Now available for Linux and Mac OS X operating systems

Jun 10, 2015 23:50 GMT  ·  By

Apple has announced the immediate availability of the third maintenance release of the CUPS 2.0 (Common UNIX Printing System) software for all supported operating systems, including GNU/Linux and Mac OS X.

According to the release notes, which have been attached at the end of the article for reference, CUPS 2.0.3 is mainly a bug fix release that addresses over 20 issues that have been reported by users or discovered by the CUPS development team since the previous maintenance release.

Among these, we can mention two security patches, one of them for the scheduler, an issue with < Limit > inside < Location >, problems with the lpadmin tool when using both -o and -m arguments, a memory leak in the cupsConnectDest component, and a crash with the sample Epson driver.

Furthermore, the missing generic printer icon file has been added, multiple buffer overflows have been patched in the filters and raster code, a loop issue with the scheduler has been resolved, and logging of configuration errors are no longer there.

"The new release addresses two security vulnerabilities, add localizations for German and Russian, and includes several general bug fixes," reads the official release announcement.

Many other issues have been resolved in CUPS 2.0.3

Of course, the list of fixes continues with a patch for the ippfind command, as it incorrectly substituted "=port" for service_port, the rastertopwg filter is now capable of checking for trimmed input, the cupsRasterReadHeader function can now completely validate raster headers, and support for 2-sided printing won't always be displayed in the web interface.

Last but not least, CUPS 2.0.3 brings improvements to the cups-lpd daemon so it can check for request parameters, enables the IPP/1.1 test file to handle initial print jobs and the IPP backend to correctly monitor print jobs. A crash in the ppdpo and ppdhtml utilities has been fixed, and correct ImageBox values are now included in the PWG Raster Format output.

The Russian and German language translations have been added. Download Common UNIX Printing System 2.0.3 for Linux and Mac OS X operating systems right now from Softpedia.

CUPS 2.0.3 Changelog