Hi all,
I've joined annual PWG+OpenPrinting virtual meetup where the news and
statuses from the current printing development are discussed.
The main points are:
- cups-filters 2.0 betas and release candidates are released and present
in Fedora 38
- since new cups-filters are in Fedora 38, nothing stands in the way of
packaging pappl-retrofit and printer applications based on it into
Fedora as RPMs - any volunteers are welcome!
- CUPS 2.4.x, CUPS 2.5 and CUPS 3.0 are delayed:
- 2.4.x - there are several regressions I haven't able to tackle
yet, but I hope there is a new version in a month
- 2.5 - OAuth support took lot of time to implement
- 3.0 - libcups (its version 3.0) has a beta which developers which
uses libcups 2.0 can compile and link their applications and see what
changed between major release
- GTK (its version 4) has merged support for Common Print Dialog
Backends - universal print dialog, which can work not only with cups,
but with other possible backends (like google cloud print)
- WIP on Printer Setup Tool for GNOME Control Center - full support for
driverless printers and printers via printer applications
The full report is attached.
Zdenek
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Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat, BRQ-TPBC