Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.21rc2

[Michael Sweet]

The second release candidate for version 1.1.21 of the Common
UNIX Printing System ("CUPS") is now available for download from
the CUPS web site at:

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

In accordance with the CUPS Configuration Management Plan, you
now have until Monday, September 6th to test this release
candidate to determine if there are any high-priority problems
and report them using the Software Trouble Report form at:

     http://www.cups.org/str.php

Reports sent to the CUPS newsgroups or mailing lists are not
automatically entered into the trouble report database and will
not influence the final production release of 1.1.21, so it is
very important that you report any problems you identify using
the form.

CUPS 1.1.21 is primarily a bug fix and performance tuning
release and includes fixes for the IPP, LPD, parallel, serial,
and USB backends, authentication and status processing issues in
the CUPS API, and various PostScript and PDF printing issues.
The new release also adds support for Zebra label printers and
IPP device URI options.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.21rc2

	- The scheduler used a select() timeout of INT_MAX
	  seconds when there was nothing to do, which doesn't
	  work on IRIX (STR #864)
	- Updated the cupsaddsmb program to use the new Windows
	  2000 PostScript drivers instead of the Windows NT
	  printer drivers (STR #390)
	- The gziptoany filter did not produce copies for raw
	  print jobs (STR #808)
	- The cupsLangGet() function now uses nl_langinfo(),
	  when available, to get the current encoding (STR #856)
	- Added a ReloadTimeout directive to control how long
	  the scheduler waits for jobs to complete before
	  restarting the scheduler (STR #861)
	- Added a note to the default cupsd.conf file which
	  mentions that you must allow connections from
	  localhost for the command-line and web interfaces to
	  work (STR #850)
	- The IPP backend incorrectly used the local port when
	  communicating with a remote server; this caused
	  problems with some custom configurations (STR #852)
	- The cups-lpd mini-daemon wasn't using the right
	  default banner option (STR #851)
	- Updated the new httpDecode64_2() and httpEncode64_2()
	  functions to handle arbitrary binary data, not just
	  text (STR #860)
	- String options with quotes in their values were not
	  quoted properly by the scheduler (STR #839)
	- Configure script changes for GNU/Hurd (STR #838)
	- The lppasswd program was not installed properly by GNU
	  install when the installer was not root (STR #836)
	- Updated the cups-lpd man page (STR #843)
	- Fixed a typo in the cupsd man page (STR #833)
	- The USB backend now defaults to using the newer
	  /dev/usb/lpN filenames; this helps on systems which
	  use the devfs filesystem type on Linux (STR #818)
	- The config.h file did not define the HAVE_USERSEC_H
	  constant when the configure script detected the
	  usersec.h header file. This caused authentication
	  errors on AIX (STR #832)
	- The lp and lpr commands now report the temporary
	  filename and error if they are unable to create a
	  temporary file (STR #812)
	- Added ServerTokens directive to control the Server
	  header in HTTP responses (STR #792)
	- Added new httpDecode64_2(), httpEncode64_2(), and
	  httpSeparate2() functions which offer buffer size
	  arguments (STR #797)
	- The cupsGetFile() and cupsPutFile() code did not
	  support CDSA or GNUTLS (STR #794)
	- The httpSeparate() function did not decode all
	  character escapes (STR #795)
	- The cupstestppd program now checks for invalid Duplex
	  option choices and fails PPD files that use
	  non-standard values (STR #791)
	- Updated the printer name error message to indicate
	  that spaces are not allowed (STR #675)
	- The scheduler didn't handle HTTP GET form data
	  properly (STR #744)
	- The pstops filter now makes sure that the prolog code
	  is sent before the setup code (STR #776)
	- The pstops filter now handles print files that
	  incorrectly start @PJL commands without a language
	  escape (STR #734)
	- Miscellaneous build fixes for NetBSD (STR #788)
	- Added support for quoted system group names (STR #784)
	- Added "version" option to IPP backend to workaround
	  serious bug in Linksys's IPP implementation (STR #767)
	- Added Spanish translation of web interface (STR #772,
	  STR #802)
	- The LPD backend now uses geteuid() instead of getuid()
	  when it is available (STR #752)
	- The IPP backend did not report the printer state if
	  the wait option was set to "no" (STR #761)
	- The printer state was not updated for "STATE: foo,bar"
	  messages (STR #745)
	- Added new CUPS API convenience functions which accept
	  a HTTP connection to eliminate extra username/password
	  prompts. This resolves a previous authentication
	  caching issue (STR #729, STR #743)
	- The scheduler did not correctly throttle the browse
	  broadcasts, resulting in missing printers on client
	  machines (STR #754)
	- The scheduler did not pass the correct CUPS_ENCRYPTION
	  setting to CGI programs which caused problems on
	  systems which used non-standard encryption settings
	  (STR #773)
	- The lpq command showed 11st, 12nd, and 13rd instead of
	  11th, 12th, and 13th for the rank (STR #769)
	- "make install" didn't work on some platforms due to an
	  error in the man page makefiles (STR #775)
	- Changed some calls to snprintf() in the scheduler to
	  SetStringf() (STR #740)

Enjoy!