Clippership 23.3.0.002

Release Date: 10/5/2023

Download using this link: Clippership 23.3.0.002 HF2 upgrade

To upgrade an existing installation, log all users out of Clippership, and run the installation from one workstation.

FedEx Ship Manager Server v20 certification and Clippership Peripheral Engine upgrade.

• Help menu now displays Connect to e2open [CSPA-440]
• Peripheral Engine might not display the NCI/Weightronix 3800/7600/7800 or other drivers [CSPA-440]
• 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]
• Report writer reports configured as Document and Total Documents may not print when expected. [CSPA-454]
• A limited device list usb.ids file is now being supplied if a USB printer does not properly [CSPA-467]

• In 23.3.0.001 HF4 the FedEx Express prompt for account number was no longer prompting 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.

• FedEx Ground Economy supports Bill Third Party, Clippership was not sending the account number to FSMS 20.0x

• UPS labels to Puerto Rico would fail with a Maxicode error [CSPA-438]
• 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]
• 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]

• Printing a USPS Priority Mail label could cause the peripheral engine to fail to print a label and to exit unexpectedly. [CSPA-466]

• Report Writer reports run as a manifest produce an error “Could not find node REPORTWRITER, this has been corrected. [CSPA-401]
• Peripheral engine may exit unexpectedly under certain circumstances. [CSPA-406]
• 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.
• Reworked handling of the USB HID library to potentially address errors related to a high number of USB input devices.
• When attempting to read the serial number from some USB scales the serial number could exceed the expected size and exit unexpectedly.
• Removed USB ports from being listed on scale drivers that do not have USB support.
• 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.

• In 23.3.0.001 HF4 the FedEx Express and FedEx Ground screens to international destinations was no longer prompting for users when required.

• 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.

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]

• 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]

• In 23.1.0.000 USPS Printing a mixed manifest could cause Clippership to exit unexpectedly. [CSPA-403]
• 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]
• USPS Ground Advantage, now prints a large G icon on the label in the upper left. [CSPA-389]

• The Zebra 300 DPI label driver was incorrectly printing using 203 DPI, resulting in a shrunken label. [CSPA-396]
• In some cases an invalid option in a printer setup in the peripheral engine could cause Tpengine.exe to unexpectedly exit on [CSPA-393]
• In 23.1.0.000 A USB printer that was not reporting manufacture information was not appearing in Peripheral Engine. [CSPA-394]
• 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.
• 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.

• In 22.4.3.000 Media Mail was incorrectly rating as Library Mail [CSPA-392]
• In 23.1.0.000 USPS Ground Advantage, did not allow rating over 1lb. [CSPA-389]

• 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 this 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.

• Zebra 203 drivers now contain a Docutab option to replace functionality that was deprecated from Eltron.

• The Log file Status.log is now stored by day in a LOG directory. Each file is named status_YYYY-MM-DD.log, A * file for July 5, 2023 would be status_2023-07-05.log
• The Private Insurance option in Account Setup has been moved from the carrier list to a PIP/NPP button
• With Version 22.0.2.000, BluJay Parcel reverted to Clippership® branding. The Help File will continue to be updated in this release.

• The About KPE from the Help Menu to display the BluJay Parcel Peripheral Engine Utility Manager has been removed, this utility has been deprecated.

• FedEx Ship Manager Server 20.0.x certification for FedEx Ground Economy. Version 20.0.7 is the minimum required version.
• New server option in FedEx Server Configuration.
• FedEx has dropped support in the United States for Collect on Delivery services, for the moment this still appears in the user interface as it is still allowed for Canada origins. FSMS itself will disallow transactions if these options are enabled on a transaction.
• FedEx Home Delivery now allows packages up to 150 lbs
• FedEx SmartPost has been rebranded to FedEx Ground® Economy. In order to use Ground Economy, an FSMS 20.0.7 or higher must be installed and configured and the Phase must be set to 200X in FedEx Server Configuration.

• This release supports a new UPS contract Special Service, UPS Synchronized Delivery™. [CSW-2378]
• This release supports a new UPS contract Special Service, UPS Commercial Signature Required. [CSW-2476]

• This release allows for an expanded list of allowed alpha characters in the UPS Shipper Number, except I, O, Q, and S are now accepted in UPS Account Setup or in Bill Recipient or Bill Third Party shipments. [CSPA-246]
• UPS 4×4.25“ label format, most UPS labels will now be formatted to fit within a 4 x 4.25” space on a 4 x 6“ label as well as supporting 4 x 4”, 4 x 6“ and 4 x 6.75”
• BluJay Clippership will discontinue support for the Eltron Printer, it no longer supports UPS. [Eltron was acquired July 9, 1998 by Zebra Technologies and is incapable of supporting modern carrier font and barcode requirements.]
• UPS Peak Surcharge downloadable object to automate handling of Peak surcharge values automatically.
• Due to a change in UPS distribution methods the UPS Routing files and UPS WorldWide Validation Files will be in a combined into a new download object that contains many files that may not be updated as often. The new WWV Version D is not available in versions less than 23.1.0.000.
• In order to maintain proper routing of UPS packages, shippers are required to upgrade to the BluJay Clippership version 23.1.0.000 or higher when it is available.
• This release will support UPS Synchronized Delivery - UPS Synchronized Delivery ServiceTM allows UPS to hold packages (per a shipper account contract) in order to pair their delivery with other packages going to the same address. This service allows UPS to lower the amount of stops at a single address and also allows the shipper to receive a discounted rate.
• The UPS Residential Charge will be broken out into a separate residential surcharge field, RES_CHG.
• As a result of the UPS label format changes the Peripheral Engine has been changed to remove outdated drivers for legacy Eltron and other devices that are no longer believed to be in the field.
• BluJay Clippership will temporarily discontinue support for the PNG Image Driver. If this driver was in use, please contact support to enter a ticket.

• Previously, Clippership would validate FedEx 9-digit account numbers based on a length of 9 and a check digit. FedEx has removed this requirement, Clippership will only check for a length of 9 in locations that validate such as account setup, Bill Recipient or Bill 3rd Party prompts[CSPA-335]