[cups.announce] Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.19rc5

Michael Sweet <[email protected]> Tue, 13 May 2003 14:44:29 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.cups.announce
Organization Easy Software Products
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The fifth release candidate for version 1.1.19 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 Tuesday, May 27th 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 1.1.19, so it is
very important that you report any problems you identify using
the form.

CUPS 1.1.19 adds support for fast reconfiguration, option
retension and defaulting when adding and modifying printers,
binary PostScript printing, fax device features, custom web
applications via CGI, PHP, Java, and Python, and simple
scripting support for Java, Perl, and PHP.  The new release also
contains bug fixes including the LPD printing and Solaris signal
handling bugs.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.19rc5

	- Jobs with banner pages that were printed to implicit
	  classes would get double banner pages for each
	  file/banner in the job (STR #68)
	- The mime.convs file was missing the filter definition
	  for Windows BMP (image/x-bitmap) files (STR #85)
	- The scheduler allowed some READ-ONLY job attributes to
	  be set, which could cause the scheduler to fail on the
	  next restart (STR #82)
	- The lp and lpr commands did not report when the
	  scheduler was not responding; instead, the user would
	  incorrectly see a "no default destination" error (STR
	  #70)
	- cupsLangGet() could fail on OSX due to a corrupt
	  language preference (STR #78)
	- Added more checks for HTTP request timeouts.
	- The scheduler dropped the first non-alpha character
	  after an open brace when doing attribute substitutions
	  in banner pages (STR #77)
	- The scheduler child might send SIGUSR1 to the parent
	  before the signal handler was installed; this didn't
	  prevent the scheduler from starting but produced an
	  annoying error message (STR #45)

Enjoy!