Version 3.0.0 of Foomatic
Release Notes: For all spoolers, Adobe-compliant PPD files are used to provide the printer/driver capability information, and there is also only one filter for all spoolers (foomatic-rip). The PPD files are fully Adobe-compliant and do not contain embedded Perl data anymore. foomatic-rip also supports the use of manufacturer-supplied PPD files for PostScript printers with all spoolers. Other features are composite options for pre-defining common configurations, possibility for page-wise option settings, unprintable margin definitions, custom paper sizes, option grouping, and more.
Other releases
Release Notes: In this version, CUPS raster drivers can be used with any spooler, and there is better compatibility of the PPDs to the Adobe specifications (checked with CUPS 1.1.20) and to Windows, better PJL support, a workaround for a bug in OpenOffice.org 1.1, LPRng improvements, a clean-up of Perl scripts, enhancements to *BSD compatibility, and many bug fixes.
Release Notes: For all spoolers, Adobe-compliant PPD files are used to provide the printer/driver capability information, and there is also only one filter for all spoolers (foomatic-rip). The PPD files are fully Adobe-compliant and do not contain embedded Perl data anymore. foomatic-rip also supports the use of manufacturer-supplied PPD files for PostScript printers with all spoolers. Other features are composite options for pre-defining common configurations, possibility for page-wise option settings, unprintable margin definitions, custom paper sizes, option grouping, and more.
Release Notes: The string and password options introduced in Foomatic 3.0.0rc1 had a security bug: Users could enter arbitrary characters and so they could run arbitrary commands as the special user of the spooler. This release solves this problem by the possibility to give a list of allowed characters and/or a regular expression in the Foomatic data and the strings entered by the users have to match these.
Release Notes: This version adds the ability to apply option settings to selected pages on the command line, replaces the old numerical printer IDs with clear-text IDs, adds string and password options, and forces composite options.
Release Notes: A new facility to build a package with all Foomatic PPD files, new "foomatic-rip" and "foomatic-gswrapper" commands for easy printer setup, improved Adobe-compliance of the generated PPD files ("Resolution" option, numerical options, etc.), more auto-detection info in the PPDs, bugfixes (an OpenOffice.org crash on Foomatic PPD files, custom paper sizes and "PrintoutMode" settings in PostScript data stream ignored, and broken USB URIs for CUPS), and a workaround for buggy PostScript produced by OpenOffice.org.
