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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
4
5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
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21
22PyKota NEWS :
23       
24    - 1.22alpha4 :
25   
26        - Fixed charset problem under MacOSX.
27       
28        - Allows pkbanner to accept more info to display on its
29          command line.
30         
31    - 1.22alpha3 :
32   
33        - Fixes some case related problems with some LDAP backends.
34       
35        - Fixes some problem for printers which directly go from
36          "idle" to "warmup" and never to "printing" before
37          returning to "idle".
38         
39        - Some permissions settings may have prevented cupspykota
40          from parsing cupsd.conf, this is now fixed.
41         
42    - 1.22alpha2 :
43   
44        - Introduction of the web enabled print quote generator.
45       
46        - Fixed a potential race condition when several backend
47          wrappers were present in CUPS' backend directory.
48         
49        - Fixed dumpykota's output in CUPS' page_log format to better
50          match CUPS format.
51         
52    - 1.22alpha1 :
53   
54        - Import into Subversion.
55       
56    - 1.21 :
57   
58        - Improved documentation.
59       
60        - Improved dependencies checker.
61       
62        - Updated some translation files.
63       
64    - 1.21beta2 :
65   
66        - Fixed an LPRng specific bug.
67       
68        - Several improvements on stability issues with manually modified
69          LDAP trees.
70         
71        - Documentation improvements. 
72       
73    - 1.21beta :
74   
75        - Prepared translation files for next release.
76       
77    - 1.21alpha27 :
78   
79        - Allows software() (no arguments) to the software accounting
80          directive. This saves a lot of CPU since the job is not
81          parsed again : the precomputed size is used directly in this
82          case.
83         
84        - epykota's --prototype option now works fine with accounts
85          limited by balance.
86         
87    - 1.21alpha26 :
88   
89        - Fixed the handling of the 'maxdenybanners' directive.
90       
91        - Introduced the 'denyduplicates' directive.
92       
93        - Fixed some database related glitches.
94       
95    - 1.21alpha25 :
96   
97        - The job's size is now always precomputed, even when
98          'enforcement' is not set to 'strict'.
99         
100        - Introduction of the new 'trustjobsize' configuration directive
101          to workaround some problematic printers. See the sample
102          configuration file for details.
103         
104    - 1.21alpha24 :
105   
106        - Big database structure changes. An upgrade script
107          is now included for PostgreSQL. LDAP users may just
108          want to copy the new schema in place.
109         
110        - edpykota now recognizes the -o | --overcharge command line
111          option to set an overcharging or undercharging factor
112          on each print job's cost for a particular user.
113         
114        - repykota's output format has changed an is not limited to 
115          80 characters wide anymore. People who used to parse
116          repykota's output in their own tools are strongly advised
117          to parse dumpykota's output instead.
118         
119        - Introduction of the new 'maxdenybanners' configuration directive
120          to allow up to N (the directive's value) deny banners to be
121          printed even if the print account is forbidden to print.
122         
123        - Better detection of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
124       
125    - 1.21alpha23 :
126   
127        - Traditional Chinese translation added.
128   
129        - Several fixes and performance improvements with the LDAP backend.
130       
131    - 1.21alpha22 :
132   
133        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
134          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
135         
136    - 1.21alpha21 :
137   
138        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
139          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
140          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
141          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
142          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
143          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
144          administrator.
145         
146        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
147          of PygreSQL.   
148         
149    - 1.21alpha20 :
150         
151        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
152         
153    - 1.21alpha19 :
154   
155        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
156          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
157          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
158          may have to change your web server's configuration,
159          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
160         
161    - 1.21alpha18 :
162   
163        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
164          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
165          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
166          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
167         
168    - 1.21alpha17 :
169     
170        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
171       
172        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
173          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
174         
175        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
176       
177    - 1.21alpha16 :
178   
179        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
180          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
181         
182    - 1.21alpha15 :
183     
184        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
185          in dumpykota's output.
186         
187        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
188          the LDAP backend too.
189         
190    - 1.21alpha14 :
191   
192        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
193          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
194         
195    - 1.21alpha13 :
196   
197        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
198          that people may see what really happens, and what will
199          be available in the future :-)
200         
201    - 1.21alpha12 :
202   
203        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
204       
205        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
206          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
207         
208    - 1.21alpha11 :
209   
210        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
211          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
212          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
213          See the sample configuration file for details.
214         
215        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
216          Wold for the patch.
217          See the sample configuration file for details.
218         
219        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
220          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
221          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
222         
223    - 1.21alpha10 :
224   
225        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
226          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
227         
228    - 1.21alpha9 :
229   
230        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
231          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
232          to be created by the system administrator, and given
233          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
234         
235    - 1.21alpha8 :
236   
237        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
238          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
239         
240    - 1.21alpha7 :
241   
242        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
243       
244    - 1.21alpha6 :
245   
246        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
247       
248        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
249       
250    - 1.21alpha5 :
251   
252        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
253       
254        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
255       
256        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
257       
258    - 1.21alpha4 :
259   
260        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
261       
262        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
263          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
264       
265    - 1.21alpha3 :
266   
267        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
268          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
269          in pykota.conf
270          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
271         
272    - 1.21alpha2 :
273   
274        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
275          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
276          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
277         
278    - 1.21alpha1 :
279   
280        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
281          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
282          the CUPS developpers change something...
283       
284    - 1.20 :
285   
286        - Version number changed.
287       
288    - 1.20beta :
289   
290        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
291       
292        - German translation was finalized.
293       
294        - Greek translation was finalized.
295       
296        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
297          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
298          in the history.
299         
300        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
301       
302    - 1.20alpha27 :
303   
304        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
305          the Brazilian Portuguese translation file was incorrectly
306          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
307         
308        - Finished French translation. 
309         
310    - 1.20alpha26 :
311   
312        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
313          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
314         
315        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
316       
317        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
318       
319    - 1.20alpha25 :
320   
321        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
322          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
323          option is used.
324         
325        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
326          anymore.
327         
328        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
329       
330    - 1.20alpha24 :
331   
332        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
333       
334        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
335          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
336          their account.
337       
338        - Prepared help messages for translations.
339       
340    - 1.20alpha23 :
341   
342        - Add workaround for locale problem.
343       
344    - 1.20alpha22 :
345   
346        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
347       
348        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
349       
350        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
351       
352    - 1.20alpha21 :
353   
354        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
355          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
356          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
357         
358        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
359          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
360         
361        - Improved documentation a bit.
362       
363    - 1.20alpha20 :
364   
365        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
366          from 2 to 1 second.
367       
368        - dumpykota can now output XML.
369       
370    - 1.20alpha19 :
371   
372        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
373       
374        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
375       
376        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
377          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
378         
379        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
380          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
381          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
382         
383    - 1.20alpha18 :
384   
385        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
386          account and quota entries on first print while not
387          resetting the balance value if not needed.
388         
389        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
390          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
391          needed (Off by default).
392         
393    - 1.20alpha17 :
394   
395        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
396       
397        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
398          or options and LDAP backend.
399         
400    - 1.20alpha16 :
401   
402        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
403          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
404          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
405         
406    - 1.20alpha15 :
407   
408        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
409          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
410          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
411          is now correctly used.
412         
413    - 1.20alpha14 :
414   
415        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
416       
417        - External hardware accounter now loops until
418          a result can be read correctly.
419         
420        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
421          of the external one.
422         
423    - 1.20alpha13 :
424     
425        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
426          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
427          without launching any subprocess.
428          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
429          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
430         
431        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
432          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
433          CPU load.
434         
435    - 1.20alpha12 :
436   
437        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
438          for printer status stabilization.
439       
440    - 1.20alpha11 :
441   
442        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
443          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
444         
445    - 1.20alpha10 :
446   
447        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
448          hardware accounting fails.
449         
450    - 1.20alpha9 :
451   
452        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
453       
454    - 1.20alpha8 :
455   
456        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
457          supported.
458       
459    - 1.20alpha7 :
460   
461        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
462          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
463       
464    - 1.20alpha6 :
465     
466        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
467       
468        - Small fixes for LPRng.
469       
470        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
471          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
472          meaningful.
473         
474        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
475          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
476         
477        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
478       
479    - 1.20alpha5 :
480     
481        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
482          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
483          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
484          'stop' (default).
485         
486        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
487          problem.
488         
489    - 1.20alpha4 :
490   
491        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
492          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
493         
494    - 1.20alpha3 :
495       
496        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
497          fooled by a change in number of copies :
498          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
499          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
500          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
501          now the maximum value seen is used.
502         
503        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
504          printer drivers.
505         
506        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
507          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
508         
509        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
510          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
511          be configurable in the near future.
512         
513    - 1.20alpha2 :
514   
515        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
516          answer until a line with a single integer is
517          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
518          This should fix the problem some people have
519          when strange locale related messages are sent
520          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
521         
522        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
523          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
524          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
525          work to correctly analyze other devices.
526       
527    - 1.20alpha1 :
528   
529        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
530       
531        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
532          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
533          page.
534       
535        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
536          PostScript code.
537         
538        - Added german translation.
539       
540        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
541          "enforcement: strict" is used.
542       
543        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
544       
545    - 1.19 :
546   
547        - Updated existing translations.   
548       
549        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
550       
551        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
552       
553    - 1.19beta :
554   
555        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
556          to be OK.
557         
558        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
559       
560        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
561       
562        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
563       
564        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
565       
566    - 1.19alpha35 :
567   
568        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
569          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
570       
571    - 1.19alpha34 :
572   
573        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
574          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
575   
576    - 1.19alpha33 :
577   
578        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
579          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
580          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
581         
582    - 1.19alpha32 :
583   
584        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
585       
586        - Saner default configuration file.
587       
588    - 1.19alpha31 :
589   
590        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
591          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
592          this older version of Python.
593         
594    - 1.19alpha30 :
595   
596        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
597       
598        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
599          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
600       
601        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
602          Gonz�z Gonz�z
603         
604    - 1.19alpha29 :
605   
606        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
607          copies set for each page.
608         
609        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
610       
611        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
612       
613        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
614          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
615          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
616          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
617          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
618          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
619          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
620         
621    - 1.19alpha28 :
622   
623        - The description field for printers can now be set,
624          and is displayed in reports.
625         
626        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
627         
628        - Improved pkhint
629       
630        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
631          Doesn't handle copies yet.
632       
633    - 1.19alpha27 :
634   
635        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
636          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
637         
638        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
639          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
640          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
641          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
642         
643        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
644          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
645          almost three times automagically.
646         
647    - 1.19alpha26 :
648   
649        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
650       
651        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
652          of copies could vary from page to page.
653         
654        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
655       
656    - 1.19alpha25 :
657   
658        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
659          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
660         
661        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
662          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
663          be undercharged.
664         
665        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
666         
667    - 1.19alpha24 :
668   
669        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
670          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
671          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
672          because PDF is parsed directly.
673         
674    - 1.19alpha23 :
675   
676        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
677          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
678       
679        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
680          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
681          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
682          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
683          automatically which method to use depending on your
684          version of Python.
685       
686        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
687         
688    - 1.19alpha22 :
689   
690        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
691          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
692          job's size pre-computation phase.
693         
694        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
695          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
696          and PS.
697       
698        - Even better debugging code.
699       
700    - 1.19alpha21 :
701   
702        - Additionnal check.
703       
704    - 1.19alpha20 :
705   
706        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
707       
708        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
709          files are parsed.
710       
711    - 1.19alpha19 :
712   
713        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
714          or version.
715         
716        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
717       
718        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
719       
720        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
721          cause problems.
722
723    - 1.19alpha18 :
724   
725        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
726          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
727          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
728          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
729          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
730          in the jobs history instead.
731         
732        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
733          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
734          more easily readable.
735         
736    - 1.19alpha17 :
737   
738        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
739          any log message) which occured once in a while when
740          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
741         
742        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
743          default. See sample configuration file to see how
744          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
745         
746        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
747          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
748          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
749          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
750         
751        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
752          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
753          yet to support this functionnality.
754         
755    - 1.19alpha16 :
756   
757        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
758          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
759          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
760          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
761          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
762         
763        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
764          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
765       
766    - 1.19alpha15 :
767   
768        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
769          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
770          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
771         
772    - 1.19alpha14 :
773   
774        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
775          are now exported as environment variables.
776         
777        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
778          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
779         
780        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
781          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
782          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
783          feature.
784         
785        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
786          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
787          for details.
788         
789    - 1.19alpha13 :
790   
791        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
792          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
793          as time permits.
794         
795    - 1.19alpha12 :
796   
797        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
798          the generic PDL analyzer.
799          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
800          job.
801       
802    - 1.19alpha11 :
803   
804        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
805          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
806          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
807          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
808          in the near future.
809         
810    - 1.19alpha10 :
811   
812        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
813          of spawning a new process.
814         
815        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
816       
817        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
818          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
819          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
820          the original algorithm is still used for now.
821          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
822          expense of severe memory consumption.
823       
824        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
825          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
826          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
827          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
828       
829    - 1.19alpha9 :
830       
831        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
832       
833        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
834          too.
835         
836        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
837       
838    - 1.19alpha8 :
839   
840        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
841       
842        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
843       
844        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
845       
846        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
847       
848        - code simplifications in external requester
849       
850    - 1.19alpha7 :
851     
852        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
853          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
854          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
855          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
856          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
857         
858    - 1.19alpha6 :
859   
860        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
861       
862        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
863          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
864          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
865          PostScript.
866         
867        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
868          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
869         
870    - 1.19alpha5 :
871   
872        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
873       
874        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
875          problems under heavy load.
876         
877        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
878       
879        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
880          modify existing printers when --add is used.
881          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
882          used and a printer already exists.
883         
884        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
885          and pykotaTitle attributes.
886       
887    - 1.19alpha4 :
888   
889        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
890          is now fixed.
891         
892        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
893          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
894          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
895       
896        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
897          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
898          testing.
899         
900    - 1.19alpha3 :
901   
902        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
903          to list informations about printers.
904         
905    - 1.19alpha2 :
906   
907        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
908          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
909         
910    - 1.19alpha1 :
911   
912        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
913       
914        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
915       
916    - 1.18 :
917   
918        - Improved documentation
919       
920    - 1.18beta2 :
921     
922        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
923       
924    - 1.18beta :
925   
926        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
927       
928        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
929       
930        - Improved translations
931       
932        - Improved documentation
933       
934    - 1.18alpha15 :
935
936        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
937          and more powerful one.
938   
939        - Names can now begin with a digit.
940       
941        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
942       
943    - 1.18alpha14 :
944   
945        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
946          of breaking.
947         
948        - Italian translation added.
949       
950    - 1.18alpha13 :
951   
952        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
953          filter as well.
954         
955        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
956          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
957          this will be done anyway the next time the last
958          user will print again. This saves some database
959          queries which are unneeded.
960       
961    - 1.18alpha12 :
962   
963        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
964          many environment variables available are useable
965          from the cupspykota backend.
966          See sample configuration file for details and help.
967         
968    - 1.18alpha11 :
969   
970        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
971       
972    - 1.18alpha10 :
973   
974        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
975       
976        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
977       
978    - 1.18alpha9 :
979   
980        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
981       
982        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
983       
984        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
985       
986    - 1.18alpha8 :
987   
988        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
989          This avoids many database queries.
990       
991    - 1.18alpha7 :
992   
993        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
994          LDAP caching.
995         
996    - 1.18alpha6 :
997       
998        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
999          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
1000          email address is not set in PyKota database.
1001         
1002        - More complete email message headers. 
1003         
1004    - 1.18alpha5 :
1005   
1006        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
1007          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
1008         
1009        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
1010          up modifications (at least).
1011         
1012    - 1.18alpha4 :
1013   
1014        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
1015          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
1016          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
1017          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
1018          instead of into /usr/bin
1019          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
1020          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
1021          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
1022          waitprinter.sh and al.
1023         
1024        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
1025          accounting method for PyKota.
1026         
1027    - 1.18alpha3 :
1028   
1029        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
1030          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
1031       
1032    - 1.18alpha2 :
1033   
1034        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
1035          exclusively.
1036       
1037    - 1.18alpha1 :
1038   
1039        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
1040       
1041        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
1042       
1043    - 1.17 :
1044   
1045        - Finalized release.
1046       
1047    - 1.17alpha2 :
1048   
1049        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
1050       
1051    - 1.17alpha1 :
1052   
1053        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
1054       
1055    - 1.16 :
1056   
1057        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
1058          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
1059         
1060        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
1061          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
1062          though.
1063       
1064        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brazilian
1065          Portuguese Translation. Brazilian portuguese
1066          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
1067       
1068    - 1.16beta3 :
1069   
1070        - Swedish translation added.
1071       
1072        - Small fix in documentation.
1073       
1074    - 1.16beta2 :
1075   
1076        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
1077          printing in CUPS backend.
1078         
1079        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
1080       
1081    - 1.16beta1 :
1082   
1083        - Manpages upgraded.
1084       
1085    - 1.16alpha26 :
1086   
1087        - Job price is now computed like this :
1088       
1089          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
1090         
1091          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
1092          a member of, if any.
1093         
1094          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
1095          flexibility.
1096         
1097    - 1.16alpha25 :
1098   
1099        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
1100          using the following syntax :
1101         
1102            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
1103       
1104    - 1.16alpha24 :
1105   
1106        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1107       
1108        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1109       
1110        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1111          automatically add printers on first print.
1112       
1113    - 1.16alpha23 :
1114   
1115        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1116          several printers at the very same time.
1117       
1118    - 1.16alpha22 :
1119   
1120        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1121       
1122    - 1.16alpha21 :
1123   
1124        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1125       
1126        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1127       
1128    - 1.16alpha20 :
1129   
1130        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1131       
1132    - 1.16alpha19 :
1133     
1134        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1135       
1136    - 1.16alpha18 :
1137   
1138        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1139          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1140          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1141          groups for now.
1142
1143        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1144       
1145        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1146       
1147        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1148          + some particular settings.
1149         
1150        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1151          for details.
1152       
1153        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1154          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1155           
1156            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1157            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1158            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1159            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1160            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1161            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1162         
1163    - 1.16alpha17 :
1164   
1165        - Added portugues translation.
1166       
1167        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1168       
1169    - 1.16alpha16 :
1170   
1171        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1172          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1173       
1174        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1175          to lowercase during printing.
1176         
1177    - 1.15alpha15 :
1178   
1179        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1180          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1181         
1182    - 1.16alpha14 :
1183   
1184        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1185          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1186          on the printing system.
1187         
1188    - 1.16alpha13 :
1189   
1190        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1191       
1192        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
1193       
1194        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1195          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1196          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1197          this is not the case anymore.
1198         
1199    - 1.16alpha12 :
1200   
1201        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1202          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1203          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1204          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1205          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1206         
1207    - 1.16alpha11 :
1208   
1209        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1210          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1211          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1212          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1213         
1214        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1215          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1216         
1217    - 1.16alpha10 :
1218       
1219        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1220          See sample configuration file for details.
1221   
1222        - Spanish translation added.
1223       
1224    - 1.16alpha9 :
1225   
1226        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1227          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1228          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1229          file for details.
1230         
1231    - 1.16alpha8 :
1232   
1233        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1234          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1235         
1236        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1237          GNU GPL too.
1238         
1239    - 1.16alpha7 :
1240   
1241        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1242       
1243        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1244          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1245          used with LPRng though.
1246       
1247    - 1.16alpha6 :
1248   
1249        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1250          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1251          added to the database.
1252         
1253    - 1.16alpha5 :
1254   
1255        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1256          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1257          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1258       
1259    - 1.16alpha4 :
1260   
1261        - New CUPS backend added.
1262       
1263    - 1.16alpha3 :
1264       
1265        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1266       
1267    - 1.16alpha2 :
1268   
1269        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1270       
1271    - 1.16alpha1 :
1272   
1273        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1274       
1275        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1276       
1277    - 1.15 :
1278     
1279        - Documentation improved.
1280       
1281    - 1.15beta :
1282   
1283        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1284          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1285         
1286    - 1.15alpha9 :
1287   
1288        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1289          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1290          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1291          They have to be created manually before.
1292          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1293         
1294    - 1.15alpha8 :
1295   
1296        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1297          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1298          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1299          control.
1300       
1301    - 1.15alpha7 :
1302   
1303        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1304       
1305    - 1.15alpha6 :
1306   
1307        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1308       
1309    - 1.15alpha5 :
1310   
1311        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1312
1313    - 1.15alpha4 :
1314   
1315        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1316          modification.
1317         
1318    - 1.15alpha3 :
1319   
1320        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1321          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1322          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1323          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1324          unrestricted access is granted.
1325          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1326          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
1327         
1328    - 1.15alpha2 :
1329   
1330        - Better detection of LPRng.
1331       
1332        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1333       
1334    - 1.15alpha1 :
1335   
1336        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1337       
1338    - 1.14 :
1339   
1340        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1341          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1342          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1343       
1344    - 1.14beta2 :
1345   
1346        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1347          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1348          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1349          details.
1350       
1351    - 1.14beta :
1352   
1353        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1354          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1355          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1356          See sample configuration file for details.
1357         
1358    - 1.14alpha9 :
1359   
1360        - Documentation improved.
1361       
1362        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1363          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1364          limiting factor is "balance".
1365         
1366    - 1.14alpha8 :
1367   
1368        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1369          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1370          asking for their internal page counter.
1371          See sample configuration file for details.
1372         
1373    - 1.14alpha7 :
1374   
1375        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
1376          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
1377          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
1378          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
1379          time.
1380         
1381    - 1.14alpha6 :
1382   
1383        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
1384          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
1385          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
1386          Don't forget to :
1387         
1388                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
1389               
1390        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
1391          for the same reason.
1392         
1393        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
1394          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
1395         
1396    - 1.14alpha5 :
1397       
1398        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
1399       
1400    - 1.14alpha4 :
1401   
1402        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
1403          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
1404          as two different LDAP entries.
1405         
1406    - 1.14alpha3 :
1407   
1408        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
1409          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
1410       
1411    - 1.14alpha2 :
1412   
1413        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
1414       
1415    - 1.14alpha1 :
1416   
1417        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
1418          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
1419          a warning message.
1420         
1421        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
1422          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
1423       
1424    - 1.13 :
1425   
1426        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
1427       
1428        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
1429          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
1430          as well as a bug in the groups code.
1431         
1432    - 1.13alpha1 :
1433   
1434        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
1435       
1436    - 1.12 :
1437   
1438        - More complete test added in edpykota.
1439       
1440    - 1.12alpha2 :
1441   
1442        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
1443       
1444    - 1.12alpha1 :
1445   
1446        - Small bug fix.
1447       
1448    - 1.11 :
1449   
1450        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
1451          printing quotes for users.
1452         
1453    - 1.10 :
1454   
1455        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
1456          account balance.
1457         
1458    - 1.09 :
1459   
1460        - Translations finalized.
1461       
1462        - Manpages updated.
1463       
1464        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
1465       
1466    - 1.09beta2 :
1467   
1468        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
1469          is much more powerful.
1470       
1471    - 1.09beta :
1472   
1473        - edpykota finalized
1474       
1475    - 1.09alpha2 :
1476   
1477        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
1478       
1479        - LDAP backend works !
1480       
1481        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
1482          users or groups names on the command line. Users
1483          and groups names may contain wildcards.
1484         
1485        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
1486          current user when launched by non-root users.
1487         
1488        - Minor bug fixes. 
1489   
1490    - 1.09alpha1 :
1491   
1492        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
1493          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
1494          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
1495         
1496        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
1497          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
1498     
1499    - 1.08 :
1500   
1501        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
1502       
1503        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
1504       
1505    - 1.08alpha8 :
1506   
1507        - Code refactoring.
1508       
1509        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
1510          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
1511          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
1512          not used anymore.
1513         
1514        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
1515          file for details.
1516          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
1517          debug mode, for now.
1518       
1519    - 1.08alpha7 :
1520   
1521        - Very latest LDAP schema.
1522       
1523        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
1524          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
1525       
1526    - 1.08alpha6 :
1527   
1528        - Minor bug corrections
1529       
1530        - More work on LDAP : new schema
1531       
1532    - 1.08alpha5 :
1533   
1534        - More good work on LDAP storage.
1535          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
1536       
1537    - 1.08alpha4 :
1538   
1539        - LDAP schema included.
1540          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
1541          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
1542          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
1543          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
1544          MAILING LIST.
1545         
1546    - 1.08alpha3 :
1547   
1548        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
1549         
1550          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
1551         
1552          - They now take care of the number of copies
1553            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
1554            file already does this, because this would
1555            overcharge users (number of copies counted
1556            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
1557           
1558          - The sample configuration file now contains 
1559            an external accounting method example which should
1560            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
1561           
1562        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
1563       
1564    - 1.08alpha2 :
1565   
1566        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
1567          It already worked, but the sample configuration
1568          file didn't contain appropriate values...
1569       
1570    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
1571   
1572        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
1573          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
1574         
1575    - 1.06 :
1576   
1577        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
1578          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
1579          a bug was triggered.
1580          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
1581          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
1582         
1583    - 1.05 :
1584   
1585        - External accounters are finally available !
1586          This means that you can plug any page accounting
1587          method you like by setting the appropriate
1588          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
1589          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
1590          learn how to do.
1591         
1592          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
1593               account a job size just before *this* job is
1594               sent to the printer.
1595               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
1596               size just before *the next* job is sent to
1597               the printer.
1598       
1599    - 1.05alpha3 :
1600   
1601        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
1602          implemented to serve as an example on how to
1603          do this sort of things. This method only counts
1604          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
1605          See sample configuration file for details.
1606          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
1607          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
1608          It is not reliable enough to be used.
1609          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
1610         
1611    - 1.05alpha2 :
1612   
1613        - Pluggable accounting methods.
1614       
1615        - Better error handling.
1616       
1617    - 1.05alpha1 :
1618   
1619        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
1620       
1621        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
1622          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
1623          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
1624          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
1625          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
1626         
1627        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
1628         
1629    - 1.04 :
1630   
1631        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
1632          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
1633          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
1634          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
1635         
1636        - LPRng support works !
1637       
1638        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
1639          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
1640       
1641        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
1642          printer, if they are defined.
1643         
1644        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
1645       
1646        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
1647       
1648    - 1.03 :
1649   
1650        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
1651          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
1652          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
1653         
1654        - repykota now reports account balances too.
1655       
1656        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
1657          subdirectory.
1658       
1659        - Manual pages were finally updated.
1660       
1661        - Group quotas seem to work now !
1662       
1663        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
1664          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
1665          and track users' account balance.
1666         
1667        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
1668          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
1669          details.
1670         
1671        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
1672          configuration file during first installation.
1673         
1674        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
1675       
1676        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
1677       
1678        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
1679          reports in the future.
1680         
1681        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
1682          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
1683          a quota which is too low to print.
1684         
1685        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
1686          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
1687          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
1688          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
1689          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1690          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
1691          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
1692          in this case.
1693          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1694          off.
1695         
1696        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
1697          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
1698          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
1699          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
1700          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1701          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1702          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
1703         
1704        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
1705          had a quota on the specified printer.
1706         
1707        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
1708          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
1709         
1710        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
1711       
1712        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
1713          file for details.
1714         
1715        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
1716          print quota or by account balance.
1717       
1718    - 1.02 :
1719   
1720        - The installation script now checks for software availability
1721          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
1722          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
1723         
1724        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
1725          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
1726          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
1727          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
1728          if needed.
1729         
1730        - Improved documentation.
1731       
1732        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
1733          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
1734       
1735        - Better general error handling.
1736       
1737        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
1738          included as well.
1739       
1740    - 1.01 :
1741   
1742        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
1743          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
1744         
1745            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
1746            - User means only the user will receive them.
1747            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
1748            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
1749           
1750        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
1751          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
1752          for details.
1753         
1754        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
1755          add this information to this file.
1756         
1757        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
1758          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
1759          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
1760          the version number.
1761         
1762    - 1.00 :
1763   
1764        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
1765          disable quota checking while still doing page
1766          accounting. This is really useful for people
1767          who don't want to limit their users but want
1768          to know how much pages they print.
1769         
1770        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
1771          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
1772         
1773        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
1774       
1775    - 0.99 :
1776   
1777        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
1778          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
1779          now fixed.
1780         
1781        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
1782          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
1783         
1784    - 0.98 :
1785   
1786        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
1787       
1788        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
1789       
1790    - 0.97 :
1791   
1792        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
1793          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
1794         
1795              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
1796             
1797        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
1798          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
1799         
1800        - Small bug fixes.
1801       
1802    - 0.96 :
1803
1804        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
1805          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
1806          priority if both are defined.
1807
1808        - More powerful configuration parser.
1809       
1810        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
1811          define a section for each printer in the configuration
1812          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
1813
1814    - 0.95 :
1815
1816        - External requesters for printers finally added.
1817
1818        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
1819 
1820        - More complete quota usage report
1821
1822        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
1823
1824        - Several bugs fixed.
1825
1826
1827    - 0.9 :
1828
1829        - First public version
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