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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
4
5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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20============================================================
21
22PyKota NEWS :
23
24    - 1.21alpha22 :
25   
26        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
27          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
28         
29    - 1.21alpha21 :
30   
31        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
32          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
33          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
34          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
35          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
36          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
37          administrator.
38         
39        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
40          of PygreSQL.   
41         
42    - 1.21alpha20 :
43         
44        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
45         
46    - 1.21alpha19 :
47   
48        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
49          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
50          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
51          may have to change your web server's configuration,
52          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
53         
54    - 1.21alpha18 :
55   
56        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
57          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
58          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
59          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
60         
61    - 1.21alpha17 :
62     
63        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
64       
65        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
66          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
67         
68        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
69       
70    - 1.21alpha16 :
71   
72        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
73          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
74         
75    - 1.21alpha15 :
76     
77        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
78          in dumpykota's output.
79         
80        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
81          the LDAP backend too.
82         
83    - 1.21alpha14 :
84   
85        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
86          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
87         
88    - 1.21alpha13 :
89   
90        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
91          that people may see what really happens, and what will
92          be available in the future :-)
93         
94    - 1.21alpha12 :
95   
96        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
97       
98        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
99          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
100         
101    - 1.21alpha11 :
102   
103        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
104          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
105          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
106          See the sample configuration file for details.
107         
108        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
109          Wold for the patch.
110          See the sample configuration file for details.
111         
112        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
113          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
114          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
115         
116    - 1.21alpha10 :
117   
118        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
119          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
120         
121    - 1.21alpha9 :
122   
123        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
124          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
125          to be created by the system administrator, and given
126          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
127         
128    - 1.21alpha8 :
129   
130        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
131          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
132         
133    - 1.21alpha7 :
134   
135        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
136       
137    - 1.21alpha6 :
138   
139        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
140       
141        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
142       
143    - 1.21alpha5 :
144   
145        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
146       
147        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
148       
149        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
150       
151    - 1.21alpha4 :
152   
153        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
154       
155        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
156          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
157       
158    - 1.21alpha3 :
159   
160        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
161          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
162          in pykota.conf
163          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
164         
165    - 1.21alpha2 :
166   
167        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
168          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
169          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
170         
171    - 1.21alpha1 :
172   
173        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
174          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
175          the CUPS developpers change something...
176       
177    - 1.20 :
178   
179        - Version number changed.
180       
181    - 1.20beta :
182   
183        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
184       
185        - German translation was finalized.
186       
187        - Greek translation was finalized.
188       
189        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
190          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
191          in the history.
192         
193        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
194       
195    - 1.20alpha27 :
196   
197        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
198          the brasilian portuguese translation file was incorrectly
199          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
200         
201        - Finished French translation. 
202         
203    - 1.20alpha26 :
204   
205        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
206          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
207         
208        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
209       
210        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
211       
212    - 1.20alpha25 :
213   
214        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
215          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
216          option is used.
217         
218        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
219          anymore.
220         
221        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
222       
223    - 1.20alpha24 :
224   
225        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
226       
227        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
228          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
229          their account.
230       
231        - Prepared help messages for translations.
232       
233    - 1.20alpha23 :
234   
235        - Add workaround for locale problem.
236       
237    - 1.20alpha22 :
238   
239        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
240       
241        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
242       
243        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
244       
245    - 1.20alpha21 :
246   
247        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
248          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
249          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
250         
251        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
252          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
253         
254        - Improved documentation a bit.
255       
256    - 1.20alpha20 :
257   
258        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
259          from 2 to 1 second.
260       
261        - dumpykota can now output XML.
262       
263    - 1.20alpha19 :
264   
265        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
266       
267        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
268       
269        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
270          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
271         
272        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
273          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
274          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
275         
276    - 1.20alpha18 :
277   
278        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
279          account and quota entries on first print while not
280          resetting the balance value if not needed.
281         
282        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
283          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
284          needed (Off by default).
285         
286    - 1.20alpha17 :
287   
288        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
289       
290        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
291          or options and LDAP backend.
292         
293    - 1.20alpha16 :
294   
295        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
296          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
297          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
298         
299    - 1.20alpha15 :
300   
301        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
302          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
303          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
304          is now correctly used.
305         
306    - 1.20alpha14 :
307   
308        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
309       
310        - External hardware accounter now loops until
311          a result can be read correctly.
312         
313        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
314          of the external one.
315         
316    - 1.20alpha13 :
317     
318        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
319          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
320          without launching any subprocess.
321          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
322          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
323         
324        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
325          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
326          CPU load.
327         
328    - 1.20alpha12 :
329   
330        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
331          for printer status stabilization.
332       
333    - 1.20alpha11 :
334   
335        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
336          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
337         
338    - 1.20alpha10 :
339   
340        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
341          hardware accounting fails.
342         
343    - 1.20alpha9 :
344   
345        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
346       
347    - 1.20alpha8 :
348   
349        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
350          supported.
351       
352    - 1.20alpha7 :
353   
354        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
355          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
356       
357    - 1.20alpha6 :
358     
359        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
360       
361        - Small fixes for LPRng.
362       
363        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
364          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
365          meaningful.
366         
367        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
368          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
369         
370        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
371       
372    - 1.20alpha5 :
373     
374        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
375          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
376          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
377          'stop' (default).
378         
379        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
380          problem.
381         
382    - 1.20alpha4 :
383   
384        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
385          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
386         
387    - 1.20alpha3 :
388       
389        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
390          fooled by a change in number of copies :
391          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
392          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
393          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
394          now the maximum value seen is used.
395         
396        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
397          printer drivers.
398         
399        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
400          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
401         
402        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
403          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
404          be configurable in the near future.
405         
406    - 1.20alpha2 :
407   
408        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
409          answer until a line with a single integer is
410          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
411          This should fix the problem some people have
412          when strange locale related messages are sent
413          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
414         
415        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
416          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
417          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
418          work to correctly analyze other devices.
419       
420    - 1.20alpha1 :
421   
422        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
423       
424        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
425          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
426          page.
427       
428        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
429          PostScript code.
430         
431        - Added german translation.
432       
433        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
434          "enforcement: strict" is used.
435       
436        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
437       
438    - 1.19 :
439   
440        - Updated existing translations.   
441       
442        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
443       
444        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
445       
446    - 1.19beta :
447   
448        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
449          to be OK.
450         
451        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
452       
453        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
454       
455        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
456       
457        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
458       
459    - 1.19alpha35 :
460   
461        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
462          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
463       
464    - 1.19alpha34 :
465   
466        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
467          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
468   
469    - 1.19alpha33 :
470   
471        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
472          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
473          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
474         
475    - 1.19alpha32 :
476   
477        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
478       
479        - Saner default configuration file.
480       
481    - 1.19alpha31 :
482   
483        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
484          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
485          this older version of Python.
486         
487    - 1.19alpha30 :
488   
489        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
490       
491        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
492          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
493       
494        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
495          Gonz�z Gonz�z
496         
497    - 1.19alpha29 :
498   
499        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
500          copies set for each page.
501         
502        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
503       
504        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
505       
506        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
507          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
508          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
509          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
510          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
511          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
512          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
513         
514    - 1.19alpha28 :
515   
516        - The description field for printers can now be set,
517          and is displayed in reports.
518         
519        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
520         
521        - Improved pkhint
522       
523        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
524          Doesn't handle copies yet.
525       
526    - 1.19alpha27 :
527   
528        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
529          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
530         
531        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
532          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
533          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
534          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
535         
536        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
537          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
538          almost three times automagically.
539         
540    - 1.19alpha26 :
541   
542        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
543       
544        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
545          of copies could vary from page to page.
546         
547        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
548       
549    - 1.19alpha25 :
550   
551        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
552          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
553         
554        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
555          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
556          be undercharged.
557         
558        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
559         
560    - 1.19alpha24 :
561   
562        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
563          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
564          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
565          because PDF is parsed directly.
566         
567    - 1.19alpha23 :
568   
569        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
570          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
571       
572        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
573          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
574          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
575          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
576          automatically which method to use depending on your
577          version of Python.
578       
579        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
580         
581    - 1.19alpha22 :
582   
583        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
584          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
585          job's size pre-computation phase.
586         
587        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
588          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
589          and PS.
590       
591        - Even better debugging code.
592       
593    - 1.19alpha21 :
594   
595        - Additionnal check.
596       
597    - 1.19alpha20 :
598   
599        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
600       
601        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
602          files are parsed.
603       
604    - 1.19alpha19 :
605   
606        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
607          or version.
608         
609        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
610       
611        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
612       
613        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
614          cause problems.
615
616    - 1.19alpha18 :
617   
618        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
619          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
620          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
621          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
622          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
623          in the jobs history instead.
624         
625        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
626          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
627          more easily readable.
628         
629    - 1.19alpha17 :
630   
631        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
632          any log message) which occured once in a while when
633          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
634         
635        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
636          default. See sample configuration file to see how
637          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
638         
639        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
640          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
641          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
642          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
643         
644        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
645          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
646          yet to support this functionnality.
647         
648    - 1.19alpha16 :
649   
650        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
651          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
652          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
653          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
654          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
655         
656        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
657          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
658       
659    - 1.19alpha15 :
660   
661        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
662          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
663          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
664         
665    - 1.19alpha14 :
666   
667        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
668          are now exported as environment variables.
669         
670        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
671          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
672         
673        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
674          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
675          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
676          feature.
677         
678        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
679          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
680          for details.
681         
682    - 1.19alpha13 :
683   
684        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
685          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
686          as time permits.
687         
688    - 1.19alpha12 :
689   
690        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
691          the generic PDL analyzer.
692          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
693          job.
694       
695    - 1.19alpha11 :
696   
697        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
698          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
699          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
700          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
701          in the near future.
702         
703    - 1.19alpha10 :
704   
705        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
706          of spawning a new process.
707         
708        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
709       
710        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
711          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
712          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
713          the original algorithm is still used for now.
714          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
715          expense of severe memory consumption.
716       
717        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
718          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
719          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
720          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
721       
722    - 1.19alpha9 :
723       
724        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
725       
726        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
727          too.
728         
729        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
730       
731    - 1.19alpha8 :
732   
733        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
734       
735        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
736       
737        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
738       
739        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
740       
741        - code simplifications in external requester
742       
743    - 1.19alpha7 :
744     
745        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
746          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
747          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
748          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
749          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
750         
751    - 1.19alpha6 :
752   
753        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
754       
755        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
756          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
757          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
758          PostScript.
759         
760        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
761          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
762         
763    - 1.19alpha5 :
764   
765        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
766       
767        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
768          problems under heavy load.
769         
770        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
771       
772        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
773          modify existing printers when --add is used.
774          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
775          used and a printer already exists.
776         
777        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
778          and pykotaTitle attributes.
779       
780    - 1.19alpha4 :
781   
782        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
783          is now fixed.
784         
785        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
786          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
787          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
788       
789        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
790          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
791          testing.
792         
793    - 1.19alpha3 :
794   
795        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
796          to list informations about printers.
797         
798    - 1.19alpha2 :
799   
800        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
801          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
802         
803    - 1.19alpha1 :
804   
805        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
806       
807        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
808       
809    - 1.18 :
810   
811        - Improved documentation
812       
813    - 1.18beta2 :
814     
815        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
816       
817    - 1.18beta :
818   
819        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
820       
821        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
822       
823        - Improved translations
824       
825        - Improved documentation
826       
827    - 1.18alpha15 :
828
829        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
830          and more powerful one.
831   
832        - Names can now begin with a digit.
833       
834        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
835       
836    - 1.18alpha14 :
837   
838        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
839          of breaking.
840         
841        - Italian translation added.
842       
843    - 1.18alpha13 :
844   
845        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
846          filter as well.
847         
848        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
849          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
850          this will be done anyway the next time the last
851          user will print again. This saves some database
852          queries which are unneeded.
853       
854    - 1.18alpha12 :
855   
856        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
857          many environment variables available are useable
858          from the cupspykota backend.
859          See sample configuration file for details and help.
860         
861    - 1.18alpha11 :
862   
863        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
864       
865    - 1.18alpha10 :
866   
867        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
868       
869        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
870       
871    - 1.18alpha9 :
872   
873        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
874       
875        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
876       
877        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
878       
879    - 1.18alpha8 :
880   
881        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
882          This avoids many database queries.
883       
884    - 1.18alpha7 :
885   
886        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
887          LDAP caching.
888         
889    - 1.18alpha6 :
890       
891        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
892          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
893          email address is not set in PyKota database.
894         
895        - More complete email message headers. 
896         
897    - 1.18alpha5 :
898   
899        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
900          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
901         
902        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
903          up modifications (at least).
904         
905    - 1.18alpha4 :
906   
907        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
908          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
909          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
910          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
911          instead of into /usr/bin
912          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
913          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
914          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
915          waitprinter.sh and al.
916         
917        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
918          accounting method for PyKota.
919         
920    - 1.18alpha3 :
921   
922        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
923          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
924       
925    - 1.18alpha2 :
926   
927        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
928          exclusively.
929       
930    - 1.18alpha1 :
931   
932        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
933       
934        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
935       
936    - 1.17 :
937   
938        - Finalized release.
939       
940    - 1.17alpha2 :
941   
942        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
943       
944    - 1.17alpha1 :
945   
946        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
947       
948    - 1.16 :
949   
950        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
951          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
952         
953        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
954          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
955          though.
956       
957        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brasilian
958          Portuguese Translation. Brasilian portuguese
959          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
960       
961    - 1.16beta3 :
962   
963        - Swedish translation added.
964       
965        - Small fix in documentation.
966       
967    - 1.16beta2 :
968   
969        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
970          printing in CUPS backend.
971         
972        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
973       
974    - 1.16beta1 :
975   
976        - Manpages upgraded.
977       
978    - 1.16alpha26 :
979   
980        - Job price is now computed like this :
981       
982          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
983         
984          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
985          a member of, if any.
986         
987          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
988          flexibility.
989         
990    - 1.16alpha25 :
991   
992        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
993          using the following syntax :
994         
995            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
996       
997    - 1.16alpha24 :
998   
999        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1000       
1001        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1002       
1003        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1004          automatically add printers on first print.
1005       
1006    - 1.16alpha23 :
1007   
1008        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1009          several printers at the very same time.
1010       
1011    - 1.16alpha22 :
1012   
1013        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1014       
1015    - 1.16alpha21 :
1016   
1017        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1018       
1019        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1020       
1021    - 1.16alpha20 :
1022   
1023        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1024       
1025    - 1.16alpha19 :
1026     
1027        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1028       
1029    - 1.16alpha18 :
1030   
1031        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1032          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1033          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1034          groups for now.
1035
1036        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1037       
1038        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1039       
1040        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1041          + some particular settings.
1042         
1043        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1044          for details.
1045       
1046        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1047          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1048           
1049            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1050            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1051            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1052            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1053            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1054            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1055         
1056    - 1.16alpha17 :
1057   
1058        - Added portugues translation.
1059       
1060        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1061       
1062    - 1.16alpha16 :
1063   
1064        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1065          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1066       
1067        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1068          to lowercase during printing.
1069         
1070    - 1.15alpha15 :
1071   
1072        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1073          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1074         
1075    - 1.16alpha14 :
1076   
1077        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1078          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1079          on the printing system.
1080         
1081    - 1.16alpha13 :
1082   
1083        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1084       
1085        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
1086       
1087        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1088          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1089          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1090          this is not the case anymore.
1091         
1092    - 1.16alpha12 :
1093   
1094        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1095          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1096          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1097          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1098          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1099         
1100    - 1.16alpha11 :
1101   
1102        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1103          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1104          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1105          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1106         
1107        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1108          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1109         
1110    - 1.16alpha10 :
1111       
1112        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1113          See sample configuration file for details.
1114   
1115        - Spanish translation added.
1116       
1117    - 1.16alpha9 :
1118   
1119        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1120          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1121          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1122          file for details.
1123         
1124    - 1.16alpha8 :
1125   
1126        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1127          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1128         
1129        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1130          GNU GPL too.
1131         
1132    - 1.16alpha7 :
1133   
1134        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1135       
1136        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1137          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1138          used with LPRng though.
1139       
1140    - 1.16alpha6 :
1141   
1142        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1143          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1144          added to the database.
1145         
1146    - 1.16alpha5 :
1147   
1148        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1149          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1150          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1151       
1152    - 1.16alpha4 :
1153   
1154        - New CUPS backend added.
1155       
1156    - 1.16alpha3 :
1157       
1158        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1159       
1160    - 1.16alpha2 :
1161   
1162        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1163       
1164    - 1.16alpha1 :
1165   
1166        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1167       
1168        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1169       
1170    - 1.15 :
1171     
1172        - Documentation improved.
1173       
1174    - 1.15beta :
1175   
1176        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1177          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1178         
1179    - 1.15alpha9 :
1180   
1181        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1182          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1183          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1184          They have to be created manually before.
1185          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1186         
1187    - 1.15alpha8 :
1188   
1189        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1190          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1191          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1192          control.
1193       
1194    - 1.15alpha7 :
1195   
1196        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1197       
1198    - 1.15alpha6 :
1199   
1200        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1201       
1202    - 1.15alpha5 :
1203   
1204        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1205
1206    - 1.15alpha4 :
1207   
1208        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1209          modification.
1210         
1211    - 1.15alpha3 :
1212   
1213        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1214          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1215          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1216          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1217          unrestricted access is granted.
1218          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1219          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
1220         
1221    - 1.15alpha2 :
1222   
1223        - Better detection of LPRng.
1224       
1225        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1226       
1227    - 1.15alpha1 :
1228   
1229        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1230       
1231    - 1.14 :
1232   
1233        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1234          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1235          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1236       
1237    - 1.14beta2 :
1238   
1239        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1240          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1241          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1242          details.
1243       
1244    - 1.14beta :
1245   
1246        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1247          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1248          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1249          See sample configuration file for details.
1250         
1251    - 1.14alpha9 :
1252   
1253        - Documentation improved.
1254       
1255        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1256          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1257          limiting factor is "balance".
1258         
1259    - 1.14alpha8 :
1260   
1261        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1262          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1263          asking for their internal page counter.
1264          See sample configuration file for details.
1265         
1266    - 1.14alpha7 :
1267   
1268        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
1269          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
1270          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
1271          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
1272          time.
1273         
1274    - 1.14alpha6 :
1275   
1276        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
1277          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
1278          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
1279          Don't forget to :
1280         
1281                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
1282               
1283        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
1284          for the same reason.
1285         
1286        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
1287          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
1288         
1289    - 1.14alpha5 :
1290       
1291        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
1292       
1293    - 1.14alpha4 :
1294   
1295        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
1296          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
1297          as two different LDAP entries.
1298         
1299    - 1.14alpha3 :
1300   
1301        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
1302          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
1303       
1304    - 1.14alpha2 :
1305   
1306        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
1307       
1308    - 1.14alpha1 :
1309   
1310        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
1311          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
1312          a warning message.
1313         
1314        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
1315          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
1316       
1317    - 1.13 :
1318   
1319        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
1320       
1321        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
1322          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
1323          as well as a bug in the groups code.
1324         
1325    - 1.13alpha1 :
1326   
1327        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
1328       
1329    - 1.12 :
1330   
1331        - More complete test added in edpykota.
1332       
1333    - 1.12alpha2 :
1334   
1335        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
1336       
1337    - 1.12alpha1 :
1338   
1339        - Small bug fix.
1340       
1341    - 1.11 :
1342   
1343        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
1344          printing quotes for users.
1345         
1346    - 1.10 :
1347   
1348        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
1349          account balance.
1350         
1351    - 1.09 :
1352   
1353        - Translations finalized.
1354       
1355        - Manpages updated.
1356       
1357        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
1358       
1359    - 1.09beta2 :
1360   
1361        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
1362          is much more powerful.
1363       
1364    - 1.09beta :
1365   
1366        - edpykota finalized
1367       
1368    - 1.09alpha2 :
1369   
1370        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
1371       
1372        - LDAP backend works !
1373       
1374        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
1375          users or groups names on the command line. Users
1376          and groups names may contain wildcards.
1377         
1378        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
1379          current user when launched by non-root users.
1380         
1381        - Minor bug fixes. 
1382   
1383    - 1.09alpha1 :
1384   
1385        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
1386          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
1387          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
1388         
1389        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
1390          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
1391     
1392    - 1.08 :
1393   
1394        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
1395       
1396        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
1397       
1398    - 1.08alpha8 :
1399   
1400        - Code refactoring.
1401       
1402        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
1403          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
1404          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
1405          not used anymore.
1406         
1407        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
1408          file for details.
1409          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
1410          debug mode, for now.
1411       
1412    - 1.08alpha7 :
1413   
1414        - Very latest LDAP schema.
1415       
1416        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
1417          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
1418       
1419    - 1.08alpha6 :
1420   
1421        - Minor bug corrections
1422       
1423        - More work on LDAP : new schema
1424       
1425    - 1.08alpha5 :
1426   
1427        - More good work on LDAP storage.
1428          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
1429       
1430    - 1.08alpha4 :
1431   
1432        - LDAP schema included.
1433          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
1434          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
1435          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
1436          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
1437          MAILING LIST.
1438         
1439    - 1.08alpha3 :
1440   
1441        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
1442         
1443          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
1444         
1445          - They now take care of the number of copies
1446            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
1447            file already does this, because this would
1448            overcharge users (number of copies counted
1449            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
1450           
1451          - The sample configuration file now contains 
1452            an external accounting method example which should
1453            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
1454           
1455        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
1456       
1457    - 1.08alpha2 :
1458   
1459        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
1460          It already worked, but the sample configuration
1461          file didn't contain appropriate values...
1462       
1463    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
1464   
1465        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
1466          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
1467         
1468    - 1.06 :
1469   
1470        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
1471          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
1472          a bug was triggered.
1473          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
1474          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
1475         
1476    - 1.05 :
1477   
1478        - External accounters are finally available !
1479          This means that you can plug any page accounting
1480          method you like by setting the appropriate
1481          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
1482          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
1483          learn how to do.
1484         
1485          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
1486               account a job size just before *this* job is
1487               sent to the printer.
1488               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
1489               size just before *the next* job is sent to
1490               the printer.
1491       
1492    - 1.05alpha3 :
1493   
1494        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
1495          implemented to serve as an example on how to
1496          do this sort of things. This method only counts
1497          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
1498          See sample configuration file for details.
1499          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
1500          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
1501          It is not reliable enough to be used.
1502          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
1503         
1504    - 1.05alpha2 :
1505   
1506        - Pluggable accounting methods.
1507       
1508        - Better error handling.
1509       
1510    - 1.05alpha1 :
1511   
1512        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
1513       
1514        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
1515          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
1516          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
1517          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
1518          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
1519         
1520        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
1521         
1522    - 1.04 :
1523   
1524        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
1525          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
1526          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
1527          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
1528         
1529        - LPRng support works !
1530       
1531        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
1532          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
1533       
1534        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
1535          printer, if they are defined.
1536         
1537        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
1538       
1539        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
1540       
1541    - 1.03 :
1542   
1543        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
1544          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
1545          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
1546         
1547        - repykota now reports account balances too.
1548       
1549        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
1550          subdirectory.
1551       
1552        - Manual pages were finally updated.
1553       
1554        - Group quotas seem to work now !
1555       
1556        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
1557          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
1558          and track users' account balance.
1559         
1560        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
1561          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
1562          details.
1563         
1564        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
1565          configuration file during first installation.
1566         
1567        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
1568       
1569        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
1570       
1571        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
1572          reports in the future.
1573         
1574        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
1575          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
1576          a quota which is too low to print.
1577         
1578        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
1579          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
1580          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
1581          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
1582          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1583          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
1584          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
1585          in this case.
1586          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1587          off.
1588         
1589        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
1590          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
1591          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
1592          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
1593          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1594          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1595          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
1596         
1597        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
1598          had a quota on the specified printer.
1599         
1600        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
1601          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
1602         
1603        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
1604       
1605        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
1606          file for details.
1607         
1608        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
1609          print quota or by account balance.
1610       
1611    - 1.02 :
1612   
1613        - The installation script now checks for software availability
1614          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
1615          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
1616         
1617        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
1618          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
1619          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
1620          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
1621          if needed.
1622         
1623        - Improved documentation.
1624       
1625        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
1626          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
1627       
1628        - Better general error handling.
1629       
1630        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
1631          included as well.
1632       
1633    - 1.01 :
1634   
1635        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
1636          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
1637         
1638            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
1639            - User means only the user will receive them.
1640            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
1641            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
1642           
1643        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
1644          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
1645          for details.
1646         
1647        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
1648          add this information to this file.
1649         
1650        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
1651          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
1652          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
1653          the version number.
1654         
1655    - 1.00 :
1656   
1657        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
1658          disable quota checking while still doing page
1659          accounting. This is really useful for people
1660          who don't want to limit their users but want
1661          to know how much pages they print.
1662         
1663        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
1664          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
1665         
1666        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
1667       
1668    - 0.99 :
1669   
1670        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
1671          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
1672          now fixed.
1673         
1674        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
1675          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
1676         
1677    - 0.98 :
1678   
1679        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
1680       
1681        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
1682       
1683    - 0.97 :
1684   
1685        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
1686          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
1687         
1688              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
1689             
1690        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
1691          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
1692         
1693        - Small bug fixes.
1694       
1695    - 0.96 :
1696
1697        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
1698          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
1699          priority if both are defined.
1700
1701        - More powerful configuration parser.
1702       
1703        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
1704          define a section for each printer in the configuration
1705          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
1706
1707    - 0.95 :
1708
1709        - External requesters for printers finally added.
1710
1711        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
1712 
1713        - More complete quota usage report
1714
1715        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
1716
1717        - Several bugs fixed.
1718
1719
1720    - 0.9 :
1721
1722        - First public version
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