PaperCut NG 23.0 release history
PaperCut NG 23.0
Please find release note history for PaperCut NG 23.0 below.
Related articles: How to upgrade (upgrade steps) and our Upgrade policy and license questions
23.0.3
Build 68057
Print Provider version 111.0.3.7673
Print Deploy server version 1.8.2537
28 Nov, 2023
New Features:
- Added support for users logging in to the PaperCut NG/MF User Client with Azure credentials & authenticating with Microsoft MFA flow. Find out what’s supported PO-1643,PO-1637
- PaperCut username field now supports up to 255 characters (increased from 50 to 255 characters) to allow better support for customers using UPNs as usernames. PO-1034
Security:
- For new installations only, we are changing the default configuration for “Allowed remote provider IP addresses (e.g. secondary print servers)” under Options->Advanced->Security to only allow connections from local IP ranges by default. More details can be found here PO-1649
- Introduced the ability for Admins to update their company contact details in the About Page in MF/NG to be alerted in the event of a critical security incident. For more regular PaperCut security notifications please subscribe to security notifications PO-1670
Fixes:
- Updates to color contrast of text and elements for enhanced accessibility compliance on MF/NG Admin and User PaperCut web interfaces. PO-1778
- Fixed a bug with Email to Print when configured with Gmail over OAuth, which caused email to print to stop working until an Application Server restart. PO-1672
- Improved email sending behavior when using Outlook or Gmail connections with OAuth. This should reduce Scan to Email notification failures. PO-1671
- Addressed an issue that could cause Windows AD users to lose association with groups following a user sync failure. PO-648
Print Provider:
- Windows, Linux: Fixed an issue that caused Hardware Page Count to fail if HTTPS communication was enabled in the Print Provider. See known issues for macOS. PO-1786
Other notes:
- A DB upgrade occurs when upgrading to this version.
23.0.1
Build 67835
Print Provider version 111.0.0.7550
Print Deploy server version 1.8.2518
30 Oct, 2023
New Features:
- Added the ability for customers with Azure user/group sync to enable multi factor authentication (MFA) on their tenancy under certain circumstances. This enables MFA login flow across all web based authentication, however does not support the MF User Client. See Overview of synchronizing user and group details with Entra ID (Azure AD) for more information. PO-1593, PO-1275
- Security communications enhancement to allow PaperCut to publish a banner to the Admin web interface to alert customers of any critical security incidents that may arise and guide them to take action to mitigate the issue. PO-1448
Security:
- Fixed a potential privilege escalation vulnerability when using the Print Archiving feature (CVE-2023-6006). See our Security bulletin (November 2023) for more information. PIE-547
- Security enhancement requiring Admins to re-authenticate their session before updating or assigning the admin rights or admin password. PO-1558, PO-1557
- Security enhancement to comply with GDPR guidelines to redact personably identifiable information in Worldpay (RBS) Payment Gateway logs. PO-1166
- Updated several third party libraries. PIE-625, PO-30, PO-858, PO-859, PO-862, PO-947, PO-963
- Security enhancement to ensure that all password fields within the configuration files; server.properties and any payment gateway configuration files, are encrypted. These values will then be encrypted automatically after restarting the Application Server service. PO-1130
Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that prevented the editing of scheduled reports where the report contained invalid email addresses. PO-1231
- Fixed an issue that prevented scheduled reports being sent if any recipient contained an invalid email address. PO-910
Print Provider:
- Print Provider: Added options to configure the HTTPS/TLS communication port, cipher suite, TLS version and whether self-signed certificates should be accepted. PIE-47
- Print Analysis: Fixed an issue that caused page color to be detected as grayscale when using the Fujifilm Apeos series PCL6 printer driver to print booklets. PIE-537
- Email to Print and Web Print: Fixed an issue that caused printing to fail for some drivers when Tabloid page size is used. PIE-616
Other notes:
- If you are running v22.1.3 or later, there is NO database upgrade.