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