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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
4
5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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18Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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20============================================================
21
22PyKota NEWS :
23       
24    - 1.22alpha6 :
25   
26        - Early errors now produce meaningful error messages (finally !)
27       
28    - 1.22alpha5 :
29       
30        - SNMP and PJL improvements with regard to PowerSave / StandBy.
31       
32    - 1.22alpha4 :
33   
34        - Fixed charset problem under MacOSX.
35       
36        - Allows pkbanner to accept more info to display on its
37          command line.
38         
39    - 1.22alpha3 :
40   
41        - Fixes some case related problems with some LDAP backends.
42       
43        - Fixes some problem for printers which directly go from
44          "idle" to "warmup" and never to "printing" before
45          returning to "idle".
46         
47        - Some permissions settings may have prevented cupspykota
48          from parsing cupsd.conf, this is now fixed.
49         
50    - 1.22alpha2 :
51   
52        - Introduction of the web enabled print quote generator.
53       
54        - Fixed a potential race condition when several backend
55          wrappers were present in CUPS' backend directory.
56         
57        - Fixed dumpykota's output in CUPS' page_log format to better
58          match CUPS format.
59         
60    - 1.22alpha1 :
61   
62        - Import into Subversion.
63       
64    - 1.21 :
65   
66        - Improved documentation.
67       
68        - Improved dependencies checker.
69       
70        - Updated some translation files.
71       
72    - 1.21beta2 :
73   
74        - Fixed an LPRng specific bug.
75       
76        - Several improvements on stability issues with manually modified
77          LDAP trees.
78         
79        - Documentation improvements. 
80       
81    - 1.21beta :
82   
83        - Prepared translation files for next release.
84       
85    - 1.21alpha27 :
86   
87        - Allows software() (no arguments) to the software accounting
88          directive. This saves a lot of CPU since the job is not
89          parsed again : the precomputed size is used directly in this
90          case.
91         
92        - epykota's --prototype option now works fine with accounts
93          limited by balance.
94         
95    - 1.21alpha26 :
96   
97        - Fixed the handling of the 'maxdenybanners' directive.
98       
99        - Introduced the 'denyduplicates' directive.
100       
101        - Fixed some database related glitches.
102       
103    - 1.21alpha25 :
104   
105        - The job's size is now always precomputed, even when
106          'enforcement' is not set to 'strict'.
107         
108        - Introduction of the new 'trustjobsize' configuration directive
109          to workaround some problematic printers. See the sample
110          configuration file for details.
111         
112    - 1.21alpha24 :
113   
114        - Big database structure changes. An upgrade script
115          is now included for PostgreSQL. LDAP users may just
116          want to copy the new schema in place.
117         
118        - edpykota now recognizes the -o | --overcharge command line
119          option to set an overcharging or undercharging factor
120          on each print job's cost for a particular user.
121         
122        - repykota's output format has changed an is not limited to 
123          80 characters wide anymore. People who used to parse
124          repykota's output in their own tools are strongly advised
125          to parse dumpykota's output instead.
126         
127        - Introduction of the new 'maxdenybanners' configuration directive
128          to allow up to N (the directive's value) deny banners to be
129          printed even if the print account is forbidden to print.
130         
131        - Better detection of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
132       
133    - 1.21alpha23 :
134   
135        - Traditional Chinese translation added.
136   
137        - Several fixes and performance improvements with the LDAP backend.
138       
139    - 1.21alpha22 :
140   
141        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
142          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
143         
144    - 1.21alpha21 :
145   
146        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
147          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
148          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
149          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
150          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
151          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
152          administrator.
153         
154        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
155          of PygreSQL.   
156         
157    - 1.21alpha20 :
158         
159        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
160         
161    - 1.21alpha19 :
162   
163        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
164          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
165          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
166          may have to change your web server's configuration,
167          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
168         
169    - 1.21alpha18 :
170   
171        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
172          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
173          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
174          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
175         
176    - 1.21alpha17 :
177     
178        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
179       
180        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
181          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
182         
183        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
184       
185    - 1.21alpha16 :
186   
187        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
188          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
189         
190    - 1.21alpha15 :
191     
192        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
193          in dumpykota's output.
194         
195        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
196          the LDAP backend too.
197         
198    - 1.21alpha14 :
199   
200        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
201          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
202         
203    - 1.21alpha13 :
204   
205        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
206          that people may see what really happens, and what will
207          be available in the future :-)
208         
209    - 1.21alpha12 :
210   
211        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
212       
213        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
214          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
215         
216    - 1.21alpha11 :
217   
218        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
219          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
220          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
221          See the sample configuration file for details.
222         
223        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
224          Wold for the patch.
225          See the sample configuration file for details.
226         
227        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
228          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
229          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
230         
231    - 1.21alpha10 :
232   
233        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
234          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
235         
236    - 1.21alpha9 :
237   
238        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
239          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
240          to be created by the system administrator, and given
241          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
242         
243    - 1.21alpha8 :
244   
245        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
246          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
247         
248    - 1.21alpha7 :
249   
250        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
251       
252    - 1.21alpha6 :
253   
254        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
255       
256        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
257       
258    - 1.21alpha5 :
259   
260        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
261       
262        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
263       
264        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
265       
266    - 1.21alpha4 :
267   
268        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
269       
270        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
271          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
272       
273    - 1.21alpha3 :
274   
275        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
276          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
277          in pykota.conf
278          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
279         
280    - 1.21alpha2 :
281   
282        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
283          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
284          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
285         
286    - 1.21alpha1 :
287   
288        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
289          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
290          the CUPS developpers change something...
291       
292    - 1.20 :
293   
294        - Version number changed.
295       
296    - 1.20beta :
297   
298        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
299       
300        - German translation was finalized.
301       
302        - Greek translation was finalized.
303       
304        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
305          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
306          in the history.
307         
308        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
309       
310    - 1.20alpha27 :
311   
312        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
313          the Brazilian Portuguese translation file was incorrectly
314          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
315         
316        - Finished French translation. 
317         
318    - 1.20alpha26 :
319   
320        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
321          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
322         
323        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
324       
325        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
326       
327    - 1.20alpha25 :
328   
329        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
330          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
331          option is used.
332         
333        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
334          anymore.
335         
336        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
337       
338    - 1.20alpha24 :
339   
340        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
341       
342        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
343          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
344          their account.
345       
346        - Prepared help messages for translations.
347       
348    - 1.20alpha23 :
349   
350        - Add workaround for locale problem.
351       
352    - 1.20alpha22 :
353   
354        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
355       
356        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
357       
358        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
359       
360    - 1.20alpha21 :
361   
362        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
363          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
364          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
365         
366        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
367          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
368         
369        - Improved documentation a bit.
370       
371    - 1.20alpha20 :
372   
373        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
374          from 2 to 1 second.
375       
376        - dumpykota can now output XML.
377       
378    - 1.20alpha19 :
379   
380        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
381       
382        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
383       
384        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
385          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
386         
387        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
388          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
389          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
390         
391    - 1.20alpha18 :
392   
393        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
394          account and quota entries on first print while not
395          resetting the balance value if not needed.
396         
397        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
398          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
399          needed (Off by default).
400         
401    - 1.20alpha17 :
402   
403        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
404       
405        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
406          or options and LDAP backend.
407         
408    - 1.20alpha16 :
409   
410        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
411          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
412          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
413         
414    - 1.20alpha15 :
415   
416        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
417          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
418          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
419          is now correctly used.
420         
421    - 1.20alpha14 :
422   
423        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
424       
425        - External hardware accounter now loops until
426          a result can be read correctly.
427         
428        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
429          of the external one.
430         
431    - 1.20alpha13 :
432     
433        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
434          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
435          without launching any subprocess.
436          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
437          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
438         
439        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
440          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
441          CPU load.
442         
443    - 1.20alpha12 :
444   
445        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
446          for printer status stabilization.
447       
448    - 1.20alpha11 :
449   
450        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
451          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
452         
453    - 1.20alpha10 :
454   
455        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
456          hardware accounting fails.
457         
458    - 1.20alpha9 :
459   
460        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
461       
462    - 1.20alpha8 :
463   
464        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
465          supported.
466       
467    - 1.20alpha7 :
468   
469        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
470          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
471       
472    - 1.20alpha6 :
473     
474        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
475       
476        - Small fixes for LPRng.
477       
478        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
479          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
480          meaningful.
481         
482        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
483          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
484         
485        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
486       
487    - 1.20alpha5 :
488     
489        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
490          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
491          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
492          'stop' (default).
493         
494        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
495          problem.
496         
497    - 1.20alpha4 :
498   
499        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
500          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
501         
502    - 1.20alpha3 :
503       
504        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
505          fooled by a change in number of copies :
506          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
507          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
508          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
509          now the maximum value seen is used.
510         
511        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
512          printer drivers.
513         
514        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
515          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
516         
517        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
518          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
519          be configurable in the near future.
520         
521    - 1.20alpha2 :
522   
523        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
524          answer until a line with a single integer is
525          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
526          This should fix the problem some people have
527          when strange locale related messages are sent
528          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
529         
530        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
531          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
532          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
533          work to correctly analyze other devices.
534       
535    - 1.20alpha1 :
536   
537        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
538       
539        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
540          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
541          page.
542       
543        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
544          PostScript code.
545         
546        - Added german translation.
547       
548        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
549          "enforcement: strict" is used.
550       
551        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
552       
553    - 1.19 :
554   
555        - Updated existing translations.   
556       
557        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
558       
559        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
560       
561    - 1.19beta :
562   
563        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
564          to be OK.
565         
566        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
567       
568        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
569       
570        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
571       
572        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
573       
574    - 1.19alpha35 :
575   
576        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
577          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
578       
579    - 1.19alpha34 :
580   
581        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
582          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
583   
584    - 1.19alpha33 :
585   
586        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
587          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
588          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
589         
590    - 1.19alpha32 :
591   
592        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
593       
594        - Saner default configuration file.
595       
596    - 1.19alpha31 :
597   
598        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
599          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
600          this older version of Python.
601         
602    - 1.19alpha30 :
603   
604        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
605       
606        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
607          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
608       
609        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
610          Gonz�z Gonz�z
611         
612    - 1.19alpha29 :
613   
614        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
615          copies set for each page.
616         
617        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
618       
619        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
620       
621        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
622          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
623          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
624          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
625          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
626          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
627          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
628         
629    - 1.19alpha28 :
630   
631        - The description field for printers can now be set,
632          and is displayed in reports.
633         
634        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
635         
636        - Improved pkhint
637       
638        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
639          Doesn't handle copies yet.
640       
641    - 1.19alpha27 :
642   
643        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
644          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
645         
646        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
647          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
648          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
649          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
650         
651        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
652          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
653          almost three times automagically.
654         
655    - 1.19alpha26 :
656   
657        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
658       
659        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
660          of copies could vary from page to page.
661         
662        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
663       
664    - 1.19alpha25 :
665   
666        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
667          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
668         
669        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
670          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
671          be undercharged.
672         
673        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
674         
675    - 1.19alpha24 :
676   
677        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
678          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
679          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
680          because PDF is parsed directly.
681         
682    - 1.19alpha23 :
683   
684        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
685          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
686       
687        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
688          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
689          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
690          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
691          automatically which method to use depending on your
692          version of Python.
693       
694        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
695         
696    - 1.19alpha22 :
697   
698        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
699          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
700          job's size pre-computation phase.
701         
702        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
703          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
704          and PS.
705       
706        - Even better debugging code.
707       
708    - 1.19alpha21 :
709   
710        - Additionnal check.
711       
712    - 1.19alpha20 :
713   
714        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
715       
716        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
717          files are parsed.
718       
719    - 1.19alpha19 :
720   
721        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
722          or version.
723         
724        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
725       
726        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
727       
728        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
729          cause problems.
730
731    - 1.19alpha18 :
732   
733        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
734          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
735          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
736          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
737          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
738          in the jobs history instead.
739         
740        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
741          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
742          more easily readable.
743         
744    - 1.19alpha17 :
745   
746        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
747          any log message) which occured once in a while when
748          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
749         
750        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
751          default. See sample configuration file to see how
752          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
753         
754        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
755          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
756          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
757          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
758         
759        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
760          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
761          yet to support this functionnality.
762         
763    - 1.19alpha16 :
764   
765        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
766          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
767          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
768          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
769          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
770         
771        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
772          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
773       
774    - 1.19alpha15 :
775   
776        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
777          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
778          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
779         
780    - 1.19alpha14 :
781   
782        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
783          are now exported as environment variables.
784         
785        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
786          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
787         
788        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
789          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
790          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
791          feature.
792         
793        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
794          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
795          for details.
796         
797    - 1.19alpha13 :
798   
799        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
800          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
801          as time permits.
802         
803    - 1.19alpha12 :
804   
805        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
806          the generic PDL analyzer.
807          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
808          job.
809       
810    - 1.19alpha11 :
811   
812        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
813          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
814          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
815          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
816          in the near future.
817         
818    - 1.19alpha10 :
819   
820        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
821          of spawning a new process.
822         
823        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
824       
825        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
826          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
827          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
828          the original algorithm is still used for now.
829          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
830          expense of severe memory consumption.
831       
832        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
833          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
834          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
835          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
836       
837    - 1.19alpha9 :
838       
839        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
840       
841        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
842          too.
843         
844        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
845       
846    - 1.19alpha8 :
847   
848        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
849       
850        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
851       
852        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
853       
854        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
855       
856        - code simplifications in external requester
857       
858    - 1.19alpha7 :
859     
860        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
861          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
862          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
863          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
864          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
865         
866    - 1.19alpha6 :
867   
868        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
869       
870        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
871          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
872          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
873          PostScript.
874         
875        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
876          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
877         
878    - 1.19alpha5 :
879   
880        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
881       
882        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
883          problems under heavy load.
884         
885        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
886       
887        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
888          modify existing printers when --add is used.
889          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
890          used and a printer already exists.
891         
892        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
893          and pykotaTitle attributes.
894       
895    - 1.19alpha4 :
896   
897        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
898          is now fixed.
899         
900        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
901          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
902          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
903       
904        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
905          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
906          testing.
907         
908    - 1.19alpha3 :
909   
910        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
911          to list informations about printers.
912         
913    - 1.19alpha2 :
914   
915        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
916          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
917         
918    - 1.19alpha1 :
919   
920        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
921       
922        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
923       
924    - 1.18 :
925   
926        - Improved documentation
927       
928    - 1.18beta2 :
929     
930        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
931       
932    - 1.18beta :
933   
934        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
935       
936        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
937       
938        - Improved translations
939       
940        - Improved documentation
941       
942    - 1.18alpha15 :
943
944        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
945          and more powerful one.
946   
947        - Names can now begin with a digit.
948       
949        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
950       
951    - 1.18alpha14 :
952   
953        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
954          of breaking.
955         
956        - Italian translation added.
957       
958    - 1.18alpha13 :
959   
960        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
961          filter as well.
962         
963        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
964          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
965          this will be done anyway the next time the last
966          user will print again. This saves some database
967          queries which are unneeded.
968       
969    - 1.18alpha12 :
970   
971        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
972          many environment variables available are useable
973          from the cupspykota backend.
974          See sample configuration file for details and help.
975         
976    - 1.18alpha11 :
977   
978        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
979       
980    - 1.18alpha10 :
981   
982        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
983       
984        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
985       
986    - 1.18alpha9 :
987   
988        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
989       
990        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
991       
992        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
993       
994    - 1.18alpha8 :
995   
996        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
997          This avoids many database queries.
998       
999    - 1.18alpha7 :
1000   
1001        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
1002          LDAP caching.
1003         
1004    - 1.18alpha6 :
1005       
1006        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
1007          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
1008          email address is not set in PyKota database.
1009         
1010        - More complete email message headers. 
1011         
1012    - 1.18alpha5 :
1013   
1014        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
1015          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
1016         
1017        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
1018          up modifications (at least).
1019         
1020    - 1.18alpha4 :
1021   
1022        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
1023          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
1024          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
1025          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
1026          instead of into /usr/bin
1027          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
1028          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
1029          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
1030          waitprinter.sh and al.
1031         
1032        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
1033          accounting method for PyKota.
1034         
1035    - 1.18alpha3 :
1036   
1037        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
1038          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
1039       
1040    - 1.18alpha2 :
1041   
1042        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
1043          exclusively.
1044       
1045    - 1.18alpha1 :
1046   
1047        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
1048       
1049        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
1050       
1051    - 1.17 :
1052   
1053        - Finalized release.
1054       
1055    - 1.17alpha2 :
1056   
1057        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
1058       
1059    - 1.17alpha1 :
1060   
1061        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
1062       
1063    - 1.16 :
1064   
1065        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
1066          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
1067         
1068        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
1069          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
1070          though.
1071       
1072        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brazilian
1073          Portuguese Translation. Brazilian portuguese
1074          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
1075       
1076    - 1.16beta3 :
1077   
1078        - Swedish translation added.
1079       
1080        - Small fix in documentation.
1081       
1082    - 1.16beta2 :
1083   
1084        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
1085          printing in CUPS backend.
1086         
1087        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
1088       
1089    - 1.16beta1 :
1090   
1091        - Manpages upgraded.
1092       
1093    - 1.16alpha26 :
1094   
1095        - Job price is now computed like this :
1096       
1097          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
1098         
1099          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
1100          a member of, if any.
1101         
1102          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
1103          flexibility.
1104         
1105    - 1.16alpha25 :
1106   
1107        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
1108          using the following syntax :
1109         
1110            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
1111       
1112    - 1.16alpha24 :
1113   
1114        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1115       
1116        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1117       
1118        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1119          automatically add printers on first print.
1120       
1121    - 1.16alpha23 :
1122   
1123        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1124          several printers at the very same time.
1125       
1126    - 1.16alpha22 :
1127   
1128        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1129       
1130    - 1.16alpha21 :
1131   
1132        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1133       
1134        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1135       
1136    - 1.16alpha20 :
1137   
1138        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1139       
1140    - 1.16alpha19 :
1141     
1142        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1143       
1144    - 1.16alpha18 :
1145   
1146        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1147          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1148          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1149          groups for now.
1150
1151        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1152       
1153        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1154       
1155        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1156          + some particular settings.
1157         
1158        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1159          for details.
1160       
1161        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1162          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1163           
1164            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1165            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1166            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1167            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1168            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1169            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1170         
1171    - 1.16alpha17 :
1172   
1173        - Added portugues translation.
1174       
1175        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1176       
1177    - 1.16alpha16 :
1178   
1179        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1180          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1181       
1182        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1183          to lowercase during printing.
1184         
1185    - 1.15alpha15 :
1186   
1187        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1188          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1189         
1190    - 1.16alpha14 :
1191   
1192        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1193          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1194          on the printing system.
1195         
1196    - 1.16alpha13 :
1197   
1198        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1199       
1200        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
1201       
1202        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1203          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1204          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1205          this is not the case anymore.
1206         
1207    - 1.16alpha12 :
1208   
1209        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1210          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1211          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1212          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1213          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1214         
1215    - 1.16alpha11 :
1216   
1217        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1218          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1219          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1220          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1221         
1222        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1223          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1224         
1225    - 1.16alpha10 :
1226       
1227        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1228          See sample configuration file for details.
1229   
1230        - Spanish translation added.
1231       
1232    - 1.16alpha9 :
1233   
1234        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1235          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1236          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1237          file for details.
1238         
1239    - 1.16alpha8 :
1240   
1241        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1242          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1243         
1244        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1245          GNU GPL too.
1246         
1247    - 1.16alpha7 :
1248   
1249        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1250       
1251        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1252          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1253          used with LPRng though.
1254       
1255    - 1.16alpha6 :
1256   
1257        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1258          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1259          added to the database.
1260         
1261    - 1.16alpha5 :
1262   
1263        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1264          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1265          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1266       
1267    - 1.16alpha4 :
1268   
1269        - New CUPS backend added.
1270       
1271    - 1.16alpha3 :
1272       
1273        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1274       
1275    - 1.16alpha2 :
1276   
1277        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1278       
1279    - 1.16alpha1 :
1280   
1281        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1282       
1283        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1284       
1285    - 1.15 :
1286     
1287        - Documentation improved.
1288       
1289    - 1.15beta :
1290   
1291        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1292          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1293         
1294    - 1.15alpha9 :
1295   
1296        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1297          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1298          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1299          They have to be created manually before.
1300          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1301         
1302    - 1.15alpha8 :
1303   
1304        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1305          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1306          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1307          control.
1308       
1309    - 1.15alpha7 :
1310   
1311        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1312       
1313    - 1.15alpha6 :
1314   
1315        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1316       
1317    - 1.15alpha5 :
1318   
1319        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1320
1321    - 1.15alpha4 :
1322   
1323        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1324          modification.
1325         
1326    - 1.15alpha3 :
1327   
1328        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1329          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1330          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1331          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1332          unrestricted access is granted.
1333          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1334          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
1335         
1336    - 1.15alpha2 :
1337   
1338        - Better detection of LPRng.
1339       
1340        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1341       
1342    - 1.15alpha1 :
1343   
1344        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1345       
1346    - 1.14 :
1347   
1348        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1349          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1350          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1351       
1352    - 1.14beta2 :
1353   
1354        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1355          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1356          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1357          details.
1358       
1359    - 1.14beta :
1360   
1361        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1362          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1363          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1364          See sample configuration file for details.
1365         
1366    - 1.14alpha9 :
1367   
1368        - Documentation improved.
1369       
1370        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1371          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1372          limiting factor is "balance".
1373         
1374    - 1.14alpha8 :
1375   
1376        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1377          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1378          asking for their internal page counter.
1379          See sample configuration file for details.
1380         
1381    - 1.14alpha7 :
1382   
1383        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
1384          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
1385          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
1386          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
1387          time.
1388         
1389    - 1.14alpha6 :
1390   
1391        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
1392          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
1393          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
1394          Don't forget to :
1395         
1396                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
1397               
1398        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
1399          for the same reason.
1400         
1401        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
1402          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
1403         
1404    - 1.14alpha5 :
1405       
1406        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
1407       
1408    - 1.14alpha4 :
1409   
1410        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
1411          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
1412          as two different LDAP entries.
1413         
1414    - 1.14alpha3 :
1415   
1416        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
1417          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
1418       
1419    - 1.14alpha2 :
1420   
1421        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
1422       
1423    - 1.14alpha1 :
1424   
1425        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
1426          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
1427          a warning message.
1428         
1429        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
1430          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
1431       
1432    - 1.13 :
1433   
1434        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
1435       
1436        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
1437          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
1438          as well as a bug in the groups code.
1439         
1440    - 1.13alpha1 :
1441   
1442        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
1443       
1444    - 1.12 :
1445   
1446        - More complete test added in edpykota.
1447       
1448    - 1.12alpha2 :
1449   
1450        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
1451       
1452    - 1.12alpha1 :
1453   
1454        - Small bug fix.
1455       
1456    - 1.11 :
1457   
1458        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
1459          printing quotes for users.
1460         
1461    - 1.10 :
1462   
1463        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
1464          account balance.
1465         
1466    - 1.09 :
1467   
1468        - Translations finalized.
1469       
1470        - Manpages updated.
1471       
1472        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
1473       
1474    - 1.09beta2 :
1475   
1476        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
1477          is much more powerful.
1478       
1479    - 1.09beta :
1480   
1481        - edpykota finalized
1482       
1483    - 1.09alpha2 :
1484   
1485        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
1486       
1487        - LDAP backend works !
1488       
1489        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
1490          users or groups names on the command line. Users
1491          and groups names may contain wildcards.
1492         
1493        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
1494          current user when launched by non-root users.
1495         
1496        - Minor bug fixes. 
1497   
1498    - 1.09alpha1 :
1499   
1500        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
1501          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
1502          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
1503         
1504        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
1505          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
1506     
1507    - 1.08 :
1508   
1509        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
1510       
1511        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
1512       
1513    - 1.08alpha8 :
1514   
1515        - Code refactoring.
1516       
1517        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
1518          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
1519          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
1520          not used anymore.
1521         
1522        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
1523          file for details.
1524          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
1525          debug mode, for now.
1526       
1527    - 1.08alpha7 :
1528   
1529        - Very latest LDAP schema.
1530       
1531        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
1532          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
1533       
1534    - 1.08alpha6 :
1535   
1536        - Minor bug corrections
1537       
1538        - More work on LDAP : new schema
1539       
1540    - 1.08alpha5 :
1541   
1542        - More good work on LDAP storage.
1543          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
1544       
1545    - 1.08alpha4 :
1546   
1547        - LDAP schema included.
1548          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
1549          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
1550          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
1551          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
1552          MAILING LIST.
1553         
1554    - 1.08alpha3 :
1555   
1556        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
1557         
1558          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
1559         
1560          - They now take care of the number of copies
1561            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
1562            file already does this, because this would
1563            overcharge users (number of copies counted
1564            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
1565           
1566          - The sample configuration file now contains 
1567            an external accounting method example which should
1568            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
1569           
1570        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
1571       
1572    - 1.08alpha2 :
1573   
1574        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
1575          It already worked, but the sample configuration
1576          file didn't contain appropriate values...
1577       
1578    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
1579   
1580        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
1581          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
1582         
1583    - 1.06 :
1584   
1585        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
1586          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
1587          a bug was triggered.
1588          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
1589          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
1590         
1591    - 1.05 :
1592   
1593        - External accounters are finally available !
1594          This means that you can plug any page accounting
1595          method you like by setting the appropriate
1596          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
1597          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
1598          learn how to do.
1599         
1600          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
1601               account a job size just before *this* job is
1602               sent to the printer.
1603               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
1604               size just before *the next* job is sent to
1605               the printer.
1606       
1607    - 1.05alpha3 :
1608   
1609        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
1610          implemented to serve as an example on how to
1611          do this sort of things. This method only counts
1612          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
1613          See sample configuration file for details.
1614          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
1615          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
1616          It is not reliable enough to be used.
1617          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
1618         
1619    - 1.05alpha2 :
1620   
1621        - Pluggable accounting methods.
1622       
1623        - Better error handling.
1624       
1625    - 1.05alpha1 :
1626   
1627        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
1628       
1629        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
1630          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
1631          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
1632          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
1633          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
1634         
1635        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
1636         
1637    - 1.04 :
1638   
1639        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
1640          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
1641          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
1642          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
1643         
1644        - LPRng support works !
1645       
1646        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
1647          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
1648       
1649        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
1650          printer, if they are defined.
1651         
1652        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
1653       
1654        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
1655       
1656    - 1.03 :
1657   
1658        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
1659          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
1660          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
1661         
1662        - repykota now reports account balances too.
1663       
1664        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
1665          subdirectory.
1666       
1667        - Manual pages were finally updated.
1668       
1669        - Group quotas seem to work now !
1670       
1671        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
1672          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
1673          and track users' account balance.
1674         
1675        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
1676          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
1677          details.
1678         
1679        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
1680          configuration file during first installation.
1681         
1682        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
1683       
1684        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
1685       
1686        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
1687          reports in the future.
1688         
1689        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
1690          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
1691          a quota which is too low to print.
1692         
1693        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
1694          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
1695          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
1696          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
1697          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1698          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
1699          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
1700          in this case.
1701          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1702          off.
1703         
1704        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
1705          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
1706          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
1707          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
1708          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1709          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1710          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
1711         
1712        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
1713          had a quota on the specified printer.
1714         
1715        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
1716          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
1717         
1718        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
1719       
1720        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
1721          file for details.
1722         
1723        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
1724          print quota or by account balance.
1725       
1726    - 1.02 :
1727   
1728        - The installation script now checks for software availability
1729          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
1730          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
1731         
1732        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
1733          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
1734          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
1735          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
1736          if needed.
1737         
1738        - Improved documentation.
1739       
1740        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
1741          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
1742       
1743        - Better general error handling.
1744       
1745        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
1746          included as well.
1747       
1748    - 1.01 :
1749   
1750        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
1751          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
1752         
1753            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
1754            - User means only the user will receive them.
1755            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
1756            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
1757           
1758        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
1759          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
1760          for details.
1761         
1762        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
1763          add this information to this file.
1764         
1765        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
1766          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
1767          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
1768          the version number.
1769         
1770    - 1.00 :
1771   
1772        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
1773          disable quota checking while still doing page
1774          accounting. This is really useful for people
1775          who don't want to limit their users but want
1776          to know how much pages they print.
1777         
1778        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
1779          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
1780         
1781        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
1782       
1783    - 0.99 :
1784   
1785        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
1786          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
1787          now fixed.
1788         
1789        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
1790          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
1791         
1792    - 0.98 :
1793   
1794        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
1795       
1796        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
1797       
1798    - 0.97 :
1799   
1800        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
1801          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
1802         
1803              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
1804             
1805        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
1806          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
1807         
1808        - Small bug fixes.
1809       
1810    - 0.96 :
1811
1812        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
1813          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
1814          priority if both are defined.
1815
1816        - More powerful configuration parser.
1817       
1818        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
1819          define a section for each printer in the configuration
1820          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
1821
1822    - 0.95 :
1823
1824        - External requesters for printers finally added.
1825
1826        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
1827 
1828        - More complete quota usage report
1829
1830        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
1831
1832        - Several bugs fixed.
1833
1834
1835    - 0.9 :
1836
1837        - First public version
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