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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
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5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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20============================================================
21
22PyKota NEWS :
23       
24    - 1.22alpha8 :
25   
26        - Clicking on the billing code in printquota.cgi's job history
27          now shows all jobs matching this billing code.
28         
29        - Fixed the dump in CUPS' page_log format which didn't
30          dump the oldest entry.
31         
32        - The data dumper now accepts billingcode= and hostname= as
33          filters when dumping the job history.
34         
35        - The job billing code if present is now saved into the database,
36          and exported to subprocesses as the PYKOTAJOBBILLING environment
37          variable.
38         
39        - Ctrl+C now makes PyKota commands exit without a traceback.
40       
41        - Fixed an i18n problem with Python 2.1
42       
43    - 1.22alpha7 :
44   
45        - Fixed some problems with the retrieval of the history from LDAP.
46       
47    - 1.22alpha6 :
48   
49        - Early errors now produce meaningful error messages (finally !)
50       
51    - 1.22alpha5 :
52       
53        - SNMP and PJL improvements with regard to PowerSave / StandBy.
54       
55    - 1.22alpha4 :
56   
57        - Fixed charset problem under MacOSX.
58       
59        - Allows pkbanner to accept more info to display on its
60          command line.
61         
62    - 1.22alpha3 :
63   
64        - Fixes some case related problems with some LDAP backends.
65       
66        - Fixes some problem for printers which directly go from
67          "idle" to "warmup" and never to "printing" before
68          returning to "idle".
69         
70        - Some permissions settings may have prevented cupspykota
71          from parsing cupsd.conf, this is now fixed.
72         
73    - 1.22alpha2 :
74   
75        - Introduction of the web enabled print quote generator.
76       
77        - Fixed a potential race condition when several backend
78          wrappers were present in CUPS' backend directory.
79         
80        - Fixed dumpykota's output in CUPS' page_log format to better
81          match CUPS format.
82         
83    - 1.22alpha1 :
84   
85        - Import into Subversion.
86       
87    - 1.21 :
88   
89        - Improved documentation.
90       
91        - Improved dependencies checker.
92       
93        - Updated some translation files.
94       
95    - 1.21beta2 :
96   
97        - Fixed an LPRng specific bug.
98       
99        - Several improvements on stability issues with manually modified
100          LDAP trees.
101         
102        - Documentation improvements. 
103       
104    - 1.21beta :
105   
106        - Prepared translation files for next release.
107       
108    - 1.21alpha27 :
109   
110        - Allows software() (no arguments) to the software accounting
111          directive. This saves a lot of CPU since the job is not
112          parsed again : the precomputed size is used directly in this
113          case.
114         
115        - epykota's --prototype option now works fine with accounts
116          limited by balance.
117         
118    - 1.21alpha26 :
119   
120        - Fixed the handling of the 'maxdenybanners' directive.
121       
122        - Introduced the 'denyduplicates' directive.
123       
124        - Fixed some database related glitches.
125       
126    - 1.21alpha25 :
127   
128        - The job's size is now always precomputed, even when
129          'enforcement' is not set to 'strict'.
130         
131        - Introduction of the new 'trustjobsize' configuration directive
132          to workaround some problematic printers. See the sample
133          configuration file for details.
134         
135    - 1.21alpha24 :
136   
137        - Big database structure changes. An upgrade script
138          is now included for PostgreSQL. LDAP users may just
139          want to copy the new schema in place.
140         
141        - edpykota now recognizes the -o | --overcharge command line
142          option to set an overcharging or undercharging factor
143          on each print job's cost for a particular user.
144         
145        - repykota's output format has changed an is not limited to 
146          80 characters wide anymore. People who used to parse
147          repykota's output in their own tools are strongly advised
148          to parse dumpykota's output instead.
149         
150        - Introduction of the new 'maxdenybanners' configuration directive
151          to allow up to N (the directive's value) deny banners to be
152          printed even if the print account is forbidden to print.
153         
154        - Better detection of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
155       
156    - 1.21alpha23 :
157   
158        - Traditional Chinese translation added.
159   
160        - Several fixes and performance improvements with the LDAP backend.
161       
162    - 1.21alpha22 :
163   
164        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
165          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
166         
167    - 1.21alpha21 :
168   
169        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
170          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
171          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
172          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
173          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
174          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
175          administrator.
176         
177        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
178          of PygreSQL.   
179         
180    - 1.21alpha20 :
181         
182        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
183         
184    - 1.21alpha19 :
185   
186        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
187          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
188          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
189          may have to change your web server's configuration,
190          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
191         
192    - 1.21alpha18 :
193   
194        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
195          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
196          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
197          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
198         
199    - 1.21alpha17 :
200     
201        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
202       
203        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
204          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
205         
206        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
207       
208    - 1.21alpha16 :
209   
210        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
211          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
212         
213    - 1.21alpha15 :
214     
215        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
216          in dumpykota's output.
217         
218        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
219          the LDAP backend too.
220         
221    - 1.21alpha14 :
222   
223        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
224          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
225         
226    - 1.21alpha13 :
227   
228        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
229          that people may see what really happens, and what will
230          be available in the future :-)
231         
232    - 1.21alpha12 :
233   
234        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
235       
236        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
237          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
238         
239    - 1.21alpha11 :
240   
241        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
242          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
243          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
244          See the sample configuration file for details.
245         
246        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
247          Wold for the patch.
248          See the sample configuration file for details.
249         
250        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
251          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
252          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
253         
254    - 1.21alpha10 :
255   
256        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
257          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
258         
259    - 1.21alpha9 :
260   
261        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
262          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
263          to be created by the system administrator, and given
264          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
265         
266    - 1.21alpha8 :
267   
268        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
269          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
270         
271    - 1.21alpha7 :
272   
273        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
274       
275    - 1.21alpha6 :
276   
277        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
278       
279        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
280       
281    - 1.21alpha5 :
282   
283        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
284       
285        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
286       
287        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
288       
289    - 1.21alpha4 :
290   
291        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
292       
293        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
294          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
295       
296    - 1.21alpha3 :
297   
298        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
299          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
300          in pykota.conf
301          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
302         
303    - 1.21alpha2 :
304   
305        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
306          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
307          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
308         
309    - 1.21alpha1 :
310   
311        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
312          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
313          the CUPS developpers change something...
314       
315    - 1.20 :
316   
317        - Version number changed.
318       
319    - 1.20beta :
320   
321        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
322       
323        - German translation was finalized.
324       
325        - Greek translation was finalized.
326       
327        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
328          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
329          in the history.
330         
331        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
332       
333    - 1.20alpha27 :
334   
335        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
336          the Brazilian Portuguese translation file was incorrectly
337          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
338         
339        - Finished French translation. 
340         
341    - 1.20alpha26 :
342   
343        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
344          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
345         
346        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
347       
348        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
349       
350    - 1.20alpha25 :
351   
352        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
353          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
354          option is used.
355         
356        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
357          anymore.
358         
359        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
360       
361    - 1.20alpha24 :
362   
363        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
364       
365        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
366          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
367          their account.
368       
369        - Prepared help messages for translations.
370       
371    - 1.20alpha23 :
372   
373        - Add workaround for locale problem.
374       
375    - 1.20alpha22 :
376   
377        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
378       
379        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
380       
381        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
382       
383    - 1.20alpha21 :
384   
385        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
386          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
387          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
388         
389        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
390          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
391         
392        - Improved documentation a bit.
393       
394    - 1.20alpha20 :
395   
396        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
397          from 2 to 1 second.
398       
399        - dumpykota can now output XML.
400       
401    - 1.20alpha19 :
402   
403        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
404       
405        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
406       
407        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
408          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
409         
410        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
411          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
412          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
413         
414    - 1.20alpha18 :
415   
416        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
417          account and quota entries on first print while not
418          resetting the balance value if not needed.
419         
420        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
421          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
422          needed (Off by default).
423         
424    - 1.20alpha17 :
425   
426        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
427       
428        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
429          or options and LDAP backend.
430         
431    - 1.20alpha16 :
432   
433        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
434          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
435          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
436         
437    - 1.20alpha15 :
438   
439        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
440          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
441          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
442          is now correctly used.
443         
444    - 1.20alpha14 :
445   
446        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
447       
448        - External hardware accounter now loops until
449          a result can be read correctly.
450         
451        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
452          of the external one.
453         
454    - 1.20alpha13 :
455     
456        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
457          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
458          without launching any subprocess.
459          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
460          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
461         
462        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
463          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
464          CPU load.
465         
466    - 1.20alpha12 :
467   
468        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
469          for printer status stabilization.
470       
471    - 1.20alpha11 :
472   
473        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
474          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
475         
476    - 1.20alpha10 :
477   
478        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
479          hardware accounting fails.
480         
481    - 1.20alpha9 :
482   
483        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
484       
485    - 1.20alpha8 :
486   
487        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
488          supported.
489       
490    - 1.20alpha7 :
491   
492        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
493          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
494       
495    - 1.20alpha6 :
496     
497        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
498       
499        - Small fixes for LPRng.
500       
501        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
502          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
503          meaningful.
504         
505        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
506          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
507         
508        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
509       
510    - 1.20alpha5 :
511     
512        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
513          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
514          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
515          'stop' (default).
516         
517        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
518          problem.
519         
520    - 1.20alpha4 :
521   
522        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
523          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
524         
525    - 1.20alpha3 :
526       
527        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
528          fooled by a change in number of copies :
529          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
530          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
531          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
532          now the maximum value seen is used.
533         
534        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
535          printer drivers.
536         
537        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
538          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
539         
540        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
541          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
542          be configurable in the near future.
543         
544    - 1.20alpha2 :
545   
546        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
547          answer until a line with a single integer is
548          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
549          This should fix the problem some people have
550          when strange locale related messages are sent
551          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
552         
553        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
554          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
555          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
556          work to correctly analyze other devices.
557       
558    - 1.20alpha1 :
559   
560        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
561       
562        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
563          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
564          page.
565       
566        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
567          PostScript code.
568         
569        - Added german translation.
570       
571        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
572          "enforcement: strict" is used.
573       
574        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
575       
576    - 1.19 :
577   
578        - Updated existing translations.   
579       
580        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
581       
582        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
583       
584    - 1.19beta :
585   
586        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
587          to be OK.
588         
589        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
590       
591        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
592       
593        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
594       
595        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
596       
597    - 1.19alpha35 :
598   
599        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
600          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
601       
602    - 1.19alpha34 :
603   
604        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
605          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
606   
607    - 1.19alpha33 :
608   
609        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
610          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
611          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
612         
613    - 1.19alpha32 :
614   
615        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
616       
617        - Saner default configuration file.
618       
619    - 1.19alpha31 :
620   
621        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
622          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
623          this older version of Python.
624         
625    - 1.19alpha30 :
626   
627        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
628       
629        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
630          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
631       
632        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
633          Gonz�z Gonz�z
634         
635    - 1.19alpha29 :
636   
637        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
638          copies set for each page.
639         
640        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
641       
642        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
643       
644        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
645          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
646          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
647          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
648          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
649          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
650          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
651         
652    - 1.19alpha28 :
653   
654        - The description field for printers can now be set,
655          and is displayed in reports.
656         
657        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
658         
659        - Improved pkhint
660       
661        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
662          Doesn't handle copies yet.
663       
664    - 1.19alpha27 :
665   
666        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
667          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
668         
669        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
670          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
671          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
672          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
673         
674        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
675          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
676          almost three times automagically.
677         
678    - 1.19alpha26 :
679   
680        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
681       
682        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
683          of copies could vary from page to page.
684         
685        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
686       
687    - 1.19alpha25 :
688   
689        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
690          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
691         
692        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
693          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
694          be undercharged.
695         
696        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
697         
698    - 1.19alpha24 :
699   
700        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
701          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
702          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
703          because PDF is parsed directly.
704         
705    - 1.19alpha23 :
706   
707        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
708          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
709       
710        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
711          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
712          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
713          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
714          automatically which method to use depending on your
715          version of Python.
716       
717        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
718         
719    - 1.19alpha22 :
720   
721        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
722          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
723          job's size pre-computation phase.
724         
725        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
726          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
727          and PS.
728       
729        - Even better debugging code.
730       
731    - 1.19alpha21 :
732   
733        - Additionnal check.
734       
735    - 1.19alpha20 :
736   
737        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
738       
739        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
740          files are parsed.
741       
742    - 1.19alpha19 :
743   
744        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
745          or version.
746         
747        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
748       
749        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
750       
751        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
752          cause problems.
753
754    - 1.19alpha18 :
755   
756        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
757          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
758          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
759          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
760          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
761          in the jobs history instead.
762         
763        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
764          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
765          more easily readable.
766         
767    - 1.19alpha17 :
768   
769        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
770          any log message) which occured once in a while when
771          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
772         
773        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
774          default. See sample configuration file to see how
775          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
776         
777        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
778          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
779          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
780          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
781         
782        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
783          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
784          yet to support this functionnality.
785         
786    - 1.19alpha16 :
787   
788        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
789          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
790          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
791          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
792          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
793         
794        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
795          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
796       
797    - 1.19alpha15 :
798   
799        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
800          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
801          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
802         
803    - 1.19alpha14 :
804   
805        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
806          are now exported as environment variables.
807         
808        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
809          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
810         
811        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
812          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
813          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
814          feature.
815         
816        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
817          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
818          for details.
819         
820    - 1.19alpha13 :
821   
822        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
823          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
824          as time permits.
825         
826    - 1.19alpha12 :
827   
828        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
829          the generic PDL analyzer.
830          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
831          job.
832       
833    - 1.19alpha11 :
834   
835        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
836          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
837          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
838          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
839          in the near future.
840         
841    - 1.19alpha10 :
842   
843        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
844          of spawning a new process.
845         
846        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
847       
848        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
849          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
850          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
851          the original algorithm is still used for now.
852          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
853          expense of severe memory consumption.
854       
855        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
856          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
857          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
858          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
859       
860    - 1.19alpha9 :
861       
862        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
863       
864        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
865          too.
866         
867        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
868       
869    - 1.19alpha8 :
870   
871        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
872       
873        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
874       
875        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
876       
877        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
878       
879        - code simplifications in external requester
880       
881    - 1.19alpha7 :
882     
883        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
884          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
885          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
886          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
887          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
888         
889    - 1.19alpha6 :
890   
891        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
892       
893        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
894          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
895          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
896          PostScript.
897         
898        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
899          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
900         
901    - 1.19alpha5 :
902   
903        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
904       
905        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
906          problems under heavy load.
907         
908        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
909       
910        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
911          modify existing printers when --add is used.
912          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
913          used and a printer already exists.
914         
915        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
916          and pykotaTitle attributes.
917       
918    - 1.19alpha4 :
919   
920        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
921          is now fixed.
922         
923        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
924          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
925          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
926       
927        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
928          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
929          testing.
930         
931    - 1.19alpha3 :
932   
933        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
934          to list informations about printers.
935         
936    - 1.19alpha2 :
937   
938        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
939          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
940         
941    - 1.19alpha1 :
942   
943        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
944       
945        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
946       
947    - 1.18 :
948   
949        - Improved documentation
950       
951    - 1.18beta2 :
952     
953        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
954       
955    - 1.18beta :
956   
957        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
958       
959        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
960       
961        - Improved translations
962       
963        - Improved documentation
964       
965    - 1.18alpha15 :
966
967        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
968          and more powerful one.
969   
970        - Names can now begin with a digit.
971       
972        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
973       
974    - 1.18alpha14 :
975   
976        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
977          of breaking.
978         
979        - Italian translation added.
980       
981    - 1.18alpha13 :
982   
983        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
984          filter as well.
985         
986        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
987          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
988          this will be done anyway the next time the last
989          user will print again. This saves some database
990          queries which are unneeded.
991       
992    - 1.18alpha12 :
993   
994        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
995          many environment variables available are useable
996          from the cupspykota backend.
997          See sample configuration file for details and help.
998         
999    - 1.18alpha11 :
1000   
1001        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
1002       
1003    - 1.18alpha10 :
1004   
1005        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
1006       
1007        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
1008       
1009    - 1.18alpha9 :
1010   
1011        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
1012       
1013        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
1014       
1015        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
1016       
1017    - 1.18alpha8 :
1018   
1019        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
1020          This avoids many database queries.
1021       
1022    - 1.18alpha7 :
1023   
1024        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
1025          LDAP caching.
1026         
1027    - 1.18alpha6 :
1028       
1029        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
1030          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
1031          email address is not set in PyKota database.
1032         
1033        - More complete email message headers. 
1034         
1035    - 1.18alpha5 :
1036   
1037        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
1038          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
1039         
1040        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
1041          up modifications (at least).
1042         
1043    - 1.18alpha4 :
1044   
1045        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
1046          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
1047          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
1048          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
1049          instead of into /usr/bin
1050          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
1051          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
1052          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
1053          waitprinter.sh and al.
1054         
1055        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
1056          accounting method for PyKota.
1057         
1058    - 1.18alpha3 :
1059   
1060        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
1061          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
1062       
1063    - 1.18alpha2 :
1064   
1065        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
1066          exclusively.
1067       
1068    - 1.18alpha1 :
1069   
1070        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
1071       
1072        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
1073       
1074    - 1.17 :
1075   
1076        - Finalized release.
1077       
1078    - 1.17alpha2 :
1079   
1080        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
1081       
1082    - 1.17alpha1 :
1083   
1084        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
1085       
1086    - 1.16 :
1087   
1088        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
1089          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
1090         
1091        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
1092          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
1093          though.
1094       
1095        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brazilian
1096          Portuguese Translation. Brazilian portuguese
1097          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
1098       
1099    - 1.16beta3 :
1100   
1101        - Swedish translation added.
1102       
1103        - Small fix in documentation.
1104       
1105    - 1.16beta2 :
1106   
1107        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
1108          printing in CUPS backend.
1109         
1110        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
1111       
1112    - 1.16beta1 :
1113   
1114        - Manpages upgraded.
1115       
1116    - 1.16alpha26 :
1117   
1118        - Job price is now computed like this :
1119       
1120          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
1121         
1122          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
1123          a member of, if any.
1124         
1125          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
1126          flexibility.
1127         
1128    - 1.16alpha25 :
1129   
1130        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
1131          using the following syntax :
1132         
1133            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
1134       
1135    - 1.16alpha24 :
1136   
1137        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1138       
1139        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1140       
1141        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1142          automatically add printers on first print.
1143       
1144    - 1.16alpha23 :
1145   
1146        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1147          several printers at the very same time.
1148       
1149    - 1.16alpha22 :
1150   
1151        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1152       
1153    - 1.16alpha21 :
1154   
1155        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1156       
1157        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1158       
1159    - 1.16alpha20 :
1160   
1161        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1162       
1163    - 1.16alpha19 :
1164     
1165        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1166       
1167    - 1.16alpha18 :
1168   
1169        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1170          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1171          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1172          groups for now.
1173
1174        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1175       
1176        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1177       
1178        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1179          + some particular settings.
1180         
1181        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1182          for details.
1183       
1184        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1185          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1186           
1187            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1188            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1189            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1190            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1191            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1192            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1193         
1194    - 1.16alpha17 :
1195   
1196        - Added portugues translation.
1197       
1198        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1199       
1200    - 1.16alpha16 :
1201   
1202        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1203          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1204       
1205        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1206          to lowercase during printing.
1207         
1208    - 1.15alpha15 :
1209   
1210        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1211          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1212         
1213    - 1.16alpha14 :
1214   
1215        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1216          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1217          on the printing system.
1218         
1219    - 1.16alpha13 :
1220   
1221        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1222       
1223        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
1224       
1225        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1226          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1227          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1228          this is not the case anymore.
1229         
1230    - 1.16alpha12 :
1231   
1232        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1233          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1234          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1235          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1236          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1237         
1238    - 1.16alpha11 :
1239   
1240        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1241          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1242          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1243          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1244         
1245        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1246          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1247         
1248    - 1.16alpha10 :
1249       
1250        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1251          See sample configuration file for details.
1252   
1253        - Spanish translation added.
1254       
1255    - 1.16alpha9 :
1256   
1257        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1258          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1259          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1260          file for details.
1261         
1262    - 1.16alpha8 :
1263   
1264        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1265          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1266         
1267        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1268          GNU GPL too.
1269         
1270    - 1.16alpha7 :
1271   
1272        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1273       
1274        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1275          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1276          used with LPRng though.
1277       
1278    - 1.16alpha6 :
1279   
1280        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1281          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1282          added to the database.
1283         
1284    - 1.16alpha5 :
1285   
1286        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1287          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1288          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1289       
1290    - 1.16alpha4 :
1291   
1292        - New CUPS backend added.
1293       
1294    - 1.16alpha3 :
1295       
1296        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1297       
1298    - 1.16alpha2 :
1299   
1300        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1301       
1302    - 1.16alpha1 :
1303   
1304        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1305       
1306        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1307       
1308    - 1.15 :
1309     
1310        - Documentation improved.
1311       
1312    - 1.15beta :
1313   
1314        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1315          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1316         
1317    - 1.15alpha9 :
1318   
1319        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1320          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1321          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1322          They have to be created manually before.
1323          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1324         
1325    - 1.15alpha8 :
1326   
1327        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1328          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1329          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1330          control.
1331       
1332    - 1.15alpha7 :
1333   
1334        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1335       
1336    - 1.15alpha6 :
1337   
1338        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1339       
1340    - 1.15alpha5 :
1341   
1342        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1343
1344    - 1.15alpha4 :
1345   
1346        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1347          modification.
1348         
1349    - 1.15alpha3 :
1350   
1351        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1352          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1353          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1354          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1355          unrestricted access is granted.
1356          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1357          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
1358         
1359    - 1.15alpha2 :
1360   
1361        - Better detection of LPRng.
1362       
1363        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1364       
1365    - 1.15alpha1 :
1366   
1367        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1368       
1369    - 1.14 :
1370   
1371        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1372          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1373          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1374       
1375    - 1.14beta2 :
1376   
1377        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1378          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1379          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1380          details.
1381       
1382    - 1.14beta :
1383   
1384        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1385          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1386          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1387          See sample configuration file for details.
1388         
1389    - 1.14alpha9 :
1390   
1391        - Documentation improved.
1392       
1393        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1394          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1395          limiting factor is "balance".
1396         
1397    - 1.14alpha8 :
1398   
1399        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1400          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1401          asking for their internal page counter.
1402          See sample configuration file for details.
1403         
1404    - 1.14alpha7 :
1405   
1406        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
1407          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
1408          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
1409          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
1410          time.
1411         
1412    - 1.14alpha6 :
1413   
1414        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
1415          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
1416          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
1417          Don't forget to :
1418         
1419                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
1420               
1421        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
1422          for the same reason.
1423         
1424        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
1425          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
1426         
1427    - 1.14alpha5 :
1428       
1429        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
1430       
1431    - 1.14alpha4 :
1432   
1433        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
1434          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
1435          as two different LDAP entries.
1436         
1437    - 1.14alpha3 :
1438   
1439        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
1440          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
1441       
1442    - 1.14alpha2 :
1443   
1444        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
1445       
1446    - 1.14alpha1 :
1447   
1448        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
1449          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
1450          a warning message.
1451         
1452        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
1453          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
1454       
1455    - 1.13 :
1456   
1457        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
1458       
1459        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
1460          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
1461          as well as a bug in the groups code.
1462         
1463    - 1.13alpha1 :
1464   
1465        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
1466       
1467    - 1.12 :
1468   
1469        - More complete test added in edpykota.
1470       
1471    - 1.12alpha2 :
1472   
1473        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
1474       
1475    - 1.12alpha1 :
1476   
1477        - Small bug fix.
1478       
1479    - 1.11 :
1480   
1481        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
1482          printing quotes for users.
1483         
1484    - 1.10 :
1485   
1486        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
1487          account balance.
1488         
1489    - 1.09 :
1490   
1491        - Translations finalized.
1492       
1493        - Manpages updated.
1494       
1495        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
1496       
1497    - 1.09beta2 :
1498   
1499        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
1500          is much more powerful.
1501       
1502    - 1.09beta :
1503   
1504        - edpykota finalized
1505       
1506    - 1.09alpha2 :
1507   
1508        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
1509       
1510        - LDAP backend works !
1511       
1512        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
1513          users or groups names on the command line. Users
1514          and groups names may contain wildcards.
1515         
1516        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
1517          current user when launched by non-root users.
1518         
1519        - Minor bug fixes. 
1520   
1521    - 1.09alpha1 :
1522   
1523        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
1524          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
1525          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
1526         
1527        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
1528          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
1529     
1530    - 1.08 :
1531   
1532        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
1533       
1534        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
1535       
1536    - 1.08alpha8 :
1537   
1538        - Code refactoring.
1539       
1540        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
1541          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
1542          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
1543          not used anymore.
1544         
1545        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
1546          file for details.
1547          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
1548          debug mode, for now.
1549       
1550    - 1.08alpha7 :
1551   
1552        - Very latest LDAP schema.
1553       
1554        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
1555          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
1556       
1557    - 1.08alpha6 :
1558   
1559        - Minor bug corrections
1560       
1561        - More work on LDAP : new schema
1562       
1563    - 1.08alpha5 :
1564   
1565        - More good work on LDAP storage.
1566          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
1567       
1568    - 1.08alpha4 :
1569   
1570        - LDAP schema included.
1571          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
1572          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
1573          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
1574          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
1575          MAILING LIST.
1576         
1577    - 1.08alpha3 :
1578   
1579        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
1580         
1581          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
1582         
1583          - They now take care of the number of copies
1584            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
1585            file already does this, because this would
1586            overcharge users (number of copies counted
1587            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
1588           
1589          - The sample configuration file now contains 
1590            an external accounting method example which should
1591            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
1592           
1593        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
1594       
1595    - 1.08alpha2 :
1596   
1597        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
1598          It already worked, but the sample configuration
1599          file didn't contain appropriate values...
1600       
1601    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
1602   
1603        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
1604          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
1605         
1606    - 1.06 :
1607   
1608        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
1609          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
1610          a bug was triggered.
1611          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
1612          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
1613         
1614    - 1.05 :
1615   
1616        - External accounters are finally available !
1617          This means that you can plug any page accounting
1618          method you like by setting the appropriate
1619          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
1620          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
1621          learn how to do.
1622         
1623          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
1624               account a job size just before *this* job is
1625               sent to the printer.
1626               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
1627               size just before *the next* job is sent to
1628               the printer.
1629       
1630    - 1.05alpha3 :
1631   
1632        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
1633          implemented to serve as an example on how to
1634          do this sort of things. This method only counts
1635          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
1636          See sample configuration file for details.
1637          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
1638          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
1639          It is not reliable enough to be used.
1640          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
1641         
1642    - 1.05alpha2 :
1643   
1644        - Pluggable accounting methods.
1645       
1646        - Better error handling.
1647       
1648    - 1.05alpha1 :
1649   
1650        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
1651       
1652        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
1653          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
1654          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
1655          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
1656          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
1657         
1658        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
1659         
1660    - 1.04 :
1661   
1662        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
1663          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
1664          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
1665          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
1666         
1667        - LPRng support works !
1668       
1669        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
1670          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
1671       
1672        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
1673          printer, if they are defined.
1674         
1675        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
1676       
1677        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
1678       
1679    - 1.03 :
1680   
1681        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
1682          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
1683          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
1684         
1685        - repykota now reports account balances too.
1686       
1687        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
1688          subdirectory.
1689       
1690        - Manual pages were finally updated.
1691       
1692        - Group quotas seem to work now !
1693       
1694        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
1695          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
1696          and track users' account balance.
1697         
1698        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
1699          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
1700          details.
1701         
1702        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
1703          configuration file during first installation.
1704         
1705        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
1706       
1707        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
1708       
1709        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
1710          reports in the future.
1711         
1712        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
1713          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
1714          a quota which is too low to print.
1715         
1716        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
1717          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
1718          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
1719          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
1720          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1721          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
1722          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
1723          in this case.
1724          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1725          off.
1726         
1727        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
1728          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
1729          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
1730          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
1731          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1732          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1733          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
1734         
1735        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
1736          had a quota on the specified printer.
1737         
1738        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
1739          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
1740         
1741        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
1742       
1743        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
1744          file for details.
1745         
1746        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
1747          print quota or by account balance.
1748       
1749    - 1.02 :
1750   
1751        - The installation script now checks for software availability
1752          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
1753          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
1754         
1755        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
1756          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
1757          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
1758          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
1759          if needed.
1760         
1761        - Improved documentation.
1762       
1763        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
1764          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
1765       
1766        - Better general error handling.
1767       
1768        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
1769          included as well.
1770       
1771    - 1.01 :
1772   
1773        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
1774          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
1775         
1776            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
1777            - User means only the user will receive them.
1778            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
1779            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
1780           
1781        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
1782          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
1783          for details.
1784         
1785        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
1786          add this information to this file.
1787         
1788        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
1789          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
1790          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
1791          the version number.
1792         
1793    - 1.00 :
1794   
1795        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
1796          disable quota checking while still doing page
1797          accounting. This is really useful for people
1798          who don't want to limit their users but want
1799          to know how much pages they print.
1800         
1801        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
1802          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
1803         
1804        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
1805       
1806    - 0.99 :
1807   
1808        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
1809          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
1810          now fixed.
1811         
1812        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
1813          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
1814         
1815    - 0.98 :
1816   
1817        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
1818       
1819        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
1820       
1821    - 0.97 :
1822   
1823        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
1824          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
1825         
1826              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
1827             
1828        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
1829          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
1830         
1831        - Small bug fixes.
1832       
1833    - 0.96 :
1834
1835        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
1836          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
1837          priority if both are defined.
1838
1839        - More powerful configuration parser.
1840       
1841        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
1842          define a section for each printer in the configuration
1843          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
1844
1845    - 0.95 :
1846
1847        - External requesters for printers finally added.
1848
1849        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
1850 
1851        - More complete quota usage report
1852
1853        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
1854
1855        - Several bugs fixed.
1856
1857
1858    - 0.9 :
1859
1860        - First public version
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