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