libcups v3.0b2
October 5, 2023
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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
ipptransformcommand to replace/upgrade theippevepclandippevepscommands (Issue #65) - Added
cupsFormDecodeandcupsFormEncodeAPIs (Issue #49) - Added
cupsJWTAPIs to support JSON Web Tokens (Issue #50, Issue #52) - Added
ippAddCredentialsStringandippCopyCredentialsStringAPIs (Issue #58) - Added
cupsCreateCredentialsRequestandcupsSignCredentialsRequestAPIs and updatedcupsCreateCredentialsAPI 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
httpAddrListenfunction 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_LOCALwhen using Avahi.
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