The job listing received an update in the web interface

Mar 29, 2017 22:02 GMT  ·  By

Apple released today a new maintenance update for its open-source and cross-platform printing system, CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), for macOS and other UNIX-like operating systems.

CUPS 2.2.3 is the third point release to the stable 2.2 series of the project, bringing a bunch of IPP Everywhere improvements, such as support for all print qualities and media types that a printer supports, in the print queues.

Additionally, it makes IPP Everywhere finishings support work correctly with common command-line and UI (User Interface) options, and updates the PPD generator to return helpful error messages. Support for PostScript Printer Description (PPD) finishing keywords was also introduced in this release.

CUPS 2.2.3 also improves the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) backend so that it no longer hangs the printing queue by entering an infinite loop when certain errors ocurr, as well as the scheduler, which will keep responding to client requests when saving state changes to disk.

The "reprint job" option is now available for canceled jobs

Among other improvements implemented in the CUPS 2.2.3 update, we can mention that the job listing component of the web-based interface received an update, various localization issues reported by users lately on macOS were fixed, and the "reprint job" option is now available for all canceled jobs.

Last but not least, the default cupsd.conf file was updated to also work on operating systems that don't offer Kerberos support, an error handling issue related to the network backends has been resolved, and the IPP backend can now send a media-col attribute to only the type or source.

The CUPS 2.2.3 source archive is available for download right now from our website if you fancy compiling it on your GNU/Linux distribution, but it can also be installed from the repositories, and it should be available in the new macOS 10.12.4 Sierra update as well.