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CUPS v2.2.9 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-11-08 // over 5 years ago

  • 🚀 CUPS 2.2.9 is a bug fix release that addresses issues in the scheduler,
    🖨 IPP Everywhere support, CUPS library, and USB printer support. Changes include:

    • Localization changes (Issue #5348, Issue #5362, Issue #5408)
    • 📚 Documentation updates (Issue #5369)
    • 🖨 The lpadmin command would create a non-working printer in some error cases
      (Issue #5305)
    • ⏱ The scheduler would crash if an empty AccessLog directive was specified
      (Issue #5309)
    • 🛠 Fixed a regression in the changes to ippValidateAttribute (Issue #5322,
      Issue #5330)
    • 🛠 Fixed a crash bug in the Epson dot matrix driver (Issue #5323)
    • 👷 Automatic debug logging of job errors did not work with systemd (Issue #5337)
    • 🌐 The web interface did not list the IPP Everywhere "driver" (Issue #5338)
    • 🖨 The IPP Everywhere "driver" now properly supports face-up printers
      (Issue #5345)
    • 🛠 Fixed some typos in the label printer drivers (Issue #5350)
    • 👷 Multi-file jobs could get stuck if the backend failed (Issue #5359,
      Issue #5413)
    • 🖨 The IPP Everywhere "driver" no longer does local filtering when printing to
      🖨 a shared CUPS printer (Issue #5361)
    • 🔧 The lpadmin command now correctly reports IPP errors when configuring an
      🖨 IPP Everywhere printer (Issue #5370)
    • 🛠 Fixed some memory leaks discovered by Coverity (Issue #5375)
    • The PPD compiler incorrectly terminated JCL options (Issue #5379)
    • ✅ The cupstestppd utility did not generate errors for missing/mismatched
      CloseUI/JCLCloseUI keywords (Issue #5381)
    • ⏱ The scheduler now reports the actual location of the log file (Issue #5398)
    • ➕ Added a USB quirk rule (Issue #5420)
    • ⏱ The scheduler was being backgrounded on macOS, causing applications to spin
      (rdar://40436080)
    • ⏱ The scheduler did not validate that required initial request attributes were
      in the operation group (rdar://41098178)
    • 🍎 Authentication in the web interface did not work on macOS (rdar://41444473)
    • 🛠 Fixed an issue with HTTP Digest authentication (rdar://41709086)
    • ⏱ The scheduler could crash when job history was purged (rdar://42198057)
    • ⬇️ Dropped non-working RSS subscriptions UI from web interface templates.
    • 🛠 Fixed a memory leak for some IPP (extension) syntaxes.

    Enjoy!