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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS
4
[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.
[797]15
[873]16You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
18Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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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         
[1448]29        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter. 
[1449]30       
31        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
[1450]32          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
33          testing.
[1448]34         
[1437]35    - 1.19alpha3 :
36   
37        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
38          to list informations about printers.
39         
[1430]40    - 1.19alpha2 :
41   
42        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
43          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
44         
[1417]45    - 1.19alpha1 :
46   
[1421]47        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
48       
[1417]49        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
50       
[1415]51    - 1.18 :
52   
53        - Improved documentation
54       
[1411]55    - 1.18beta2 :
56     
57        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
58       
[1404]59    - 1.18beta :
60   
[1405]61        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
62       
[1404]63        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
64       
65        - Improved translations
66       
67        - Improved documentation
68       
[1396]69    - 1.18alpha15 :
[1398]70
71        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
[1404]72          and more powerful one.
[1396]73   
74        - Names can now begin with a digit.
75       
[1398]76        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
[1396]77       
[1381]78    - 1.18alpha14 :
79   
[1384]80        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
81          of breaking.
82         
[1381]83        - Italian translation added.
84       
[1376]85    - 1.18alpha13 :
86   
87        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
88          filter as well.
89         
90        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
[1377]91          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
92          this will be done anyway the next time the last
93          user will print again. This saves some database
94          queries which are unneeded.
[1376]95       
[1372]96    - 1.18alpha12 :
97   
[1376]98        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
[1372]99          many environment variables available are useable
100          from the cupspykota backend.
101          See sample configuration file for details and help.
102         
[1368]103    - 1.18alpha11 :
104   
105        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
106       
[1365]107    - 1.18alpha10 :
108   
109        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
110       
111        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
112       
[1360]113    - 1.18alpha9 :
114   
[1363]115        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
116       
[1362]117        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
118       
[1360]119        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
120       
[1358]121    - 1.18alpha8 :
122   
123        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
124          This avoids many database queries.
125       
[1356]126    - 1.18alpha7 :
127   
128        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
129          LDAP caching.
130         
[1353]131    - 1.18alpha6 :
132       
133        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
134          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
135          email address is not set in PyKota database.
136         
137        - More complete email message headers. 
138         
[1351]139    - 1.18alpha5 :
140   
141        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
142          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
143         
144        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
145          up modifications (at least).
146         
[1338]147    - 1.18alpha4 :
148   
[1345]149        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
150          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
151          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
152          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
153          instead of into /usr/bin
154          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
155          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
156          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
157          waitprinter.sh and al.
158         
[1338]159        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
160          accounting method for PyKota.
161         
[1336]162    - 1.18alpha3 :
163   
164        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
165          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
166       
[1330]167    - 1.18alpha2 :
168   
169        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
170          exclusively.
171       
[1328]172    - 1.18alpha1 :
173   
174        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
175       
176        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
177       
[1323]178    - 1.17 :
179   
180        - Finalized release.
181       
[1321]182    - 1.17alpha2 :
183   
184        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
185       
[1318]186    - 1.17alpha1 :
187   
188        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
189       
[1308]190    - 1.16 :
191   
192        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
193          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
194         
195        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
196          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
197          though.
198       
199        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brasilian
200          Portuguese Translation. Brasilian portuguese
201          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
202       
[1301]203    - 1.16beta3 :
204   
205        - Swedish translation added.
206       
207        - Small fix in documentation.
208       
[1291]209    - 1.16beta2 :
210   
211        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
212          printing in CUPS backend.
[1293]213         
214        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
[1291]215       
[1287]216    - 1.16beta1 :
217   
218        - Manpages upgraded.
219       
[1285]220    - 1.16alpha26 :
221   
222        - Job price is now computed like this :
223       
224          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
225         
226          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
[1286]227          a member of, if any.
[1285]228         
229          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
230          flexibility.
231         
[1284]232    - 1.16alpha25 :
233   
234        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
235          using the following syntax :
236         
237            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
238       
[1271]239    - 1.16alpha24 :
240   
[1274]241        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
242       
[1272]243        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
244       
[1271]245        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
246          automatically add printers on first print.
247       
[1269]248    - 1.16alpha23 :
249   
[1270]250        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
251          several printers at the very same time.
[1269]252       
[1258]253    - 1.16alpha22 :
254   
255        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
256       
[1248]257    - 1.16alpha21 :
258   
259        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
260       
[1249]261        - Printer groups are now cached too.
262       
[1240]263    - 1.16alpha20 :
264   
265        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
266       
267    - 1.16alpha19 :
268     
269        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
270       
271    - 1.16alpha18 :
272   
273        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
274          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
275          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
276          groups for now.
277
278        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
279       
280        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
281       
282        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
283          + some particular settings.
284         
285        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
286          for details.
287       
288        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
289          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
290           
291            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
292            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
293            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
294            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
295            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
296            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
297         
[1239]298    - 1.16alpha17 :
[1227]299   
[1239]300        - Added portugues translation.
301       
302        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
303       
304    - 1.16alpha16 :
305   
[1235]306        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
307          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
308       
[1227]309        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
310          to lowercase during printing.
311         
[1226]312    - 1.15alpha15 :
313   
314        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
315          AppleTalk enabled printers.
316         
[1221]317    - 1.16alpha14 :
318   
319        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
320          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
321          on the printing system.
322         
[1212]323    - 1.16alpha13 :
324   
325        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
326       
[1215]327        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
[1220]328       
329        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
330          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
331          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
332          this is not the case anymore.
[1212]333         
[1203]334    - 1.16alpha12 :
335   
336        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
337          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
338          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
339          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
340          modified, this addition solves the problem.
341         
[1200]342    - 1.16alpha11 :
343   
344        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
345          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
346          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
347          eq, pres and sub indexes.
348         
349        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
350          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
351         
[1194]352    - 1.16alpha10 :
[1196]353       
354        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
355          See sample configuration file for details.
[1194]356   
357        - Spanish translation added.
358       
[1192]359    - 1.16alpha9 :
360   
361        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
362          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
363          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
364          file for details.
365         
[1189]366    - 1.16alpha8 :
367   
[1191]368        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
369          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
370         
[1189]371        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
372          GNU GPL too.
373         
[1185]374    - 1.16alpha7 :
375   
376        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
377       
378        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
379          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
380          used with LPRng though.
381       
[1179]382    - 1.16alpha6 :
383   
384        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
385          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
386          added to the database.
387         
[1178]388    - 1.16alpha5 :
389   
390        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
391          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
392          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
393       
[1177]394    - 1.16alpha4 :
395   
396        - New CUPS backend added.
397       
[1175]398    - 1.16alpha3 :
399       
400        - Minimal FAQ document added.
401       
[1172]402    - 1.16alpha2 :
403   
404        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
405       
[1170]406    - 1.16alpha1 :
407   
408        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
409       
410        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
411       
[1168]412    - 1.15 :
413     
414        - Documentation improved.
415       
[1156]416    - 1.15beta :
417   
418        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
419          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
420         
[1152]421    - 1.15alpha9 :
422   
423        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
424          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
425          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
426          They have to be created manually before.
427          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
428         
[1149]429    - 1.15alpha8 :
430   
431        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
432          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
433          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
434          control.
435       
[1138]436    - 1.15alpha7 :
437   
438        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
439       
[1135]440    - 1.15alpha6 :
441   
442        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
443       
[1130]444    - 1.15alpha5 :
445   
446        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
447
[1123]448    - 1.15alpha4 :
449   
450        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
451          modification.
452         
[1121]453    - 1.15alpha3 :
454   
455        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
456          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
457          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
458          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
459          unrestricted access is granted.
[1122]460          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
461          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
[1121]462         
[1116]463    - 1.15alpha2 :
464   
465        - Better detection of LPRng.
466       
467        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
468       
[1115]469    - 1.15alpha1 :
470   
471        - Bug fix in SQL code.
472       
[1113]473    - 1.14 :
474   
475        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
476          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
477          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
478       
[1111]479    - 1.14beta2 :
480   
481        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
482          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
483          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
484          details.
485       
[1105]486    - 1.14beta :
487   
488        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
489          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
490          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
491          See sample configuration file for details.
492         
[1099]493    - 1.14alpha9 :
494   
495        - Documentation improved.
496       
497        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
498          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
499          limiting factor is "balance".
500         
[1095]501    - 1.14alpha8 :
502   
503        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
504          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
505          asking for their internal page counter.
506          See sample configuration file for details.
507         
[1089]508    - 1.14alpha7 :
509   
510        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
511          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
512          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
513          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
514          time.
515         
[1087]516    - 1.14alpha6 :
517   
518        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
519          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
520          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
521          Don't forget to :
522         
523                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
524               
525        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
526          for the same reason.
527         
528        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
529          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
530         
[1085]531    - 1.14alpha5 :
532       
533        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
534       
[1082]535    - 1.14alpha4 :
536   
537        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
538          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
539          as two different LDAP entries.
540         
[1079]541    - 1.14alpha3 :
542   
543        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
544          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
545       
[1078]546    - 1.14alpha2 :
547   
548        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
549       
[1077]550    - 1.14alpha1 :
551   
552        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
553          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
554          a warning message.
555         
556        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
557          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
558       
[1068]559    - 1.13 :
560   
[1072]561        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
562       
[1068]563        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
564          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
565          as well as a bug in the groups code.
566         
[1067]567    - 1.13alpha1 :
568   
569        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
570       
[1065]571    - 1.12 :
572   
573        - More complete test added in edpykota.
574       
[1062]575    - 1.12alpha2 :
576   
577        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
578       
[1061]579    - 1.12alpha1 :
580   
581        - Small bug fix.
582       
[1057]583    - 1.11 :
584   
585        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
586          printing quotes for users.
587         
[1056]588    - 1.10 :
589   
590        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
591          account balance.
592         
[1052]593    - 1.09 :
594   
595        - Translations finalized.
596       
597        - Manpages updated.
598       
599        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
600       
[1049]601    - 1.09beta2 :
602   
603        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
604          is much more powerful.
605       
[1043]606    - 1.09beta :
607   
608        - edpykota finalized
609       
[1041]610    - 1.09alpha2 :
611   
612        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
613       
614        - LDAP backend works !
615       
616        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
617          users or groups names on the command line. Users
618          and groups names may contain wildcards.
619         
620        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
621          current user when launched by non-root users.
622         
623        - Minor bug fixes. 
624   
[1029]625    - 1.09alpha1 :
626   
627        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
628          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
629          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
[1044]630         
631        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
632          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
[1029]633     
[1027]634    - 1.08 :
635   
636        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
[1029]637       
[1027]638        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
639       
[1021]640    - 1.08alpha8 :
641   
642        - Code refactoring.
[1029]643       
[1021]644        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
645          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
646          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
647          not used anymore.
[1029]648         
[1022]649        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
650          file for details.
651          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
652          debug mode, for now.
[1021]653       
[1019]654    - 1.08alpha7 :
655   
656        - Very latest LDAP schema.
[1029]657       
[1019]658        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
659          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
660       
[1017]661    - 1.08alpha6 :
662   
663        - Minor bug corrections
[1029]664       
[1017]665        - More work on LDAP : new schema
666       
[1016]667    - 1.08alpha5 :
668   
[1017]669        - More good work on LDAP storage.
670          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
[1016]671       
[1014]672    - 1.08alpha4 :
673   
674        - LDAP schema included.
675          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
676          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
677          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
678          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
679          MAILING LIST.
680         
[1000]681    - 1.08alpha3 :
682   
683        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
684         
685          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
686         
687          - They now take care of the number of copies
688            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
689            file already does this, because this would
690            overcharge users (number of copies counted
691            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
692           
693          - The sample configuration file now contains 
694            an external accounting method example which should
695            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
696           
697        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
698       
[998]699    - 1.08alpha2 :
700   
701        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
702          It already worked, but the sample configuration
[1000]703          file didn't contain appropriate values...
[998]704       
[991]705    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
706   
707        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
708          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
709         
[989]710    - 1.06 :
711   
712        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
713          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
714          a bug was triggered.
715          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
716          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
717         
[980]718    - 1.05 :
719   
720        - External accounters are finally available !
721          This means that you can plug any page accounting
722          method you like by setting the appropriate
723          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
724          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
725          learn how to do.
726         
727          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
728               account a job size just before *this* job is
729               sent to the printer.
730               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
731               size just before *the next* job is sent to
732               the printer.
733       
[976]734    - 1.05alpha3 :
735   
736        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
737          implemented to serve as an example on how to
738          do this sort of things. This method only counts
739          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
740          See sample configuration file for details.
741          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
742          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
743          It is not reliable enough to be used.
[978]744          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
[976]745         
[973]746    - 1.05alpha2 :
747   
748        - Pluggable accounting methods.
749       
[975]750        - Better error handling.
751       
[962]752    - 1.05alpha1 :
753   
[969]754        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
755       
[962]756        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
757          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
758          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
759          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
760          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
761         
[970]762        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
763         
[960]764    - 1.04 :
[956]765   
766        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
767          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
768          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
769          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
770         
[954]771        - LPRng support works !
772       
[953]773        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
774          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
775       
[950]776        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
777          printer, if they are defined.
778         
[947]779        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
780       
781        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
782       
[942]783    - 1.03 :
784   
785        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
786          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
[965]787          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
[942]788         
[932]789        - repykota now reports account balances too.
[929]790       
[932]791        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
792          subdirectory.
793       
[936]794        - Manual pages were finally updated.
795       
[927]796        - Group quotas seem to work now !
797       
[910]798        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
799          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
800          and track users' account balance.
801         
[917]802        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
803          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
804          details.
805         
[885]806        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
807          configuration file during first installation.
[892]808         
809        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
[885]810       
[894]811        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
812       
[899]813        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
814          reports in the future.
[900]815         
816        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
817          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
818          a quota which is too low to print.
819         
[901]820        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
821          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
822          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
823          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
824          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
[909]825          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
826          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
827          in this case.
[908]828          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
829          off.
[901]830         
831        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
832          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
[908]833          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
834          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
[901]835          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
[908]836          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
[925]837          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
[901]838         
[907]839        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
840          had a quota on the specified printer.
841         
[913]842        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
843          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
[915]844         
845        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
[913]846       
[919]847        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
848          file for details.
[925]849         
850        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
851          print quota or by account balance.
[919]852       
[877]853    - 1.02 :
[859]854   
[871]855        - The installation script now checks for software availability
856          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
857          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
858         
[872]859        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
860          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
861          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
862          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
863          if needed.
864         
[859]865        - Improved documentation.
866       
867        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
868          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
869       
[872]870        - Better general error handling.
[859]871       
[875]872        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
873          included as well.
874       
[852]875    - 1.01 :
876   
877        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
878          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
879         
880            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
881            - User means only the user will receive them.
882            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
883            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
884           
[853]885        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
886          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
887          for details.
888         
[852]889        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
890          add this information to this file.
891         
[855]892        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
893          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
894          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
895          the version number.
896         
[846]897    - 1.00 :
898   
899        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
900          disable quota checking while still doing page
901          accounting. This is really useful for people
902          who don't want to limit their users but want
903          to know how much pages they print.
904         
905        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
906          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
907         
908        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
909       
[833]910    - 0.99 :
911   
912        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
913          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
914          now fixed.
915         
916        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
[835]917          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
[833]918         
[827]919    - 0.98 :
920   
921        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
922       
[828]923        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
924       
[819]925    - 0.97 :
926   
927        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
928          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
929         
930              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
931             
[821]932        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
[819]933          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
934         
935        - Small bug fixes.
936       
[803]937    - 0.96 :
938
[808]939        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
[807]940          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
941          priority if both are defined.
[803]942
[807]943        - More powerful configuration parser.
944       
945        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
946          define a section for each printer in the configuration
947          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
[803]948
[797]949    - 0.95 :
950
[798]951        - External requesters for printers finally added.
[797]952
953        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
954 
955        - More complete quota usage report
956
957        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
958
959        - Several bugs fixed.
960
961
962    - 0.9 :
963
964        - First public version
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