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3PyKota - Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng
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21
22PyKota NEWS :
23       
24    - 1.25alpha17 (2006-11-27) :
25   
26        - The code was changed to accomodate ReportLab 2.x in pkbanner
27          and pkinvoice. ReportLab v1.x is now only supported with
28          an english or C locale.
29         
30        - pknotify now accepts the --noremote command line option to
31          decide what has to be done when there's no PyKotIcon running
32          or accepting connections from the print server on the client host.
33         
34        - pkprinters now only modifies CUPS' printers.conf when the
35          -C | --cups command line switch is used.
36         
37    - 1.25alpha16 (2006-11-12) :
38     
39        - Several fixes to CGI scripts wrt i18n.
40       
41        - Introduced the pkrefund command line tool to refund jobs.
42       
43        - Several i18n fixes.
44       
45        - Several minor fixes to documentation and translations.
46       
47    - 1.25alpha15 (2006-11-06) :   
48   
49        - pkprinters --add and --delete now automatically reroutes CUPS
50          print queues through PyKota or through CUPS only.
51         
52        - Fixed date and time parsing problems.
53       
54        - Finally simplified the locking code again, and checked that no
55          stalled lock can persist. The lock files remain on disk though,
56          but it is a small price to pay.
57         
58    - 1.25alpha14 (2006-10-13) :
59     
60        - Removed some locking code which would have prevented multi-server
61          configuration to work correctly with a shared lock directory.
62         
63        - First useable release with the computation of ink
64          usage, through the introduction of the 'ink(cspace, resolution)'
65          value for the 'preaccounter' and 'accounter' directives in
66          pykota.conf
67         
68    - 1.25alpha13 (2006-10-04) :
69     
70        - The dumpykota.cgi script now does basic form checking
71          to immediately avoid incompatible dump options and
72          alerts the end user if Javascript is enabled.
73         
74        - The filter keys in dumpykota can now be specified in
75          lower or upper case.
76         
77        - Introduced the 'noprintingmaxdelay' directive to workaround
78          some buggy printers when hardware accounting is used.
79         
80        - Improved the reliability of hardware accounting. 
81         
82    - 1.25alpha12 (2006-09-15) :
83   
84        - Fixes encoding of username and billingcode when they
85          are overwritten by a subprocess.
86         
87    - 1.25alpha11 (2006-09-06) :
88   
89        - Now fails in an helpful manner if python-mysqldb is too old.
90       
91        - Now exports the original username and billing code (i.e.
92          their values before they are eventually overwritten) in
93          two additionnal environment variables.
94         
95    - 1.25alpha10 (2006-09-03) :
96   
97        - Rewrote the locking mechanism to try to fix the problem
98          some people reported.
99         
100        - Permissions on cupspykota are now correctly set after
101          installation.
102         
103        - Added a workaround to incorrect charset through the add
104          of the python-chardet module as a dependency.
105         
106    - 1.25alpha9 (2006-08-10) :
107   
108        - Fixed a problem when an SMTP error occured and the recovery
109          routine failed to handle it correctly.
110         
111    - 1.25alpha8 (2006-07-11) :
112   
113        - Fixed a problem in the MySQL schema.
114       
115    - 1.25alpha7 (2006-06-20) :
116   
117        - Fixed some date formatting problems when retrieving the
118          printing history with MySQL.
119         
120        - Began code cleaning. 
121         
122    - 1.25alpha6 (2006-06-13) :
123   
124        - pkusers now supports the --email command line switch.
125          The old method to set the email address is still supported,
126          but the new one allows the email address to be modified
127          as well.
128         
129    - 1.25alpha6 (2006-06-09) :
130   
131        - Fixed the incorrect overwriting of the original billing
132          code if the overwrite_jobticket directive was used.
133         
134    - 1.25alpha5 (2006-06-03) :
135   
136        - Fixed minor issues with pkipplib's usage.
137       
138        - Fixed MySQL schema to workaround some "features"...
139       
140    - 1.25alpha4 (2006-05-23) :
141   
142        - Introduced the 'askconfirmation' directive to interact with
143          the end user through any script (pknotify is recommended)
144          and see if he really wants to print when knowing the cost
145          of the job.
146         
147        - Now uses pkipplib if present to directly retrieve the job
148          information from the CUPS server over IPP.
149         
150    - 1.25alpha3 (2006-05-11) :
151   
152        - Added a lock to ensure that a single cupspykota backend
153          is processing datas for a particular print queue at any
154          given time.
155         
156        - Now exports more environment variables for the subprocesses.
157         
158    - 1.25alpha2 (2006-05-03) :
159   
160        - Fixed some problems with DateTime objects.
161       
162        - Added support for PySNMP v4.x in addition to 3.4.x.
163       
164    - 1.25alpha1 (2006-04-14) :
165   
166        - Make the MySQL schema work with old releases of MySQL.
167       
168        - Fixed several character encoding problems.
169         
170        - Ensures that the denied banners counter is properly initialized
171          with relationnal databases.
172         
173    - 1.24 (2006-04-08) :
174   
175        - Improved documentation and packaging stuff.
176       
177    - 1.24beta (2006-03-26) :
178   
179        - Finalized the pknotify command.
180       
181        - Updated the messages catalogs for translations.
182       
183    - 1.24alpha18 (2006-03-15) :
184   
185        - Now uses MIME encapsulation for email messages to avoid
186          some problems with 8 bits messages being rejected.
187         
188    - 1.24alpha17 (2006-03-06) :
189   
190        - Fixed a major problem in the PostgreSQL backend.
191       
192        - pknotify can now check a remote user's name and password.
193       
194    - 1.24alpha16 (2006-03-02) :
195   
196        - Introduced the pknotify command line tool to dialog
197          with remote PyKotIcon applications.
198         
199    - 1.24alpha15 (2006-03-02) :
200       
201        - optimized pkbcodes, pkprinters and pkusers using edpykota as
202          the model.
203       
204        - 'edpykota --list' and 'pkusers --list' are now authorized
205          to mere mortal users, but the list is restricted to informations
206          about the current user.
207       
208        - Extended the functionnality of the 'onbackenderror' directive to
209          allow for configurable retries.
210         
211    - 1.24alpha14 :
212   
213        - Finished optimizations in edpykota and fixed some minor
214          problems with LDAP.
215         
216    - 1.24alpha13 :
217   
218        - Introduced the pkusers command line tool to manage users and 
219          users groups. This command doesn't deal with print quota entries,
220          which continue to be managed through the edpykota command line
221          tool.
222         
223        - Major rewrite and incompatible changes to command line options
224          in edpykota. This command now only deals with print quota
225          entries. Printers, users (or users groups) now have to be created
226          first using pkprinters or pkusers.
227         
228    - 1.24alpha12 :
229   
230        - Introduced the 'duplicatesdelay' directive to specify after
231          which duration two duplicate jobs are not considered duplicate
232          jobs anymore.
233         
234        - Introduced the 'balancezero' directive to specify any value 
235          as the balance limit instead of 0.0. This can allow admins to
236          give a few free credits to users, for example.
237         
238    - 1.24alpha11 :
239   
240        - Huge speed improvements when modifying billing codes and
241          printers.
242       
243        - Both pkbcodes and pkprinters now display the percent done
244          for all actions.
245         
246        - The pkinvoice invoice generator command line utility is now
247          included.
248         
249    - 1.24alpha10 :   
250   
251        - Huge speed improvements when deleting users, printers, and
252          billing codes.
253         
254    - 1.24alpha9 :
255   
256        - Preliminary support for MySQL, thanks to Matt Hyclak.
257       
258    - 1.24alpha8 :
259   
260        - The 'preaccounter' configuration directive was introduced to control
261          which parser to use for precomputation of the job's size. When unset,
262          the internal parser is used just like it was previously. See
263          conf/pykota.conf.sample for more details.
264         
265        - Now subprocesses launched through the overwrite_jobticket directive
266          can also output 'CANCEL', to represent the user's own choice to
267          cancel the print job.
268         
269    - 1.24alpha7 :
270     
271        - pkbanner now handles new print limiting modes correctly.
272       
273        - The cupspykota backend wrapper now accepts to be interrupted
274          with a kill -INT. This causes an immediate and clean abort
275          of the current print job.
276         
277        - Matt Hyclak contributed the possibility to store the printing
278          history in a MySQL database. See the contributed/ directory
279          for details.
280         
281        - Added 2006 to the copyright's years.
282       
283    - 1.24alpha6 :
284   
285        - Fixed internal SNMP and PJL handling code for very fast
286          printers : PyKota didn't see them going from 'idle'
287          to 'printing' to 'idle' again.
288         
289        - Now waitprinter.sh accepts SNMP version number and
290          community name as arguments, thanks to Brandon
291          Holbrook.
292         
293        - Now command line errors and Ctrl+C repectively cause
294          PyKota commands to exit with status -2 and -3.
295         
296    - 1.24alpha5 :
297   
298        - All command line tools now accept -A | --arguments filename.args
299          as a way to bypass the shell's maximal command line size :
300          just put each argument on a line by itself in a file, and
301          pass the file's name as the -A | --arguments command line
302          option's argument. For now this won't be documented in
303          commands' helps.
304         
305        - dumpykota can now dump the complete database in XML
306          format.
307         
308    - 1.24alpha4 :
309   
310        - Added support for the SQLite3 backend.
311          See pykota/initscripts/sqlite/README.sqlite
312       
313    - 1.24alpha3 :
314   
315        - Fix for mailandpopup.sh : smbstatus can't be run setuid,
316          so we regain priviledges before running an external
317          mailto directive.
318       
319    - 1.24alpha2 :
320   
321        - Introduce the "onbackenderror" directive in pykota.conf, to
322          control if the user must be charged or not whenever a real
323          CUPS backend fails. The default value is 'nocharge'.
324          Set it to 'charge' if you think your users can cause a CUPS
325          backend to fail.
326         
327        - Now mark original backends related problems as such in the
328          printing history. Modified printquota.cgi and pykota.css
329          to make them be more visible.
330         
331    - 1.24alpha1 :
332   
333        - Fixed a problem which caused backend errors to be ignored.
334       
335        - The sample LDIF file now contains the two necessary user
336          entries to have an LDAP PyKota Admin and an LDAP PyKota
337          ReadOnly user. The sample configuration files were updated
338          to contain the default passwords used in the LDIF file.
339         
340        - dumpykota is now more strict when checking arguments.   
341       
342    - 1.23 :
343   
344        - Many minor bug fixes and code cleaning.
345       
346        - Improved documentation.
347       
348        - Added Polish translation.
349       
350        - Improved French and Swedish translations.
351       
352    - 1.23beta :
353   
354        - Now the mailto directive is honored in all cases where the job is
355          denied or a warning has to be issued, and the correct reason
356          can be sent back to the user.
357         
358        - The PYKOTAREASON environment variable, if defined, contains the 
359          textual reason why the job was denied or a warning has to be
360          issued.
361       
362    - 1.23alpha31 :
363   
364        - Added support for --maxjobsize, --passthrough and --nopassthrough
365          in pkprinters. These modes are now also honored when printing.
366         
367        - Allows the admin to restrict the number of print queues which will
368          be treated by pkturnkey by passing queues' names as additionnal
369          arguments on pkturnkey's command line.
370         
371        - pkturnkey now supersedes pkhint with the help of the -c | --doconf
372          command line option.   
373         
374    - 1.23alpha30 :
375   
376        - Database changes : you MUST use upgrade-to-1.23.sql again if you
377          use PostgreSQL, or copy the new schema and restart your LDAP
378          server if you use LDAP.
379         
380        - The -C | --comment command line switch was added to edpykota to 
381          attach textual information to modifications done to a user's
382          account balance.
383         
384        - The -l | --limitby command line switch to edpykota was modified 
385          to allow 'noquota', 'nochange', and 'noprint'. See the edpykota
386          command's help or manual page for details.
387         
388        - The -i | --ingroups command line switch to repykota allows 
389          PyKota Administrators to only lists members of the specified
390          group or groups (separated with commas).
391         
392        - The -I | --increase command line switch to edpykota allows
393          to increase or decrease page limits.
394         
395        - Added the precomputed job's size and price to the history
396          for controlling purpose.
397       
398    - 1.23alpha29 :
399   
400        - Fixed a small problem with billing codes.
401       
402        - Exports some environment variables earlier, to render the script
403          launched by the overwrite_jobticket directive more powerful.
404         
405        - Now autopykota also creates print quota entries for the user on the
406          printers groups the current printer is a member of.
407         
408    - 1.23alpha28 :
409   
410        - Added users groups management to pkturnkey.
411       
412        - Fixed umask in setup script.
413       
414    - 1.23alpha27 :
415   
416        - Replaced the --dryrun command line option by the --force
417          command line option in pkturnkey, with exactly the opposite
418          effect (for security reasons).
419         
420    - 1.23alpha26 :
421   
422        - Allows parametrized pjl and snmp hardware accounting methods,
423          to be able to respectively set the TCP port and the SNMP
424          community.
425         
426    - 1.23alpha25 :
427   
428        - Added a --dryrun command line switch to pkturnkey.
429       
430        - Improved pkturnkey's general usability.
431       
432        - Added a manpage for pkturnkey.
433       
434    - 1.23alpha24 :
435   
436        - Allows different databases to be used depending on the
437          user's rights. This allows PyKota admins to directly
438          use a master LDAP server for read+write, while letting
439          normal users using the replicas for readonly access.
440          NB : using different storage backends is also possible,
441          but you're on your own there.
442         
443    - 1.23alpha23 :
444   
445        - Fixed a problem with banner accounting.
446   
447        - Introduction of the new 'pkturnkey' command line tool.
448       
449    - 1.23alpha22 :
450   
451        - The cupspykota backend was almost entirely rewritten from scratch.
452          It's now much more readable, maintainable, etc...
453         
454        - LPRng support is OFFICIALLY dropped for now. LPRng users are 
455          advised to download earlier releases or purchase the
456          PyKota v1.22HotFix1 Official release. LPRng support
457          MIGHT be re-added later.
458       
459    - 1.23alpha21 :
460     
461        - Fix for IPP requests which contain more than a single
462          job-originating-host-name attribute.
463         
464    - 1.23alpha20 :
465   
466        - Added the overwrite_jobticket directive. See pykota.conf.sample
467          for how to use it.
468         
469    - 1.23alpha19 :
470   
471        - Fixed an LDAP filtering problem when managing billing codes.
472       
473        - Added the unknown_billingcode directive. See pykota.conf.sample
474          for how to use it.
475       
476    - 1.23alpha18 :
477     
478        - Added the dump_bfd.php contribution.
479       
480        - Several fixes in the internal PJL accounter.
481       
482        - Now autopykota doesn't create unneeded print quota entries anymore.
483       
484        - Increased the timeout in the PJL hardware accounting code to
485          accomodate some printers (HP5000 at least).
486         
487    - 1.23alpha17 :
488   
489        - pkpgcounter is now distributed separately only. This
490          means that people must now download and install pkpgcounter
491          v1.56 or higher prior to being able to run PyKota.
492         
493        - Removed all the autoconf/automake stuff which was outdated 
494          and confusing.
495         
496    - 1.23alpha16 :
497     
498        - Extracted the GPL blurb from all commands' help, and use
499          a static version only once. This saves space big time, and
500          eases future translations.
501         
502    - 1.23alpha15 :
503   
504        - pkbcodes now works with the PostgreSQL backend.
505          NB : PLEASE RUN upgrade-to-1.23.sql AGAIN !!!
506       
507    - 1.23alpha14 :
508   
509        - Logs a warning when the user/group doesn't exist when running
510          edpykota.
511         
512    - 1.23alpha13 :
513   
514        - Minor fix for user groups because of latest database changes.
515       
516    - 1.23alpha12 :
517   
518        - Big database changes, use the migration scripts !
519       
520    - 1.23alpha11 :
521   
522        - Small fix to the PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers.
523       
524    - 1.23alpha10 :
525   
526        - Fixed a bad exception name in cupspykota when parsing IPP messages.
527       
528        - Improved the IPP messages module : it can now generate IPP messages
529          in addition to parsing them.
530       
531    - 1.23alpha9 :   
532   
533        - The denyduplicates directive now accepts a command line as an
534          argument beside yes/no. The command is launched and must
535          print either ALLOW or DENY to its standard output. Then the
536          job gets allowed or denied by PyKota.
537          This will allow user interaction in the near future.
538         
539        - Introduced the new 'striptitle' directive to remove ugly prefixes
540          from print job's titles whenever a new print job is submitted.
541         
542        - Fixed internal SNMP accounter for printers which only have a life time
543          page counter, and not a volatile page counter.
544         
545    - 1.23alpha8 :
546   
547        - The data dumper can now summarize payments and history with the
548          help of the --sum command line option (or checkbox in the CGI).
549         
550        - The message used when the job's filename, title and options are
551          hidden because of the privacy directive is now translated at
552          retrieval time, instead of at saving time.
553         
554        - Minor fix in the LDAP backend code. 
555         
556    - 1.23alpha7 :
557   
558        - Improvements to the internal PJL and SNMP accounter : now should
559          support more printers and waste less time.
560         
561    - 1.23alpha6 :
562   
563        - The data dumper's start= and end= date filtering options now
564          accept a positive or negative offset to be added to the special
565          keywords 'yesterday', 'today', 'now', 'tomorrow'.
566          e.g. : dumpykota --data history start=yesterday-5 end=today
567         
568    - 1.23alpha5 :
569   
570        - The data dumper's start= and end= date filtering options now accept
571          the special keywords 'yesterday', 'today', 'now' and 'tomorrow'.
572         
573    - 1.23alpha4 :
574   
575        - The data dumper now accept start= and end= to specify the starting
576          and ending dates to dump the history.
577         
578    - 1.23alpha3 :
579   
580        - The destination link for the logo used in CGI scripts is
581          configurable.
582         
583        - Data dumper improved : it's faster and now datas are correctly
584          escaped.
585       
586        - The URL to the logo displayed in the CGI scripts is configurable.
587       
588    - 1.23alpha2 :
589   
590        - Fixed edpykota --prototype with balance.
591       
592        - Major rewrite of the IPP message parsing code to definitely
593          fix the job-originating-hostname IPP attribute problem.
594       
595    - 1.23alpha1 :   
596   
597        - Sets current username to the user CUPS runs as instead of "root"
598          when printing test pages from CUPS' web interface (because
599          the username is empty in this case).
600         
601        - Fix for strange values in job-originating-hostname
602       
603    - 1.22 :
604   
605        - Big improvements to the documentation.
606       
607    - 1.22beta :
608   
609        - Improved stability in pykotme and pykotme.cgi.
610       
611        - Fixed a permission problem in pykotme and pykosd.
612       
613        - Fixed an inconsitency between SQL and LDAP backends'
614          behavior in edpykota.
615         
616        - Improved stability and allowed tracebacks in CGI scripts.
617       
618        - Improved pykotme.cgi
619         
620    - 1.22alpha8 :
621   
622        - Fixed history retrieval for nonexisting printers or users.
623       
624        - Clicking on the billing code in printquota.cgi's job history
625          now shows all jobs matching this billing code.
626         
627        - Fixed the dump in CUPS' page_log format which didn't
628          dump the oldest entry.
629         
630        - The data dumper now accepts billingcode= and hostname= as
631          filters when dumping the job history.
632         
633        - The job billing code if present is now saved into the database,
634          and exported to subprocesses as the PYKOTAJOBBILLING environment
635          variable.
636         
637        - Ctrl+C now makes PyKota commands exit without a traceback.
638       
639        - Fixed an i18n problem with Python 2.1
640       
641    - 1.22alpha7 :
642   
643        - Fixed some problems with the retrieval of the history from LDAP.
644       
645    - 1.22alpha6 :
646   
647        - Early errors now produce meaningful error messages (finally !)
648       
649    - 1.22alpha5 :
650       
651        - SNMP and PJL improvements with regard to PowerSave / StandBy.
652       
653    - 1.22alpha4 :
654   
655        - Fixed charset problem under MacOSX.
656       
657        - Allows pkbanner to accept more info to display on its
658          command line.
659         
660    - 1.22alpha3 :
661   
662        - Fixes some case related problems with some LDAP backends.
663       
664        - Fixes some problem for printers which directly go from
665          "idle" to "warmup" and never to "printing" before
666          returning to "idle".
667         
668        - Some permissions settings may have prevented cupspykota
669          from parsing cupsd.conf, this is now fixed.
670         
671    - 1.22alpha2 :
672   
673        - Introduction of the web enabled print quote generator.
674       
675        - Fixed a potential race condition when several backend
676          wrappers were present in CUPS' backend directory.
677         
678        - Fixed dumpykota's output in CUPS' page_log format to better
679          match CUPS format.
680         
681    - 1.22alpha1 :
682   
683        - Import into Subversion.
684       
685    - 1.21 :
686   
687        - Improved documentation.
688       
689        - Improved dependencies checker.
690       
691        - Updated some translation files.
692       
693    - 1.21beta2 :
694   
695        - Fixed an LPRng specific bug.
696       
697        - Several improvements on stability issues with manually modified
698          LDAP trees.
699         
700        - Documentation improvements. 
701       
702    - 1.21beta :
703   
704        - Prepared translation files for next release.
705       
706    - 1.21alpha27 :
707   
708        - Allows software() (no arguments) to the software accounting
709          directive. This saves a lot of CPU since the job is not
710          parsed again : the precomputed size is used directly in this
711          case.
712         
713        - epykota's --prototype option now works fine with accounts
714          limited by balance.
715         
716    - 1.21alpha26 :
717   
718        - Fixed the handling of the 'maxdenybanners' directive.
719       
720        - Introduced the 'denyduplicates' directive.
721       
722        - Fixed some database related glitches.
723       
724    - 1.21alpha25 :
725   
726        - The job's size is now always precomputed, even when
727          'enforcement' is not set to 'strict'.
728         
729        - Introduction of the new 'trustjobsize' configuration directive
730          to workaround some problematic printers. See the sample
731          configuration file for details.
732         
733    - 1.21alpha24 :
734   
735        - Big database structure changes. An upgrade script
736          is now included for PostgreSQL. LDAP users may just
737          want to copy the new schema in place.
738         
739        - edpykota now recognizes the -o | --overcharge command line
740          option to set an overcharging or undercharging factor
741          on each print job's cost for a particular user.
742         
743        - repykota's output format has changed an is not limited to 
744          80 characters wide anymore. People who used to parse
745          repykota's output in their own tools are strongly advised
746          to parse dumpykota's output instead.
747         
748        - Introduction of the new 'maxdenybanners' configuration directive
749          to allow up to N (the directive's value) deny banners to be
750          printed even if the print account is forbidden to print.
751         
752        - Better detection of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
753       
754    - 1.21alpha23 :
755   
756        - Traditional Chinese translation added.
757   
758        - Several fixes and performance improvements with the LDAP backend.
759       
760    - 1.21alpha22 :
761   
762        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
763          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
764         
765    - 1.21alpha21 :
766   
767        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
768          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
769          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
770          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
771          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
772          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
773          administrator.
774         
775        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
776          of PygreSQL.   
777         
778    - 1.21alpha20 :
779         
780        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
781         
782    - 1.21alpha19 :
783   
784        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
785          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
786          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
787          may have to change your web server's configuration,
788          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
789         
790    - 1.21alpha18 :
791   
792        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
793          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
794          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
795          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
796         
797    - 1.21alpha17 :
798     
799        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
800       
801        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
802          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
803         
804        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
805       
806    - 1.21alpha16 :
807   
808        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
809          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
810         
811    - 1.21alpha15 :
812     
813        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
814          in dumpykota's output.
815         
816        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
817          the LDAP backend too.
818         
819    - 1.21alpha14 :
820   
821        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
822          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
823         
824    - 1.21alpha13 :
825   
826        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
827          that people may see what really happens, and what will
828          be available in the future :-)
829         
830    - 1.21alpha12 :
831   
832        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
833       
834        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
835          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
836         
837    - 1.21alpha11 :
838   
839        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
840          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
841          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
842          See the sample configuration file for details.
843         
844        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
845          Wold for the patch.
846          See the sample configuration file for details.
847         
848        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
849          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
850          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
851         
852    - 1.21alpha10 :
853   
854        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
855          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
856         
857    - 1.21alpha9 :
858   
859        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
860          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
861          to be created by the system administrator, and given
862          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
863         
864    - 1.21alpha8 :
865   
866        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
867          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
868         
869    - 1.21alpha7 :
870   
871        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
872       
873    - 1.21alpha6 :
874   
875        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
876       
877        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
878       
879    - 1.21alpha5 :
880   
881        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
882       
883        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
884       
885        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
886       
887    - 1.21alpha4 :
888   
889        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
890       
891        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
892          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
893       
894    - 1.21alpha3 :
895   
896        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
897          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
898          in pykota.conf
899          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
900         
901    - 1.21alpha2 :
902   
903        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
904          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
905          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
906         
907    - 1.21alpha1 :
908   
909        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
910          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
911          the CUPS developpers change something...
912       
913    - 1.20 :
914   
915        - Version number changed.
916       
917    - 1.20beta :
918   
919        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
920       
921        - German translation was finalized.
922       
923        - Greek translation was finalized.
924       
925        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
926          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
927          in the history.
928         
929        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
930       
931    - 1.20alpha27 :
932   
933        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
934          the Brazilian Portuguese translation file was incorrectly
935          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
936         
937        - Finished French translation. 
938         
939    - 1.20alpha26 :
940   
941        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
942          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
943         
944        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
945       
946        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
947       
948    - 1.20alpha25 :
949   
950        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
951          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
952          option is used.
953         
954        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
955          anymore.
956         
957        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
958       
959    - 1.20alpha24 :
960   
961        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
962       
963        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
964          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
965          their account.
966       
967        - Prepared help messages for translations.
968       
969    - 1.20alpha23 :
970   
971        - Add workaround for locale problem.
972       
973    - 1.20alpha22 :
974   
975        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
976       
977        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
978       
979        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
980       
981    - 1.20alpha21 :
982   
983        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
984          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
985          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
986         
987        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
988          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
989         
990        - Improved documentation a bit.
991       
992    - 1.20alpha20 :
993   
994        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
995          from 2 to 1 second.
996       
997        - dumpykota can now output XML.
998       
999    - 1.20alpha19 :
1000   
1001        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
1002       
1003        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
1004       
1005        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
1006          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
1007         
1008        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
1009          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
1010          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
1011         
1012    - 1.20alpha18 :
1013   
1014        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
1015          account and quota entries on first print while not
1016          resetting the balance value if not needed.
1017         
1018        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
1019          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
1020          needed (Off by default).
1021         
1022    - 1.20alpha17 :
1023   
1024        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
1025       
1026        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
1027          or options and LDAP backend.
1028         
1029    - 1.20alpha16 :
1030   
1031        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
1032          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
1033          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
1034         
1035    - 1.20alpha15 :
1036   
1037        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
1038          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
1039          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
1040          is now correctly used.
1041         
1042    - 1.20alpha14 :
1043   
1044        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
1045       
1046        - External hardware accounter now loops until
1047          a result can be read correctly.
1048         
1049        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
1050          of the external one.
1051         
1052    - 1.20alpha13 :
1053     
1054        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
1055          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
1056          without launching any subprocess.
1057          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
1058          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
1059         
1060        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
1061          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
1062          CPU load.
1063         
1064    - 1.20alpha12 :
1065   
1066        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
1067          for printer status stabilization.
1068       
1069    - 1.20alpha11 :
1070   
1071        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
1072          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
1073         
1074    - 1.20alpha10 :
1075   
1076        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
1077          hardware accounting fails.
1078         
1079    - 1.20alpha9 :
1080   
1081        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
1082       
1083    - 1.20alpha8 :
1084   
1085        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
1086          supported.
1087       
1088    - 1.20alpha7 :
1089   
1090        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
1091          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
1092       
1093    - 1.20alpha6 :
1094     
1095        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
1096       
1097        - Small fixes for LPRng.
1098       
1099        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
1100          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
1101          meaningful.
1102         
1103        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
1104          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
1105         
1106        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
1107       
1108    - 1.20alpha5 :
1109     
1110        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
1111          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
1112          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
1113          'stop' (default).
1114         
1115        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
1116          problem.
1117         
1118    - 1.20alpha4 :
1119   
1120        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
1121          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
1122         
1123    - 1.20alpha3 :
1124       
1125        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
1126          fooled by a change in number of copies :
1127          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
1128          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
1129          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
1130          now the maximum value seen is used.
1131         
1132        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
1133          printer drivers.
1134         
1135        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
1136          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
1137         
1138        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
1139          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
1140          be configurable in the near future.
1141         
1142    - 1.20alpha2 :
1143   
1144        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
1145          answer until a line with a single integer is
1146          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
1147          This should fix the problem some people have
1148          when strange locale related messages are sent
1149          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
1150         
1151        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
1152          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
1153          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
1154          work to correctly analyze other devices.
1155       
1156    - 1.20alpha1 :
1157   
1158        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
1159       
1160        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
1161          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
1162          page.
1163       
1164        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
1165          PostScript code.
1166         
1167        - Added german translation.
1168       
1169        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
1170          "enforcement: strict" is used.
1171       
1172        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
1173       
1174    - 1.19 :
1175   
1176        - Updated existing translations.   
1177       
1178        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
1179       
1180        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
1181       
1182    - 1.19beta :
1183   
1184        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
1185          to be OK.
1186         
1187        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
1188       
1189        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
1190       
1191        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
1192       
1193        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
1194       
1195    - 1.19alpha35 :
1196   
1197        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
1198          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
1199       
1200    - 1.19alpha34 :
1201   
1202        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
1203          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
1204   
1205    - 1.19alpha33 :
1206   
1207        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
1208          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
1209          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
1210         
1211    - 1.19alpha32 :
1212   
1213        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
1214       
1215        - Saner default configuration file.
1216       
1217    - 1.19alpha31 :
1218   
1219        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
1220          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
1221          this older version of Python.
1222         
1223    - 1.19alpha30 :
1224   
1225        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
1226       
1227        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
1228          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
1229       
1230        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
1231          Gonz�z Gonz�z
1232         
1233    - 1.19alpha29 :
1234   
1235        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
1236          copies set for each page.
1237         
1238        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
1239       
1240        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
1241       
1242        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
1243          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
1244          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
1245          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
1246          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
1247          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
1248          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
1249         
1250    - 1.19alpha28 :
1251   
1252        - The description field for printers can now be set,
1253          and is displayed in reports.
1254         
1255        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
1256         
1257        - Improved pkhint
1258       
1259        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
1260          Doesn't handle copies yet.
1261       
1262    - 1.19alpha27 :
1263   
1264        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
1265          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
1266         
1267        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
1268          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
1269          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
1270          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
1271         
1272        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
1273          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
1274          almost three times automagically.
1275         
1276    - 1.19alpha26 :
1277   
1278        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
1279       
1280        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
1281          of copies could vary from page to page.
1282         
1283        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
1284       
1285    - 1.19alpha25 :
1286   
1287        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
1288          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
1289         
1290        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
1291          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
1292          be undercharged.
1293         
1294        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
1295         
1296    - 1.19alpha24 :
1297   
1298        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
1299          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
1300          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
1301          because PDF is parsed directly.
1302         
1303    - 1.19alpha23 :
1304   
1305        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
1306          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
1307       
1308        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
1309          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
1310          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
1311          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
1312          automatically which method to use depending on your
1313          version of Python.
1314       
1315        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
1316         
1317    - 1.19alpha22 :
1318   
1319        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
1320          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
1321          job's size pre-computation phase.
1322         
1323        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
1324          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
1325          and PS.
1326       
1327        - Even better debugging code.
1328       
1329    - 1.19alpha21 :
1330   
1331        - Additionnal check.
1332       
1333    - 1.19alpha20 :
1334   
1335        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
1336       
1337        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
1338          files are parsed.
1339       
1340    - 1.19alpha19 :
1341   
1342        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
1343          or version.
1344         
1345        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
1346       
1347        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
1348       
1349        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
1350          cause problems.
1351
1352    - 1.19alpha18 :
1353   
1354        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
1355          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
1356          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
1357          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
1358          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
1359          in the jobs history instead.
1360         
1361        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
1362          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
1363          more easily readable.
1364         
1365    - 1.19alpha17 :
1366   
1367        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
1368          any log message) which occured once in a while when
1369          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
1370         
1371        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
1372          default. See sample configuration file to see how
1373          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
1374         
1375        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
1376          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
1377          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
1378          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
1379         
1380        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
1381          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
1382          yet to support this functionnality.
1383         
1384    - 1.19alpha16 :
1385   
1386        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
1387          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
1388          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
1389          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
1390          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
1391         
1392        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
1393          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
1394       
1395    - 1.19alpha15 :
1396   
1397        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
1398          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
1399          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
1400         
1401    - 1.19alpha14 :
1402   
1403        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
1404          are now exported as environment variables.
1405         
1406        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
1407          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
1408         
1409        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
1410          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
1411          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
1412          feature.
1413         
1414        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
1415          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
1416          for details.
1417         
1418    - 1.19alpha13 :
1419   
1420        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
1421          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
1422          as time permits.
1423         
1424    - 1.19alpha12 :
1425   
1426        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
1427          the generic PDL analyzer.
1428          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
1429          job.
1430       
1431    - 1.19alpha11 :
1432   
1433        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
1434          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
1435          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
1436          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
1437          in the near future.
1438         
1439    - 1.19alpha10 :
1440   
1441        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
1442          of spawning a new process.
1443         
1444        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
1445       
1446        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
1447          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
1448          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
1449          the original algorithm is still used for now.
1450          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
1451          expense of severe memory consumption.
1452       
1453        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
1454          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
1455          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
1456          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
1457       
1458    - 1.19alpha9 :
1459       
1460        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
1461       
1462        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
1463          too.
1464         
1465        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
1466       
1467    - 1.19alpha8 :
1468   
1469        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
1470       
1471        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
1472       
1473        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
1474       
1475        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
1476       
1477        - code simplifications in external requester
1478       
1479    - 1.19alpha7 :
1480     
1481        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
1482          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
1483          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
1484          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
1485          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
1486         
1487    - 1.19alpha6 :
1488   
1489        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
1490       
1491        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
1492          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
1493          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
1494          PostScript.
1495         
1496        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
1497          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
1498         
1499    - 1.19alpha5 :
1500   
1501        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
1502       
1503        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
1504          problems under heavy load.
1505         
1506        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
1507       
1508        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
1509          modify existing printers when --add is used.
1510          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
1511          used and a printer already exists.
1512         
1513        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
1514          and pykotaTitle attributes.
1515       
1516    - 1.19alpha4 :
1517   
1518        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
1519          is now fixed.
1520         
1521        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
1522          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
1523          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
1524       
1525        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
1526          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
1527          testing.
1528         
1529    - 1.19alpha3 :
1530   
1531        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
1532          to list informations about printers.
1533         
1534    - 1.19alpha2 :
1535   
1536        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
1537          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
1538         
1539    - 1.19alpha1 :
1540   
1541        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
1542       
1543        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
1544       
1545    - 1.18 :
1546   
1547        - Improved documentation
1548       
1549    - 1.18beta2 :
1550     
1551        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
1552       
1553    - 1.18beta :
1554   
1555        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
1556       
1557        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
1558       
1559        - Improved translations
1560       
1561        - Improved documentation
1562       
1563    - 1.18alpha15 :
1564
1565        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
1566          and more powerful one.
1567   
1568        - Names can now begin with a digit.
1569       
1570        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
1571       
1572    - 1.18alpha14 :
1573   
1574        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
1575          of breaking.
1576         
1577        - Italian translation added.
1578       
1579    - 1.18alpha13 :
1580   
1581        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
1582          filter as well.
1583         
1584        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
1585          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
1586          this will be done anyway the next time the last
1587          user will print again. This saves some database
1588          queries which are unneeded.
1589       
1590    - 1.18alpha12 :
1591   
1592        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
1593          many environment variables available are useable
1594          from the cupspykota backend.
1595          See sample configuration file for details and help.
1596         
1597    - 1.18alpha11 :
1598   
1599        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
1600       
1601    - 1.18alpha10 :
1602   
1603        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
1604       
1605        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
1606       
1607    - 1.18alpha9 :
1608   
1609        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
1610       
1611        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
1612       
1613        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
1614       
1615    - 1.18alpha8 :
1616   
1617        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
1618          This avoids many database queries.
1619       
1620    - 1.18alpha7 :
1621   
1622        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
1623          LDAP caching.
1624         
1625    - 1.18alpha6 :
1626       
1627        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
1628          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
1629          email address is not set in PyKota database.
1630         
1631        - More complete email message headers. 
1632         
1633    - 1.18alpha5 :
1634   
1635        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
1636          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
1637         
1638        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
1639          up modifications (at least).
1640         
1641    - 1.18alpha4 :
1642   
1643        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
1644          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
1645          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
1646          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
1647          instead of into /usr/bin
1648          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
1649          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
1650          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
1651          waitprinter.sh and al.
1652         
1653        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
1654          accounting method for PyKota.
1655         
1656    - 1.18alpha3 :
1657   
1658        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
1659          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
1660       
1661    - 1.18alpha2 :
1662   
1663        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
1664          exclusively.
1665       
1666    - 1.18alpha1 :
1667   
1668        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
1669       
1670        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
1671       
1672    - 1.17 :
1673   
1674        - Finalized release.
1675       
1676    - 1.17alpha2 :
1677   
1678        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
1679       
1680    - 1.17alpha1 :
1681   
1682        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
1683       
1684    - 1.16 :
1685   
1686        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
1687          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
1688         
1689        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
1690          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
1691          though.
1692       
1693        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brazilian
1694          Portuguese Translation. Brazilian portuguese
1695          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
1696       
1697    - 1.16beta3 :
1698   
1699        - Swedish translation added.
1700       
1701        - Small fix in documentation.
1702       
1703    - 1.16beta2 :
1704   
1705        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
1706          printing in CUPS backend.
1707         
1708        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
1709       
1710    - 1.16beta1 :
1711   
1712        - Manpages upgraded.
1713       
1714    - 1.16alpha26 :
1715   
1716        - Job price is now computed like this :
1717       
1718          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
1719         
1720          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
1721          a member of, if any.
1722         
1723          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
1724          flexibility.
1725         
1726    - 1.16alpha25 :
1727   
1728        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
1729          using the following syntax :
1730         
1731            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
1732       
1733    - 1.16alpha24 :
1734   
1735        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1736       
1737        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1738       
1739        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1740          automatically add printers on first print.
1741       
1742    - 1.16alpha23 :
1743   
1744        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1745          several printers at the very same time.
1746       
1747    - 1.16alpha22 :
1748   
1749        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1750       
1751    - 1.16alpha21 :
1752   
1753        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1754       
1755        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1756       
1757    - 1.16alpha20 :
1758   
1759        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1760       
1761    - 1.16alpha19 :
1762     
1763        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1764       
1765    - 1.16alpha18 :
1766   
1767        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1768          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1769          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1770          groups for now.
1771
1772        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1773       
1774        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1775       
1776        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1777          + some particular settings.
1778         
1779        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1780          for details.
1781       
1782        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1783          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1784           
1785            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1786            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1787            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1788            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1789            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1790            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1791         
1792    - 1.16alpha17 :
1793   
1794        - Added portugues translation.
1795       
1796        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1797       
1798    - 1.16alpha16 :
1799   
1800        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1801          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1802       
1803        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1804          to lowercase during printing.
1805         
1806    - 1.15alpha15 :
1807   
1808        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1809          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1810         
1811    - 1.16alpha14 :
1812   
1813        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1814          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1815          on the printing system.
1816         
1817    - 1.16alpha13 :
1818   
1819        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1820       
1821        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
1822       
1823        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1824          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1825          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1826          this is not the case anymore.
1827         
1828    - 1.16alpha12 :
1829   
1830        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1831          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1832          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1833          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1834          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1835         
1836    - 1.16alpha11 :
1837   
1838        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1839          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1840          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1841          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1842         
1843        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1844          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1845         
1846    - 1.16alpha10 :
1847       
1848        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1849          See sample configuration file for details.
1850   
1851        - Spanish translation added.
1852       
1853    - 1.16alpha9 :
1854   
1855        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1856          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1857          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1858          file for details.
1859         
1860    - 1.16alpha8 :
1861   
1862        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1863          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1864         
1865        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1866          GNU GPL too.
1867         
1868    - 1.16alpha7 :
1869   
1870        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1871       
1872        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1873          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1874          used with LPRng though.
1875       
1876    - 1.16alpha6 :
1877   
1878        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1879          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1880          added to the database.
1881         
1882    - 1.16alpha5 :
1883   
1884        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1885          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1886          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1887       
1888    - 1.16alpha4 :
1889   
1890        - New CUPS backend added.
1891       
1892    - 1.16alpha3 :
1893       
1894        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1895       
1896    - 1.16alpha2 :
1897   
1898        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1899       
1900    - 1.16alpha1 :
1901   
1902        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1903       
1904        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1905       
1906    - 1.15 :
1907     
1908        - Documentation improved.
1909       
1910    - 1.15beta :
1911   
1912        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1913          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1914         
1915    - 1.15alpha9 :
1916   
1917        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1918          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1919          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1920          They have to be created manually before.
1921          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1922         
1923    - 1.15alpha8 :
1924   
1925        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1926          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1927          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1928          control.
1929       
1930    - 1.15alpha7 :
1931   
1932        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1933       
1934    - 1.15alpha6 :
1935   
1936        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1937       
1938    - 1.15alpha5 :
1939   
1940        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1941
1942    - 1.15alpha4 :
1943   
1944        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1945          modification.
1946         
1947    - 1.15alpha3 :
1948   
1949        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1950          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1951          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1952          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1953          unrestricted access is granted.
1954          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1955          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
1956         
1957    - 1.15alpha2 :
1958   
1959        - Better detection of LPRng.
1960       
1961        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1962       
1963    - 1.15alpha1 :
1964   
1965        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1966       
1967    - 1.14 :
1968   
1969        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1970          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1971          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1972       
1973    - 1.14beta2 :
1974   
1975        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1976          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1977          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1978          details.
1979       
1980    - 1.14beta :
1981   
1982        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1983          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1984          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1985          See sample configuration file for details.
1986         
1987    - 1.14alpha9 :
1988   
1989        - Documentation improved.
1990       
1991        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1992          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1993          limiting factor is "balance".
1994         
1995    - 1.14alpha8 :
1996   
1997        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1998          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1999          asking for their internal page counter.
2000          See sample configuration file for details.
2001         
2002    - 1.14alpha7 :
2003   
2004        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
2005          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
2006          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
2007          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
2008          time.
2009         
2010    - 1.14alpha6 :
2011   
2012        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
2013          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
2014          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
2015          Don't forget to :
2016         
2017                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
2018               
2019        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
2020          for the same reason.
2021         
2022        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
2023          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
2024         
2025    - 1.14alpha5 :
2026       
2027        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
2028       
2029    - 1.14alpha4 :
2030   
2031        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
2032          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
2033          as two different LDAP entries.
2034         
2035    - 1.14alpha3 :
2036   
2037        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
2038          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
2039       
2040    - 1.14alpha2 :
2041   
2042        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
2043       
2044    - 1.14alpha1 :
2045   
2046        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
2047          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
2048          a warning message.
2049         
2050        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
2051          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
2052       
2053    - 1.13 :
2054   
2055        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
2056       
2057        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
2058          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
2059          as well as a bug in the groups code.
2060         
2061    - 1.13alpha1 :
2062   
2063        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
2064       
2065    - 1.12 :
2066   
2067        - More complete test added in edpykota.
2068       
2069    - 1.12alpha2 :
2070   
2071        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
2072       
2073    - 1.12alpha1 :
2074   
2075        - Small bug fix.
2076       
2077    - 1.11 :
2078   
2079        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
2080          printing quotes for users.
2081         
2082    - 1.10 :
2083   
2084        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
2085          account balance.
2086         
2087    - 1.09 :
2088   
2089        - Translations finalized.
2090       
2091        - Manpages updated.
2092       
2093        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
2094       
2095    - 1.09beta2 :
2096   
2097        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
2098          is much more powerful.
2099       
2100    - 1.09beta :
2101   
2102        - edpykota finalized
2103       
2104    - 1.09alpha2 :
2105   
2106        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
2107       
2108        - LDAP backend works !
2109       
2110        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
2111          users or groups names on the command line. Users
2112          and groups names may contain wildcards.
2113         
2114        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
2115          current user when launched by non-root users.
2116         
2117        - Minor bug fixes. 
2118   
2119    - 1.09alpha1 :
2120   
2121        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
2122          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
2123          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
2124         
2125        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
2126          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
2127     
2128    - 1.08 :
2129   
2130        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
2131       
2132        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
2133       
2134    - 1.08alpha8 :
2135   
2136        - Code refactoring.
2137       
2138        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
2139          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
2140          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
2141          not used anymore.
2142         
2143        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
2144          file for details.
2145          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
2146          debug mode, for now.
2147       
2148    - 1.08alpha7 :
2149   
2150        - Very latest LDAP schema.
2151       
2152        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
2153          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
2154       
2155    - 1.08alpha6 :
2156   
2157        - Minor bug corrections
2158       
2159        - More work on LDAP : new schema
2160       
2161    - 1.08alpha5 :
2162   
2163        - More good work on LDAP storage.
2164          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
2165       
2166    - 1.08alpha4 :
2167   
2168        - LDAP schema included.
2169          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
2170          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
2171          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
2172          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
2173          MAILING LIST.
2174         
2175    - 1.08alpha3 :
2176   
2177        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
2178         
2179          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
2180         
2181          - They now take care of the number of copies
2182            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
2183            file already does this, because this would
2184            overcharge users (number of copies counted
2185            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
2186           
2187          - The sample configuration file now contains 
2188            an external accounting method example which should
2189            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
2190           
2191        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
2192       
2193    - 1.08alpha2 :
2194   
2195        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
2196          It already worked, but the sample configuration
2197          file didn't contain appropriate values...
2198       
2199    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
2200   
2201        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
2202          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
2203         
2204    - 1.06 :
2205   
2206        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
2207          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
2208          a bug was triggered.
2209          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
2210          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
2211         
2212    - 1.05 :
2213   
2214        - External accounters are finally available !
2215          This means that you can plug any page accounting
2216          method you like by setting the appropriate
2217          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
2218          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
2219          learn how to do.
2220         
2221          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
2222               account a job size just before *this* job is
2223               sent to the printer.
2224               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
2225               size just before *the next* job is sent to
2226               the printer.
2227       
2228    - 1.05alpha3 :
2229   
2230        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
2231          implemented to serve as an example on how to
2232          do this sort of things. This method only counts
2233          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
2234          See sample configuration file for details.
2235          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
2236          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
2237          It is not reliable enough to be used.
2238          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
2239         
2240    - 1.05alpha2 :
2241   
2242        - Pluggable accounting methods.
2243       
2244        - Better error handling.
2245       
2246    - 1.05alpha1 :
2247   
2248        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
2249       
2250        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
2251          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
2252          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
2253          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
2254          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
2255         
2256        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
2257         
2258    - 1.04 :
2259   
2260        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
2261          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
2262          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
2263          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
2264         
2265        - LPRng support works !
2266       
2267        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
2268          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
2269       
2270        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
2271          printer, if they are defined.
2272         
2273        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
2274       
2275        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
2276       
2277    - 1.03 :
2278   
2279        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
2280          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
2281          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
2282         
2283        - repykota now reports account balances too.
2284       
2285        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
2286          subdirectory.
2287       
2288        - Manual pages were finally updated.
2289       
2290        - Group quotas seem to work now !
2291       
2292        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
2293          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
2294          and track users' account balance.
2295         
2296        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
2297          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
2298          details.
2299         
2300        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
2301          configuration file during first installation.
2302         
2303        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
2304       
2305        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
2306       
2307        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
2308          reports in the future.
2309         
2310        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
2311          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
2312          a quota which is too low to print.
2313         
2314        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
2315          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
2316          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
2317          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
2318          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
2319          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
2320          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
2321          in this case.
2322          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
2323          off.
2324         
2325        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
2326          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
2327          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
2328          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
2329          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
2330          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
2331          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
2332         
2333        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
2334          had a quota on the specified printer.
2335         
2336        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
2337          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
2338         
2339        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
2340       
2341        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
2342          file for details.
2343         
2344        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
2345          print quota or by account balance.
2346       
2347    - 1.02 :
2348   
2349        - The installation script now checks for software availability
2350          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
2351          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
2352         
2353        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
2354          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
2355          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
2356          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
2357          if needed.
2358         
2359        - Improved documentation.
2360       
2361        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
2362          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
2363       
2364        - Better general error handling.
2365       
2366        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
2367          included as well.
2368       
2369    - 1.01 :
2370   
2371        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
2372          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
2373         
2374            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
2375            - User means only the user will receive them.
2376            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
2377            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
2378           
2379        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
2380          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
2381          for details.
2382         
2383        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
2384          add this information to this file.
2385         
2386        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
2387          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
2388          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
2389          the version number.
2390         
2391    - 1.00 :
2392   
2393        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
2394          disable quota checking while still doing page
2395          accounting. This is really useful for people
2396          who don't want to limit their users but want
2397          to know how much pages they print.
2398         
2399        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
2400          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
2401         
2402        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
2403       
2404    - 0.99 :
2405   
2406        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
2407          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
2408          now fixed.
2409         
2410        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
2411          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
2412         
2413    - 0.98 :
2414   
2415        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
2416       
2417        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
2418       
2419    - 0.97 :
2420   
2421        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
2422          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
2423         
2424              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
2425             
2426        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
2427          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
2428         
2429        - Small bug fixes.
2430       
2431    - 0.96 :
2432
2433        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
2434          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
2435          priority if both are defined.
2436
2437        - More powerful configuration parser.
2438       
2439        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
2440          define a section for each printer in the configuration
2441          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
2442
2443    - 0.95 :
2444
2445        - External requesters for printers finally added.
2446
2447        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
2448 
2449        - More complete quota usage report
2450
2451        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
2452
2453        - Several bugs fixed.
2454
2455
2456    - 0.9 :
2457
2458        - First public version
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