To upgrade an existing installation, log all users out of Clippership, and run the installation from one workstation.
Release Notes
General
Important Announcement
In prior releases this year, the Clippership Peripheral Engine has been upgraded to support some sizing options, where available, due to UPS requirements to support 4×4 labels. As part of this an architectural review and compliance with modern coding standards and Microsoft Windows operating system access have led to deprecation of legacy drivers. As a result this version of Clippership cannot be used with an older Peripheral Engine and old DLLs from prior systems for those drivers will not be read for use.
Upon upgrade startup of the first post 23.1 release . Clippership will attempt to upgrade peripheral choices. A screen may appear and report that not all peripherals could be replaced and that a user will need to review this for the workstation profiles and possibly assign new peripherals and port names. This will need to be done with a login that uses that profile. This is due to an overhaul of the system and how it reads ports and deprecated devices.
Deprecated drivers will not be updated.
The Windows Image Driver is not supplied and may not see further development. If this is being used please contact support with information on it's use.
In addition to UPS compliance changes, 23.3 also supports FedEx FSMS and the change from FedEx SmartPost to Ground Economy. Although it is not required in this release, shippers are highly encouraged to contact their Clippership supplier to upgrade FSMS and then update the FedEx phase to take advantage of this service and also to be on FedEx's latest supported Server platform.
Please reference the Version 23.1.0, Version 23.3.0 and Fixes from 23.3.0.00X Releases.
Modified
With Version 22.0.2.000, BluJay Parcel reverted to Clippership® branding. The Help File will continue to be updated in this release.
UPS
Modified
This release supports the UPS rate and service changes for 2024 (effective December 24, 2023). Remember, before anyone uses BluJay Parcel on December 25, all users must be logged out of BluJay Parcel. [CSPA-479]
Note: Some minor elements have not been supplied to e2open that effect UPS Hundredweight, for the Average Minimum Weights which vary by CWT tier. If these values change post release we will make an upated rate file available and will include it in 23.4.2.000.
In some cases, when Remark and PO_NO were not populated neither would print on the UPS label.[CSPA-458]
International shipments now have a weight threshold of 55 from 70 where Additional Handling will be applied.
UPS SurePost
Modified
The updated 'list rate' Excel files for UPS SurePost are included in the install package and will appear in this directory: \application name\UPS\SurepostList\2024. Any accessorial fee changes must be manually updated on the UPS SurePost® tab of the UPS® PLD Default Values dialog box (click the Misc button on the
Discontinued
UPS has discontinued the Non-machinable Surcharge in July 2023.
Fixes from 23.3.0.00X Releases
General
Help menu now displays Connect to e2open [CSPA-440] (23.3.0.003)
Peripheral Engine might not display the NCI/Weightronix 3800/7600/7800 or other drivers [CSPA-440] (23.3.0.003)
Peripheral Engine might not start due to an invalid peripheral configuration for the new engine properties may require manual reconfiguration. However this error only occurred on first run of that Profile. [CSPA-440] (23.3.0.003)
Report writer reports configured as Document and Total Documents may not print when expected. [CSPA-454] (23.3.0.003)
A limited device list usb.ids file is now being supplied if a USB printer does not properly [CSPA-467] (23.3.0.003)
Report writer reports configured as Document and Total Documents may not print when Clippership directory has spaces in the path. [CSPA-439] (23.3.0.003)
In order to improve performance of label printing when using USB ports, the identifying of the proper port has been improved to use the Product ID and Vendor ID before searching for names and once used we will cache this value for next use until Clippership restarts or Peripheral Engine setup is accessed. [CSPA-468] (23.3.0.003)
Report Writer reports run as a manifest produce an error “Could not find node REPORTWRITER, this has been corrected. [CSPA-401] (23.3.0.002)
Peripheral engine may exit unexpectedly under certain circumstances. [CSPA-406] (23.3.0.002)
Peripheral engine was not listing USB printer ports in some cases if the printer is not returning it’s name properly within Window and therefor unable to be listed, or also not found in usb.ids file, if it is a known manufacturer Clippership will display that manufacturer and Unknown Printer. (23.3.0.002)
Reworked handling of the USB HID library to potentially address errors related to a high number of USB input devices. (23.3.0.002)
When attempting to read the serial number from some USB scales the serial number could exceed the expected size and exit unexpectedly. (23.3.0.002)
Removed USB ports from being listed on scale drivers that do not have USB support. (23.3.0.002)
In order to improve startup time for Peripheral Engine, Clippership will now purge legacy DLLs from the TPE folder that are no longer used, but would otherwise be interrogated to check if they were valid. (23.3.0.002)
The Zebra 300 DPI label driver was incorrectly printing using 203 DPI, resulting in a shrunken label. [CSPA-396] (23.3.0.001)
In some cases an invalid option in a printer setup in the peripheral engine could cause Tpengine.exe to unexpectedly exit on [CSPA-393] (23.3.0.001)
In 23.1.0.000 A USB printer that was not reporting manufacture information was not appearing in Peripheral Engine. [CSPA-394] (23.3.0.001)
If this occurs, please download the latest usb.ids file from the USB ID Repository at http://www.linux-usb.org/usb-ids.html to enable this feature. (23.3.0.001)
The direct link to the file is http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids, the usb.ids needs to be placed in the Clippership\TPE folder. (23.3.0.001)
FedEx
With the deprecation of Eltron labels, the docutab functionality has been added to FedEx labels on the Zebra 203 dpi driver. [CSPA-471] (23.3.0.003)
Entering FedEx Configuration for the first time after upgrading to 23.3.x.xxx requires a one-time EULA prompt for FedEx’s license agreement, the license text was missing. [CSPA-474] (23.3.0.003)
In 23.3.0.001 HF4 the FedEx Express and FedEx Ground screens to international destinations was no longer prompting for users when required. (23.3.0.002)
FedEx Express
In 23.3.0.001 HF4 the FedEx Express a prompt for account number was no longer prompting for users when Bill Third Party was defined in the carrier file or with KI but a pay account was not supplied in the customer file or via KI. (23.3.0.003)
FedEx Ground
FedEx Ground Hazmat forms could fail to print on Windows “Laser” printers. Note: The form was originally formatted to 100 dpi printing. As part of standardizing “laser” to 300 DPI formats this form has changed to 300 dpi. As a result the values for the offset have changed, if the forms print oddly, simply multiply the values by 3 and adjust as needed. [CSPA-473] (23.3.0.003)
FedEx Ground Economy
FedEx Ground Economy supports Bill Third Party, Clippership was not sending the account number to FSMS 20.0x [CSPA-460] (23.3.0.003)
FedEx Ground Economy labels would return an error “Invalid Pickup Carrier” if SmartPost was configured as the Pickup Carrier in prior versions. Clippership will now ignore this old setting when configured for FSMS 200X. [CSPA-469] (23.3.0.003)
In some cases when using the legacy Parsed Addressing method, where addressed are not in specific places, instead of the recommended and tested Standardized Addressing method, an address line could be duplicated. (23.3.0.002)
Note: It has been the recommendation for over a decade to switch to the Standardized mode to minimize the possibility of address correction fees when the addresses don’t follow the parsing rules. [CSPA-408] (23.3.0.002)
UPS
UPS labels to Puerto Rico would fail with a Maxicode error [CSPA-438] (23.3.0.003)
Startup of Clippership systems with multiple accounts may start up faster on UPS enabled systems. An upgrade process from version 10.0 was performing it’s tracking number update every time the First User logged in unnecessarily. [CSPA-461] (23.3.0.003)
UPS Commercial Invoice may fail to print for countries that do not support paperless CI or Clippership has been configured to print the full page paper CI even when paperless is allowed for any country. [CSPA-439] (23.3.0.003)
UPS Hazmat forms could fail to print on Windows “Laser” printers. [CSPA-452] (23.3.0.003)
Reference numbers may now print on UPS 4×4 labels if there is room and based on UPS rules for priority of text. These will follow the same rules for the PLD based on reference number setup. [CSPA-452] (23.3.0.003).
In prior versions, Clippership would allow packages with an invalid number of ZIP Code digits for UPS Domestic packages, only formatted 5 digit ZIP codes and 9 digit ZIP+4 ZIP Codes, Clippership will now produce and error message and disallow recording the package. [CSPA-438] (23.3.0.002)
U.S. Postal Service
Printing a USPS Priority Mail label could cause the peripheral engine to fail to print a label and to exit unexpectedly. [CSPA-466] (23.3.0.003)
In 23.1.0.000 USPS Printing a mixed manifest could cause Clippership to exit unexpectedly. [CSPA-403] (23.3.0.002)
In 22.4.3.000 US Postal Service Priority Mail Retail rates were incorrectly returning the rate for 1 lb. higher, this has been addressed. [CSPA-441] (23.3.0.002)
USPS Ground Advantage, now prints a large G icon on the label in the upper left. [CSPA-389] (23.3.0.002)
In 22.4.3.000 Media Mail was incorrectly rating as Library Mail [CSPA-392] (23.3.0.001)
In 23.1.0.000 USPS Ground Advantage, did not allow rating over 1lb. [CSPA-389] (23.3.0.001)