Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.20rc2

The second release candidate for version 1.1.20 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 Wednesday, October 1st 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 1.1.20, so it is
very important that you report any problems you identify using
the form.

CUPS 1.1.20 is primarily a bug fix and performance tuning
release and includes fixes for 64-bit platforms, deadlock
problems in the signal handling code, PDF printing issues, web
interface issues, and various operating system-specific issues.
The new release also adds new CUPS API functions for reading and
writing files via HTTP, performing authentication, and
controlling the required PPD conformance level.

CHANGES IN CUPS V1.1.20rc2

	- The serial backend set the IXANY option on the port
	  for XON/XOFF flow control; this caused problems with
	  printers that returned status info but were not ready
	  for more print data (STR #287)
	- The scheduler didn't support scripted index files
	  (index.php, index.pl, etc. - STR #290)
	- The scheduler did not correctly localize script files
	  with "GET" variables (STR #268)
	- Changes in job classification are now logged (STR
	  #289)
	- Fixed a few more SLP-related bugs (STR #259)
	- Updated the user/group configure checks for MacOS X
	  10.3 (STR #270)
	- Fixed an offset bug in the PDF filter (STR #284)
	- The cupsDoRequest() and cupsDoFileRequest() functions
	  did not map several HTTP status codes to their IPP
	  counterparts. This made detecting certain conditions
	  very difficult (STR #277)
	- Config, spool, and status files are now owned by the
	  scheduler user (usually root) with read permission for
	  the filter group (STR #283)
	- The HP-GL/2 filter did not support the SI command,
	  some values for the AD and SD commands, and did not
	  rotate labels properly via the DI command (STR #282)
	- The fax support did not update/set the job-hold-until
	  attribute when a fax job fails (STR #269)
	- The cupsLangGet() function didn't support locales of
	  the form "ll.charset" (STR #271)
	- The scheduler did not use the charset when getting the
	  language localization for a request; this caused extra
	  disk IO for every request (STR #271)
	- The scheduler did not support requests with more than
	  one language specified (STR #267)

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Printing Software for UNIX                       http://www.easysw.com