About:
CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP Ghostscript is available separately to support printing of PostScript files within the CUPS driver framework. Sample drivers for Dymo, EPSON, HP, and OKIDATA printers are included that use these filters.

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
CUPS 1.1 is the newest production (stable) release of CUPS. It provides many new features from the 1.0.x releases, including a new Level 3 PostScript RIP, a new PDF filter, EPSON printer drivers, IPP/1.1 support, banner page support, and LPD client support.

Author:
Michael Sweet [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.11/10.00 (15 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.cups.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.3.9/cups-1.3.9-source.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://ftp.easysw.com/[..]pub/cups/1.3.9/cups-1.3.9-source.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://www.cups.org/relnotes.php#010309
Mailing list archive:
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2, OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C, C++
[Topic]		Internet, Printing, Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
ESP Ghostscript (recommended)
libjpeg (recommended)
libpng (recommended)
zlib (recommended)
HTMLDOC (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.3.9	10-Oct-2008	GNU General Public License v2

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.3.9	Minor security fixes	10-Oct-2008 09:29
1.3.8	Minor bugfixes	22-Jul-2008 22:06
1.3.6	Minor bugfixes	20-Feb-2008 07:44
1.3.5	Minor security fixes	18-Dec-2007 00:22
1.3.4	Minor security fixes	31-Oct-2007 20:29
1.3.3	Minor bugfixes	29-Sep-2007 00:44
1.3.2	Minor bugfixes	19-Sep-2007 06:57
1.3.0	Major feature enhancements	13-Aug-2007 22:03
1.2.12	Minor bugfixes	12-Jul-2007 21:36
1.2.11	Minor bugfixes	09-May-2007 20:44

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New cupsys packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Aug 4th 2008 11:55 Red Hat: Updated cups packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jun 8th 2008 22:24 SuSE: New CUPS packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Apr 7th 2008 04:05 Red Hat: Updated cups packages fix multiple security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Apr 7th 2008 03:30 Red Hat: Updated cups packages fix multiple security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Apr 7th 2008 03:24

Debian: New cupsys packages fix multiple vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Mar 30th 2008 14:18 SuSE: New CUPS packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Mar 24th 2008 07:49 SuSE: Updated CUPS packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Mar 24th 2008 07:00 Red Hat: Updated cups packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Mar 24th 2008 06:52 [more articles]