CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3b6 - 2018-11-07
   2 ============================
   3
   4 Changes in CUPS v2.3b6
   5 ----------------------
   6
   7 - Localization update (Issue #5339, Issue #5348, Issue #5362, Issue #5408)
   8 - Documentation updates (Issue #5369)
   9 - The lpadmin command would create a non-working printer in some error cases
  10   (Issue #5305)
  11 - The scheduler would crash if an empty `AccessLog` directive was specified
  12   (Issue #5309)
  13 - The scheduler did not idle-exit on some Linux distributions (Issue #5319)
  14 - Fixed a regression in the changes to ippValidateAttribute (Issue #5322,
  15   Issue #5330)
  16 - Fixed a crash bug in the Epson dot matrix driver (Issue #5323)
  17 - Automatic debug logging of job errors did not work with systemd (Issue #5337)
  18 - The web interface did not list the IPP Everywhere "driver" (Issue #5338)
  19 - The scheduler did not report all of the supported job options and values
  20   (Issue #5340)
  21 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" now properly supports face-up printers
  22   (Issue #5345)
  23 - Fixed some typos in the label printer drivers (Issue #5350)
  24 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" no longer does local filtering when printing to
  25   a shared CUPS printer (Issue #5361)
  26 - The lpadmin command now correctly reports IPP errors when configuring an
  27   IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5370)
  28 - Fixed some memory leaks discovered by Coverity (Issue #5375)
  29 - The PPD compiler incorrectly terminated JCL options (Issue #5379)
  30 - The cupstestppd utility did not generate errors for missing/mismatched
  31   CloseUI/JCLCloseUI keywords (Issue #5381)
  32 - The scheduler now reports the actual location of the log file (Issue #5398)
  33 - Added a USB quirk rule (Issue #5420)
  34 - The scheduler was being backgrounded on macOS, causing applications to spin
  35   (rdar://40436080)
  36 - The scheduler did not validate that required initial request attributes were
  37   in the operation group (rdar://41098178)
  38 - Authentication in the web interface did not work on macOS (rdar://41444473)
  39 - Fixed an issue with HTTP Digest authentication (rdar://41709086)
  40 - The scheduler could crash when job history was purged (rdar://42198057)
  41 - Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.
  42 - The `cupscgi`, `cupsmime`, and `cupsppdc` support libraries are no longer
  43   installed as shared libraries.
  44
  45
  46 Changes in CUPS v2.3b5
  47 ----------------------
  48
  49 - The `ipptool` program no longer checks for duplicate attributes when running
  50   in list or CSV mode (Issue #5278)
  51 - The `cupsCreateJob`, `cupsPrintFile2`, and `cupsPrintFiles2` APIs did not use
  52   the supplied HTTP connection (Issue #5288)
  53 - Fixed another crash in the scheduler when adding an IPP Everywhere printer
  54   (Issue #5290)
  55 - Added a workaround for certain web browsers that do not support multiple
  56   authentication schemes in a single response header (Issue #5289)
  57 - Fixed policy limits containing the `All` operation (Issue #5296)
  58 - The scheduler was always restarted after idle-exit with systemd (Issue #5297)
  59 - Added a USB quirks rule for the HP LaserJet P1102 (Issue #5310)
  60 - The mailto notifier did not wait for the welcome message (Issue #5312)
  61 - Fixed a parsing bug in the pstops filter (Issue #5321)
  62 - Documentation updates (Issue #5299, Issue #5301, Issue #5306)
  63 - Localization updates (Issue #5317)
  64 - The scheduler allowed environment variables to be specified in the
  65   `cupsd.conf` file (rdar://37836779, rdar://37836995, rdar://37837252,
  66   rdar://37837581)
  67 - Fax queues did not support pause (p) or wait-for-dialtone (w) characters
  68   (rdar://39212256)
  69 - The scheduler did not validate notify-recipient-uri values properly
  70   (rdar://40068936)
  71 - The IPP parser allowed invalid group tags (rdar://40442124)
  72 - Fixed a parsing bug in the new authentication code.
  73
  74
  75 Changes in CUPS v2.3b4
  76 ----------------------
  77
  78 - NOTICE: Printer drivers are now deprecated (Issue #5270)
  79 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
  80   (Issue #5233)
  81 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
  82 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
  83 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
  84   print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
  85 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
  86 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
  87 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
  88 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
  89   don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
  90 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
  91 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
  92   (Issue #5259)
  93 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
  94   required a restart (Issue #5263)
  95 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not include the `cupsJobPassword`
  96   keyword, when supported (Issue #5265)
  97 - Fixed an Avahi crash bug in the scheduler (Issue #5268)
  98 - Raw print queues are now deprecated (Issue #5269)
  99 - Fixed an RPM packaging problem (Issue #5276)
 100 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
 101 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
 102 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
 103   (rdar://37789645)
 104 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
 105   correctly.
 106 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
 107   attribute.
 108 - Removed support for the `-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""` developer cheat - the PPD API
 109   should no longer be used.
 110 - Removed support for `-D_IPP_PRIVATE_STRUCTURES=1` developer cheat - the IPP
 111   accessor functions should be used instead.
 112
 113
 114 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
 115 ----------------------
 116
 117 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
 118 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
 119   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
 120 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
 121   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
 122 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
 123 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
 124   (Issue #5235)
 125
 126
 127 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
 128 ----------------------
 129
 130 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
 131 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
 132 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
 133 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
 134   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
 135 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
 136   (Issue #5208)
 137 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
 138 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
 139 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
 140   (Issue #5216)
 141 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
 142 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
 143   formats (Issue #5225)
 144 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
 145 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
 146   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
 147 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
 148   needed.
 149
 150
 151 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
 152 ----------------------
 153
 154 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
 155 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
 156 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
 157   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
 158 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
 159 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
 160 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
 161   underscore (Issue #4833)
 162 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
 163   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
 164 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
 165 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
 166   (Issue #4966)
 167 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
 168   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
 169 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
 170 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
 171   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
 172 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
 173   (Issue #5093)
 174 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
 175   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
 176 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
 177   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
 178 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
 179   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
 180 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
 181   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
 182   respectively (Issue #5119)
 183 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
 184 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
 185   files (Issue #5144)
 186 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
 187   (Issue #5154)
 188 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
 189   templates (Issue #5161)
 190 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
 191 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
 192   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
 193 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
 194   when available (Issue #5168)
 195 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
 196   was seen (Issue #5170)
 197 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
 198 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
 199 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
 200 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
 201   (Issue #5185)
 202 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 203   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 204 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 205 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 206   (Issue #5194)