CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3b6 - 2018-06-29
   2 ============================
   3
   4 Changes in CUPS v2.3b6
   5 ----------------------
   6
   7 - Localization update (Issue #5339)
   8 - The lpadmin command would create a non-working printer in some error cases
   9   (Issue #5305)
  10 - The scheduler would crash if an empty `AccessLog` directive was specified
  11   (Issue #5309)
  12 - The scheduler did not idle-exit on some Linux distributions (Issue #5319)
  13 - Fixed a regression in the changes to ippValidateAttribute (Issue #5322,
  14   Issue #5330)
  15 - Fixed a crash bug in the Epson dot matrix driver (Issue #5323)
  16 - Automatic debug logging of job errors did not work with systemd (Issue #5337)
  17 - The web interface did not list the IPP Everywhere "driver" (Issue #5338)
  18 - The scheduler did not report all of the supported job options and values
  19   (Issue #5340)
  20 - Authentication in the web interface did not work on macOS (rdar://41444473)
  21 - Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.
  22
  23
  24 Changes in CUPS v2.3b5
  25 ----------------------
  26
  27 - The `ipptool` program no longer checks for duplicate attributes when running
  28   in list or CSV mode (Issue #5278)
  29 - The `cupsCreateJob`, `cupsPrintFile2`, and `cupsPrintFiles2` APIs did not use
  30   the supplied HTTP connection (Issue #5288)
  31 - Fixed another crash in the scheduler when adding an IPP Everywhere printer
  32   (Issue #5290)
  33 - Added a workaround for certain web browsers that do not support multiple
  34   authentication schemes in a single response header (Issue #5289)
  35 - Fixed policy limits containing the `All` operation (Issue #5296)
  36 - The scheduler was always restarted after idle-exit with systemd (Issue #5297)
  37 - Added a USB quirks rule for the HP LaserJet P1102 (Issue #5310)
  38 - The mailto notifier did not wait for the welcome message (Issue #5312)
  39 - Fixed a parsing bug in the pstops filter (Issue #5321)
  40 - Documentation updates (Issue #5299, Issue #5301, Issue #5306)
  41 - Localization updates (Issue #5317)
  42 - The scheduler allowed environment variables to be specified in the
  43   `cupsd.conf` file (rdar://37836779, rdar://37836995, rdar://37837252,
  44   rdar://37837581)
  45 - Fax queues did not support pause (p) or wait-for-dialtone (w) characters
  46   (rdar://39212256)
  47 - The scheduler did not validate notify-recipient-uri values properly
  48   (rdar://40068936)
  49 - The IPP parser allowed invalid group tags (rdar://40442124)
  50 - Fixed a parsing bug in the new authentication code.
  51
  52
  53 Changes in CUPS v2.3b4
  54 ----------------------
  55
  56 - NOTICE: Printer drivers are now deprecated (Issue #5270)
  57 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
  58   (Issue #5233)
  59 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
  60 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
  61 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
  62   print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
  63 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
  64 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
  65 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
  66 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
  67   don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
  68 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
  69 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
  70   (Issue #5259)
  71 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
  72   required a restart (Issue #5263)
  73 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not include the `cupsJobPassword`
  74   keyword, when supported (Issue #5265)
  75 - Fixed an Avahi crash bug in the scheduler (Issue #5268)
  76 - Raw print queues are now deprecated (Issue #5269)
  77 - Fixed an RPM packaging problem (Issue #5276)
  78 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
  79 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
  80 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
  81   (rdar://37789645)
  82 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
  83   correctly.
  84 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
  85   attribute.
  86 - Removed support for the `-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""` developer cheat - the PPD API
  87   should no longer be used.
  88 - Removed support for `-D_IPP_PRIVATE_STRUCTURES=1` developer cheat - the IPP
  89   accessor functions should be used instead.
  90
  91
  92 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
  93 ----------------------
  94
  95 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
  96 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
  97   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
  98 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
  99   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
 100 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
 101 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
 102   (Issue #5235)
 103
 104
 105 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
 106 ----------------------
 107
 108 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
 109 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
 110 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
 111 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
 112   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
 113 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
 114   (Issue #5208)
 115 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
 116 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
 117 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
 118   (Issue #5216)
 119 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
 120 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
 121   formats (Issue #5225)
 122 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
 123 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
 124   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
 125 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
 126   needed.
 127
 128
 129 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
 130 ----------------------
 131
 132 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
 133 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
 134 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
 135   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
 136 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
 137 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
 138 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
 139   underscore (Issue #4833)
 140 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
 141   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
 142 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
 143 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
 144   (Issue #4966)
 145 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
 146   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
 147 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
 148 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
 149   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
 150 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
 151   (Issue #5093)
 152 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
 153   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
 154 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
 155   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
 156 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
 157   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
 158 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
 159   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
 160   respectively (Issue #5119)
 161 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
 162 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
 163   files (Issue #5144)
 164 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
 165   (Issue #5154)
 166 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
 167   templates (Issue #5161)
 168 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
 169 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
 170   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
 171 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
 172   when available (Issue #5168)
 173 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
 174   was seen (Issue #5170)
 175 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
 176 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
 177 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
 178 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
 179   (Issue #5185)
 180 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 181   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 182 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 183 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 184   (Issue #5194)