OpenPrinting News - October 2024
5 years of OpenPrinting News, Festa do Software Livre/UbuCon Portugal 2024, Ubuntu Summit 2024, 4 times in Podcast Ubuntu Portugal, GSoC 2024 completed, new ...
News and Events
2024
PAPPL 1.4.8
PAPPL v1.4.8 is a bug fix release.
libcups v3.0rc3
libcups v3.0rc3 is the third release candidate of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs.
libcupsfilters, libppd, cups-browsed - 2.1.0 Releases including vulnerability fixes
All available fixes of recent RCE and DoS vulnerability CVEs included, also libcups3 support and filter workflow testing.
PAPPL 1.4.7
PAPPL v1.4.7 is a bug fix release.
libcups v3.0rc2
libcups v3.0rc2 is the second release candidate of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs.
OpenPrinting News - September 2024
cups-browsed RCE vulnerability overhyped, Festa do Software Livre/UbuCon Portugal 2024, Ubuntu Summit 2024, GSoC 2024
CUPS 2.4.11
CUPS 2.4.11 bring several bug fixes regarding IPP support and Web UI
OpenPrinting News Flash - cups-browsed Remote Code Execution vulnerability
Exploit of a combination of several bugs - Overhyped but not that severe - Fixes already available
libcups v3.0rc1
libcups v3.0rc1 is the first release candidate of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs.
OpenPrinting News - August 2024
Soumyadeep Ghosh, Opportunity Open Source in IIT Kanpur, UbuCon Asia 2024, Open Source Summit Europe 2024, Ubuntu Summit 2024, GSoC 2024, Pull Requests
OpenPrinting News - July 2024
Caution, non-driverless printer!, Interview by Podcast Ubuntu Portugal, Flatpaking daemons, GUADEC 2024, Opportunity Open Source in IIT Kanpur, UbuCon Asia 2...
OpenPrinting News - June 2024
Opportunity Open Source in IIT Kanpur, UbuCon Asia 2024, Open Source Summit Europe, Ubuntu Summit 2024, GSoC 2024, KDE Print Manager, Gutenprint, CPDB 2.0b6,...
Common Print Dialog Backends Second Generation - Sixth Beta Release!
Sixth beta to improve more for sandboxed packaging, especially streaming print data and simplifying D-Bus interface
CUPS 2.4.10
CUPS 2.4.10 fixes regression for domain socket-only setups
CUPS 2.4.9
CUPS 2.4.9 brings security fix for CVE-2024-35235
OpenPrinting News - May 2024
20 Years!! CUPS 3.x postponed to mid-2025, OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, GUADEC 2024, aKademy 2024, UbuCon Asia 2024, GSoC 2024, CPDB Snap, Open Documenta...
OpenPrinting News - April 2024
Releases of Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, MS-DOS 4.0, OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, LAS 2024, GSoC 2024, system-config-printer revival, KDE Print Manager, CUPS...
CUPS 2.4.8
CUPS 2.4.8 brings important bug fix for permanent IPP Everywhere printer installation
Pycups 2.0.4
Pycups 2.0.4 hotfix release
Pycups 2.0.3
Pycups 2.0.3 contains changes related to deprecations and removals in newer Python3 versions.
OpenPrinting News - March 2024
Easter Egg in xz, GSoC 2024, Opportunity Open Source 2024?, CPDB Snap, PAPPL scanning, Snap automation, SpliX 2.0.1
OpenPrinting News - February 2024
CUPS Snap on Ubuntu Touch, FOSDEM 2024, OpenPrinting Summit/PWG online, GUADEC 2024, OSS & Plumbers in Vienna, GSoC 2024, Updates of Printer Applications
PAPPL 1.4.6
PAPPL v1.4.6 is a bug fix release.
LPrint 1.3.1
LPrint v1.3.1 is a bug fix release.
HP Printer Application 1.3.0
HP Printer Application v1.3.0 adds support for snap server configuration settings and updates the builds.
LPrint 1.3.0
LPrint v1.3.0 adds a new dithering algorithm, support for new printers, support for configuration files, and fixes a number of bugs.
PAPPL 1.4.5
PAPPL v1.4.5 is a bug fix release.
OpenPrinting News - January 2024
HP madness, Framework printer?, tattoo printer, FOSDEM 2024, GSoC 2024, Snap automation, User mailing list
2023
PAPPL 1.4.4
PAPPL v1.4.4 is a bug fix release.
OpenPrinting News - December 2023
Fax?!, New Architecture under Windows, from Ubuntu Summit 2023 into YouTube and Podcasts, FOSDEM 2024, GSoC 2024, Mailing list moving
OpenPrinting News - November 2023
Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, FOSDEM 2024, GSoC 2024, GSoC 2023, Snap workshops, CPDB CUPS backend Snap, PAPPL 1.4.3
PAPPL 1.4.3
PAPPL v1.4.3 is a bug fix release.
OpenPrinting News - October 2023
Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, GSoC 2023, CPDB CUPS backend Snap, libcups3 support, PAPPL 1.4.2, CUPS 2.4.7, libcups 3.0b2
PAPPL 1.4.2
PAPPL v1.4.2 is a bug fix release.
libcups v3.0b2
libcups v3.0b2 is the second beta release of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs.
OpenPrinting News - September 2023
40 years of GNU, Opportunity Open Source in IIT Mandi, India, DebConf 2023 in Kochi, India, R. I. P. Abraham Raji, Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, GSoC 2023, cup...
PAPPL 1.4.0
PAPPL v1.4.0 is a feature release.
cups-filters Second Generation - Final 2.0.0 Release!
Now it is there! The 2.0.0 release! Security vulnerability fix and final bug fixes
CUPS 2.4.7
CUPS 2.4.7 brings fix for CVE-2023-4504 and other fixes
PAPPL 1.3.4
PAPPL v1.3.4 is a general bug fix release.
OpenPrinting News - August 2023
Opportunity Open Source in IIT Mandi, India, DebConf 2023 in Kochi, India, Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, GSoC 2023, CUPS Snap switchover postponed, Ubuntu Core...
Common Print Dialog Backends Second Generation - Fifth Beta Release!
Fifth beta to communicate D-Bus-only, without auxiliary files, so that it works with sandboxed packaging
OpenPrinting News - July 2023
GUADEC 2023 in Riga, Opportunity Open Source in IIT Mandi, India, Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, GSoC 2023, Ubuntu 23.10 with snapped CUPS, versioned Printer Ap...
OpenPrinting News - June 2023
GUADEC 2023 in Riga, Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, GSoC 2023, CUPS 2.4.6, cups-filters 2.0rc2, Snap updates, Test the CUPS Snap!
CUPS 2.4.6
CUPS 2.4.6 brings fix for CVE-2023-34241
cups-filters Second Generation - Release Candidate 2!
Now we are really close - Resolution handling, mirrored output, no output at all, beh vulnerability, cups-browsed 100% CPU, libppd vs. CUPS sync
CUPS 2.4.5
CUPS 2.4.5 brings hotfix for corrupted locally saved certificates
CUPS 2.4.4
CUPS 2.4.4 brings hotfix for cupsGetNamedDest() segfault
CUPS 2.4.3
CUPS 2.4.3 brings the fix for CVE-2023-32324, several improvements and a ton of bug fixes
OpenPrinting News Flash - Michael Sweet is Google Open Source Peer Bonus winner for CUPS
Google recognizes Michael Sweet’s exceptional work with his CUPS project!
OpenPrinting News - May 2023
OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting 2023, LAS 2023 in Brno, GUADEC 2023 in Riga, Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, GSoC 2023, CUPS 3.x only end-2024, Print GUI testing...
PAPPL 1.3.2
PAPPL v1.3.2 is a general bug fix release.
OpenPrinting News - April 2023
Ubuntu 23.04 release, LAS 2023 in Brno, GSoC 2023, Release Candidate for cups-filters 2.0.0, CPDB support in print dialogs
cups-filters Second Generation - Release Candidate!
Release approaching - Page orientation, image scaling, text in landscape, 16-bit color and 1-bit mono, API adjustment for libcups3, color on color printers f...
OpenPrinting News - March 2023
LAS 2023 in Brno, GUADEC 2023 in Riga, GSoC 2023, cups-filters 2.x in Ubuntu 23.04, libcupsfilters with libcups 3.x, CPDB 2.0b4, cups-browsed 2.0b4
Common Print Dialog Backends Second Generation - Forth Beta Release!
Forth beta to add build tests (make check), development tools get built and installed the standard way.
cups-browsed Second Generation - Forth Beta Release!
Test script, for make check, CI, autopkgtest, … and several bug fixes
OpenPrinting News - February 2023
Linux Foundation accepted as GSoC 2023 org, LAS 2023 in Brno, CPDB accepted into GTK 4.9.4, libcups 3.0b1, New Architecture going into Ubuntu and Red Hat, cu...
libcupsfilters and libppd Second Generation - Forth Beta Release!
Coverity scans and appropriate fixes, QPDF 11+ compatibility, cupstestppd successor, lots of bug fixes
Common Print Dialog Backends Second Generation - Third Beta Release!
Third beta to improve translation support
Common Print Dialog Backends Second Generation - Second Beta Release!
With the CPDB support accepted upstream into GTK we release the second beta
libcups v3.0b1
libcups v3.0b1 is the first beta release of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs.
pappl-retrofit - Second Beta Release!
pappl-retrofit 1.0b2 - Fix issues in source code docs and allow installation of Legacy Printer Application as permanently running system daemon.
cups-filters Second Generation - Third Beta Release!
More bug fixes, especially for those discovered during the distro packaging, mainly in build system and source code documentation.
cups-filters 1.28.17 released!
Bug fix release, to more reliably discover all printer capablities from driverless printers, especially borderless printing, and to preferably use Apple Rast...
OpenPrinting News - January 2023
GSoC 2023 project ideas and more, LAS 2023 in Brno, New Architecture going into Debian/Ubuntu, cups-filters fixes and 2.0b2, LPrint 1.2.0, PAPPL 1.3.1
cups-filters Second Generation - Second Beta Release!
First round of bug fixes, for page size handling, translation support, build systems, source code documentation
2022
LPrint 1.2.0
LPrint v1.2.0 adds support for snap configuration and EPL/ZPL auto-typing support, and fixes a number of bugs.
PAPPL 1.3.1
PAPPL v1.3.1 is a general bug fix release.
OpenPrinting News - December 2022
Adobe releasing PostScript source code, Ubuntu Summit 2022 recordings and coverage, GSoC 2022 upstreamizing, CPDB 2.0b1 release, pappl-retrofit first release...
Common Print Dialog Backends Second Generation - First Beta Release!
The CPDB got vastly enhanced in the course of their integration in the GTK and Qt print dialogs, leading to the 2.x series
pappl-retrofit - First Beta Release!
pappl-retrofit 1.0b1 - Library for converting classic CUPS drivers/PPD files into Printer Applications
PAPPL 1.3.0
PAPPL v1.3.0 adds new job management, image printing, localization, and configuration features.
OpenPrinting News - November 2022
Ubuntu Summit 2022, OpenPrinting micro-conference recordings, GSoC 2023 announced, GSoC 2022 results, cups-filters 2nd gen. 1st beta release, Qt print dialog...
cups-filters Second Generation - First Beta Release!
cups-filters is now split into 5 sub-repositories and we have released the first beta of the 2.x series
OpenPrinting News - October 2022
Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu, Ubuntu Summit, GSoC 2022, CPDB 2.x, “cups” snapd interface, cups-filters 2.0, retro-fitting Printer Applications, foomatic-db dail...
PAPPL 1.2.3
PAPPL v1.2.3 fixes TLS upgrade, USB device ID, and vendor text option bugs.
OpenPrinting News - September 2022
Printer Application Snaps under Windows, OpenPrinting MC, OSS, Ubuntu Summit, GSoC, CPDB 2.0, “cups” snapd interface, cups-filters 2.0, Printer App look-up, ...
PAPPL 1.2.2
PAPPL v1.2.2 fixes key issues with localization, client limits, and compilation.
system-config-printer 1.5.18
system-config-printer-1.5.18 brings fix for application crash if libhandy is not installed and other fixes
system-config-printer 1.5.17 released!
Release covering half a year of bug fixes and translations
cups-filters 1.28.16 released!
Bug fix release, to make images be printed in their original size with “print-scaling=none” and to not use deprecated data types for reading TIFF images.
OpenPrinting News - August 2022
Printer Applications under Windows, Pages about our work, Linux Plumbers, Ubuntu Summit, GUADEC, GSoC, CPDB 2.x, “cups” snapd interface, cups-filters 2.x
OpenPrinting News - July 2022
New pages about our work, GUADEC, GSoC 2022 projects, “cups” snapd interface bugs fixed, PPD-independent cups-filters 2.x, CUPS
OpenPrinting News - June 2022
OP Summit Summary, GUADEC, GSoC 2022 projects started, first apps use “cups” Snap interface, PPD-independent cups-filters 2.x, PAPPL 1.2.1, CUPS 2.4.2
PAPPL 1.2.1
PAPPL v1.2.1 fixes key issues with localization, client limits, and compilation.
CUPS 2.4.2
CUPS 2.4.2 brings the fix for CVE-2022-26691, LibreSSL/OpenSSL and minimal AIX support together with a list of bug fixes
PAPPL 1.2.0
PAPPL v1.rc1 adds full localization, support for additional IPP features, and some other improvements.
OpenPrinting News - May 2022
OP Summit/PWG Meeting, GUADEC, Linux Plumbers, GSoC 2022, “cups” snapd interface, CUPS in Docker, PPD-independent libcupsfilters 2.x, IPP-over-USB, HPLIP 3.2...
PAPPL 1.2rc1
PAPPL v1.rc1 adds full localization, support for additional IPP features, and some other improvements.
OpenPrinting News Flash - OpenPrinting and Ubuntu on the Linux App Summit 2022
LAS 2022 in Rovereto, Italy - OpenPrinting talk and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Release parties
PAPPL 1.2b1
PAPPL v1.b1 adds full localization, support for additional IPP features, and some other improvements.
OpenPrinting News - April 2022
Linux App Summit 2022, GSoC 2022, “cups” Snap interface, Snap vs. AppImage for printing, approaching cups-filters 2.x, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
cups-filters 1.28.15 released!
Bug fix release, to make all HP LaserJet PostScript printers correctly work.
cups-filters 1.28.14 released!
Bug fix release to get correct PDF output when using “landscape”, “orientation-requested”, and/or “nopdfAutoRotate” options, and to get PCLm printing work on...
cups-filters 1.28.13 released!
Bug fix release, for correct printing on printers which take in the paper long-edge-first and for Apple LaserWriter printers
OpenPrinting News - March 2022
Linux Foundation accepted as GSoC 2022 org, “cups” Snap interface for applications ready, Snap vs. Flatpak for printing, approaching cups-filters 2.x, Ghosts...
system-config-printer 1.5.16 released!
Release covering one year of bug fixes, translations, and updated README.md
cups-filters 1.28.12 released!
Bug fix release, again backports of cups-filters 2.x, page geometry fixes for print-scaling and number-up, cups-browsed, serial backend
OpenPrinting News - February 2022
GSoC 2022 projects posted, printer setup tool and print dialog, CUPS Snap integration, approaching cups-filters 2.x, CUPS 2.4.1
CUPS 2.4.1
CUPS 2.4.1 is the first bug fix release from 2.4.x series. Among the other bug fixes it fixes sharing default color mode to clients and several memory leaks.
OpenPrinting News - January 2022
GSoC 2022 timeline, approaching cups-filters 2.x, PAPPL 1.1.0, LPrint 1.1.0 PAPPL_based, PDFio 1.0.0, cups-filters 1.28.11
cups-filters 1.28.11 released!
Bug fix release, containing backports of many of the bugs recently fixed during the preparation of the cups-filters 2.x release.
2021
LPrint 1.1.0
LPrint v1.1.0 adds support for EPL and 600dpi ZPL label printers, adds several auto-connfiguration and status reporting improvements, and fixes all known bug...
PAPPL 1.1.0
PAPPL v1.1.0 adds support for Wi-Fi configuration, IPP-USB, printer driver lookup and auto-add functionality, improves management of multiple printers, and a...
OpenPrinting News - December 2021
Testing and bug fixing to approach cups-filters 2.x, CUPS 2.4.0, PAPPL 1.1rc1
CUPS 2.4.0
CUPS 2.4.0 is the latest stable OpenPrinting CUPS release. Among the changes from beta and release candidate the stable release adds two new configuration op...
OpenPrinting News - November 2021
Google Summer of Code 2022, all free drivers in Printer Application Snaps, Legacy Printer Application, CUPS 2.4rc1, PAPPL 1.1b3
CUPS 2.4rc1
CUPS 2.4rc1 is a release candidate for OpenPrinting CUPS 2.4.0, which adds two enhancements before the stable release.
PAPPL 1.1b3
PAPPL v1.1 adds support for Wi-Fi configuration, IPP-USB, printer driver lookup and auto-add functionality, improves management of multiple printers, and add...
CUPS 2.4b1
CUPS v2.4b1 is the beta release for OpenPrinting CUPS 2.4 which contains new features, deprecations, removals and bugfixes.
OpenPrinting News - October 2021
OpenPrinting/GSoC in Ubuntu Office Hours, Gutenprint Printer Appl., HPLIP Printer Appl. supports HP’s plugin, new print GUI in Flutter, CUPS’ release plan
OpenPrinting Live in the Ubuntu Office Hours
Our success in the Google Summer of Code in the Ubuntu Community Live Event
PAPPL 1.1b2
PAPPL v1.1 adds support for Wi-Fi configuration, IPP-USB, printer driver lookup and auto-add functionality, improves management of multiple printers, and add...
OpenPrinting News - September 2021
OpenPrinting Micro-Conference on Linux Plumbers, OpenPrinting in Ubuntu Office Hours, GSoC results, pappl-retrofit, Ghostscript and HPLIP Printer Applications
PAPPL 1.1b1
PAPPL v1.1 adds support for Wi-Fi configuration, IPP-USB, printer driver lookup and auto-add functionality, improves management of multiple printers, and add...
OpenPrinting News Flash - Ubuntu Indaba, Ghostscript Printer Application, and the Special Ubuntu 21.10 Feature
Ubuntu Indaba with Michael Sweet and me, Recording on YouTube, Ghostscript Printer Application, Ubuntu 21.10 IPP Printing
cups-filters 1.28.10 released!
Bug fix release, more reliable CUPS browsing in cups-browsed, improved PDF printer PPDs, minor fixes
OpenPrinting News - August 2021
Ubuntu Indaba, Linux Plumbers, GSoC progress, Retro-fitting CUPS drivers with easy option setting and backends, CUPS, cups-filters
OpenPrinting News - July 2021
GSoC mid-term, PostScript Printer Application, Retro-fitting CUPS printer drivers, CUPS, cups-filters
cups-filters 1.28.9 released!
Bug fix release, fixes backported from the master (2.x) branch
OpenPrinting News - June 2021
GSoC, PostScript Printer Application and PIN-based printing, Retro-fitting CUPS printer drivers, cups-filters 1.28.9
OpenPrinting News - May 2021
OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, GSoC, GSoD, CUPS Snap proxy mode, PostScript Printer Application, CUPS
OpenPrinting News - April 2021
OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, GSoC, GSoD, CUPS Snap proxy mode, PostScript Printer Application, CUPS
cups-filters 1.28.8 released!
Bugfix release, to fix several different issues
OpenPrinting News - March 2021
New CUPS home is OpenPrinting, CUPS Snap and PostScript Printer App in Snap Store, Printer setup tools/user experience
OpenPrinting News - February 2021
PostScript Printer Application, Driver retro-fit library, GSoC 2021 project ideas, IPP Scan, CUPS 2.3.3op2
CUPS 2.3.3op2
CUPS 2.3.3op2 is the latest OpenPrinting CUPS security and bug fix release.
OpenPrinting News - January 2021
PAPPL 1.0.1, PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, LFMP projects ended, CUPS, cups-filters
cups-filters 1.28.7 released!
Bug fix release to remove the support quality check from the “driverless” utility to do not break CUPS’ PPD listing facility and several fixes for generating...
2020
PAPPL v1.0.0
PAPPL is a simple C-based framework/library for developing CUPS Printer Applications, which are the recommended replacement for printer drivers.
OpenPrinting News - December 2020
PAPPL 1.0.0, PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, GSoD ended, CUPS 2.3.3op1, cups-filters
cups-filters 1.28.6 released!
Bug fix release, especially memory leaks and performance of cups-browsed, but also on the PPD generator and foomatic-rip
CUPS 2.3.3op1
CUPS 2.3.3op1 is the first OpenPrinting CUPS release which fixes many bugs, incorporates common Linux distribution changes, and provides several IPP Everywhe...
OpenPrinting News - November 2020
PAPPL first beta, PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, GSoD, LFMP, CUPS fork in Debian, cups-filters
PostScript Printer Application
The PostScript Printer Application, first PAPPL-based non-Raster Printer Application, retro-fitting PPD files
OpenPrinting News - October 2020
PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, GSoD, LFMP, PAPPL, CUPS fork, cups-filters 1.28.5
cups-filters 1.28.5 released!
Bug fix release for a quick, potential crasher correction in cups-browsed
cups-filters 1.28.4 released!
Bug fix release, mainly to solve CUPS performance problems caused by the IPP fax support of the “driverless” utility
cups-filters 1.28.3 released!
Bug fix release to sove problems caused by an inconsistency between the resolvers for DNS-SD-based URIs
OpenPrinting News - September 2020
GSoC final results, Linux Plumbers recording, GSoD, LFMP, CUPS temporary fork, cups-filters 1.x fork
cups-filters 1.28.2 released!
Bug fix release to mainly fix cups-browsed not shutting down and the driverless utility being slow when listing available printers/faxes
cups-filters 1.28.1 released!
Bug fix release to fix several bugs in the new IPP Fax Out support by the “driverless” utility and also to fix some minor issues
cups-filters 1.28.0 released!
IPPS and IPP Fax Out support in driverless, log file size limitation and more options for cups-browsed, tons of bug fixes
OpenPrinting Microconference on Linux Plumbers Conference 2020
We are on the Plumbers again! And this time with live stream on YouTube!
OpenPrinting News - August 2020
20 years working on printing, Linux Plumbers, GSoC, LFMP, cups-filters 2.0.0 approaching
OpenPrinting News - July 2020
We take comments! Students working in GSoC, GSoD, LFMP; libppd and pclmtoraster in cups-filters
OpenPrinting News - June 2020
Renaming of CUPS Snap, cups-filters 1.27.5, GSoC 2020 coding period has started
cups-filters 1.27.5 released!
Several fixes/improvements on cups-browsed, to correctly determine the CUPS server to attach to, to correctly create queues pointing to a second local CUPS i...
OpenPrinting News - May 2020
7 students for GSoC; LP accepted for Google Season of Docs; OpenPrinting/PWG Meeting; Progress of our projects
OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting 2020 approaching!
The virtual OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting will take place this week, from Tuesday, May 5 to Friday, May 8, Tuesday is OpenPrinting day
OpenPrinting News - April 2020
5 students for GSoC; LP applies for Google Season of Docs; Progress of PAPPL, Driverless Scanning, and CUPS Snap, cups-filters license change
cups-filters 1.27.4 released!
Bug fix release, several minor fixes and especially memory issues in cups-browsed
cups-filters 1.27.3 released!
Bug fix release, fixing Ghostscript-based PDF page counting in foomatic-rip to work with all Ghostscript versions, building libfontembed tests with correct p...
OpenPrinting News - March 2020
Virtual OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, LF Member Summit 2020 cancelled, Linux Foundation accepted as GSoC mentoring organization, PAPPL Printer Application...
cups-filters 1.27.2 released!
Bug fix release, mainly to fix regressions cause by the zero-page-job-support implementation in foomatic-rip, also some code improvements in foomatic-rip and...
pyppd 1.1.0 released!
Vastly reduced memory consumption when extracting a PPD file and incorporated the patches of the Debian/Ubuntu package
OpenPrinting mentoring on the Google Summer of Code 2020!
The Linux Foundation got accepted as a mentoring organization for the GSoC 2020 and OpenPrinting as one of its sub-organizations will offer a wide variety of...
ippusbxd 1.34 released!
This release is mainly to improve the DNS-SD advertising to equal the one of the network mode of the device and also to advertise its AirScan scanning capabi...
cups-filters 1.27.1 released!
Bug fix release - All filters support zero-page jobs now, option and choice names in PPDs are changed to work around a bug in CUPS when generating IPP attrib...
OpenPrinting News - February 2020
OpenPrinting on LF Member Summit 2020, GSoC 2020 preliminary mentors, Avahi localhost support finally accepted, projects moved to OpenPrinting GitHub, driver...
cups-filters 1.27.0 released!
In this release cups-browsed does not need to know the port number of the CUPS daemon it is attached to any more when it connects via domain socket and many ...
OpenPrinting News - January 2020
Driverless scanning and AirScan, ippusbxd problems solved, cups-filters 1.26.2 released, lots of bug fixes for cups-browsed, GSoC 2020 org application for th...
cups-filters 1.26.2 released!
Bug fix release mainly to make cups-browsed correctly working with a CUPS daemon on a non-standard port, and also for cups-filters smoothly building with GCC...
cups-filters 1.26.1 released!
Bug fix release, to make the cups-browsed-generated local print queues actually work on all OS distributions and to get legacy (not actually designed for dri...
2019
cups-filters 1.26.0 released!
Feature release, cups-browsed and driverless utility use DNS-SD-service-name-based URIs for IPP print queues now, like CUPS does. cups-browsed handles print ...
OpenPrinting News - December 2019
CUPS 2.3.1 and cups-filters 1.26.0 released, lots of improvements and fixes for cups-browsed and the “driverless” utility, OpenPrinting meeting in Mandi, Ind...
OpenPrinting Mini Summit at IIT Mandi, India
On November 9 we had a meeting in India presenting the work of OpenPrinting at one of the universities where our Google Summer of Code students came from
OpenPrinting Microconference on Linux Plumbers Conference 2019
In September we held a Microconference on the Linux Plumbers Conference in Lisbon, now the summary and videos are uploaded to the Linux Plumbers web site
cups-filters 1.25.13 released!
Bug fix release, mainly to solve problems of cups-browsed, mainly for compatibility problems with some printers, leaks, and crashes. Also updated the PPD gen...
cups-filters 1.25.12 released!
Bug fix release, to address a bug of grayscale jobs not printed on PostScript printers when Poppler is used as PDF interpreter, to allow printing on printers...
OpenPrinting - How did this all begin?
A brief history of OpenPrinting
OpenPrinting News - November 2019
The Linux Foundation applied for Google Code-In 2019 but did not get selected, future work of OpenPrinting should concentrate in Printer/Scanner Applications...
OpenPrinting News - October 2019
Linux Plumber’s Conference 2019 with OpenPrinting Micro-Conference, first project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2020, Gutenprint as native Printer Applicat...
OpenPrinting News - September 2019
End of Google Summer of Code 2019, Avahi, OpenPrinting web site work, CUPS 2.3.0 released, cups-filters 1.25.4, cpdb-backend-cups workaround for CUPS bug
Website is up
New website of openprinting is up and running as https://openprinting.github.io. Go check it out!