CUPS 1.5.1

[Michael Sweet]

CUPS 1.5.1 is now available for download from:

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

The new release fixes a number of printing, encryption, and ipptool issues. Changes include:

- Documentation updates (STR #3885, STR #3886, STR #3946, STR #3969)
- Localization updates (STR #3840, STR #3989, STR #3997)
- Build fixes (STR #3956, STR #3999)
- The SNMP backend did not validate the device URIs reported by printers (STR #4004)
- cupsBackendReport() did not handle newlines in 1284 Device IDs (STR #4005)
- USB backend fixes for libusb (STR #3965, STR #3978)
- The DBUS notifier did not validate string parameters (STR #3984)
- Group quota ACLs did not work with Kerberos (STR #3972)
- The IPP backend did not retry when a printer responded with client-error-not-possible (STR #3963)
- PostScript PPDs with filters used the wrong command filter (STR #3973)
- The scheduler incorrectly used free() on a POSIX ACL value, which could cause a crash (STR #3970)
- PPD files using the MacStandard encoding did not work.
- The web interface did not work on some platforms (STR #3902)
- The lpstat command would crash when then "-u" option was used by a non-administrator (STR #3953)
- Japanese supply level reporting did not always work.
- The DBUS notifier could crash (STR #3947)
- Relaxed some of the page size checks in cupstestppd.
- The ipptool program now reports attributes that are repeated within the same attribute group.
- Updated the PWG raster support to match the current draft specification.
- Fixed some IPP conformance issues in the scheduler.
- Added ipptool support for repeating requests.
- Added IPP/2.2 conformance tests and greatly improved the IPP/1.1, IPP/2.0, and IPP/2.1 conformance testing.
- IPP messages containing mixed integer/rangeOfInteger values did not work (STR #3942)
- The ipptool program now provides additional diagnostics for badly- formatted responses (STR #3857)
- When possible, the IPP backend now stops sending job data early on a cancel.
- cupsSendRequest and cupsWriteRequestData did not properly read all HTTP headers, preventing authentication and encryption upgrades from working in all cases.
- The client.conf Server directive is no longer supported on Mac OS X 10.7 and later.
- The IPP backend sent the wrong margins in media-col.
- The scheduler did not save or restore large Kerberos credentials for jobs.
- The dnssd backend did not properly browse for secure IPP printers.
- httpAssembleURI* did not properly escape all special characters in the username/password field.
- The scheduler now logs config file errors to stderr (STR #3936)
- The configure script incorrectly used bundle-based localizations on Linux (STR #3938)
- The cups-driverd helper program did not cache .drv files properly, sometimes leading to a crash (STR #3921)
- CUPS did not build on stock Mac OS X installations.
- Encryption was broken with OpenSSL.
- ipptool's XML output used date/time values with timezone offsets, which are not supported by Mac OS X's NSDate class.
- Several programs did not support the cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files.
- The IPP backend incorrectly reported spool-area-full states.
- cupsMarkOptions() did not protect against a bad PPD that was missing one or more standard Duplex options.
- The PostScript filter did not mirror N-up output properly.
- The ipptool program did not validate UTF-8 strings in XML output.
- Fixed supply level reporting for some printers.
- The scheduler no longer automatically logs debug messages for jobs that were held or canceled.
- The cupsSendRequest function did not flush remaining response data from a previous request, leading to apparent chunking issues.
- The scheduler did not report the correct version in the Server: header (STR #3903)
- The scheduler did not support 1284 device IDs reported by driver interface programs longer than 127 characters (STR #3871)
- The image filters did not support loading images larger than the RIPCache setting (STR #3901)
- "PAGE: total NNN" messages did not get logged properly (STR #3887)
- Updated the PWG Raster support to conform to the current draft of the PWG Raster Format specification.
- The PWG Raster filter did not always write the correct number of padding lines on the bottom of the page (STR #3904)
- When reporting a denial-of-service attack from the domain socket, the address reported does not always contain the correct path (STR #3888)
- Badly formed GIF files could cause the image filters to crash (STR #3914)
- Jobs canceled at the printer were retried by the IPP backend.
- "cupsfilter -u" deleted the input file instead of the PPD file.
- The scheduler did not compute the cost of PPD filters defined using the cupsFilter2 keyword properly.
- The scheduler did not correctly support the maxsize() attribute for PPD filters.

Enjoy!