Common UNIX Printing System 1.4b1

The first beta release of CUPS 1.4 is now available from:

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

The new release adds over 65 changes and new features to CUPS 1.3.x. Changes include:

    * Documentation updates (STR #2567)
    * The PPD compiler now allows local message catalogs to override the standard CUPS translations (STR #2642)
    * The ppdmerge command did not merge custom option strings (STR #2863)
    * The scheduler now supports the Hold-New-Jobs and Release-Held-New-Jobs operations; these are exposed via the cupsdisable and cupsenable commands (STR #2332)
    * The lpstat command is now much faster when displaying the status of a single printer (STR #2843)
    * The scheduler now caches information from PPD files to provide significantly faster startup time with large numbers of PPDs (STR #1293)
    * CUPS-Get-Driver now provides much better driver matching based on the IEEE-1284 device ID and make/model strings (STR #2707)
    * Now support the cupsSNMPSupplies keyword to control whether the network backends query the SNMP Printer MIB for supply levels.
    * Now support and use a new banner file format for better text support and easier customization (STR #2490)
    * The scheduler now sets the PRINTER_INFO and PRINTER_LOCATION environment variables from the corresponding IPP attributes.
    * The ippRead*() and ippWrite*() functions no longer use a stack-based buffer (STR #2388)
    * The CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operation now allows you to set the printer-state-reasons attribute.
    * The "set printer options" page now supports auto-configuration of printer options (STR #1440)
    * The web interface now provides an advanced server settings form.
    * The web interface's "modify printer" pages now make it easier to change just one setting (STR #1919)
    * The scheduler now supports a plist PrintcapFormat.
    * The scheduler now supports multiple addresses in Allow and Deny lines, just like Apache (STR #2947)
    * Added CUPS_JOBTYPE environment variable for job filters so they know whether they are printing a banner or document file (STR #2799)
    * Added support for printer filtering by the cupsfilter command (STR #2562)
    * Added a SSLOptions directive to allow Windows clients to talk to CUPS in FIPS mode (STR #2827)
    * Renamed the accept and reject commands to cupsaccept and cupsreject; the old names are still available (STR #2936)
    * The locale/translate utility needed an update to work with Google (STR #2882)
    * The lpstat command now supports a -H option to display the default server (STR #2833)
    * The scheduler now supports a FatalErrors directive to control which errors should cause the scheduler to exit (STR #2536)
    * The scheduler now uses the php-cgi program if it is available (STR #2923)
    * The scheduler now supports a DefaultPaperSize directive (STR #2848)
    * The scheduler now passes the job-originating-host-name value to filters in the options argument (STR #2558)
    * CUPS now supports job tickets in PDF files (STR #2903)
    * Added a DBUS notifier (STR #2529)
    * The LPD mini-daemon now passes the document name when queuing print jobs (STR #2482)
    * The IPP backend did not relay com.apple.print.recoverable-message values.
    * The scheduler now supports a job-media-progress attribute to track the progress of individual pages.
    * The sample HP driver now supports A5 (STR #2798)
    * The CUPS web interface menu item now uses the xdg-open command, when available (STR #2724)
    * The cups-lpd program now supports the -h option (STR #2794)
    * The scheduler now sets the PAM_TTY parameter and the PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED credential flag (STR #2745)
    * The scheduler now logs unsuccessful requests to the error_log file as errors (STR #2616)
    * Added support for a "retry-current-job" error policy that retries the current job immediately when the backend encounters an error (STR #2555)
    * The scheduler now returns a "forbidden" error when a user correctly authenticates but does not have permission to continue further (STR #2101)
    * The scheduler now loads both the server and CA certificates (if present) from the ServerCertificate file (STR #2146)
    * New RSS subscriptions now create their feed files immediately (STR #2853)
    * Added support for a device-location attribute which provides the physical location of a printer device.
    * Added a cupsBackendReport() API which handles quoting of the device data by a backend.
    * Added support for custom options in the web interface (STR #1729)
    * Added support for Mozilla LDAP, reconnection to LDAP servers, and improved LDAP performance (STR #1962)
    * Added Solaris SMF support (STR #1477)
    * Added optional support for using TCP wrappers to limit access to CUPS (STR #263)
    * Added ppdPageSizeLimits API.
    * Added support for new cupsMediaQualifier2, cupsMediaQualifier3, cupsMinSize, and cupsMaxSize attributes.
    * Added cupsResolveConflicts and ppdInstallableConflict APIs.
    * Added support for new cupsUIConstraints and cupsUIResolver attributes for better option conflict detection and resolution.
    * Increased the maximum size of 1284 device ID strings to 256 bytes (STR #2877)
    * Added an AccessLogLevel directive to cupsd.conf to control what is logged to the access_log file.
    * The default LogLevel is now "warn" instead of "info" to reduce the amount of logging that is done to disk by default.
    * The PPD compiler did not include OID query keywords in PPD files (STR #2871)
    * The cups-driverd helper program now directly supports driver information files.
    * The USB backend now uses libusb when available (STR #1575)
    * Added ppdLocalizeAttr function to get the localized version of an attribute.
    * MIME types now support a priority() attribute (STR #2719)
    * The standard MIME types are now installed in DataDir/mime (STR #2719)
    * The lpoptions command now describes custom options and the necessary parameters (STR #2660)
    * The ppdmerge program did not support Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese language version strings (STR #2851)
    * The PPD compiler now supports localizable attributes (STR #2738)
    * The ppdpo utility now includes cupsIPPReasons values in the message catalogs it generates (STR #2754)
    * The PPD compiler now supports conditional directives (STR #2636)
    * The ppdc utility now supports a "-t" option to test PPD files (STR #2739)
    * The ppdc utility now supports a "-m" option to use the ModelName value as the output filename.
    * The ppdc utility now supports a FileName directive to set an alternate output filename (STR #2740)
    * The side-channel API now supports SNMP queries for the standard network backends.
    * Added a PageLogFormat directive to the cupsd.conf file to control the format of lines in the page_log file.
    * Filters can now send PPD: messages to stderr to set PPD keywords like DefaultPageSize while a job is printing.
    * Added a mdns backend for discovery and printing to printers that advertise themselves via DNS-SD (Bonjour)
    * The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support DNS-SD service name resolution.
    * The scheduler now uses a single shared file descriptor for all DNS-SD registrations (STR #2674)
    * The ipp, lpd, and socket backends now support SNMP-based page accounting and supply level monitoring (STR #1655)
    * Added support for cupsPJLDisplay attribute to control what PJL commands are used to display the job information.
    * Driver information files can now be installed in /Library/Printers/PPDs.drv on Mac OS X.
    * The CUPS image library now supports reading images larger than 2GB.
    * The scheduler now delays writing config and state files to reduce disk activity (STR #2684)
    * The CUPS-Get-Devices operation now supports the exclude-schemes and timeout attributes to control which backends are polled and for how long.
    * The cups-deviced helper application now runs backends in parallel to get the list of devices faster.
    * Added --enable-pap configure option.
    * The default cupsd.conf file now includes an "authenticated" policy which requires authentication for remote print jobs.
    * Added support for Czech and Hungarian in PPD files (STR #2735, STR #2736)
    * The PPD compiler tools now support Mac OS X .strings files for localization (STR #2737)
    * ppdOpen*() now default the colorspace member to PPD_CS_N when no DefaultColorSpace attribute is present in the PPD file.
    * The build system has been updated to support separate installation of data, program, header, and library files.
    * All support libraries are now built as shared libraries by default.
    * The scheduler now manages ICC color profiles on Mac OS X.
    * The network backends (ipp, lpd, socket) now support SNMP-based supply and page count monitoring (STR #1655)
    * The lppasswd program is no longer installed setuid to root to make the default installation more secure.
    * Added a new ppdLocalizeMarkerName() function to get the localized version of a marker-names value.
    * The scheduler now provides the printer-dns-sd-name attribute for printers shared via DNS-SD/Bonjour.
    * The pdftops filter now executes the Xpdf or poppler pdftops utility to convert PDF files (STR #1471)
    * Bonjour printer registrations now advertise as local or global based on the current access policies for the printer.
    * cupsGetDests*() and cupsSetDests*() now track the last used printer preference on Mac OS X.
    * Added a new streaming request API (STR #2261)
    * Added a new cupsGetNamedDest() function to the CUPS library for faster printing with lp and lpr (STR #2638)
    * The scheduler now sets the PAM RHOST value on systems that support it (STR #2637)
    * The scheduler now sandboxes child processes when possible.
    * The Cancel-Job operation now supports a purge-job attriibute to purge a specified job.
    * ppdEmit* and ppdCollect* now use the NonUIOrderDependency attributes for custom option selections.
    * The web interface now enables/disables the printer sharing (formerly publishing) controls based on the server-is-sharing-printers state (STR #2233)
    * The scheduler now tracks printer sharing via the server-is-sharing-printers attribute, and manages LPD and SMB sharing as well (STR #2233)
    * The web interface now allows you to go back to the make/ manufacturer page if there is no matching printer driver on the model page (STR #2436)
    * The printer list now shows the default media, banner, and duplex options as well as the color and duplex capabilities of printers (STR #1175)
    * The web interface look-n-feel has been updated (STR #2492)
    * The scheduler now supports a CUPS-Get-Document operation that returns the specified print job document (STR #118)
    * The cupsfilter utility now supports a "-J jobid" option to filter the document from the specified job.
    * The scheduler (cupsd) now supports a new option (-t) to do a syntax check of the cupsd.conf file (STR #2003)
    * Added new cupsGetPPD3() API to allow applications to cache PPDs safely (STR #1473)
    * Added generic PostScript and PCL printer driver PPDs.

Enjoy!