CHANGES.md

   1 CHANGES - 2.3b8 - 2019-01-21
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   3
   4
   5 Changes in CUPS v2.3b8
   6 ----------------------
   7
   8 - Fixed a potential crash bug in cups-driverd (rdar://46625579)
   9 - Fixed a performance regression with large PPDs (rdar://47040759)
  10 - Fixed a potential memory leak when reading at the end of a file (Issue #5473)
  11 - Fixed potential unaligned accesses in the string pool (Issue #5474)
  12 - Fixed a potential memory leak when loading a PPD file (Issue #5475)
  13 - Added a USB quirks rule for the Lexmark E120n (Issue #5478)
  14 - Fixed a compile error on Linux (Issue #5483)
  15 - The lpadmin command, web interface, and scheduler all queried an IPP
  16   Everywhere printer differently, resulting in different PPDs for the same
  17   printer (Issue #5484)
  18 - Localization updates (Issue #5461, Issues #5471, Issue #5481, Issue #5486)
  19
  20
  21 Changes in CUPS v2.3b7
  22 ----------------------
  23
  24 - Fixed some build failures (Issue #5451, Issue #5463)
  25 - Running ppdmerge with the same input and output filenames did not work as
  26   advertised (Issue #5455)
  27
  28
  29 Changes in CUPS v2.3b6
  30 ----------------------
  31
  32 - Localization update (Issue #5339, Issue #5348, Issue #5362, Issue #5408,
  33   Issue #5410)
  34 - Documentation updates (Issue #5369, Issue #5402, Issue #5403, Issue #5404)
  35 - CVE-2018-4700: Linux session cookies used a predictable random number seed.
  36 - All user commands now support the `--help` option (Issue #5326)
  37 - The `lpoptions` command now works with IPP Everywhere printers that have not
  38   yet been added as local queues (Issue #5045)
  39 - The lpadmin command would create a non-working printer in some error cases
  40   (Issue #5305)
  41 - The scheduler would crash if an empty `AccessLog` directive was specified
  42   (Issue #5309)
  43 - The scheduler did not idle-exit on some Linux distributions (Issue #5319)
  44 - Fixed a regression in the changes to ippValidateAttribute (Issue #5322,
  45   Issue #5330)
  46 - Fixed a crash bug in the Epson dot matrix driver (Issue #5323)
  47 - Automatic debug logging of job errors did not work with systemd (Issue #5337)
  48 - The web interface did not list the IPP Everywhere "driver" (Issue #5338)
  49 - The scheduler did not report all of the supported job options and values
  50   (Issue #5340)
  51 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" now properly supports face-up printers
  52   (Issue #5345)
  53 - Fixed some typos in the label printer drivers (Issue #5350)
  54 - Setting the `Community` name to the empty string in `snmp.conf` now disables
  55   SNMP supply level monitoring by all the standard network backends
  56   (Issue #5354)
  57 - Multi-file jobs could get stuck if the backend failed (Issue #5359,
  58   Issue #5413)
  59 - The IPP Everywhere "driver" no longer does local filtering when printing to
  60   a shared CUPS printer (Issue #5361)
  61 - The lpadmin command now correctly reports IPP errors when configuring an
  62   IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5370)
  63 - Fixed some memory leaks discovered by Coverity (Issue #5375)
  64 - The PPD compiler incorrectly terminated JCL options (Issue #5379)
  65 - The cupstestppd utility did not generate errors for missing/mismatched
  66   CloseUI/JCLCloseUI keywords (Issue #5381)
  67 - The scheduler now reports the actual location of the log file (Issue #5398)
  68 - Added USB quirk rules (Issue #5395, Issue #5420, Issue #5443)
  69 - The generated PPD files for IPP Everywhere printers did not contain the
  70   cupsManualCopies keyword (Issue #5433)
  71 - Kerberos credentials might be truncated (Issue #5435)
  72 - The handling of `MaxJobTime 0` did not match the documentation (Issue #5438)
  73 - Fixed a bug adding a queue with the `-E` option (Issue #5440)
  74 - The `cupsaddsmb` program has been removed (Issue #5449)
  75 - The `cupstestdsc` program has been removed (Issue #5450)
  76 - The scheduler was being backgrounded on macOS, causing applications to spin
  77   (rdar://40436080)
  78 - The scheduler did not validate that required initial request attributes were
  79   in the operation group (rdar://41098178)
  80 - Authentication in the web interface did not work on macOS (rdar://41444473)
  81 - Fixed an issue with HTTP Digest authentication (rdar://41709086)
  82 - The scheduler could crash when job history was purged (rdar://42198057)
  83 - Fixed a crash bug when mapping PPD duplex options to IPP attributes
  84   (rdar://46183976)
  85 - Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.
  86 - The `cupscgi`, `cupsmime`, and `cupsppdc` support libraries are no longer
  87   installed as shared libraries.
  88 - The `snmp` backend is now deprecated.
  89
  90
  91 Changes in CUPS v2.3b5
  92 ----------------------
  93
  94 - The `ipptool` program no longer checks for duplicate attributes when running
  95   in list or CSV mode (Issue #5278)
  96 - The `cupsCreateJob`, `cupsPrintFile2`, and `cupsPrintFiles2` APIs did not use
  97   the supplied HTTP connection (Issue #5288)
  98 - Fixed another crash in the scheduler when adding an IPP Everywhere printer
  99   (Issue #5290)
 100 - Added a workaround for certain web browsers that do not support multiple
 101   authentication schemes in a single response header (Issue #5289)
 102 - Fixed policy limits containing the `All` operation (Issue #5296)
 103 - The scheduler was always restarted after idle-exit with systemd (Issue #5297)
 104 - Added a USB quirks rule for the HP LaserJet P1102 (Issue #5310)
 105 - The mailto notifier did not wait for the welcome message (Issue #5312)
 106 - Fixed a parsing bug in the pstops filter (Issue #5321)
 107 - Documentation updates (Issue #5299, Issue #5301, Issue #5306)
 108 - Localization updates (Issue #5317)
 109 - The scheduler allowed environment variables to be specified in the
 110   `cupsd.conf` file (rdar://37836779, rdar://37836995, rdar://37837252,
 111   rdar://37837581)
 112 - Fax queues did not support pause (p) or wait-for-dialtone (w) characters
 113   (rdar://39212256)
 114 - The scheduler did not validate notify-recipient-uri values properly
 115   (rdar://40068936)
 116 - The IPP parser allowed invalid group tags (rdar://40442124)
 117 - Fixed a parsing bug in the new authentication code.
 118
 119
 120 Changes in CUPS v2.3b4
 121 ----------------------
 122
 123 - NOTICE: Printer drivers are now deprecated (Issue #5270)
 124 - Kerberized printing to another CUPS server did not work correctly
 125   (Issue #5233)
 126 - Fixed printing to some IPP Everywhere printers (Issue #5238)
 127 - Fixed installation of filters (Issue #5247)
 128 - The scheduler now supports using temporary print queues for older IPP/1.1
 129   print queues like those shared by CUPS 1.3 and earlier (Issue #5241)
 130 - Star Micronics printers need the "unidir" USB quirk rule (Issue #5251)
 131 - Documentation fixes (Issue #5252)
 132 - Fixed a compile issue when PAM is not available (Issue #5253)
 133 - Label printers supported by the rastertolabel driver don't support SNMP, so
 134   don't delay printing to test it (Issue #5256)
 135 - The scheduler could crash while adding an IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5258)
 136 - The Lexmark Optra E310 printer needs the "no-reattach" USB quirk rule
 137   (Issue #5259)
 138 - Systemd did not restart cupsd when configuration changes were made that
 139   required a restart (Issue #5263)
 140 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not include the `cupsJobPassword`
 141   keyword, when supported (Issue #5265)
 142 - Fixed an Avahi crash bug in the scheduler (Issue #5268)
 143 - Raw print queues are now deprecated (Issue #5269)
 144 - Fixed an RPM packaging problem (Issue #5276)
 145 - The IPP backend did not properly detect failed PDF prints (rdar://34055474)
 146 - TLS connections now properly timeout (rdar://34938533)
 147 - Temp files could not be created in some sandboxed applications
 148   (rdar://37789645)
 149 - The ipptool `--ippserver` option did not encode out-of-band attributes
 150   correctly.
 151 - Added public `cupsEncodeOption` API for encoding a single option as an IPP
 152   attribute.
 153 - Removed support for the `-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""` developer cheat - the PPD API
 154   should no longer be used.
 155 - Removed support for `-D_IPP_PRIVATE_STRUCTURES=1` developer cheat - the IPP
 156   accessor functions should be used instead.
 157
 158
 159 Changes in CUPS v2.3b3
 160 ----------------------
 161
 162 - More fixes for printing to old CUPS servers (Issue #5211)
 163 - The IPP Everywhere PPD generator did not support deep grayscale or 8-bit per
 164   component AdobeRGB (Issue #5227)
 165 - Additional changes for the scheduler to substitute default values for invalid
 166   job attributes when running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5229)
 167 - Localization changes (Issue #5232, rdar://37068158)
 168 - The `cupsCopyDestInfo` function did not work with all print queues
 169   (Issue #5235)
 170
 171
 172 Changes in CUPS v2.3b2
 173 ----------------------
 174
 175 - Localization changes (Issue #5210)
 176 - Build fixes (Issue #5217)
 177 - IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
 178 - The `cupsGetDests` and `cupsEnumDests` functions no longer filter out local
 179   print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
 180 - The `cupsCopyDest` function now correctly copies the `is_default` value
 181   (Issue #5208)
 182 - Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
 183 - The `ppdInstallableConflict` tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
 184 - All HTTP field values can now be longer than `HTTP_MAX_VALUE` bytes
 185   (Issue #5216)
 186 - Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
 187 - The `cupsRasterWritePixels` function did not correctly swap bytes for some
 188   formats (Issue #5225)
 189 - Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
 190 - The `ppdLocalizeIPPReason` function incorrectly returned a localized version
 191   of "none" (rdar://36566269)
 192 - The scheduler did not add ".local" to the default DNS-SD host name when
 193   needed.
 194
 195
 196 Changes in CUPS v2.3b1
 197 ----------------------
 198
 199 - CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
 200 - Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
 201 - The `cupsCopyDestConflicts` function now handles collection attribute
 202   ("media-col", "finishings-col", etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
 203 - The `lpoptions` command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
 204 - The `lpstat` command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
 205 - The `ippfind` command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an
 206   underscore (Issue #4833)
 207 - The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication
 208   specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
 209 - The scheduler now supports the "printer-id" attribute (Issue #4868)
 210 - No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names
 211   (Issue #4966)
 212 - The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging
 213   a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
 214 - Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
 215 - Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if
 216   none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
 217 - The `ipptool` command now supports writing `ippserver` attributes files
 218   (Issue #5093)
 219 - The `lp` and `lpr` commands now provide better error messages when the default
 220   printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
 221 - The `lpadmin` command now provides a better error message when an unsupported
 222   System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
 223 - The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there
 224   were open client connections (Issue #5118)
 225 - The `SSLOptions` directive now supports `MinTLS` and `MaxTLS` options to
 226   control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed,
 227   respectively (Issue #5119)
 228 - Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
 229 - The `cupsEnumDests` function did not include options from the lpoptions
 230   files (Issue #5144)
 231 - Fixed the `ippserver` sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable
 232   (Issue #5154)
 233 - Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface
 234   templates (Issue #5161)
 235 - Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)
 236 - Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new
 237   `cupsAddDestMediaOptions` function (Issue #5167)
 238 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types,
 239   when available (Issue #5168)
 240 - The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop
 241   was seen (Issue #5170)
 242 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
 243 - IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
 244 - Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
 245 - Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions
 246   (Issue #5185)
 247 - The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when
 248   running in "relaxed conformance" mode (Issue #5186)
 249 - The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
 250 - The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options
 251   (Issue #5194)