Hi all,
I attended annual PWG (Printer Working Group) and OpenPrinting meetup
which was held in May virtually via Webex.
From the things discussed there I would mention the most interesting
ones (more detailed notes are attached):
- last release from series 2.4.x will be released soon,
- first stable release of series 2.5.x will be released in month or two
- the release will include OAuth support, which will replace Kerberos
support in CUPS 3.x. CUPS 2.5.x will work with any OAuth provider by
several new directives present in cupsd.conf and cups-files.conf,
includes helper CLI binaries for setting OAuth and generating TLS
certificates,
- first stable release of libcups 3.x is planned to happen soon (in
month or two) - projects depending on libcups can start implementing
configuration options to support both libcups 2.x and libcups 3.x, or
migrate to libcups 3.x as whole - libcups 3.x is not in Fedora at the
moment,
- OCI container images for OpenPrinting projects created and available
via Rockcraft, which works with Docker.
Have a nice day,
Zdenek
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Zdenek Dohnal
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, BRQ-TPBC