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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS
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[797]20============================================================
21
22PyKota NEWS :
23
[1500]24
[1502]25    - 1.19alpha16 :
26   
[1510]27        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
28          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
29          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
30          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
31          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
32         
[1502]33        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
34          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
35       
[1500]36    - 1.19alpha15 :
37   
38        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
39          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
40          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
41         
[1495]42    - 1.19alpha14 :
43   
[1499]44        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
45          are now exported as environment variables.
46         
[1498]47        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
48          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
49         
[1497]50        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
51          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
52          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
53          feature.
54         
[1495]55        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
56          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
57          for details.
58         
[1494]59    - 1.19alpha13 :
60   
61        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
62          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
63          as time permits.
64         
[1492]65    - 1.19alpha12 :
66   
67        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
68          the generic PDL analyzer.
69          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
70          job.
71       
[1490]72    - 1.19alpha11 :
73   
74        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
75          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
76          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
77          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
78          in the near future.
79         
[1483]80    - 1.19alpha10 :
81   
[1488]82        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
83          of spawning a new process.
84         
[1487]85        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
86       
[1485]87        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
88          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
89          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
90          the original algorithm is still used for now.
91          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
92          expense of severe memory consumption.
93       
[1483]94        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
95          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
96          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
97          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
98       
[1478]99    - 1.19alpha9 :
100       
[1482]101        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
102       
[1480]103        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
104          too.
105         
[1478]106        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
107       
[1475]108    - 1.19alpha8 :
109   
110        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
111       
112        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
113       
114        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
115       
116        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
117       
118        - code simplifications in external requester
119       
[1473]120    - 1.19alpha7 :
121     
122        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
123          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
124          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
125          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
126          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
127         
[1463]128    - 1.19alpha6 :
129   
[1471]130        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
131       
[1463]132        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
133          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
134          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
135          PostScript.
136         
[1464]137        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
138          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
139         
[1451]140    - 1.19alpha5 :
141   
[1458]142        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
143       
[1459]144        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
145          problems under heavy load.
146         
[1456]147        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
148       
[1453]149        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
150          modify existing printers when --add is used.
151          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
152          used and a printer already exists.
[1451]153         
[1455]154        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
155          and pykotaTitle attributes.
156       
[1447]157    - 1.19alpha4 :
158   
159        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
160          is now fixed.
161         
[1451]162        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
163          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
164          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
[1449]165       
166        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
[1450]167          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
168          testing.
[1448]169         
[1437]170    - 1.19alpha3 :
171   
172        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
173          to list informations about printers.
174         
[1430]175    - 1.19alpha2 :
176   
177        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
178          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
179         
[1417]180    - 1.19alpha1 :
181   
[1421]182        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
183       
[1417]184        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
185       
[1415]186    - 1.18 :
187   
188        - Improved documentation
189       
[1411]190    - 1.18beta2 :
191     
192        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
193       
[1404]194    - 1.18beta :
195   
[1405]196        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
197       
[1404]198        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
199       
200        - Improved translations
201       
202        - Improved documentation
203       
[1396]204    - 1.18alpha15 :
[1398]205
206        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
[1404]207          and more powerful one.
[1396]208   
209        - Names can now begin with a digit.
210       
[1398]211        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
[1396]212       
[1381]213    - 1.18alpha14 :
214   
[1384]215        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
216          of breaking.
217         
[1381]218        - Italian translation added.
219       
[1376]220    - 1.18alpha13 :
221   
222        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
223          filter as well.
224         
225        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
[1377]226          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
227          this will be done anyway the next time the last
228          user will print again. This saves some database
229          queries which are unneeded.
[1376]230       
[1372]231    - 1.18alpha12 :
232   
[1376]233        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
[1372]234          many environment variables available are useable
235          from the cupspykota backend.
236          See sample configuration file for details and help.
237         
[1368]238    - 1.18alpha11 :
239   
240        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
241       
[1365]242    - 1.18alpha10 :
243   
244        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
245       
246        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
247       
[1360]248    - 1.18alpha9 :
249   
[1363]250        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
251       
[1362]252        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
253       
[1360]254        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
255       
[1358]256    - 1.18alpha8 :
257   
258        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
259          This avoids many database queries.
260       
[1356]261    - 1.18alpha7 :
262   
263        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
264          LDAP caching.
265         
[1353]266    - 1.18alpha6 :
267       
268        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
269          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
270          email address is not set in PyKota database.
271         
272        - More complete email message headers. 
273         
[1351]274    - 1.18alpha5 :
275   
276        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
277          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
278         
279        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
280          up modifications (at least).
281         
[1338]282    - 1.18alpha4 :
283   
[1345]284        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
285          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
286          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
287          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
288          instead of into /usr/bin
289          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
290          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
291          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
292          waitprinter.sh and al.
293         
[1338]294        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
295          accounting method for PyKota.
296         
[1336]297    - 1.18alpha3 :
298   
299        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
300          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
301       
[1330]302    - 1.18alpha2 :
303   
304        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
305          exclusively.
306       
[1328]307    - 1.18alpha1 :
308   
309        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
310       
311        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
312       
[1323]313    - 1.17 :
314   
315        - Finalized release.
316       
[1321]317    - 1.17alpha2 :
318   
319        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
320       
[1318]321    - 1.17alpha1 :
322   
323        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
324       
[1308]325    - 1.16 :
326   
327        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
328          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
329         
330        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
331          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
332          though.
333       
334        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brasilian
335          Portuguese Translation. Brasilian portuguese
336          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
337       
[1301]338    - 1.16beta3 :
339   
340        - Swedish translation added.
341       
342        - Small fix in documentation.
343       
[1291]344    - 1.16beta2 :
345   
346        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
347          printing in CUPS backend.
[1293]348         
349        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
[1291]350       
[1287]351    - 1.16beta1 :
352   
353        - Manpages upgraded.
354       
[1285]355    - 1.16alpha26 :
356   
357        - Job price is now computed like this :
358       
359          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
360         
361          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
[1286]362          a member of, if any.
[1285]363         
364          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
365          flexibility.
366         
[1284]367    - 1.16alpha25 :
368   
369        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
370          using the following syntax :
371         
372            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
373       
[1271]374    - 1.16alpha24 :
375   
[1274]376        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
377       
[1272]378        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
379       
[1271]380        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
381          automatically add printers on first print.
382       
[1269]383    - 1.16alpha23 :
384   
[1270]385        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
386          several printers at the very same time.
[1269]387       
[1258]388    - 1.16alpha22 :
389   
390        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
391       
[1248]392    - 1.16alpha21 :
393   
394        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
395       
[1249]396        - Printer groups are now cached too.
397       
[1240]398    - 1.16alpha20 :
399   
400        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
401       
402    - 1.16alpha19 :
403     
404        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
405       
406    - 1.16alpha18 :
407   
408        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
409          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
410          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
411          groups for now.
412
413        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
414       
415        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
416       
417        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
418          + some particular settings.
419         
420        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
421          for details.
422       
423        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
424          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
425           
426            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
427            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
428            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
429            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
430            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
431            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
432         
[1239]433    - 1.16alpha17 :
[1227]434   
[1239]435        - Added portugues translation.
436       
437        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
438       
439    - 1.16alpha16 :
440   
[1235]441        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
442          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
443       
[1227]444        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
445          to lowercase during printing.
446         
[1226]447    - 1.15alpha15 :
448   
449        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
450          AppleTalk enabled printers.
451         
[1221]452    - 1.16alpha14 :
453   
454        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
455          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
456          on the printing system.
457         
[1212]458    - 1.16alpha13 :
459   
460        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
461       
[1215]462        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
[1220]463       
464        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
465          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
466          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
467          this is not the case anymore.
[1212]468         
[1203]469    - 1.16alpha12 :
470   
471        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
472          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
473          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
474          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
475          modified, this addition solves the problem.
476         
[1200]477    - 1.16alpha11 :
478   
479        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
480          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
481          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
482          eq, pres and sub indexes.
483         
484        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
485          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
486         
[1194]487    - 1.16alpha10 :
[1196]488       
489        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
490          See sample configuration file for details.
[1194]491   
492        - Spanish translation added.
493       
[1192]494    - 1.16alpha9 :
495   
496        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
497          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
498          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
499          file for details.
500         
[1189]501    - 1.16alpha8 :
502   
[1191]503        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
504          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
505         
[1189]506        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
507          GNU GPL too.
508         
[1185]509    - 1.16alpha7 :
510   
511        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
512       
513        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
514          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
515          used with LPRng though.
516       
[1179]517    - 1.16alpha6 :
518   
519        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
520          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
521          added to the database.
522         
[1178]523    - 1.16alpha5 :
524   
525        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
526          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
527          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
528       
[1177]529    - 1.16alpha4 :
530   
531        - New CUPS backend added.
532       
[1175]533    - 1.16alpha3 :
534       
535        - Minimal FAQ document added.
536       
[1172]537    - 1.16alpha2 :
538   
539        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
540       
[1170]541    - 1.16alpha1 :
542   
543        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
544       
545        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
546       
[1168]547    - 1.15 :
548     
549        - Documentation improved.
550       
[1156]551    - 1.15beta :
552   
553        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
554          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
555         
[1152]556    - 1.15alpha9 :
557   
558        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
559          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
560          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
561          They have to be created manually before.
562          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
563         
[1149]564    - 1.15alpha8 :
565   
566        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
567          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
568          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
569          control.
570       
[1138]571    - 1.15alpha7 :
572   
573        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
574       
[1135]575    - 1.15alpha6 :
576   
577        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
578       
[1130]579    - 1.15alpha5 :
580   
581        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
582
[1123]583    - 1.15alpha4 :
584   
585        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
586          modification.
587         
[1121]588    - 1.15alpha3 :
589   
590        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
591          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
592          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
593          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
594          unrestricted access is granted.
[1122]595          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
596          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
[1121]597         
[1116]598    - 1.15alpha2 :
599   
600        - Better detection of LPRng.
601       
602        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
603       
[1115]604    - 1.15alpha1 :
605   
606        - Bug fix in SQL code.
607       
[1113]608    - 1.14 :
609   
610        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
611          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
612          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
613       
[1111]614    - 1.14beta2 :
615   
616        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
617          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
618          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
619          details.
620       
[1105]621    - 1.14beta :
622   
623        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
624          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
625          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
626          See sample configuration file for details.
627         
[1099]628    - 1.14alpha9 :
629   
630        - Documentation improved.
631       
632        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
633          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
634          limiting factor is "balance".
635         
[1095]636    - 1.14alpha8 :
637   
638        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
639          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
640          asking for their internal page counter.
641          See sample configuration file for details.
642         
[1089]643    - 1.14alpha7 :
644   
645        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
646          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
647          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
648          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
649          time.
650         
[1087]651    - 1.14alpha6 :
652   
653        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
654          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
655          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
656          Don't forget to :
657         
658                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
659               
660        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
661          for the same reason.
662         
663        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
664          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
665         
[1085]666    - 1.14alpha5 :
667       
668        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
669       
[1082]670    - 1.14alpha4 :
671   
672        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
673          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
674          as two different LDAP entries.
675         
[1079]676    - 1.14alpha3 :
677   
678        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
679          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
680       
[1078]681    - 1.14alpha2 :
682   
683        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
684       
[1077]685    - 1.14alpha1 :
686   
687        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
688          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
689          a warning message.
690         
691        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
692          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
693       
[1068]694    - 1.13 :
695   
[1072]696        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
697       
[1068]698        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
699          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
700          as well as a bug in the groups code.
701         
[1067]702    - 1.13alpha1 :
703   
704        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
705       
[1065]706    - 1.12 :
707   
708        - More complete test added in edpykota.
709       
[1062]710    - 1.12alpha2 :
711   
712        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
713       
[1061]714    - 1.12alpha1 :
715   
716        - Small bug fix.
717       
[1057]718    - 1.11 :
719   
720        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
721          printing quotes for users.
722         
[1056]723    - 1.10 :
724   
725        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
726          account balance.
727         
[1052]728    - 1.09 :
729   
730        - Translations finalized.
731       
732        - Manpages updated.
733       
734        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
735       
[1049]736    - 1.09beta2 :
737   
738        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
739          is much more powerful.
740       
[1043]741    - 1.09beta :
742   
743        - edpykota finalized
744       
[1041]745    - 1.09alpha2 :
746   
747        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
748       
749        - LDAP backend works !
750       
751        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
752          users or groups names on the command line. Users
753          and groups names may contain wildcards.
754         
755        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
756          current user when launched by non-root users.
757         
758        - Minor bug fixes. 
759   
[1029]760    - 1.09alpha1 :
761   
762        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
763          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
764          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
[1044]765         
766        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
767          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
[1029]768     
[1027]769    - 1.08 :
770   
771        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
[1029]772       
[1027]773        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
774       
[1021]775    - 1.08alpha8 :
776   
777        - Code refactoring.
[1029]778       
[1021]779        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
780          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
781          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
782          not used anymore.
[1029]783         
[1022]784        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
785          file for details.
786          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
787          debug mode, for now.
[1021]788       
[1019]789    - 1.08alpha7 :
790   
791        - Very latest LDAP schema.
[1029]792       
[1019]793        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
794          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
795       
[1017]796    - 1.08alpha6 :
797   
798        - Minor bug corrections
[1029]799       
[1017]800        - More work on LDAP : new schema
801       
[1016]802    - 1.08alpha5 :
803   
[1017]804        - More good work on LDAP storage.
805          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
[1016]806       
[1014]807    - 1.08alpha4 :
808   
809        - LDAP schema included.
810          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
811          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
812          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
813          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
814          MAILING LIST.
815         
[1000]816    - 1.08alpha3 :
817   
818        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
819         
820          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
821         
822          - They now take care of the number of copies
823            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
824            file already does this, because this would
825            overcharge users (number of copies counted
826            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
827           
828          - The sample configuration file now contains 
829            an external accounting method example which should
830            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
831           
832        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
833       
[998]834    - 1.08alpha2 :
835   
836        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
837          It already worked, but the sample configuration
[1000]838          file didn't contain appropriate values...
[998]839       
[991]840    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
841   
842        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
843          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
844         
[989]845    - 1.06 :
846   
847        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
848          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
849          a bug was triggered.
850          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
851          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
852         
[980]853    - 1.05 :
854   
855        - External accounters are finally available !
856          This means that you can plug any page accounting
857          method you like by setting the appropriate
858          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
859          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
860          learn how to do.
861         
862          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
863               account a job size just before *this* job is
864               sent to the printer.
865               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
866               size just before *the next* job is sent to
867               the printer.
868       
[976]869    - 1.05alpha3 :
870   
871        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
872          implemented to serve as an example on how to
873          do this sort of things. This method only counts
874          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
875          See sample configuration file for details.
876          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
877          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
878          It is not reliable enough to be used.
[978]879          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
[976]880         
[973]881    - 1.05alpha2 :
882   
883        - Pluggable accounting methods.
884       
[975]885        - Better error handling.
886       
[962]887    - 1.05alpha1 :
888   
[969]889        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
890       
[962]891        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
892          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
893          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
894          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
895          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
896         
[970]897        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
898         
[960]899    - 1.04 :
[956]900   
901        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
902          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
903          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
904          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
905         
[954]906        - LPRng support works !
907       
[953]908        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
909          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
910       
[950]911        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
912          printer, if they are defined.
913         
[947]914        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
915       
916        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
917       
[942]918    - 1.03 :
919   
920        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
921          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
[965]922          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
[942]923         
[932]924        - repykota now reports account balances too.
[929]925       
[932]926        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
927          subdirectory.
928       
[936]929        - Manual pages were finally updated.
930       
[927]931        - Group quotas seem to work now !
932       
[910]933        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
934          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
935          and track users' account balance.
936         
[917]937        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
938          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
939          details.
940         
[885]941        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
942          configuration file during first installation.
[892]943         
944        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
[885]945       
[894]946        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
947       
[899]948        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
949          reports in the future.
[900]950         
951        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
952          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
953          a quota which is too low to print.
954         
[901]955        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
956          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
957          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
958          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
959          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
[909]960          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
961          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
962          in this case.
[908]963          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
964          off.
[901]965         
966        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
967          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
[908]968          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
969          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
[901]970          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
[908]971          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
[925]972          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
[901]973         
[907]974        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
975          had a quota on the specified printer.
976         
[913]977        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
978          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
[915]979         
980        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
[913]981       
[919]982        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
983          file for details.
[925]984         
985        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
986          print quota or by account balance.
[919]987       
[877]988    - 1.02 :
[859]989   
[871]990        - The installation script now checks for software availability
991          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
992          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
993         
[872]994        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
995          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
996          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
997          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
998          if needed.
999         
[859]1000        - Improved documentation.
1001       
1002        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
1003          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
1004       
[872]1005        - Better general error handling.
[859]1006       
[875]1007        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
1008          included as well.
1009       
[852]1010    - 1.01 :
1011   
1012        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
1013          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
1014         
1015            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
1016            - User means only the user will receive them.
1017            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
1018            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
1019           
[853]1020        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
1021          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
1022          for details.
1023         
[852]1024        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
1025          add this information to this file.
1026         
[855]1027        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
1028          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
1029          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
1030          the version number.
1031         
[846]1032    - 1.00 :
1033   
1034        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
1035          disable quota checking while still doing page
1036          accounting. This is really useful for people
1037          who don't want to limit their users but want
1038          to know how much pages they print.
1039         
1040        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
1041          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
1042         
1043        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
1044       
[833]1045    - 0.99 :
1046   
1047        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
1048          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
1049          now fixed.
1050         
1051        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
[835]1052          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
[833]1053         
[827]1054    - 0.98 :
1055   
1056        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
1057       
[828]1058        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
1059       
[819]1060    - 0.97 :
1061   
1062        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
1063          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
1064         
1065              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
1066             
[821]1067        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
[819]1068          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
1069         
1070        - Small bug fixes.
1071       
[803]1072    - 0.96 :
1073
[808]1074        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
[807]1075          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
1076          priority if both are defined.
[803]1077
[807]1078        - More powerful configuration parser.
1079       
1080        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
1081          define a section for each printer in the configuration
1082          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
[803]1083
[797]1084    - 0.95 :
1085
[798]1086        - External requesters for printers finally added.
[797]1087
1088        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
1089 
1090        - More complete quota usage report
1091
1092        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
1093
1094        - Several bugs fixed.
1095
1096
1097    - 0.9 :
1098
1099        - First public version
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