CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3b6 - 2018-08-28
   2 ============================
   3
   4 Changes in CUPS v2.3b6
   5 ----------------------
   6
   7 - Localization update (Issue #5339, Issue #5348, Issue #5362)
   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 - Fixed some typos in the label printer drivers (Issue #5350)
  22 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" no longer does local filtering when printing to
  23   a shared CUPS printer (Issue #5361)
  24 - Fixed some memory leaks discovered by Coverity (Issue #5375)
  25 - The PPD compiler incorrectly terminated JCL options (Issue #5379)
  26 - The cupstestppd utility did not generate errors for missing/mismatched
  27   CloseUI/JCLCloseUI keywords (Issue #5381)
  28 - The scheduler was being backgrounded on macOS, causing applications to spin
  29   (rdar://40436080)
  30 - The scheduler did not validate that required initial request attributes were
  31   in the operation group (rdar://41098178)
  32 - Authentication in the web interface did not work on macOS (rdar://41444473)
  33 - Fixed an issue with HTTP Digest authentication (rdar://41709086)
  34 - The scheduler could crash when job history was purged (rdar://42198057)
  35 - Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.
  36
  37
  38 Changes in CUPS v2.3b5
  39 ----------------------
  40
  41 - The `ipptool` program no longer checks for duplicate attributes when running
  42   in list or CSV mode (Issue #5278)
  43 - The `cupsCreateJob`, `cupsPrintFile2`, and `cupsPrintFiles2` APIs did not use
  44   the supplied HTTP connection (Issue #5288)
  45 - Fixed another crash in the scheduler when adding an IPP Everywhere printer
  46   (Issue #5290)
  47 - Added a workaround for certain web browsers that do not support multiple
  48   authentication schemes in a single response header (Issue #5289)
  49 - Fixed policy limits containing the `All` operation (Issue #5296)
  50 - The scheduler was always restarted after idle-exit with systemd (Issue #5297)
  51 - Added a USB quirks rule for the HP LaserJet P1102 (Issue #5310)
  52 - The mailto notifier did not wait for the welcome message (Issue #5312)
  53 - Fixed a parsing bug in the pstops filter (Issue #5321)
  54 - Documentation updates (Issue #5299, Issue #5301, Issue #5306)
  55 - Localization updates (Issue #5317)
  56 - The scheduler allowed environment variables to be specified in the
  57   `cupsd.conf` file (rdar://37836779, rdar://37836995, rdar://37837252,
  58   rdar://37837581)
  59 - Fax queues did not support pause (p) or wait-for-dialtone (w) characters
  60   (rdar://39212256)
  61 - The scheduler did not validate notify-recipient-uri values properly
  62   (rdar://40068936)
  63 - The IPP parser allowed invalid group tags (rdar://40442124)
  64 - Fixed a parsing bug in the new authentication code.
  65
  66
  67 Changes in CUPS v2.3b4
  68 ----------------------
  69
  70 - NOTICE: Printer drivers are now deprecated (Issue #5270)
  71 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
  72   (Issue #5233)
  73 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
  74 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
  75 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
  76   print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
  77 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
  78 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
  79 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
  80 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
  81   don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
  82 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
  83 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
  84   (Issue #5259)
  85 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
  86   required a restart (Issue #5263)
  87 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not include the `cupsJobPassword`
  88   keyword, when supported (Issue #5265)
  89 - Fixed an Avahi crash bug in the scheduler (Issue #5268)
  90 - Raw print queues are now deprecated (Issue #5269)
  91 - Fixed an RPM packaging problem (Issue #5276)
  92 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
  93 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
  94 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
  95   (rdar://37789645)
  96 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
  97   correctly.
  98 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
  99   attribute.
 100 - Removed support for the `-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""` developer cheat - the PPD API
 101   should no longer be used.
 102 - Removed support for `-D_IPP_PRIVATE_STRUCTURES=1` developer cheat - the IPP
 103   accessor functions should be used instead.
 104
 105
 106 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
 107 ----------------------
 108
 109 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
 110 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
 111   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
 112 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
 113   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
 114 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
 115 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
 116   (Issue #5235)
 117
 118
 119 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
 120 ----------------------
 121
 122 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
 123 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
 124 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
 125 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
 126   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
 127 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
 128   (Issue #5208)
 129 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
 130 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
 131 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
 132   (Issue #5216)
 133 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
 134 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
 135   formats (Issue #5225)
 136 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
 137 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
 138   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
 139 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
 140   needed.
 141
 142
 143 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
 144 ----------------------
 145
 146 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
 147 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
 148 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
 149   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
 150 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
 151 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
 152 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
 153   underscore (Issue #4833)
 154 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
 155   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
 156 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
 157 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
 158   (Issue #4966)
 159 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
 160   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
 161 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
 162 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
 163   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
 164 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
 165   (Issue #5093)
 166 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
 167   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
 168 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
 169   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
 170 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
 171   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
 172 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
 173   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
 174   respectively (Issue #5119)
 175 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
 176 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
 177   files (Issue #5144)
 178 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
 179   (Issue #5154)
 180 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
 181   templates (Issue #5161)
 182 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
 183 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
 184   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
 185 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
 186   when available (Issue #5168)
 187 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
 188   was seen (Issue #5170)
 189 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
 190 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
 191 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
 192 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
 193   (Issue #5185)
 194 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 195   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 196 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 197 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 198   (Issue #5194)