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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS
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[1257]5(c) 2003-2004 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
[873]6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
9(at your option) any later version.
[797]10
[873]11This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
14GNU General Public License for more details.
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[797]20============================================================
21
22PyKota NEWS :
23
[1447]24    - 1.19alpha4 :
25   
26        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
27          is now fixed.
28         
[1437]29    - 1.19alpha3 :
30   
31        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
32          to list informations about printers.
33         
[1430]34    - 1.19alpha2 :
35   
36        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
37          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
38         
[1417]39    - 1.19alpha1 :
40   
[1421]41        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
42       
[1417]43        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
44       
[1415]45    - 1.18 :
46   
47        - Improved documentation
48       
[1411]49    - 1.18beta2 :
50     
51        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
52       
[1404]53    - 1.18beta :
54   
[1405]55        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
56       
[1404]57        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
58       
59        - Improved translations
60       
61        - Improved documentation
62       
[1396]63    - 1.18alpha15 :
[1398]64
65        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
[1404]66          and more powerful one.
[1396]67   
68        - Names can now begin with a digit.
69       
[1398]70        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
[1396]71       
[1381]72    - 1.18alpha14 :
73   
[1384]74        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
75          of breaking.
76         
[1381]77        - Italian translation added.
78       
[1376]79    - 1.18alpha13 :
80   
81        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
82          filter as well.
83         
84        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
[1377]85          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
86          this will be done anyway the next time the last
87          user will print again. This saves some database
88          queries which are unneeded.
[1376]89       
[1372]90    - 1.18alpha12 :
91   
[1376]92        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
[1372]93          many environment variables available are useable
94          from the cupspykota backend.
95          See sample configuration file for details and help.
96         
[1368]97    - 1.18alpha11 :
98   
99        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
100       
[1365]101    - 1.18alpha10 :
102   
103        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
104       
105        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
106       
[1360]107    - 1.18alpha9 :
108   
[1363]109        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
110       
[1362]111        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
112       
[1360]113        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
114       
[1358]115    - 1.18alpha8 :
116   
117        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
118          This avoids many database queries.
119       
[1356]120    - 1.18alpha7 :
121   
122        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
123          LDAP caching.
124         
[1353]125    - 1.18alpha6 :
126       
127        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
128          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
129          email address is not set in PyKota database.
130         
131        - More complete email message headers. 
132         
[1351]133    - 1.18alpha5 :
134   
135        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
136          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
137         
138        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
139          up modifications (at least).
140         
[1338]141    - 1.18alpha4 :
142   
[1345]143        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
144          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
145          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
146          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
147          instead of into /usr/bin
148          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
149          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
150          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
151          waitprinter.sh and al.
152         
[1338]153        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
154          accounting method for PyKota.
155         
[1336]156    - 1.18alpha3 :
157   
158        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
159          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
160       
[1330]161    - 1.18alpha2 :
162   
163        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
164          exclusively.
165       
[1328]166    - 1.18alpha1 :
167   
168        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
169       
170        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
171       
[1323]172    - 1.17 :
173   
174        - Finalized release.
175       
[1321]176    - 1.17alpha2 :
177   
178        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
179       
[1318]180    - 1.17alpha1 :
181   
182        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
183       
[1308]184    - 1.16 :
185   
186        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
187          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
188         
189        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
190          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
191          though.
192       
193        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brasilian
194          Portuguese Translation. Brasilian portuguese
195          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
196       
[1301]197    - 1.16beta3 :
198   
199        - Swedish translation added.
200       
201        - Small fix in documentation.
202       
[1291]203    - 1.16beta2 :
204   
205        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
206          printing in CUPS backend.
[1293]207         
208        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
[1291]209       
[1287]210    - 1.16beta1 :
211   
212        - Manpages upgraded.
213       
[1285]214    - 1.16alpha26 :
215   
216        - Job price is now computed like this :
217       
218          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
219         
220          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
[1286]221          a member of, if any.
[1285]222         
223          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
224          flexibility.
225         
[1284]226    - 1.16alpha25 :
227   
228        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
229          using the following syntax :
230         
231            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
232       
[1271]233    - 1.16alpha24 :
234   
[1274]235        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
236       
[1272]237        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
238       
[1271]239        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
240          automatically add printers on first print.
241       
[1269]242    - 1.16alpha23 :
243   
[1270]244        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
245          several printers at the very same time.
[1269]246       
[1258]247    - 1.16alpha22 :
248   
249        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
250       
[1248]251    - 1.16alpha21 :
252   
253        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
254       
[1249]255        - Printer groups are now cached too.
256       
[1240]257    - 1.16alpha20 :
258   
259        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
260       
261    - 1.16alpha19 :
262     
263        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
264       
265    - 1.16alpha18 :
266   
267        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
268          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
269          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
270          groups for now.
271
272        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
273       
274        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
275       
276        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
277          + some particular settings.
278         
279        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
280          for details.
281       
282        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
283          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
284           
285            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
286            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
287            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
288            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
289            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
290            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
291         
[1239]292    - 1.16alpha17 :
[1227]293   
[1239]294        - Added portugues translation.
295       
296        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
297       
298    - 1.16alpha16 :
299   
[1235]300        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
301          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
302       
[1227]303        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
304          to lowercase during printing.
305         
[1226]306    - 1.15alpha15 :
307   
308        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
309          AppleTalk enabled printers.
310         
[1221]311    - 1.16alpha14 :
312   
313        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
314          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
315          on the printing system.
316         
[1212]317    - 1.16alpha13 :
318   
319        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
320       
[1215]321        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
[1220]322       
323        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
324          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
325          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
326          this is not the case anymore.
[1212]327         
[1203]328    - 1.16alpha12 :
329   
330        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
331          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
332          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
333          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
334          modified, this addition solves the problem.
335         
[1200]336    - 1.16alpha11 :
337   
338        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
339          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
340          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
341          eq, pres and sub indexes.
342         
343        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
344          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
345         
[1194]346    - 1.16alpha10 :
[1196]347       
348        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
349          See sample configuration file for details.
[1194]350   
351        - Spanish translation added.
352       
[1192]353    - 1.16alpha9 :
354   
355        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
356          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
357          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
358          file for details.
359         
[1189]360    - 1.16alpha8 :
361   
[1191]362        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
363          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
364         
[1189]365        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
366          GNU GPL too.
367         
[1185]368    - 1.16alpha7 :
369   
370        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
371       
372        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
373          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
374          used with LPRng though.
375       
[1179]376    - 1.16alpha6 :
377   
378        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
379          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
380          added to the database.
381         
[1178]382    - 1.16alpha5 :
383   
384        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
385          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
386          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
387       
[1177]388    - 1.16alpha4 :
389   
390        - New CUPS backend added.
391       
[1175]392    - 1.16alpha3 :
393       
394        - Minimal FAQ document added.
395       
[1172]396    - 1.16alpha2 :
397   
398        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
399       
[1170]400    - 1.16alpha1 :
401   
402        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
403       
404        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
405       
[1168]406    - 1.15 :
407     
408        - Documentation improved.
409       
[1156]410    - 1.15beta :
411   
412        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
413          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
414         
[1152]415    - 1.15alpha9 :
416   
417        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
418          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
419          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
420          They have to be created manually before.
421          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
422         
[1149]423    - 1.15alpha8 :
424   
425        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
426          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
427          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
428          control.
429       
[1138]430    - 1.15alpha7 :
431   
432        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
433       
[1135]434    - 1.15alpha6 :
435   
436        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
437       
[1130]438    - 1.15alpha5 :
439   
440        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
441
[1123]442    - 1.15alpha4 :
443   
444        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
445          modification.
446         
[1121]447    - 1.15alpha3 :
448   
449        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
450          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
451          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
452          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
453          unrestricted access is granted.
[1122]454          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
455          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
[1121]456         
[1116]457    - 1.15alpha2 :
458   
459        - Better detection of LPRng.
460       
461        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
462       
[1115]463    - 1.15alpha1 :
464   
465        - Bug fix in SQL code.
466       
[1113]467    - 1.14 :
468   
469        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
470          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
471          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
472       
[1111]473    - 1.14beta2 :
474   
475        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
476          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
477          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
478          details.
479       
[1105]480    - 1.14beta :
481   
482        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
483          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
484          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
485          See sample configuration file for details.
486         
[1099]487    - 1.14alpha9 :
488   
489        - Documentation improved.
490       
491        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
492          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
493          limiting factor is "balance".
494         
[1095]495    - 1.14alpha8 :
496   
497        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
498          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
499          asking for their internal page counter.
500          See sample configuration file for details.
501         
[1089]502    - 1.14alpha7 :
503   
504        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
505          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
506          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
507          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
508          time.
509         
[1087]510    - 1.14alpha6 :
511   
512        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
513          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
514          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
515          Don't forget to :
516         
517                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
518               
519        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
520          for the same reason.
521         
522        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
523          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
524         
[1085]525    - 1.14alpha5 :
526       
527        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
528       
[1082]529    - 1.14alpha4 :
530   
531        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
532          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
533          as two different LDAP entries.
534         
[1079]535    - 1.14alpha3 :
536   
537        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
538          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
539       
[1078]540    - 1.14alpha2 :
541   
542        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
543       
[1077]544    - 1.14alpha1 :
545   
546        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
547          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
548          a warning message.
549         
550        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
551          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
552       
[1068]553    - 1.13 :
554   
[1072]555        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
556       
[1068]557        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
558          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
559          as well as a bug in the groups code.
560         
[1067]561    - 1.13alpha1 :
562   
563        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
564       
[1065]565    - 1.12 :
566   
567        - More complete test added in edpykota.
568       
[1062]569    - 1.12alpha2 :
570   
571        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
572       
[1061]573    - 1.12alpha1 :
574   
575        - Small bug fix.
576       
[1057]577    - 1.11 :
578   
579        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
580          printing quotes for users.
581         
[1056]582    - 1.10 :
583   
584        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
585          account balance.
586         
[1052]587    - 1.09 :
588   
589        - Translations finalized.
590       
591        - Manpages updated.
592       
593        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
594       
[1049]595    - 1.09beta2 :
596   
597        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
598          is much more powerful.
599       
[1043]600    - 1.09beta :
601   
602        - edpykota finalized
603       
[1041]604    - 1.09alpha2 :
605   
606        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
607       
608        - LDAP backend works !
609       
610        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
611          users or groups names on the command line. Users
612          and groups names may contain wildcards.
613         
614        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
615          current user when launched by non-root users.
616         
617        - Minor bug fixes. 
618   
[1029]619    - 1.09alpha1 :
620   
621        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
622          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
623          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
[1044]624         
625        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
626          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
[1029]627     
[1027]628    - 1.08 :
629   
630        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
[1029]631       
[1027]632        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
633       
[1021]634    - 1.08alpha8 :
635   
636        - Code refactoring.
[1029]637       
[1021]638        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
639          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
640          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
641          not used anymore.
[1029]642         
[1022]643        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
644          file for details.
645          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
646          debug mode, for now.
[1021]647       
[1019]648    - 1.08alpha7 :
649   
650        - Very latest LDAP schema.
[1029]651       
[1019]652        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
653          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
654       
[1017]655    - 1.08alpha6 :
656   
657        - Minor bug corrections
[1029]658       
[1017]659        - More work on LDAP : new schema
660       
[1016]661    - 1.08alpha5 :
662   
[1017]663        - More good work on LDAP storage.
664          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
[1016]665       
[1014]666    - 1.08alpha4 :
667   
668        - LDAP schema included.
669          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
670          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
671          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
672          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
673          MAILING LIST.
674         
[1000]675    - 1.08alpha3 :
676   
677        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
678         
679          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
680         
681          - They now take care of the number of copies
682            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
683            file already does this, because this would
684            overcharge users (number of copies counted
685            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
686           
687          - The sample configuration file now contains 
688            an external accounting method example which should
689            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
690           
691        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
692       
[998]693    - 1.08alpha2 :
694   
695        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
696          It already worked, but the sample configuration
[1000]697          file didn't contain appropriate values...
[998]698       
[991]699    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
700   
701        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
702          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
703         
[989]704    - 1.06 :
705   
706        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
707          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
708          a bug was triggered.
709          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
710          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
711         
[980]712    - 1.05 :
713   
714        - External accounters are finally available !
715          This means that you can plug any page accounting
716          method you like by setting the appropriate
717          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
718          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
719          learn how to do.
720         
721          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
722               account a job size just before *this* job is
723               sent to the printer.
724               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
725               size just before *the next* job is sent to
726               the printer.
727       
[976]728    - 1.05alpha3 :
729   
730        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
731          implemented to serve as an example on how to
732          do this sort of things. This method only counts
733          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
734          See sample configuration file for details.
735          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
736          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
737          It is not reliable enough to be used.
[978]738          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
[976]739         
[973]740    - 1.05alpha2 :
741   
742        - Pluggable accounting methods.
743       
[975]744        - Better error handling.
745       
[962]746    - 1.05alpha1 :
747   
[969]748        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
749       
[962]750        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
751          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
752          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
753          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
754          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
755         
[970]756        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
757         
[960]758    - 1.04 :
[956]759   
760        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
761          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
762          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
763          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
764         
[954]765        - LPRng support works !
766       
[953]767        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
768          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
769       
[950]770        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
771          printer, if they are defined.
772         
[947]773        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
774       
775        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
776       
[942]777    - 1.03 :
778   
779        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
780          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
[965]781          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
[942]782         
[932]783        - repykota now reports account balances too.
[929]784       
[932]785        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
786          subdirectory.
787       
[936]788        - Manual pages were finally updated.
789       
[927]790        - Group quotas seem to work now !
791       
[910]792        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
793          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
794          and track users' account balance.
795         
[917]796        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
797          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
798          details.
799         
[885]800        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
801          configuration file during first installation.
[892]802         
803        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
[885]804       
[894]805        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
806       
[899]807        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
808          reports in the future.
[900]809         
810        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
811          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
812          a quota which is too low to print.
813         
[901]814        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
815          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
816          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
817          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
818          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
[909]819          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
820          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
821          in this case.
[908]822          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
823          off.
[901]824         
825        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
826          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
[908]827          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
828          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
[901]829          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
[908]830          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
[925]831          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
[901]832         
[907]833        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
834          had a quota on the specified printer.
835         
[913]836        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
837          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
[915]838         
839        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
[913]840       
[919]841        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
842          file for details.
[925]843         
844        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
845          print quota or by account balance.
[919]846       
[877]847    - 1.02 :
[859]848   
[871]849        - The installation script now checks for software availability
850          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
851          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
852         
[872]853        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
854          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
855          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
856          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
857          if needed.
858         
[859]859        - Improved documentation.
860       
861        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
862          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
863       
[872]864        - Better general error handling.
[859]865       
[875]866        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
867          included as well.
868       
[852]869    - 1.01 :
870   
871        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
872          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
873         
874            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
875            - User means only the user will receive them.
876            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
877            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
878           
[853]879        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
880          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
881          for details.
882         
[852]883        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
884          add this information to this file.
885         
[855]886        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
887          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
888          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
889          the version number.
890         
[846]891    - 1.00 :
892   
893        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
894          disable quota checking while still doing page
895          accounting. This is really useful for people
896          who don't want to limit their users but want
897          to know how much pages they print.
898         
899        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
900          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
901         
902        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
903       
[833]904    - 0.99 :
905   
906        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
907          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
908          now fixed.
909         
910        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
[835]911          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
[833]912         
[827]913    - 0.98 :
914   
915        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
916       
[828]917        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
918       
[819]919    - 0.97 :
920   
921        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
922          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
923         
924              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
925             
[821]926        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
[819]927          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
928         
929        - Small bug fixes.
930       
[803]931    - 0.96 :
932
[808]933        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
[807]934          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
935          priority if both are defined.
[803]936
[807]937        - More powerful configuration parser.
938       
939        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
940          define a section for each printer in the configuration
941          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
[803]942
[797]943    - 0.95 :
944
[798]945        - External requesters for printers finally added.
[797]946
947        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
948 
949        - More complete quota usage report
950
951        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
952
953        - Several bugs fixed.
954
955
956    - 0.9 :
957
958        - First public version
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