#8294: cups-2.2.0
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Reporter: renodr | Owner: blfs-book@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.11
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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New minor version
{{{
CHANGES.txt - 2.2.0 - 2016-09-09
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CHANGES IN CUPS V2.2.0
- Normalized the TLS certificate validation code and added
additional
error messages to aid troubleshooting.
- http*Connect did not work on Linux when cupsd was not running
(Issue #4870)
- The --no-remote-any option of cupsctl had no effect (Issue
#4866)
- http*Connect did not return early when all addresses failed
(Issue #4870)
CHANGES IN CUPS V2.2rc1
- Updated the list of supported IPP Everywhere media types.
- The IPP backend did not validate TLS credentials properly.
- The printer-state-message attribute was not cleared after a
print job with no errors (Issue #4851)
- The CUPS-Add-Modify-Class and CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer operations
did
not always return an error for failed adds (Issue #4854)
- PPD files with names longer than 127 bytes did not work (Issue
#4860)
- Updated localizations (Issue #4846, PR #4858)
CHANGES IN CUPS V2.2b2
- Added Upstart support (PR #4825)
- CUPS now supports Let's Encrypt certificates on Linux.
CHANGES IN CUPS V2.2b1
- All CUPS commands now support POSIX options (Issue #4813)
- The scheduler now restarts faster (Issue #4760)
- Improved performance of web interface with large numbers of jobs
(Issue #3819)
- Encrypted printing can now be limited to only trusted printers
and
servers (<rdar://problem/25711658>)
- The scheduler now advertises PWG Raster attributes for IPP
Everywhere
clients (Issue #4428)
- The scheduler now logs informational messages for jobs at
LogLevel
"info" (Issue #4815)
- The scheduler now uses the getgrouplist function when available
(Issue #4611)
- The IPP backend no longer enables compression by default except
for
certain raster formats that generally benefit from it
(<rdar://problem/25166952>)
- The scheduler did not handle out-of-disk situations gracefully
(Issue #4742)
- The LPD mini-daemon now detects invalid UTF-8 sequences in job,
document, and user names (Issue #4748)
- The IPP backend now continues on to the next job when the remote
server/printer puts the job on hold (<rdar://problem/24858548>)
- The scheduler did not cancel multi-document jobs immediately
(<rdar://problem/24854834>)
- The scheduler did not return non-shared printers to local
clients
unless they connected to the domain socket
(<rdar://problem/24566996>)
- The scheduler now reads the spool directory if one or more job
cache
entries point to deleted jobs (<rdar://problem/24048846>)
- Added support for disc media sizes (<rdar://problem/20219536>)
- The httpAddrConnect and httpConnect* APIs now try connecting to
multiple addresses in parallel (<rdar://problem/20643153>)
- The cupsd domain socket is no longer world-accessible on macOS
(<rdar://problem/7542560>)
- Interface scripts are no longer supported for security reasons
(<rdar://problem/23135640>)
- Added a new cupsHashData API and support for hashed job
passwords
(<rdar://problem/20221502>)
- Localization fixes (<rdar://problem/25292403>,
<rdar://problem/25461517>, Issue #4041, Issue #4796)
- Documentation changes (Issue #4624, Issue #4781)
- Packaging fixes (PR #4832)
}}}
The release announcement specified "Security Changes". I'm not marking to
High as I have no proof of those existing (e.g. CVEs), but I'll keep an
eye out over the next 12-24.
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