CHANGES - 2.3b1 - 2017-11-10

Changes in CUPS v2.3b1

• CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
• Documentation updates (Issue #4580)
• The lpstat command now reports when new jobs are being held (Issue #4761)
• The ippfind command now supports finding printers whose name starts with an underscore (Issue #4833)
• The CUPS library now supports the latest HTTP Digest authentication specification including support for SHA-256 (Issue #4862)
• The scheduler now supports the “printer-id” attribute (Issue #4868)
• No longer support backslash, question mark, or quotes in printer names (Issue #4966)
• The scheduler no longer logs pages as they are printed, instead just logging a total of the pages printed at job completion (Issue #4991)
• Dropped RSS subscription management from the web interface (Issue #5012)
• Bonjour printer sharing now uses the DNS-SD hostname (or ServerName value if none is defined) when registering shared printers on the network (Issue #5071)
• The ipptool command now supports writing ippserver attributes files (Issue #5093)
• The lp and lpr commands now provide better error messages when the default printer cannot be found (Issue #5096)
• The lpadmin command now provides a better error message when an unsupported System V interface script is used (Issue #5111)
• The scheduler did not write out dirty configuration and state files if there were open client connections (Issue #5118)
• The SSLOptions directive now supports MinTLS and MaxTLS options to control the minimum and maximum TLS versions that will be allowed, respectively (Issue #5119)
• Dropped hard-coded CGI scripting language support (Issue #5124)
• Fixed the ippserver sample code when threading is disabled or unavailable (Issue #5154)
• Added label markup to checkbox and radio button controls in the web interface templates (Issue #5161)
• Fixed group validation on OpenBSD (Issue #5166)