CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3rc1 - 2018-02-20
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   3
   4 Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
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   6
   7 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
   8 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
   9
  10
  11 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
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  13
  14 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
  15 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
  16   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
  17 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
  18   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
  19 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
  20 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
  21   (Issue #5235)
  22
  23
  24 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
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  26
  27 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
  28 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
  29 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
  30 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
  31   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
  32 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
  33   (Issue #5208)
  34 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
  35 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
  36 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
  37   (Issue #5216)
  38 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
  39 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
  40   formats (Issue #5225)
  41 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
  42 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
  43   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
  44 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
  45   needed.
  46
  47
  48 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
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  50
  51 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
  52 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
  53 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
  54   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
  55 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
  56 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
  57 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
  58   underscore (Issue #4833)
  59 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
  60   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
  61 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
  62 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
  63   (Issue #4966)
  64 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
  65   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
  66 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
  67 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
  68   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
  69 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
  70   (Issue #5093)
  71 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
  72   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
  73 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
  74   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
  75 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
  76   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
  77 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
  78   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
  79   respectively (Issue #5119)
  80 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
  81 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
  82   files (Issue #5144)
  83 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
  84   (Issue #5154)
  85 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
  86   templates (Issue #5161)
  87 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
  88 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
  89   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
  90 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
  91   when available (Issue #5168)
  92 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
  93   was seen (Issue #5170)
  94 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
  95 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
  96 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
  97 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
  98   (Issue #5185)
  99 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 100   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 101 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 102 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 103   (Issue #5194)