CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3b6 - 2018-06-18
   2 ============================
   3
   4 Changes in CUPS v2.3b6
   5 ----------------------
   6
   7 - Localization update (Issue #5339)
   8 - The lpadmin command would create a non-working printer in some error cases
   9   (Issue #5305)
  10 - The scheduler would crash if an empty `AccessLog` directive was specified
  11   (Issue #5309)
  12 - The scheduler did not idle-exit on some Linux distributions (Issue #5319)
  13 - Fixed a regression in the changes to ippValidateAttribute (Issue #5322,
  14   Issue #5330)
  15 - Fixed a crash bug in the Epson dot matrix driver (Issue #5323)
  16 - The web interface did not list the IPP Everywhere "driver" (Issue #5338)
  17 - The scheduler did not report all of the supported job options and values
  18   (Issue #5340)
  19 - Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.
  20
  21
  22 Changes in CUPS v2.3b5
  23 ----------------------
  24
  25 - The `ipptool` program no longer checks for duplicate attributes when running
  26   in list or CSV mode (Issue #5278)
  27 - The `cupsCreateJob`, `cupsPrintFile2`, and `cupsPrintFiles2` APIs did not use
  28   the supplied HTTP connection (Issue #5288)
  29 - Fixed another crash in the scheduler when adding an IPP Everywhere printer
  30   (Issue #5290)
  31 - Added a workaround for certain web browsers that do not support multiple
  32   authentication schemes in a single response header (Issue #5289)
  33 - Fixed policy limits containing the `All` operation (Issue #5296)
  34 - The scheduler was always restarted after idle-exit with systemd (Issue #5297)
  35 - Added a USB quirks rule for the HP LaserJet P1102 (Issue #5310)
  36 - The mailto notifier did not wait for the welcome message (Issue #5312)
  37 - Fixed a parsing bug in the pstops filter (Issue #5321)
  38 - Documentation updates (Issue #5299, Issue #5301, Issue #5306)
  39 - Localization updates (Issue #5317)
  40 - The scheduler allowed environment variables to be specified in the
  41   `cupsd.conf` file (rdar://37836779, rdar://37836995, rdar://37837252,
  42   rdar://37837581)
  43 - Fax queues did not support pause (p) or wait-for-dialtone (w) characters
  44   (rdar://39212256)
  45 - The scheduler did not validate notify-recipient-uri values properly
  46   (rdar://40068936)
  47 - The IPP parser allowed invalid group tags (rdar://40442124)
  48 - Fixed a parsing bug in the new authentication code.
  49
  50
  51 Changes in CUPS v2.3b4
  52 ----------------------
  53
  54 - NOTICE: Printer drivers are now deprecated (Issue #5270)
  55 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
  56   (Issue #5233)
  57 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
  58 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
  59 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
  60   print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
  61 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
  62 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
  63 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
  64 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
  65   don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
  66 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
  67 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
  68   (Issue #5259)
  69 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
  70   required a restart (Issue #5263)
  71 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not include the `cupsJobPassword`
  72   keyword, when supported (Issue #5265)
  73 - Fixed an Avahi crash bug in the scheduler (Issue #5268)
  74 - Raw print queues are now deprecated (Issue #5269)
  75 - Fixed an RPM packaging problem (Issue #5276)
  76 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
  77 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
  78 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
  79   (rdar://37789645)
  80 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
  81   correctly.
  82 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
  83   attribute.
  84 - Removed support for the `-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""` developer cheat - the PPD API
  85   should no longer be used.
  86 - Removed support for `-D_IPP_PRIVATE_STRUCTURES=1` developer cheat - the IPP
  87   accessor functions should be used instead.
  88
  89
  90 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
  91 ----------------------
  92
  93 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
  94 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
  95   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
  96 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
  97   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
  98 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
  99 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
 100   (Issue #5235)
 101
 102
 103 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
 104 ----------------------
 105
 106 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
 107 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
 108 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
 109 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
 110   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
 111 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
 112   (Issue #5208)
 113 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
 114 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
 115 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
 116   (Issue #5216)
 117 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
 118 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
 119   formats (Issue #5225)
 120 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
 121 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
 122   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
 123 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
 124   needed.
 125
 126
 127 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
 128 ----------------------
 129
 130 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
 131 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
 132 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
 133   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
 134 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
 135 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
 136 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
 137   underscore (Issue #4833)
 138 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
 139   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
 140 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
 141 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
 142   (Issue #4966)
 143 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
 144   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
 145 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
 146 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
 147   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
 148 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
 149   (Issue #5093)
 150 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
 151   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
 152 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
 153   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
 154 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
 155   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
 156 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
 157   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
 158   respectively (Issue #5119)
 159 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
 160 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
 161   files (Issue #5144)
 162 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
 163   (Issue #5154)
 164 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
 165   templates (Issue #5161)
 166 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
 167 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
 168   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
 169 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
 170   when available (Issue #5168)
 171 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
 172   was seen (Issue #5170)
 173 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
 174 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
 175 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
 176 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
 177   (Issue #5185)
 178 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 179   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 180 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 181 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 182   (Issue #5194)