v3.0rc4

libcups v3.0rc4 is the fourth release candidate of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs. Changes include:

• Added cupsCopyCredentialsPublicKey API.
• Added cupsGetClock API.
• Added cupsJWTLoadCredentials API.
• Added "client.conf" man page.
• Added cups-oauth and cups-x509 utilities (Issue #108)
• Updated documentation (Issue #99)
• Updated cupsDNSSD APIs on Windows (Issue #29)
• Updated the ipptool utility to support the --bearer-token and --client-name options.
• Updated cupsOAuthGetMetadata to support Microsoft Azure/Entra OAuth servers.
• Updated ipptransform to support generation of PCLm output in addition to PWG Raster data.
• Updated cupsEnumDests and cupsGetDests to support printer browsing and filtering options in client.conf (Issue #106)
• Fixed handling of finishings/finishings-col and media/media-col in the ippeveprinter tool (Issue #95)
• Fixed a duplicate printer reporting bug in cupsGetDests.
• Fixed handling of NULL path in cupsSaveCredentials API.
• Fixed handling of default authorization strings.
• Fixed validation of dateTime values with time zones more than UTC+11.

Enjoy!

v3.0rc3

libcups v3.0rc3 is the third release candidate of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs. Changes include:

• Updated cupsCreateCertificateRequest to store the new private key separately.
• Updated cupsSaveCredentials to validate the input credentials, support using a saved private key from cupsCreateCertificateRequest, and support credential removal as documented.
• Updated the raster functions to report more issues via cupsRasterGetErrorString.
• Fixed a crash bug on Windows.

Enjoy!

v3.0rc2

libcups v3.0rc2 is the second release candidate of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs. Changes include:

• Updated httpConnectAgain to re-validate the server's X.509 certificate (Issue #90)
• Updated the source tarball script to include the PDFio sources.
• Fixed handling of empty resolution values passed to ipptool (Issue #63)
• Fixed a compressed file error handling bug (Issue #91)
• Fixed the default User-Agent string sent in requests.
• Fixed a recursion issue in ippReadIO.

Enjoy!

v3.0rc1

libcups v3.0rc1 is the first release candidate of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs. Changes include:

• Added cupsFormatString and cupsFormatStringv APIs to safely format UTF-8 strings.
• Added support for per-user instances of cups-locald (Issue #69)
• Added httpConnectURI API.
• Added "end" argument to cupsParseOptions API.
• Renamed httpReconnect to httpConnectAgain.
• Updated cupsDestInfo to accept a cups_dest_flags_t argument.
• Updated cupsCopyString and cupsConcatString APIs to safely terminate UTF-8 strings.
• Updated list of attributes included in the destination options.
• Updated cupsAddIntegerOption and cupsGetIntegerOption to use the long type.
• Updated httpAddrConnect() to handle POLLHUP together with POLLIN or POLLOUT.
• Updated the various tool man pages, usage output, and examples.
• Updated ippCreateRequestedArray for the Get-Documents and Get-Output-Device-Attributes operations.
• Updated ipptool to validate IPP, PDF, and .strings files using the "WITH-[ALL-]CONTENT" predicate (Issue #87)
• Now use installed PDFio library, if available.
• Now use NotoSansMono font for ipptransform text conversions.
• Brought back IPP/2.x and related conformance test files (Issue #85)
• The ipptransform program now supports uncollated copies.
• Fixed GNU TLS crash.
• Fixed PCL output from ipptransform (Issue #72)
• Fixed JSON output from ipptool.
• Fixed hang/crash in cupsEnumDests/cupsGetDests (Issue #74)
• Fixed encoding of IPv6 addresses in HTTP requests (Issue #78)
• Fixed encoding of IPP_TAG_EXTENSION values in IPP messages (Issue #80)
• Fixed error handling when reading a mixed 1setOf attribute (Issue #83)
• Fixed non-quick copy of collection values.
• Fixed error handling in cupsConnectDest.
• Fixed TLS negotiation using OpenSSL with servers that require the TLS SNI extension.
• Fixed a certificate loading issue with OpenSSL.
• Fixed cupsAreCredentialsValidForName with OpenSSL.
• Fixed how ippeveprinter responds to an unsupported request character set.

Enjoy!

v3.0b2

libcups v3.0b2 is the second beta release of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs. Changes include:

• Added the ipptransform command to replace/upgrade the ippevepcl and
  ippeveps commands (Issue #65)
• Added cupsFormDecode and cupsFormEncode APIs (Issue #49)
• Added cupsJWT APIs to support JSON Web Tokens (Issue #50, Issue #52)
• Added ippAddCredentialsString and ippCopyCredentialsString APIs
  (Issue #58)
• Added cupsCreateCredentialsRequest and cupsSignCredentialsRequest APIs and
  updated cupsCreateCredentials API to better support X.509 certificates
  (Issue #59)
• Updated the configure script to add _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 (previous level was 2)
  when not using address sanitizer and when it hasn't already been added
  (Issue #51)
• Updated the httpAddrListen function to use the maximum backlog value.
• Fixed ipptool limit on the size of an attribute value that would be printed
  (Issue #5)
• Fixed some configure script issues (Issue #48)
• Fixed JSON output bug in ipptool.
• Fixed CUPS_DNSSD_IF_INDEX_LOCAL when using Avahi.

Enjoy!

v3.0b1

libcups v3.0b1 is the first beta release of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs. Changes include:

• Documentation updates (Issue #32)
• Split out libcups and tools from CUPS 2.x.
• Simplified the configure script.
• Now require a C99-capable C compiler.
• Now require GNU TLS, LibreSSL, or OpenSSL.
• Now require ZLIB.
• Now require POSIX or Windows threading support.
• Now require the poll function (WSAPoll on Windows).
• Now install with a prefix by default to allow coexistance with CUPS 2.x (Issue #21)
• Added new GENERATE-FILE directive for ipptool test files.
• Added new ATTR-IF-DEFINED and ATTR-IF-NOT-DEFINED directives to IPP data files (Issue #3)
• Added ippFile API for working with IPP data files as used by ipptool, ippexeprinter, and other tools (Issue #14)
• Added a roll to the default color ippeveprinter printer.
• Added new DNS-SD API (Issue #19)
• Added new PWG media sizes.
• Added new WITH-ALL-VALUES-FROM predicate for ipptool files (Issue #20)
• Added new SAVE-ALL-CONTENT, WITH-ALL-CONTENT, and WITH-ALL-MIME-TYPES predicates for ipptool files (Issue #22)
• Added, modernized, and promoted the localization interfaces to public API (Issue #24)
• Added public JSON API (Issue #31)
• Added new basename variable for use in ipptool files (Issue #44)
• Updated the CUPS API for consistency.
• Fixed ipptool's handling of EXPECT for member attributes (Issue #4)
• Fixed ipptool's support for octetString values (Issue #23)
• Removed all obsolete/deprecated CUPS 2.x APIs.
• Removed (obsolete) Kerberos support.
• Removed support for SecureTransport (macOS) due to deprecation of the platform API.
• Removed support for SChannel (Windows) due to restrictions on its use in
  domain accounts.

Enjoy!