Common UNIX Printing System 1.4b2

[Michael Sweet]

CUPS 1.4b2 is now available for download from:

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

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 (STR #2983, STR #2998, STR #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 (STR #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 (STR #3014)
    * Added a Spanish localization (STR #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 (STR #3012)
    * Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of message catalogs (STR #2990)
    * Fixed a PPD compiler problem with the loading of .strings files (STR #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. 

Enjoy!