CUPS 1.6b1

[Michael Sweet]

CUPS 1.6b1 is now available for download from:

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

This first beta release adds native Bonjour, ICC, and IPP Everywhere support on Linux and other free software platforms. Changes include:


- Documentation updates (STR #3927, STR #3980, STR #4010, STR #4068)
- The scheduler now consolidates all PPD updates from filters at the end of the job (STR #4075)
- CUPS now supports color management using colord (STR #3808)
- CUPS now supports Bonjour using Avahi (STR #3066)
- The PreserveJobFiles and PreserveJobHistory directives now support specification of a time interval (STR #3143)
- PPD files can now be archived in (gzip'd) tar files to further reduce the disk space used by PPD files (STR #3772)
- The network backends now deal with printers that report their levels in percent but do not specify a maximum capacity of 100 (STR #3551)
- The network backends now report full/almost-full waste bins in printers along with end-of-life for cleaning pads (STR #4017)
- Added a configure option to set the permissions of the installed cupsd (STR #3459)
- Added a new WITH-ALL-VALUES directive to ipptool EXPECT predicates (STR #3949)
- CUPS now supports a User directive in client.conf and the CUPS_USER environment variable for overriding the default username (STR #3114)
- Now set the PJL USERNAME variable as needed (STR #3100)
- Added support for usernames and passwords longer than 32 characters (STR #2856)
- Added a new MaxHoldTime directive to automatically cancel jobs that have been held indefinitely after a specific number of seconds (STR #2291)
- The LPD backend now uses the originating host name when it is not the local system (STR #2053)
- CUPS now prefers the suffix "dpcm" when reporting resolution in dots-per-centimeter (STR #4006)
- The configure script and build system no longer support building of separate 32-bit and 64-bit libraries.
- The "brightness", "columns", "fitplot", "gamma", "hue", "natural-scaling", "penwidth", "position", "ppi", "saturation", and "scaling" options are not longer supported (STR #4010)
- The "page-bottom", "page-left", "page-right", "page-top", "prettyprint", and "wrap" options have been deprecated (STR #4010)
- The scheduler now reports the standard "number-of-documents" attribute instead of the CUPS-specific "document-count" attribute in job objects.
- Added new destination connection and enumeration functions (STR #3924)
- Added new option, localization, and job submission functions that do not depend on PPD files (STR #3925)
- Added a new MaxJobTime directive for cupsd that specifies the maximum amount of time allowed for a job to complete before it is canceled.
- The default password callback now supports passwords up to 127 characters.
- The scheduler now supports a DefaultAuthType of "auto" to automatically choose between Basic (username/password) and Negotiate (Kerberos) authentication.
- cupsSideChannelSNMPGet/Walk now support OIDs and values up to 64k in length.
- CUPS no longer supports automatic remote printers or implicit classes via the CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols (STR #3922, STR #3923)
- The PPD APIs are now deprecated and will be removed in a future version of CUPS (STR #3927)
- The default IPP version for requests is now 2.0 (STR #3929)
- The IPP APIs no longer expose the ipp_t or ipp_attribute_t structures and instead provide accessor functions (STR #3928)
- The scheduler will no longer run programs with group write permission.
- The PHP module has been removed (STR #3932)
- The bannertops, commandtoescpx, commandtopclx, imagetops, imagetoraster, pdftops, rastertoescpx, rastertopclx, and texttops filters have been removed (STR #3930)
- The serial and parallel backends have been removed (STR 3935)

Enjoy!