CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3rc1 - 2018-04-11
   2 =============================
   3
   4 Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
   5 -----------------------
   6
   7 - The `ipptool` program no longer checks for duplicate attributes when running
   8   in list or CSV mode (Issue #5278)
   9 - The `cupsCreateJob`, `cupsPrintFile2`, and `cupsPrintFiles2` APIs did not use
  10   the supplied HTTP connection (Issue #5288)
  11 - Fixed another crash in the scheduler when adding an IPP Everywhere printer
  12   (Issue #5290)
  13 - Fixed a parsing bug in the new authentication code.
  14
  15
  16 Changes in CUPS v2.3b4
  17 ----------------------
  18
  19 - NOTICE: Printer drivers are now deprecated (Issue #5270)
  20 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
  21   (Issue #5233)
  22 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
  23 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
  24 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
  25   print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
  26 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
  27 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
  28 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
  29 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
  30   don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
  31 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
  32 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
  33   (Issue #5259)
  34 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
  35   required a restart (Issue #5263)
  36 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not include the `cupsJobPassword`
  37   keyword, when supported (Issue #5265)
  38 - Fixed an Avahi crash bug in the scheduler (Issue #5268)
  39 - Raw print queues are now deprecated (Issue #5269)
  40 - Fixed an RPM packaging problem (Issue #5276)
  41 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
  42 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
  43 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
  44   (rdar://37789645)
  45 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
  46   correctly.
  47 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
  48   attribute.
  49 - Removed support for the `-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""` developer cheat - the PPD API
  50   should no longer be used.
  51 - Removed support for `-D_IPP_PRIVATE_STRUCTURES=1` developer cheat - the IPP
  52   accessor functions should be used instead.
  53
  54
  55 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
  56 ----------------------
  57
  58 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
  59 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
  60   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
  61 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
  62   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
  63 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
  64 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
  65   (Issue #5235)
  66
  67
  68 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
  69 ----------------------
  70
  71 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
  72 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
  73 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
  74 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
  75   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
  76 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
  77   (Issue #5208)
  78 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
  79 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
  80 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
  81   (Issue #5216)
  82 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
  83 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
  84   formats (Issue #5225)
  85 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
  86 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
  87   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
  88 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
  89   needed.
  90
  91
  92 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
  93 ----------------------
  94
  95 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
  96 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
  97 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
  98   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
  99 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
 100 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
 101 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
 102   underscore (Issue #4833)
 103 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
 104   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
 105 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
 106 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
 107   (Issue #4966)
 108 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
 109   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
 110 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
 111 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
 112   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
 113 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
 114   (Issue #5093)
 115 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
 116   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
 117 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
 118   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
 119 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
 120   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
 121 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
 122   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
 123   respectively (Issue #5119)
 124 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
 125 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
 126   files (Issue #5144)
 127 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
 128   (Issue #5154)
 129 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
 130   templates (Issue #5161)
 131 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
 132 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
 133   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
 134 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
 135   when available (Issue #5168)
 136 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
 137   was seen (Issue #5170)
 138 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
 139 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
 140 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
 141 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
 142   (Issue #5185)
 143 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 144   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 145 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 146 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 147   (Issue #5194)