Apple announced the release of a new stable version of its open-source CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) software used in the macOS operating system and all GNU/Linux distributions.
After being in development for the past three months, CUPS 2.2 is finally here in its production-ready state, bringing numerous security and performance improvements to make the widely-used printing system more reliable and stable than ever. During its development cycle, CUPS 2.2 received two Beta builds and a Release Candidate (RC) version.
If you’re wondering what new features this major version brings, we can tell you that CUPS 2.2 implements support for local IPP Everywhere print queues, along with support for using the http*Connect protocol in Linux-based systems when the CUPS daemon is not running, and an updated database of supported IPP Everywhere media types.
Other than the above, CUPS 2.2 improves the IPP backend to correctly validate Tran… (read more)
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