CHANGES - 2.3b2 - 2018-01-17

Changes in CUPS v2.3b2

  • Localization changes (Issue #5210)
  • Build fixes (Issue #5217)
  • IPP Everywhere PPDs were not localized to English (Issue #5205)
  • The cupsGetDests and cupsEnumDests functions no longer filter out local print services like IPP USB devices (Issue #5206)
  • The cupsCopyDest function now correctly copies the is_default value (Issue #5208)
  • Printing to old CUPS servers has been fixed (Issue #5211)
  • The ppdInstallableConflict tested too many constraints (Issue #5213)
  • All HTTP field values can now be longer than HTTP_MAX_VALUE bytes (Issue #5216)
  • Added a USB quirk rule for Canon MP280 series printers (Issue #5221)
  • The cupsRasterWritePixels function did not correctly swap bytes for some formats (Issue #5225)
  • Fixed an issue with mapping finishing options (rdar://34250727)
  • The ppdLocalizeIPPReason function incorrectly returned a localized version of “none” (rdar://36566269)
  • The scheduler did not add “.local” to the default DNS-SD host name when needed.

Changes in CUPS v2.3b1

  • CUPS is now provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
  • Documentation updates (Issue #4580, Issue #5177, Issue #5192)
  • The cupsCopyDestConflicts function now handles collection attribute (“media-col”, “finishings-col”, etc.) constraints (Issue #4096)
  • The lpoptions command incorrectly saved default options (Issue #4717)
  • 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)
  • The cupsEnumDests function did not include options from the lpoptions files (Issue #5144)
  • 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)
  • Improved IPP Everywhere media support, including a new cupsAddDestMediaOptions function (Issue #5167)
  • IPP Everywhere PPDs now include localizations of printer-specific media types, when available (Issue #5168)
  • The cups-driverd program incorrectly stopped scanning PPDs as soon as a loop was seen (Issue #5170)
  • IPP Everywhere PPDs now support IPP job presets (Issue #5179)
  • IPP Everywhere PPDs now support finishing templates (Issue #5180)
  • Fixed a journald support bug in the scheduler (Issue #5181)
  • Fixed PAM module detection and added support for the common PAM definitions (Issue #5185)
  • The scheduler now substitutes default values for invalid job attributes when running in “relaxed conformance” mode (Issue #5186)
  • The scheduler did not work with older versions of uClibc (Issue #5188)
  • The scheduler now generates a strings file for localizing PPD options (Issue #5194)