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