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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS
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5(c) 2003-2004 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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12but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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20============================================================
21
22PyKota NEWS :
23
24    - 1.19alpha5 :
25   
26        - pkprinters --add now completely skips existing printers, but
27          logs a warning.
28         
29    - 1.19alpha4 :
30   
31        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
32          is now fixed.
33         
34        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
35          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
36          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
37       
38        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
39          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
40          testing.
41         
42    - 1.19alpha3 :
43   
44        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
45          to list informations about printers.
46         
47    - 1.19alpha2 :
48   
49        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
50          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
51         
52    - 1.19alpha1 :
53   
54        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
55       
56        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
57       
58    - 1.18 :
59   
60        - Improved documentation
61       
62    - 1.18beta2 :
63     
64        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
65       
66    - 1.18beta :
67   
68        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
69       
70        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
71       
72        - Improved translations
73       
74        - Improved documentation
75       
76    - 1.18alpha15 :
77
78        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
79          and more powerful one.
80   
81        - Names can now begin with a digit.
82       
83        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
84       
85    - 1.18alpha14 :
86   
87        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
88          of breaking.
89         
90        - Italian translation added.
91       
92    - 1.18alpha13 :
93   
94        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
95          filter as well.
96         
97        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
98          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
99          this will be done anyway the next time the last
100          user will print again. This saves some database
101          queries which are unneeded.
102       
103    - 1.18alpha12 :
104   
105        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
106          many environment variables available are useable
107          from the cupspykota backend.
108          See sample configuration file for details and help.
109         
110    - 1.18alpha11 :
111   
112        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
113       
114    - 1.18alpha10 :
115   
116        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
117       
118        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
119       
120    - 1.18alpha9 :
121   
122        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
123       
124        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
125       
126        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
127       
128    - 1.18alpha8 :
129   
130        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
131          This avoids many database queries.
132       
133    - 1.18alpha7 :
134   
135        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
136          LDAP caching.
137         
138    - 1.18alpha6 :
139       
140        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
141          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
142          email address is not set in PyKota database.
143         
144        - More complete email message headers. 
145         
146    - 1.18alpha5 :
147   
148        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
149          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
150         
151        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
152          up modifications (at least).
153         
154    - 1.18alpha4 :
155   
156        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
157          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
158          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
159          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
160          instead of into /usr/bin
161          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
162          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
163          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
164          waitprinter.sh and al.
165         
166        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
167          accounting method for PyKota.
168         
169    - 1.18alpha3 :
170   
171        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
172          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
173       
174    - 1.18alpha2 :
175   
176        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
177          exclusively.
178       
179    - 1.18alpha1 :
180   
181        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
182       
183        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
184       
185    - 1.17 :
186   
187        - Finalized release.
188       
189    - 1.17alpha2 :
190   
191        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
192       
193    - 1.17alpha1 :
194   
195        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
196       
197    - 1.16 :
198   
199        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
200          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
201         
202        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
203          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
204          though.
205       
206        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brasilian
207          Portuguese Translation. Brasilian portuguese
208          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
209       
210    - 1.16beta3 :
211   
212        - Swedish translation added.
213       
214        - Small fix in documentation.
215       
216    - 1.16beta2 :
217   
218        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
219          printing in CUPS backend.
220         
221        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
222       
223    - 1.16beta1 :
224   
225        - Manpages upgraded.
226       
227    - 1.16alpha26 :
228   
229        - Job price is now computed like this :
230       
231          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
232         
233          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
234          a member of, if any.
235         
236          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
237          flexibility.
238         
239    - 1.16alpha25 :
240   
241        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
242          using the following syntax :
243         
244            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
245       
246    - 1.16alpha24 :
247   
248        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
249       
250        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
251       
252        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
253          automatically add printers on first print.
254       
255    - 1.16alpha23 :
256   
257        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
258          several printers at the very same time.
259       
260    - 1.16alpha22 :
261   
262        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
263       
264    - 1.16alpha21 :
265   
266        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
267       
268        - Printer groups are now cached too.
269       
270    - 1.16alpha20 :
271   
272        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
273       
274    - 1.16alpha19 :
275     
276        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
277       
278    - 1.16alpha18 :
279   
280        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
281          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
282          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
283          groups for now.
284
285        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
286       
287        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
288       
289        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
290          + some particular settings.
291         
292        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
293          for details.
294       
295        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
296          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
297           
298            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
299            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
300            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
301            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
302            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
303            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
304         
305    - 1.16alpha17 :
306   
307        - Added portugues translation.
308       
309        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
310       
311    - 1.16alpha16 :
312   
313        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
314          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
315       
316        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
317          to lowercase during printing.
318         
319    - 1.15alpha15 :
320   
321        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
322          AppleTalk enabled printers.
323         
324    - 1.16alpha14 :
325   
326        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
327          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
328          on the printing system.
329         
330    - 1.16alpha13 :
331   
332        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
333       
334        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
335       
336        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
337          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
338          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
339          this is not the case anymore.
340         
341    - 1.16alpha12 :
342   
343        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
344          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
345          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
346          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
347          modified, this addition solves the problem.
348         
349    - 1.16alpha11 :
350   
351        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
352          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
353          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
354          eq, pres and sub indexes.
355         
356        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
357          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
358         
359    - 1.16alpha10 :
360       
361        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
362          See sample configuration file for details.
363   
364        - Spanish translation added.
365       
366    - 1.16alpha9 :
367   
368        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
369          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
370          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
371          file for details.
372         
373    - 1.16alpha8 :
374   
375        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
376          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
377         
378        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
379          GNU GPL too.
380         
381    - 1.16alpha7 :
382   
383        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
384       
385        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
386          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
387          used with LPRng though.
388       
389    - 1.16alpha6 :
390   
391        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
392          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
393          added to the database.
394         
395    - 1.16alpha5 :
396   
397        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
398          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
399          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
400       
401    - 1.16alpha4 :
402   
403        - New CUPS backend added.
404       
405    - 1.16alpha3 :
406       
407        - Minimal FAQ document added.
408       
409    - 1.16alpha2 :
410   
411        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
412       
413    - 1.16alpha1 :
414   
415        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
416       
417        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
418       
419    - 1.15 :
420     
421        - Documentation improved.
422       
423    - 1.15beta :
424   
425        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
426          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
427         
428    - 1.15alpha9 :
429   
430        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
431          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
432          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
433          They have to be created manually before.
434          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
435         
436    - 1.15alpha8 :
437   
438        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
439          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
440          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
441          control.
442       
443    - 1.15alpha7 :
444   
445        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
446       
447    - 1.15alpha6 :
448   
449        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
450       
451    - 1.15alpha5 :
452   
453        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
454
455    - 1.15alpha4 :
456   
457        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
458          modification.
459         
460    - 1.15alpha3 :
461   
462        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
463          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
464          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
465          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
466          unrestricted access is granted.
467          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
468          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
469         
470    - 1.15alpha2 :
471   
472        - Better detection of LPRng.
473       
474        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
475       
476    - 1.15alpha1 :
477   
478        - Bug fix in SQL code.
479       
480    - 1.14 :
481   
482        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
483          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
484          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
485       
486    - 1.14beta2 :
487   
488        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
489          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
490          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
491          details.
492       
493    - 1.14beta :
494   
495        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
496          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
497          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
498          See sample configuration file for details.
499         
500    - 1.14alpha9 :
501   
502        - Documentation improved.
503       
504        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
505          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
506          limiting factor is "balance".
507         
508    - 1.14alpha8 :
509   
510        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
511          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
512          asking for their internal page counter.
513          See sample configuration file for details.
514         
515    - 1.14alpha7 :
516   
517        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
518          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
519          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
520          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
521          time.
522         
523    - 1.14alpha6 :
524   
525        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
526          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
527          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
528          Don't forget to :
529         
530                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
531               
532        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
533          for the same reason.
534         
535        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
536          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
537         
538    - 1.14alpha5 :
539       
540        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
541       
542    - 1.14alpha4 :
543   
544        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
545          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
546          as two different LDAP entries.
547         
548    - 1.14alpha3 :
549   
550        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
551          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
552       
553    - 1.14alpha2 :
554   
555        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
556       
557    - 1.14alpha1 :
558   
559        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
560          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
561          a warning message.
562         
563        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
564          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
565       
566    - 1.13 :
567   
568        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
569       
570        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
571          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
572          as well as a bug in the groups code.
573         
574    - 1.13alpha1 :
575   
576        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
577       
578    - 1.12 :
579   
580        - More complete test added in edpykota.
581       
582    - 1.12alpha2 :
583   
584        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
585       
586    - 1.12alpha1 :
587   
588        - Small bug fix.
589       
590    - 1.11 :
591   
592        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
593          printing quotes for users.
594         
595    - 1.10 :
596   
597        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
598          account balance.
599         
600    - 1.09 :
601   
602        - Translations finalized.
603       
604        - Manpages updated.
605       
606        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
607       
608    - 1.09beta2 :
609   
610        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
611          is much more powerful.
612       
613    - 1.09beta :
614   
615        - edpykota finalized
616       
617    - 1.09alpha2 :
618   
619        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
620       
621        - LDAP backend works !
622       
623        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
624          users or groups names on the command line. Users
625          and groups names may contain wildcards.
626         
627        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
628          current user when launched by non-root users.
629         
630        - Minor bug fixes. 
631   
632    - 1.09alpha1 :
633   
634        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
635          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
636          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
637         
638        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
639          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
640     
641    - 1.08 :
642   
643        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
644       
645        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
646       
647    - 1.08alpha8 :
648   
649        - Code refactoring.
650       
651        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
652          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
653          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
654          not used anymore.
655         
656        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
657          file for details.
658          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
659          debug mode, for now.
660       
661    - 1.08alpha7 :
662   
663        - Very latest LDAP schema.
664       
665        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
666          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
667       
668    - 1.08alpha6 :
669   
670        - Minor bug corrections
671       
672        - More work on LDAP : new schema
673       
674    - 1.08alpha5 :
675   
676        - More good work on LDAP storage.
677          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
678       
679    - 1.08alpha4 :
680   
681        - LDAP schema included.
682          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
683          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
684          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
685          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
686          MAILING LIST.
687         
688    - 1.08alpha3 :
689   
690        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
691         
692          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
693         
694          - They now take care of the number of copies
695            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
696            file already does this, because this would
697            overcharge users (number of copies counted
698            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
699           
700          - The sample configuration file now contains 
701            an external accounting method example which should
702            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
703           
704        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
705       
706    - 1.08alpha2 :
707   
708        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
709          It already worked, but the sample configuration
710          file didn't contain appropriate values...
711       
712    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
713   
714        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
715          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
716         
717    - 1.06 :
718   
719        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
720          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
721          a bug was triggered.
722          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
723          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
724         
725    - 1.05 :
726   
727        - External accounters are finally available !
728          This means that you can plug any page accounting
729          method you like by setting the appropriate
730          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
731          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
732          learn how to do.
733         
734          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
735               account a job size just before *this* job is
736               sent to the printer.
737               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
738               size just before *the next* job is sent to
739               the printer.
740       
741    - 1.05alpha3 :
742   
743        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
744          implemented to serve as an example on how to
745          do this sort of things. This method only counts
746          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
747          See sample configuration file for details.
748          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
749          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
750          It is not reliable enough to be used.
751          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
752         
753    - 1.05alpha2 :
754   
755        - Pluggable accounting methods.
756       
757        - Better error handling.
758       
759    - 1.05alpha1 :
760   
761        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
762       
763        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
764          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
765          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
766          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
767          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
768         
769        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
770         
771    - 1.04 :
772   
773        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
774          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
775          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
776          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
777         
778        - LPRng support works !
779       
780        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
781          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
782       
783        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
784          printer, if they are defined.
785         
786        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
787       
788        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
789       
790    - 1.03 :
791   
792        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
793          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
794          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
795         
796        - repykota now reports account balances too.
797       
798        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
799          subdirectory.
800       
801        - Manual pages were finally updated.
802       
803        - Group quotas seem to work now !
804       
805        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
806          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
807          and track users' account balance.
808         
809        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
810          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
811          details.
812         
813        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
814          configuration file during first installation.
815         
816        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
817       
818        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
819       
820        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
821          reports in the future.
822         
823        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
824          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
825          a quota which is too low to print.
826         
827        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
828          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
829          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
830          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
831          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
832          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
833          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
834          in this case.
835          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
836          off.
837         
838        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
839          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
840          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
841          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
842          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
843          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
844          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
845         
846        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
847          had a quota on the specified printer.
848         
849        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
850          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
851         
852        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
853       
854        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
855          file for details.
856         
857        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
858          print quota or by account balance.
859       
860    - 1.02 :
861   
862        - The installation script now checks for software availability
863          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
864          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
865         
866        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
867          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
868          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
869          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
870          if needed.
871         
872        - Improved documentation.
873       
874        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
875          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
876       
877        - Better general error handling.
878       
879        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
880          included as well.
881       
882    - 1.01 :
883   
884        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
885          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
886         
887            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
888            - User means only the user will receive them.
889            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
890            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
891           
892        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
893          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
894          for details.
895         
896        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
897          add this information to this file.
898         
899        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
900          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
901          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
902          the version number.
903         
904    - 1.00 :
905   
906        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
907          disable quota checking while still doing page
908          accounting. This is really useful for people
909          who don't want to limit their users but want
910          to know how much pages they print.
911         
912        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
913          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
914         
915        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
916       
917    - 0.99 :
918   
919        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
920          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
921          now fixed.
922         
923        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
924          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
925         
926    - 0.98 :
927   
928        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
929       
930        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
931       
932    - 0.97 :
933   
934        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
935          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
936         
937              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
938             
939        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
940          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
941         
942        - Small bug fixes.
943       
944    - 0.96 :
945
946        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
947          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
948          priority if both are defined.
949
950        - More powerful configuration parser.
951       
952        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
953          define a section for each printer in the configuration
954          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
955
956    - 0.95 :
957
958        - External requesters for printers finally added.
959
960        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
961 
962        - More complete quota usage report
963
964        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
965
966        - Several bugs fixed.
967
968
969    - 0.9 :
970
971        - First public version
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