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1 CHANGES - 2.3.1 - 2019-11-07
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3
4
5 Changes in CUPS v2.3.1
6 ----------------------
7
8 - Documentation updates (Issue #5661, 5674)
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 - Added a DigestOptions directive for the `client.conf` file to control whether
13 MD5-based Digest authentication is allowed (Issue #5647)
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 `--with-dbusdir` option was ignored by the configure script (Issue #5671)
19 - Log file access controls were not preserved by `cupsctl` (Issue #5677)
20 - The IPP backend did not detect all cases where a job should be retried using
21 a raster format (rdar://56021091)
22 - Fixed spelling of "fold-accordion".
23 - Fixed the default common name for TLS certificates used by `ippeveprinter`.
24 - Fixed the option names used for IPP Everywhere finishing options.
25
26
27 Changes in CUPS v2.3.0
28 ----------------------
29
30 - CVE-2019-8696 and CVE-2019-8675: Fixed SNMP buffer overflows (rdar://51685251)
31 - Added a GPL2/LGPL2 exception to the new CUPS license terms.
32 - Documentation updates (Issue #5604)
33 - Localization updates (Issue #5637)
34 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler job cleanup code (Issue #5588)
35 - Fixed builds when there is no TLS library (Issue #5590)
36 - Eliminated some new GCC compiler warnings (Issue #5591)
37 - Removed dead code from the scheduler (Issue #5593)
38 - "make" failed with GZIP options (Issue #5595)
39 - Fixed potential excess logging from the scheduler when removing job files
40 (Issue #5597)
41 - Fixed a NULL pointer dereference bug in `httpGetSubField2` (Issue #5598)
42 - Added FIPS-140 workarounds for GNU TLS (Issue #5601, Issue #5622)
43 - The scheduler no longer provides a default value for the description
44 (Issue #5603)
45 - The scheduler now logs jobs held for authentication using the error level so
46 it is clear what happened (Issue #5604)
47 - The `lpadmin` command did not always update the PPD file for changes to the
48 `cupsIPPSupplies` and `cupsSNMPSupplies` keywords (Issue #5610)
49 - The scheduler now uses both the group's membership list as well as the
50 various OS-specific membership functions to determine whether a user belongs
51 to a named group (Issue #5613)
52 - Added USB quirks rule for HP LaserJet 1015 (Issue #5617)
53 - Fixed some PPD parser issues (Issue #5623, Issue #5624)
54 - The IPP parser no longer allows invalid member attributes in collections
55 (Issue #5630)
56 - The configure script now treats the "wheel" group as a potential system
57 group (Issue #5638)
58 - Fixed a USB printing issue on macOS (rdar://31433931)
59 - Fixed IPP buffer overflow (rdar://50035411)
60 - Fixed memory disclosure issue in the scheduler (rdar://51373853)
61 - Fixed DoS issues in the scheduler (rdar://51373929)
62 - Fixed an issue with unsupported "sides" values in the IPP backend
63 (rdar://51775322)
64 - The scheduler would restart continuously when idle and printers were not
65 shared (rdar://52561199)
66 - Fixed an issue with `EXPECT !name WITH-VALUE ...` tests.
67 - Fixed a command ordering issue in the Zebra ZPL driver.
68 - Fixed a memory leak in `ppdOpen`.
69
70
71 Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
72 -----------------------
73
74 - The `cups-config` script no longer adds extra libraries when linking against
75 shared libraries (Issue #5261)
76 - The supplied example print documents have been optimized for size
77 (Issue #5529)
78 - The `cupsctl` command now prevents setting "cups-files.conf" directives
79 (Issue #5530)
80 - The "forbidden" message in the web interface is now explained (Issue #5547)
81 - The footer in the web interface covered some content on small displays
82 (Issue #5574)
83 - The libusb-based USB backend now enforces read limits, improving print speed
84 in many cases (Issue #5583)
85 - The `ippeveprinter` command now looks for print commands in the "command"
86 subdirectory.
87 - The `ipptool` command now supports `$date-current` and `$date-start` variables
88 to insert the current and starting date and time values, as well as ISO-8601
89 relative time values such as "PT30S" for 30 seconds in the future.
90
91
92 Changes in CUPS v2.3b8
93 ----------------------
94
95 - Media size matching now uses a tolerance of 0.5mm (rdar://33822024)
96 - The lpadmin command would hang with a bad PPD file (rdar://41495016)
97 - Fixed a potential crash bug in cups-driverd (rdar://46625579)
98 - Fixed a performance regression with large PPDs (rdar://47040759)
99 - Fixed a memory reallocation bug in HTTP header value expansion
100 (rdar://problem/50000749)
101 - Timed out job submission now yields an error (Issue #5570)
102 - Restored minimal support for the `Emulators` keyword in PPD files to allow
103 old Samsung printer drivers to continue to work (Issue #5562)
104 - The scheduler did not encode octetString values like "job-password" correctly
105 for the print filters (Issue #5558)
106 - The `cupsCheckDestSupported` function did not check octetString values
107 correctly (Issue #5557)
108 - Added support for `UserAgentTokens` directive in "client.conf" (Issue #5555)
109 - Updated the systemd service file for cupsd (Issue #5551)
110 - The `ippValidateAttribute` function did not catch all instances of invalid
111 UTF-8 strings (Issue #5509)
112 - Fixed an issue with the self-signed certificates generated by GNU TLS
113 (Issue #5506)
114 - Fixed a potential memory leak when reading at the end of a file (Issue #5473)
115 - Fixed potential unaligned accesses in the string pool (Issue #5474)
116 - Fixed a potential memory leak when loading a PPD file (Issue #5475)
117 - Added a USB quirks rule for the Lexmark E120n (Issue #5478)
118 - Updated the USB quirks rule for Zebra label printers (Issue #5395)
119 - Fixed a compile error on Linux (Issue #5483)
120 - The lpadmin command, web interface, and scheduler all queried an IPP
121 Everywhere printer differently, resulting in different PPDs for the same
122 printer (Issue #5484)
123 - The web interface no longer provides access to the log files (Issue #5513)
124 - Non-Kerberized printing to Windows via IPP was broken (Issue #5515)
125 - Eliminated use of private headers and some deprecated macOS APIs (Issue #5516)
126 - The scheduler no longer stops a printer if an error occurs when a job is
127 canceled or aborted (Issue #5517)
128 - Added a USB quirks rule for the DYMO 450 Turbo (Issue #5521)
129 - Added a USB quirks rule for Xerox printers (Issue #5523)
130 - The scheduler's self-signed certificate did not include all of the alternate
131 names for the server when using GNU TLS (Issue #5525)
132 - Fixed compiler warnings with newer versions of GCC (Issue #5532, Issue #5533)
133 - Fixed some PPD caching and IPP Everywhere PPD accounting/password bugs
134 (Issue #5535)
135 - Fixed `PreserveJobHistory` bug with time values (Issue #5538)
136 - The scheduler no longer advertises the HTTP methods it supports (Issue #5540)
137 - Localization updates (Issue #5461, Issues #5471, Issue #5481, Issue #5486,
138 Issue #5489, Issue #5491, Issue #5492, Issue #5493, Issue #5494, Issue #5495,
139 Issue #5497, Issue #5499, Issue #5500, Issue #5501, Issue #5504)
140 - The scheduler did not always idle exit as quickly as it could.
141 - Added a new `ippeveprinter` command based on the old ippserver sample code.
142
143
144 Changes in CUPS v2.3b7
145 ----------------------
146
147 - Fixed some build failures (Issue #5451, Issue #5463)
148 - Running ppdmerge with the same input and output filenames did not work as
149 advertised (Issue #5455)
150
151
152 Changes in CUPS v2.3b6
153 ----------------------
154
155 - Localization update (Issue #5339, Issue #5348, Issue #5362, Issue #5408,
156 Issue #5410)
157 - Documentation updates (Issue #5369, Issue #5402, Issue #5403, Issue #5404)
158 - CVE-2018-4300: Linux session cookies used a predictable random number seed.
159 - All user commands now support the `--help` option (Issue #5326)
160 - The `lpoptions` command now works with IPP Everywhere printers that have not
161 yet been added as local queues (Issue #5045)
162 - The lpadmin command would create a non-working printer in some error cases
163 (Issue #5305)
164 - The scheduler would crash if an empty `AccessLog` directive was specified
165 (Issue #5309)
166 - The scheduler did not idle-exit on some Linux distributions (Issue #5319)
167 - Fixed a regression in the changes to ippValidateAttribute (Issue #5322,
168 Issue #5330)
169 - Fixed a crash bug in the Epson dot matrix driver (Issue #5323)
170 - Automatic debug logging of job errors did not work with systemd (Issue #5337)
171 - The web interface did not list the IPP Everywhere "driver" (Issue #5338)
172 - The scheduler did not report all of the supported job options and values
173 (Issue #5340)
174 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" now properly supports face-up printers
175 (Issue #5345)
176 - Fixed some typos in the label printer drivers (Issue #5350)
177 - Setting the `Community` name to the empty string in `snmp.conf` now disables
178 SNMP supply level monitoring by all the standard network backends
179 (Issue #5354)
180 - Multi-file jobs could get stuck if the backend failed (Issue #5359,
181 Issue #5413)
182 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" no longer does local filtering when printing to
183 a shared CUPS printer (Issue #5361)
184 - The lpadmin command now correctly reports IPP errors when configuring an
185 IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5370)
186 - Fixed some memory leaks discovered by Coverity (Issue #5375)
187 - The PPD compiler incorrectly terminated JCL options (Issue #5379)
188 - The cupstestppd utility did not generate errors for missing/mismatched
189 CloseUI/JCLCloseUI keywords (Issue #5381)
190 - The scheduler now reports the actual location of the log file (Issue #5398)
191 - Added USB quirk rules (Issue #5395, Issue #5420, Issue #5443)
192 - The generated PPD files for IPP Everywhere printers did not contain the
193 cupsManualCopies keyword (Issue #5433)
194 - Kerberos credentials might be truncated (Issue #5435)
195 - The handling of `MaxJobTime 0` did not match the documentation (Issue #5438)
196 - Fixed a bug adding a queue with the `-E` option (Issue #5440)
197 - The `cupsaddsmb` program has been removed (Issue #5449)
198 - The `cupstestdsc` program has been removed (Issue #5450)
199 - The scheduler was being backgrounded on macOS, causing applications to spin
200 (rdar://40436080)
201 - The scheduler did not validate that required initial request attributes were
202 in the operation group (rdar://41098178)
203 - Authentication in the web interface did not work on macOS (rdar://41444473)
204 - Fixed an issue with HTTP Digest authentication (rdar://41709086)
205 - The scheduler could crash when job history was purged (rdar://42198057)
206 - Fixed a crash bug when mapping PPD duplex options to IPP attributes
207 (rdar://46183976)
208 - Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.
209 - The `cupscgi`, `cupsmime`, and `cupsppdc` support libraries are no longer
210 installed as shared libraries.
211 - The `snmp` backend is now deprecated.
212
213
214 Changes in CUPS v2.3b5
215 ----------------------
216
217 - The `ipptool` program no longer checks for duplicate attributes when running
218 in list or CSV mode (Issue #5278)
219 - The `cupsCreateJob`, `cupsPrintFile2`, and `cupsPrintFiles2` APIs did not use
220 the supplied HTTP connection (Issue #5288)
221 - Fixed another crash in the scheduler when adding an IPP Everywhere printer
222 (Issue #5290)
223 - Added a workaround for certain web browsers that do not support multiple
224 authentication schemes in a single response header (Issue #5289)
225 - Fixed policy limits containing the `All` operation (Issue #5296)
226 - The scheduler was always restarted after idle-exit with systemd (Issue #5297)
227 - Added a USB quirks rule for the HP LaserJet P1102 (Issue #5310)
228 - The mailto notifier did not wait for the welcome message (Issue #5312)
229 - Fixed a parsing bug in the pstops filter (Issue #5321)
230 - Documentation updates (Issue #5299, Issue #5301, Issue #5306)
231 - Localization updates (Issue #5317)
232 - The scheduler allowed environment variables to be specified in the
233 `cupsd.conf` file (rdar://37836779, rdar://37836995, rdar://37837252,
234 rdar://37837581)
235 - Fax queues did not support pause (p) or wait-for-dialtone (w) characters
236 (rdar://39212256)
237 - The scheduler did not validate notify-recipient-uri values properly
238 (rdar://40068936)
239 - The IPP parser allowed invalid group tags (rdar://40442124)
240 - Fixed a parsing bug in the new authentication code.
241
242
243 Changes in CUPS v2.3b4
244 ----------------------
245
246 - NOTICE: Printer drivers are now deprecated (Issue #5270)
247 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
248 (Issue #5233)
249 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
250 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
251 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
252 print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
253 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
254 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
255 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
256 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
257 don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
258 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
259 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
260 (Issue #5259)
261 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
262 required a restart (Issue #5263)
263 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not include the `cupsJobPassword`
264 keyword, when supported (Issue #5265)
265 - Fixed an Avahi crash bug in the scheduler (Issue #5268)
266 - Raw print queues are now deprecated (Issue #5269)
267 - Fixed an RPM packaging problem (Issue #5276)
268 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
269 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
270 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
271 (rdar://37789645)
272 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
273 correctly.
274 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
275 attribute.
276 - Removed support for the `-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""` developer cheat - the PPD API
277 should no longer be used.
278 - Removed support for `-D_IPP_PRIVATE_STRUCTURES=1` developer cheat - the IPP
279 accessor functions should be used instead.
280
281
282 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
283 ----------------------
284
285 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
286 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
287 component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
288 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
289 job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
290 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
291 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
292 (Issue #5235)
293
294
295 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
296 ----------------------
297
298 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
299 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
300 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
301 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
302 print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
303 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
304 (Issue #5208)
305 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
306 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
307 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
308 (Issue #5216)
309 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
310 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
311 formats (Issue #5225)
312 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
313 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
314 of "none" (rdar://36566269)
315 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
316 needed.
317
318
319 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
320 ----------------------
321
322 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
323 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
324 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
325 ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
326 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
327 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
328 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
329 underscore (Issue #4833)
330 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
331 specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
332 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
333 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
334 (Issue #4966)
335 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
336 a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
337 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
338 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
339 none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
340 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
341 (Issue #5093)
342 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
343 printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
344 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
345 System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
346 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
347 were open client connections (Issue #5118)
348 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
349 control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
350 respectively (Issue #5119)
351 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
352 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
353 files (Issue #5144)
354 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
355 (Issue #5154)
356 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
357 templates (Issue #5161)
358 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
359 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
360 `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
361 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
362 when available (Issue #5168)
363 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
364 was seen (Issue #5170)
365 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
366 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
367 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
368 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
369 (Issue #5185)
370 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
371 running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
372 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
373 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
374 (Issue #5194)