer
       support for many HP DesignJet printers, and new label drivers offer
       support for Seiko and Tharo label printers.
   56. PJL support; the cupsPJLDisplay PPD attribute controls the PJL
       commands used to display the current user and job on the printer.
   57. PPD compiler improvements; the PPD compiler now supports Mac OS X
       .strings files, OID query strings, conditional directives, long
       file names, and a test mode. It also fixes many other bugs from the
       CUPS DDK 1.2.3 release.
   58. USB printer support; the usb backend now uses libusb when available
       to allow it to better work with third-party scanning and printing
       solutions.
   59. Banner filter; the bundled banner ("job-sheets") pages are now
       generated using a new banner filter provides easier customization
       and better support for UTF-8 text.
   60. Image filters; the standard image filters now support image files
       larger than 2GB.
   61. PDF filter; the pdftops filter has been replaced with a wrapper
       program that runs the Xpdf, poppler, or Ghostscript PDF to
       PostScript utilities.
   62. Backend API; a new cupsBackendReport function is provided to report
       a device from a backend and handles any needed quoting of the
       make-and-model, info, device-id, and location strings.
   63. Device discovery; the new cupsGetDevices function streams
       discovered devices to an application-provided callback function.
   64. IPP API; the IPP read and write functions no longer use a large
       stack-based buffer when reading and writing IPP attributes.
   65. PPD support; several new functions are provided: cupsGetPPD3,
       cupsResolveConflicts, ppdInstallableConflict, ppdLocalizeAttr,
       ppdLocalizeMarkerName and ppdPageSizeLimits.
   66. Side-Channel API; new cupsSideChannelSNMPGet and
       cupsSideChannelSNMPWalk functions allow printer drivers to do SNMP
       queries via the standard network backends.
   67. Streaming API; a new streaming request API provides asynchronous
       job creation and request submission.
  * debian/patches/freebsd.dpatch,
    debian/patches/manpage-typos.dpatch,
    debian/patches/search_mime_files_in_usr_share.dpatch,
    debian/patches/cupsaccept.dpatch,
    debian/patches/gnutls-pkgconfig.dpatch: Removed backport patches of upstream
    features.
  * debian/patches/testsuite-increase-wait-timeout.dpatch: Removed, fixed
    upstream.
  * debian/patches/removecvstag.dpatch,
    debian/patches/pidfile.dpatch,
    debian/patches/ppd-poll-with-client-conf.dpatch,
    debian/patches/quiesce-bonjour-warning.dpatch,
    debian/patches/rootbackends-worldreadable.dpatch,
    debian/patches/drop_unnecessary_dependencies.dpatch,
    debian/patches/reactivate_recommended_driver.dpatch,
    debian/patches/default_log_settings.dpatch,
    debian/patches/confdirperms.dpatch,
    debian/patches/printer-filtering.dpatch,
    debian/patches/ubuntu-disable-browsing.dpatch: Regenerated.
  * debian/local/backends/dnssd, debian/control, debian/cups.install,
    debian/rules: "dnssd" backend removed, DNS-SD discovery backend is now
    provided upstream.
  * debian/patches/dns-sd-check-typo.dpatch: Fixed typo in upstream code to
    check for the availability of dns_sd.h.
  * debian/patches/dnssd-avahi.dpatch: Added avahi support for the "dnssd" CUPS
    backend (patch from Fedora). CUPS' DNS-SD support does not build with the
    libdns_sd of avahi.
  * debian/patches/show-compile-command-lines.dpatch: Show compiler command
    lines in the output of the "make" process.
  * debian/control: Added libusb-dev to the build dependencies, the new USB
    printer backend uses libusb and not any more the usblp kernel module.
  * debian/control: Added libavahi-common-dev and libavahi-client-dev to
    the build dependencies, for the avahi patch for the DNS-SD support.
  * debian/control: Added new packages for the new shared libraries and also
    cups-ppdc for the PPD manipulation utilities of the former CUPS DDk. Added
    transitional package for CUPS DDK. Added Conflicts:/Replaces: as cupsddk
    is replaced by cups-ppdc and the files of cupsddk-drivers go into the
    main cups package.
  * debian/rules: Added "--enable-libusb" to the ./configure command line.
  * debian/rules: Added "--enable-avahi" to the ./configure command line.
  * debian/rules: Call autoconf, as we have an SVN snapshot currently.
  * debian/rules: Updated individual file installation and adaptation steps
    for the new CUPS version.
  * debian/libcups2-dev.install: Added new header file versioning.h.
  * debian/libcupscgi1-dev.install, debian/libcupscgi1.install,
    debian/libcupsdriver1-dev.install, debian/libcupsdriver1.install,
    debian/libcupsmime1-dev.install, debian/libcupsmime1.install,
    debian/libcupsppdc1-dev.install, debian/libcupsppdc1.install: Added install
    file lists for newly added libraries.
  * debian/cups-ppdc.install: File list for new cups-ppdc package. This package
    holds the PPD file manipulation tools which were in CUPS DDK formerly.
  * debian/cups-common.install, debian/cups.install: Updated for new CUPS
    version.
  * debian/cups.install, debian/cups-client.install, debian/cups-ppdc.install:
    Commented out lines for missing translated man pages.
  * debian/cups.postinst: Do not create the /usr/share/ppd/1-local-admin
    and /usr/share/ppd/2-third-party links. They are not needed with current
    CUPS and they also break the test procedure during package build.
  * debian/libcups2.postinst, debian/libcupsimage2.postinst: Removed no-op
    maintainer scripts.
  * debian/local/filters/pdf-filters/addtocups,
    debian/local/filters/pdf-filters/config-scripts/cups-pdf-filters.m4,
    debian/local/filters/pdf-filters/filter/texttopdf.c: Let ./configure
    script check the CUPS version so that in texttopdf.c a missing variable
    can get defined if CUPS is 1.4.x or newer.
  * debian/local/filters/pdf-filters/pdftoopvp/Makefile,
    debian/local/filters/pdf-filters/pdftopdf/Makefile: Added missing
    "unittests", "install-data", "install-headers", "install-libs",
    "install-exec", "libs", "apihelp", and "framedhelp" targets to the
    Makefiles of the PDF filters.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * debian/cups.install, debian/local/filters/pdf-filters/addtocups: Enable
    pdftoopvp filter.
  * Add disable-pdftoopvp-with-old-poppler.dpatch: Disable pdftoopvp if we
    build against a poppler older than 0.11, since pdftoopvp needs that new
    API. (This uses pkg-config --atleast-version in the dpatch script header.)
  * ubuntu-disable-browsing.dpatch: Restore Ubuntu check.
  * dnssd-avahi.dpatch: Add upstream bug link.
  * dnssd-avahi.dpatch: Do not error out of the dnssd backend if system D-Bus
    is not running. This unbreaks the test suite when running in a build
    environment.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>   Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:07:17 +0200