CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3rc1 - 2018-03-12
   2 =============================
   3
   4 Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
   5 -----------------------
   6
   7 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
   8   (Issue #5233)
   9 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
  10 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
  11 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
  12   print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
  13 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
  14 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
  15 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
  16 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
  17   don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
  18 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
  19 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
  20   (Issue #5259)
  21 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
  22   required a restart (Issue #5263)
  23 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
  24 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
  25 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
  26   (rdar://37789645)
  27 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
  28   correctly.
  29 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
  30   attribute.
  31
  32
  33 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
  34 ----------------------
  35
  36 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
  37 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
  38   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
  39 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
  40   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
  41 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
  42 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
  43   (Issue #5235)
  44
  45
  46 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
  47 ----------------------
  48
  49 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
  50 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
  51 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
  52 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
  53   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
  54 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
  55   (Issue #5208)
  56 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
  57 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
  58 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
  59   (Issue #5216)
  60 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
  61 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
  62   formats (Issue #5225)
  63 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
  64 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
  65   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
  66 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
  67   needed.
  68
  69
  70 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
  71 ----------------------
  72
  73 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
  74 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
  75 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
  76   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
  77 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
  78 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
  79 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
  80   underscore (Issue #4833)
  81 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
  82   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
  83 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
  84 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
  85   (Issue #4966)
  86 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
  87   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
  88 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
  89 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
  90   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
  91 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
  92   (Issue #5093)
  93 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
  94   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
  95 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
  96   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
  97 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
  98   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
  99 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
 100   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
 101   respectively (Issue #5119)
 102 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
 103 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
 104   files (Issue #5144)
 105 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
 106   (Issue #5154)
 107 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
 108   templates (Issue #5161)
 109 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
 110 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
 111   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
 112 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
 113   when available (Issue #5168)
 114 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
 115   was seen (Issue #5170)
 116 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
 117 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
 118 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
 119 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
 120   (Issue #5185)
 121 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 122   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 123 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 124 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 125   (Issue #5194)