CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3rc1 - 2018-02-23
   2 =============================
   3
   4 Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
   5 -----------------------
   6
   7 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
   8 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
   9 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
  10   print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
  11 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
  12 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
  13 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
  14 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
  15   (rdar://37789645)
  16 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
  17   correctly.
  18 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
  19   attribute.
  20 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
  21
  22
  23 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
  24 ----------------------
  25
  26 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
  27 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
  28   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
  29 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
  30   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
  31 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
  32 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
  33   (Issue #5235)
  34
  35
  36 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
  37 ----------------------
  38
  39 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
  40 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
  41 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
  42 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
  43   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
  44 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
  45   (Issue #5208)
  46 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
  47 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
  48 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
  49   (Issue #5216)
  50 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
  51 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
  52   formats (Issue #5225)
  53 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
  54 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
  55   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
  56 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
  57   needed.
  58
  59
  60 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
  61 ----------------------
  62
  63 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
  64 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
  65 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
  66   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
  67 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
  68 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
  69 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
  70   underscore (Issue #4833)
  71 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
  72   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
  73 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
  74 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
  75   (Issue #4966)
  76 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
  77   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
  78 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
  79 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
  80   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
  81 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
  82   (Issue #5093)
  83 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
  84   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
  85 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
  86   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
  87 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
  88   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
  89 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
  90   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
  91   respectively (Issue #5119)
  92 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
  93 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
  94   files (Issue #5144)
  95 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
  96   (Issue #5154)
  97 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
  98   templates (Issue #5161)
  99 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
 100 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
 101   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
 102 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
 103   when available (Issue #5168)
 104 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
 105   was seen (Issue #5170)
 106 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
 107 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
 108 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
 109 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
 110   (Issue #5185)
 111 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 112   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 113 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 114 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 115   (Issue #5194)