I’m delighted to announce a new alpha release of GNU a2ps. This release involves minimal changes to functionality, but involves a considerable update to the build system and code cleanup and simplification, as well as bug fixes. See below for more details.

I am particularly keen to hear from users and packagers about this release, as I plan to make a stable 4.15 release soon.

• Noteworthy changes in release 4.14.90 (2022-07-17) [alpha]

* This is an alpha release, owing to the considerable changes since the

last version.

* New maintainer, Reuben Thomas.

* Build:

- Updated and fixed the build system, using gnulib and modern Autotools.

- Remove OS/2 support.

- Require libpaper.

* Predefined delegations:

- Remove support for defunct Netscape and proprietary Acrobat Reader.

- Add lpr wrapper for automatic detection of different printing systems,

including CUPS support.

* Encodings:

- Use libre fonts for KOI-8.

- Composite fonts support.

* Documentation:

- Some English fixes.

- Man page for fixnt.

* Bug fixes:

- Fixes for security bugs CVE-2001-1593, CVE-2015-8107 and CVE-2014-0466.

- Minor bugs fixed.