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1 CHANGES - 2.3.1 - 2019-10-15
2 ============================
3
4
5 Changes in CUPS v2.3.1
6 ----------------------
7
8 - Documentation updates (Issue #5661)
9 - Fixed a crash bug in the web interface (Issue #5621)
10 - PPD files containing "custom" option keywords did not work (Issue #5639)
11 - Added a workaround for the scheduler's systemd support (Issue #5640)
12 - Fixed spelling of "fold-accordion".
13 - Fixed the default common name for TLS certificates used by `ippeveprinter`.
14 - Fixed a bug in the handling of printer resource files (Issue #5652)
15 - The libusb-based USB backend now reports an error when the distribution
16 permissions are wrong (Issue #5658)
17 - Added paint can labels to Dymo driver (Issue #5662)
18 - The IPP backend did not detect all cases where a job should be retried using
19 a raster format (rdar://56021091)
20
21
22 Changes in CUPS v2.3.0
23 ----------------------
24
25 - CVE-2019-8696 and CVE-2019-8675: Fixed SNMP buffer overflows (rdar://51685251)
26 - Added a GPL2/LGPL2 exception to the new CUPS license terms.
27 - Documentation updates (Issue #5604)
28 - Localization updates (Issue #5637)
29 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler job cleanup code (Issue #5588)
30 - Fixed builds when there is no TLS library (Issue #5590)
31 - Eliminated some new GCC compiler warnings (Issue #5591)
32 - Removed dead code from the scheduler (Issue #5593)
33 - "make" failed with GZIP options (Issue #5595)
34 - Fixed potential excess logging from the scheduler when removing job files
35 (Issue #5597)
36 - Fixed a NULL pointer dereference bug in `httpGetSubField2` (Issue #5598)
37 - Added FIPS-140 workarounds for GNU TLS (Issue #5601, Issue #5622)
38 - The scheduler no longer provides a default value for the description
39 (Issue #5603)
40 - The scheduler now logs jobs held for authentication using the error level so
41 it is clear what happened (Issue #5604)
42 - The `lpadmin` command did not always update the PPD file for changes to the
43 `cupsIPPSupplies` and `cupsSNMPSupplies` keywords (Issue #5610)
44 - The scheduler now uses both the group's membership list as well as the
45 various OS-specific membership functions to determine whether a user belongs
46 to a named group (Issue #5613)
47 - Added USB quirks rule for HP LaserJet 1015 (Issue #5617)
48 - Fixed some PPD parser issues (Issue #5623, Issue #5624)
49 - The IPP parser no longer allows invalid member attributes in collections
50 (Issue #5630)
51 - The configure script now treats the "wheel" group as a potential system
52 group (Issue #5638)
53 - Fixed a USB printing issue on macOS (rdar://31433931)
54 - Fixed IPP buffer overflow (rdar://50035411)
55 - Fixed memory disclosure issue in the scheduler (rdar://51373853)
56 - Fixed DoS issues in the scheduler (rdar://51373929)
57 - Fixed an issue with unsupported "sides" values in the IPP backend
58 (rdar://51775322)
59 - The scheduler would restart continuously when idle and printers were not
60 shared (rdar://52561199)
61 - Fixed an issue with `EXPECT !name WITH-VALUE ...` tests.
62 - Fixed a command ordering issue in the Zebra ZPL driver.
63 - Fixed a memory leak in `ppdOpen`.
64
65
66 Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
67 -----------------------
68
69 - The `cups-config` script no longer adds extra libraries when linking against
70 shared libraries (Issue #5261)
71 - The supplied example print documents have been optimized for size
72 (Issue #5529)
73 - The `cupsctl` command now prevents setting "cups-files.conf" directives
74 (Issue #5530)
75 - The "forbidden" message in the web interface is now explained (Issue #5547)
76 - The footer in the web interface covered some content on small displays
77 (Issue #5574)
78 - The libusb-based USB backend now enforces read limits, improving print speed
79 in many cases (Issue #5583)
80 - The `ippeveprinter` command now looks for print commands in the "command"
81 subdirectory.
82 - The `ipptool` command now supports `$date-current` and `$date-start` variables
83 to insert the current and starting date and time values, as well as ISO-8601
84 relative time values such as "PT30S" for 30 seconds in the future.
85
86
87 Changes in CUPS v2.3b8
88 ----------------------
89
90 - Media size matching now uses a tolerance of 0.5mm (rdar://33822024)
91 - The lpadmin command would hang with a bad PPD file (rdar://41495016)
92 - Fixed a potential crash bug in cups-driverd (rdar://46625579)
93 - Fixed a performance regression with large PPDs (rdar://47040759)
94 - Fixed a memory reallocation bug in HTTP header value expansion
95 (rdar://problem/50000749)
96 - Timed out job submission now yields an error (Issue #5570)
97 - Restored minimal support for the `Emulators` keyword in PPD files to allow
98 old Samsung printer drivers to continue to work (Issue #5562)
99 - The scheduler did not encode octetString values like "job-password" correctly
100 for the print filters (Issue #5558)
101 - The `cupsCheckDestSupported` function did not check octetString values
102 correctly (Issue #5557)
103 - Added support for `UserAgentTokens` directive in "client.conf" (Issue #5555)
104 - Updated the systemd service file for cupsd (Issue #5551)
105 - The `ippValidateAttribute` function did not catch all instances of invalid
106 UTF-8 strings (Issue #5509)
107 - Fixed an issue with the self-signed certificates generated by GNU TLS
108 (Issue #5506)
109 - Fixed a potential memory leak when reading at the end of a file (Issue #5473)
110 - Fixed potential unaligned accesses in the string pool (Issue #5474)
111 - Fixed a potential memory leak when loading a PPD file (Issue #5475)
112 - Added a USB quirks rule for the Lexmark E120n (Issue #5478)
113 - Updated the USB quirks rule for Zebra label printers (Issue #5395)
114 - Fixed a compile error on Linux (Issue #5483)
115 - The lpadmin command, web interface, and scheduler all queried an IPP
116 Everywhere printer differently, resulting in different PPDs for the same
117 printer (Issue #5484)
118 - The web interface no longer provides access to the log files (Issue #5513)
119 - Non-Kerberized printing to Windows via IPP was broken (Issue #5515)
120 - Eliminated use of private headers and some deprecated macOS APIs (Issue #5516)
121 - The scheduler no longer stops a printer if an error occurs when a job is
122 canceled or aborted (Issue #5517)
123 - Added a USB quirks rule for the DYMO 450 Turbo (Issue #5521)
124 - Added a USB quirks rule for Xerox printers (Issue #5523)
125 - The scheduler's self-signed certificate did not include all of the alternate
126 names for the server when using GNU TLS (Issue #5525)
127 - Fixed compiler warnings with newer versions of GCC (Issue #5532, Issue #5533)
128 - Fixed some PPD caching and IPP Everywhere PPD accounting/password bugs
129 (Issue #5535)
130 - Fixed `PreserveJobHistory` bug with time values (Issue #5538)
131 - The scheduler no longer advertises the HTTP methods it supports (Issue #5540)
132 - Localization updates (Issue #5461, Issues #5471, Issue #5481, Issue #5486,
133 Issue #5489, Issue #5491, Issue #5492, Issue #5493, Issue #5494, Issue #5495,
134 Issue #5497, Issue #5499, Issue #5500, Issue #5501, Issue #5504)
135 - The scheduler did not always idle exit as quickly as it could.
136 - Added a new `ippeveprinter` command based on the old ippserver sample code.
137
138
139 Changes in CUPS v2.3b7
140 ----------------------
141
142 - Fixed some build failures (Issue #5451, Issue #5463)
143 - Running ppdmerge with the same input and output filenames did not work as
144 advertised (Issue #5455)
145
146
147 Changes in CUPS v2.3b6
148 ----------------------
149
150 - Localization update (Issue #5339, Issue #5348, Issue #5362, Issue #5408,
151 Issue #5410)
152 - Documentation updates (Issue #5369, Issue #5402, Issue #5403, Issue #5404)
153 - CVE-2018-4300: Linux session cookies used a predictable random number seed.
154 - All user commands now support the `--help` option (Issue #5326)
155 - The `lpoptions` command now works with IPP Everywhere printers that have not
156 yet been added as local queues (Issue #5045)
157 - The lpadmin command would create a non-working printer in some error cases
158 (Issue #5305)
159 - The scheduler would crash if an empty `AccessLog` directive was specified
160 (Issue #5309)
161 - The scheduler did not idle-exit on some Linux distributions (Issue #5319)
162 - Fixed a regression in the changes to ippValidateAttribute (Issue #5322,
163 Issue #5330)
164 - Fixed a crash bug in the Epson dot matrix driver (Issue #5323)
165 - Automatic debug logging of job errors did not work with systemd (Issue #5337)
166 - The web interface did not list the IPP Everywhere "driver" (Issue #5338)
167 - The scheduler did not report all of the supported job options and values
168 (Issue #5340)
169 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" now properly supports face-up printers
170 (Issue #5345)
171 - Fixed some typos in the label printer drivers (Issue #5350)
172 - Setting the `Community` name to the empty string in `snmp.conf` now disables
173 SNMP supply level monitoring by all the standard network backends
174 (Issue #5354)
175 - Multi-file jobs could get stuck if the backend failed (Issue #5359,
176 Issue #5413)
177 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" no longer does local filtering when printing to
178 a shared CUPS printer (Issue #5361)
179 - The lpadmin command now correctly reports IPP errors when configuring an
180 IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5370)
181 - Fixed some memory leaks discovered by Coverity (Issue #5375)
182 - The PPD compiler incorrectly terminated JCL options (Issue #5379)
183 - The cupstestppd utility did not generate errors for missing/mismatched
184 CloseUI/JCLCloseUI keywords (Issue #5381)
185 - The scheduler now reports the actual location of the log file (Issue #5398)
186 - Added USB quirk rules (Issue #5395, Issue #5420, Issue #5443)
187 - The generated PPD files for IPP Everywhere printers did not contain the
188 cupsManualCopies keyword (Issue #5433)
189 - Kerberos credentials might be truncated (Issue #5435)
190 - The handling of `MaxJobTime 0` did not match the documentation (Issue #5438)
191 - Fixed a bug adding a queue with the `-E` option (Issue #5440)
192 - The `cupsaddsmb` program has been removed (Issue #5449)
193 - The `cupstestdsc` program has been removed (Issue #5450)
194 - The scheduler was being backgrounded on macOS, causing applications to spin
195 (rdar://40436080)
196 - The scheduler did not validate that required initial request attributes were
197 in the operation group (rdar://41098178)
198 - Authentication in the web interface did not work on macOS (rdar://41444473)
199 - Fixed an issue with HTTP Digest authentication (rdar://41709086)
200 - The scheduler could crash when job history was purged (rdar://42198057)
201 - Fixed a crash bug when mapping PPD duplex options to IPP attributes
202 (rdar://46183976)
203 - Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.
204 - The `cupscgi`, `cupsmime`, and `cupsppdc` support libraries are no longer
205 installed as shared libraries.
206 - The `snmp` backend is now deprecated.
207
208
209 Changes in CUPS v2.3b5
210 ----------------------
211
212 - The `ipptool` program no longer checks for duplicate attributes when running
213 in list or CSV mode (Issue #5278)
214 - The `cupsCreateJob`, `cupsPrintFile2`, and `cupsPrintFiles2` APIs did not use
215 the supplied HTTP connection (Issue #5288)
216 - Fixed another crash in the scheduler when adding an IPP Everywhere printer
217 (Issue #5290)
218 - Added a workaround for certain web browsers that do not support multiple
219 authentication schemes in a single response header (Issue #5289)
220 - Fixed policy limits containing the `All` operation (Issue #5296)
221 - The scheduler was always restarted after idle-exit with systemd (Issue #5297)
222 - Added a USB quirks rule for the HP LaserJet P1102 (Issue #5310)
223 - The mailto notifier did not wait for the welcome message (Issue #5312)
224 - Fixed a parsing bug in the pstops filter (Issue #5321)
225 - Documentation updates (Issue #5299, Issue #5301, Issue #5306)
226 - Localization updates (Issue #5317)
227 - The scheduler allowed environment variables to be specified in the
228 `cupsd.conf` file (rdar://37836779, rdar://37836995, rdar://37837252,
229 rdar://37837581)
230 - Fax queues did not support pause (p) or wait-for-dialtone (w) characters
231 (rdar://39212256)
232 - The scheduler did not validate notify-recipient-uri values properly
233 (rdar://40068936)
234 - The IPP parser allowed invalid group tags (rdar://40442124)
235 - Fixed a parsing bug in the new authentication code.
236
237
238 Changes in CUPS v2.3b4
239 ----------------------
240
241 - NOTICE: Printer drivers are now deprecated (Issue #5270)
242 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
243 (Issue #5233)
244 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
245 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
246 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
247 print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
248 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
249 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
250 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
251 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
252 don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
253 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
254 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
255 (Issue #5259)
256 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
257 required a restart (Issue #5263)
258 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not include the `cupsJobPassword`
259 keyword, when supported (Issue #5265)
260 - Fixed an Avahi crash bug in the scheduler (Issue #5268)
261 - Raw print queues are now deprecated (Issue #5269)
262 - Fixed an RPM packaging problem (Issue #5276)
263 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
264 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
265 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
266 (rdar://37789645)
267 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
268 correctly.
269 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
270 attribute.
271 - Removed support for the `-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""` developer cheat - the PPD API
272 should no longer be used.
273 - Removed support for `-D_IPP_PRIVATE_STRUCTURES=1` developer cheat - the IPP
274 accessor functions should be used instead.
275
276
277 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
278 ----------------------
279
280 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
281 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
282 component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
283 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
284 job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
285 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
286 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
287 (Issue #5235)
288
289
290 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
291 ----------------------
292
293 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
294 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
295 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
296 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
297 print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
298 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
299 (Issue #5208)
300 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
301 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
302 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
303 (Issue #5216)
304 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
305 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
306 formats (Issue #5225)
307 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
308 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
309 of "none" (rdar://36566269)
310 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
311 needed.
312
313
314 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
315 ----------------------
316
317 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
318 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
319 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
320 ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
321 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
322 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
323 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
324 underscore (Issue #4833)
325 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
326 specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
327 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
328 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
329 (Issue #4966)
330 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
331 a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
332 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
333 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
334 none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
335 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
336 (Issue #5093)
337 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
338 printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
339 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
340 System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
341 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
342 were open client connections (Issue #5118)
343 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
344 control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
345 respectively (Issue #5119)
346 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
347 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
348 files (Issue #5144)
349 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
350 (Issue #5154)
351 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
352 templates (Issue #5161)
353 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
354 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
355 `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
356 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
357 when available (Issue #5168)
358 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
359 was seen (Issue #5170)
360 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
361 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
362 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
363 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
364 (Issue #5185)
365 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
366 running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
367 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
368 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
369 (Issue #5194)