CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3.1 - 2019-12-13
   2 ============================
   3
   4
   5 Changes in CUPS v2.3.1
   6 ----------------------
   7
   8 - Documentation updates (Issue #5661, #5674, #5682)
   9 - CVE-2019-2228: The `ippSetValuetag` function did not validate the default
  10   language value.
  11 - Fixed a crash bug in the web interface (Issue #5621)
  12 - The PPD cache code now looks up page sizes using their dimensions
  13   (Issue #5633)
  14 - PPD files containing "custom" option keywords did not work (Issue #5639)
  15 - Added a workaround for the scheduler's systemd support (Issue #5640)
  16 - On Windows, TLS certificates generated on February 29 would likely fail
  17   (Issue #5643)
  18 - Added a DigestOptions directive for the `client.conf` file to control whether
  19   MD5-based Digest authentication is allowed (Issue #5647)
  20 - Fixed a bug in the handling of printer resource files (Issue #5652)
  21 - The libusb-based USB backend now reports an error when the distribution
  22   permissions are wrong (Issue #5658)
  23 - Added paint can labels to Dymo driver (Issue #5662)
  24 - The `ippeveprinter` program now supports authentication (Issue #5665)
  25 - The `ippeveprinter` program now advertises DNS-SD services on the correct
  26   interfaces, and provides a way to turn them off (Issue #5666)
  27 - The `--with-dbusdir` option was ignored by the configure script (Issue #5671)
  28 - Sandboxed applications were not able to get the default printer (Issue #5676)
  29 - Log file access controls were not preserved by `cupsctl` (Issue #5677)
  30 - Default printers set with `lpoptions` did not work in all cases (Issue #5681,
  31   Issue #5683, Issue #5684)
  32 - Fixed an error in the jobs web interface template (Issue #5694)
  33 - Fixed an off-by-one error in `ippEnumString` (Issue #5695)
  34 - The IPP backend did not detect all cases where a job should be retried using
  35 - Fixed a few issues with the Apple Raster support (rdar://55301114)
  36   a raster format (rdar://56021091)
  37 - Fixed spelling of "fold-accordion".
  38 - Fixed the default common name for TLS certificates used by `ippeveprinter`.
  39 - Fixed the option names used for IPP Everywhere finishing options.
  40 - Added support for the second roll of the DYMO Twin/DUO label printers.
  41
  42
  43 Changes in CUPS v2.3.0
  44 ----------------------
  45
  46 - CVE-2019-8696 and CVE-2019-8675: Fixed SNMP buffer overflows (rdar://51685251)
  47 - Added a GPL2/LGPL2 exception to the new CUPS license terms.
  48 - Documentation updates (Issue #5604)
  49 - Localization updates (Issue #5637)
  50 - Fixed a bug in the scheduler job cleanup code (Issue #5588)
  51 - Fixed builds when there is no TLS library (Issue #5590)
  52 - Eliminated some new GCC compiler warnings (Issue #5591)
  53 - Removed dead code from the scheduler (Issue #5593)
  54 - "make" failed with GZIP options (Issue #5595)
  55 - Fixed potential excess logging from the scheduler when removing job files
  56   (Issue #5597)
  57 - Fixed a NULL pointer dereference bug in `httpGetSubField2` (Issue #5598)
  58 - Added FIPS-140 workarounds for GNU TLS (Issue #5601, Issue #5622)
  59 - The scheduler no longer provides a default value for the description
  60   (Issue #5603)
  61 - The scheduler now logs jobs held for authentication using the error level so
  62   it is clear what happened (Issue #5604)
  63 - The `lpadmin` command did not always update the PPD file for changes to the
  64   `cupsIPPSupplies` and `cupsSNMPSupplies` keywords (Issue #5610)
  65 - The scheduler now uses both the group's membership list as well as the
  66   various OS-specific membership functions to determine whether a user belongs
  67   to a named group (Issue #5613)
  68 - Added USB quirks rule for HP LaserJet 1015 (Issue #5617)
  69 - Fixed some PPD parser issues (Issue #5623, Issue #5624)
  70 - The IPP parser no longer allows invalid member attributes in collections
  71   (Issue #5630)
  72 - The configure script now treats the "wheel" group as a potential system
  73   group (Issue #5638)
  74 - Fixed a USB printing issue on macOS (rdar://31433931)
  75 - Fixed IPP buffer overflow (rdar://50035411)
  76 - Fixed memory disclosure issue in the scheduler (rdar://51373853)
  77 - Fixed DoS issues in the scheduler (rdar://51373929)
  78 - Fixed an issue with unsupported "sides" values in the IPP backend
  79   (rdar://51775322)
  80 - The scheduler would restart continuously when idle and printers were not
  81   shared (rdar://52561199)
  82 - Fixed an issue with `EXPECT !name WITH-VALUE ...` tests.
  83 - Fixed a command ordering issue in the Zebra ZPL driver.
  84 - Fixed a memory leak in `ppdOpen`.
  85
  86
  87 Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
  88 -----------------------
  89
  90 - The `cups-config` script no longer adds extra libraries when linking against
  91   shared libraries (Issue #5261)
  92 - The supplied example print documents have been optimized for size
  93   (Issue #5529)
  94 - The `cupsctl` command now prevents setting "cups-files.conf" directives
  95   (Issue #5530)
  96 - The "forbidden" message in the web interface is now explained (Issue #5547)
  97 - The footer in the web interface covered some content on small displays
  98   (Issue #5574)
  99 - The libusb-based USB backend now enforces read limits, improving print speed
 100   in many cases (Issue #5583)
 101 - The `ippeveprinter` command now looks for print commands in the "command"
 102   subdirectory.
 103 - The `ipptool` command now supports `$date-current` and `$date-start` variables
 104   to insert the current and starting date and time values, as well as ISO-8601
 105   relative time values such as "PT30S" for 30 seconds in the future.
 106
 107
 108 Changes in CUPS v2.3b8
 109 ----------------------
 110
 111 - Media size matching now uses a tolerance of 0.5mm (rdar://33822024)
 112 - The lpadmin command would hang with a bad PPD file (rdar://41495016)
 113 - Fixed a potential crash bug in cups-driverd (rdar://46625579)
 114 - Fixed a performance regression with large PPDs (rdar://47040759)
 115 - Fixed a memory reallocation bug in HTTP header value expansion
 116   (rdar://problem/50000749)
 117 - Timed out job submission now yields an error (Issue #5570)
 118 - Restored minimal support for the `Emulators` keyword in PPD files to allow
 119   old Samsung printer drivers to continue to work (Issue #5562)
 120 - The scheduler did not encode octetString values like "job-password" correctly
 121   for the print filters (Issue #5558)
 122 - The `cupsCheckDestSupported` function did not check octetString values
 123   correctly (Issue #5557)
 124 - Added support for `UserAgentTokens` directive in "client.conf" (Issue #5555)
 125 - Updated the systemd service file for cupsd (Issue #5551)
 126 - The `ippValidateAttribute` function did not catch all instances of invalid
 127   UTF-8 strings (Issue #5509)
 128 - Fixed an issue with the self-signed certificates generated by GNU TLS
 129   (Issue #5506)
 130 - Fixed a potential memory leak when reading at the end of a file (Issue #5473)
 131 - Fixed potential unaligned accesses in the string pool (Issue #5474)
 132 - Fixed a potential memory leak when loading a PPD file (Issue #5475)
 133 - Added a USB quirks rule for the Lexmark E120n (Issue #5478)
 134 - Updated the USB quirks rule for Zebra label printers (Issue #5395)
 135 - Fixed a compile error on Linux (Issue #5483)
 136 - The lpadmin command, web interface, and scheduler all queried an IPP
 137   Everywhere printer differently, resulting in different PPDs for the same
 138   printer (Issue #5484)
 139 - The web interface no longer provides access to the log files (Issue #5513)
 140 - Non-Kerberized printing to Windows via IPP was broken (Issue #5515)
 141 - Eliminated use of private headers and some deprecated macOS APIs (Issue #5516)
 142 - The scheduler no longer stops a printer if an error occurs when a job is
 143   canceled or aborted (Issue #5517)
 144 - Added a USB quirks rule for the DYMO 450 Turbo (Issue #5521)
 145 - Added a USB quirks rule for Xerox printers (Issue #5523)
 146 - The scheduler's self-signed certificate did not include all of the alternate
 147   names for the server when using GNU TLS (Issue #5525)
 148 - Fixed compiler warnings with newer versions of GCC (Issue #5532, Issue #5533)
 149 - Fixed some PPD caching and IPP Everywhere PPD accounting/password bugs
 150   (Issue #5535)
 151 - Fixed `PreserveJobHistory` bug with time values (Issue #5538)
 152 - The scheduler no longer advertises the HTTP methods it supports (Issue #5540)
 153 - Localization updates (Issue #5461, Issues #5471, Issue #5481, Issue #5486,
 154   Issue #5489, Issue #5491, Issue #5492, Issue #5493, Issue #5494, Issue #5495,
 155   Issue #5497, Issue #5499, Issue #5500, Issue #5501, Issue #5504)
 156 - The scheduler did not always idle exit as quickly as it could.
 157 - Added a new `ippeveprinter` command based on the old ippserver sample code.
 158
 159
 160 Changes in CUPS v2.3b7
 161 ----------------------
 162
 163 - Fixed some build failures (Issue #5451, Issue #5463)
 164 - Running ppdmerge with the same input and output filenames did not work as
 165   advertised (Issue #5455)
 166
 167
 168 Changes in CUPS v2.3b6
 169 ----------------------
 170
 171 - Localization update (Issue #5339, Issue #5348, Issue #5362, Issue #5408,
 172   Issue #5410)
 173 - Documentation updates (Issue #5369, Issue #5402, Issue #5403, Issue #5404)
 174 - CVE-2018-4300: Linux session cookies used a predictable random number seed.
 175 - All user commands now support the `--help` option (Issue #5326)
 176 - The `lpoptions` command now works with IPP Everywhere printers that have not
 177   yet been added as local queues (Issue #5045)
 178 - The lpadmin command would create a non-working printer in some error cases
 179   (Issue #5305)
 180 - The scheduler would crash if an empty `AccessLog` directive was specified
 181   (Issue #5309)
 182 - The scheduler did not idle-exit on some Linux distributions (Issue #5319)
 183 - Fixed a regression in the changes to ippValidateAttribute (Issue #5322,
 184   Issue #5330)
 185 - Fixed a crash bug in the Epson dot matrix driver (Issue #5323)
 186 - Automatic debug logging of job errors did not work with systemd (Issue #5337)
 187 - The web interface did not list the IPP Everywhere "driver" (Issue #5338)
 188 - The scheduler did not report all of the supported job options and values
 189   (Issue #5340)
 190 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" now properly supports face-up printers
 191   (Issue #5345)
 192 - Fixed some typos in the label printer drivers (Issue #5350)
 193 - Setting the `Community` name to the empty string in `snmp.conf` now disables
 194   SNMP supply level monitoring by all the standard network backends
 195   (Issue #5354)
 196 - Multi-file jobs could get stuck if the backend failed (Issue #5359,
 197   Issue #5413)
 198 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" no longer does local filtering when printing to
 199   a shared CUPS printer (Issue #5361)
 200 - The lpadmin command now correctly reports IPP errors when configuring an
 201   IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5370)
 202 - Fixed some memory leaks discovered by Coverity (Issue #5375)
 203 - The PPD compiler incorrectly terminated JCL options (Issue #5379)
 204 - The cupstestppd utility did not generate errors for missing/mismatched
 205   CloseUI/JCLCloseUI keywords (Issue #5381)
 206 - The scheduler now reports the actual location of the log file (Issue #5398)
 207 - Added USB quirk rules (Issue #5395, Issue #5420, Issue #5443)
 208 - The generated PPD files for IPP Everywhere printers did not contain the
 209   cupsManualCopies keyword (Issue #5433)
 210 - Kerberos credentials might be truncated (Issue #5435)
 211 - The handling of `MaxJobTime 0` did not match the documentation (Issue #5438)
 212 - Fixed a bug adding a queue with the `-E` option (Issue #5440)
 213 - The `cupsaddsmb` program has been removed (Issue #5449)
 214 - The `cupstestdsc` program has been removed (Issue #5450)
 215 - The scheduler was being backgrounded on macOS, causing applications to spin
 216   (rdar://40436080)
 217 - The scheduler did not validate that required initial request attributes were
 218   in the operation group (rdar://41098178)
 219 - Authentication in the web interface did not work on macOS (rdar://41444473)
 220 - Fixed an issue with HTTP Digest authentication (rdar://41709086)
 221 - The scheduler could crash when job history was purged (rdar://42198057)
 222 - Fixed a crash bug when mapping PPD duplex options to IPP attributes
 223   (rdar://46183976)
 224 - Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.
 225 - The `cupscgi`, `cupsmime`, and `cupsppdc` support libraries are no longer
 226   installed as shared libraries.
 227 - The `snmp` backend is now deprecated.
 228
 229
 230 Changes in CUPS v2.3b5
 231 ----------------------
 232
 233 - The `ipptool` program no longer checks for duplicate attributes when running
 234   in list or CSV mode (Issue #5278)
 235 - The `cupsCreateJob`, `cupsPrintFile2`, and `cupsPrintFiles2` APIs did not use
 236   the supplied HTTP connection (Issue #5288)
 237 - Fixed another crash in the scheduler when adding an IPP Everywhere printer
 238   (Issue #5290)
 239 - Added a workaround for certain web browsers that do not support multiple
 240   authentication schemes in a single response header (Issue #5289)
 241 - Fixed policy limits containing the `All` operation (Issue #5296)
 242 - The scheduler was always restarted after idle-exit with systemd (Issue #5297)
 243 - Added a USB quirks rule for the HP LaserJet P1102 (Issue #5310)
 244 - The mailto notifier did not wait for the welcome message (Issue #5312)
 245 - Fixed a parsing bug in the pstops filter (Issue #5321)
 246 - Documentation updates (Issue #5299, Issue #5301, Issue #5306)
 247 - Localization updates (Issue #5317)
 248 - The scheduler allowed environment variables to be specified in the
 249   `cupsd.conf` file (rdar://37836779, rdar://37836995, rdar://37837252,
 250   rdar://37837581)
 251 - Fax queues did not support pause (p) or wait-for-dialtone (w) characters
 252   (rdar://39212256)
 253 - The scheduler did not validate notify-recipient-uri values properly
 254   (rdar://40068936)
 255 - The IPP parser allowed invalid group tags (rdar://40442124)
 256 - Fixed a parsing bug in the new authentication code.
 257
 258
 259 Changes in CUPS v2.3b4
 260 ----------------------
 261
 262 - NOTICE: Printer drivers are now deprecated (Issue #5270)
 263 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
 264   (Issue #5233)
 265 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
 266 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
 267 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
 268   print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
 269 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
 270 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
 271 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
 272 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
 273   don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
 274 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
 275 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
 276   (Issue #5259)
 277 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
 278   required a restart (Issue #5263)
 279 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not include the `cupsJobPassword`
 280   keyword, when supported (Issue #5265)
 281 - Fixed an Avahi crash bug in the scheduler (Issue #5268)
 282 - Raw print queues are now deprecated (Issue #5269)
 283 - Fixed an RPM packaging problem (Issue #5276)
 284 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
 285 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
 286 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
 287   (rdar://37789645)
 288 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
 289   correctly.
 290 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
 291   attribute.
 292 - Removed support for the `-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""` developer cheat - the PPD API
 293   should no longer be used.
 294 - Removed support for `-D_IPP_PRIVATE_STRUCTURES=1` developer cheat - the IPP
 295   accessor functions should be used instead.
 296
 297
 298 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
 299 ----------------------
 300
 301 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
 302 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
 303   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
 304 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
 305   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
 306 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
 307 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
 308   (Issue #5235)
 309
 310
 311 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
 312 ----------------------
 313
 314 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
 315 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
 316 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
 317 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
 318   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
 319 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
 320   (Issue #5208)
 321 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
 322 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
 323 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
 324   (Issue #5216)
 325 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
 326 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
 327   formats (Issue #5225)
 328 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
 329 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
 330   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
 331 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
 332   needed.
 333
 334
 335 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
 336 ----------------------
 337
 338 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
 339 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
 340 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
 341   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
 342 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
 343 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
 344 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
 345   underscore (Issue #4833)
 346 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
 347   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
 348 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
 349 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
 350   (Issue #4966)
 351 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
 352   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
 353 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
 354 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
 355   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
 356 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
 357   (Issue #5093)
 358 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
 359   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
 360 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
 361   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
 362 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
 363   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
 364 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
 365   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
 366   respectively (Issue #5119)
 367 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
 368 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
 369   files (Issue #5144)
 370 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
 371   (Issue #5154)
 372 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
 373   templates (Issue #5161)
 374 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
 375 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
 376   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
 377 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
 378   when available (Issue #5168)
 379 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
 380   was seen (Issue #5170)
 381 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
 382 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
 383 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
 384 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
 385   (Issue #5185)
 386 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 387   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 388 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 389 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 390   (Issue #5194)