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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS and LPRng
4
5(c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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20============================================================
21
22PyKota NEWS :
23       
24    - 1.23alpha26 :
25   
26        - Allows parametrized pjl and snmp hardware accounting methods,
27          to be able to respectively set the TCP port and the SNMP
28          community.
29         
30    - 1.23alpha25 :
31   
32        - Added a --dryrun command line switch to pkturnkey.
33       
34        - Improved pkturnkey's general usability.
35       
36        - Added a manpage for pkturnkey.
37       
38    - 1.23alpha24 :
39   
40        - Allows different databases to be used depending on the
41          user's rights. This allows PyKota admins to directly
42          use a master LDAP server for read+write, while letting
43          normal users using the replicas for readonly access.
44          NB : using different storage backends is also possible,
45          but you're on your own there.
46         
47    - 1.23alpha23 :
48   
49        - Fixed a problem with banner accounting.
50   
51        - Introduction of the new 'pkturnkey' command line tool.
52       
53    - 1.23alpha22 :
54   
55        - The cupspykota backend was almost entirely rewritten from scratch.
56          It's now much more readable, maintainable, etc...
57         
58        - LPRng support is OFFICIALLY dropped for now. LPRng users are 
59          advised to download earlier releases or purchase the
60          PyKota v1.22HotFix1 Official release. LPRng support
61          MIGHT be re-added later.
62       
63    - 1.23alpha21 :
64     
65        - Fix for IPP requests which contain more than a single
66          job-originating-host-name attribute.
67         
68    - 1.23alpha20 :
69   
70        - Added the overwrite_jobticket directive. See pykota.conf.sample
71          for how to use it.
72         
73    - 1.23alpha19 :
74   
75        - Fixed an LDAP filtering problem when managing billing codes.
76       
77        - Added the unknown_billingcode directive. See pykota.conf.sample
78          for how to use it.
79       
80    - 1.23alpha18 :
81     
82        - Added the dump_bfd.php contribution.
83       
84        - Several fixes in the internal PJL accounter.
85       
86        - Now autopykota doesn't create unneeded print quota entries anymore.
87       
88        - Increased the timeout in the PJL hardware accounting code to
89          accomodate some printers (HP5000 at least).
90         
91    - 1.23alpha17 :
92   
93        - pkpgcounter is now distributed separately only. This
94          means that people must now download and install pkpgcounter
95          v1.56 or higher prior to being able to run PyKota.
96         
97        - Removed all the autoconf/automake stuff which was outdated 
98          and confusing.
99         
100    - 1.23alpha16 :
101     
102        - Extracted the GPL blurb from all commands' help, and use
103          a static version only once. This saves space big time, and
104          eases future translations.
105         
106    - 1.23alpha15 :
107   
108        - pkbcodes now works with the PostgreSQL backend.
109          NB : PLEASE RUN upgrade-to-1.23.sql AGAIN !!!
110       
111    - 1.23alpha14 :
112   
113        - Logs a warning when the user/group doesn't exist when running
114          edpykota.
115         
116    - 1.23alpha13 :
117   
118        - Minor fix for user groups because of latest database changes.
119       
120    - 1.23alpha12 :
121   
122        - Big database changes, use the migration scripts !
123       
124    - 1.23alpha11 :
125   
126        - Small fix to the PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers.
127       
128    - 1.23alpha10 :
129   
130        - Fixed a bad exception name in cupspykota when parsing IPP messages.
131       
132        - Improved the IPP messages module : it can now generate IPP messages
133          in addition to parsing them.
134       
135    - 1.23alpha9 :   
136   
137        - The denyduplicates directive now accepts a command line as an
138          argument beside yes/no. The command is launched and must
139          print either ALLOW or DENY to its standard output. Then the
140          job gets allowed or denied by PyKota.
141          This will allow user interaction in the near future.
142         
143        - Introduced the new 'striptitle' directive to remove ugly prefixes
144          from print job's titles whenever a new print job is submitted.
145         
146        - Fixed internal SNMP accounter for printers which only have a life time
147          page counter, and not a volatile page counter.
148         
149    - 1.23alpha8 :
150   
151        - The data dumper can now summarize payments and history with the
152          help of the --sum command line option (or checkbox in the CGI).
153         
154        - The message used when the job's filename, title and options are
155          hidden because of the privacy directive is now translated at
156          retrieval time, instead of at saving time.
157         
158        - Minor fix in the LDAP backend code. 
159         
160    - 1.23alpha7 :
161   
162        - Improvements to the internal PJL and SNMP accounter : now should
163          support more printers and waste less time.
164         
165    - 1.23alpha6 :
166   
167        - The data dumper's start= and end= date filtering options now
168          accept a positive or negative offset to be added to the special
169          keywords 'yesterday', 'today', 'now', 'tomorrow'.
170          e.g. : dumpykota --data history start=yesterday-5 end=today
171         
172    - 1.23alpha5 :
173   
174        - The data dumper's start= and end= date filtering options now accept
175          the special keywords 'yesterday', 'today', 'now' and 'tomorrow'.
176         
177    - 1.23alpha4 :
178   
179        - The data dumper now accept start= and end= to specify the starting
180          and ending dates to dump the history.
181         
182    - 1.23alpha3 :
183   
184        - The destination link for the logo used in CGI scripts is
185          configurable.
186         
187        - Data dumper improved : it's faster and now datas are correctly
188          escaped.
189       
190        - The URL to the logo displayed in the CGI scripts is configurable.
191       
192    - 1.23alpha2 :
193   
194        - Fixed edpykota --prototype with balance.
195       
196        - Major rewrite of the IPP message parsing code to definitely
197          fix the job-originating-hostname IPP attribute problem.
198       
199    - 1.23alpha1 :   
200   
201        - Sets current username to the user CUPS runs as instead of "root"
202          when printing test pages from CUPS' web interface (because
203          the username is empty in this case).
204         
205        - Fix for strange values in job-originating-hostname
206       
207    - 1.22 :
208   
209        - Big improvements to the documentation.
210       
211    - 1.22beta :
212   
213        - Improved stability in pykotme and pykotme.cgi.
214       
215        - Fixed a permission problem in pykotme and pykosd.
216       
217        - Fixed an inconsitency between SQL and LDAP backends'
218          behavior in edpykota.
219         
220        - Improved stability and allowed tracebacks in CGI scripts.
221       
222        - Improved pykotme.cgi
223         
224    - 1.22alpha8 :
225   
226        - Fixed history retrieval for nonexisting printers or users.
227       
228        - Clicking on the billing code in printquota.cgi's job history
229          now shows all jobs matching this billing code.
230         
231        - Fixed the dump in CUPS' page_log format which didn't
232          dump the oldest entry.
233         
234        - The data dumper now accepts billingcode= and hostname= as
235          filters when dumping the job history.
236         
237        - The job billing code if present is now saved into the database,
238          and exported to subprocesses as the PYKOTAJOBBILLING environment
239          variable.
240         
241        - Ctrl+C now makes PyKota commands exit without a traceback.
242       
243        - Fixed an i18n problem with Python 2.1
244       
245    - 1.22alpha7 :
246   
247        - Fixed some problems with the retrieval of the history from LDAP.
248       
249    - 1.22alpha6 :
250   
251        - Early errors now produce meaningful error messages (finally !)
252       
253    - 1.22alpha5 :
254       
255        - SNMP and PJL improvements with regard to PowerSave / StandBy.
256       
257    - 1.22alpha4 :
258   
259        - Fixed charset problem under MacOSX.
260       
261        - Allows pkbanner to accept more info to display on its
262          command line.
263         
264    - 1.22alpha3 :
265   
266        - Fixes some case related problems with some LDAP backends.
267       
268        - Fixes some problem for printers which directly go from
269          "idle" to "warmup" and never to "printing" before
270          returning to "idle".
271         
272        - Some permissions settings may have prevented cupspykota
273          from parsing cupsd.conf, this is now fixed.
274         
275    - 1.22alpha2 :
276   
277        - Introduction of the web enabled print quote generator.
278       
279        - Fixed a potential race condition when several backend
280          wrappers were present in CUPS' backend directory.
281         
282        - Fixed dumpykota's output in CUPS' page_log format to better
283          match CUPS format.
284         
285    - 1.22alpha1 :
286   
287        - Import into Subversion.
288       
289    - 1.21 :
290   
291        - Improved documentation.
292       
293        - Improved dependencies checker.
294       
295        - Updated some translation files.
296       
297    - 1.21beta2 :
298   
299        - Fixed an LPRng specific bug.
300       
301        - Several improvements on stability issues with manually modified
302          LDAP trees.
303         
304        - Documentation improvements. 
305       
306    - 1.21beta :
307   
308        - Prepared translation files for next release.
309       
310    - 1.21alpha27 :
311   
312        - Allows software() (no arguments) to the software accounting
313          directive. This saves a lot of CPU since the job is not
314          parsed again : the precomputed size is used directly in this
315          case.
316         
317        - epykota's --prototype option now works fine with accounts
318          limited by balance.
319         
320    - 1.21alpha26 :
321   
322        - Fixed the handling of the 'maxdenybanners' directive.
323       
324        - Introduced the 'denyduplicates' directive.
325       
326        - Fixed some database related glitches.
327       
328    - 1.21alpha25 :
329   
330        - The job's size is now always precomputed, even when
331          'enforcement' is not set to 'strict'.
332         
333        - Introduction of the new 'trustjobsize' configuration directive
334          to workaround some problematic printers. See the sample
335          configuration file for details.
336         
337    - 1.21alpha24 :
338   
339        - Big database structure changes. An upgrade script
340          is now included for PostgreSQL. LDAP users may just
341          want to copy the new schema in place.
342         
343        - edpykota now recognizes the -o | --overcharge command line
344          option to set an overcharging or undercharging factor
345          on each print job's cost for a particular user.
346         
347        - repykota's output format has changed an is not limited to 
348          80 characters wide anymore. People who used to parse
349          repykota's output in their own tools are strongly advised
350          to parse dumpykota's output instead.
351         
352        - Introduction of the new 'maxdenybanners' configuration directive
353          to allow up to N (the directive's value) deny banners to be
354          printed even if the print account is forbidden to print.
355         
356        - Better detection of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
357       
358    - 1.21alpha23 :
359   
360        - Traditional Chinese translation added.
361   
362        - Several fixes and performance improvements with the LDAP backend.
363       
364    - 1.21alpha22 :
365   
366        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
367          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
368         
369    - 1.21alpha21 :
370   
371        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
372          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
373          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
374          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
375          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
376          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
377          administrator.
378         
379        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
380          of PygreSQL.   
381         
382    - 1.21alpha20 :
383         
384        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
385         
386    - 1.21alpha19 :
387   
388        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
389          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
390          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
391          may have to change your web server's configuration,
392          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
393         
394    - 1.21alpha18 :
395   
396        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
397          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
398          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
399          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
400         
401    - 1.21alpha17 :
402     
403        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
404       
405        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
406          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
407         
408        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
409       
410    - 1.21alpha16 :
411   
412        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
413          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
414         
415    - 1.21alpha15 :
416     
417        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
418          in dumpykota's output.
419         
420        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
421          the LDAP backend too.
422         
423    - 1.21alpha14 :
424   
425        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
426          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
427         
428    - 1.21alpha13 :
429   
430        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
431          that people may see what really happens, and what will
432          be available in the future :-)
433         
434    - 1.21alpha12 :
435   
436        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
437       
438        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
439          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
440         
441    - 1.21alpha11 :
442   
443        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
444          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
445          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
446          See the sample configuration file for details.
447         
448        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
449          Wold for the patch.
450          See the sample configuration file for details.
451         
452        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
453          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
454          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
455         
456    - 1.21alpha10 :
457   
458        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
459          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
460         
461    - 1.21alpha9 :
462   
463        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
464          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
465          to be created by the system administrator, and given
466          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
467         
468    - 1.21alpha8 :
469   
470        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
471          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
472         
473    - 1.21alpha7 :
474   
475        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
476       
477    - 1.21alpha6 :
478   
479        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
480       
481        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
482       
483    - 1.21alpha5 :
484   
485        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
486       
487        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
488       
489        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
490       
491    - 1.21alpha4 :
492   
493        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
494       
495        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
496          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
497       
498    - 1.21alpha3 :
499   
500        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
501          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
502          in pykota.conf
503          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
504         
505    - 1.21alpha2 :
506   
507        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
508          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
509          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
510         
511    - 1.21alpha1 :
512   
513        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
514          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
515          the CUPS developpers change something...
516       
517    - 1.20 :
518   
519        - Version number changed.
520       
521    - 1.20beta :
522   
523        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
524       
525        - German translation was finalized.
526       
527        - Greek translation was finalized.
528       
529        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
530          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
531          in the history.
532         
533        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
534       
535    - 1.20alpha27 :
536   
537        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
538          the Brazilian Portuguese translation file was incorrectly
539          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
540         
541        - Finished French translation. 
542         
543    - 1.20alpha26 :
544   
545        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
546          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
547         
548        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
549       
550        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
551       
552    - 1.20alpha25 :
553   
554        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
555          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
556          option is used.
557         
558        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
559          anymore.
560         
561        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
562       
563    - 1.20alpha24 :
564   
565        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
566       
567        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
568          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
569          their account.
570       
571        - Prepared help messages for translations.
572       
573    - 1.20alpha23 :
574   
575        - Add workaround for locale problem.
576       
577    - 1.20alpha22 :
578   
579        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
580       
581        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
582       
583        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
584       
585    - 1.20alpha21 :
586   
587        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
588          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
589          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
590         
591        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
592          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
593         
594        - Improved documentation a bit.
595       
596    - 1.20alpha20 :
597   
598        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
599          from 2 to 1 second.
600       
601        - dumpykota can now output XML.
602       
603    - 1.20alpha19 :
604   
605        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
606       
607        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
608       
609        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
610          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
611         
612        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
613          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
614          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
615         
616    - 1.20alpha18 :
617   
618        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
619          account and quota entries on first print while not
620          resetting the balance value if not needed.
621         
622        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
623          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
624          needed (Off by default).
625         
626    - 1.20alpha17 :
627   
628        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
629       
630        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
631          or options and LDAP backend.
632         
633    - 1.20alpha16 :
634   
635        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
636          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
637          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
638         
639    - 1.20alpha15 :
640   
641        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
642          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
643          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
644          is now correctly used.
645         
646    - 1.20alpha14 :
647   
648        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
649       
650        - External hardware accounter now loops until
651          a result can be read correctly.
652         
653        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
654          of the external one.
655         
656    - 1.20alpha13 :
657     
658        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
659          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
660          without launching any subprocess.
661          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
662          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
663         
664        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
665          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
666          CPU load.
667         
668    - 1.20alpha12 :
669   
670        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
671          for printer status stabilization.
672       
673    - 1.20alpha11 :
674   
675        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
676          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
677         
678    - 1.20alpha10 :
679   
680        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
681          hardware accounting fails.
682         
683    - 1.20alpha9 :
684   
685        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
686       
687    - 1.20alpha8 :
688   
689        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
690          supported.
691       
692    - 1.20alpha7 :
693   
694        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
695          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
696       
697    - 1.20alpha6 :
698     
699        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
700       
701        - Small fixes for LPRng.
702       
703        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
704          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
705          meaningful.
706         
707        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
708          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
709         
710        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
711       
712    - 1.20alpha5 :
713     
714        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
715          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
716          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
717          'stop' (default).
718         
719        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
720          problem.
721         
722    - 1.20alpha4 :
723   
724        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
725          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
726         
727    - 1.20alpha3 :
728       
729        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
730          fooled by a change in number of copies :
731          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
732          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
733          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
734          now the maximum value seen is used.
735         
736        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
737          printer drivers.
738         
739        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
740          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
741         
742        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
743          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
744          be configurable in the near future.
745         
746    - 1.20alpha2 :
747   
748        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
749          answer until a line with a single integer is
750          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
751          This should fix the problem some people have
752          when strange locale related messages are sent
753          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
754         
755        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
756          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
757          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
758          work to correctly analyze other devices.
759       
760    - 1.20alpha1 :
761   
762        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
763       
764        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
765          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
766          page.
767       
768        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
769          PostScript code.
770         
771        - Added german translation.
772       
773        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
774          "enforcement: strict" is used.
775       
776        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
777       
778    - 1.19 :
779   
780        - Updated existing translations.   
781       
782        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
783       
784        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
785       
786    - 1.19beta :
787   
788        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
789          to be OK.
790         
791        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
792       
793        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
794       
795        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
796       
797        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
798       
799    - 1.19alpha35 :
800   
801        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
802          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
803       
804    - 1.19alpha34 :
805   
806        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
807          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
808   
809    - 1.19alpha33 :
810   
811        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
812          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
813          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
814         
815    - 1.19alpha32 :
816   
817        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
818       
819        - Saner default configuration file.
820       
821    - 1.19alpha31 :
822   
823        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
824          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
825          this older version of Python.
826         
827    - 1.19alpha30 :
828   
829        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
830       
831        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
832          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
833       
834        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
835          Gonz�z Gonz�z
836         
837    - 1.19alpha29 :
838   
839        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
840          copies set for each page.
841         
842        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
843       
844        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
845       
846        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
847          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
848          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
849          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
850          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
851          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
852          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
853         
854    - 1.19alpha28 :
855   
856        - The description field for printers can now be set,
857          and is displayed in reports.
858         
859        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
860         
861        - Improved pkhint
862       
863        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
864          Doesn't handle copies yet.
865       
866    - 1.19alpha27 :
867   
868        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
869          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
870         
871        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
872          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
873          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
874          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
875         
876        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
877          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
878          almost three times automagically.
879         
880    - 1.19alpha26 :
881   
882        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
883       
884        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
885          of copies could vary from page to page.
886         
887        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
888       
889    - 1.19alpha25 :
890   
891        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
892          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
893         
894        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
895          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
896          be undercharged.
897         
898        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
899         
900    - 1.19alpha24 :
901   
902        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
903          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
904          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
905          because PDF is parsed directly.
906         
907    - 1.19alpha23 :
908   
909        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
910          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
911       
912        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
913          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
914          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
915          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
916          automatically which method to use depending on your
917          version of Python.
918       
919        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
920         
921    - 1.19alpha22 :
922   
923        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
924          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
925          job's size pre-computation phase.
926         
927        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
928          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
929          and PS.
930       
931        - Even better debugging code.
932       
933    - 1.19alpha21 :
934   
935        - Additionnal check.
936       
937    - 1.19alpha20 :
938   
939        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
940       
941        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
942          files are parsed.
943       
944    - 1.19alpha19 :
945   
946        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
947          or version.
948         
949        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
950       
951        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
952       
953        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
954          cause problems.
955
956    - 1.19alpha18 :
957   
958        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
959          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
960          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
961          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
962          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
963          in the jobs history instead.
964         
965        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
966          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
967          more easily readable.
968         
969    - 1.19alpha17 :
970   
971        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
972          any log message) which occured once in a while when
973          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
974         
975        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
976          default. See sample configuration file to see how
977          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
978         
979        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
980          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
981          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
982          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
983         
984        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
985          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
986          yet to support this functionnality.
987         
988    - 1.19alpha16 :
989   
990        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
991          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
992          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
993          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
994          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
995         
996        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
997          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
998       
999    - 1.19alpha15 :
1000   
1001        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
1002          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
1003          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
1004         
1005    - 1.19alpha14 :
1006   
1007        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
1008          are now exported as environment variables.
1009         
1010        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
1011          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
1012         
1013        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
1014          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
1015          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
1016          feature.
1017         
1018        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
1019          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
1020          for details.
1021         
1022    - 1.19alpha13 :
1023   
1024        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
1025          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
1026          as time permits.
1027         
1028    - 1.19alpha12 :
1029   
1030        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
1031          the generic PDL analyzer.
1032          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
1033          job.
1034       
1035    - 1.19alpha11 :
1036   
1037        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
1038          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
1039          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
1040          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
1041          in the near future.
1042         
1043    - 1.19alpha10 :
1044   
1045        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
1046          of spawning a new process.
1047         
1048        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
1049       
1050        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
1051          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
1052          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
1053          the original algorithm is still used for now.
1054          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
1055          expense of severe memory consumption.
1056       
1057        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
1058          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
1059          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
1060          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
1061       
1062    - 1.19alpha9 :
1063       
1064        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
1065       
1066        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
1067          too.
1068         
1069        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
1070       
1071    - 1.19alpha8 :
1072   
1073        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
1074       
1075        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
1076       
1077        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
1078       
1079        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
1080       
1081        - code simplifications in external requester
1082       
1083    - 1.19alpha7 :
1084     
1085        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
1086          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
1087          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
1088          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
1089          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
1090         
1091    - 1.19alpha6 :
1092   
1093        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
1094       
1095        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
1096          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
1097          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
1098          PostScript.
1099         
1100        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
1101          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
1102         
1103    - 1.19alpha5 :
1104   
1105        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
1106       
1107        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
1108          problems under heavy load.
1109         
1110        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
1111       
1112        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
1113          modify existing printers when --add is used.
1114          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
1115          used and a printer already exists.
1116         
1117        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
1118          and pykotaTitle attributes.
1119       
1120    - 1.19alpha4 :
1121   
1122        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
1123          is now fixed.
1124         
1125        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
1126          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
1127          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
1128       
1129        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
1130          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
1131          testing.
1132         
1133    - 1.19alpha3 :
1134   
1135        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
1136          to list informations about printers.
1137         
1138    - 1.19alpha2 :
1139   
1140        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
1141          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
1142         
1143    - 1.19alpha1 :
1144   
1145        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
1146       
1147        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
1148       
1149    - 1.18 :
1150   
1151        - Improved documentation
1152       
1153    - 1.18beta2 :
1154     
1155        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
1156       
1157    - 1.18beta :
1158   
1159        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
1160       
1161        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
1162       
1163        - Improved translations
1164       
1165        - Improved documentation
1166       
1167    - 1.18alpha15 :
1168
1169        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
1170          and more powerful one.
1171   
1172        - Names can now begin with a digit.
1173       
1174        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
1175       
1176    - 1.18alpha14 :
1177   
1178        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
1179          of breaking.
1180         
1181        - Italian translation added.
1182       
1183    - 1.18alpha13 :
1184   
1185        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
1186          filter as well.
1187         
1188        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
1189          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
1190          this will be done anyway the next time the last
1191          user will print again. This saves some database
1192          queries which are unneeded.
1193       
1194    - 1.18alpha12 :
1195   
1196        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
1197          many environment variables available are useable
1198          from the cupspykota backend.
1199          See sample configuration file for details and help.
1200         
1201    - 1.18alpha11 :
1202   
1203        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
1204       
1205    - 1.18alpha10 :
1206   
1207        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
1208       
1209        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
1210       
1211    - 1.18alpha9 :
1212   
1213        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
1214       
1215        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
1216       
1217        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
1218       
1219    - 1.18alpha8 :
1220   
1221        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
1222          This avoids many database queries.
1223       
1224    - 1.18alpha7 :
1225   
1226        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
1227          LDAP caching.
1228         
1229    - 1.18alpha6 :
1230       
1231        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
1232          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
1233          email address is not set in PyKota database.
1234         
1235        - More complete email message headers. 
1236         
1237    - 1.18alpha5 :
1238   
1239        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
1240          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
1241         
1242        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
1243          up modifications (at least).
1244         
1245    - 1.18alpha4 :
1246   
1247        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
1248          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
1249          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
1250          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
1251          instead of into /usr/bin
1252          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
1253          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
1254          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
1255          waitprinter.sh and al.
1256         
1257        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
1258          accounting method for PyKota.
1259         
1260    - 1.18alpha3 :
1261   
1262        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
1263          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
1264       
1265    - 1.18alpha2 :
1266   
1267        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
1268          exclusively.
1269       
1270    - 1.18alpha1 :
1271   
1272        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
1273       
1274        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
1275       
1276    - 1.17 :
1277   
1278        - Finalized release.
1279       
1280    - 1.17alpha2 :
1281   
1282        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
1283       
1284    - 1.17alpha1 :
1285   
1286        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
1287       
1288    - 1.16 :
1289   
1290        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
1291          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
1292         
1293        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
1294          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
1295          though.
1296       
1297        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brazilian
1298          Portuguese Translation. Brazilian portuguese
1299          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
1300       
1301    - 1.16beta3 :
1302   
1303        - Swedish translation added.
1304       
1305        - Small fix in documentation.
1306       
1307    - 1.16beta2 :
1308   
1309        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
1310          printing in CUPS backend.
1311         
1312        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
1313       
1314    - 1.16beta1 :
1315   
1316        - Manpages upgraded.
1317       
1318    - 1.16alpha26 :
1319   
1320        - Job price is now computed like this :
1321       
1322          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
1323         
1324          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
1325          a member of, if any.
1326         
1327          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
1328          flexibility.
1329         
1330    - 1.16alpha25 :
1331   
1332        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
1333          using the following syntax :
1334         
1335            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
1336       
1337    - 1.16alpha24 :
1338   
1339        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1340       
1341        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1342       
1343        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1344          automatically add printers on first print.
1345       
1346    - 1.16alpha23 :
1347   
1348        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1349          several printers at the very same time.
1350       
1351    - 1.16alpha22 :
1352   
1353        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1354       
1355    - 1.16alpha21 :
1356   
1357        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1358       
1359        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1360       
1361    - 1.16alpha20 :
1362   
1363        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1364       
1365    - 1.16alpha19 :
1366     
1367        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1368       
1369    - 1.16alpha18 :
1370   
1371        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1372          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1373          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1374          groups for now.
1375
1376        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1377       
1378        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1379       
1380        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1381          + some particular settings.
1382         
1383        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1384          for details.
1385       
1386        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1387          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1388           
1389            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1390            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1391            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1392            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1393            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1394            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1395         
1396    - 1.16alpha17 :
1397   
1398        - Added portugues translation.
1399       
1400        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1401       
1402    - 1.16alpha16 :
1403   
1404        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1405          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1406       
1407        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1408          to lowercase during printing.
1409         
1410    - 1.15alpha15 :
1411   
1412        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1413          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1414         
1415    - 1.16alpha14 :
1416   
1417        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1418          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1419          on the printing system.
1420         
1421    - 1.16alpha13 :
1422   
1423        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1424       
1425        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
1426       
1427        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1428          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1429          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1430          this is not the case anymore.
1431         
1432    - 1.16alpha12 :
1433   
1434        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1435          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1436          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1437          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1438          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1439         
1440    - 1.16alpha11 :
1441   
1442        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1443          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1444          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1445          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1446         
1447        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1448          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1449         
1450    - 1.16alpha10 :
1451       
1452        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1453          See sample configuration file for details.
1454   
1455        - Spanish translation added.
1456       
1457    - 1.16alpha9 :
1458   
1459        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1460          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1461          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1462          file for details.
1463         
1464    - 1.16alpha8 :
1465   
1466        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1467          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1468         
1469        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1470          GNU GPL too.
1471         
1472    - 1.16alpha7 :
1473   
1474        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1475       
1476        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1477          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1478          used with LPRng though.
1479       
1480    - 1.16alpha6 :
1481   
1482        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1483          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1484          added to the database.
1485         
1486    - 1.16alpha5 :
1487   
1488        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1489          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1490          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1491       
1492    - 1.16alpha4 :
1493   
1494        - New CUPS backend added.
1495       
1496    - 1.16alpha3 :
1497       
1498        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1499       
1500    - 1.16alpha2 :
1501   
1502        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1503       
1504    - 1.16alpha1 :
1505   
1506        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1507       
1508        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1509       
1510    - 1.15 :
1511     
1512        - Documentation improved.
1513       
1514    - 1.15beta :
1515   
1516        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1517          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1518         
1519    - 1.15alpha9 :
1520   
1521        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1522          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1523          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1524          They have to be created manually before.
1525          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1526         
1527    - 1.15alpha8 :
1528   
1529        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1530          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1531          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1532          control.
1533       
1534    - 1.15alpha7 :
1535   
1536        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1537       
1538    - 1.15alpha6 :
1539   
1540        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1541       
1542    - 1.15alpha5 :
1543   
1544        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1545
1546    - 1.15alpha4 :
1547   
1548        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1549          modification.
1550         
1551    - 1.15alpha3 :
1552   
1553        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1554          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1555          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1556          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1557          unrestricted access is granted.
1558          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1559          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
1560         
1561    - 1.15alpha2 :
1562   
1563        - Better detection of LPRng.
1564       
1565        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1566       
1567    - 1.15alpha1 :
1568   
1569        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1570       
1571    - 1.14 :
1572   
1573        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1574          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1575          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1576       
1577    - 1.14beta2 :
1578   
1579        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1580          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1581          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1582          details.
1583       
1584    - 1.14beta :
1585   
1586        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1587          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1588          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1589          See sample configuration file for details.
1590         
1591    - 1.14alpha9 :
1592   
1593        - Documentation improved.
1594       
1595        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1596          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1597          limiting factor is "balance".
1598         
1599    - 1.14alpha8 :
1600   
1601        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1602          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1603          asking for their internal page counter.
1604          See sample configuration file for details.
1605         
1606    - 1.14alpha7 :
1607   
1608        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
1609          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
1610          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
1611          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
1612          time.
1613         
1614    - 1.14alpha6 :
1615   
1616        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
1617          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
1618          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
1619          Don't forget to :
1620         
1621                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
1622               
1623        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
1624          for the same reason.
1625         
1626        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
1627          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
1628         
1629    - 1.14alpha5 :
1630       
1631        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
1632       
1633    - 1.14alpha4 :
1634   
1635        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
1636          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
1637          as two different LDAP entries.
1638         
1639    - 1.14alpha3 :
1640   
1641        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
1642          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
1643       
1644    - 1.14alpha2 :
1645   
1646        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
1647       
1648    - 1.14alpha1 :
1649   
1650        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
1651          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
1652          a warning message.
1653         
1654        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
1655          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
1656       
1657    - 1.13 :
1658   
1659        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
1660       
1661        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
1662          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
1663          as well as a bug in the groups code.
1664         
1665    - 1.13alpha1 :
1666   
1667        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
1668       
1669    - 1.12 :
1670   
1671        - More complete test added in edpykota.
1672       
1673    - 1.12alpha2 :
1674   
1675        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
1676       
1677    - 1.12alpha1 :
1678   
1679        - Small bug fix.
1680       
1681    - 1.11 :
1682   
1683        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
1684          printing quotes for users.
1685         
1686    - 1.10 :
1687   
1688        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
1689          account balance.
1690         
1691    - 1.09 :
1692   
1693        - Translations finalized.
1694       
1695        - Manpages updated.
1696       
1697        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
1698       
1699    - 1.09beta2 :
1700   
1701        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
1702          is much more powerful.
1703       
1704    - 1.09beta :
1705   
1706        - edpykota finalized
1707       
1708    - 1.09alpha2 :
1709   
1710        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
1711       
1712        - LDAP backend works !
1713       
1714        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
1715          users or groups names on the command line. Users
1716          and groups names may contain wildcards.
1717         
1718        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
1719          current user when launched by non-root users.
1720         
1721        - Minor bug fixes. 
1722   
1723    - 1.09alpha1 :
1724   
1725        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
1726          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
1727          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
1728         
1729        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
1730          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
1731     
1732    - 1.08 :
1733   
1734        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
1735       
1736        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
1737       
1738    - 1.08alpha8 :
1739   
1740        - Code refactoring.
1741       
1742        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
1743          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
1744          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
1745          not used anymore.
1746         
1747        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
1748          file for details.
1749          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
1750          debug mode, for now.
1751       
1752    - 1.08alpha7 :
1753   
1754        - Very latest LDAP schema.
1755       
1756        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
1757          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
1758       
1759    - 1.08alpha6 :
1760   
1761        - Minor bug corrections
1762       
1763        - More work on LDAP : new schema
1764       
1765    - 1.08alpha5 :
1766   
1767        - More good work on LDAP storage.
1768          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
1769       
1770    - 1.08alpha4 :
1771   
1772        - LDAP schema included.
1773          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
1774          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
1775          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
1776          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
1777          MAILING LIST.
1778         
1779    - 1.08alpha3 :
1780   
1781        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
1782         
1783          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
1784         
1785          - They now take care of the number of copies
1786            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
1787            file already does this, because this would
1788            overcharge users (number of copies counted
1789            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
1790           
1791          - The sample configuration file now contains 
1792            an external accounting method example which should
1793            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
1794           
1795        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
1796       
1797    - 1.08alpha2 :
1798   
1799        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
1800          It already worked, but the sample configuration
1801          file didn't contain appropriate values...
1802       
1803    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
1804   
1805        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
1806          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
1807         
1808    - 1.06 :
1809   
1810        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
1811          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
1812          a bug was triggered.
1813          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
1814          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
1815         
1816    - 1.05 :
1817   
1818        - External accounters are finally available !
1819          This means that you can plug any page accounting
1820          method you like by setting the appropriate
1821          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
1822          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
1823          learn how to do.
1824         
1825          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
1826               account a job size just before *this* job is
1827               sent to the printer.
1828               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
1829               size just before *the next* job is sent to
1830               the printer.
1831       
1832    - 1.05alpha3 :
1833   
1834        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
1835          implemented to serve as an example on how to
1836          do this sort of things. This method only counts
1837          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
1838          See sample configuration file for details.
1839          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
1840          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
1841          It is not reliable enough to be used.
1842          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
1843         
1844    - 1.05alpha2 :
1845   
1846        - Pluggable accounting methods.
1847       
1848        - Better error handling.
1849       
1850    - 1.05alpha1 :
1851   
1852        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
1853       
1854        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
1855          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
1856          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
1857          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
1858          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
1859         
1860        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
1861         
1862    - 1.04 :
1863   
1864        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
1865          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
1866          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
1867          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
1868         
1869        - LPRng support works !
1870       
1871        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
1872          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
1873       
1874        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
1875          printer, if they are defined.
1876         
1877        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
1878       
1879        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
1880       
1881    - 1.03 :
1882   
1883        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
1884          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
1885          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
1886         
1887        - repykota now reports account balances too.
1888       
1889        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
1890          subdirectory.
1891       
1892        - Manual pages were finally updated.
1893       
1894        - Group quotas seem to work now !
1895       
1896        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
1897          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
1898          and track users' account balance.
1899         
1900        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
1901          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
1902          details.
1903         
1904        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
1905          configuration file during first installation.
1906         
1907        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
1908       
1909        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
1910       
1911        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
1912          reports in the future.
1913         
1914        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
1915          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
1916          a quota which is too low to print.
1917         
1918        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
1919          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
1920          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
1921          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
1922          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1923          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
1924          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
1925          in this case.
1926          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1927          off.
1928         
1929        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
1930          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
1931          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
1932          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
1933          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
1934          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
1935          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
1936         
1937        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
1938          had a quota on the specified printer.
1939         
1940        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
1941          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
1942         
1943        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
1944       
1945        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
1946          file for details.
1947         
1948        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
1949          print quota or by account balance.
1950       
1951    - 1.02 :
1952   
1953        - The installation script now checks for software availability
1954          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
1955          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
1956         
1957        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
1958          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
1959          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
1960          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
1961          if needed.
1962         
1963        - Improved documentation.
1964       
1965        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
1966          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
1967       
1968        - Better general error handling.
1969       
1970        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
1971          included as well.
1972       
1973    - 1.01 :
1974   
1975        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
1976          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
1977         
1978            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
1979            - User means only the user will receive them.
1980            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
1981            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
1982           
1983        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
1984          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
1985          for details.
1986         
1987        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
1988          add this information to this file.
1989         
1990        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
1991          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
1992          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
1993          the version number.
1994         
1995    - 1.00 :
1996   
1997        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
1998          disable quota checking while still doing page
1999          accounting. This is really useful for people
2000          who don't want to limit their users but want
2001          to know how much pages they print.
2002         
2003        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
2004          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
2005         
2006        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
2007       
2008    - 0.99 :
2009   
2010        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
2011          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
2012          now fixed.
2013         
2014        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
2015          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
2016         
2017    - 0.98 :
2018   
2019        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
2020       
2021        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
2022       
2023    - 0.97 :
2024   
2025        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
2026          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
2027         
2028              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
2029             
2030        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
2031          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
2032         
2033        - Small bug fixes.
2034       
2035    - 0.96 :
2036
2037        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
2038          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
2039          priority if both are defined.
2040
2041        - More powerful configuration parser.
2042       
2043        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
2044          define a section for each printer in the configuration
2045          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
2046
2047    - 0.95 :
2048
2049        - External requesters for printers finally added.
2050
2051        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
2052 
2053        - More complete quota usage report
2054
2055        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
2056
2057        - Several bugs fixed.
2058
2059
2060    - 0.9 :
2061
2062        - First public version
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