cups-bjnp / News: Recent posts

Release 2.0.2 fixes a compile error with GCC9

Version 1.2.2 fixes a crash with newer Canon printers that send an XML-document in response to a get status request.
It also fixes a possible buffer overflow on incorrect responses from the printer

This version just fixes a compilation error on older GCC versions. If you have cups-bjnp-1.1 and it works for you there is no point in updating. If compilation of cups-bjnp-1.1 fails with complaints about bjnp_command_t being redefined, this version should fix your issues

Added IPv6 support
Fixed long standing "Failed to read side channel" bug
Major rewrite of the code

Bugfix release:

• fixed silly erors in configure script
• fixed printer detection on FreeBSD (forgot to set address family for bin() in bjnp_send_broadcast()
• Fixed rpmlint warnings

Version 0.5 is now available (it has been available for over a week as I forgot to update the news). It contains autoconf support for better portability as well as some bug-fixes and firewalling and debugging improvements

Version 0.4 is now available. it contains a number of improvements. Speed should now be roughly as good as in the Windows driver.
Version 0.4 corrects some issues:

• when the filter was slow, we could loose the connection to the printer
• Some printer model apparently did not like it when a new job was started right away. Added a 15 sec delay at the end of a printjob

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CUPS-BJNP is now released on source forge.
It adds a lot of new features:

• Compiles without needs for CUPS sources (requires cups-devel packages only)
• works with CUPS 1.2 and 1.3
• RPMs available for Fedora 9 and Centos 5