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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
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21
22PyKota NEWS :
23       
24    - 1.22alpha5 :
25       
26        - SNMP and PJL improvements with regard to PowerSave / StandBy.
27       
28    - 1.22alpha4 :
29   
30        - Fixed charset problem under MacOSX.
31       
32        - Allows pkbanner to accept more info to display on its
33          command line.
34         
35    - 1.22alpha3 :
36   
37        - Fixes some case related problems with some LDAP backends.
38       
39        - Fixes some problem for printers which directly go from
40          "idle" to "warmup" and never to "printing" before
41          returning to "idle".
42         
43        - Some permissions settings may have prevented cupspykota
44          from parsing cupsd.conf, this is now fixed.
45         
46    - 1.22alpha2 :
47   
48        - Introduction of the web enabled print quote generator.
49       
50        - Fixed a potential race condition when several backend
51          wrappers were present in CUPS' backend directory.
52         
53        - Fixed dumpykota's output in CUPS' page_log format to better
54          match CUPS format.
55         
56    - 1.22alpha1 :
57   
58        - Import into Subversion.
59       
60    - 1.21 :
61   
62        - Improved documentation.
63       
64        - Improved dependencies checker.
65       
66        - Updated some translation files.
67       
68    - 1.21beta2 :
69   
70        - Fixed an LPRng specific bug.
71       
72        - Several improvements on stability issues with manually modified
73          LDAP trees.
74         
75        - Documentation improvements. 
76       
77    - 1.21beta :
78   
79        - Prepared translation files for next release.
80       
81    - 1.21alpha27 :
82   
83        - Allows software() (no arguments) to the software accounting
84          directive. This saves a lot of CPU since the job is not
85          parsed again : the precomputed size is used directly in this
86          case.
87         
88        - epykota's --prototype option now works fine with accounts
89          limited by balance.
90         
91    - 1.21alpha26 :
92   
93        - Fixed the handling of the 'maxdenybanners' directive.
94       
95        - Introduced the 'denyduplicates' directive.
96       
97        - Fixed some database related glitches.
98       
99    - 1.21alpha25 :
100   
101        - The job's size is now always precomputed, even when
102          'enforcement' is not set to 'strict'.
103         
104        - Introduction of the new 'trustjobsize' configuration directive
105          to workaround some problematic printers. See the sample
106          configuration file for details.
107         
108    - 1.21alpha24 :
109   
110        - Big database structure changes. An upgrade script
111          is now included for PostgreSQL. LDAP users may just
112          want to copy the new schema in place.
113         
114        - edpykota now recognizes the -o | --overcharge command line
115          option to set an overcharging or undercharging factor
116          on each print job's cost for a particular user.
117         
118        - repykota's output format has changed an is not limited to 
119          80 characters wide anymore. People who used to parse
120          repykota's output in their own tools are strongly advised
121          to parse dumpykota's output instead.
122         
123        - Introduction of the new 'maxdenybanners' configuration directive
124          to allow up to N (the directive's value) deny banners to be
125          printed even if the print account is forbidden to print.
126         
127        - Better detection of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
128       
129    - 1.21alpha23 :
130   
131        - Traditional Chinese translation added.
132   
133        - Several fixes and performance improvements with the LDAP backend.
134       
135    - 1.21alpha22 :
136   
137        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
138          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
139         
140    - 1.21alpha21 :
141   
142        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
143          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
144          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
145          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
146          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
147          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
148          administrator.
149         
150        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
151          of PygreSQL.   
152         
153    - 1.21alpha20 :
154         
155        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
156         
157    - 1.21alpha19 :
158   
159        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
160          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
161          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
162          may have to change your web server's configuration,
163          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
164         
165    - 1.21alpha18 :
166   
167        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
168          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
169          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
170          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
171         
172    - 1.21alpha17 :
173     
174        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
175       
176        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
177          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
178         
179        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
180       
181    - 1.21alpha16 :
182   
183        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
184          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
185         
186    - 1.21alpha15 :
187     
188        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
189          in dumpykota's output.
190         
191        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
192          the LDAP backend too.
193         
194    - 1.21alpha14 :
195   
196        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
197          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
198         
199    - 1.21alpha13 :
200   
201        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
202          that people may see what really happens, and what will
203          be available in the future :-)
204         
205    - 1.21alpha12 :
206   
207        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
208       
209        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
210          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
211         
212    - 1.21alpha11 :
213   
214        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
215          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
216          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
217          See the sample configuration file for details.
218         
219        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
220          Wold for the patch.
221          See the sample configuration file for details.
222         
223        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
224          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
225          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
226         
227    - 1.21alpha10 :
228   
229        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
230          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
231         
232    - 1.21alpha9 :
233   
234        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
235          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
236          to be created by the system administrator, and given
237          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
238         
239    - 1.21alpha8 :
240   
241        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
242          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
243         
244    - 1.21alpha7 :
245   
246        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
247       
248    - 1.21alpha6 :
249   
250        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
251       
252        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
253       
254    - 1.21alpha5 :
255   
256        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
257       
258        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
259       
260        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
261       
262    - 1.21alpha4 :
263   
264        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
265       
266        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
267          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
268       
269    - 1.21alpha3 :
270   
271        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
272          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
273          in pykota.conf
274          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
275         
276    - 1.21alpha2 :
277   
278        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
279          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
280          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
281         
282    - 1.21alpha1 :
283   
284        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
285          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
286          the CUPS developpers change something...
287       
288    - 1.20 :
289   
290        - Version number changed.
291       
292    - 1.20beta :
293   
294        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
295       
296        - German translation was finalized.
297       
298        - Greek translation was finalized.
299       
300        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
301          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
302          in the history.
303         
304        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
305       
306    - 1.20alpha27 :
307   
308        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
309          the Brazilian Portuguese translation file was incorrectly
310          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
311         
312        - Finished French translation. 
313         
314    - 1.20alpha26 :
315   
316        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
317          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
318         
319        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
320       
321        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
322       
323    - 1.20alpha25 :
324   
325        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
326          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
327          option is used.
328         
329        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
330          anymore.
331         
332        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
333       
334    - 1.20alpha24 :
335   
336        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
337       
338        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
339          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
340          their account.
341       
342        - Prepared help messages for translations.
343       
344    - 1.20alpha23 :
345   
346        - Add workaround for locale problem.
347       
348    - 1.20alpha22 :
349   
350        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
351       
352        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
353       
354        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
355       
356    - 1.20alpha21 :
357   
358        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
359          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
360          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
361         
362        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
363          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
364         
365        - Improved documentation a bit.
366       
367    - 1.20alpha20 :
368   
369        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
370          from 2 to 1 second.
371       
372        - dumpykota can now output XML.
373       
374    - 1.20alpha19 :
375   
376        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
377       
378        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
379       
380        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
381          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
382         
383        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
384          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
385          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
386         
387    - 1.20alpha18 :
388   
389        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
390          account and quota entries on first print while not
391          resetting the balance value if not needed.
392         
393        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
394          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
395          needed (Off by default).
396         
397    - 1.20alpha17 :
398   
399        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
400       
401        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
402          or options and LDAP backend.
403         
404    - 1.20alpha16 :
405   
406        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
407          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
408          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
409         
410    - 1.20alpha15 :
411   
412        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
413          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
414          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
415          is now correctly used.
416         
417    - 1.20alpha14 :
418   
419        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
420       
421        - External hardware accounter now loops until
422          a result can be read correctly.
423         
424        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
425          of the external one.
426         
427    - 1.20alpha13 :
428     
429        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
430          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
431          without launching any subprocess.
432          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
433          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
434         
435        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
436          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
437          CPU load.
438         
439    - 1.20alpha12 :
440   
441        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
442          for printer status stabilization.
443       
444    - 1.20alpha11 :
445   
446        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
447          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
448         
449    - 1.20alpha10 :
450   
451        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
452          hardware accounting fails.
453         
454    - 1.20alpha9 :
455   
456        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
457       
458    - 1.20alpha8 :
459   
460        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
461          supported.
462       
463    - 1.20alpha7 :
464   
465        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
466          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
467       
468    - 1.20alpha6 :
469     
470        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
471       
472        - Small fixes for LPRng.
473       
474        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
475          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
476          meaningful.
477         
478        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
479          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
480         
481        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
482       
483    - 1.20alpha5 :
484     
485        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
486          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
487          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
488          'stop' (default).
489         
490        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
491          problem.
492         
493    - 1.20alpha4 :
494   
495        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
496          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
497         
498    - 1.20alpha3 :
499       
500        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
501          fooled by a change in number of copies :
502          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
503          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
504          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
505          now the maximum value seen is used.
506         
507        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
508          printer drivers.
509         
510        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
511          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
512         
513        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
514          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
515          be configurable in the near future.
516         
517    - 1.20alpha2 :
518   
519        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
520          answer until a line with a single integer is
521          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
522          This should fix the problem some people have
523          when strange locale related messages are sent
524          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
525         
526        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
527          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
528          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
529          work to correctly analyze other devices.
530       
531    - 1.20alpha1 :
532   
533        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
534       
535        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
536          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
537          page.
538       
539        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
540          PostScript code.
541         
542        - Added german translation.
543       
544        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
545          "enforcement: strict" is used.
546       
547        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
548       
549    - 1.19 :
550   
551        - Updated existing translations.   
552       
553        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
554       
555        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
556       
557    - 1.19beta :
558   
559        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
560          to be OK.
561         
562        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
563       
564        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
565       
566        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
567       
568        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
569       
570    - 1.19alpha35 :
571   
572        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
573          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
574       
575    - 1.19alpha34 :
576   
577        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
578          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
579   
580    - 1.19alpha33 :
581   
582        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
583          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
584          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
585         
586    - 1.19alpha32 :
587   
588        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
589       
590        - Saner default configuration file.
591       
592    - 1.19alpha31 :
593   
594        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
595          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
596          this older version of Python.
597         
598    - 1.19alpha30 :
599   
600        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
601       
602        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
603          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
604       
605        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
606          Gonz�z Gonz�z
607         
608    - 1.19alpha29 :
609   
610        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
611          copies set for each page.
612         
613        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
614       
615        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
616       
617        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
618          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
619          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
620          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
621          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
622          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
623          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
624         
625    - 1.19alpha28 :
626   
627        - The description field for printers can now be set,
628          and is displayed in reports.
629         
630        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
631         
632        - Improved pkhint
633       
634        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
635          Doesn't handle copies yet.
636       
637    - 1.19alpha27 :
638   
639        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
640          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
641         
642        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
643          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
644          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
645          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
646         
647        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
648          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
649          almost three times automagically.
650         
651    - 1.19alpha26 :
652   
653        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
654       
655        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
656          of copies could vary from page to page.
657         
658        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
659       
660    - 1.19alpha25 :
661   
662        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
663          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
664         
665        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
666          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
667          be undercharged.
668         
669        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
670         
671    - 1.19alpha24 :
672   
673        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
674          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
675          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
676          because PDF is parsed directly.
677         
678    - 1.19alpha23 :
679   
680        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
681          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
682       
683        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
684          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
685          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
686          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
687          automatically which method to use depending on your
688          version of Python.
689       
690        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
691         
692    - 1.19alpha22 :
693   
694        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
695          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
696          job's size pre-computation phase.
697         
698        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
699          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
700          and PS.
701       
702        - Even better debugging code.
703       
704    - 1.19alpha21 :
705   
706        - Additionnal check.
707       
708    - 1.19alpha20 :
709   
710        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
711       
712        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
713          files are parsed.
714       
715    - 1.19alpha19 :
716   
717        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
718          or version.
719         
720        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
721       
722        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
723       
724        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
725          cause problems.
726
727    - 1.19alpha18 :
728   
729        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
730          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
731          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
732          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
733          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
734          in the jobs history instead.
735         
736        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
737          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
738          more easily readable.
739         
740    - 1.19alpha17 :
741   
742        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
743          any log message) which occured once in a while when
744          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
745         
746        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
747          default. See sample configuration file to see how
748          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
749         
750        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
751          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
752          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
753          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
754         
755        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
756          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
757          yet to support this functionnality.
758         
759    - 1.19alpha16 :
760   
761        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
762          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
763          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
764          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
765          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
766         
767        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
768          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
769       
770    - 1.19alpha15 :
771   
772        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
773          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
774          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
775         
776    - 1.19alpha14 :
777   
778        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
779          are now exported as environment variables.
780         
781        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
782          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
783         
784        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
785          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
786          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
787          feature.
788         
789        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
790          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
791          for details.
792         
793    - 1.19alpha13 :
794   
795        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
796          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
797          as time permits.
798         
799    - 1.19alpha12 :
800   
801        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
802          the generic PDL analyzer.
803          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
804          job.
805       
806    - 1.19alpha11 :
807   
808        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
809          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
810          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
811          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
812          in the near future.
813         
814    - 1.19alpha10 :
815   
816        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
817          of spawning a new process.
818         
819        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
820       
821        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
822          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
823          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
824          the original algorithm is still used for now.
825          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
826          expense of severe memory consumption.
827       
828        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
829          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
830          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
831          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
832       
833    - 1.19alpha9 :
834       
835        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
836       
837        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
838          too.
839         
840        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
841       
842    - 1.19alpha8 :
843   
844        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
845       
846        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
847       
848        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
849       
850        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
851       
852        - code simplifications in external requester
853       
854    - 1.19alpha7 :
855     
856        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
857          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
858          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
859          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
860          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
861         
862    - 1.19alpha6 :
863   
864        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
865       
866        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
867          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
868          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
869          PostScript.
870         
871        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
872          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
873         
874    - 1.19alpha5 :
875   
876        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
877       
878        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
879          problems under heavy load.
880         
881        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
882       
883        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
884          modify existing printers when --add is used.
885          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
886          used and a printer already exists.
887         
888        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
889          and pykotaTitle attributes.
890       
891    - 1.19alpha4 :
892   
893        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
894          is now fixed.
895         
896        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
897          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
898          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
899       
900        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
901          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
902          testing.
903         
904    - 1.19alpha3 :
905   
906        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
907          to list informations about printers.
908         
909    - 1.19alpha2 :
910   
911        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
912          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
913         
914    - 1.19alpha1 :
915   
916        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
917       
918        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
919       
920    - 1.18 :
921   
922        - Improved documentation
923       
924    - 1.18beta2 :
925     
926        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
927       
928    - 1.18beta :
929   
930        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
931       
932        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
933       
934        - Improved translations
935       
936        - Improved documentation
937       
938    - 1.18alpha15 :
939
940        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
941          and more powerful one.
942   
943        - Names can now begin with a digit.
944       
945        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
946       
947    - 1.18alpha14 :
948   
949        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
950          of breaking.
951         
952        - Italian translation added.
953       
954    - 1.18alpha13 :
955   
956        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
957          filter as well.
958         
959        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
960          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
961          this will be done anyway the next time the last
962          user will print again. This saves some database
963          queries which are unneeded.
964       
965    - 1.18alpha12 :
966   
967        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
968          many environment variables available are useable
969          from the cupspykota backend.
970          See sample configuration file for details and help.
971         
972    - 1.18alpha11 :
973   
974        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
975       
976    - 1.18alpha10 :
977   
978        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
979       
980        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
981       
982    - 1.18alpha9 :
983   
984        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
985       
986        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
987       
988        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
989       
990    - 1.18alpha8 :
991   
992        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
993          This avoids many database queries.
994       
995    - 1.18alpha7 :
996   
997        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
998          LDAP caching.
999         
1000    - 1.18alpha6 :
1001       
1002        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
1003          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
1004          email address is not set in PyKota database.
1005         
1006        - More complete email message headers. 
1007         
1008    - 1.18alpha5 :
1009   
1010        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
1011          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
1012         
1013        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
1014          up modifications (at least).
1015         
1016    - 1.18alpha4 :
1017   
1018        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
1019          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
1020          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
1021          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
1022          instead of into /usr/bin
1023          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
1024          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
1025          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
1026          waitprinter.sh and al.
1027         
1028        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
1029          accounting method for PyKota.
1030         
1031    - 1.18alpha3 :
1032   
1033        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
1034          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
1035       
1036    - 1.18alpha2 :
1037   
1038        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
1039          exclusively.
1040       
1041    - 1.18alpha1 :
1042   
1043        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
1044       
1045        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
1046       
1047    - 1.17 :
1048   
1049        - Finalized release.
1050       
1051    - 1.17alpha2 :
1052   
1053        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
1054       
1055    - 1.17alpha1 :
1056   
1057        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
1058       
1059    - 1.16 :
1060   
1061        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
1062          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
1063         
1064        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
1065          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
1066          though.
1067       
1068        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brazilian
1069          Portuguese Translation. Brazilian portuguese
1070          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
1071       
1072    - 1.16beta3 :
1073   
1074        - Swedish translation added.
1075       
1076        - Small fix in documentation.
1077       
1078    - 1.16beta2 :
1079   
1080        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
1081          printing in CUPS backend.
1082         
1083        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
1084       
1085    - 1.16beta1 :
1086   
1087        - Manpages upgraded.
1088       
1089    - 1.16alpha26 :
1090   
1091        - Job price is now computed like this :
1092       
1093          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
1094         
1095          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
1096          a member of, if any.
1097         
1098          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
1099          flexibility.
1100         
1101    - 1.16alpha25 :
1102   
1103        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
1104          using the following syntax :
1105         
1106            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
1107       
1108    - 1.16alpha24 :
1109   
1110        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1111       
1112        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1113       
1114        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1115          automatically add printers on first print.
1116       
1117    - 1.16alpha23 :
1118   
1119        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1120          several printers at the very same time.
1121       
1122    - 1.16alpha22 :
1123   
1124        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1125       
1126    - 1.16alpha21 :
1127   
1128        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1129       
1130        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1131       
1132    - 1.16alpha20 :
1133   
1134        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1135       
1136    - 1.16alpha19 :
1137     
1138        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1139       
1140    - 1.16alpha18 :
1141   
1142        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1143          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1144          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1145          groups for now.
1146
1147        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1148       
1149        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1150       
1151        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1152          + some particular settings.
1153         
1154        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1155          for details.
1156       
1157        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1158          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1159           
1160            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1161            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1162            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1163            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1164            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1165            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1166         
1167    - 1.16alpha17 :
1168   
1169        - Added portugues translation.
1170       
1171        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1172       
1173    - 1.16alpha16 :
1174   
1175        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1176          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1177       
1178        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1179          to lowercase during printing.
1180         
1181    - 1.15alpha15 :
1182   
1183        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1184          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1185         
1186    - 1.16alpha14 :
1187   
1188        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1189          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1190          on the printing system.
1191         
1192    - 1.16alpha13 :
1193   
1194        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1195       
1196        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
1197       
1198        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1199          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1200          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1201          this is not the case anymore.
1202         
1203    - 1.16alpha12 :
1204   
1205        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1206          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1207          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1208          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1209          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1210         
1211    - 1.16alpha11 :
1212   
1213        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1214          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1215          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1216          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1217         
1218        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1219          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1220         
1221    - 1.16alpha10 :
1222       
1223        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1224          See sample configuration file for details.
1225   
1226        - Spanish translation added.
1227       
1228    - 1.16alpha9 :
1229   
1230        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1231          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1232          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1233          file for details.
1234         
1235    - 1.16alpha8 :
1236   
1237        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1238          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1239         
1240        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1241          GNU GPL too.
1242         
1243    - 1.16alpha7 :
1244   
1245        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1246       
1247        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1248          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1249          used with LPRng though.
1250       
1251    - 1.16alpha6 :
1252   
1253        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1254          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1255          added to the database.
1256         
1257    - 1.16alpha5 :
1258   
1259        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1260          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1261          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1262       
1263    - 1.16alpha4 :
1264   
1265        - New CUPS backend added.
1266       
1267    - 1.16alpha3 :
1268       
1269        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1270       
1271    - 1.16alpha2 :
1272   
1273        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1274       
1275    - 1.16alpha1 :
1276   
1277        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1278       
1279        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1280       
1281    - 1.15 :
1282     
1283        - Documentation improved.
1284       
1285    - 1.15beta :
1286   
1287        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1288          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1289         
1290    - 1.15alpha9 :
1291   
1292        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1293          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1294          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1295          They have to be created manually before.
1296          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1297         
1298    - 1.15alpha8 :
1299   
1300        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1301          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1302          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1303          control.
1304       
1305    - 1.15alpha7 :
1306   
1307        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1308       
1309    - 1.15alpha6 :
1310   
1311        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1312       
1313    - 1.15alpha5 :
1314   
1315        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1316
1317    - 1.15alpha4 :
1318   
1319        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1320          modification.
1321         
1322    - 1.15alpha3 :
1323   
1324        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1325          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1326          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1327          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1328          unrestricted access is granted.
1329          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1330          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
1331         
1332    - 1.15alpha2 :
1333   
1334        - Better detection of LPRng.
1335       
1336        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1337       
1338    - 1.15alpha1 :
1339   
1340        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1341       
1342    - 1.14 :
1343   
1344        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1345          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1346          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1347       
1348    - 1.14beta2 :
1349   
1350        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1351          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1352          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1353          details.
1354       
1355    - 1.14beta :
1356   
1357        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1358          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1359          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1360          See sample configuration file for details.
1361         
1362    - 1.14alpha9 :
1363   
1364        - Documentation improved.
1365       
1366        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1367          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1368          limiting factor is "balance".
1369         
1370    - 1.14alpha8 :
1371   
1372        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1373          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1374          asking for their internal page counter.
1375          See sample configuration file for details.
1376         
1377    - 1.14alpha7 :
1378   
1379        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
1380          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
1381          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
1382          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
1383          time.
1384         
1385    - 1.14alpha6 :
1386   
1387        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
1388          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
1389          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
1390          Don't forget to :
1391         
1392                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
1393               
1394        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
1395          for the same reason.
1396         
1397        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
1398          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
1399         
1400    - 1.14alpha5 :
1401       
1402        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
1403       
1404    - 1.14alpha4 :
1405   
1406        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
1407          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
1408          as two different LDAP entries.
1409         
1410    - 1.14alpha3 :
1411   
1412        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
1413          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
1414       
1415    - 1.14alpha2 :
1416   
1417        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
1418       
1419    - 1.14alpha1 :
1420   
1421        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
1422          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
1423          a warning message.
1424         
1425        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
1426          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
1427       
1428    - 1.13 :
1429   
1430        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
1431       
1432        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
1433          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
1434          as well as a bug in the groups code.
1435         
1436    - 1.13alpha1 :
1437   
1438        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
1439       
1440    - 1.12 :
1441   
1442        - More complete test added in edpykota.
1443       
1444    - 1.12alpha2 :
1445   
1446        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
1447       
1448    - 1.12alpha1 :
1449   
1450        - Small bug fix.
1451       
1452    - 1.11 :
1453   
1454        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
1455          printing quotes for users.
1456         
1457    - 1.10 :
1458   
1459        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
1460          account balance.
1461         
1462    - 1.09 :
1463   
1464        - Translations finalized.
1465       
1466        - Manpages updated.
1467       
1468        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
1469       
1470    - 1.09beta2 :
1471   
1472        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
1473          is much more powerful.
1474       
1475    - 1.09beta :
1476   
1477        - edpykota finalized
1478       
1479    - 1.09alpha2 :
1480   
1481        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
1482       
1483        - LDAP backend works !
1484       
1485        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
1486          users or groups names on the command line. Users
1487          and groups names may contain wildcards.
1488         
1489        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
1490          current user when launched by non-root users.
1491         
1492        - Minor bug fixes. 
1493   
1494    - 1.09alpha1 :
1495   
1496        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
1497          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
1498          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
1499         
1500        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
1501          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
1502     
1503    - 1.08 :
1504   
1505        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
1506       
1507        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
1508       
1509    - 1.08alpha8 :
1510   
1511        - Code refactoring.
1512       
1513        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
1514          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
1515          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
1516          not used anymore.
1517         
1518        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
1519          file for details.
1520          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
1521          debug mode, for now.
1522       
1523    - 1.08alpha7 :
1524   
1525        - Very latest LDAP schema.
1526       
1527        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
1528          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
1529       
1530    - 1.08alpha6 :
1531   
1532        - Minor bug corrections
1533       
1534        - More work on LDAP : new schema
1535       
1536    - 1.08alpha5 :
1537   
1538        - More good work on LDAP storage.
1539          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
1540       
1541    - 1.08alpha4 :
1542   
1543        - LDAP schema included.
1544          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
1545          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
1546          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
1547          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
1548          MAILING LIST.
1549         
1550    - 1.08alpha3 :
1551   
1552        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
1553         
1554          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
1555         
1556          - They now take care of the number of copies
1557            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
1558            file already does this, because this would
1559            overcharge users (number of copies counted
1560            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
1561           
1562          - The sample configuration file now contains 
1563            an external accounting method example which should
1564            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
1565           
1566        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
1567       
1568    - 1.08alpha2 :
1569   
1570        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
1571          It already worked, but the sample configuration
1572          file didn't contain appropriate values...
1573       
1574    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
1575   
1576        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
1577          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
1578         
1579    - 1.06 :
1580   
1581        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
1582          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
1583          a bug was triggered.
1584          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
1585          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
1586         
1587    - 1.05 :
1588   
1589        - External accounters are finally available !
1590          This means that you can plug any page accounting
1591          method you like by setting the appropriate
1592          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
1593          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
1594          learn how to do.
1595         
1596          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
1597               account a job size just before *this* job is
1598               sent to the printer.
1599               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
1600               size just before *the next* job is sent to
1601               the printer.
1602       
1603    - 1.05alpha3 :
1604   
1605        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
1606          implemented to serve as an example on how to
1607          do this sort of things. This method only counts
1608          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
1609          See sample configuration file for details.
1610          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
1611          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
1612          It is not reliable enough to be used.
1613          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
1614         
1615    - 1.05alpha2 :
1616   
1617        - Pluggable accounting methods.
1618       
1619        - Better error handling.
1620       
1621    - 1.05alpha1 :
1622   
1623        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
1624       
1625        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
1626          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
1627          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
1628          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
1629          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
1630         
1631        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
1632         
1633    - 1.04 :
1634   
1635        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
1636          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
1637          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
1638          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
1639         
1640        - LPRng support works !
1641       
1642        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
1643          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
1644       
1645        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
1646          printer, if they are defined.
1647         
1648        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
1649       
1650        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
1651       
1652    - 1.03 :
1653   
1654        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
1655          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
1656          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
1657         
1658        - repykota now reports account balances too.
1659       
1660        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
1661          subdirectory.
1662       
1663        - Manual pages were finally updated.
1664       
1665        - Group quotas seem to work now !
1666       
1667        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
1668          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
1669          and track users' account balance.
1670         
1671        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
1672          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
1673          details.
1674         
1675        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
1676          configuration file during first installation.
1677         
1678        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
1679       
1680        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
1681       
1682        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
1683          reports in the future.
1684         
1685        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
1686          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
1687          a quota which is too low to print.
1688         
1689        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
1690          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
1691          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
1692          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
1693          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1694          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
1695          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
1696          in this case.
1697          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1698          off.
1699         
1700        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
1701          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
1702          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
1703          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
1704          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1705          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1706          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
1707         
1708        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
1709          had a quota on the specified printer.
1710         
1711        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
1712          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
1713         
1714        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
1715       
1716        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
1717          file for details.
1718         
1719        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
1720          print quota or by account balance.
1721       
1722    - 1.02 :
1723   
1724        - The installation script now checks for software availability
1725          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
1726          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
1727         
1728        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
1729          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
1730          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
1731          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
1732          if needed.
1733         
1734        - Improved documentation.
1735       
1736        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
1737          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
1738       
1739        - Better general error handling.
1740       
1741        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
1742          included as well.
1743       
1744    - 1.01 :
1745   
1746        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
1747          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
1748         
1749            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
1750            - User means only the user will receive them.
1751            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
1752            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
1753           
1754        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
1755          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
1756          for details.
1757         
1758        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
1759          add this information to this file.
1760         
1761        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
1762          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
1763          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
1764          the version number.
1765         
1766    - 1.00 :
1767   
1768        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
1769          disable quota checking while still doing page
1770          accounting. This is really useful for people
1771          who don't want to limit their users but want
1772          to know how much pages they print.
1773         
1774        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
1775          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
1776         
1777        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
1778       
1779    - 0.99 :
1780   
1781        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
1782          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
1783          now fixed.
1784         
1785        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
1786          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
1787         
1788    - 0.98 :
1789   
1790        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
1791       
1792        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
1793       
1794    - 0.97 :
1795   
1796        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
1797          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
1798         
1799              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
1800             
1801        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
1802          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
1803         
1804        - Small bug fixes.
1805       
1806    - 0.96 :
1807
1808        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
1809          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
1810          priority if both are defined.
1811
1812        - More powerful configuration parser.
1813       
1814        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
1815          define a section for each printer in the configuration
1816          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
1817
1818    - 0.95 :
1819
1820        - External requesters for printers finally added.
1821
1822        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
1823 
1824        - More complete quota usage report
1825
1826        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
1827
1828        - Several bugs fixed.
1829
1830
1831    - 0.9 :
1832
1833        - First public version
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