[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-June-2023/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-December-2023/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-November-2023/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-October-2023/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2023/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2023/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-May-2023/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-April-2023/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-March-2023/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-February-2023

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-January-2023

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-December-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-November-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-October-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our website now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-June-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-May-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-April-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-March-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-February-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-January-2022/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-December-2021/

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Up to now I have created more or less a working model of the needed 
Printer Applications, to find out what is needed in the library's APIs 
before making releases of the libraries (libcupsfilters, 
libpappl-retrofit). Therefore there are no upstream package releases yet 
but Snaps for everything.

With the Snaps I once wanted to find out whether and how CUPS and the 
Printer Applications work when snapped (or generally sandboxed) and also 
give users a way to quickly download and try out everything without 
needing to compile.

I know that with Snaps I cover many distributions (the systemd-based 
ones) but not all, as some do not use systemd and others have policies 
against Snap, mainly due to the fact that there is currently only one 
Snap Store. So Snap is a good platform to quickly get user response for 
a new project, without the bureaucracy of getting it into a distro and 
without only addressing the users who compile stuff. It also covers many 
distributions and so gets a permanent source for many users, especially 
also for packages (here printer drivers) which are newer than the distro 
release they are using.

What is Arch's situation. Do they not support Snap because they are not 
using systemd or is it because of things like the Snap Store "monopoly", 
or because of being an easy way to install closed-source software,  or 
for other reasons?

Now, as I have put practically all free software printer drivers into 
Printer Applications I know that my library's APIs are good enough for 
the task and so, as you can read in my December news, I am working on 
making the libraries releasable, by testing and debugging them. Then I 
will release cups-filters 2.0.x and pappl-retrofit 1.0.x, and after that 
also spin upstream releases of the 4 Printer Application, making it easy 
for distros to create distro packages in their package format (DEB, RPM, 
whatever Arch uses, ...).

The build systems of cups-filters and libpappl-retrofit are already 
distro-friendly (derived from cups-filters 1.x), so once we have 
releases, creating distro packages should be easy.

The daemons in the Printer Applications are created and controlled by 
the PAPPL library project. Should you run into problems packaging the 
Printer Applications for a distro where PID 1 is not systemd due to the 
starting of the daemon, please report an issue at PAPPL:

https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pappl/issues

This is the state of the art as of now and I naturally want that the 
Printer Applications will be packaged in different formats to cover as 
many distributions as possible and so reach as many users as possible. 
Especially when we are at CUPS 3.x in 2 years, PPD support is dropped in 
CUPS and so everyone will need Printer Applications for non-driverless 
legacy printers, independent of whether there is some sandboxed 
packaging used or not.

We especially need to make sure that printing support in Arch is in a 
good shape so that it "just works" for users. Especially see this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtsglXhbxno&t=9s

So I would much like that the user experience on Arch is the same as on 
Mint, and we from OpenPrinting want to help you on that.

I hope this clarified the situation. Please post if you have any further 
questions.

    Till

On 10/12/2021 21:20, Andreas Radke wrote:
> Hi Till,
> 
> I'm still missing some initial news about how to package printer
> applications in the future as casual distribution packages without the
> snap store. I'm willing to help offering early packages but so far there
> seems to be no way planned without going the snap path. Arch doesn't
> offer any snap support and will never do so.
> 
> -Andy
> Arch Linux
> 

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-November-2021/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-October-2021/

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

Hi Till,

thank you for the news!

A note regarding the news:

Ad GTK temp queues and cups-browsed usefulness - the feature is 
implemented only for GTK3+, so apps with older GTKs still needs a 
permanent queue for local printer (f.e. gimp and thunderbird). 
Additionally, Brian Potkin from Debian found out some problems with 
ipp-usb supported devices [1], does it work in GTK3 apps in Ubuntu?

And some apps (f.e. firefox) started to use their own print dialog 
without temp queue support [2], so cups-browsed is still needed for them 
and Qt...

Additionally, cups-browsed still is the only one automatic way how to 
get printers from non-local server, until I'll get a time to get my 
hands on CUPS profiles, together with load balancing, clustering and 
high availability features of cups-browsed.


Best regards,


Zdenek


[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4106

[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1983403

On 10/13/21 00:09, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site 
> now.
>
> Here we go:
>
> https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-October-2021/
>
>    Till
> _______________________________________________
> Printing-architecture mailing list
> Printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
>
-- 
Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

On 13/10/2021 12:28, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> Hi Till,
> 
> thank you for the news!
> 
> A note regarding the news:
> 
> Ad GTK temp queues and cups-browsed usefulness - the feature is 
> implemented only for GTK3+, so apps with older GTKs still needs a 
> permanent queue for local printer (f.e. gimp and thunderbird). 

We are already transitioning to GTK4 and there are still apps using 
GTK2. Does GTK/GNOME upstream still provide fixes for GTK2?

> Additionally, Brian Potkin from Debian found out some problems with 
> ipp-usb supported devices [1], does it work in GTK3 apps in Ubuntu?
> 

I can reproduce his problem on Ubuntu 21.10. I have answered his bug 
report. It can also be a bug in CUPS or ipp-usb. The "driverless" 
utility of cups-filters at least can correctly communicate with the 
printer and obtain a PPD, whereas CUPS (2.3.3op2) seems to have problems 
(error when creating queue with '-m everywhere"). So most probably CUPS bug.

> And some apps (f.e. firefox) started to use their own print dialog 
> without temp queue support [2], so cups-browsed is still needed for them 

I have checked in Ubuntu 21.10 and seen that FF has now a print dialog 
like Chrome, and Thunderbird has this dialog now, too. Nice that they 
add print dialogs with preview but why do they stay so hard on this 
obsolete API?

> and Qt...
> 

Is there anyone who does anything with the print dialog?

> Additionally, cups-browsed still is the only one automatic way how to 
> get printers from non-local server, until I'll get a time to get my 
> hands on CUPS profiles, together with load balancing, clustering and 
> high availability features of cups-browsed.

What do you mean with this? Do you have any intentions to improve 
cups-browsed? Or even to move parts of its functionality into CUPS?

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

On 10/13/21 13:57, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> On 13/10/2021 12:28, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
>> Hi Till,
>>
>> thank you for the news!
>>
>> A note regarding the news:
>>
>> Ad GTK temp queues and cups-browsed usefulness - the feature is 
>> implemented only for GTK3+, so apps with older GTKs still needs a 
>> permanent queue for local printer (f.e. gimp and thunderbird). 
>
> We are already transitioning to GTK4 and there are still apps using GTK2.
Heh, you don't want to know that there are apps even on GTK 1 :) (this 
year there was initiative to remove GTK 1 from Fedora, I'm not sure how 
it ended - so maybe some GTK 1 packages in other distros as well )
> Does GTK/GNOME upstream still provide fixes for GTK2?
IIRC some critical fixes are still applied, but temp queue functionality 
in GTK3 is too complex to backport...
>
>> And some apps (f.e. firefox) started to use their own print dialog 
>> without temp queue support [2], so cups-browsed is still needed for them 
>
> I have checked in Ubuntu 21.10 and seen that FF has now a print dialog 
> like Chrome, and Thunderbird has this dialog now, too. Nice that they 
> add print dialogs with preview but why do they stay so hard on this 
> obsolete API?
I guess they just don't know, although I pass my notes from PWG spring 
meetup into devel discussions since 2018 and creating wikis with 
explanations.
>
>> and Qt...
>>
>
> Is there anyone who does anything with the print dialog?
Unfortunately, I don't know anyone from Qt upstream...
>
>> Additionally, cups-browsed still is the only one automatic way how to 
>> get printers from non-local server, until I'll get a time to get my 
>> hands on CUPS profiles, together with load balancing, clustering and 
>> high availability features of cups-browsed.
>
> What do you mean with this? Do you have any intentions to improve 
> cups-browsed? Or even to move parts of its functionality into CUPS?

Aha, sorry - my bad sentence constructions... to keep it simple - 
cups-browsed is still needed for clustering, high availability, load 
balancing and automatic installation of print queue from other network.

For the last - automatic 'installation' (read as its availability in 
print dialog) of print queue(s) from other network, I'm planning to 
implement Mike's solution - printer profiles - till CUPS 3.0 is released 
(see https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/207).

But my personal wish - IMHO those cups-browsed features would fit nicely 
into CUPS Sharing module in the future, but that's just wish.

>
>    Till
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> Printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
>
-- 
Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2021/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2021/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-July-2021/

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Andreas Radke]

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Am Sat, 17 Jul 2021 02:10:04 +0200
schrieb Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web
> site now.
> 
> Here we go:
> 
> https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-July-2021/
> 
>     Till

"Add a migration script so that OS distributions can easily switch over
from classic packages to the CUPS Snap"



I highly doubt major distributions will follow that way. Please make
sure it will be possible to kepp full support with custom
built distribution packages as well.

Arch Linux will never add such official snap support or access to the
snap store at all.

Andy
Arch Linux

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[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-June-2021/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-May-2021/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-April-2021/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-March-2021/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-February-2021/

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

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Hi Till,

thank you for news!

I'll copy the scp-dbus-service idea from 2020 to this year - let's see
if there is a student interested in it.

Have a nice day,

Zdenek

On 2/9/21 12:13 AM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site
> now.
>
> Here we go:
>
> https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-February-2021/
>
>    Till
> _______________________________________________
> Printing-architecture mailing list
> Printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
>
-- 
Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C



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[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-January-2021/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-December-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-November-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-October-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2020/

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

I have done two little updates in my August news post, after getting 
hints from Alexander Pevzner (thanks a lot):

1. ippusbxd is deprecated now. After Linux distributions switching to 
the better ipp-usb, Chrome OS has created their own ippusb_bridge in Rust:

https://github.com/dgreid/platform2/tree/master/ippusb_bridge

2. sane-airscan is now in updates-testing repository for Fedora 32

    Till


On 14/08/2020 08:29, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.
> 
> Here we go:
> 
> https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2020/
> 
>     Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

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Hi all,

just one little update:

- lprint is on its way to Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1867587 - I plan to do an
update for F32+

On 8/14/20 1:42 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> I have done two little updates in my August news post, after getting
> hints from Alexander Pevzner (thanks a lot):
>
> 1. ippusbxd is deprecated now. After Linux distributions switching to
> the better ipp-usb, Chrome OS has created their own ippusb_bridge in
> Rust:
>
> https://github.com/dgreid/platform2/tree/master/ippusb_bridge
>
> 2. sane-airscan is now in updates-testing repository for Fedora 32
>
>    Till
>
>
> On 14/08/2020 08:29, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web
>> site now.
>>
>> Here we go:
>>
>> https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2020/
>>
>>     Till
> _______________________________________________
> Printing-architecture mailing list
> Printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture

-- 
Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C



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[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-July-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-June-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-May-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-April-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-March-2020/

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

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Thank you for the update, Till!

And thank you and Mike for detailed description of printer application
behavior!

On 3/20/20 11:18 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site
> now.
>
> Here we go:
>
> https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-March-2020/
>
>    Till
> _______________________________________________
> Printing-architecture mailing list
> Printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-architecture
>
-- 
Zdenek Dohnal
Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C



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[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-February-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-January-2020/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-December-2019/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have posted the newest development of the last month on our web site now.

Here we go:

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-November-2019/

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

here is the newest development of the last month.

    Till

----------


Google Summer of Code 2019
--------------------------

Coding ended and the final evaluations are completed, the completed 
projects officially announced by Google.

For the Linux Foundation we got 12 student slots in the beginning and 
after 1 stucent dropping out before coding started we had 11 students 
working. 2 failed in the second and 2 in the final evaluations, leaving 
7 having completed their GSoC projects.

This is the worst year in terms of failing students for us.

For OpenPrinting there started 5 students and and 1 failed in the final 
evaluation. The other 4 completed the program successfully.

Here are the projects with their submitted work product links:


1. Generic Framework to turn legacy drivers consisting of CUPS filters 
and PPDs into Printer Applications

Student: Dheeraj Yadav
Mentor: Till Kamppeter

https://gist.github.com/dheeraj135/852733a6944d2f7ede670fe9d3d0ac6a

PASSED

Dheeraj will soon work with Sahil to get his Printer Application 
framework documented on the new OpenPrinting web site.


2. Improve the pdftoraster filter to not use undocumented/unstable APIs 
of Poppler

Student: Tanmay Anand
Mentor: Sahil Arora

https://github.com/tanmayanand44/cups-filters-gsoc19/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2019-%7C-The-Linux-Foundation-%7C-Improving-pdftoraster-filter-to-use-stable-Poppler-APIs

PASSED

Tanmay completed his original project already in the first month. We 
asked him whether he would take a project for the rest of the time and 
he accepted. So he worked also on the adapter backend for the GTK3 print 
dialog to use the Common Print Dialog Backends (CPDB). Mentor for this 
project is Dongxu Li. He did not complete this at the end of the GSoC 
but promised to complete it after GSoC.


3. IPP: ipptool test suite updates for IPP errata updates

Student: Sharad Shukla
Mentors: Smith Kennedy, Ira McDonald, Danny Brennan

https://github.com/Sharadd15/ippsample/wiki/Gsoc-2k19-%7C-OpenPrinting-%7C-The-Linux-Foundation-%7C-Ipptool-test-suite-updates-for-IPP-errata-updates

PASSED

Sharad will soon complete his not yet completed assignment of the 
bannertopdf filter also supporting the old bannertops input format.


4. ipptool test suite for IPP System Service

Student: Aakash Lahoti
Mentors: Smith Kennedy, Ira McDonald, Danny Brennan

https://github.com/aakashlahoti/Google-Summer-Of-Code-2019-The-Linux-Foundation

PASSED


5. Turn the scp-dbus-service of system-config-printer into C

Student: Sobhan Mondal
Mentors: Zdenek Dohnal

https://github.com/sobhaniiest/scp-dbus-service

FAILED (final evaluation)

Sobhan promised to complete his work after GSoC.


The project results will also get added to the new OpenPrinting web site.


Avahi
-----

Mike Sweet has posted on the

https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/125

and he is of the same opinion as me that the DNS-SD records of local 
services via the loopback ("lo") device should carry the "localhost" 
host name and not the network host name of the machine:

----------
If Avahi returns 127.0.0.1 as one of the addresses for a .local lookup, 
that will cause some serious security problems when machine A (a.local.) 
looks up machine B ("b.local.") and gets its own loopback address. By 
returning localhost ("localhost.") that security issue is avoided.

Keep in mind as well that when CUPS tries to connect to a 
printer/server, it tries all of the addresses returned by a lookup in 
parallel until one of the connections succeeds. Since CUPS also 
validates the Host: header in requests (and block any attempt to 
communicate with cupsd over the loopback interface if the hostname is 
not "localhost" or "localhost."), this will result in a successful 
connection but a failed request, breaking printing.

So you really do need to return "localhost" for services registered on 
the loopback interface.
----------

No reaction from Trent Lloyd yet.


OpenPrinting web site
---------------------

Now with the GSoC completed we are resuming our work on the web site 
with Sahil leading the project.

Most of the site is in place, most important part to add now are the 
results of the 5 GSoC projects of this year.

Also we need to link to the OpenPrinting database interface web app:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/openprinting.github.io/issues/55

We will continue using this web app and the MySQL database (which we now 
feed from the foomatic-db repository on GitHub) as it is not worthwhile 
(possible?) to implement a replacement on it running on GitHub.

The web app needs to get the outfit of our new web site:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/openprinting.github.io/issues/58


CUPS
----

2.3.0 released.

CUPS 2.3.0 is finally out! And the licensing resolved! With more than 
one year or 3 Ubuntu releases of delay it appeared on Fri, August 23, 
the day after Ubuntu Eoan (19.10) Feature Freeze. The license solution 
is that the Apache 2.0 license gets an exception added which allows 
linking with (L)GPL software, so cups-filters and other software using 
the CUPS library does not need any license change.

For new features see Mike's slides of the last OpenPrinting Summit:

https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/liaison/openprinting/presentations/cups-plenary-april-19.pdf


Changes in CUPS v2.3.1
----------------------

- Fixed spelling of "fold-accordion".


Changes in CUPS v2.3.0
----------------------

- CVE-2019-8696 and CVE-2019-8675: Fixed SNMP buffer overflows
   (rdar://51685251)
- Added a GPL2/LGPL2 exception to the new CUPS license terms.
- Documentation updates (Issue #5604)
- Localization updates (Issue #5637)
- Fixed a bug in the scheduler job cleanup code (Issue #5588)
- Fixed builds when there is no TLS library (Issue #5590)
- Eliminated some new GCC compiler warnings (Issue #5591)
- Removed dead code from the scheduler (Issue #5593)
- "make" failed with GZIP options (Issue #5595)
- Fixed potential excess logging from the scheduler when removing job
   files (Issue #5597)
- Fixed a NULL pointer dereference bug in `httpGetSubField2` (Issue
   #5598)
- Added FIPS-140 workarounds for GNU TLS (Issue #5601, Issue #5622)
- The scheduler no longer provides a default value for the description
   (Issue #5603)
- The scheduler now logs jobs held for authentication using the error
   level so it is clear what happened (Issue #5604)
- The `lpadmin` command did not always update the PPD file for changes
   to the `cupsIPPSupplies` and `cupsSNMPSupplies` keywords (Issue #5610)
- The scheduler now uses both the group's membership list as well as the
   various OS-specific membership functions to determine whether a user
   belongs to a named group (Issue #5613)
- Added USB quirks rule for HP LaserJet 1015 (Issue #5617)
- Fixed some PPD parser issues (Issue #5623, Issue #5624)
- The IPP parser no longer allows invalid member attributes in
   collections (Issue #5630)
- The configure script now treats the "wheel" group as a potential
   system group (Issue #5638)
- Fixed a USB printing issue on macOS (rdar://31433931)
- Fixed IPP buffer overflow (rdar://50035411)
- Fixed memory disclosure issue in the scheduler (rdar://51373853)
- Fixed DoS issues in the scheduler (rdar://51373929)
- Fixed an issue with unsupported "sides" values in the IPP backend
   (rdar://51775322)
- The scheduler would restart continuously when idle and printers were
   not shared (rdar://52561199)
- Fixed an issue with `EXPECT !name WITH-VALUE ...` tests.
- Fixed a command ordering issue in the Zebra ZPL driver.
- Fixed a memory leak in `ppdOpen`.


No changes on 2.2.x branch.


cups-filters
------------

Currently released is 1.25.4.

Many releases happened during the short time to get bug fixes into the 
upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan).

1.25.5:

Bug fix release, mainly for cups-browsed not to die on left over locally 
generated queues of unclaen shutdown of the previous session.

1.25.4:

Bug fix release for the page geometry and CUPS Raster output issues in 
the imagetoraster, imagetopdf, and pdftoraster filters.

1.25.3:

Bug fix release, especially to fix a compatibility issue with CUPS 2.2.12.

1.25.2:

Improved cups-browsed's handling of the DNS-SD records of advertised 
local and remote IPP print services. Especially make sure that local 
queues do not get already removed when the service on a single network 
interface disappears (for example Wi-Fi turned off) while still present 
on other interfaces. Also let local services preferably be accessed 
through the loopback ("localhost") interface to avoid data leaks into 
the network.


CHANGES IN V1.25.5

	- rastertopdf: Let the getIPPColorProfileName() function not
	  return a pointer to a local variable (clang warning, Issue
	  #150).
	- cups-browsed: If a locally generated queue (usually with
           "implicitclass://..." URI) left over from a previous
           (crashed) session is picked up on startup, do not set the
           URI as the remote printer's URI and do not cause a fatal
           error on a failed get-printer-attributes IPP request (Issue
           #148, Debian bug #939316).
	- pdftopdf: Do not preserve encryption, since the output
           already goes into the printer (Issue #146, Pull request
           #147).

CHANGES IN V1.25.4

	- imagetoraster: Do not call imagetops and pstoraster for
	  classifications and page labels as these filters are not
	  included any more with cups-filters.  Classifications and
	  page labels are currently not supported for direct image
	  printing, only for PDF or PostScript input (which goes
	  through pdftopdf).
	- imagetoraster, imagetopdf: Fixed auto-rotation of images to
	  fit output page best (Issue #145).
	- pdftoraster: If the PPD contains several equally-sized page
	  size entries which match the size of the input page and one
	  is the size selected by the user via the "PageSize" or
	  "media" option (or the default selection in the PPD) then
	  prefer this one instead of simply the first matching one.
	- pdftoraster: If the input page size cannot be matched with
	  one of the PPD's page sizes it is considered a custom size,
	  fill the page size name field of the CUPS Raster header with
	  "Custom.XXXxYYY" then.
	- pdftoraster: Match the input page size with a page size in
	  the PPD only if the differences of the dimensions are less
	  than 1%, also match the input page size against the
	  imageable area of the PPD's page sizes if no match with the
	  full page size is found (Issue #138).

CHANGES IN V1.25.3

	- Sample PPDs: In HP-Color_LaserJet_CM3530_MFP-PDF.ppd renamed
	  "custom" choice of the option "stapleoption" to "customsize"
	  as from CUPS 2.2.12 on "custom" is not accepted any more as a
	  choice name in a PPD file.
	- cups-browsed: Fixed check whether the remote printer
	  understands PWG Raster (Issue #141).

CHANGES IN V1.25.2

	- foomatic-rip: Fixed segmentation fault when running
	  foomatic-rip by hand and the PRINTER environment variable is
	  not set (Pull request #139).
	- cups-browsed: Added note to cups-browsed.conf and man page
	  about IP-based URIs depending on the network interface used.
	- cups-browsed: For each DNS-SD-discovered printer register
	  each DNS-SD discovery instance with network interface,
	  family, and IPP type. When DNS-SD messages of instances
	  disappearing show up, only unregister this instance and
	  remove the printer only if no instance is left. This
	  prevents a local queue of a still available printer being
	  removed when Wi-Fi (= one interface) is turned off (Issue
	  #136).
	- cups-browsed: If a remote printer is served from the local
	  machine, prefer the "localhost"/loopback interface URI.
	- cups-browsed: If a remote printer is discovered more than
	  once, use the new instance only if it has no downgrades and
	  at least one upgrade compared to the old one. Features
	  currently compared are IPP/IPPS, loopback interface or not,
	  and discovery via CUPS legacy/LDAP/DNS-SD.
	- cups-browsed: If an Avahi-discovered entry comes through the
	  "lo" interface, always use the host name "localhost". Use
	  IP addresses instead of host names only if explicitly
	  requested.
	- cups-browsed: Consider remote printer entries also as from
	  the same printer if one has the local machine's network name
	  and the other "localhost" as host name (Issue #136).


ippusbxd
--------

No further news.


Common Print Dialog Backends
----------------------------

When packaging CUPS 2.2.12 for Ubuntu Eoan (19.10) the automatic tests 
of Ubuntu's build servers failed cpdb-libs and after several days of 
debugging I found out that libcups is not initializing some glbal 
variables with default host name, port, domain socket file for the local 
CUPS server in some cases. This prevented the CUPS backend from 
accessing the printer's capabilities via get-printer-attributes IPP 
request and I had to apply a workaround in the cpdb-backend-cups project.

Upstream bug report on CUPS:

https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5642

Workaround:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cpdb-backend-cups/commit/d8d7aa10

Released cpdb-backend-cups 1.1.1 with the fix:

- Added "ippPort()" call to the beginning of the program, to initialize 
libcups (Issue #2)

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

here is the newest development of the last 2 months.

    Till

----------


Google Summer of Code 2019
--------------------------

Second evaluations are done now GSoC coding will end in around 3 weeks.

The 5 students for OpenPrinting have all passed, but from all the 11 for 
the Linux Foundation 2 have failed.

Dheeraj has already succeeded to make a Printer Application from HPLIP 
and now his task is to get a general framework which allows easy 
packaging of any classic printer driver package as a Printer Application.

See his work on GitHub:

https://github.com/dheeraj135/Printer-Applications-Framework
https://github.com/dheeraj135/Printer-Application-Snaps

Tanmay has finished the original task with which he has entered the GSoc 
already at the first evaluation round. His work of changing the 
pdftoraster filter of cups-filters to use only documented, stable APIs 
of Poppler is already integrated in cups-filters and released in version 
1.25.1 of cups-filters (see below).

Now he is working on the adapter backend for the GTK-3.x print dialog to 
use the Common Print Dialog Backends (CPDB). Maintainership got 
overtaken by Dongxu Li now.

The other OpenPrinting Students seem to do well, too, according to the 
second evaluation and mail traffic between Sharad and Mike Sweet.

Aveek Basu and me, we will attend the GSoC Mentor Summit in Munich this 
year, October 17-20.


Avahi
-----

Dheeraj has reported a bug in cups-browsed caused by the several network 
interfaces reporting one and the same service via DNS-SD 
(https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/issues/136) and this made 
me put some more thoughts on the Avahi problem. See my last posts on the 
Avahi issue

https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/125

and also my posts on the Printing Architecture mailing list

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003718.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003720.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003719.html

In his only answer to my patch (in April) Trent Lloyd tells that he 
would accept my first part of the patch which adds the support for 
advertising services on the loopback interface ("lo", host name 
"localhost") but not the second part (contributed by Rithvik) which 
makes the DNS-SD records coming from the loopback ingterface using 
"localhost" as the host name and not the machines network host name as 
then Avahi would make an exception for the loopback interface.

But as each DNS-SD record has to be consistent by itself and independent 
of the others (even independent of the others for the same service) in 
my opinion the records from loopback should carry the "localhost" host 
name, as otherwise a client would build URIs using the network host name 
and this does never resolve to the local 127.0.0.1 / ::1 IP address, 
making pure local services like ippusbxd not working and letting data 
intended for local use only detour through the external network when a 
network IP gets used (privacy and resource usage problems). This would 
especially get a problem when drivers for USB printers are distributed 
as Printer Applications.

I posted on the Printing Architecture mailing list then and Michael 
Sweet answered, being also of my opinion and not of Trent's, he also 
says that Avahi should deliver the DNS-SD record of the loopback (“lo”) 
interface with the “localhost” host name.

I asked Mike to post on the Avahi issue on GitHub but he did not do so yet.

Not further answer by Trent yet as he has still urgent work to do in his 
day job.


OpenPrinting web site
---------------------

No further news.


CUPS
----

2.3.0rc1 released.

The state of the art of Apple's licensing has still to be determined.

Changes in CUPS v2.3.0
----------------------

- Documentation updates (Issue #5604)
- Fixed a bug in the scheduler job cleanup code (Issue #5588)
- Fixed builds when there is no TLS library (Issue #5590)
- Eliminated some new GCC compiler warnings (Issue #5591)
- Removed dead code from the scheduler (Issue #5593)
- "make" failed with GZIP options (Issue #5595)
- Fixed potential excess logging from the scheduler when removing job
   files (Issue #5597)
- Fixed a NULL pointer dereference bug in `httpGetSubField2` (Issue
   #5598)
- Added FIPS-140 workarounds for GNU TLS (Issue #5601, Issue #5622)
- The scheduler no longer provides a default value for the description
   (Issue #5603)
- The scheduler now logs jobs held for authentication using the error
   level so it is clear what happened (Issue #5604)
- The `lpadmin` command did not always update the PPD file for changes
   to the `cupsIPPSupplies` and `cupsSNMPSupplies` keywords (Issue #5610)
- The scheduler now uses both the group's membership list as well as the
   various OS-specific membership functions to determine whether a user
   belongs to a named group (Issue #5613)
- Added USB quirks rule for HP LaserJet 1015 (Issue #5617)
- Fixed some PPD parser issues (Issue #5623, Issue #5624)
- Fixed an issue with unsupported "sides" values in the IPP backend
   (rdar://51775322)
- The scheduler would restart continuously when idle and printers were
   not shared (rdar://52561199)
- Fixed an issue with `EXPECT !name WITH-VALUE ...` tests.
- Fixed a command ordering issue in the Zebra ZPL driver.
- Fixed a memory leak in `ppdOpen`.


Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
-----------------------

- The `cups-config` script no longer adds extra libraries when linking
   against shared libraries (Issue #5261)
- The supplied example print documents have been optimized for size
   (Issue #5529)
- The `cupsctl` command now prevents setting "cups-files.conf"
   directives (Issue #5530)
- The "forbidden" message in the web interface is now explained (Issue
   #5547)
- The footer in the web interface covered some content on small displays
   (Issue #5574)
- The libusb-based USB backend now enforces read limits, improving print
   speed in many cases (Issue #5583)
- The `ippeveprinter` command now looks for print commands in the
   "command" subdirectory.
- The `ipptool` command now supports `$date-current` and `$date-start`
   variables to insert the current and starting date and time values, as
   well as ISO-8601 relative time values such as "PT30S" for 30 seconds
   in the future.

No changes on 2.2.x branch.


cups-filters
------------

Currently released is 1.25.1.

1.25.2:

Improved cups-browsed's handling of the DNS-SD records of advertised 
local and remote IPP print services. Especially make sure that local 
queues do not get already removed when the service on a single network 
interface disappears (for example Wi-Fi turned off) while still present 
on other interfaces. Also let local services preferably be accessed 
through the loopback ("localhost") interface to avoid data leaks into 
the network.

1.25.1:

Bug fix release for the filters, mainly for the new pdftoraster filter.

1.25.0:

In this release the pdftoraster filter is changed to only use 
stable/documented APIs of Poppler (Tanmay Anand's Google Summer of Code 
2019 project) and the deprecated, Poppler-based filters pdftoijs and 
pdftoopvp are finally completely removed. Now Poppler is only used for 
the pdftoraster filter. Poppler's unstable/internal APIs are nowhere 
used any more in cups-filters.

CHANGES IN V1.25.2

	- cups-browsed: Added note to cups-browsed.conf and man page
	  about IP-based URIs depending on the network interface used.
	- cups-browsed: For each DNS-SD-discovered printer register
	  each DNS-SD discovery instance with network interface,
	  family, and IPP type. When DNS-SD messages of instances
	  disappearing show up, only unregister this instance and
	  remove the printer only if no instance is left. This
	  prevents a local queue of a still available printer being
	  removed when Wi-Fi (= one interface) is turned off (Issue
	  #136).
	- cups-browsed: If a remote printer is served from the local
	  machine, prefer the "localhost"/loopback interface URI.
	- cups-browsed: If a remote printer is discovered more than
	  once, use the new instance only if it has no downgrades and
	  at least one upgrade compared to the old one. Features
	  currently compared are IPP/IPPS, loopback interface or not,
	  and discovery via CUPS legacy/LDAP/DNS-SD.
	- cups-browsed: If an Avahi-discovered entry comes through the
	  "lo" interface, always use the host name "localhost". Use
	  IP addresses instead of host names only if explicitly
	  requested.
	- cups-browsed: Consider remote printer entries also as from
	  the same printer if one has the local machine's network name
	  and the other "localhost" as host name (Issue #136).

CHANGES IN V1.25.1

	- imagetopdf: Fixed crash when no PPD file was supplied (Pull
	  request #133).
	- pdftoraster: Fixed offset issues leading to segmentation
	  faults (Issue #131, Pull request #132).
	- pdftoraster: Added anti-aliasing for better raster image
	  quality (Pull request #129).
	- pdftoraster: Added graceful handling of zero-page input
	  (Issue #117, Pull request #127).

CHANGES IN V1.25.0

	- pdftoijs, pdftoopvp: Removed these deprecated filters
	  completely as there is no demand for them any more. They
	  also used unstable, undocumented APIs of Poppler.
	- pdftoraster: Changed from using unstable, undocumented APIs
	  of Poppler to stable, documented ones, to improve
	  maintainability of this filter, and with it of the
	  cups-filters package. Thanks to Tanmay Anand for
	  contributing this as his Google Summer of Code 2019 project.
	- libcupsfilters: Added support for color spaces CMY and RGBW
	  when using filters without PPD file (mainly for development
	  and debugging, option "print-color-mode" with values
	  "cmy-XX" and "rgbw-XX" with XX being the number of bits per
	  color).


ippusbxd
--------

David Valleau from Google tells that ippusbxd works well on HP, Canon, 
and Epson printers under Chrome OS.

No code changes.

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

here is the newest development of the last month.

    Till

----------


Google Summer of Code 2019
--------------------------

Coding has started.

I have discussed the architecture for the Printer Application framework 
with Dheeraj but he did not start coding yet as he still has exams.

Tanmay has started early and progressed very well, having nearly 
finished his project of removing the use of unstable/undocumented APIs 
of Poppler in the pdftoraster filter of cups-filters. He has code up now 
for testing an debugging:

https://github.com/tanmayanand44/cups-filters-gsoc19

He asks for testing with the different color spaces and color depths.


Google Summer of Code 2018
--------------------------

One of the projects which did not finish in time in the end of the GSoC 
made it finally upstream into cups-filters 1.24.0. Deepak Patankar 
finished his work on cups-browsed auto-selecting the destination printer 
for a job based on option/attribute settings.

Now, after one year of cups-browsed not receiving any new feature we 
have not only the auto selection but also support for clustering native 
IPP printers, mixed clusters of IPP printers and CUPS queues, no PPD 
download from remote CUPS servers (working towards full removal of the 
PPD concept in CUPS) and generally equal treatment of remote CUPS queues 
and native IPP printers.


Avahi
-----

Not continued yet by Trent as he has still urgent work to do.


OpenPrinting web site
---------------------

No further news.


system-config-printer
---------------------

Moved upstream hosting from Zdenek Dohnal’s (system-config-printer’s 
current upstream maintainer, works at Red Hat) private GitHub to the 
GitHub of OpenPrinting, but Zdenek continues as upstream maintainer.


CUPS
----

2.3.0 released.

So we made it to the new series now. The state of the art of Apple's 
licensing has still to be determined.

Changes in CUPS v2.3.0
----------------------

- Fixed a bug in the scheduler job cleanup code (Issue #5588)
- Fixed an issue with `EXPECT !name WITH-VALUE ...` tests.
- Fixed a command ordering issue in the Zebra ZPL driver.


Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
-----------------------

- The `cups-config` script no longer adds extra libraries when linking
   against shared libraries (Issue #5261)
- The supplied example print documents have been optimized for size
   (Issue #5529)
- The `cupsctl` command now prevents setting "cups-files.conf"
   directives (Issue #5530)
- The "forbidden" message in the web interface is now explained (Issue
   #5547)
- The footer in the web interface covered some content on small displays
   (Issue #5574)
- The libusb-based USB backend now enforces read limits, improving print
   speed in many cases (Issue #5583)
- The `ippeveprinter` command now looks for print commands in the
   "command" subdirectory.
- The `ipptool` command now supports `$date-current` and `$date-start`
   variables to insert the current and starting date and time values, as
   well as ISO-8601 relative time values such as "PT30S" for 30 seconds
   in the future.

2.22.12 released.

CUPS 2.2.12 is a bug fix release backporting important fixes from the 
2.3.x series.

Changes in CUPS v2.2.12
-----------------------

- The `cupsctl` command now prevents setting "cups-files.conf"
   directives (Issue #5530)
- Updated the systemd service file for cupsd (Issue #5551)
- The `cupsCheckDestSupported` function did not check octetString values
   correctly (Issue #5557)
- The scheduler did not encode octetString values like "job-password"
   correctly for the print filters (Issue #5558)
- Restored minimal support for the `Emulators` keyword in PPD files to
   allow old Samsung printer drivers to continue to work (Issue #5562)
- Timed out job submission now yields an error (Issue #5570)
- The footer in the web interface covered some content on small displays
   (Issue #5574)
- The libusb-based USB backend now enforces read limits, improving print
   speed in many cases (Issue #5583)
- Fixed some compatibility issues with old releases of CUPS (Issue
   #5587)
- Fixed a bug in the scheduler job cleanup code (Issue #5588)
- Fixed a command ordering issue in the Zebra ZPL driver.


cups-filters
------------

Currently released is 1.24.0.

1.22.6:

Bug fix release, to address a further issue of cups-browsed removing 
user-created print queues, to make grayscale/monochrome PostScript jobs 
of colored input file actually output grayscale/monochrome files, to fix 
several bugs when using MuPDF as PDF renderer, and to silence compiler 
warnings.

1.23.0:

This release adds support for the "print-scaling" IPP attribute and has 
the code for the support of MuPDF as PDF renderer vastly simplified.

1.24.0:

Integration of Deepak Patankar's Google Summer of Code 2018 project with 
the main goal of clustering different printers with cups-browsed and 
automatically selecting the destination printers by job content and 
option/attribute settings. To achieve this, several other features got 
added to cups-browsed, especially support for mixed clusters of remote 
CUPS queues and native IPP printers and not downloading PPDs from remote 
CUPS servers any more. All changes of this release are done by Deepak as 
parts of his project.

CHANGES IN V1.24.0

	- cups-browsed: Integration of Deepak Patankar's Google Summer
	  of Code 2018 with the main goal of clustering different
	  printers and automatically selecting the destination
	  printers by job content and option/attribute settings. All
	  changes of this release are done by Deepak as parts of his
	  project.
	- cups-browsed, implicitclass: Support for mixed clusters of
	  remote CUPS queues and IPP network printers. For this PPD
	  files of remote CUPS queues are generated by cups-browsed
	  based on IPP queries, as for native IPP printers, the number
	  of jobs for load balancing is polled in a way that it works
	  also with native IPP printers, the implicitclass backend
	  sends jobs directky to the printer instead of re-queueing
	  them via CUPS.
	- cups-browsed: Merge IPP attributes of several printers to
	  combined attributes for the cluster to generate the
	  cluster's PPD file, including PPD constraints for option
	  combinations not fulfillable by any of the member printers,
	  and finding reasonable, non-conflicting default settings,
	- cups-browsed: Selection algorithm for the destination
	  printer for a job sent to the cluster. Based on the job
	  settings requested such as page size, media type, print
	  quality, ... the best most suitable printer in the cluster
	  for the job will be selected.
	- cups-browsed, implicitclass: Filter jobs to clusters already
	  locally. Due to the fact that a cluster's member printers
	  are not exclusively non-raw CUPS queues with the complete
	  filtering framework on the remote server, but also native
	  IPP printers, we need to support generic driverless printers
	  as destination. So we cannot pass on the input data
	  unfiltered but need to filter locally. We let the cluster's
	  PPD file emulate a PDF printer, letting the local CUPS queue
	  of the cluster run pdftopdf and any pre-filters to turn the
	  input into PDF and we let the implicitclass backend turn PDF
	  into a format understood by the destination printer,
	  supporting the 4 formats of driverless IPP printing: PDF,
	  PWG Raster, Apple Raster, PCLm.

CHANGES IN V1.23.0

	- pdftops, mupdftoraster: Let pdftops call mutool directly and
	  so that it directly outputs PostScript, eliminating the need
	  to call the mupdftoraster and rastertops filters.
	- mupdftoraster: Reduced the use of temporary files from 3 to
	  just one.
	- imagetopdf, imagetoraster, pdftopdf: Add support for
	  print-scaling option (Issue #108, Pull request #118).

CHANGES IN V1.22.6

	- rastertops: Fixed PageSize settings in the PostScript output
	  (Must be in points not in pixels).
	- pdftops, mupdftoraster: Produce actual grayscale/monochrome
	  PostScript (and not only instructions to print grayscale/
	  monochrome) for jobs to be printed in grayscale/monochrome
	  (Issue #96, Pull request #115).
	- mupdftoraster: Fixed filter not producing output at all.
	- Build system: ENABLE_DRIVERLESS got only defined with CUPS
	  1.6 and newer, not with older CUPS versions (Issue #111).
	- pdftopdf, imagetopdf, imagetoraster: Silenced compiler
           warnings.
	- cups-browsed, driverless: Replaced httpConnect() calls by
	  httpConnect2() calls as the former CUPS library function is
	  deprecated.
	- Build system: Compile everything using the CUPS libraries
	  with '-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""' for the time being until the
	  deprecated PPD API calls get replaced, to stop the flooding
	  with PPD API deprecation warnings making more important
	  warnings being overlooked.
	- cups-browsed: When removing a local queue on shutdown or
	  when DNS-SD reports the printer as disappeared check whether
	  the local queue got overwritten by an external process as
	  sometimes the shutdown or disappearing event comes too close
	  for cups-browsed receiving a printer-modified notification
	  from CUPS before (Ubuntu bug #1731417).


ippusbxd
--------

No further news.

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

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Hi all,

_Turn scp-dbus-service.py to C project update:_

Sobhan started to code one week earlier, he is currently working on
methods which dbus interface uses plus Makefile.

His github with project https://github.com/sobhaniiest/scp-dbus-service

On 6/4/19 12:41 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is the newest development of the last month.
>
>    Till
>
> ----------
>
>
> Google Summer of Code 2019
> --------------------------
>
> Coding has started.
>
> I have discussed the architecture for the Printer Application
> framework with Dheeraj but he did not start coding yet as he still has
> exams.
>
> Tanmay has started early and progressed very well, having nearly
> finished his project of removing the use of unstable/undocumented APIs
> of Poppler in the pdftoraster filter of cups-filters. He has code up
> now for testing an debugging:
>
> https://github.com/tanmayanand44/cups-filters-gsoc19
>
> He asks for testing with the different color spaces and color depths.
>
>
> Google Summer of Code 2018
> --------------------------
>
> One of the projects which did not finish in time in the end of the
> GSoC made it finally upstream into cups-filters 1.24.0. Deepak
> Patankar finished his work on cups-browsed auto-selecting the
> destination printer for a job based on option/attribute settings.
>
> Now, after one year of cups-browsed not receiving any new feature we
> have not only the auto selection but also support for clustering
> native IPP printers, mixed clusters of IPP printers and CUPS queues,
> no PPD download from remote CUPS servers (working towards full removal
> of the PPD concept in CUPS) and generally equal treatment of remote
> CUPS queues and native IPP printers.
>
>
> Avahi
> -----
>
> Not continued yet by Trent as he has still urgent work to do.
>
>
> OpenPrinting web site
> ---------------------
>
> No further news.
>
>
> system-config-printer
> ---------------------
>
> Moved upstream hosting from Zdenek Dohnal’s (system-config-printer’s
> current upstream maintainer, works at Red Hat) private GitHub to the
> GitHub of OpenPrinting, but Zdenek continues as upstream maintainer.
>
>
> CUPS
> ----
>
> 2.3.0 released.
>
> So we made it to the new series now. The state of the art of Apple's
> licensing has still to be determined.
>
> Changes in CUPS v2.3.0
> ----------------------
>
> - Fixed a bug in the scheduler job cleanup code (Issue #5588)
> - Fixed an issue with `EXPECT !name WITH-VALUE ...` tests.
> - Fixed a command ordering issue in the Zebra ZPL driver.
>
>
> Changes in CUPS v2.3rc1
> -----------------------
>
> - The `cups-config` script no longer adds extra libraries when linking
>   against shared libraries (Issue #5261)
> - The supplied example print documents have been optimized for size
>   (Issue #5529)
> - The `cupsctl` command now prevents setting "cups-files.conf"
>   directives (Issue #5530)
> - The "forbidden" message in the web interface is now explained (Issue
>   #5547)
> - The footer in the web interface covered some content on small displays
>   (Issue #5574)
> - The libusb-based USB backend now enforces read limits, improving print
>   speed in many cases (Issue #5583)
> - The `ippeveprinter` command now looks for print commands in the
>   "command" subdirectory.
> - The `ipptool` command now supports `$date-current` and `$date-start`
>   variables to insert the current and starting date and time values, as
>   well as ISO-8601 relative time values such as "PT30S" for 30 seconds
>   in the future.
>
> 2.22.12 released.
>
> CUPS 2.2.12 is a bug fix release backporting important fixes from the
> 2.3.x series.
>
> Changes in CUPS v2.2.12
> -----------------------
>
> - The `cupsctl` command now prevents setting "cups-files.conf"
>   directives (Issue #5530)
> - Updated the systemd service file for cupsd (Issue #5551)
> - The `cupsCheckDestSupported` function did not check octetString values
>   correctly (Issue #5557)
> - The scheduler did not encode octetString values like "job-password"
>   correctly for the print filters (Issue #5558)
> - Restored minimal support for the `Emulators` keyword in PPD files to
>   allow old Samsung printer drivers to continue to work (Issue #5562)
> - Timed out job submission now yields an error (Issue #5570)
> - The footer in the web interface covered some content on small displays
>   (Issue #5574)
> - The libusb-based USB backend now enforces read limits, improving print
>   speed in many cases (Issue #5583)
> - Fixed some compatibility issues with old releases of CUPS (Issue
>   #5587)
> - Fixed a bug in the scheduler job cleanup code (Issue #5588)
> - Fixed a command ordering issue in the Zebra ZPL driver.
>
>
> cups-filters
> ------------
>
> Currently released is 1.24.0.
>
> 1.22.6:
>
> Bug fix release, to address a further issue of cups-browsed removing
> user-created print queues, to make grayscale/monochrome PostScript
> jobs of colored input file actually output grayscale/monochrome files,
> to fix several bugs when using MuPDF as PDF renderer, and to silence
> compiler warnings.
>
> 1.23.0:
>
> This release adds support for the "print-scaling" IPP attribute and
> has the code for the support of MuPDF as PDF renderer vastly simplified.
>
> 1.24.0:
>
> Integration of Deepak Patankar's Google Summer of Code 2018 project
> with the main goal of clustering different printers with cups-browsed
> and automatically selecting the destination printers by job content
> and option/attribute settings. To achieve this, several other features
> got added to cups-browsed, especially support for mixed clusters of
> remote CUPS queues and native IPP printers and not downloading PPDs
> from remote CUPS servers any more. All changes of this release are
> done by Deepak as parts of his project.
>
> CHANGES IN V1.24.0
>
>     - cups-browsed: Integration of Deepak Patankar's Google Summer
>       of Code 2018 with the main goal of clustering different
>       printers and automatically selecting the destination
>       printers by job content and option/attribute settings. All
>       changes of this release are done by Deepak as parts of his
>       project.
>     - cups-browsed, implicitclass: Support for mixed clusters of
>       remote CUPS queues and IPP network printers. For this PPD
>       files of remote CUPS queues are generated by cups-browsed
>       based on IPP queries, as for native IPP printers, the number
>       of jobs for load balancing is polled in a way that it works
>       also with native IPP printers, the implicitclass backend
>       sends jobs directky to the printer instead of re-queueing
>       them via CUPS.
>     - cups-browsed: Merge IPP attributes of several printers to
>       combined attributes for the cluster to generate the
>       cluster's PPD file, including PPD constraints for option
>       combinations not fulfillable by any of the member printers,
>       and finding reasonable, non-conflicting default settings,
>     - cups-browsed: Selection algorithm for the destination
>       printer for a job sent to the cluster. Based on the job
>       settings requested such as page size, media type, print
>       quality, ... the best most suitable printer in the cluster
>       for the job will be selected.
>     - cups-browsed, implicitclass: Filter jobs to clusters already
>       locally. Due to the fact that a cluster's member printers
>       are not exclusively non-raw CUPS queues with the complete
>       filtering framework on the remote server, but also native
>       IPP printers, we need to support generic driverless printers
>       as destination. So we cannot pass on the input data
>       unfiltered but need to filter locally. We let the cluster's
>       PPD file emulate a PDF printer, letting the local CUPS queue
>       of the cluster run pdftopdf and any pre-filters to turn the
>       input into PDF and we let the implicitclass backend turn PDF
>       into a format understood by the destination printer,
>       supporting the 4 formats of driverless IPP printing: PDF,
>       PWG Raster, Apple Raster, PCLm.
>
> CHANGES IN V1.23.0
>
>     - pdftops, mupdftoraster: Let pdftops call mutool directly and
>       so that it directly outputs PostScript, eliminating the need
>       to call the mupdftoraster and rastertops filters.
>     - mupdftoraster: Reduced the use of temporary files from 3 to
>       just one.
>     - imagetopdf, imagetoraster, pdftopdf: Add support for
>       print-scaling option (Issue #108, Pull request #118).
>
> CHANGES IN V1.22.6
>
>     - rastertops: Fixed PageSize settings in the PostScript output
>       (Must be in points not in pixels).
>     - pdftops, mupdftoraster: Produce actual grayscale/monochrome
>       PostScript (and not only instructions to print grayscale/
>       monochrome) for jobs to be printed in grayscale/monochrome
>       (Issue #96, Pull request #115).
>     - mupdftoraster: Fixed filter not producing output at all.
>     - Build system: ENABLE_DRIVERLESS got only defined with CUPS
>       1.6 and newer, not with older CUPS versions (Issue #111).
>     - pdftopdf, imagetopdf, imagetoraster: Silenced compiler
>           warnings.
>     - cups-browsed, driverless: Replaced httpConnect() calls by
>       httpConnect2() calls as the former CUPS library function is
>       deprecated.
>     - Build system: Compile everything using the CUPS libraries
>       with '-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""' for the time being until the
>       deprecated PPD API calls get replaced, to stop the flooding
>       with PPD API deprecation warnings making more important
>       warnings being overlooked.
>     - cups-browsed: When removing a local queue on shutdown or
>       when DNS-SD reports the printer as disappeared check whether
>       the local queue got overwritten by an external process as
>       sometimes the shutdown or disappearing event comes too close
>       for cups-browsed receiving a printer-modified notification
>       from CUPS before (Ubuntu bug #1731417).
>
>
> ippusbxd
> --------
>
> No further news.
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[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

here is the newest development of the last month.

    Till

----------


Google Summer of Code 2019
--------------------------

Google has distributed the slots and officially announced the accepted 
proposals. The Linux Foundation has got all the 12 requested slots, so 
we can have all our 5 selected students working for OpenPrinting.

1. Generic Framework to turn legacy drivers consisting of CUPS filters 
and PPDs into Printer Applications

Student: Dheeraj Yadav
Mentor: Till Kamppeter

2. Improve the pdftoraster filter to not use undocumented/unstable APIs 
of Poppler

Student: Tanmay Anand
Mentor: Sahil Arora

3. IPP: ipptool test suite updates for IPP errata updates

Student: Sharad Shukla
Mentors: Smith Kennedy, Ira McDonald, Danny Brennan

4. ipptool test suite for IPP System Service

Student: Aakash Lahoti
Mentors: Smith Kennedy, Ira McDonald, Danny Brennan

5. Turn the scp-dbus-service of system-config-printer into C

Student: Sobhan Mondal
Mentors: Zdenek Dohnal

The students who had assignments during the selection process are 
currently finishing them and they also partially started to work on 
their projects.


Avahi
-----

Not continued yet by Trent as he has still urgent work to do.


OpenPrinting web site
---------------------

Not much done here as the 2019 students workded on cups-filters issues 
which they got as assignments during the selection process, started also 
on work for the actual GSoC project and had exams at school.

Sahil is currentyly re-initiating the process.


CUPS
----

2.3b8 released.

CUPS 2.3b8 is another bug fix release.

Changes in CUPS v2.3b8
----------------------

- Media size matching now uses a tolerance of 0.5mm (rdar://33822024)
- The lpadmin command would hang with a bad PPD file (rdar://41495016)
- Fixed a potential crash bug in cups-driverd (rdar://46625579)
- Fixed a performance regression with large PPDs (rdar://47040759)
- Fixed a memory reallocation bug in HTTP header value expansion
   (rdar://problem/50000749)
- Restored minimal support for the `Emulators` keyword in PPD files to
   allow old Samsung printer drivers to continue to work (Issue #5562)
- The scheduler did not encode octetString values like "job-password"
   correctly for the print filters (Issue #5558)
- The `cupsCheckDestSupported` function did not check octetString values
   correctly (Issue #5557)
- Added support for `UserAgentTokens` directive in "client.conf" (Issue
   #5555)
- Updated the systemd service file for cupsd (Issue #5551)
- The `ippValidateAttribute` function did not catch all instances of
   invalid UTF-8 strings (Issue #5509)
- Fixed an issue with the self-signed certificates generated by GNU TLS
   (Issue #5506)
- Fixed a potential memory leak when reading at the end of a file (Issue
   #5473)
- Fixed potential unaligned accesses in the string pool (Issue #5474)
- Fixed a potential memory leak when loading a PPD file (Issue #5475)
- Added a USB quirks rule for the Lexmark E120n (Issue #5478)
- Updated the USB quirks rule for Zebra label printers (Issue #5395)
- Fixed a compile error on Linux (Issue #5483)
- The lpadmin command, web interface, and scheduler all queried an IPP
   Everywhere printer differently, resulting in different PPDs for the
   same printer (Issue #5484)
- The web interface no longer provides access to the log files (Issue
   #5513)
- Non-Kerberized printing to Windows via IPP was broken (Issue #5515)
- Eliminated use of private headers and some deprecated macOS APIs
   (Issue #5516)
- The scheduler no longer stops a printer if an error occurs when a job
   is canceled or aborted (Issue #5517)
- Added a USB quirks rule for the DYMO 450 Turbo (Issue #5521)
- Added a USB quirks rule for Xerox printers (Issue #5523)
- The scheduler's self-signed certificate did not include all of the
   alternate names for the server when using GNU TLS (Issue #5525)
- Fixed compiler warnings with newer versions of GCC (Issue #5532, Issue
   #5533)
- Fixed some PPD caching and IPP Everywhere PPD accounting/password bugs
   (Issue #5535)
- Fixed `PreserveJobHistory` bug with time values (Issue #5538)
- The scheduler no longer advertises the HTTP methods it supports (Issue
   #5540)
- Localization updates (Issue #5461, Issues #5471, Issue #5481, Issue
   #5486, Issue #5489, Issue #5491, Issue #5492, Issue #5493, Issue
   #5494, Issue #5495, Issue #5497, Issue #5499, Issue #5500, Issue
   #5501, Issue #5504)
- The scheduler did not always idle exit as quickly as it could.
- Added a new `ippeveprinter` command based on the old ippserver sample
   code.

2.22.11 released.

CUPS 2.2.11 is a bug fix release that addresses issues in the scheduler, 
IPP Everywhere support, CUPS library, and USB printer support.

Changes in CUPS v2.2.11
-----------------------

- Running ppdmerge with the same input and output filenames did not work
   as advertised (Issue #5455)
- Fixed a potential memory leak when reading at the end of a file (Issue
   #5473)
- Fixed potential unaligned accesses in the string pool (Issue #5474)
- Fixed a potential memory leak when loading a PPD file (Issue #5475)
- Added a USB quirks rule for the Lexmark E120n (Issue #5478)
- Updated the USB quirks rule for Zebra label printers (Issue #5395)
- Fixed a compile error on Linux (Issue #5483)
- The lpadmin command, web interface, and scheduler all queried an IPP
   Everywhere printer differently, resulting in different PPDs for the
   same printer (Issue #5484)
- Fixed an issue with the self-signed certificates generated by GNU TLS
   (Issue #5506)
- The `ippValidateAttribute` function did not catch all instances of
   invalid UTF-8 strings (Issue #5509)
- Non-Kerberized printing to Windows via IPP was broken (Issue #5515)
- The scheduler no longer stops a printer if an error occurs when a job
   is canceled or aborted (Issue #5517)
- Added a USB quirks rule for the DYMO 450 Turbo (Issue #5521)
- Added a USB quirks rule for Xerox printers (Issue #5523)
- The scheduler's self-signed certificate did not include all of the
   alternate names for the server when using GNU TLS (Issue #5525)
- Fixed compiler warnings with newer versions of GCC (Issue #5532, Issue
   #5533)
- Fixed some PPD caching and IPP Everywhere PPD accounting/password bugs
   (Issue #5535)
- Fixed `PreserveJobHistory` bug with time values (Issue #5538)
- Media size matching now uses a tolerance of 0.5mm (rdar://33822024)
- The lpadmin command would hang with a bad PPD file (rdar://41495016)
- Fixed a potential crash bug in cups-driverd (rdar://46625579)
- Fixed a performance regression with large PPDs (rdar://47040759)
- The scheduler did not always idle exit as quickly as it could.


cups-filters
------------

Currently released is 1.22.5.

1.22.5 is also the cups-filters release in Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco).

Deepak Patankar has finished his GSoC 2018 project of auto-selection
of the destination printer by job content and options with cups-browsed. 
Together with this he has also made cups-browsed not downloading PPD 
files of remote CUPS queues from the servers any more and treating 
remote CUPS queues and native IPP network printers equally, working 
towards the deprecation of PPD files.

He has posted a pull request with all his code:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/pull/116

Before merging this pull request I will release 1.22.6 with all the bug 
fixes which came together during the last month and also with some fixes 
coming up in the next days of the last assignments getting finished.

After that I will merge the pull request and after some testing release 
1.23.0 as the next feature release ending a feature-less year for 
cups-browsed.

1.22.5:

Bug fix release, to make foomatic-rip working with Ghostscript 9.27 and 
later.

CHANGES IN V1.22.6

	- Build system: ENABLE_DRIVERLESS got only defined with CUPS
	  1.6 and newer, not with older CUPS versions (Issue #111).
	- pdftopdf, imagetopdf, imagetoraster: Silenced compiler
           warnings.
	- cups-browsed, driverless: Replaced httpConnect() calls by
	  httpConnect2() calls as the former CUPS library function is
	  deprecated.
	- Build system: Compile everything using the CUPS libraries
	  with '-D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""' for the time being until the
	  deprecated PPD API calls get replaced, to stop the flooding
	  with PPD API deprecation warnings making more important
	  warnings being overlooked.
	- cups-browsed: When removing a local queue on shutdown or
	  when DNS-SD reports the printer as disappeared check whether
	  the local queue got overwritten by an external process as
	  sometimes the shutdown or disappearing event comes too close
	  for cups-browsed receiving a printer-modified notification
	  from CUPS before (Ubuntu bug #1731417).

CHANGES IN V1.22.5

	- foomatic-rip: Changed Ghostscript call to count pages in a
	  PDF file to use "runpdfbegin" and not the undocumented
	  Ghostscript internal "pdfdict", so that it works with
	  Ghostscript 9.27 and later (Debian bug #926576, Arch Linux
	  bug #62251).


ippusbxd
--------

On the Summit I have talked about the following two issues in ippusbxd 
with Sean Kau from Google (and also mailed to David Valleau from Google, 
no answer yet):

First, if I have a printer/scanner multi-function device connected via 
USB and ippusbxd is connected to it I can print perfectly, driverless 
via IPP, but I cannot scan as, unfortunately, the industry did not adopt 
the PWG driverless IPP scanning standard yet. And if I want to scan via 
a classic SANE driver accessing via USB conventionally, it does not work 
because ippusbxd occupies all USB interfaces/channels.

So I am asking whether one could modify ippusbxd to dynamically occupy 
channels, so that, at least when no print job is running, one can scan 
the conventional USB/SANE way. Is this possible?

One should note that not all multi-function devices have a scanning UI 
in their admin web interface and that these UIs are rather restricted 
compared to typical SANE frontends.

The second issue is

https://github.com/tillkamppeter/ippusbxd/pull/12

Adding Support for Unix Domain Sockets

I have asked whether this is still used in Chrome OS? If so, I asked for 
re-posting this pull request to the now official repo 
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/ippusbxd of ippusbxd.

No actual changes on the code.

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Matthias Apitz]

El día domingo, mayo 12, 2019 a las 06:03:03p. m. +0200, Till Kamppeter escribió:

> Hi,
> 
> here is the newest development of the last month.
> 
>     Till
> 

Hi,

Thanks for the update. Re/ cups 2.3b8: I run 2.3b5 and encountered the
problem that the user id of the session running lpr(1) was not seen
correctly by the cupsd(8) and all jobs ended up as from user 'anonymous'.
This is especially an issue for the cups-pdf backend placing all PDF
into wrong location /var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS

I updated last week to 2.3b8 and found this issue fixed. But, I can't
see it in the list of 2.3b8 fixes. Any idea?

	matthias

> CUPS
> ----
> 
> 2.3b8 released.
> 
> CUPS 2.3b8 is another bug fix release.
> 
> Changes in CUPS v2.3b8
> ----------------------
> 
> - Media size matching now uses a tolerance of 0.5mm (rdar://33822024)
> - The lpadmin command would hang with a bad PPD file (rdar://41495016)
> - Fixed a potential crash bug in cups-driverd (rdar://46625579)
> - Fixed a performance regression with large PPDs (rdar://47040759)
> - Fixed a memory reallocation bug in HTTP header value expansion
>    (rdar://problem/50000749)
> - Restored minimal support for the `Emulators` keyword in PPD files to
>    allow old Samsung printer drivers to continue to work (Issue #5562)
> - The scheduler did not encode octetString values like "job-password"
>    correctly for the print filters (Issue #5558)
> - The `cupsCheckDestSupported` function did not check octetString values
>    correctly (Issue #5557)
> - Added support for `UserAgentTokens` directive in "client.conf" (Issue
>    #5555)
> - Updated the systemd service file for cupsd (Issue #5551)
> - The `ippValidateAttribute` function did not catch all instances of
>    invalid UTF-8 strings (Issue #5509)
> - Fixed an issue with the self-signed certificates generated by GNU TLS
>    (Issue #5506)
> - Fixed a potential memory leak when reading at the end of a file (Issue
>    #5473)
> - Fixed potential unaligned accesses in the string pool (Issue #5474)
> - Fixed a potential memory leak when loading a PPD file (Issue #5475)
> - Added a USB quirks rule for the Lexmark E120n (Issue #5478)
> - Updated the USB quirks rule for Zebra label printers (Issue #5395)
> - Fixed a compile error on Linux (Issue #5483)
> - The lpadmin command, web interface, and scheduler all queried an IPP
>    Everywhere printer differently, resulting in different PPDs for the
>    same printer (Issue #5484)
> - The web interface no longer provides access to the log files (Issue
>    #5513)
> - Non-Kerberized printing to Windows via IPP was broken (Issue #5515)
> - Eliminated use of private headers and some deprecated macOS APIs
>    (Issue #5516)
> - The scheduler no longer stops a printer if an error occurs when a job
>    is canceled or aborted (Issue #5517)
> - Added a USB quirks rule for the DYMO 450 Turbo (Issue #5521)
> - Added a USB quirks rule for Xerox printers (Issue #5523)
> - The scheduler's self-signed certificate did not include all of the
>    alternate names for the server when using GNU TLS (Issue #5525)
> - Fixed compiler warnings with newer versions of GCC (Issue #5532, Issue
>    #5533)
> - Fixed some PPD caching and IPP Everywhere PPD accounting/password bugs
>    (Issue #5535)
> - Fixed `PreserveJobHistory` bug with time values (Issue #5538)
> - The scheduler no longer advertises the HTTP methods it supports (Issue
>    #5540)
> - Localization updates (Issue #5461, Issues #5471, Issue #5481, Issue
>    #5486, Issue #5489, Issue #5491, Issue #5492, Issue #5493, Issue
>    #5494, Issue #5495, Issue #5497, Issue #5499, Issue #5500, Issue
>    #5501, Issue #5504)
> - The scheduler did not always idle exit as quickly as it could.
> - Added a new `ippeveprinter` command based on the old ippserver sample
>    code.
> 


-- 
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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

On 12/05/2019 20:15, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> I updated last week to 2.3b8 and found this issue fixed. But, I can't
> see it in the list of 2.3b8 fixes. Any idea?

These lists are simple copy and paste of the upstream ChangeLog 
(CHANGES.md) of CUPS, not only the one of 2.3b8 in this mail but also 
for 2.3b6 and 2.3b7 in earlier mails to this list. If your fix does not 
appear in none of them, please ask on the CUPS mailing list (see 
http://www.cups.org/).

    Till

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

here is the newest development of the last month.

    Till

----------


Google Summer of Code 2019
--------------------------

We are currently in the period of the students submitting their 
proposals to Google. Aveek, me, and other mentors are reviewing the 
proposals and working with the students to make them as good as 
possible, so that we get a good count of slots.


Avahi
-----

I talked with my managers at Canonical and they talked with Trent's 
manager, succeeding that Trent's manager allows him some work time to 
put into the merge of the localhost support.

This resulted in Trent actually starting to work on it.

Trent asked my for some materials and tips for him testing CUPS' 
behavior without needing an appropriate printer.

Finally, he posted some comments on

https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/125

Look at the comments starting from here:

https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/125#issuecomment-477502912

The patch consists of the localhost support itself, (3 lines which I 
have created something like 2 years ago) and of the renaming of the 
hostname to "localhost" in the DNS-SD records originating from the "lo" 
interface (1 line, contributed by Rithvik, one of our former GSoC students).

Trent considers the second part not correct, but instead, CUPS needs to 
work different when evaluating incoming DNS-SD messages from Avahi, 
especially considering from which interface and address family each 
message comes (and so treat "lo" and also IPv4/IPv6 correctly).

I have also asked Trent whether cups-browsed is doing this correctly (at 
least cups-browsed also works without the second part of the patch).

It is possible that the final settlement will get fought out between 
Trent and Mike Sweet after Mike comes back from his vacation on April 12.

Note that Trent has sometimes very urgent work items in his actual job, 
so progress comes in irregular portions.


OpenPrinting web site
---------------------

We have moved the Foomatic repositories from BZR to GIT now and so they 
are in the OpenPrinting GitHub now:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting

With this all active OpenPrinting projects are hosted in our GitHub.

Especially thanks to Dheeraj Yadav (GSoC 2019 candidate student) for 
adding scripts for syncing the database with the GIT repos to the 
Foomatic web app. See:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/openprinting.github.io/issues/54

This means that manufacturer contributions of PPD files and printer 
entries have to get committed to the GIT repos. I have already informed 
the Ricoh guys.


CUPS
----

No new releases.

Mike Sweet is on vacation until April 12.


cups-filters
------------

Note that due to the fact that we have given GitHub issues of 
cups-filters to students as assignments for the GSoC 2019 student 
selection process I have checked through the issues and (together with 
issues which I have closed and which I have fixed by myself) reduced the 
number of issues from 26 to 18.

I will release 1.22.4 still for Ubuntu 19.04.

Currently released is 1.22.3.

Bug fix release, to fix crashes and hangs on broken GIF files and also 
to improve the documentation of cups-browsed.

1.22.2:

Bug fix release, mainly to a crash bug when using the "Cluster" 
directive in the cups-browsed configuration and to make the printing of 
jobs in printer clusters more reliable. Also improvements on the image 
filters and an update of the man page for the "driverless" utility.

CHANGES IN V1.22.4

	- cups-browsed: Fix broken trailing space removal on
	  "NickName" (Pull request #103).
	- pdftops: Emit PostScript Level 2 instead of Level 3 for
	  Brother PostScript printers as at least some of them
	  report to support level 3 but ontly work with Level 2
	  (Ubuntu bug #1306849, comment #42).
	- bannertopdf: When multiplying the page for N-up or Duplex
	  printing one page too much was generated (Issue #102).

CHANGES IN V1.22.3

	- libcupsfilters: Added error checks for processing GIF, to
	  avoid crashes or hangs on broken GIF files (Issues #81, #82,
	  Pull request #100).
	- cups-browsed: Added hint to the man page and configuration
	  file that with "DebugLogging stderr" the logging output goes
	  to journal or syslog if cups-browsed is running as system
	  service (Issue #28).

CHANGES IN V1.22.2

	- cups-browsed: Let distribution of jobs sent to queues with
	  "implicitclass" backend (usually clusters) be done by a
	  "job-state" CUPS notification and not by
	  "printer-state-changed" any more. The "job-state"
	  notification already contains the job ID. Before we had to
	  poll the job ID from CUPS via IPP which was sometimes
	  unreliable (Issue #97).
	- imagetopdf, imagetoraster, pdftopdf, libcupsfilters: Added
	  new page scaling options: "fill" scales the input page
	  (typically a photo) so that the output page (typically with
	  different aspect ratio) gets completely filled, aloowing for
	  some content of the input page getting lost. "crop-to-fit"
	  allows for easy printing of documents on slightly different
	  output page sizes (A4 <-> Letter) maintaining the size and
	  centering and cropping into the destination page. Thanks to
	  Dheeraj Yadav (dhirajyadav135 at gmail dot com) for the
	  patch (Pull request #92).
	- cups-browsed: Do not do IPP request for printer-is-shared
           option for remote cups queues with CUPS 2.2.x and newer
           (Pull request #91).
	- cups-browsed: Fix crash bug when reading "Cluster"
	  directive from configuration file (Issue #94).
	- driverless: Updated man page as now also Mopria and
	  Wi-Fi Direct printers are supported. Mentioned also
	  ippusbxd.


ippusbxd
--------

No further news.

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

UPDATE: I have released cups-filters 1.22.4 now.

    Till

On 05/04/2019 17:10, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> cups-filters
> ------------
> 
> Note that due to the fact that we have given GitHub issues of 
> cups-filters to students as assignments for the GSoC 2019 student 
> selection process I have checked through the issues and (together with 
> issues which I have closed and which I have fixed by myself) reduced the 
> number of issues from 26 to 18.
> 
> I will release 1.22.4 still for Ubuntu 19.04.
> 
> Currently released is 1.22.3.
> 

[...]

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Another UPDATE: I have released cups-filters 1.22.5 now, due to an 
incompatibility of foomatic-rip with the new Ghostscript 9.27.

    Till

----------

1.22.5: Bug fix release, to make foomatic-rip working with Ghostscript 
9.27 and later.

1.22.4: Bug fix release, to fix various bugs in cups-browsed and in the 
filters.

CHANGES IN V1.22.5

	- foomatic-rip: Changed Ghostscript call to count pages in a
	  PDF file to use "runpdfbegin" and not the undocumented
	  Ghostscript internal "pdfdict", so that it works with
	  Ghostscript 9.27 and later (Debian bug #926576, Arch Linux
	  bug #62251).

CHANGES IN V1.22.4

	- cups-browsed: Fix broken trailing space removal on
	  "NickName" (Pull request #103).
	- pdftops: Emit PostScript Level 2 instead of Level 3 for
	  Brother PostScript printers as at least some of them
	  report to support level 3 but ontly work with Level 2
	  (Ubuntu bug #1306849, comment #42).
	- bannertopdf: When multiplying the page for N-up or Duplex
	  printing one page too much was generated (Issue #102).



On 05/04/2019 21:20, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> UPDATE: I have released cups-filters 1.22.4 now.
> 
>     Till
> 
> On 05/04/2019 17:10, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> cups-filters
>> ------------
>>
>> Note that due to the fact that we have given GitHub issues of 
>> cups-filters to students as assignments for the GSoC 2019 student 
>> selection process I have checked through the issues and (together with 
>> issues which I have closed and which I have fixed by myself) reduced 
>> the number of issues from 26 to 18.
>>
>> I will release 1.22.4 still for Ubuntu 19.04.
>>
>> Currently released is 1.22.3.
>>
> 
> [...]

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Ira McDonald]

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Hi Till,

Thanks.  I'll get the OP Monthly minutes out today or tomorrow.  Just
finished my ESCAR USA
paper review submissions (deadline was today).  Busy weekend.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Co-Chair - TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions WG
Co-Chair - TCG Metadata Access Protocol SG
Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG
Secretary - IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group
Co-Chair - IEEE-ISTO PWG Internet Printing Protocol WG
IETF Designated Expert - IPP & Printer MIB
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
http://sites.google.com/site/blueroofmusic
http://sites.google.com/site/highnorthinc
mailto: blueroofmusic@gmail.com
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839  906-494-2434



On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 11:21 AM Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Another UPDATE: I have released cups-filters 1.22.5 now, due to an
> incompatibility of foomatic-rip with the new Ghostscript 9.27.
>
>     Till
>
> ----------
>
> 1.22.5: Bug fix release, to make foomatic-rip working with Ghostscript
> 9.27 and later.
>
> 1.22.4: Bug fix release, to fix various bugs in cups-browsed and in the
> filters.
>
> CHANGES IN V1.22.5
>
>         - foomatic-rip: Changed Ghostscript call to count pages in a
>           PDF file to use "runpdfbegin" and not the undocumented
>           Ghostscript internal "pdfdict", so that it works with
>           Ghostscript 9.27 and later (Debian bug #926576, Arch Linux
>           bug #62251).
>
> CHANGES IN V1.22.4
>
>         - cups-browsed: Fix broken trailing space removal on
>           "NickName" (Pull request #103).
>         - pdftops: Emit PostScript Level 2 instead of Level 3 for
>           Brother PostScript printers as at least some of them
>           report to support level 3 but ontly work with Level 2
>           (Ubuntu bug #1306849, comment #42).
>         - bannertopdf: When multiplying the page for N-up or Duplex
>           printing one page too much was generated (Issue #102).
>
>
>
> On 05/04/2019 21:20, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> > UPDATE: I have released cups-filters 1.22.4 now.
> >
> >     Till
> >
> > On 05/04/2019 17:10, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> >> cups-filters
> >> ------------
> >>
> >> Note that due to the fact that we have given GitHub issues of
> >> cups-filters to students as assignments for the GSoC 2019 student
> >> selection process I have checked through the issues and (together with
> >> issues which I have closed and which I have fixed by myself) reduced
> >> the number of issues from 26 to 18.
> >>
> >> I will release 1.22.4 still for Ubuntu 19.04.
> >>
> >> Currently released is 1.22.3.
> >>
> >
> > [...]
>
>

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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

And another update below.

    Till

----------


Google Summer of Code 2019
--------------------------

We got five student proposals for OpenPrinting. The students have all 
submitted their applications to Google now, so that we only need to hope 
for enough slots.

The projects are:

Generic Framework to turn legacy drivers consisting of CUPS filters and 
PPDs into Printer Applications  by  Dheeraj Yadav

Improve the pdftoraster filter to not need copying Poppler source code 
or using unstable APIs  by  Tanmay Anand

IPP: ipptool test suite updates for IPP errata updates  by  Sharad Shukla

IPP: ipptool test suite for IPP System Service  by  Aakash Sunil Lahoti

Turn the scp-dbus-service of system-config-printer into C  by  Sobhan Mondal

On 05/04/2019 17:10, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> here is the newest development of the last month.
> 
>     Till
> 
> ----------
> 
> 
> Google Summer of Code 2019
> --------------------------
> 
> We are currently in the period of the students submitting their 
> proposals to Google. Aveek, me, and other mentors are reviewing the 
> proposals and working with the students to make them as good as 
> possible, so that we get a good count of slots.
> 
> 
> Avahi
> -----
> 
> I talked with my managers at Canonical and they talked with Trent's 
> manager, succeeding that Trent's manager allows him some work time to 
> put into the merge of the localhost support.
> 
> This resulted in Trent actually starting to work on it.
> 
> Trent asked my for some materials and tips for him testing CUPS' 
> behavior without needing an appropriate printer.
> 
> Finally, he posted some comments on
> 
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/125
> 
> Look at the comments starting from here:
> 
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/125#issuecomment-477502912
> 
> The patch consists of the localhost support itself, (3 lines which I 
> have created something like 2 years ago) and of the renaming of the 
> hostname to "localhost" in the DNS-SD records originating from the "lo" 
> interface (1 line, contributed by Rithvik, one of our former GSoC 
> students).
> 
> Trent considers the second part not correct, but instead, CUPS needs to 
> work different when evaluating incoming DNS-SD messages from Avahi, 
> especially considering from which interface and address family each 
> message comes (and so treat "lo" and also IPv4/IPv6 correctly).
> 
> I have also asked Trent whether cups-browsed is doing this correctly (at 
> least cups-browsed also works without the second part of the patch).
> 
> It is possible that the final settlement will get fought out between 
> Trent and Mike Sweet after Mike comes back from his vacation on April 12.
> 
> Note that Trent has sometimes very urgent work items in his actual job, 
> so progress comes in irregular portions.
> 
> 
> OpenPrinting web site
> ---------------------
> 
> We have moved the Foomatic repositories from BZR to GIT now and so they 
> are in the OpenPrinting GitHub now:
> 
> https://github.com/OpenPrinting
> 
> With this all active OpenPrinting projects are hosted in our GitHub.
> 
> Especially thanks to Dheeraj Yadav (GSoC 2019 candidate student) for 
> adding scripts for syncing the database with the GIT repos to the 
> Foomatic web app. See:
> 
> https://github.com/OpenPrinting/openprinting.github.io/issues/54
> 
> This means that manufacturer contributions of PPD files and printer 
> entries have to get committed to the GIT repos. I have already informed 
> the Ricoh guys.
> 
> 
> CUPS
> ----
> 
> No new releases.
> 
> Mike Sweet is on vacation until April 12.
> 
> 
> cups-filters
> ------------
> 
> Note that due to the fact that we have given GitHub issues of 
> cups-filters to students as assignments for the GSoC 2019 student 
> selection process I have checked through the issues and (together with 
> issues which I have closed and which I have fixed by myself) reduced the 
> number of issues from 26 to 18.
> 
> I will release 1.22.4 still for Ubuntu 19.04.
> 
> Currently released is 1.22.3.
> 
> Bug fix release, to fix crashes and hangs on broken GIF files and also 
> to improve the documentation of cups-browsed.
> 
> 1.22.2:
> 
> Bug fix release, mainly to a crash bug when using the "Cluster" 
> directive in the cups-browsed configuration and to make the printing of 
> jobs in printer clusters more reliable. Also improvements on the image 
> filters and an update of the man page for the "driverless" utility.
> 
> CHANGES IN V1.22.4
> 
>      - cups-browsed: Fix broken trailing space removal on
>        "NickName" (Pull request #103).
>      - pdftops: Emit PostScript Level 2 instead of Level 3 for
>        Brother PostScript printers as at least some of them
>        report to support level 3 but ontly work with Level 2
>        (Ubuntu bug #1306849, comment #42).
>      - bannertopdf: When multiplying the page for N-up or Duplex
>        printing one page too much was generated (Issue #102).
> 
> CHANGES IN V1.22.3
> 
>      - libcupsfilters: Added error checks for processing GIF, to
>        avoid crashes or hangs on broken GIF files (Issues #81, #82,
>        Pull request #100).
>      - cups-browsed: Added hint to the man page and configuration
>        file that with "DebugLogging stderr" the logging output goes
>        to journal or syslog if cups-browsed is running as system
>        service (Issue #28).
> 
> CHANGES IN V1.22.2
> 
>      - cups-browsed: Let distribution of jobs sent to queues with
>        "implicitclass" backend (usually clusters) be done by a
>        "job-state" CUPS notification and not by
>        "printer-state-changed" any more. The "job-state"
>        notification already contains the job ID. Before we had to
>        poll the job ID from CUPS via IPP which was sometimes
>        unreliable (Issue #97).
>      - imagetopdf, imagetoraster, pdftopdf, libcupsfilters: Added
>        new page scaling options: "fill" scales the input page
>        (typically a photo) so that the output page (typically with
>        different aspect ratio) gets completely filled, aloowing for
>        some content of the input page getting lost. "crop-to-fit"
>        allows for easy printing of documents on slightly different
>        output page sizes (A4 <-> Letter) maintaining the size and
>        centering and cropping into the destination page. Thanks to
>        Dheeraj Yadav (dhirajyadav135 at gmail dot com) for the
>        patch (Pull request #92).
>      - cups-browsed: Do not do IPP request for printer-is-shared
>            option for remote cups queues with CUPS 2.2.x and newer
>            (Pull request #91).
>      - cups-browsed: Fix crash bug when reading "Cluster"
>        directive from configuration file (Issue #94).
>      - driverless: Updated man page as now also Mopria and
>        Wi-Fi Direct printers are supported. Mentioned also
>        ippusbxd.
> 
> 
> ippusbxd
> --------
> 
> No further news.

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

here is the newest development of the last month.

    Till

----------


Google Summer of Code 2019
--------------------------

The Linux Foundation

Avahi
-----

Trent Lloyd is one of the original authors of Avahi (the other is 
Lennart Poettering), which makes it more difficult to take the project 
away from him.

I was on a Canonical meeting for a week where the different engineering 
teams of Canonical meet. There I have met Trent in person and talked 
with him about the issue and he told it is no problem for him to merge 
the patch. I met him on the first day of the meeting and he promised to 
still apply the patch during the meeting week but he did not.

Now I have sent two weekly reminder e-mails and he did not even answer.

So on the OpenPrinting Summit we must see with the Google guys how they 
will do the ippusbxd and Printer Applications (local discovery) on 
Chrome OS and perhaps overtake this to Linux.


Kurt Pfeifle (kurt dot pfeifle at gmail dot com, the person who made me 
finding CUPS back in 2000 and getting what I am now) writes on the 
OpenPrinting mailing list:

----------
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 1:17 AM Solomon Peachy <pizza@shaftnet.org> wrote:

     On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:26:29PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
     > By the way, who is the original author of Avahi?

     None other than Lennart Pottering.  :)

      - Solomon


This is not correct.

Avahi was initially created by Trend Lloyd in early 2004. He was 
certainly inspired by Apple's Bonjour, which unfortunately was not Open 
Source initially, so there as a strong motivation to implement a FOSS 
ZeroConf stack, since all of the relevant specs (mDNS + DNS-SD) were 
already there at IETF, and open.

Later that same year Lennart Poettering started a similar project to 
implement mDNS/DNS-SD functionality called "FlexMDNS".

Both projects united and merged their code bases sometime in 2005. 
Though I have no idea which of the two guys wrote more lines of code 
that still exists in today's code base, Poettering surely had a heavy 
impact on today's Avahi.

Apple released Bonjour as Open Source software under the Apache License 
only in 2006.

Avahi's name certainly was Trend's decision, and he started his 
implementation half a year before Poettering.

Poettering's last commit into Avahi's GitHub code was in Sept  2012. 
Trend's last commit was 10 days ago. The last time Trend merged a major 
pull request was in August 2018. See 
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commits?author=lathiat.

  According to https://github.com/lathiat Trend works for Canonical.
----------


CUPS
----

No new releases.


cups-filters
------------

Currently released is 1.22.1.

Bug fix release, mainly to let the get-printer-attributes IPP requests 
for auto-generating PPD files for driverless IPP printing use the same 
attributes as CUPS uses. There are also some small enhancements for 
Braille support.


CHANGES IN V1.22.2

	- cups-browsed: Do not do IPP request for printer-is-shared
           option for remote cups queues with CUPS 2.2.x and newer
           (Pull request #91).
	- cups-browsed: Fix crash bug when reading "Cluster"
	  directive from configuration file (Issue #94).
	- driverless: Updated man page as now also Mopria and
	  Wi-Fi Direct printers are supported. Mentioned also
	  ippusbxd.

CHANGES IN V1.22.1

	- braille: Use sort command with LC_ALL=C for reproducibility
	  of the genrated files, needed for distribution packaging.
	- cups-browsed, driverless: When polling the printer's
           capabilities via get-printer-attributes IPP request for
           driverless printing, use the attributes "all" and
           "media-col-database". Without "all" some printers do not
           report "urf-supported" and without "media-col-database" not
           all paper size and marging info gets reported (Issue #22,
           Pull request #86, CUPS issue #5484).
	- braille: Document how to rework output before
	  embossing. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for this patch (Pull
	  request #90).


ippusbxd
--------

No further news.

[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

here is the newest development of the last month.

    Till

----------


Google Summer of Code 2019
--------------------------

The org application of the Linux Foundation is submitted and on Feb 26 
we will know whether we got accepted by Google.

Avahi
-----

Also Red Hat is bumping into the fact that Avahi is unmaintained 
upstream, see discussion as answer to our minutes from last month:

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/thread.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003653.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003654.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003655.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003656.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003657.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003659.html

Michael Sweet writes:

----------
A bug was filed against CUPS last month requesting that we start 
supporting systemd's new mDNS resolver (which apparently is replacing 
the use of Avahi in systemd?!?):

     https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5452

I pushed back since there does not appear to be a way to browse DNS-SD 
SRV records and there is no interface for registering services outside 
of systemd configuration files.  But that might be a future alternative 
to Avahi should they extend the current interfaces to support it...
----------

Zdenek Dohnal from Red Hat writes:

----------
I talked about both issues with Michal Sekletar, which is systemd and
avahi maintainer for RHEL and the situation is following:

1) systemd-resolved as successor of nss-mdns module:

     As far as Michal knows, systemd-resolved is not currently meant as
successor of nss-mdns module + avahi since it does not support service
browsing as Mike found out. If it will in the future, he does not know
right now (probably how avahi situation will turn up...).

2) Avahi upstream maintenance

    Michal and several other people tried to convince Trent to pass
ownership to someone else (Michal knew about two people, who would like
to take Avahi project at that time) about two years ago, because Trent
seemed to do not have time for the project. But Trent did not want to
give away the upstream project. Currently Michal fixes Avahi issues
downstream in Fedora/RHEL.
----------

My suggestion:

----------
As Debian does not accept carrying patches distro only with upstream not
taking them and also as it is very awkward if all distros have to carry
the same patch due to upstream not caring, and naturally also an
integral part of the OS needs solid upstream maintainership, this is an
unbearable situation.

It would be great if someone could convince Trent to accept a
co-maintainer who also can directly commit to and also issue releases of
Avahi. If Trent refuses this, I see as the only solution the forking of
the project. This is the usual way how one handles these situations.

The current official Avahi repo is

https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/

so it is under the personal domain of Trent and not a project domain as
for example

https://github.com/openprinting/

where cups-filters, ippusbxd and others are.

So I checked

https://github.com/avahi/

and there is something which has nothing to do with Avahi. We should ask
the owner whether he could move his GitHub activity to another name to
free avahi for us and then we put our fork of Avahi there.

If this does not work out I suggest to host the Avahi fork on GitLab.

Or should we fork Avahi under a new name then?
----------

According to Zdenek, Michal tried this with the co-maintainership already.

Seems that Trent is refusing any cooperation or completely ignoring the 
project.

My suggestion is to fork the project and use one of the locations 
suggested by me, but who should be the upstream maintainer then.


CUPS
----

No new releases.

When working on this cups-filters bug report

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/issues/22

I discovered that CUPS uses 4 different variants of the 
get-printer-attributes IPP request at 4 places, so for one and the same 
printer 4 different PPD files can get generated, depending on the method 
how one creates a print queue for the driverless IPP printer. I have 
reported this to CUPS as a bug and Mike has fixed it on both 2.2.x and 
2.3.x.

See

https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5484


cups-filters
------------

Currently released is 1.22.0.

 From this release on the pdftopdf filter flattens interactive PDF forms 
and annotations internally, using QPDF, instead of calling external 
utilities. This especially eliminates slowing factors as additional 
piping of the data and unneeded use of PDF interpreters. Using external 
utilities for flattening is still possible in case of problems. In 
addition, a crash bug in cups-browsed got fixed and compatibility of the 
filters with Poppler 0.72 assured.

The form-flattening with QPDF was already planned 2 years ago as GSoC 
project, but the student did not complete his work. Jay Berkenbilt, 
upstream maintainer of QPDF, completed the work (the code is practically 
completely in QPDF), released a new version of QPDF with this included, 
and told me what to call from pdftopdf during the new-year break. Note 
that Jay is doing all that voluntarily. Also Tobias Hoffmann, former 
GSoC student and mentor, helped on this.

The next release will (1.22.1) will still happen before Ubuntu's Feature 
Freeze (Feb 21) and mainly switch the get-printer-attributes IPP calls 
to the way how CUPS does it now.

CHANGES IN V1.22.1

	- cups-browsed, driverless: When polling the printer's
           capabilities via get-printer-attributes IPP request for
           driverless printing, use the attributes "all" and
           "media-col-database". Without "all" some printers do not
           report "urf-supported" and without "media-col-database" not
           all paper size and marging info gets reported (Issue #22,
           Pull request #86, CUPS issue #5484).
	- braille: Document how to rework output before
	  embossing. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for this patch (Pull
	  request #90).

CHANGES IN V1.22.0

	- pdftopdf: Use QPDF for flattening interactive PDF forms
	  (Issues #2, #23, #36, Pull request #88).
	- pdftopdf: Fixed bug of closing temporary file prematurely
	  when external PDF form flattening utilities fail (Thanks to
	  Tobias Hoffmann for finding this, see pull request #88).
	- pdftoopvp: More fixes for building with Poppler 0.72
	  (Pull request #83, Issue #75).
	- pdftoraster, pdftoijs, pdftoopvp: Removed support for
	  Poppler 0.18 (Pull request #83).
	- cups-browsed: Fixed crash in applying the BrowseFilter
	  cups-browsed.conf directives (Debian bug #916765).


ippusbxd
--------

No further news.

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Michael Sweet]

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Till,

> On Feb 13, 2019, at 1:14 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> According to Zdenek, Michal tried this with the co-maintainership already.
> 
> Seems that Trent is refusing any cooperation or completely ignoring the project.
> 
> My suggestion is to fork the project and use one of the locations suggested by me, but who should be the upstream maintainer then.

Well, if you fork and put the fork under openprinting, then you can give access to the various Linux packagers of Avahi and let them merge any bug fixes, etc. there at least.  And then *if* Trent starts maintaining Avahi again and accepting pull requests you can easily get those changes back to him...

_________________________________________________________
Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer


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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

On 13/02/2019 21:34, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Till,
> 
>> On Feb 13, 2019, at 1:14 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:till.kamppeter@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> ...
>> According to Zdenek, Michal tried this with the co-maintainership already.
>>
>> Seems that Trent is refusing any cooperation or completely ignoring 
>> the project.
>>
>> My suggestion is to fork the project and use one of the locations 
>> suggested by me, but who should be the upstream maintainer then.
> 
> Well, if you fork and put the fork under openprinting, then you can give 
> access to the various Linux packagers of Avahi and let them merge any 
> bug fixes, etc. there at least.  And then *if* Trent starts maintaining 
> Avahi again and accepting pull requests you can easily get those changes 
> back to him...

I could do so and I can imagine that the distros will adopt this, but 
important is that I am not able to do the full upstream maintainer work. 
I cannot swallow all free software projects which are somehow needed for 
printing to work but given up upstream.

As interim upstream maintainer of Avahi I could do things like assign 
commit rights to distro package maintainers, do releases, perhaps also 
merge pull requests, but I cannot move forward the development. Here I 
need contributors (for example distro packagers) who create the code (or 
mentor a GSoC student on an Avahi project, the slot I could provide).

By the way, who is the original author of Avahi?

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Michael Sweet]

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Till,

Hard to say since none of the source files have copyright statements, but the Git history and wayback machine shows it is probably Lennart Poettering:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20061010201810/http://www.avahi.org/wiki/AvahiCommunity#People


> On Feb 13, 2019, at 4:26 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 13/02/2019 21:34, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Till,
>>> On Feb 13, 2019, at 1:14 PM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com <mailto:till.kamppeter@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> According to Zdenek, Michal tried this with the co-maintainership already.
>>> 
>>> Seems that Trent is refusing any cooperation or completely ignoring the project.
>>> 
>>> My suggestion is to fork the project and use one of the locations suggested by me, but who should be the upstream maintainer then.
>> Well, if you fork and put the fork under openprinting, then you can give access to the various Linux packagers of Avahi and let them merge any bug fixes, etc. there at least.  And then *if* Trent starts maintaining Avahi again and accepting pull requests you can easily get those changes back to him...
> 
> I could do so and I can imagine that the distros will adopt this, but important is that I am not able to do the full upstream maintainer work. I cannot swallow all free software projects which are somehow needed for printing to work but given up upstream.
> 
> As interim upstream maintainer of Avahi I could do things like assign commit rights to distro package maintainers, do releases, perhaps also merge pull requests, but I cannot move forward the development. Here I need contributors (for example distro packagers) who create the code (or mentor a GSoC student on an Avahi project, the slot I could provide).
> 
> By the way, who is the original author of Avahi?
> 
>   Till

_________________________________________________________
Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer


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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Solomon Peachy]

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:26:29PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> By the way, who is the original author of Avahi?

None other than Lennart Pottering.  :)

 - Solomon
-- 
Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Coconut Creek, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

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On 2/14/19 12:56 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:26:29PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> By the way, who is the original author of Avahi?
> None other than Lennart Pottering.  :)
Yes :)
>
>  - Solomon
>
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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Kurt Pfeifle]

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On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 1:17 AM Solomon Peachy <pizza@shaftnet.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:26:29PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> > By the way, who is the original author of Avahi?
>
> None other than Lennart Pottering.  :)
>
>  - Solomon
>

This is not correct.

Avahi was initially created by Trend Lloyd in early 2004. He was certainly
inspired by Apple's Bonjour, which unfortunately was not Open Source
initially, so there as a strong motivation to implement a FOSS ZeroConf
stack, since all of the relevant specs (mDNS + DNS-SD) were already there
at IETF, and open.

Later that same year Lennart Poettering started a similar project to
implement mDNS/DNS-SD functionality called "FlexMDNS".

Both projects united and merged their code bases sometime in 2005. Though I
have no idea which of the two guys wrote more lines of code that still
exists in today's code base, Poettering surely had a heavy impact on
today's Avahi.

Apple released Bonjour as Open Source software under the Apache License
only in 2006.

Avahi's name certainly was Trend's decision, and he started his
implementation half a year before Poettering.

Poettering's last commit into Avahi's GitHub code was in Sept  2012.
Trend's last commit was 10 days ago. The last time Trend merged a major
pull request was in August 2018. See
https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commits?author=lathiat.

 According to https://github.com/lathiat Trend works for Canonical.

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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

On 14/02/2019 18:49, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> This is not correct.
> 
> Avahi was initially created by Trend Lloyd in early 2004. He was 
> certainly inspired by Apple's Bonjour, which unfortunately was not Open 
> Source initially, so there as a strong motivation to implement a FOSS 
> ZeroConf stack, since all of the relevant specs (mDNS + DNS-SD) were 
> already there at IETF, and open.
> 
> Later that same year Lennart Poettering started a similar project to 
> implement mDNS/DNS-SD functionality called "FlexMDNS".
> 
> Both projects united and merged their code bases sometime in 2005. 
> Though I have no idea which of the two guys wrote more lines of code 
> that still exists in today's code base, Poettering surely had a heavy 
> impact on today's Avahi.
> 
> Apple released Bonjour as Open Source software under the Apache License 
> only in 2006.
> 
> Avahi's name certainly was Trend's decision, and he started his 
> implementation half a year before Poettering.
> 
> Poettering's last commit into Avahi's GitHub code was in Sept  2012. 
> Trend's last commit was 10 days ago. The last time Trend merged a major 
> pull request was in August 2018. See 
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commits?author=lathiat.
> 
>   According to https://github.com/lathiat Trend works for Canonical.
> 

That is interesting to know. Now I understand why Trent does not like 
that someone will take the project away from him.

The best would be if Trent would allow some additional persons to 
directly upload and perhaps even to do releases, so that he does not 
have the full workload but still be part of his project.

He needs to admit that he is not able to carry the load and 
responsibility of leading a project which is an integral part of the OS.

For me it looks like that we have to prepare a fork to have a version 
where the distros can work with and rely on.

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Kurt Pfeifle]

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On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 9:58 PM Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 14/02/2019 18:49, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > This is not correct.
> >
> > Avahi was initially created by Trend Lloyd in early 2004. He was
> > certainly inspired by Apple's Bonjour, which unfortunately was not Open
> > Source initially, so there as a strong motivation to implement a FOSS
> > ZeroConf stack, since all of the relevant specs (mDNS + DNS-SD) were
> > already there at IETF, and open.
> >
> > Later that same year Lennart Poettering started a similar project to
> > implement mDNS/DNS-SD functionality called "FlexMDNS".
> >
> > Both projects united and merged their code bases sometime in 2005.
> > Though I have no idea which of the two guys wrote more lines of code
> > that still exists in today's code base, Poettering surely had a heavy
> > impact on today's Avahi.
> >
> > Apple released Bonjour as Open Source software under the Apache License
> > only in 2006.
> >
> > Avahi's name certainly was Trend's decision, and he started his
> > implementation half a year before Poettering.
> >
> > Poettering's last commit into Avahi's GitHub code was in Sept  2012.
> > Trend's last commit was 10 days ago. The last time Trend merged a major
> > pull request was in August 2018. See
> > https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/commits?author=lathiat.
> >
> >   According to https://github.com/lathiat Trend works for Canonical.
> >
>
> That is interesting to know. Now I understand why Trent does not like
> that someone will take the project away from him.
>

In any case, starting at the last link I provided, this leads, within 5
minutes to...

* ...his info that he works for Canonical,
* ...an email address registered by Trent with GitHub,
* ...a website run by him showing his Twitter handle,
* ...confirming his Canonical association info,
* ...showing his frequent Twitter activity.

In the same time span spent at https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues I
could not identify...

* ...any bug reports related to problems created by Avahi shortcomings
   for CUPS printing as mentioned before,
* ...any pull requests submitted at GitHub to solve these problems.

But maybe I was not aware of what I should search for....

However I noted the following Avahi statistics on GitHub:

* 81 open vs. 43 closed Issues.
* 39 open vs. 55 closed Pull Requests.

So indeed, the activities on Avahi have slowed down in recent years.
But it is not the case that Trent is missing from planet earth or turned
un-interested regarding computer-related topics.

So my advice would be the following:

* Create the relevant bug reports ("issues") for Avahi on GitHub.
* Create the most wanted feature requests for Avahi on GitHub.
* For each bug and feature supply a pull request on GitHub.
* Upvote/comment/like/discuss these new activities on Avahi's GitHub.
* Contact Trent via Twitter (where he seems most responsive) about
   the Github issues and ask for his comments.
* If he does not show any willingness to integrate well done pull
   requests, then only seriously consider a fork on the project. Y'all
   will have an easier way to convince people about the need for
   such a drastic step, if your PRs are sitting there for too long. Also
   a fork will have a headstart, if the code to add/improve is already
   waiting there, well-tested.

Don't just jump into such an adventure based on rumours, un-prepared and
without your troops well-equipped.

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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

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On 2/13/19 7:14 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here is the newest development of the last month.
>
>    Till
>
> ----------
>
>
> Google Summer of Code 2019
> --------------------------
>
> The org application of the Linux Foundation is submitted and on Feb 26
> we will know whether we got accepted by Google.
>
> Avahi
> -----
>
> Also Red Hat is bumping into the fact that Avahi is unmaintained
> upstream, see discussion as answer to our minutes from last month:
>
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/thread.html
>
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003653.html
>
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003654.html
>
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003655.html
>
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003656.html
>
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003657.html
>
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003659.html
>
>
> Michael Sweet writes:
>
> ----------
> A bug was filed against CUPS last month requesting that we start
> supporting systemd's new mDNS resolver (which apparently is replacing
> the use of Avahi in systemd?!?):
>
>     https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5452
>
> I pushed back since there does not appear to be a way to browse DNS-SD
> SRV records and there is no interface for registering services outside
> of systemd configuration files.  But that might be a future
> alternative to Avahi should they extend the current interfaces to
> support it...
> ----------
>
> Zdenek Dohnal from Red Hat writes:
>
> ----------
> I talked about both issues with Michal Sekletar, which is systemd and
> avahi maintainer for RHEL and the situation is following:
>
> 1) systemd-resolved as successor of nss-mdns module:
>
>     As far as Michal knows, systemd-resolved is not currently meant as
> successor of nss-mdns module + avahi since it does not support service
> browsing as Mike found out. If it will in the future, he does not know
> right now (probably how avahi situation will turn up...).
>
> 2) Avahi upstream maintenance
>
>    Michal and several other people tried to convince Trent to pass
> ownership to someone else (Michal knew about two people, who would like
> to take Avahi project at that time) about two years ago, because Trent
> seemed to do not have time for the project. But Trent did not want to
> give away the upstream project. Currently Michal fixes Avahi issues
> downstream in Fedora/RHEL.
> ----------
>
> My suggestion:
>
> ----------
> As Debian does not accept carrying patches distro only with upstream not
> taking them and also as it is very awkward if all distros have to carry
> the same patch due to upstream not caring, and naturally also an
> integral part of the OS needs solid upstream maintainership, this is an
> unbearable situation.
>
> It would be great if someone could convince Trent to accept a
> co-maintainer who also can directly commit to and also issue releases of
> Avahi. If Trent refuses this, I see as the only solution the forking of
> the project. This is the usual way how one handles these situations.
>
> The current official Avahi repo is
>
> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/
>
> so it is under the personal domain of Trent and not a project domain as
> for example
>
> https://github.com/openprinting/
>
> where cups-filters, ippusbxd and others are.
>
> So I checked
>
> https://github.com/avahi/
>
> and there is something which has nothing to do with Avahi. We should ask
> the owner whether he could move his GitHub activity to another name to
> free avahi for us and then we put our fork of Avahi there.
>
> If this does not work out I suggest to host the Avahi fork on GitLab.
>
> Or should we fork Avahi under a new name then?
> ----------
>
> According to Zdenek, Michal tried this with the co-maintainership
> already.
>
> Seems that Trent is refusing any cooperation or completely ignoring
> the project.
>
> My suggestion is to fork the project and use one of the locations
> suggested by me, but who should be the upstream maintainer then.
>
Michal Sekletar contacted me last week about Avahi situation. IMHO he
talked with Lennart (since he is his co-worker from the same team) about
the situation and came up with solution they will try to implement Avahi
features (because Avahi has currently uncooperative upstream and Avahi
API is not so good for use in their opinion) into systemd itself,
probably in systemd-resolved.

But the initiative does not have any specific dates when it will be
done, only 'in the future', so I cannot declare any specific deadlines
when it will be done. Because of it I'm for Till's suggestion, if
immediate solution is needed.

About future work on systemd, I only told Michal what CUPS would need
from systemd, if Avahi will be gone (I used what Mike said in
https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5452):

- register service instance and TEXT/LOC records

- browse for service

- resolving .local hostnames

If I missed something, please tell me and send me an email.

Just sharing the latest gossip from systemd group.

>
> CUPS
> ----
>
> No new releases.
>
> When working on this cups-filters bug report
>
> https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/issues/22
>
> I discovered that CUPS uses 4 different variants of the
> get-printer-attributes IPP request at 4 places, so for one and the
> same printer 4 different PPD files can get generated, depending on the
> method how one creates a print queue for the driverless IPP printer. I
> have reported this to CUPS as a bug and Mike has fixed it on both
> 2.2.x and 2.3.x.
>
> See
>
> https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5484
>
>
> cups-filters
> ------------
>
> Currently released is 1.22.0.
>
> From this release on the pdftopdf filter flattens interactive PDF
> forms and annotations internally, using QPDF, instead of calling
> external utilities. This especially eliminates slowing factors as
> additional piping of the data and unneeded use of PDF interpreters.
> Using external utilities for flattening is still possible in case of
> problems. In addition, a crash bug in cups-browsed got fixed and
> compatibility of the filters with Poppler 0.72 assured.
>
> The form-flattening with QPDF was already planned 2 years ago as GSoC
> project, but the student did not complete his work. Jay Berkenbilt,
> upstream maintainer of QPDF, completed the work (the code is
> practically completely in QPDF), released a new version of QPDF with
> this included, and told me what to call from pdftopdf during the
> new-year break. Note that Jay is doing all that voluntarily. Also
> Tobias Hoffmann, former GSoC student and mentor, helped on this.
>
> The next release will (1.22.1) will still happen before Ubuntu's
> Feature Freeze (Feb 21) and mainly switch the get-printer-attributes
> IPP calls to the way how CUPS does it now.
>
> CHANGES IN V1.22.1
>
>     - cups-browsed, driverless: When polling the printer's
>           capabilities via get-printer-attributes IPP request for
>           driverless printing, use the attributes "all" and
>           "media-col-database". Without "all" some printers do not
>           report "urf-supported" and without "media-col-database" not
>           all paper size and marging info gets reported (Issue #22,
>           Pull request #86, CUPS issue #5484).
>     - braille: Document how to rework output before
>       embossing. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for this patch (Pull
>       request #90).
>
> CHANGES IN V1.22.0
>
>     - pdftopdf: Use QPDF for flattening interactive PDF forms
>       (Issues #2, #23, #36, Pull request #88).
>     - pdftopdf: Fixed bug of closing temporary file prematurely
>       when external PDF form flattening utilities fail (Thanks to
>       Tobias Hoffmann for finding this, see pull request #88).
>     - pdftoopvp: More fixes for building with Poppler 0.72
>       (Pull request #83, Issue #75).
>     - pdftoraster, pdftoijs, pdftoopvp: Removed support for
>       Poppler 0.18 (Pull request #83).
>     - cups-browsed: Fixed crash in applying the BrowseFilter
>       cups-browsed.conf directives (Debian bug #916765).
>
>
> ippusbxd
> --------
>
> No further news.
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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

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On 2/14/19 2:21 PM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> On 2/13/19 7:14 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> here is the newest development of the last month.
>>
>>    Till
>>
>> ----------
>>
>>
>> Google Summer of Code 2019
>> --------------------------
>>
>> The org application of the Linux Foundation is submitted and on Feb 26
>> we will know whether we got accepted by Google.
>>
>> Avahi
>> -----
>>
>> Also Red Hat is bumping into the fact that Avahi is unmaintained
>> upstream, see discussion as answer to our minutes from last month:
>>
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/thread.html
>>
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003653.html
>>
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003654.html
>>
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003655.html
>>
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003656.html
>>
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003657.html
>>
>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2019/003659.html
>>
>>
>> Michael Sweet writes:
>>
>> ----------
>> A bug was filed against CUPS last month requesting that we start
>> supporting systemd's new mDNS resolver (which apparently is replacing
>> the use of Avahi in systemd?!?):
>>
>>     https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5452
>>
>> I pushed back since there does not appear to be a way to browse DNS-SD
>> SRV records and there is no interface for registering services outside
>> of systemd configuration files.  But that might be a future
>> alternative to Avahi should they extend the current interfaces to
>> support it...
>> ----------
>>
>> Zdenek Dohnal from Red Hat writes:
>>
>> ----------
>> I talked about both issues with Michal Sekletar, which is systemd and
>> avahi maintainer for RHEL and the situation is following:
>>
>> 1) systemd-resolved as successor of nss-mdns module:
>>
>>     As far as Michal knows, systemd-resolved is not currently meant as
>> successor of nss-mdns module + avahi since it does not support service
>> browsing as Mike found out. If it will in the future, he does not know
>> right now (probably how avahi situation will turn up...).
>>
>> 2) Avahi upstream maintenance
>>
>>    Michal and several other people tried to convince Trent to pass
>> ownership to someone else (Michal knew about two people, who would like
>> to take Avahi project at that time) about two years ago, because Trent
>> seemed to do not have time for the project. But Trent did not want to
>> give away the upstream project. Currently Michal fixes Avahi issues
>> downstream in Fedora/RHEL.
>> ----------
>>
>> My suggestion:
>>
>> ----------
>> As Debian does not accept carrying patches distro only with upstream not
>> taking them and also as it is very awkward if all distros have to carry
>> the same patch due to upstream not caring, and naturally also an
>> integral part of the OS needs solid upstream maintainership, this is an
>> unbearable situation.
>>
>> It would be great if someone could convince Trent to accept a
>> co-maintainer who also can directly commit to and also issue releases of
>> Avahi. If Trent refuses this, I see as the only solution the forking of
>> the project. This is the usual way how one handles these situations.
>>
>> The current official Avahi repo is
>>
>> https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/
>>
>> so it is under the personal domain of Trent and not a project domain as
>> for example
>>
>> https://github.com/openprinting/
>>
>> where cups-filters, ippusbxd and others are.
>>
>> So I checked
>>
>> https://github.com/avahi/
>>
>> and there is something which has nothing to do with Avahi. We should ask
>> the owner whether he could move his GitHub activity to another name to
>> free avahi for us and then we put our fork of Avahi there.
>>
>> If this does not work out I suggest to host the Avahi fork on GitLab.
>>
>> Or should we fork Avahi under a new name then?
>> ----------
>>
>> According to Zdenek, Michal tried this with the co-maintainership
>> already.
>>
>> Seems that Trent is refusing any cooperation or completely ignoring
>> the project.
>>
>> My suggestion is to fork the project and use one of the locations
>> suggested by me, but who should be the upstream maintainer then.
>>
> Michal Sekletar contacted me last week about Avahi situation. IMHO he
> talked with Lennart (since he is his co-worker from the same team) about
> the situation and came up with solution they will try to implement Avahi
> features (because Avahi has currently uncooperative upstream and Avahi
> API is not so good for use in their opinion) into systemd itself,
> probably in systemd-resolved.

I met with Michal today. He studied more CUPS code by itself and found
other features which would be needed to implement in systemd and in his
opinion it is not doable in systemd-resolved.

If there will be any other update, I'll inform you.

>
> But the initiative does not have any specific dates when it will be
> done, only 'in the future', so I cannot declare any specific deadlines
> when it will be done. Because of it I'm for Till's suggestion, if
> immediate solution is needed.
>
> About future work on systemd, I only told Michal what CUPS would need
> from systemd, if Avahi will be gone (I used what Mike said in
> https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5452):
>
> - register service instance and TEXT/LOC records
>
> - browse for service
>
> - resolving .local hostnames
>
> If I missed something, please tell me and send me an email.
>
> Just sharing the latest gossip from systemd group.
>
>> CUPS
>> ----
>>
>> No new releases.
>>
>> When working on this cups-filters bug report
>>
>> https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/issues/22
>>
>> I discovered that CUPS uses 4 different variants of the
>> get-printer-attributes IPP request at 4 places, so for one and the
>> same printer 4 different PPD files can get generated, depending on the
>> method how one creates a print queue for the driverless IPP printer. I
>> have reported this to CUPS as a bug and Mike has fixed it on both
>> 2.2.x and 2.3.x.
>>
>> See
>>
>> https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5484
>>
>>
>> cups-filters
>> ------------
>>
>> Currently released is 1.22.0.
>>
>> From this release on the pdftopdf filter flattens interactive PDF
>> forms and annotations internally, using QPDF, instead of calling
>> external utilities. This especially eliminates slowing factors as
>> additional piping of the data and unneeded use of PDF interpreters.
>> Using external utilities for flattening is still possible in case of
>> problems. In addition, a crash bug in cups-browsed got fixed and
>> compatibility of the filters with Poppler 0.72 assured.
>>
>> The form-flattening with QPDF was already planned 2 years ago as GSoC
>> project, but the student did not complete his work. Jay Berkenbilt,
>> upstream maintainer of QPDF, completed the work (the code is
>> practically completely in QPDF), released a new version of QPDF with
>> this included, and told me what to call from pdftopdf during the
>> new-year break. Note that Jay is doing all that voluntarily. Also
>> Tobias Hoffmann, former GSoC student and mentor, helped on this.
>>
>> The next release will (1.22.1) will still happen before Ubuntu's
>> Feature Freeze (Feb 21) and mainly switch the get-printer-attributes
>> IPP calls to the way how CUPS does it now.
>>
>> CHANGES IN V1.22.1
>>
>>     - cups-browsed, driverless: When polling the printer's
>>           capabilities via get-printer-attributes IPP request for
>>           driverless printing, use the attributes "all" and
>>           "media-col-database". Without "all" some printers do not
>>           report "urf-supported" and without "media-col-database" not
>>           all paper size and marging info gets reported (Issue #22,
>>           Pull request #86, CUPS issue #5484).
>>     - braille: Document how to rework output before
>>       embossing. Thanks to Samuel Thibault for this patch (Pull
>>       request #90).
>>
>> CHANGES IN V1.22.0
>>
>>     - pdftopdf: Use QPDF for flattening interactive PDF forms
>>       (Issues #2, #23, #36, Pull request #88).
>>     - pdftopdf: Fixed bug of closing temporary file prematurely
>>       when external PDF form flattening utilities fail (Thanks to
>>       Tobias Hoffmann for finding this, see pull request #88).
>>     - pdftoopvp: More fixes for building with Poppler 0.72
>>       (Pull request #83, Issue #75).
>>     - pdftoraster, pdftoijs, pdftoopvp: Removed support for
>>       Poppler 0.18 (Pull request #83).
>>     - cups-browsed: Fixed crash in applying the BrowseFilter
>>       cups-browsed.conf directives (Debian bug #916765).
>>
>>
>> ippusbxd
>> --------
>>
>> No further news.
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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

On 14/02/2019 15:39, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> I met with Michal today. He studied more CUPS code by itself and found 
> other features which would be needed to implement in systemd and in his 
> opinion it is not doable in systemd-resolved.
> 
> If there will be any other update, I'll inform you.

So this would mean that we should actually fork Avahi as there is no 
complete replacement for it in the foreseeable future?

    Till

Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Zdenek Dohnal]

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On 2/14/19 4:31 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> On 14/02/2019 15:39, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
>> I met with Michal today. He studied more CUPS code by itself and
>> found other features which would be needed to implement in systemd
>> and in his opinion it is not doable in systemd-resolved.
>>
>> If there will be any other update, I'll inform you.
>
> So this would mean that we should actually fork Avahi as there is no
> complete replacement for it in the foreseeable future?
Yes, that is what it means :( .
>
>    Till

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Re: [Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting News

[Till Kamppeter]

On 14/02/2019 14:21, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> Michal Sekletar contacted me last week about Avahi situation. IMHO he
> talked with Lennart (since he is his co-worker from the same team) about
> the situation and came up with solution they will try to implement Avahi
> features (because Avahi has currently uncooperative upstream and Avahi
> API is not so good for use in their opinion) into systemd itself,
> probably in systemd-resolved.
> 
> But the initiative does not have any specific dates when it will be
> done, only 'in the future', so I cannot declare any specific deadlines
> when it will be done. Because of it I'm for Till's suggestion, if
> immediate solution is needed.
> 
> About future work on systemd, I only told Michal what CUPS would need
> from systemd, if Avahi will be gone (I used what Mike said in
> https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5452):
> 
> - register service instance and TEXT/LOC records
> 
> - browse for service
> 
> - resolving .local hostnames
> 
> If I missed something, please tell me and send me an email.
> 
> Just sharing the latest gossip from systemd group.
> 

Important is also that a service on localhost (for example ippusbxd or 
generally a Printer Application) can be registered and advertised 
locally. See

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/ippusbxd#1-expose-the-printer-on-localhost

    Till