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Software: Simple RSS Mastodon Bot, CUPS Printing Stack as Snap, PipeWire in Firefox, and LibreOffice Encryption (UPDATED)


Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 30, 2023,

updated May 30, 2023


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Alan Pope: Simple RSS Mastodon Bot


↺ Alan Pope: Simple RSS Mastodon Bot


> Linux Matters I recently started presenting Linux Matters podcast with my friends Martin Wimpress and Mark Johnson. In episode 4 (that link will only work once the episode is released) I briefly talked about some simple bots I setup on the Ubuntu Social Mastodon instance (which, incidentally I talked about in episode 1).



Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to Snap


↺ Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to Snap


> Ubuntu 23.10 is aiming to ship the CUPS printing stack as a snap package. Canonical’s Till Kamppeter, who is also the project lead for the OpenPrinting Project, says he wants to “…switch Ubuntu 23.10, the Mantic Minotaur, as planned, to use the CUPS Snap as its printing system and the Printer Application Snaps as drivers for non-IPP-driverless printers.”



Jan Grulich: PipeWire camera support in Firefox


↺ Jan Grulich: PipeWire camera support in Firefox


> We finally reached a major milestone with Chromium 110, which was a release where we finally got screen sharing enabled by default on Wayland, and since then you no longer have to go into the preferences and enable the flag you need. That doesn’t mean my work there is over, but I’ve shifted my focus to something related but slightly different and that is PipeWire camera support.



Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2023


↺ Projects selected for LibreOffice in the Google Summer of Code 2023


> Improve PGP/GPG encryption support: the project aims to enhance the experimental PGP/GPG encryption support in LibreOffice by addressing several shortcomings, such as the need to select recipients anew for every save and the difficulty in finding the right keys.


UPDATE


LibreOffice to Get APNG Import/Export Support and Improved OpenPGP Encryption During GSoC 2023


↺ LibreOffice to Get APNG Import/Export Support and Improved OpenPGP Encryption During GSoC 2023


> The LibreOffice open-source and free office suite received support for importing and exporting APNG (Animated PNG) images and improved PGP/GPG encryption during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023.




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