CUPS 1.4b3

[Michael Sweet]

CUPS 1.4b3 is now available for download from:

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

The third beta release of CUPS 1.4 includes many bug fixes, updated localizations for many languages, new logging features, and greatly improved Kerberos support. Changes include:

    * Documentation fixes (STR #3044, STR #3057, STR #3153, STR #3158, STR #3173)
    * Added complete localizations for German, Japanese, Polish, and Russian and partial localizations for Chinese, Danish, Finnish, French, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish (STR #3096, STR #3098, STR #3109, STR #3111, STR #3141)
    * Updated the configure check for -fstack-protector (STR #3198)
    * The network backends now correctly convert SNMP supply descriptions to UTF-8 encoding as needed.
    * The scheduler could crash when deleting an attribute (STR #3197)
    * The cups-driverd program did not detect symlink loops (STR #3185)
    * The EPSON 24-pin series driver should now feed the correct amount (STR #2624)
    * The scheduler now automatically logs the last N debug messages for failed print jobs.
    * You can now modify a raw print queue (STR #3133)
    * Fixed a number of ppdi issues and added a unit test to validate that ppdc + ppdi can generate and import the same data (STR #3152)
    * Moving jobs in the web interface now shows an error if you only have one printer or class added (STR #3094)
    * Since classes have never truly supported the printer-error-policy stuff added in CUPS 1.2, update the code to reflect the current reality and support only the retry-current-job policy for now (STR #3171)
    * Revised the password callback support (STR #2953)
    * ppdEmit*() did not choose between PageSize and PageRegion properly.
    * Make some fairly substantial changes to the Kerberos support code so that CUPS can work in multi-realm environments and does not require delegatable credentials.  Shared printing still requires delegation, however "delegation by policy" can be enabled in the KDC to make this all work.
    * "AccessLogLevel actions" did not hide client-error-not-found errors.
    * AP_FIRST_InputSlot did not work with number-up.
    * cupsBackChannelRead() and cupsBackChannelWrite() could fail due to a lack of kernel buffers.
    * The IPP and LPD backends did not respond to side-channel requests while copying print data to a temporary file.
    * cupsWriteRequestData() flushed the output buffer unnecessarily, causing reduced performance in some situations.
    * If a CGI process died before sending its MIME headers, the request would hang on the client.
    * The printer/class/job search feature on the web interface did not work (STR #3132)
    * The scheduler did not write the printers out for classes.
    * CUPS-Get-PPDs did not work properly when filtering by language, product, or psversion (STR #3136)
    * The scheduler now kills job filters when it takes more than 30 seconds (configurable) to cancel or hold the job.
    * The cupstestppd program did not validate the capitalization of filenames in the PPD file.
    * The cupstestppd program did not validate the PageSize and PageRegion values.
    * The cups-deviced helper program could miss reporting some backend devices (STR #3108)
    * The cupsSideChannelSNMP* functions did not work.
    * The scheduler could consume 100% CPU when jobs were canceled.
    * Clicking on "Select Another Make/Manufacturer" in the web interface incorrectly added the printer (STR #3095)
    * The scheduler no longer uses programs with insecure file permissions.
    * httpAssembleURI*() did not escape backslashes in hostnames.
    * The dnssd backend did not unquote "full names" before creating the device URI.
    * The scheduler now supports JobRetryInterval values less than 10 seconds.
    * Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3090)
    * The scheduler did not redo Bonjour/DNS-SD registrations when updating them failed.
    * The "authenticated" policy incorrectly required authentication for status operations.
    * ppdOpen*() incorrectly loaded PPDs with multiple JobPatchFile keywords.
    * The network backends no longer report the SNMP "offline" or maintenance status bits since they are inconsistently implemented and often unreliable.
    * The scheduler no longer logs child processes killed via SIGKILL as "crashed".
    * The printer link shown on the "job moved" template was bad (STR #3085)
    * Updated the HTML templates to use the final HTML 4 DOCTYPE (STR #3086)
    * The scheduler did not track the "paused" reason properly if a printer had other reasons associated with it.
    * cupsSendRequest() did not clear old local certificate auth data.
    * The PPD compiler did not search for localization files properly (STR #3084)
    * cupsGetNamedDest() did not use the fallback default like cupsGetDests*() (STR #3082)
    * The scheduler now provides a LogTimeFormat directive to enable microseconds in the date and time that are logged.
    * The scheduler now provides a MultipleOperationTimeout directive to control the timeout for multi-file print jobs.
    * The configure script incorrectly allowed Avahi to be used for DNS-SD printer discovery (STR #3065)
    * The web interface and scheduler did not support URIs up to 1024 bytes in length (STR #3072)
    * Fixed pdftops issues with page sizes (STR #3063)
    * Fixed pdftops issues with Ghostscript (STR #3062)
    * The scheduler incorrectly registered default profiles for PostScript printers with no specified colorspace.
    * The scheduler incorrectly created an empty org.cups.printers.plist file on Mac OS X.
    * cupsGetPPD3() did not look for local PPDs in the right directory.
    * SNMP lookups via side-channel did not work for NULL-VALUE and and OCTET-STRING OIDs containing nul characters.
    * The libusb-based USB backend did not work.
    * The scheduler did not set the printer-commands attribute correctly for some PPDs.
    * The ppdi utility did not work.
    * The web interface no longer uses multi-part output with old or broken web browsers (STR #3049)
    * CUPS now conforms to the draft IPP/2.0 and IPP/2.1 specification.
    * Added a new cupsGetConflicts() API to get a list of conflicting options.
    * The PPD compiler didn't localize options or choices that did not have associated translation text (STR #3045)
    * Updated the Spanish localization (STR #3043)
    * Fixed build problems (STR #3040, STR #3047)
    * cupsResolveConflicts() did not resolve using the default option choice in some cases due to the mirror UIConstraints that are present in most PPD files.
    * The scheduler did not honor MIME type priorities.
    * The commandtops filter incorrectly used the JCLBegin code to end its jobs.
    * The default BrowseLocalProtocols value was not set properly.
    * Since the commandtops filter does not actually support ReportLevels all on its own, don't list that printer command by default for PS printers.
    * The scheduler did not give filters a chance to log errors or update printer attributes when a job was canceled.
    * The scheduler did not clear the "connecting-to-device" reason keyword when a job finished.