News and Events

Till Kamppeter

•February 13, 2026•9 minute read

Where will the 4th edition take place? Please send us your proposal!

Michael Sweet

•January 8, 2026•less than 1 minute read

libcups v3.0.0 is the first stable release of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs.

Till Kamppeter

•December 3, 2025•less than 1 minute read

Everything about OpenPrinting, history, what we are doing, funding and the future, ...

Zdenek Dohnal

•November 27, 2025•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.15 fixes two CVEs in scheduler

Till Kamppeter

•November 20, 2025•less than 1 minute read

That's a wrap! All the 11 contributors have made it!

Till Kamppeter

•November 4, 2025•less than 1 minute read

I am covered to work on OpenPrinting full-time until end-2026

Till Kamppeter

•October 15, 2025•less than 1 minute read

For our third edition we returned to Kanpur

Till Kamppeter

•September 22, 2025•less than 1 minute read

Organized by the Ubuntu and GNOME communities of Nepal

Zdenek Dohnal

•September 11, 2025•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.13 fixes important and moderate vulnerabilities

Zdenek Dohnal

•September 11, 2025•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.14 fixes installation of localized files

Till Kamppeter

•August 26, 2025•less than 1 minute read

Have a look into the amazing presentations and workshops, plan your participation!

Till Kamppeter

•August 21, 2025•less than 1 minute read

The contributors have passed the midterm evaluations and their projects are taking shape ... And we also have some volunteers!

Till Kamppeter

•August 1, 2025•less than 1 minute read

Dedicated to make printing just work ... And the show must go on!

Till Kamppeter

•July 18, 2025•less than 1 minute read

No conference without solid support - Wide range of sponsorship packages available

Till Kamppeter

•July 16, 2025•less than 1 minute read

We accept proposals up to the conference dates, but we already start accepting and scheduling

Till Kamppeter

•July 7, 2025•less than 1 minute read

We will just run the OOSC, as last year, without UbuCon ... And we need more session proposals ...

Till Kamppeter

•June 26, 2025•less than 1 minute read

11 Contributors on CUPS 3.x desktop integration, fuzz testing, visual analysis of print filter output, Rust support, and more ...

Till Kamppeter

•June 16, 2025•less than 1 minute read

A conference is great because its content is amazing, therefore we need more ...

Till Kamppeter

•May 9, 2025•less than 1 minute read

Opportunity Open Source 3.0, again in IIT Kanpur in India, on Sep 5-7, co-located with the first UbuCon India

Zdenek Dohnal

•April 8, 2025•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.12 brings enhancements in IPP encryption and debugging

Michael Sweet

•March 18, 2025•less than 1 minute read

libcups v3.0rc4 is the fourth release candidate of the CUPS v3 library and tools which remove deprecated APIs, add new APIs, and normalize existing APIs.

Till Kamppeter

•March 2, 2025•less than 1 minute read

RISC-V board for OpenPrinting for development and testing, getting it all to work, Ubuntu Desktop, Snap on RISC-V

Till Kamppeter

•March 1, 2025•less than 1 minute read

The LF is in and so OpenPrinting as part of it will mentor again.

Till Kamppeter

•February 28, 2025•less than 1 minute read

Seventh beta with many fixes for bugs found during GSoC 2024, API improvements, support for CUPS instances, and explanation how CPDB works.

Till Kamppeter

•January 26, 2025•less than 1 minute read

15 amazing project ideas - Desktop, KDE, GNOME, Security, OSS-Fuzz, image content recognition ...

Till Kamppeter

•January 20, 2025•less than 1 minute read

Windows Protected Print protects you from scanning

Till Kamppeter

•January 11, 2025•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, especially to fix the long-standing problem that cups-browsed sometimes gets stuck with 100% CPU

Till Kamppeter

•December 29, 2024•less than 1 minute read

OpenPrinting is mentoring organization in the WoC 4.0! Apply for doing a 1-month project until Dec 31!

Till Kamppeter

•December 28, 2024•less than 1 minute read

Moving on from time-based monthly posts to one post per subject matter

Till Kamppeter

•November 25, 2024•less than 1 minute read

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 releases

Michael Sweet

•November 14, 2024•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.4.8 is a bug fix release.

Michael Sweet

•October 22, 2024•less than 1 minute read

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.

Till Kamppeter

•October 19, 2024•less than 1 minute read

All available fixes of recent RCE and DoS vulnerability CVEs included, also libcups3 support and filter workflow testing.

Michael Sweet

•October 15, 2024•less than 1 minute read

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.

Michael Sweet

•October 15, 2024•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.4.7 is a bug fix release.

Till Kamppeter

•October 7, 2024•less than 1 minute read

cups-browsed RCE vulnerability overhyped, Festa do Software Livre/UbuCon Portugal 2024, Ubuntu Summit 2024, GSoC 2024

Zdenek Dohnal

•September 30, 2024•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.11 bring several bug fixes regarding IPP support and Web UI

Till Kamppeter

•September 29, 2024•less than 1 minute read

Exploit of a combination of several bugs - Overhyped but not that severe - Fixes already available

Michael Sweet

•September 20, 2024•less than 1 minute read

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.

Till Kamppeter

•September 11, 2024•less than 1 minute read

Soumyadeep Ghosh, Opportunity Open Source in IIT Kanpur, UbuCon Asia 2024, Open Source Summit Europe 2024, Ubuntu Summit 2024, GSoC 2024, Pull Requests

Till Kamppeter

•August 3, 2024•less than 1 minute read

Caution, non-driverless printer!, Interview by Podcast Ubuntu Portugal, Flatpaking daemons, GUADEC 2024, Opportunity Open Source in IIT Kanpur, UbuCon Asia 2024, GSoC 2024, Pull Requests

Till Kamppeter

•June 27, 2024•less than 1 minute read

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, CUPS 2.4.10

Till Kamppeter

•June 19, 2024•less than 1 minute read

Sixth beta to improve more for sandboxed packaging, especially streaming print data and simplifying D-Bus interface

Zdenek Dohnal

•June 18, 2024•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.10 fixes regression for domain socket-only setups

Zdenek Dohnal

•June 11, 2024•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.9 brings security fix for CVE-2024-35235

Till Kamppeter

•May 23, 2024•less than 1 minute read

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 Documentation Academy

Till Kamppeter

•April 30, 2024•less than 1 minute read

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 2.4.8, pycups 2.0.4

Zdenek Dohnal

•April 26, 2024•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.8 brings important bug fix for permanent IPP Everywhere printer installation

Zdenek Dohnal

•April 18, 2024•less than 1 minute read

Pycups 2.0.4 hotfix release

Zdenek Dohnal

•April 17, 2024•less than 1 minute read

Pycups 2.0.3 contains changes related to deprecations and removals in newer Python3 versions.

Till Kamppeter

•March 31, 2024•less than 1 minute read

Easter Egg in xz, GSoC 2024, Opportunity Open Source 2024?, CPDB Snap, PAPPL scanning, Snap automation, SpliX 2.0.1

Till Kamppeter

•February 24, 2024•less than 1 minute read

CUPS Snap on Ubuntu Touch, FOSDEM 2024, OpenPrinting Summit/PWG online, GUADEC 2024, OSS & Plumbers in Vienna, GSoC 2024, Updates of Printer Applications

Michael Sweet

•February 9, 2024•less than 1 minute read

HP Printer Application v1.3.0 adds support for snap server configuration settings and updates the builds.

Michael Sweet

•February 9, 2024•less than 1 minute read

LPrint v1.3.1 is a bug fix release.

Michael Sweet

•February 9, 2024•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.4.6 is a bug fix release.

Michael Sweet

•January 31, 2024•less than 1 minute read

LPrint v1.3.0 adds a new dithering algorithm, support for new printers, support for configuration files, and fixes a number of bugs.

Michael Sweet

•January 26, 2024•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.4.5 is a bug fix release.

Till Kamppeter

•January 24, 2024•less than 1 minute read

HP madness, Framework printer?, tattoo printer, FOSDEM 2024, GSoC 2024, Snap automation, User mailing list

Michael Sweet

•December 21, 2023•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.4.4 is a bug fix release.

Till Kamppeter

•December 15, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Fax?!, New Architecture under Windows, from Ubuntu Summit 2023 into YouTube and Podcasts, FOSDEM 2024, GSoC 2024, Mailing list moving

Till Kamppeter

•November 24, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, FOSDEM 2024, GSoC 2024, GSoC 2023, Snap workshops, CPDB CUPS backend Snap, PAPPL 1.4.3

Michael Sweet

•November 15, 2023•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.4.3 is a bug fix release.

Till Kamppeter

•October 31, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, GSoC 2023, CPDB CUPS backend Snap, libcups3 support, PAPPL 1.4.2, CUPS 2.4.7, libcups 3.0b2

Michael Sweet

•October 16, 2023•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.4.2 is a bug fix release.

Michael Sweet

•October 5, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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.

Till Kamppeter

•September 29, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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, cups-filters 2.0.0, PAPPL 1.4.0, CUPS 3.x

Michael Sweet

•September 28, 2023•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.4.0 is a feature release.

Till Kamppeter

•September 22, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Now it is there! The 2.0.0 release! Security vulnerability fix and final bug fixes

Zdenek Dohnal

•September 20, 2023•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.7 brings fix for CVE-2023-4504 and other fixes

Michael Sweet

•September 7, 2023•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.3.4 is a general bug fix release.

Till Kamppeter

•September 2, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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 Desktop first

Till Kamppeter

•August 2, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Fifth beta to communicate D-Bus-only, without auxiliary files, so that it works with sandboxed packaging

Till Kamppeter

•July 23, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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 Applications.

Till Kamppeter

•June 29, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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!

Zdenek Dohnal

•June 22, 2023•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.6 brings fix for CVE-2023-34241

Till Kamppeter

•June 20, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Now we are really close - Resolution handling, mirrored output, no output at all, beh vulnerability, cups-browsed 100% CPU, libppd vs. CUPS sync

Zdenek Dohnal

•June 13, 2023•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.5 brings hotfix for corrupted locally saved certificates

Zdenek Dohnal

•June 6, 2023•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.4 brings hotfix for cupsGetNamedDest() segfault

Zdenek Dohnal

•June 1, 2023•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.3 brings the fix for CVE-2023-32324, several improvements and a ton of bug fixes

Till Kamppeter

•May 25, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Google recognizes Michael Sweet's exceptional work with his CUPS project!

Till Kamppeter

•May 24, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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, CPDB in print dialogs, security bugs

Michael Sweet

•May 6, 2023•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.3.2 is a general bug fix release.

Till Kamppeter

•April 14, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Ubuntu 23.04 release, LAS 2023 in Brno, GSoC 2023, Release Candidate for cups-filters 2.0.0, CPDB support in print dialogs

Till Kamppeter

•April 12, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Release approaching - Page orientation, image scaling, text in landscape, 16-bit color and 1-bit mono, API adjustment for libcups3, color on color printers fast ...

Till Kamppeter

•March 28, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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

Till Kamppeter

•March 21, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Forth beta to add build tests (`make check`), development tools get built and installed the standard way.

Till Kamppeter

•March 16, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Test script, for `make check`, CI, autopkgtest, ... and several bug fixes

Till Kamppeter

•February 27, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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, cups-filters 2.0b4, pappl-retrofit 1.0b4, CPDB 2.0b2

Till Kamppeter

•February 23, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Coverity scans and appropriate fixes, QPDF 11+ compatibility, cupstestppd successor, lots of bug fixes

Till Kamppeter

•February 20, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Third beta to improve translation support

Till Kamppeter

•February 13, 2023•less than 1 minute read

With the CPDB support accepted upstream into GTK we release the second beta

Michael Sweet

•February 9, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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.

Till Kamppeter

•February 8, 2023•less than 1 minute read

pappl-retrofit 1.0b2 - Fix issues in source code docs and allow installation of Legacy Printer Application as permanently running system daemon.

Till Kamppeter

•January 31, 2023•less than 1 minute read

More bug fixes, especially for those discovered during the distro packaging, mainly in build system and source code documentation.

Till Kamppeter

•January 24, 2023•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, to more reliably discover all printer capablities from driverless printers, especially borderless printing, and to preferably use Apple Raster instead of PWG Raster or PCLM

Till Kamppeter

•January 19, 2023•less than 1 minute read

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

Till Kamppeter

•January 8, 2023•less than 1 minute read

First round of bug fixes, for page size handling, translation support, build systems, source code documentation

Michael Sweet

•December 31, 2022•less than 1 minute read

LPrint v1.2.0 adds support for snap configuration and EPL/ZPL auto-typing support, and fixes a number of bugs.

Michael Sweet

•December 30, 2022•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.3.1 is a general bug fix release.

Till Kamppeter

•December 15, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Adobe releasing PostScript source code, Ubuntu Summit 2022 recordings and coverage, GSoC 2022 upstreamizing, CPDB 2.0b1 release, pappl-retrofit first release, PAPPL 1.3.0, Snaps updated, bug fixes

Till Kamppeter

•December 13, 2022•less than 1 minute read

The CPDB got vastly enhanced in the course of their integration in the GTK and Qt print dialogs, leading to the 2.x series

Till Kamppeter

•December 9, 2022•less than 1 minute read

pappl-retrofit 1.0b1 - Library for converting classic CUPS drivers/PPD files into Printer Applications

Michael Sweet

•December 2, 2022•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.3.0 adds new job management, image printing, localization, and configuration features.

Till Kamppeter

•November 20, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Ubuntu Summit 2022, OpenPrinting micro-conference recordings, GSoC 2023 announced, GSoC 2022 results, cups-filters 2nd gen. 1st beta release, Qt print dialog, CUPS, PAPPL

Till Kamppeter

•November 18, 2022•less than 1 minute read

cups-filters is now split into 5 sub-repositories and we have released the first beta of the 2.x series

Till Kamppeter

•October 20, 2022•less than 1 minute read

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 daily snapshots, PAPPL 1.2.3

Michael Sweet

•October 8, 2022•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.2.3 fixes TLS upgrade, USB device ID, and vendor text option bugs.

Till Kamppeter

•September 22, 2022•less than 1 minute read

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

Michael Sweet

•September 21, 2022•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.2.2 fixes key issues with localization, client limits, and compilation.

Zdenek Dohnal

•August 30, 2022•less than 1 minute read

system-config-printer-1.5.18 brings fix for application crash if libhandy is not installed and other fixes

Till Kamppeter

•August 24, 2022•less than 1 minute read

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.

Till Kamppeter

•August 24, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Release covering half a year of bug fixes and translations

Till Kamppeter

•August 19, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Printer Applications under Windows, Pages about our work, Linux Plumbers, Ubuntu Summit, GUADEC, GSoC, CPDB 2.x, "cups" snapd interface, cups-filters 2.x

Till Kamppeter

•July 14, 2022•less than 1 minute read

New pages about our work, GUADEC, GSoC 2022 projects, "cups" snapd interface bugs fixed, PPD-independent cups-filters 2.x, CUPS

Till Kamppeter

•June 14, 2022•less than 1 minute read

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

Zdenek Dohnal

•May 26, 2022•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4.2 brings the fix for CVE-2022-26691, LibreSSL/OpenSSL and minimal AIX support together with a list of bug fixes

Michael Sweet

•May 26, 2022•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.2.1 fixes key issues with localization, client limits, and compilation.

Michael Sweet

•May 15, 2022•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.rc1 adds full localization, support for additional IPP features, and some other improvements.

Till Kamppeter

•May 10, 2022•less than 1 minute read

OP Summit/PWG Meeting, GUADEC, Linux Plumbers, GSoC 2022, "cups" snapd interface, CUPS in Docker, PPD-independent libcupsfilters 2.x, IPP-over-USB, HPLIP 3.22.4

Michael Sweet

•May 3, 2022•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.rc1 adds full localization, support for additional IPP features, and some other improvements.

Till Kamppeter

•April 25, 2022•less than 1 minute read

LAS 2022 in Rovereto, Italy - OpenPrinting talk and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Release parties

Michael Sweet

•April 23, 2022•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.b1 adds full localization, support for additional IPP features, and some other improvements.

Till Kamppeter

•April 12, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Linux App Summit 2022, GSoC 2022, "cups" Snap interface, Snap vs. AppImage for printing, approaching cups-filters 2.x, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Till Kamppeter

•April 11, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, to make all HP LaserJet PostScript printers correctly work.

Till Kamppeter

•April 4, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release to get correct PDF output when using "landscape", "orientation-requested", and/or "nopdfAutoRotate" options, and to get PCLm printing work on printers not telling their PCLM default resolution.

Till Kamppeter

•March 27, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, for correct printing on printers which take in the paper long-edge-first and for Apple LaserWriter printers

Till Kamppeter

•March 18, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Linux Foundation accepted as GSoC 2022 org, "cups" Snap interface for applications ready, Snap vs. Flatpak for printing, approaching cups-filters 2.x, Ghostscript and driverless IPP

Till Kamppeter

•February 20, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Release covering one year of bug fixes, translations, and updated README.md

Till Kamppeter

•February 17, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, again backports of cups-filters 2.x, page geometry fixes for print-scaling and number-up, cups-browsed, serial backend

Till Kamppeter

•February 13, 2022•less than 1 minute read

GSoC 2022 projects posted, printer setup tool and print dialog, CUPS Snap integration, approaching cups-filters 2.x, CUPS 2.4.1

Zdenek Dohnal

•January 27, 2022•less than 1 minute read

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.

Till Kamppeter

•January 16, 2022•less than 1 minute read

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

Till Kamppeter

•January 15, 2022•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, containing backports of many of the bugs recently fixed during the preparation of the cups-filters 2.x release.

Michael Sweet

•December 23, 2021•less than 1 minute read

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 bugs in the previous release.

Michael Sweet

•December 15, 2021•less than 1 minute read

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 adds support for Microsoft® Windows® 10.

Till Kamppeter

•December 9, 2021•less than 1 minute read

Testing and bug fixing to approach cups-filters 2.x, CUPS 2.4.0, PAPPL 1.1rc1

Zdenek Dohnal

•November 29, 2021•less than 1 minute read

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 options for optimizing cupsd setup on servers and several other changes.

Till Kamppeter

•November 14, 2021•less than 1 minute read

Google Summer of Code 2022, all free drivers in Printer Application Snaps, Legacy Printer Application, CUPS 2.4rc1, PAPPL 1.1b3

Zdenek Dohnal

•November 12, 2021•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.4rc1 is a release candidate for OpenPrinting CUPS 2.4.0, which adds two enhancements before the stable release.

Michael Sweet

•November 4, 2021•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.1 adds support for Wi-Fi configuration, IPP-USB, printer driver lookup and auto-add functionality, improves management of multiple printers, and adds support for Microsoft® Windows® 10.

Zdenek Dohnal

•October 27, 2021•less than 1 minute read

CUPS v2.4b1 is the beta release for OpenPrinting CUPS 2.4 which contains new features, deprecations, removals and bugfixes.

Till Kamppeter

•October 11, 2021•less than 1 minute read

OpenPrinting/GSoC in Ubuntu Office Hours, Gutenprint Printer Appl., HPLIP Printer Appl. supports HP's plugin, new print GUI in Flutter, CUPS' release plan

Till Kamppeter

•October 5, 2021•less than 1 minute read

Our success in the Google Summer of Code in the Ubuntu Community Live Event

Michael Sweet

•September 24, 2021•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.1 adds support for Wi-Fi configuration, IPP-USB, printer driver lookup and auto-add functionality, improves management of multiple printers, and adds support for Microsoft® Windows® 10.

Till Kamppeter

•September 16, 2021•less than 1 minute read

OpenPrinting Micro-Conference on Linux Plumbers, OpenPrinting in Ubuntu Office Hours, GSoC results, pappl-retrofit, Ghostscript and HPLIP Printer Applications

Michael Sweet

•August 31, 2021•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL v1.1 adds support for Wi-Fi configuration, IPP-USB, printer driver lookup and auto-add functionality, improves management of multiple printers, and adds support for Microsoft® Windows® 10.

Till Kamppeter

•August 27, 2021•less than 1 minute read

Ubuntu Indaba with Michael Sweet and me, Recording on YouTube, Ghostscript Printer Application, Ubuntu 21.10 IPP Printing

Till Kamppeter

•August 17, 2021•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, more reliable CUPS browsing in cups-browsed, improved PDF printer PPDs, minor fixes

Till Kamppeter

•August 13, 2021•less than 1 minute read

Ubuntu Indaba, Linux Plumbers, GSoC progress, Retro-fitting CUPS drivers with easy option setting and backends, CUPS, cups-filters

Till Kamppeter

•July 16, 2021•less than 1 minute read

GSoC mid-term, PostScript Printer Application, Retro-fitting CUPS printer drivers, CUPS, cups-filters

Till Kamppeter

•June 15, 2021•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, fixes backported from the master (2.x) branch

Till Kamppeter

•June 14, 2021•less than 1 minute read

GSoC, PostScript Printer Application and PIN-based printing, Retro-fitting CUPS printer drivers, cups-filters 1.28.9

Till Kamppeter

•May 21, 2021•less than 1 minute read

OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, GSoC, GSoD, CUPS Snap proxy mode, PostScript Printer Application, CUPS

Till Kamppeter

•April 10, 2021•less than 1 minute read

OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, GSoC, GSoD, CUPS Snap proxy mode, PostScript Printer Application, CUPS

Till Kamppeter

•March 25, 2021•less than 1 minute read

Bugfix release, to fix several different issues

Till Kamppeter

•March 5, 2021•less than 1 minute read

New CUPS home is OpenPrinting, CUPS Snap and PostScript Printer App in Snap Store, Printer setup tools/user experience

Till Kamppeter

•February 8, 2021•less than 1 minute read

PostScript Printer Application, Driver retro-fit library, GSoC 2021 project ideas, IPP Scan, CUPS 2.3.3op2

Michael Sweet

•February 1, 2021•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.3.3op2 is the latest OpenPrinting CUPS security and bug fix release.

Till Kamppeter

•January 15, 2021•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL 1.0.1, PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, LFMP projects ended, CUPS, cups-filters

Till Kamppeter

•January 7, 2021•less than 1 minute read

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 PPDs for driverless printers

Till Kamppeter

•December 11, 2020•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL 1.0.0, PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, GSoD ended, CUPS 2.3.3op1, cups-filters

Michael Sweet

•December 11, 2020•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL is a simple C-based framework/library for developing CUPS Printer Applications, which are the recommended replacement for printer drivers.

Till Kamppeter

•December 2, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, especially memory leaks and performance of cups-browsed, but also on the PPD generator and foomatic-rip

Michael Sweet

•November 27, 2020•less than 1 minute read

CUPS 2.3.3op1 is the first OpenPrinting CUPS release which fixes many bugs, incorporates common Linux distribution changes, and provides several IPP Everywhere improvements.

Till Kamppeter

•November 12, 2020•less than 1 minute read

PAPPL first beta, PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, GSoD, LFMP, CUPS fork in Debian, cups-filters

Till Kamppeter

•October 26, 2020•less than 1 minute read

PostScript Printer Application, GSoC 2021, GSoD, LFMP, PAPPL, CUPS fork, cups-filters 1.28.5

Till Kamppeter

•October 26, 2020•less than 1 minute read

The PostScript Printer Application, first PAPPL-based non-Raster Printer Application, retro-fitting PPD files

Till Kamppeter

•October 13, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release for a quick, potential crasher correction in cups-browsed

Till Kamppeter

•October 8, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, mainly to solve CUPS performance problems caused by the IPP fax support of the "driverless" utility

Till Kamppeter

•September 24, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release to sove problems caused by an inconsistency between the resolvers for DNS-SD-based URIs

Till Kamppeter

•September 11, 2020•less than 1 minute read

GSoC final results, Linux Plumbers recording, GSoD, LFMP, CUPS temporary fork, cups-filters 1.x fork

Till Kamppeter

•September 10, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release to mainly fix cups-browsed not shutting down and the driverless utility being slow when listing available printers/faxes

Till Kamppeter

•August 26, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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

Till Kamppeter

•August 25, 2020•less than 1 minute read

IPPS and IPP Fax Out support in driverless, log file size limitation and more options for cups-browsed, tons of bug fixes

Till Kamppeter

•August 24, 2020•less than 1 minute read

We are on the Plumbers again! And this time with live stream on YouTube!

Till Kamppeter

•August 13, 2020•less than 1 minute read

20 years working on printing, Linux Plumbers, GSoC, LFMP, cups-filters 2.0.0 approaching

Till Kamppeter

•July 10, 2020•less than 1 minute read

We take comments! Students working in GSoC, GSoD, LFMP; libppd and pclmtoraster in cups-filters

Till Kamppeter

•June 6, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Renaming of CUPS Snap, cups-filters 1.27.5, GSoC 2020 coding period has started

Till Kamppeter

•June 5, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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 instance, and to not remove the locally created queues on shutdown. Also included several bug fixes from contributors

Till Kamppeter

•May 18, 2020•less than 1 minute read

7 students for GSoC; LP accepted for Google Season of Docs; OpenPrinting/PWG Meeting; Progress of our projects

Till Kamppeter

•May 3, 2020•less than 1 minute read

The virtual OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting will take place this week, from Tuesday, May 5 to Friday, May 8, Tuesday is OpenPrinting day

Till Kamppeter

•April 10, 2020•less than 1 minute read

5 students for GSoC; LP applies for Google Season of Docs; Progress of PAPPL, Driverless Scanning, and CUPS Snap, cups-filters license change

Till Kamppeter

•April 9, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, several minor fixes and especially memory issues in cups-browsed

Till Kamppeter

•March 20, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Virtual OpenPrinting Summit/PWG Meeting, LF Member Summit 2020 cancelled, Linux Foundation accepted as GSoC mentoring organization, PAPPL Printer Application Framework, Avahi 0.8.0 released with localhost support, AirScan in Ubuntu 20.04, cups-filters 1.27.3, ippusbxd 1.34

Till Kamppeter

•March 20, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, fixing Ghostscript-based PDF page counting in foomatic-rip to work with all Ghostscript versions, building libfontembed tests with correct path to test font, re-sharing of remote CUPS queues with cups-browsed and others

Till Kamppeter

•February 28, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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 some crasher fixes in cups-browsed

Till Kamppeter

•February 26, 2020•less than 1 minute read

Vastly reduced memory consumption when extracting a PPD file and incorporated the patches of the Debian/Ubuntu package

Till Kamppeter

•February 20, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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 student projects again

Till Kamppeter

•February 19, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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 capabilities, but we also have some communication and code base improvements.

Till Kamppeter

•February 16, 2020•less than 1 minute read

OpenPrinting on LF Member Summit 2020, GSoC 2020 preliminary mentors, Avahi localhost support finally accepted, projects moved to OpenPrinting GitHub, driverless scanning, cups-filters 1.27.1 released, IPP-over-USB improvements

Till Kamppeter

•February 16, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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 attributes, cups-browsed creates queues for all emote IPP printers by default, and several smaller fixes in the filters

Till Kamppeter

•January 26, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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 additional filters support zero-page jobs now

Till Kamppeter

•January 17, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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 the Linux Foundation submitted and project idea list posted

Till Kamppeter

•January 13, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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 10

Till Kamppeter

•January 2, 2020•less than 1 minute read

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 driverless IPP) printers better working

Aveek Basu

•December 13, 2019•less than 1 minute read

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

Till Kamppeter

•December 13, 2019•less than 1 minute read

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, India, GSoC 2020 org application period announced.

Till Kamppeter

•December 13, 2019•less than 1 minute read

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 jobs to clusters now while it is still creating local print queues. A lot of bug fixes on cups-browsed and the driverless utility

Till Kamppeter

•December 5, 2019•less than 1 minute read

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

Till Kamppeter

•November 29, 2019•less than 1 minute read

Bug fix release, mainly to solve problems of cups-browsed, mainly for compatibility problems with some printers, leaks, and crashes. Also updated the PPD generator to catch up with the one of CUPS. Prefer Apple Raster instead of PWG Raster as some printers have bugs in their PWG Raster implementation.

Till Kamppeter

•November 12, 2019•less than 1 minute read

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 which claim to accept PWG Raster but actually do not print this format, and to eliminate all compiler warnings when building the package

Till Kamppeter

•November 8, 2019•less than 1 minute read

A brief history of OpenPrinting

Till Kamppeter

•November 6, 2019•less than 1 minute read

The Linux Foundation applied for Google Code-In 2019 but did not get selected, future work of OpenPrinting should concentrate in Printer/Scanner Applications and IPP System Service, CUPS 2.3.x in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), cups-filters 1.25.11, for ippusbxd David Valleau will look into allowing classic USB access in parallel

Till Kamppeter

•October 8, 2019•less than 1 minute read

Linux Plumber's Conference 2019 with OpenPrinting Micro-Conference, first project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2020, Gutenprint as native Printer Application, Avahi local service support continued, OpenPrinting web site switched over to the new design, cups-filters 1.25.7

Till Kamppeter

•September 3, 2019•less than 1 minute read

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