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