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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
4
5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
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21
22PyKota NEWS :
23       
24    - 1.22alpha7 :
25   
26        - Fixed some problems with the retrieval of the history from LDAP.
27       
28    - 1.22alpha6 :
29   
30        - Early errors now produce meaningful error messages (finally !)
31       
32    - 1.22alpha5 :
33       
34        - SNMP and PJL improvements with regard to PowerSave / StandBy.
35       
36    - 1.22alpha4 :
37   
38        - Fixed charset problem under MacOSX.
39       
40        - Allows pkbanner to accept more info to display on its
41          command line.
42         
43    - 1.22alpha3 :
44   
45        - Fixes some case related problems with some LDAP backends.
46       
47        - Fixes some problem for printers which directly go from
48          "idle" to "warmup" and never to "printing" before
49          returning to "idle".
50         
51        - Some permissions settings may have prevented cupspykota
52          from parsing cupsd.conf, this is now fixed.
53         
54    - 1.22alpha2 :
55   
56        - Introduction of the web enabled print quote generator.
57       
58        - Fixed a potential race condition when several backend
59          wrappers were present in CUPS' backend directory.
60         
61        - Fixed dumpykota's output in CUPS' page_log format to better
62          match CUPS format.
63         
64    - 1.22alpha1 :
65   
66        - Import into Subversion.
67       
68    - 1.21 :
69   
70        - Improved documentation.
71       
72        - Improved dependencies checker.
73       
74        - Updated some translation files.
75       
76    - 1.21beta2 :
77   
78        - Fixed an LPRng specific bug.
79       
80        - Several improvements on stability issues with manually modified
81          LDAP trees.
82         
83        - Documentation improvements. 
84       
85    - 1.21beta :
86   
87        - Prepared translation files for next release.
88       
89    - 1.21alpha27 :
90   
91        - Allows software() (no arguments) to the software accounting
92          directive. This saves a lot of CPU since the job is not
93          parsed again : the precomputed size is used directly in this
94          case.
95         
96        - epykota's --prototype option now works fine with accounts
97          limited by balance.
98         
99    - 1.21alpha26 :
100   
101        - Fixed the handling of the 'maxdenybanners' directive.
102       
103        - Introduced the 'denyduplicates' directive.
104       
105        - Fixed some database related glitches.
106       
107    - 1.21alpha25 :
108   
109        - The job's size is now always precomputed, even when
110          'enforcement' is not set to 'strict'.
111         
112        - Introduction of the new 'trustjobsize' configuration directive
113          to workaround some problematic printers. See the sample
114          configuration file for details.
115         
116    - 1.21alpha24 :
117   
118        - Big database structure changes. An upgrade script
119          is now included for PostgreSQL. LDAP users may just
120          want to copy the new schema in place.
121         
122        - edpykota now recognizes the -o | --overcharge command line
123          option to set an overcharging or undercharging factor
124          on each print job's cost for a particular user.
125         
126        - repykota's output format has changed an is not limited to 
127          80 characters wide anymore. People who used to parse
128          repykota's output in their own tools are strongly advised
129          to parse dumpykota's output instead.
130         
131        - Introduction of the new 'maxdenybanners' configuration directive
132          to allow up to N (the directive's value) deny banners to be
133          printed even if the print account is forbidden to print.
134         
135        - Better detection of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
136       
137    - 1.21alpha23 :
138   
139        - Traditional Chinese translation added.
140   
141        - Several fixes and performance improvements with the LDAP backend.
142       
143    - 1.21alpha22 :
144   
145        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
146          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
147         
148    - 1.21alpha21 :
149   
150        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
151          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
152          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
153          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
154          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
155          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
156          administrator.
157         
158        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
159          of PygreSQL.   
160         
161    - 1.21alpha20 :
162         
163        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
164         
165    - 1.21alpha19 :
166   
167        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
168          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
169          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
170          may have to change your web server's configuration,
171          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
172         
173    - 1.21alpha18 :
174   
175        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
176          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
177          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
178          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
179         
180    - 1.21alpha17 :
181     
182        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
183       
184        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
185          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
186         
187        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
188       
189    - 1.21alpha16 :
190   
191        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
192          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
193         
194    - 1.21alpha15 :
195     
196        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
197          in dumpykota's output.
198         
199        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
200          the LDAP backend too.
201         
202    - 1.21alpha14 :
203   
204        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
205          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
206         
207    - 1.21alpha13 :
208   
209        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
210          that people may see what really happens, and what will
211          be available in the future :-)
212         
213    - 1.21alpha12 :
214   
215        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
216       
217        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
218          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
219         
220    - 1.21alpha11 :
221   
222        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
223          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
224          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
225          See the sample configuration file for details.
226         
227        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
228          Wold for the patch.
229          See the sample configuration file for details.
230         
231        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
232          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
233          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
234         
235    - 1.21alpha10 :
236   
237        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
238          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
239         
240    - 1.21alpha9 :
241   
242        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
243          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
244          to be created by the system administrator, and given
245          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
246         
247    - 1.21alpha8 :
248   
249        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
250          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
251         
252    - 1.21alpha7 :
253   
254        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
255       
256    - 1.21alpha6 :
257   
258        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
259       
260        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
261       
262    - 1.21alpha5 :
263   
264        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
265       
266        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
267       
268        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
269       
270    - 1.21alpha4 :
271   
272        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
273       
274        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
275          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
276       
277    - 1.21alpha3 :
278   
279        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
280          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
281          in pykota.conf
282          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
283         
284    - 1.21alpha2 :
285   
286        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
287          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
288          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
289         
290    - 1.21alpha1 :
291   
292        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
293          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
294          the CUPS developpers change something...
295       
296    - 1.20 :
297   
298        - Version number changed.
299       
300    - 1.20beta :
301   
302        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
303       
304        - German translation was finalized.
305       
306        - Greek translation was finalized.
307       
308        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
309          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
310          in the history.
311         
312        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
313       
314    - 1.20alpha27 :
315   
316        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
317          the Brazilian Portuguese translation file was incorrectly
318          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
319         
320        - Finished French translation. 
321         
322    - 1.20alpha26 :
323   
324        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
325          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
326         
327        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
328       
329        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
330       
331    - 1.20alpha25 :
332   
333        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
334          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
335          option is used.
336         
337        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
338          anymore.
339         
340        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
341       
342    - 1.20alpha24 :
343   
344        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
345       
346        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
347          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
348          their account.
349       
350        - Prepared help messages for translations.
351       
352    - 1.20alpha23 :
353   
354        - Add workaround for locale problem.
355       
356    - 1.20alpha22 :
357   
358        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
359       
360        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
361       
362        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
363       
364    - 1.20alpha21 :
365   
366        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
367          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
368          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
369         
370        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
371          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
372         
373        - Improved documentation a bit.
374       
375    - 1.20alpha20 :
376   
377        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
378          from 2 to 1 second.
379       
380        - dumpykota can now output XML.
381       
382    - 1.20alpha19 :
383   
384        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
385       
386        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
387       
388        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
389          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
390         
391        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
392          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
393          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
394         
395    - 1.20alpha18 :
396   
397        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
398          account and quota entries on first print while not
399          resetting the balance value if not needed.
400         
401        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
402          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
403          needed (Off by default).
404         
405    - 1.20alpha17 :
406   
407        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
408       
409        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
410          or options and LDAP backend.
411         
412    - 1.20alpha16 :
413   
414        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
415          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
416          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
417         
418    - 1.20alpha15 :
419   
420        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
421          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
422          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
423          is now correctly used.
424         
425    - 1.20alpha14 :
426   
427        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
428       
429        - External hardware accounter now loops until
430          a result can be read correctly.
431         
432        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
433          of the external one.
434         
435    - 1.20alpha13 :
436     
437        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
438          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
439          without launching any subprocess.
440          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
441          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
442         
443        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
444          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
445          CPU load.
446         
447    - 1.20alpha12 :
448   
449        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
450          for printer status stabilization.
451       
452    - 1.20alpha11 :
453   
454        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
455          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
456         
457    - 1.20alpha10 :
458   
459        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
460          hardware accounting fails.
461         
462    - 1.20alpha9 :
463   
464        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
465       
466    - 1.20alpha8 :
467   
468        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
469          supported.
470       
471    - 1.20alpha7 :
472   
473        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
474          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
475       
476    - 1.20alpha6 :
477     
478        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
479       
480        - Small fixes for LPRng.
481       
482        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
483          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
484          meaningful.
485         
486        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
487          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
488         
489        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
490       
491    - 1.20alpha5 :
492     
493        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
494          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
495          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
496          'stop' (default).
497         
498        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
499          problem.
500         
501    - 1.20alpha4 :
502   
503        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
504          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
505         
506    - 1.20alpha3 :
507       
508        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
509          fooled by a change in number of copies :
510          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
511          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
512          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
513          now the maximum value seen is used.
514         
515        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
516          printer drivers.
517         
518        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
519          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
520         
521        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
522          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
523          be configurable in the near future.
524         
525    - 1.20alpha2 :
526   
527        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
528          answer until a line with a single integer is
529          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
530          This should fix the problem some people have
531          when strange locale related messages are sent
532          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
533         
534        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
535          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
536          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
537          work to correctly analyze other devices.
538       
539    - 1.20alpha1 :
540   
541        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
542       
543        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
544          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
545          page.
546       
547        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
548          PostScript code.
549         
550        - Added german translation.
551       
552        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
553          "enforcement: strict" is used.
554       
555        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
556       
557    - 1.19 :
558   
559        - Updated existing translations.   
560       
561        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
562       
563        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
564       
565    - 1.19beta :
566   
567        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
568          to be OK.
569         
570        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
571       
572        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
573       
574        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
575       
576        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
577       
578    - 1.19alpha35 :
579   
580        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
581          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
582       
583    - 1.19alpha34 :
584   
585        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
586          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
587   
588    - 1.19alpha33 :
589   
590        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
591          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
592          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
593         
594    - 1.19alpha32 :
595   
596        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
597       
598        - Saner default configuration file.
599       
600    - 1.19alpha31 :
601   
602        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
603          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
604          this older version of Python.
605         
606    - 1.19alpha30 :
607   
608        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
609       
610        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
611          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
612       
613        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
614          Gonz�z Gonz�z
615         
616    - 1.19alpha29 :
617   
618        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
619          copies set for each page.
620         
621        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
622       
623        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
624       
625        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
626          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
627          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
628          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
629          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
630          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
631          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
632         
633    - 1.19alpha28 :
634   
635        - The description field for printers can now be set,
636          and is displayed in reports.
637         
638        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
639         
640        - Improved pkhint
641       
642        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
643          Doesn't handle copies yet.
644       
645    - 1.19alpha27 :
646   
647        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
648          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
649         
650        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
651          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
652          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
653          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
654         
655        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
656          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
657          almost three times automagically.
658         
659    - 1.19alpha26 :
660   
661        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
662       
663        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
664          of copies could vary from page to page.
665         
666        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
667       
668    - 1.19alpha25 :
669   
670        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
671          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
672         
673        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
674          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
675          be undercharged.
676         
677        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
678         
679    - 1.19alpha24 :
680   
681        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
682          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
683          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
684          because PDF is parsed directly.
685         
686    - 1.19alpha23 :
687   
688        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
689          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
690       
691        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
692          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
693          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
694          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
695          automatically which method to use depending on your
696          version of Python.
697       
698        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
699         
700    - 1.19alpha22 :
701   
702        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
703          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
704          job's size pre-computation phase.
705         
706        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
707          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
708          and PS.
709       
710        - Even better debugging code.
711       
712    - 1.19alpha21 :
713   
714        - Additionnal check.
715       
716    - 1.19alpha20 :
717   
718        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
719       
720        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
721          files are parsed.
722       
723    - 1.19alpha19 :
724   
725        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
726          or version.
727         
728        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
729       
730        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
731       
732        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
733          cause problems.
734
735    - 1.19alpha18 :
736   
737        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
738          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
739          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
740          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
741          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
742          in the jobs history instead.
743         
744        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
745          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
746          more easily readable.
747         
748    - 1.19alpha17 :
749   
750        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
751          any log message) which occured once in a while when
752          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
753         
754        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
755          default. See sample configuration file to see how
756          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
757         
758        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
759          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
760          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
761          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
762         
763        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
764          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
765          yet to support this functionnality.
766         
767    - 1.19alpha16 :
768   
769        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
770          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
771          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
772          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
773          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
774         
775        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
776          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
777       
778    - 1.19alpha15 :
779   
780        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
781          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
782          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
783         
784    - 1.19alpha14 :
785   
786        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
787          are now exported as environment variables.
788         
789        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
790          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
791         
792        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
793          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
794          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
795          feature.
796         
797        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
798          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
799          for details.
800         
801    - 1.19alpha13 :
802   
803        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
804          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
805          as time permits.
806         
807    - 1.19alpha12 :
808   
809        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
810          the generic PDL analyzer.
811          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
812          job.
813       
814    - 1.19alpha11 :
815   
816        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
817          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
818          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
819          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
820          in the near future.
821         
822    - 1.19alpha10 :
823   
824        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
825          of spawning a new process.
826         
827        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
828       
829        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
830          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
831          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
832          the original algorithm is still used for now.
833          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
834          expense of severe memory consumption.
835       
836        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
837          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
838          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
839          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
840       
841    - 1.19alpha9 :
842       
843        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
844       
845        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
846          too.
847         
848        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
849       
850    - 1.19alpha8 :
851   
852        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
853       
854        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
855       
856        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
857       
858        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
859       
860        - code simplifications in external requester
861       
862    - 1.19alpha7 :
863     
864        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
865          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
866          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
867          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
868          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
869         
870    - 1.19alpha6 :
871   
872        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
873       
874        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
875          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
876          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
877          PostScript.
878         
879        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
880          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
881         
882    - 1.19alpha5 :
883   
884        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
885       
886        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
887          problems under heavy load.
888         
889        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
890       
891        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
892          modify existing printers when --add is used.
893          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
894          used and a printer already exists.
895         
896        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
897          and pykotaTitle attributes.
898       
899    - 1.19alpha4 :
900   
901        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
902          is now fixed.
903         
904        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
905          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
906          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
907       
908        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
909          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
910          testing.
911         
912    - 1.19alpha3 :
913   
914        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
915          to list informations about printers.
916         
917    - 1.19alpha2 :
918   
919        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
920          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
921         
922    - 1.19alpha1 :
923   
924        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
925       
926        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
927       
928    - 1.18 :
929   
930        - Improved documentation
931       
932    - 1.18beta2 :
933     
934        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
935       
936    - 1.18beta :
937   
938        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
939       
940        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
941       
942        - Improved translations
943       
944        - Improved documentation
945       
946    - 1.18alpha15 :
947
948        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
949          and more powerful one.
950   
951        - Names can now begin with a digit.
952       
953        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
954       
955    - 1.18alpha14 :
956   
957        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
958          of breaking.
959         
960        - Italian translation added.
961       
962    - 1.18alpha13 :
963   
964        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
965          filter as well.
966         
967        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
968          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
969          this will be done anyway the next time the last
970          user will print again. This saves some database
971          queries which are unneeded.
972       
973    - 1.18alpha12 :
974   
975        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
976          many environment variables available are useable
977          from the cupspykota backend.
978          See sample configuration file for details and help.
979         
980    - 1.18alpha11 :
981   
982        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
983       
984    - 1.18alpha10 :
985   
986        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
987       
988        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
989       
990    - 1.18alpha9 :
991   
992        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
993       
994        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
995       
996        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
997       
998    - 1.18alpha8 :
999   
1000        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
1001          This avoids many database queries.
1002       
1003    - 1.18alpha7 :
1004   
1005        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
1006          LDAP caching.
1007         
1008    - 1.18alpha6 :
1009       
1010        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
1011          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
1012          email address is not set in PyKota database.
1013         
1014        - More complete email message headers. 
1015         
1016    - 1.18alpha5 :
1017   
1018        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
1019          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
1020         
1021        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
1022          up modifications (at least).
1023         
1024    - 1.18alpha4 :
1025   
1026        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
1027          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
1028          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
1029          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
1030          instead of into /usr/bin
1031          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
1032          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
1033          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
1034          waitprinter.sh and al.
1035         
1036        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
1037          accounting method for PyKota.
1038         
1039    - 1.18alpha3 :
1040   
1041        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
1042          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
1043       
1044    - 1.18alpha2 :
1045   
1046        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
1047          exclusively.
1048       
1049    - 1.18alpha1 :
1050   
1051        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
1052       
1053        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
1054       
1055    - 1.17 :
1056   
1057        - Finalized release.
1058       
1059    - 1.17alpha2 :
1060   
1061        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
1062       
1063    - 1.17alpha1 :
1064   
1065        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
1066       
1067    - 1.16 :
1068   
1069        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
1070          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
1071         
1072        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
1073          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
1074          though.
1075       
1076        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brazilian
1077          Portuguese Translation. Brazilian portuguese
1078          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
1079       
1080    - 1.16beta3 :
1081   
1082        - Swedish translation added.
1083       
1084        - Small fix in documentation.
1085       
1086    - 1.16beta2 :
1087   
1088        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
1089          printing in CUPS backend.
1090         
1091        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
1092       
1093    - 1.16beta1 :
1094   
1095        - Manpages upgraded.
1096       
1097    - 1.16alpha26 :
1098   
1099        - Job price is now computed like this :
1100       
1101          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
1102         
1103          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
1104          a member of, if any.
1105         
1106          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
1107          flexibility.
1108         
1109    - 1.16alpha25 :
1110   
1111        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
1112          using the following syntax :
1113         
1114            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
1115       
1116    - 1.16alpha24 :
1117   
1118        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1119       
1120        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1121       
1122        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1123          automatically add printers on first print.
1124       
1125    - 1.16alpha23 :
1126   
1127        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1128          several printers at the very same time.
1129       
1130    - 1.16alpha22 :
1131   
1132        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1133       
1134    - 1.16alpha21 :
1135   
1136        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1137       
1138        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1139       
1140    - 1.16alpha20 :
1141   
1142        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1143       
1144    - 1.16alpha19 :
1145     
1146        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1147       
1148    - 1.16alpha18 :
1149   
1150        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1151          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1152          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1153          groups for now.
1154
1155        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1156       
1157        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1158       
1159        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1160          + some particular settings.
1161         
1162        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1163          for details.
1164       
1165        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1166          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1167           
1168            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1169            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1170            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1171            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1172            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1173            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1174         
1175    - 1.16alpha17 :
1176   
1177        - Added portugues translation.
1178       
1179        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1180       
1181    - 1.16alpha16 :
1182   
1183        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1184          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1185       
1186        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1187          to lowercase during printing.
1188         
1189    - 1.15alpha15 :
1190   
1191        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1192          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1193         
1194    - 1.16alpha14 :
1195   
1196        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1197          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1198          on the printing system.
1199         
1200    - 1.16alpha13 :
1201   
1202        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1203       
1204        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
1205       
1206        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1207          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1208          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1209          this is not the case anymore.
1210         
1211    - 1.16alpha12 :
1212   
1213        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1214          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1215          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1216          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1217          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1218         
1219    - 1.16alpha11 :
1220   
1221        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1222          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1223          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1224          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1225         
1226        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1227          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1228         
1229    - 1.16alpha10 :
1230       
1231        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1232          See sample configuration file for details.
1233   
1234        - Spanish translation added.
1235       
1236    - 1.16alpha9 :
1237   
1238        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1239          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1240          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1241          file for details.
1242         
1243    - 1.16alpha8 :
1244   
1245        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1246          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1247         
1248        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1249          GNU GPL too.
1250         
1251    - 1.16alpha7 :
1252   
1253        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1254       
1255        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1256          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1257          used with LPRng though.
1258       
1259    - 1.16alpha6 :
1260   
1261        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1262          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1263          added to the database.
1264         
1265    - 1.16alpha5 :
1266   
1267        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1268          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1269          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1270       
1271    - 1.16alpha4 :
1272   
1273        - New CUPS backend added.
1274       
1275    - 1.16alpha3 :
1276       
1277        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1278       
1279    - 1.16alpha2 :
1280   
1281        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1282       
1283    - 1.16alpha1 :
1284   
1285        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1286       
1287        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1288       
1289    - 1.15 :
1290     
1291        - Documentation improved.
1292       
1293    - 1.15beta :
1294   
1295        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1296          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1297         
1298    - 1.15alpha9 :
1299   
1300        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1301          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1302          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1303          They have to be created manually before.
1304          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1305         
1306    - 1.15alpha8 :
1307   
1308        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1309          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1310          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1311          control.
1312       
1313    - 1.15alpha7 :
1314   
1315        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1316       
1317    - 1.15alpha6 :
1318   
1319        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1320       
1321    - 1.15alpha5 :
1322   
1323        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1324
1325    - 1.15alpha4 :
1326   
1327        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1328          modification.
1329         
1330    - 1.15alpha3 :
1331   
1332        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1333          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1334          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1335          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1336          unrestricted access is granted.
1337          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1338          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
1339         
1340    - 1.15alpha2 :
1341   
1342        - Better detection of LPRng.
1343       
1344        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1345       
1346    - 1.15alpha1 :
1347   
1348        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1349       
1350    - 1.14 :
1351   
1352        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1353          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1354          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1355       
1356    - 1.14beta2 :
1357   
1358        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1359          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1360          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1361          details.
1362       
1363    - 1.14beta :
1364   
1365        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1366          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1367          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1368          See sample configuration file for details.
1369         
1370    - 1.14alpha9 :
1371   
1372        - Documentation improved.
1373       
1374        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1375          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1376          limiting factor is "balance".
1377         
1378    - 1.14alpha8 :
1379   
1380        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1381          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1382          asking for their internal page counter.
1383          See sample configuration file for details.
1384         
1385    - 1.14alpha7 :
1386   
1387        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
1388          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
1389          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
1390          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
1391          time.
1392         
1393    - 1.14alpha6 :
1394   
1395        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
1396          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
1397          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
1398          Don't forget to :
1399         
1400                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
1401               
1402        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
1403          for the same reason.
1404         
1405        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
1406          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
1407         
1408    - 1.14alpha5 :
1409       
1410        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
1411       
1412    - 1.14alpha4 :
1413   
1414        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
1415          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
1416          as two different LDAP entries.
1417         
1418    - 1.14alpha3 :
1419   
1420        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
1421          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
1422       
1423    - 1.14alpha2 :
1424   
1425        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
1426       
1427    - 1.14alpha1 :
1428   
1429        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
1430          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
1431          a warning message.
1432         
1433        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
1434          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
1435       
1436    - 1.13 :
1437   
1438        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
1439       
1440        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
1441          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
1442          as well as a bug in the groups code.
1443         
1444    - 1.13alpha1 :
1445   
1446        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
1447       
1448    - 1.12 :
1449   
1450        - More complete test added in edpykota.
1451       
1452    - 1.12alpha2 :
1453   
1454        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
1455       
1456    - 1.12alpha1 :
1457   
1458        - Small bug fix.
1459       
1460    - 1.11 :
1461   
1462        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
1463          printing quotes for users.
1464         
1465    - 1.10 :
1466   
1467        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
1468          account balance.
1469         
1470    - 1.09 :
1471   
1472        - Translations finalized.
1473       
1474        - Manpages updated.
1475       
1476        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
1477       
1478    - 1.09beta2 :
1479   
1480        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
1481          is much more powerful.
1482       
1483    - 1.09beta :
1484   
1485        - edpykota finalized
1486       
1487    - 1.09alpha2 :
1488   
1489        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
1490       
1491        - LDAP backend works !
1492       
1493        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
1494          users or groups names on the command line. Users
1495          and groups names may contain wildcards.
1496         
1497        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
1498          current user when launched by non-root users.
1499         
1500        - Minor bug fixes. 
1501   
1502    - 1.09alpha1 :
1503   
1504        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
1505          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
1506          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
1507         
1508        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
1509          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
1510     
1511    - 1.08 :
1512   
1513        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
1514       
1515        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
1516       
1517    - 1.08alpha8 :
1518   
1519        - Code refactoring.
1520       
1521        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
1522          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
1523          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
1524          not used anymore.
1525         
1526        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
1527          file for details.
1528          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
1529          debug mode, for now.
1530       
1531    - 1.08alpha7 :
1532   
1533        - Very latest LDAP schema.
1534       
1535        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
1536          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
1537       
1538    - 1.08alpha6 :
1539   
1540        - Minor bug corrections
1541       
1542        - More work on LDAP : new schema
1543       
1544    - 1.08alpha5 :
1545   
1546        - More good work on LDAP storage.
1547          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
1548       
1549    - 1.08alpha4 :
1550   
1551        - LDAP schema included.
1552          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
1553          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
1554          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
1555          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
1556          MAILING LIST.
1557         
1558    - 1.08alpha3 :
1559   
1560        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
1561         
1562          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
1563         
1564          - They now take care of the number of copies
1565            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
1566            file already does this, because this would
1567            overcharge users (number of copies counted
1568            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
1569           
1570          - The sample configuration file now contains 
1571            an external accounting method example which should
1572            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
1573           
1574        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
1575       
1576    - 1.08alpha2 :
1577   
1578        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
1579          It already worked, but the sample configuration
1580          file didn't contain appropriate values...
1581       
1582    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
1583   
1584        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
1585          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
1586         
1587    - 1.06 :
1588   
1589        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
1590          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
1591          a bug was triggered.
1592          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
1593          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
1594         
1595    - 1.05 :
1596   
1597        - External accounters are finally available !
1598          This means that you can plug any page accounting
1599          method you like by setting the appropriate
1600          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
1601          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
1602          learn how to do.
1603         
1604          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
1605               account a job size just before *this* job is
1606               sent to the printer.
1607               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
1608               size just before *the next* job is sent to
1609               the printer.
1610       
1611    - 1.05alpha3 :
1612   
1613        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
1614          implemented to serve as an example on how to
1615          do this sort of things. This method only counts
1616          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
1617          See sample configuration file for details.
1618          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
1619          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
1620          It is not reliable enough to be used.
1621          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
1622         
1623    - 1.05alpha2 :
1624   
1625        - Pluggable accounting methods.
1626       
1627        - Better error handling.
1628       
1629    - 1.05alpha1 :
1630   
1631        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
1632       
1633        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
1634          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
1635          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
1636          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
1637          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
1638         
1639        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
1640         
1641    - 1.04 :
1642   
1643        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
1644          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
1645          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
1646          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
1647         
1648        - LPRng support works !
1649       
1650        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
1651          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
1652       
1653        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
1654          printer, if they are defined.
1655         
1656        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
1657       
1658        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
1659       
1660    - 1.03 :
1661   
1662        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
1663          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
1664          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
1665         
1666        - repykota now reports account balances too.
1667       
1668        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
1669          subdirectory.
1670       
1671        - Manual pages were finally updated.
1672       
1673        - Group quotas seem to work now !
1674       
1675        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
1676          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
1677          and track users' account balance.
1678         
1679        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
1680          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
1681          details.
1682         
1683        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
1684          configuration file during first installation.
1685         
1686        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
1687       
1688        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
1689       
1690        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
1691          reports in the future.
1692         
1693        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
1694          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
1695          a quota which is too low to print.
1696         
1697        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
1698          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
1699          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
1700          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
1701          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1702          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
1703          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
1704          in this case.
1705          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1706          off.
1707         
1708        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
1709          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
1710          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
1711          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
1712          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1713          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1714          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
1715         
1716        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
1717          had a quota on the specified printer.
1718         
1719        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
1720          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
1721         
1722        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
1723       
1724        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
1725          file for details.
1726         
1727        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
1728          print quota or by account balance.
1729       
1730    - 1.02 :
1731   
1732        - The installation script now checks for software availability
1733          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
1734          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
1735         
1736        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
1737          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
1738          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
1739          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
1740          if needed.
1741         
1742        - Improved documentation.
1743       
1744        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
1745          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
1746       
1747        - Better general error handling.
1748       
1749        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
1750          included as well.
1751       
1752    - 1.01 :
1753   
1754        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
1755          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
1756         
1757            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
1758            - User means only the user will receive them.
1759            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
1760            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
1761           
1762        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
1763          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
1764          for details.
1765         
1766        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
1767          add this information to this file.
1768         
1769        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
1770          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
1771          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
1772          the version number.
1773         
1774    - 1.00 :
1775   
1776        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
1777          disable quota checking while still doing page
1778          accounting. This is really useful for people
1779          who don't want to limit their users but want
1780          to know how much pages they print.
1781         
1782        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
1783          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
1784         
1785        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
1786       
1787    - 0.99 :
1788   
1789        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
1790          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
1791          now fixed.
1792         
1793        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
1794          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
1795         
1796    - 0.98 :
1797   
1798        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
1799       
1800        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
1801       
1802    - 0.97 :
1803   
1804        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
1805          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
1806         
1807              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
1808             
1809        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
1810          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
1811         
1812        - Small bug fixes.
1813       
1814    - 0.96 :
1815
1816        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
1817          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
1818          priority if both are defined.
1819
1820        - More powerful configuration parser.
1821       
1822        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
1823          define a section for each printer in the configuration
1824          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
1825
1826    - 0.95 :
1827
1828        - External requesters for printers finally added.
1829
1830        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
1831 
1832        - More complete quota usage report
1833
1834        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
1835
1836        - Several bugs fixed.
1837
1838
1839    - 0.9 :
1840
1841        - First public version
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