Roadmap

This page documents the plans for future OpenPrinting CUPS feature releases. The following high level changes are currently under consideration:

• Removal of Deprecated Features
• libcups Changes
• cupsd Changes

CUPS Feature Roadmap

Feature	v2.4	v2.5	v3.0	vFUTURE
AirPrint/Mopria Compatibility	ADD
Kerberos Authentication	DEPRECATE		REMOVE
OAuth Authentication	client	server
PPD API	deprecated v1.4		REMOVE
Printer Drivers	deprecated v2.0		REMOVE
Raw Queues	deprecated v2.0		REMOVE
cups-config	DEPRECATE	REMOVE
pkg-config support	ADD
Local Server			ADD
Sharing Server			ADD
New Web Interface			ADD
OpenSSL support	ADD
X.509 for containers	consider	consider	consider	consider

Removal of Deprecated Features/API

• cups-config script (replaced by pkg-config in 2.4.0)
• Printer drivers and raw queues (replaced by Printer Applications)
• PPD API functions
• Kerberos support

libcups Changes

• Investigate using OpenSSL in addition to/instead of GNU TLS
• Better support for X.509 certificates with snaps?

cupsd Changes

• Rewrite/update for use as the local (per-user) spooler
• Update web interface to be in-process for the sharing spooler
• All IPP job processing
• Maybe use PAPPL?