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[2011]3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
[797]4
[2028]5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005 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.
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[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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21
22PyKota NEWS :
[2044]23       
[2214]24    - 1.22alpha8 :
25   
[2216]26        - Ctrl+C now makes PyKota commands exit without a traceback.
27       
[2214]28        - Fixed an i18n problem with Python 2.1
29       
[2211]30    - 1.22alpha7 :
31   
32        - Fixed some problems with the retrieval of the history from LDAP.
33       
[2210]34    - 1.22alpha6 :
35   
36        - Early errors now produce meaningful error messages (finally !)
37       
[2202]38    - 1.22alpha5 :
39       
40        - SNMP and PJL improvements with regard to PowerSave / StandBy.
41       
[2193]42    - 1.22alpha4 :
43   
[2195]44        - Fixed charset problem under MacOSX.
45       
[2193]46        - Allows pkbanner to accept more info to display on its
47          command line.
48         
[2179]49    - 1.22alpha3 :
50   
[2188]51        - Fixes some case related problems with some LDAP backends.
52       
[2180]53        - Fixes some problem for printers which directly go from
54          "idle" to "warmup" and never to "printing" before
55          returning to "idle".
56         
[2179]57        - Some permissions settings may have prevented cupspykota
58          from parsing cupsd.conf, this is now fixed.
59         
[2167]60    - 1.22alpha2 :
61   
[2173]62        - Introduction of the web enabled print quote generator.
63       
[2167]64        - Fixed a potential race condition when several backend
65          wrappers were present in CUPS' backend directory.
66         
67        - Fixed dumpykota's output in CUPS' page_log format to better
68          match CUPS format.
69         
[2133]70    - 1.22alpha1 :
71   
72        - Import into Subversion.
73       
[2127]74    - 1.21 :
75   
76        - Improved documentation.
77       
78        - Improved dependencies checker.
79       
80        - Updated some translation files.
81       
[2121]82    - 1.21beta2 :
83   
84        - Fixed an LPRng specific bug.
85       
86        - Several improvements on stability issues with manually modified
87          LDAP trees.
88         
89        - Documentation improvements. 
90       
[2087]91    - 1.21beta :
92   
93        - Prepared translation files for next release.
94       
[2073]95    - 1.21alpha27 :
96   
[2074]97        - Allows software() (no arguments) to the software accounting
98          directive. This saves a lot of CPU since the job is not
99          parsed again : the precomputed size is used directly in this
100          case.
101         
[2073]102        - epykota's --prototype option now works fine with accounts
103          limited by balance.
104         
[2066]105    - 1.21alpha26 :
106   
107        - Fixed the handling of the 'maxdenybanners' directive.
108       
109        - Introduced the 'denyduplicates' directive.
110       
111        - Fixed some database related glitches.
112       
[2062]113    - 1.21alpha25 :
114   
115        - The job's size is now always precomputed, even when
116          'enforcement' is not set to 'strict'.
117         
118        - Introduction of the new 'trustjobsize' configuration directive
119          to workaround some problematic printers. See the sample
120          configuration file for details.
121         
[2054]122    - 1.21alpha24 :
123   
124        - Big database structure changes. An upgrade script
125          is now included for PostgreSQL. LDAP users may just
126          want to copy the new schema in place.
127         
128        - edpykota now recognizes the -o | --overcharge command line
129          option to set an overcharging or undercharging factor
130          on each print job's cost for a particular user.
131         
132        - repykota's output format has changed an is not limited to 
133          80 characters wide anymore. People who used to parse
134          repykota's output in their own tools are strongly advised
135          to parse dumpykota's output instead.
136         
137        - Introduction of the new 'maxdenybanners' configuration directive
138          to allow up to N (the directive's value) deny banners to be
139          printed even if the print account is forbidden to print.
140         
141        - Better detection of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
142       
[2044]143    - 1.21alpha23 :
144   
145        - Traditional Chinese translation added.
146   
147        - Several fixes and performance improvements with the LDAP backend.
148       
[2036]149    - 1.21alpha22 :
150   
151        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
152          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
153         
[2032]154    - 1.21alpha21 :
[2030]155   
[2032]156        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
157          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
158          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
159          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
160          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
161          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
162          administrator.
[2030]163         
[2032]164        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
165          of PygreSQL.   
166         
167    - 1.21alpha20 :
168         
169        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
170         
[2020]171    - 1.21alpha19 :
172   
173        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
174          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
175          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
176          may have to change your web server's configuration,
177          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
178         
[2013]179    - 1.21alpha18 :
180   
[2014]181        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
[2013]182          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
183          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
184          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
185         
[2002]186    - 1.21alpha17 :
187     
[2010]188        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
189       
[2006]190        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
191          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
192         
[2002]193        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
194       
[1998]195    - 1.21alpha16 :
196   
197        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
198          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
199         
[1993]200    - 1.21alpha15 :
201     
[1995]202        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
203          in dumpykota's output.
204         
[1993]205        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
206          the LDAP backend too.
207         
[1991]208    - 1.21alpha14 :
209   
210        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
211          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
212         
[1980]213    - 1.21alpha13 :
214   
215        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
216          that people may see what really happens, and what will
217          be available in the future :-)
218         
[1974]219    - 1.21alpha12 :
220   
[1977]221        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
222       
[1974]223        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
[1975]224          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
[1974]225         
[1967]226    - 1.21alpha11 :
227   
[1969]228        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
229          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
230          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
231          See the sample configuration file for details.
232         
[1968]233        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
234          Wold for the patch.
[1969]235          See the sample configuration file for details.
[1968]236         
[1967]237        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
238          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
239          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
240         
[1966]241    - 1.21alpha10 :
242   
243        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
244          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
245         
[1961]246    - 1.21alpha9 :
247   
[1962]248        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
[1961]249          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
250          to be created by the system administrator, and given
251          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
252         
[1956]253    - 1.21alpha8 :
254   
255        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
256          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
257         
[1952]258    - 1.21alpha7 :
259   
260        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
261       
[1941]262    - 1.21alpha6 :
263   
[1943]264        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
265       
[1941]266        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
267       
[1936]268    - 1.21alpha5 :
269   
[1940]270        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
271       
[1936]272        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
273       
274        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
275       
[1933]276    - 1.21alpha4 :
277   
278        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
279       
280        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
281          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
282       
[1923]283    - 1.21alpha3 :
284   
285        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
286          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
287          in pykota.conf
288          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
289         
[1905]290    - 1.21alpha2 :
291   
[1913]292        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
[1905]293          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
294          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
295         
[1901]296    - 1.21alpha1 :
297   
[1903]298        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
299          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
300          the CUPS developpers change something...
[1901]301       
[1894]302    - 1.20 :
303   
304        - Version number changed.
305       
[1868]306    - 1.20beta :
307   
[1891]308        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
309       
[1885]310        - German translation was finalized.
311       
[1879]312        - Greek translation was finalized.
313       
[1875]314        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
315          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
316          in the history.
317         
[1868]318        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
319       
[1867]320    - 1.20alpha27 :
321   
322        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
[2119]323          the Brazilian Portuguese translation file was incorrectly
[1867]324          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
325         
326        - Finished French translation. 
327         
[1847]328    - 1.20alpha26 :
329   
[1850]330        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
331          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
332         
[1848]333        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
334       
[1847]335        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
336       
[1814]337    - 1.20alpha25 :
338   
[1821]339        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
340          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
341          option is used.
342         
[1814]343        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
344          anymore.
345         
346        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
347       
[1806]348    - 1.20alpha24 :
349   
[1807]350        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
351       
[1806]352        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
353          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
354          their account.
355       
356        - Prepared help messages for translations.
357       
[1791]358    - 1.20alpha23 :
359   
360        - Add workaround for locale problem.
361       
[1788]362    - 1.20alpha22 :
363   
[1790]364        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
365       
[1789]366        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
367       
[1788]368        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
369       
[1785]370    - 1.20alpha21 :
371   
372        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
373          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
374          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
375         
376        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
377          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
378         
379        - Improved documentation a bit.
380       
[1771]381    - 1.20alpha20 :
382   
[1774]383        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
384          from 2 to 1 second.
385       
[1771]386        - dumpykota can now output XML.
387       
[1761]388    - 1.20alpha19 :
389   
[1769]390        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
391       
[1768]392        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
393       
[1766]394        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
395          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
396         
[1761]397        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
398          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
399          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
400         
[1757]401    - 1.20alpha18 :
402   
[1758]403        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
404          account and quota entries on first print while not
405          resetting the balance value if not needed.
406         
[1757]407        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
408          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
409          needed (Off by default).
410         
[1751]411    - 1.20alpha17 :
412   
[1755]413        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
414       
[1751]415        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
416          or options and LDAP backend.
417         
[1746]418    - 1.20alpha16 :
419   
420        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
421          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
422          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
423         
[1742]424    - 1.20alpha15 :
425   
426        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
427          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
428          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
429          is now correctly used.
430         
[1740]431    - 1.20alpha14 :
432   
[1741]433        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
434       
[1740]435        - External hardware accounter now loops until
436          a result can be read correctly.
437         
438        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
439          of the external one.
440         
[1729]441    - 1.20alpha13 :
442     
443        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
444          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
445          without launching any subprocess.
446          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
447          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
448         
[1731]449        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
450          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
451          CPU load.
452         
[1723]453    - 1.20alpha12 :
454   
455        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
456          for printer status stabilization.
457       
[1717]458    - 1.20alpha11 :
459   
460        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
461          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
462         
[1713]463    - 1.20alpha10 :
464   
465        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
466          hardware accounting fails.
467         
[1705]468    - 1.20alpha9 :
469   
470        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
471       
[1701]472    - 1.20alpha8 :
473   
474        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
475          supported.
476       
[1699]477    - 1.20alpha7 :
478   
479        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
480          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
481       
[1692]482    - 1.20alpha6 :
483     
[1697]484        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
485       
[1696]486        - Small fixes for LPRng.
[1695]487       
[1694]488        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
489          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
490          meaningful.
491         
[1693]492        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
493          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
494         
[1692]495        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
496       
[1687]497    - 1.20alpha5 :
498     
499        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
500          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
501          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
502          'stop' (default).
503         
504        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
505          problem.
506         
[1686]507    - 1.20alpha4 :
508   
509        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
510          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
511         
[1680]512    - 1.20alpha3 :
513       
[1683]514        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
515          fooled by a change in number of copies :
516          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
517          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
518          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
519          now the maximum value seen is used.
520         
[1681]521        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
522          printer drivers.
523         
[1680]524        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
525          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
526         
[1681]527        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
528          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
529          be configurable in the near future.
530         
[1676]531    - 1.20alpha2 :
532   
[1678]533        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
534          answer until a line with a single integer is
535          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
536          This should fix the problem some people have
537          when strange locale related messages are sent
538          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
539         
[1676]540        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
541          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
542          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
543          work to correctly analyze other devices.
544       
[1665]545    - 1.20alpha1 :
546   
[1675]547        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
548       
[1674]549        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
550          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
551          page.
552       
[1673]553        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
554          PostScript code.
555         
[1671]556        - Added german translation.
557       
[1665]558        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
559          "enforcement: strict" is used.
560       
561        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
562       
[1664]563    - 1.19 :
564   
565        - Updated existing translations.   
566       
567        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
568       
569        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
570       
[1629]571    - 1.19beta :
572   
573        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
574          to be OK.
575         
576        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
577       
[1639]578        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
[1633]579       
[1639]580        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
581       
582        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
583       
[1622]584    - 1.19alpha35 :
585   
586        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
587          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
588       
[1611]589    - 1.19alpha34 :
590   
591        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
592          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
593   
[1605]594    - 1.19alpha33 :
595   
596        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
597          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
598          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
599         
[1600]600    - 1.19alpha32 :
601   
[1604]602        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
[1600]603       
[1604]604        - Saner default configuration file.
605       
[1599]606    - 1.19alpha31 :
607   
608        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
609          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
610          this older version of Python.
611         
[1592]612    - 1.19alpha30 :
613   
[1595]614        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
615       
[1593]616        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
617          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
618       
[1592]619        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
620          Gonz�z Gonz�z
621         
[1584]622    - 1.19alpha29 :
623   
[1591]624        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
625          copies set for each page.
626         
[1588]627        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
628       
629        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
630       
[1584]631        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
632          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
633          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
634          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
635          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
636          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
637          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
638         
[1575]639    - 1.19alpha28 :
640   
[1582]641        - The description field for printers can now be set,
642          and is displayed in reports.
643         
644        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
645         
[1578]646        - Improved pkhint
647       
[1575]648        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
649          Doesn't handle copies yet.
650       
[1570]651    - 1.19alpha27 :
652   
[1573]653        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
654          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
655         
[1572]656        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
657          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
658          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
659          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
660         
[1570]661        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
662          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
[1572]663          almost three times automagically.
[1570]664         
[1564]665    - 1.19alpha26 :
666   
667        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
668       
[1566]669        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
670          of copies could vary from page to page.
[1568]671         
672        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
[1566]673       
[1556]674    - 1.19alpha25 :
675   
[1558]676        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
[1556]677          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
678         
[1558]679        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
[1557]680          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
681          be undercharged.
682         
[1558]683        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
684         
[1552]685    - 1.19alpha24 :
686   
687        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
688          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
689          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
690          because PDF is parsed directly.
691         
[1545]692    - 1.19alpha23 :
693   
[1549]694        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
695          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
696       
[1550]697        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
698          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
699          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
700          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
701          automatically which method to use depending on your
702          version of Python.
[1547]703       
[1546]704        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
[1545]705         
[1542]706    - 1.19alpha22 :
707   
[1544]708        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
709          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
710          job's size pre-computation phase.
711         
[1543]712        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
713          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
714          and PS.
715       
[1542]716        - Even better debugging code.
717       
[1541]718    - 1.19alpha21 :
719   
[1542]720        - Additionnal check.
[1541]721       
[1536]722    - 1.19alpha20 :
723   
724        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
725       
[1539]726        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
727          files are parsed.
728       
[1526]729    - 1.19alpha19 :
730   
731        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
732          or version.
[1527]733         
734        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
[1532]735       
736        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
737       
738        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
739          cause problems.
[1500]740
[1522]741    - 1.19alpha18 :
742   
743        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
744          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
745          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
746          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
747          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
748          in the jobs history instead.
749         
[1524]750        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
751          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
752          more easily readable.
753         
[1517]754    - 1.19alpha17 :
755   
756        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
757          any log message) which occured once in a while when
758          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
759         
760        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
761          default. See sample configuration file to see how
762          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
763         
764        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
[1519]765          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
[1521]766          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
767          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
[1517]768         
[1521]769        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
770          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
771          yet to support this functionnality.
772         
[1502]773    - 1.19alpha16 :
774   
[1510]775        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
776          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
777          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
778          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
779          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
780         
[1502]781        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
782          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
783       
[1500]784    - 1.19alpha15 :
785   
786        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
787          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
788          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
789         
[1495]790    - 1.19alpha14 :
791   
[1499]792        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
793          are now exported as environment variables.
794         
[1498]795        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
796          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
797         
[1497]798        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
799          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
800          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
801          feature.
802         
[1495]803        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
804          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
805          for details.
806         
[1494]807    - 1.19alpha13 :
808   
809        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
810          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
811          as time permits.
812         
[1492]813    - 1.19alpha12 :
814   
815        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
816          the generic PDL analyzer.
817          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
818          job.
819       
[1490]820    - 1.19alpha11 :
821   
822        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
823          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
824          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
825          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
826          in the near future.
827         
[1483]828    - 1.19alpha10 :
829   
[1488]830        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
831          of spawning a new process.
832         
[1487]833        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
834       
[1485]835        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
836          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
837          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
838          the original algorithm is still used for now.
839          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
840          expense of severe memory consumption.
841       
[1483]842        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
843          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
844          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
845          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
846       
[1478]847    - 1.19alpha9 :
848       
[1482]849        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
850       
[1480]851        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
852          too.
853         
[1478]854        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
855       
[1475]856    - 1.19alpha8 :
857   
858        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
859       
860        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
861       
862        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
863       
864        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
865       
866        - code simplifications in external requester
867       
[1473]868    - 1.19alpha7 :
869     
870        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
871          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
872          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
873          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
874          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
875         
[1463]876    - 1.19alpha6 :
877   
[1471]878        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
879       
[1463]880        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
881          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
882          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
883          PostScript.
884         
[1464]885        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
886          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
887         
[1451]888    - 1.19alpha5 :
889   
[1458]890        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
891       
[1459]892        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
893          problems under heavy load.
894         
[1456]895        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
896       
[1453]897        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
898          modify existing printers when --add is used.
899          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
900          used and a printer already exists.
[1451]901         
[1455]902        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
903          and pykotaTitle attributes.
904       
[1447]905    - 1.19alpha4 :
906   
907        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
908          is now fixed.
909         
[1451]910        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
911          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
912          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
[1449]913       
914        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
[1450]915          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
916          testing.
[1448]917         
[1437]918    - 1.19alpha3 :
919   
920        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
921          to list informations about printers.
922         
[1430]923    - 1.19alpha2 :
924   
925        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
926          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
927         
[1417]928    - 1.19alpha1 :
929   
[1421]930        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
931       
[1417]932        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
933       
[1415]934    - 1.18 :
935   
936        - Improved documentation
937       
[1411]938    - 1.18beta2 :
939     
940        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
941       
[1404]942    - 1.18beta :
943   
[1405]944        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
945       
[1404]946        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
947       
948        - Improved translations
949       
950        - Improved documentation
951       
[1396]952    - 1.18alpha15 :
[1398]953
954        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
[1404]955          and more powerful one.
[1396]956   
957        - Names can now begin with a digit.
958       
[1398]959        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
[1396]960       
[1381]961    - 1.18alpha14 :
962   
[1384]963        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
964          of breaking.
965         
[1381]966        - Italian translation added.
967       
[1376]968    - 1.18alpha13 :
969   
970        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
971          filter as well.
972         
973        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
[1377]974          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
975          this will be done anyway the next time the last
976          user will print again. This saves some database
977          queries which are unneeded.
[1376]978       
[1372]979    - 1.18alpha12 :
980   
[1376]981        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
[1372]982          many environment variables available are useable
983          from the cupspykota backend.
984          See sample configuration file for details and help.
985         
[1368]986    - 1.18alpha11 :
987   
988        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
989       
[1365]990    - 1.18alpha10 :
991   
992        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
993       
994        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
995       
[1360]996    - 1.18alpha9 :
997   
[1363]998        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
999       
[1362]1000        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
1001       
[1360]1002        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
1003       
[1358]1004    - 1.18alpha8 :
1005   
1006        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
1007          This avoids many database queries.
1008       
[1356]1009    - 1.18alpha7 :
1010   
1011        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
1012          LDAP caching.
1013         
[1353]1014    - 1.18alpha6 :
1015       
1016        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
1017          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
1018          email address is not set in PyKota database.
1019         
1020        - More complete email message headers. 
1021         
[1351]1022    - 1.18alpha5 :
1023   
1024        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
1025          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
1026         
1027        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
1028          up modifications (at least).
1029         
[1338]1030    - 1.18alpha4 :
1031   
[1345]1032        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
1033          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
1034          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
1035          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
1036          instead of into /usr/bin
1037          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
1038          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
1039          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
1040          waitprinter.sh and al.
1041         
[1338]1042        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
1043          accounting method for PyKota.
1044         
[1336]1045    - 1.18alpha3 :
1046   
1047        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
1048          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
1049       
[1330]1050    - 1.18alpha2 :
1051   
1052        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
1053          exclusively.
1054       
[1328]1055    - 1.18alpha1 :
1056   
1057        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
1058       
1059        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
1060       
[1323]1061    - 1.17 :
1062   
1063        - Finalized release.
1064       
[1321]1065    - 1.17alpha2 :
1066   
1067        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
1068       
[1318]1069    - 1.17alpha1 :
1070   
1071        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
1072       
[1308]1073    - 1.16 :
1074   
1075        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
1076          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
1077         
1078        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
1079          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
1080          though.
1081       
[2119]1082        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brazilian
1083          Portuguese Translation. Brazilian portuguese
[1308]1084          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
1085       
[1301]1086    - 1.16beta3 :
1087   
1088        - Swedish translation added.
1089       
1090        - Small fix in documentation.
1091       
[1291]1092    - 1.16beta2 :
1093   
1094        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
1095          printing in CUPS backend.
[1293]1096         
1097        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
[1291]1098       
[1287]1099    - 1.16beta1 :
1100   
1101        - Manpages upgraded.
1102       
[1285]1103    - 1.16alpha26 :
1104   
1105        - Job price is now computed like this :
1106       
1107          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
1108         
1109          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
[1286]1110          a member of, if any.
[1285]1111         
1112          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
1113          flexibility.
1114         
[1284]1115    - 1.16alpha25 :
1116   
1117        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
1118          using the following syntax :
1119         
1120            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
1121       
[1271]1122    - 1.16alpha24 :
1123   
[1274]1124        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1125       
[1272]1126        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1127       
[1271]1128        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1129          automatically add printers on first print.
1130       
[1269]1131    - 1.16alpha23 :
1132   
[1270]1133        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1134          several printers at the very same time.
[1269]1135       
[1258]1136    - 1.16alpha22 :
1137   
1138        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1139       
[1248]1140    - 1.16alpha21 :
1141   
1142        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1143       
[1249]1144        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1145       
[1240]1146    - 1.16alpha20 :
1147   
1148        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1149       
1150    - 1.16alpha19 :
1151     
1152        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1153       
1154    - 1.16alpha18 :
1155   
1156        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1157          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1158          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1159          groups for now.
1160
1161        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1162       
1163        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1164       
1165        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1166          + some particular settings.
1167         
1168        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1169          for details.
1170       
1171        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1172          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1173           
1174            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1175            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1176            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1177            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1178            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1179            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1180         
[1239]1181    - 1.16alpha17 :
[1227]1182   
[1239]1183        - Added portugues translation.
1184       
1185        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1186       
1187    - 1.16alpha16 :
1188   
[1235]1189        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1190          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1191       
[1227]1192        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1193          to lowercase during printing.
1194         
[1226]1195    - 1.15alpha15 :
1196   
1197        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1198          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1199         
[1221]1200    - 1.16alpha14 :
1201   
1202        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1203          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1204          on the printing system.
1205         
[1212]1206    - 1.16alpha13 :
1207   
1208        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1209       
[1215]1210        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
[1220]1211       
1212        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1213          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1214          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1215          this is not the case anymore.
[1212]1216         
[1203]1217    - 1.16alpha12 :
1218   
1219        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1220          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1221          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1222          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1223          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1224         
[1200]1225    - 1.16alpha11 :
1226   
1227        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1228          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1229          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1230          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1231         
1232        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1233          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1234         
[1194]1235    - 1.16alpha10 :
[1196]1236       
1237        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1238          See sample configuration file for details.
[1194]1239   
1240        - Spanish translation added.
1241       
[1192]1242    - 1.16alpha9 :
1243   
1244        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1245          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1246          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1247          file for details.
1248         
[1189]1249    - 1.16alpha8 :
1250   
[1191]1251        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1252          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1253         
[1189]1254        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1255          GNU GPL too.
1256         
[1185]1257    - 1.16alpha7 :
1258   
1259        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1260       
1261        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1262          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1263          used with LPRng though.
1264       
[1179]1265    - 1.16alpha6 :
1266   
1267        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1268          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1269          added to the database.
1270         
[1178]1271    - 1.16alpha5 :
1272   
1273        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1274          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1275          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1276       
[1177]1277    - 1.16alpha4 :
1278   
1279        - New CUPS backend added.
1280       
[1175]1281    - 1.16alpha3 :
1282       
1283        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1284       
[1172]1285    - 1.16alpha2 :
1286   
1287        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1288       
[1170]1289    - 1.16alpha1 :
1290   
1291        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1292       
1293        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1294       
[1168]1295    - 1.15 :
1296     
1297        - Documentation improved.
1298       
[1156]1299    - 1.15beta :
1300   
1301        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1302          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1303         
[1152]1304    - 1.15alpha9 :
1305   
1306        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1307          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1308          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1309          They have to be created manually before.
1310          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1311         
[1149]1312    - 1.15alpha8 :
1313   
1314        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1315          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1316          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1317          control.
1318       
[1138]1319    - 1.15alpha7 :
1320   
1321        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1322       
[1135]1323    - 1.15alpha6 :
1324   
1325        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1326       
[1130]1327    - 1.15alpha5 :
1328   
1329        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1330
[1123]1331    - 1.15alpha4 :
1332   
1333        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1334          modification.
1335         
[1121]1336    - 1.15alpha3 :
1337   
1338        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1339          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1340          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1341          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1342          unrestricted access is granted.
[1122]1343          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1344          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
[1121]1345         
[1116]1346    - 1.15alpha2 :
1347   
1348        - Better detection of LPRng.
1349       
1350        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1351       
[1115]1352    - 1.15alpha1 :
1353   
1354        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1355       
[1113]1356    - 1.14 :
1357   
1358        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1359          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1360          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1361       
[1111]1362    - 1.14beta2 :
1363   
1364        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1365          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1366          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1367          details.
1368       
[1105]1369    - 1.14beta :
1370   
1371        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1372          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1373          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1374          See sample configuration file for details.
1375         
[1099]1376    - 1.14alpha9 :
1377   
1378        - Documentation improved.
1379       
1380        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1381          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1382          limiting factor is "balance".
1383         
[1095]1384    - 1.14alpha8 :
1385   
1386        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1387          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1388          asking for their internal page counter.
1389          See sample configuration file for details.
1390         
[1089]1391    - 1.14alpha7 :
1392   
1393        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
1394          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
1395          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
1396          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
1397          time.
1398         
[1087]1399    - 1.14alpha6 :
1400   
1401        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
1402          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
1403          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
1404          Don't forget to :
1405         
1406                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
1407               
1408        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
1409          for the same reason.
1410         
1411        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
1412          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
1413         
[1085]1414    - 1.14alpha5 :
1415       
1416        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
1417       
[1082]1418    - 1.14alpha4 :
1419   
1420        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
1421          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
1422          as two different LDAP entries.
1423         
[1079]1424    - 1.14alpha3 :
1425   
1426        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
1427          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
1428       
[1078]1429    - 1.14alpha2 :
1430   
1431        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
1432       
[1077]1433    - 1.14alpha1 :
1434   
1435        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
1436          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
1437          a warning message.
1438         
1439        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
1440          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
1441       
[1068]1442    - 1.13 :
1443   
[1072]1444        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
1445       
[1068]1446        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
1447          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
1448          as well as a bug in the groups code.
1449         
[1067]1450    - 1.13alpha1 :
1451   
1452        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
1453       
[1065]1454    - 1.12 :
1455   
1456        - More complete test added in edpykota.
1457       
[1062]1458    - 1.12alpha2 :
1459   
1460        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
1461       
[1061]1462    - 1.12alpha1 :
1463   
1464        - Small bug fix.
1465       
[1057]1466    - 1.11 :
1467   
1468        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
1469          printing quotes for users.
1470         
[1056]1471    - 1.10 :
1472   
1473        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
1474          account balance.
1475         
[1052]1476    - 1.09 :
1477   
1478        - Translations finalized.
1479       
1480        - Manpages updated.
1481       
1482        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
1483       
[1049]1484    - 1.09beta2 :
1485   
1486        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
1487          is much more powerful.
1488       
[1043]1489    - 1.09beta :
1490   
1491        - edpykota finalized
1492       
[1041]1493    - 1.09alpha2 :
1494   
1495        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
1496       
1497        - LDAP backend works !
1498       
1499        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
1500          users or groups names on the command line. Users
1501          and groups names may contain wildcards.
1502         
1503        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
1504          current user when launched by non-root users.
1505         
1506        - Minor bug fixes. 
1507   
[1029]1508    - 1.09alpha1 :
1509   
1510        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
1511          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
1512          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
[1044]1513         
1514        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
1515          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
[1029]1516     
[1027]1517    - 1.08 :
1518   
1519        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
[1029]1520       
[1027]1521        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
1522       
[1021]1523    - 1.08alpha8 :
1524   
1525        - Code refactoring.
[1029]1526       
[1021]1527        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
1528          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
1529          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
1530          not used anymore.
[1029]1531         
[1022]1532        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
1533          file for details.
1534          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
1535          debug mode, for now.
[1021]1536       
[1019]1537    - 1.08alpha7 :
1538   
1539        - Very latest LDAP schema.
[1029]1540       
[1019]1541        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
1542          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
1543       
[1017]1544    - 1.08alpha6 :
1545   
1546        - Minor bug corrections
[1029]1547       
[1017]1548        - More work on LDAP : new schema
1549       
[1016]1550    - 1.08alpha5 :
1551   
[1017]1552        - More good work on LDAP storage.
1553          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
[1016]1554       
[1014]1555    - 1.08alpha4 :
1556   
1557        - LDAP schema included.
1558          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
1559          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
1560          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
1561          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
1562          MAILING LIST.
1563         
[1000]1564    - 1.08alpha3 :
1565   
1566        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
1567         
1568          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
1569         
1570          - They now take care of the number of copies
1571            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
1572            file already does this, because this would
1573            overcharge users (number of copies counted
1574            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
1575           
1576          - The sample configuration file now contains 
1577            an external accounting method example which should
1578            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
1579           
1580        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
1581       
[998]1582    - 1.08alpha2 :
1583   
1584        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
1585          It already worked, but the sample configuration
[1000]1586          file didn't contain appropriate values...
[998]1587       
[991]1588    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
1589   
1590        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
1591          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
1592         
[989]1593    - 1.06 :
1594   
1595        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
1596          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
1597          a bug was triggered.
1598          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
1599          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
1600         
[980]1601    - 1.05 :
1602   
1603        - External accounters are finally available !
1604          This means that you can plug any page accounting
1605          method you like by setting the appropriate
1606          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
1607          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
1608          learn how to do.
1609         
1610          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
1611               account a job size just before *this* job is
1612               sent to the printer.
1613               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
1614               size just before *the next* job is sent to
1615               the printer.
1616       
[976]1617    - 1.05alpha3 :
1618   
1619        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
1620          implemented to serve as an example on how to
1621          do this sort of things. This method only counts
1622          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
1623          See sample configuration file for details.
1624          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
1625          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
1626          It is not reliable enough to be used.
[978]1627          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
[976]1628         
[973]1629    - 1.05alpha2 :
1630   
1631        - Pluggable accounting methods.
1632       
[975]1633        - Better error handling.
1634       
[962]1635    - 1.05alpha1 :
1636   
[969]1637        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
1638       
[962]1639        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
1640          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
1641          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
1642          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
1643          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
1644         
[970]1645        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
1646         
[960]1647    - 1.04 :
[956]1648   
1649        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
1650          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
1651          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
1652          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
1653         
[954]1654        - LPRng support works !
1655       
[953]1656        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
1657          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
1658       
[950]1659        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
1660          printer, if they are defined.
1661         
[947]1662        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
1663       
1664        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
1665       
[942]1666    - 1.03 :
1667   
1668        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
1669          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
[965]1670          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
[942]1671         
[932]1672        - repykota now reports account balances too.
[929]1673       
[932]1674        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
1675          subdirectory.
1676       
[936]1677        - Manual pages were finally updated.
1678       
[927]1679        - Group quotas seem to work now !
1680       
[910]1681        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
1682          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
1683          and track users' account balance.
1684         
[917]1685        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
1686          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
1687          details.
1688         
[885]1689        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
1690          configuration file during first installation.
[892]1691         
1692        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
[885]1693       
[894]1694        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
1695       
[899]1696        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
1697          reports in the future.
[900]1698         
1699        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
1700          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
1701          a quota which is too low to print.
1702         
[901]1703        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
1704          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
1705          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
1706          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
1707          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
[909]1708          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
1709          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
1710          in this case.
[908]1711          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1712          off.
[901]1713         
1714        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
1715          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
[908]1716          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
1717          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
[901]1718          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
[908]1719          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
[925]1720          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
[901]1721         
[907]1722        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
1723          had a quota on the specified printer.
1724         
[913]1725        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
1726          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
[915]1727         
1728        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
[913]1729       
[919]1730        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
1731          file for details.
[925]1732         
1733        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
1734          print quota or by account balance.
[919]1735       
[877]1736    - 1.02 :
[859]1737   
[871]1738        - The installation script now checks for software availability
1739          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
1740          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
1741         
[872]1742        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
1743          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
1744          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
1745          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
1746          if needed.
1747         
[859]1748        - Improved documentation.
1749       
1750        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
1751          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
1752       
[872]1753        - Better general error handling.
[859]1754       
[875]1755        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
1756          included as well.
1757       
[852]1758    - 1.01 :
1759   
1760        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
1761          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
1762         
1763            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
1764            - User means only the user will receive them.
1765            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
1766            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
1767           
[853]1768        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
1769          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
1770          for details.
1771         
[852]1772        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
1773          add this information to this file.
1774         
[855]1775        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
1776          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
1777          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
1778          the version number.
1779         
[846]1780    - 1.00 :
1781   
1782        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
1783          disable quota checking while still doing page
1784          accounting. This is really useful for people
1785          who don't want to limit their users but want
1786          to know how much pages they print.
1787         
1788        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
1789          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
1790         
1791        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
1792       
[833]1793    - 0.99 :
1794   
1795        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
1796          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
1797          now fixed.
1798         
1799        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
[835]1800          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
[833]1801         
[827]1802    - 0.98 :
1803   
1804        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
1805       
[828]1806        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
1807       
[819]1808    - 0.97 :
1809   
1810        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
1811          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
1812         
1813              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
1814             
[821]1815        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
[819]1816          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
1817         
1818        - Small bug fixes.
1819       
[803]1820    - 0.96 :
1821
[808]1822        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
[807]1823          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
1824          priority if both are defined.
[803]1825
[807]1826        - More powerful configuration parser.
1827       
1828        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
1829          define a section for each printer in the configuration
1830          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
[803]1831
[797]1832    - 0.95 :
1833
[798]1834        - External requesters for printers finally added.
[797]1835
1836        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
1837 
1838        - More complete quota usage report
1839
1840        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
1841
1842        - Several bugs fixed.
1843
1844
1845    - 0.9 :
1846
1847        - First public version
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