IPP> ANNOUNCEMENT: Common UNIX Printing System 1.1b2

IPP> ANNOUNCEMENT: Common UNIX Printing System 1.1b2

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Mar 13 14:50:50 EST 2000


The 1.1b2 release of the Common UNIX Printing System
("CUPS") is now available for download from the CUPS web site
at:

    http://www.cups.org

CUPS 1.1b2 is the second beta release for CUPS 1.1 which adds
a new PostScript RIP based on GNU GhostScript 5.50, many new
directory service features, and several fixes in the source
code distribution.  Currently only source distributions are
being provided.

Changes in v1.1b2 include:

	- Documentation updates.
	- The lp command didn't always load the user-defined
	  destinations, preventing it from seeing the default
	  printer.
	- Many configure script and makefile fixes.
	- The Microsoft code page files were missing from the
	  distribution.
	- Added a workaround for the HP IPP client (which is
	  sending an invalid printer-uri in requests)
	- Fixed the encoding of text-with-language and
	  name-with-language to match the IPP spec.
	- Added support for unknown value tags in the IPP
	  routines (previously they would be ignored)
	- Integrated GNU GhostScript 5.50 into the pstoraster
	  filter.
	- Client hostname resolution was broken on little-endian
	  machines.
	- Now look at client.conf file for client's default
	  server and printer.
	- The cupsServer() function did not close the
	  client.conf file if it contained a ServerName
	  directive.
	- Added BrowseAllow, BrowseDeny, BrowseOrder,
	  BrowsePoll, and BrowseRelay directives.
	- BrowseInterval 0 disables advertising of local
	  printers, but still receives information on remote
	  printers.
	- New browse polling daemon (for polling servers on
	  different networks)
	- New PPD cache file for faster startup times with large
	  numbers of PPD files.
	- The Host: field was incorrectly required for HTTP/1.0
	  clients.
	- New set-job-attributes operation now supported.
	- The mime_load_types() and mime_load_convs() functions
	  did not close their input files.

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



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