The latest version of CUPS can be downloaded from Softpedia

Aug 1, 2014 17:17 GMT  ·  By

CUPS 2.0 Beta 1, a software used to print form applications and to convert the page descriptions produced by applications into a signal that a printer can understand, has been released.

The new branch of CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) has arrived with some pretty big changes and it looks like the devs are working to make this version the new stable build.

“The CUPS library now provides a complete set of APIs for implementing HTTP and IPP services, and the scheduler uses those APIs to provide a modest code size reduction and corresponding improvement in performance,” note the devs.

“SSL/TLS support has been largely re-written to support certificate validation and policy enforcement, and on the server side we can now use different certificates depending on the hostname used. OpenSSL support has been dropped for a number of technical and security reasons.”

According to the changelog, IPP Everywhere support has been expanded, the ipptool utility has been updated with features needed to support IPP Everywhere printer self-certification, the scheduler now returns completed jobs in the correct newest-to-oldest order, and the support for AIX, HP-UX, and OSF/1 has been dropped.

A complete changelog can be found in the official announcement. You can download CUPS 2.0 Beta 1 right now from Softpedia.

Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.