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Revision 3052, 81.9 kB (checked in by jerome, 18 years ago)

Now pkprinters reroutes CUPS print queues through PyKota or
through CUPS only when adding or deleting printers in the
database.
Fixed some display uglyness in case no entry was found.

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3PyKota - Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng
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21
22PyKota NEWS :
23       
24    - 1.25alpha15 (2006-11-06) :   
25   
26        - pkprinters --add and --delete now automatically reroutes CUPS
27          print queues through PyKota or through CUPS only.
28         
29        - Fixed date and time parsing problems.
30       
31        - Finally simplified the locking code again, and checked that no
32          stalled lock can persist. The lock files remain on disk though,
33          but it is a small price to pay.
34         
35    - 1.25alpha14 (2006-10-13) :
36     
37        - Removed some locking code which would have prevented multi-server
38          configuration to work correctly with a shared lock directory.
39         
40        - First useable release with the computation of ink
41          usage, through the introduction of the 'ink(cspace, resolution)'
42          value for the 'preaccounter' and 'accounter' directives in
43          pykota.conf
44         
45    - 1.25alpha13 (2006-10-04) :
46     
47        - The dumpykota.cgi script now does basic form checking
48          to immediately avoid incompatible dump options and
49          alerts the end user if Javascript is enabled.
50         
51        - The filter keys in dumpykota can now be specified in
52          lower or upper case.
53         
54        - Introduced the 'noprintingmaxdelay' directive to workaround
55          some buggy printers when hardware accounting is used.
56         
57        - Improved the reliability of hardware accounting. 
58         
59    - 1.25alpha12 (2006-09-15) :
60   
61        - Fixes encoding of username and billingcode when they
62          are overwritten by a subprocess.
63         
64    - 1.25alpha11 (2006-09-06) :
65   
66        - Now fails in an helpful manner if python-mysqldb is too old.
67       
68        - Now exports the original username and billing code (i.e.
69          their values before they are eventually overwritten) in
70          two additionnal environment variables.
71         
72    - 1.25alpha10 (2006-09-03) :
73   
74        - Rewrote the locking mechanism to try to fix the problem
75          some people reported.
76         
77        - Permissions on cupspykota are now correctly set after
78          installation.
79         
80        - Added a workaround to incorrect charset through the add
81          of the python-chardet module as a dependency.
82         
83    - 1.25alpha9 (2006-08-10) :
84   
85        - Fixed a problem when an SMTP error occured and the recovery
86          routine failed to handle it correctly.
87         
88    - 1.25alpha8 (2006-07-11) :
89   
90        - Fixed a problem in the MySQL schema.
91       
92    - 1.25alpha7 (2006-06-20) :
93   
94        - Fixed some date formatting problems when retrieving the
95          printing history with MySQL.
96         
97        - Began code cleaning. 
98         
99    - 1.25alpha6 (2006-06-13) :
100   
101        - pkusers now supports the --email command line switch.
102          The old method to set the email address is still supported,
103          but the new one allows the email address to be modified
104          as well.
105         
106    - 1.25alpha6 (2006-06-09) :
107   
108        - Fixed the incorrect overwriting of the original billing
109          code if the overwrite_jobticket directive was used.
110         
111    - 1.25alpha5 (2006-06-03) :
112   
113        - Fixed minor issues with pkipplib's usage.
114       
115        - Fixed MySQL schema to workaround some "features"...
116       
117    - 1.25alpha4 (2006-05-23) :
118   
119        - Introduced the 'askconfirmation' directive to interact with
120          the end user through any script (pknotify is recommended)
121          and see if he really wants to print when knowing the cost
122          of the job.
123         
124        - Now uses pkipplib if present to directly retrieve the job
125          information from the CUPS server over IPP.
126         
127    - 1.25alpha3 (2006-05-11) :
128   
129        - Added a lock to ensure that a single cupspykota backend
130          is processing datas for a particular print queue at any
131          given time.
132         
133        - Now exports more environment variables for the subprocesses.
134         
135    - 1.25alpha2 (2006-05-03) :
136   
137        - Fixed some problems with DateTime objects.
138       
139        - Added support for PySNMP v4.x in addition to 3.4.x.
140       
141    - 1.25alpha1 (2006-04-14) :
142   
143        - Make the MySQL schema work with old releases of MySQL.
144       
145        - Fixed several character encoding problems.
146         
147        - Ensures that the denied banners counter is properly initialized
148          with relationnal databases.
149         
150    - 1.24 (2006-04-08) :
151   
152        - Improved documentation and packaging stuff.
153       
154    - 1.24beta (2006-03-26) :
155   
156        - Finalized the pknotify command.
157       
158        - Updated the messages catalogs for translations.
159       
160    - 1.24alpha18 (2006-03-15) :
161   
162        - Now uses MIME encapsulation for email messages to avoid
163          some problems with 8 bits messages being rejected.
164         
165    - 1.24alpha17 (2006-03-06) :
166   
167        - Fixed a major problem in the PostgreSQL backend.
168       
169        - pknotify can now check a remote user's name and password.
170       
171    - 1.24alpha16 (2006-03-02) :
172   
173        - Introduced the pknotify command line tool to dialog
174          with remote PyKotIcon applications.
175         
176    - 1.24alpha15 (2006-03-02) :
177       
178        - optimized pkbcodes, pkprinters and pkusers using edpykota as
179          the model.
180       
181        - 'edpykota --list' and 'pkusers --list' are now authorized
182          to mere mortal users, but the list is restricted to informations
183          about the current user.
184       
185        - Extended the functionnality of the 'onbackenderror' directive to
186          allow for configurable retries.
187         
188    - 1.24alpha14 :
189   
190        - Finished optimizations in edpykota and fixed some minor
191          problems with LDAP.
192         
193    - 1.24alpha13 :
194   
195        - Introduced the pkusers command line tool to manage users and 
196          users groups. This command doesn't deal with print quota entries,
197          which continue to be managed through the edpykota command line
198          tool.
199         
200        - Major rewrite and incompatible changes to command line options
201          in edpykota. This command now only deals with print quota
202          entries. Printers, users (or users groups) now have to be created
203          first using pkprinters or pkusers.
204         
205    - 1.24alpha12 :
206   
207        - Introduced the 'duplicatesdelay' directive to specify after
208          which duration two duplicate jobs are not considered duplicate
209          jobs anymore.
210         
211        - Introduced the 'balancezero' directive to specify any value 
212          as the balance limit instead of 0.0. This can allow admins to
213          give a few free credits to users, for example.
214         
215    - 1.24alpha11 :
216   
217        - Huge speed improvements when modifying billing codes and
218          printers.
219       
220        - Both pkbcodes and pkprinters now display the percent done
221          for all actions.
222         
223        - The pkinvoice invoice generator command line utility is now
224          included.
225         
226    - 1.24alpha10 :   
227   
228        - Huge speed improvements when deleting users, printers, and
229          billing codes.
230         
231    - 1.24alpha9 :
232   
233        - Preliminary support for MySQL, thanks to Matt Hyclak.
234       
235    - 1.24alpha8 :
236   
237        - The 'preaccounter' configuration directive was introduced to control
238          which parser to use for precomputation of the job's size. When unset,
239          the internal parser is used just like it was previously. See
240          conf/pykota.conf.sample for more details.
241         
242        - Now subprocesses launched through the overwrite_jobticket directive
243          can also output 'CANCEL', to represent the user's own choice to
244          cancel the print job.
245         
246    - 1.24alpha7 :
247     
248        - pkbanner now handles new print limiting modes correctly.
249       
250        - The cupspykota backend wrapper now accepts to be interrupted
251          with a kill -INT. This causes an immediate and clean abort
252          of the current print job.
253         
254        - Matt Hyclak contributed the possibility to store the printing
255          history in a MySQL database. See the contributed/ directory
256          for details.
257         
258        - Added 2006 to the copyright's years.
259       
260    - 1.24alpha6 :
261   
262        - Fixed internal SNMP and PJL handling code for very fast
263          printers : PyKota didn't see them going from 'idle'
264          to 'printing' to 'idle' again.
265         
266        - Now waitprinter.sh accepts SNMP version number and
267          community name as arguments, thanks to Brandon
268          Holbrook.
269         
270        - Now command line errors and Ctrl+C repectively cause
271          PyKota commands to exit with status -2 and -3.
272         
273    - 1.24alpha5 :
274   
275        - All command line tools now accept -A | --arguments filename.args
276          as a way to bypass the shell's maximal command line size :
277          just put each argument on a line by itself in a file, and
278          pass the file's name as the -A | --arguments command line
279          option's argument. For now this won't be documented in
280          commands' helps.
281         
282        - dumpykota can now dump the complete database in XML
283          format.
284         
285    - 1.24alpha4 :
286   
287        - Added support for the SQLite3 backend.
288          See pykota/initscripts/sqlite/README.sqlite
289       
290    - 1.24alpha3 :
291   
292        - Fix for mailandpopup.sh : smbstatus can't be run setuid,
293          so we regain priviledges before running an external
294          mailto directive.
295       
296    - 1.24alpha2 :
297   
298        - Introduce the "onbackenderror" directive in pykota.conf, to
299          control if the user must be charged or not whenever a real
300          CUPS backend fails. The default value is 'nocharge'.
301          Set it to 'charge' if you think your users can cause a CUPS
302          backend to fail.
303         
304        - Now mark original backends related problems as such in the
305          printing history. Modified printquota.cgi and pykota.css
306          to make them be more visible.
307         
308    - 1.24alpha1 :
309   
310        - Fixed a problem which caused backend errors to be ignored.
311       
312        - The sample LDIF file now contains the two necessary user
313          entries to have an LDAP PyKota Admin and an LDAP PyKota
314          ReadOnly user. The sample configuration files were updated
315          to contain the default passwords used in the LDIF file.
316         
317        - dumpykota is now more strict when checking arguments.   
318       
319    - 1.23 :
320   
321        - Many minor bug fixes and code cleaning.
322       
323        - Improved documentation.
324       
325        - Added Polish translation.
326       
327        - Improved French and Swedish translations.
328       
329    - 1.23beta :
330   
331        - Now the mailto directive is honored in all cases where the job is
332          denied or a warning has to be issued, and the correct reason
333          can be sent back to the user.
334         
335        - The PYKOTAREASON environment variable, if defined, contains the 
336          textual reason why the job was denied or a warning has to be
337          issued.
338       
339    - 1.23alpha31 :
340   
341        - Added support for --maxjobsize, --passthrough and --nopassthrough
342          in pkprinters. These modes are now also honored when printing.
343         
344        - Allows the admin to restrict the number of print queues which will
345          be treated by pkturnkey by passing queues' names as additionnal
346          arguments on pkturnkey's command line.
347         
348        - pkturnkey now supersedes pkhint with the help of the -c | --doconf
349          command line option.   
350         
351    - 1.23alpha30 :
352   
353        - Database changes : you MUST use upgrade-to-1.23.sql again if you
354          use PostgreSQL, or copy the new schema and restart your LDAP
355          server if you use LDAP.
356         
357        - The -C | --comment command line switch was added to edpykota to 
358          attach textual information to modifications done to a user's
359          account balance.
360         
361        - The -l | --limitby command line switch to edpykota was modified 
362          to allow 'noquota', 'nochange', and 'noprint'. See the edpykota
363          command's help or manual page for details.
364         
365        - The -i | --ingroups command line switch to repykota allows 
366          PyKota Administrators to only lists members of the specified
367          group or groups (separated with commas).
368         
369        - The -I | --increase command line switch to edpykota allows
370          to increase or decrease page limits.
371         
372        - Added the precomputed job's size and price to the history
373          for controlling purpose.
374       
375    - 1.23alpha29 :
376   
377        - Fixed a small problem with billing codes.
378       
379        - Exports some environment variables earlier, to render the script
380          launched by the overwrite_jobticket directive more powerful.
381         
382        - Now autopykota also creates print quota entries for the user on the
383          printers groups the current printer is a member of.
384         
385    - 1.23alpha28 :
386   
387        - Added users groups management to pkturnkey.
388       
389        - Fixed umask in setup script.
390       
391    - 1.23alpha27 :
392   
393        - Replaced the --dryrun command line option by the --force
394          command line option in pkturnkey, with exactly the opposite
395          effect (for security reasons).
396         
397    - 1.23alpha26 :
398   
399        - Allows parametrized pjl and snmp hardware accounting methods,
400          to be able to respectively set the TCP port and the SNMP
401          community.
402         
403    - 1.23alpha25 :
404   
405        - Added a --dryrun command line switch to pkturnkey.
406       
407        - Improved pkturnkey's general usability.
408       
409        - Added a manpage for pkturnkey.
410       
411    - 1.23alpha24 :
412   
413        - Allows different databases to be used depending on the
414          user's rights. This allows PyKota admins to directly
415          use a master LDAP server for read+write, while letting
416          normal users using the replicas for readonly access.
417          NB : using different storage backends is also possible,
418          but you're on your own there.
419         
420    - 1.23alpha23 :
421   
422        - Fixed a problem with banner accounting.
423   
424        - Introduction of the new 'pkturnkey' command line tool.
425       
426    - 1.23alpha22 :
427   
428        - The cupspykota backend was almost entirely rewritten from scratch.
429          It's now much more readable, maintainable, etc...
430         
431        - LPRng support is OFFICIALLY dropped for now. LPRng users are 
432          advised to download earlier releases or purchase the
433          PyKota v1.22HotFix1 Official release. LPRng support
434          MIGHT be re-added later.
435       
436    - 1.23alpha21 :
437     
438        - Fix for IPP requests which contain more than a single
439          job-originating-host-name attribute.
440         
441    - 1.23alpha20 :
442   
443        - Added the overwrite_jobticket directive. See pykota.conf.sample
444          for how to use it.
445         
446    - 1.23alpha19 :
447   
448        - Fixed an LDAP filtering problem when managing billing codes.
449       
450        - Added the unknown_billingcode directive. See pykota.conf.sample
451          for how to use it.
452       
453    - 1.23alpha18 :
454     
455        - Added the dump_bfd.php contribution.
456       
457        - Several fixes in the internal PJL accounter.
458       
459        - Now autopykota doesn't create unneeded print quota entries anymore.
460       
461        - Increased the timeout in the PJL hardware accounting code to
462          accomodate some printers (HP5000 at least).
463         
464    - 1.23alpha17 :
465   
466        - pkpgcounter is now distributed separately only. This
467          means that people must now download and install pkpgcounter
468          v1.56 or higher prior to being able to run PyKota.
469         
470        - Removed all the autoconf/automake stuff which was outdated 
471          and confusing.
472         
473    - 1.23alpha16 :
474     
475        - Extracted the GPL blurb from all commands' help, and use
476          a static version only once. This saves space big time, and
477          eases future translations.
478         
479    - 1.23alpha15 :
480   
481        - pkbcodes now works with the PostgreSQL backend.
482          NB : PLEASE RUN upgrade-to-1.23.sql AGAIN !!!
483       
484    - 1.23alpha14 :
485   
486        - Logs a warning when the user/group doesn't exist when running
487          edpykota.
488         
489    - 1.23alpha13 :
490   
491        - Minor fix for user groups because of latest database changes.
492       
493    - 1.23alpha12 :
494   
495        - Big database changes, use the migration scripts !
496       
497    - 1.23alpha11 :
498   
499        - Small fix to the PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers.
500       
501    - 1.23alpha10 :
502   
503        - Fixed a bad exception name in cupspykota when parsing IPP messages.
504       
505        - Improved the IPP messages module : it can now generate IPP messages
506          in addition to parsing them.
507       
508    - 1.23alpha9 :   
509   
510        - The denyduplicates directive now accepts a command line as an
511          argument beside yes/no. The command is launched and must
512          print either ALLOW or DENY to its standard output. Then the
513          job gets allowed or denied by PyKota.
514          This will allow user interaction in the near future.
515         
516        - Introduced the new 'striptitle' directive to remove ugly prefixes
517          from print job's titles whenever a new print job is submitted.
518         
519        - Fixed internal SNMP accounter for printers which only have a life time
520          page counter, and not a volatile page counter.
521         
522    - 1.23alpha8 :
523   
524        - The data dumper can now summarize payments and history with the
525          help of the --sum command line option (or checkbox in the CGI).
526         
527        - The message used when the job's filename, title and options are
528          hidden because of the privacy directive is now translated at
529          retrieval time, instead of at saving time.
530         
531        - Minor fix in the LDAP backend code. 
532         
533    - 1.23alpha7 :
534   
535        - Improvements to the internal PJL and SNMP accounter : now should
536          support more printers and waste less time.
537         
538    - 1.23alpha6 :
539   
540        - The data dumper's start= and end= date filtering options now
541          accept a positive or negative offset to be added to the special
542          keywords 'yesterday', 'today', 'now', 'tomorrow'.
543          e.g. : dumpykota --data history start=yesterday-5 end=today
544         
545    - 1.23alpha5 :
546   
547        - The data dumper's start= and end= date filtering options now accept
548          the special keywords 'yesterday', 'today', 'now' and 'tomorrow'.
549         
550    - 1.23alpha4 :
551   
552        - The data dumper now accept start= and end= to specify the starting
553          and ending dates to dump the history.
554         
555    - 1.23alpha3 :
556   
557        - The destination link for the logo used in CGI scripts is
558          configurable.
559         
560        - Data dumper improved : it's faster and now datas are correctly
561          escaped.
562       
563        - The URL to the logo displayed in the CGI scripts is configurable.
564       
565    - 1.23alpha2 :
566   
567        - Fixed edpykota --prototype with balance.
568       
569        - Major rewrite of the IPP message parsing code to definitely
570          fix the job-originating-hostname IPP attribute problem.
571       
572    - 1.23alpha1 :   
573   
574        - Sets current username to the user CUPS runs as instead of "root"
575          when printing test pages from CUPS' web interface (because
576          the username is empty in this case).
577         
578        - Fix for strange values in job-originating-hostname
579       
580    - 1.22 :
581   
582        - Big improvements to the documentation.
583       
584    - 1.22beta :
585   
586        - Improved stability in pykotme and pykotme.cgi.
587       
588        - Fixed a permission problem in pykotme and pykosd.
589       
590        - Fixed an inconsitency between SQL and LDAP backends'
591          behavior in edpykota.
592         
593        - Improved stability and allowed tracebacks in CGI scripts.
594       
595        - Improved pykotme.cgi
596         
597    - 1.22alpha8 :
598   
599        - Fixed history retrieval for nonexisting printers or users.
600       
601        - Clicking on the billing code in printquota.cgi's job history
602          now shows all jobs matching this billing code.
603         
604        - Fixed the dump in CUPS' page_log format which didn't
605          dump the oldest entry.
606         
607        - The data dumper now accepts billingcode= and hostname= as
608          filters when dumping the job history.
609         
610        - The job billing code if present is now saved into the database,
611          and exported to subprocesses as the PYKOTAJOBBILLING environment
612          variable.
613         
614        - Ctrl+C now makes PyKota commands exit without a traceback.
615       
616        - Fixed an i18n problem with Python 2.1
617       
618    - 1.22alpha7 :
619   
620        - Fixed some problems with the retrieval of the history from LDAP.
621       
622    - 1.22alpha6 :
623   
624        - Early errors now produce meaningful error messages (finally !)
625       
626    - 1.22alpha5 :
627       
628        - SNMP and PJL improvements with regard to PowerSave / StandBy.
629       
630    - 1.22alpha4 :
631   
632        - Fixed charset problem under MacOSX.
633       
634        - Allows pkbanner to accept more info to display on its
635          command line.
636         
637    - 1.22alpha3 :
638   
639        - Fixes some case related problems with some LDAP backends.
640       
641        - Fixes some problem for printers which directly go from
642          "idle" to "warmup" and never to "printing" before
643          returning to "idle".
644         
645        - Some permissions settings may have prevented cupspykota
646          from parsing cupsd.conf, this is now fixed.
647         
648    - 1.22alpha2 :
649   
650        - Introduction of the web enabled print quote generator.
651       
652        - Fixed a potential race condition when several backend
653          wrappers were present in CUPS' backend directory.
654         
655        - Fixed dumpykota's output in CUPS' page_log format to better
656          match CUPS format.
657         
658    - 1.22alpha1 :
659   
660        - Import into Subversion.
661       
662    - 1.21 :
663   
664        - Improved documentation.
665       
666        - Improved dependencies checker.
667       
668        - Updated some translation files.
669       
670    - 1.21beta2 :
671   
672        - Fixed an LPRng specific bug.
673       
674        - Several improvements on stability issues with manually modified
675          LDAP trees.
676         
677        - Documentation improvements. 
678       
679    - 1.21beta :
680   
681        - Prepared translation files for next release.
682       
683    - 1.21alpha27 :
684   
685        - Allows software() (no arguments) to the software accounting
686          directive. This saves a lot of CPU since the job is not
687          parsed again : the precomputed size is used directly in this
688          case.
689         
690        - epykota's --prototype option now works fine with accounts
691          limited by balance.
692         
693    - 1.21alpha26 :
694   
695        - Fixed the handling of the 'maxdenybanners' directive.
696       
697        - Introduced the 'denyduplicates' directive.
698       
699        - Fixed some database related glitches.
700       
701    - 1.21alpha25 :
702   
703        - The job's size is now always precomputed, even when
704          'enforcement' is not set to 'strict'.
705         
706        - Introduction of the new 'trustjobsize' configuration directive
707          to workaround some problematic printers. See the sample
708          configuration file for details.
709         
710    - 1.21alpha24 :
711   
712        - Big database structure changes. An upgrade script
713          is now included for PostgreSQL. LDAP users may just
714          want to copy the new schema in place.
715         
716        - edpykota now recognizes the -o | --overcharge command line
717          option to set an overcharging or undercharging factor
718          on each print job's cost for a particular user.
719         
720        - repykota's output format has changed an is not limited to 
721          80 characters wide anymore. People who used to parse
722          repykota's output in their own tools are strongly advised
723          to parse dumpykota's output instead.
724         
725        - Introduction of the new 'maxdenybanners' configuration directive
726          to allow up to N (the directive's value) deny banners to be
727          printed even if the print account is forbidden to print.
728         
729        - Better detection of the number of copies in the PostScript parser.
730       
731    - 1.21alpha23 :
732   
733        - Traditional Chinese translation added.
734   
735        - Several fixes and performance improvements with the LDAP backend.
736       
737    - 1.21alpha22 :
738   
739        - edpykota's --delete command line option doesn't consider
740          '*' to be the default argument anymore :-)
741         
742    - 1.21alpha21 :
743   
744        - dumpykota.cgi can now be run as a normal user as opposed to
745          a PyKota administrator. No read access to pykotadmin.conf is
746          necessary anymore. This CGI scripts now honors the REMOTE_USER
747          environment variable just like printquota.cgi does, see
748          the file cgi-bin/README for details.
749          The command line tool dumpykota must still be run by a PyKota
750          administrator.
751         
752        - Fix exception's name error due to a change in recent versions
753          of PygreSQL.   
754         
755    - 1.21alpha20 :
756         
757        - Big bug fix wrt the datelimit field which was never reset.
758         
759    - 1.21alpha19 :
760   
761        - Introduction of the new dumpykota.cgi CGI script, which
762          allows third party tools like phpPrintAnalyzer to be
763          interfaced in real time with PyKota. To use it you
764          may have to change your web server's configuration,
765          please see pykota/cgi-bin/README
766         
767    - 1.21alpha18 :
768   
769        - Now dumpykota can dump the job history into CUPS' page_log
770          format (even when the printing system is LPRng). This allows
771          people to use tools like PrintAnalyzer or phpPrintAnalyzer
772          (two completely different beasts) with PyKota.
773         
774    - 1.21alpha17 :
775     
776        - Fixed field type's name in XML dumps.
777       
778        - Now drops priviledges to user 'pykota' when launched as root
779          (directly or as a CUPS backend), if such an user exists.
780         
781        - Fixed PCL3/4/5 parser for some drivers' output.
782       
783    - 1.21alpha16 :
784   
785        - fixed several recently introduced bugs in LDAP backend code,
786          thanks to Matt Hyclak.
787         
788    - 1.21alpha15 :
789     
790        - Normalized field names between LDAP and PostgreSQL backends
791          in dumpykota's output.
792         
793        - dumpykota filtering capabilities are now supported within
794          the LDAP backend too.
795         
796    - 1.21alpha14 :
797   
798        - dumpykota now supports extended filtering possibilities
799          with the PostgreSQL backend (LDAP support will come soon).
800         
801    - 1.21alpha13 :
802   
803        - Added a --debug command line option to pkpgcounter, so
804          that people may see what really happens, and what will
805          be available in the future :-)
806         
807    - 1.21alpha12 :
808   
809        - Fixed a bug with non standard pkbanner command lines.
810       
811        - Now logs as errors the differences between precomputed and
812          computed job sizes. **CUPS only for now**
813         
814    - 1.21alpha11 :
815   
816        - Now user and group print quota entries can be stored directly
817          below the user or group with the LDAP backend, using them
818          as branches. Thanks to Stefan Wold for the patch.
819          See the sample configuration file for details.
820         
821        - TLS is now supported with the LDAP backend. Thanks to Stefan
822          Wold for the patch.
823          See the sample configuration file for details.
824         
825        - edpkota now accepts the -U | --used value command line argument
826          to preset the page counters to an initial value. Thanks to
827          Wilson Roberto Afonso and Matt Hyclak for the patch.
828         
829    - 1.21alpha10 :
830   
831        - Now automatically reconnects up to three times if the LDAP server
832          returned an error, possibly due to a timeout.
833         
834    - 1.21alpha9 :
835   
836        - Now searches the configuration files in 'pykota' system user's
837          home directory. The 'pykota' system user and group have
838          to be created by the system administrator, and given
839          sufficient permissions to PyKota's configuration files.
840         
841    - 1.21alpha8 :
842   
843        - Added the new reject_unknown directive to reject the
844          creation of user or groups which are unknown to the system.
845         
846    - 1.21alpha7 :
847   
848        - Introduction of the pkmail email gateway.
849       
850    - 1.21alpha6 :
851   
852        - Fix for LPRng filenames.
853       
854        - Added Turkish translation thanks to Baris Cicek.
855       
856    - 1.21alpha5 :
857   
858        - Improved ESC/P2 miniparser for Stylus Photo printers.
859       
860        - Implemented the --savetoner command line option to pkbanner.
861       
862        - Improved pkbanner's help and messages.
863       
864    - 1.21alpha4 :
865   
866        - Fixed job's data file detection code for LPRng.
867       
868        - Fixed a problem with PJL and PowerSave mode,
869          thanks to Wilson Roberto Afonso.
870       
871    - 1.21alpha3 :
872   
873        - PyKota can now generate its own banners, and either account
874          for them or not, depending on newly introduced directives
875          in pykota.conf
876          Thanks to Matt Hyclak for the patch.
877         
878    - 1.21alpha2 :
879   
880        - Installation script is now non interactive again, as it should
881          have stayed from the beginning. Dependencies checking can
882          be done by launching the checkdeps.py command.
883         
884    - 1.21alpha1 :
885   
886        - added an IPP messages miniparser. Extraction of the client
887          hostname is now considered to be fiable, at least until
888          the CUPS developpers change something...
889       
890    - 1.20 :
891   
892        - Version number changed.
893       
894    - 1.20beta :
895   
896        - Norwegian (Bokm� preliminary translation added.
897       
898        - German translation was finalized.
899       
900        - Greek translation was finalized.
901       
902        - For urgent legal reasons, a "privacy" directive has been added
903          to pykota.conf, to hide jobs' title, filename and options
904          in the history.
905         
906        - Minor changes in the debian directory.
907       
908    - 1.20alpha27 :
909   
910        - Fixed many problems with translation files. In particular
911          the Brazilian Portuguese translation file was incorrectly
912          installed into the french "breton" locale directory.
913         
914        - Finished French translation. 
915         
916    - 1.20alpha26 :
917   
918        - LPRng support code should now better detect network
919          printers' hostnames or IP addresses.
920         
921        - Fix for recently introduced bug in LPRng support.
922       
923        - Fix for incorrect locale setting when starting.
924       
925    - 1.20alpha25 :
926   
927        - pkprinters allows --list to normal users, but require user
928          to be a PyKota administrator when another command line
929          option is used.
930         
931        - pkhint doesn't use absolute path to search for helper commands
932          anymore.
933         
934        - Spanish translation ready for 1.20.   
935       
936    - 1.20alpha24 :
937   
938        - Now warnpykota only warns users limited by balance once.
939       
940        - Now warnpykota only warns users who have ever printed,
941          to not cause confusion to users who have just opened
942          their account.
943       
944        - Prepared help messages for translations.
945       
946    - 1.20alpha23 :
947   
948        - Add workaround for locale problem.
949       
950    - 1.20alpha22 :
951   
952        - Hopefully final fix for data encoding charset.
953       
954        - edpykota now refuse to work if the user is not a PyKota admin.
955       
956        - Fixes a recently introduced bug with users groups and PostgreSQL.
957       
958    - 1.20alpha21 :
959   
960        - Now dumpykota refuses to launch if the current user is not
961          a PyKota administrator (a PyKota administrator is an user
962          allowed to read the pykotadmin.conf file).
963         
964        - Now any PyKota administrator can use repykota and warnpykota
965          with additionnal arguments, not only the root user.
966         
967        - Improved documentation a bit.
968       
969    - 1.20alpha20 :
970   
971        - Reduced delay in internal SNMP and PJL_over_TCP handlers
972          from 2 to 1 second.
973       
974        - dumpykota can now output XML.
975       
976    - 1.20alpha19 :
977   
978        - Improved user groups and user groups quotas dumps in dumpykota.
979       
980        - Finished implementation of LDAP support in dumpykota.
981       
982        - The md5 sum of the job's datas is now available as an
983          hexadecimal digest in the PYKOTAMD5SUM environment variable.
984         
985        - The description, filename, title, and options fields
986          are now stored as UTF-8 strings in both LDAP and PostgreSQL.
987          Proper charset is used during extraction from the database.
988         
989    - 1.20alpha18 :
990   
991        - Experimental autopykota command to initialize user
992          account and quota entries on first print while not
993          resetting the balance value if not needed.
994         
995        - Added the new "winbind_separator" directive to strip
996          out the Samba/Winbind domain name while printing if
997          needed (Off by default).
998         
999    - 1.20alpha17 :
1000   
1001        - Added --hardreset command line option to edpykota.
1002       
1003        - Fixed problem with accented chars in title, filename
1004          or options and LDAP backend.
1005         
1006    - 1.20alpha16 :
1007   
1008        - Internal handling of socket based PJL queries over
1009          port tcp/9100 is now available with the magic
1010          'pjl' value in the hardware accounter.
1011         
1012    - 1.20alpha15 :
1013   
1014        - LDAP pykotaAccountBalance objects were always created
1015          attached to the pykotaUser objects. This is now
1016          fixed and the value of balancebase in pykota.conf
1017          is now correctly used.
1018         
1019    - 1.20alpha14 :
1020   
1021        - Belgian translations added (copy of the french ones).
1022       
1023        - External hardware accounter now loops until
1024          a result can be read correctly.
1025         
1026        - pkhint now suggest the internal snmp handling instead
1027          of the external one.
1028         
1029    - 1.20alpha13 :
1030     
1031        - Hardware accounter now accepts the special
1032          'snmp' value, meaning ALL is done from main code
1033          without launching any subprocess.
1034          You need the http://pysnmp.sf.net Python module
1035          for this to work (tested with v3.4.2)
1036         
1037        - Increased delay between two loops iterations 
1038          to 2 seconds in waitprinter.sh to diminish
1039          CPU load.
1040         
1041    - 1.20alpha12 :
1042   
1043        - waitprinter.sh rewritten from scratch to wait
1044          for printer status stabilization.
1045       
1046    - 1.20alpha11 :
1047   
1048        - Generic data dumper 'dumpykota' introduced.
1049          Works only with PostgreSQL backend for now.
1050         
1051    - 1.20alpha10 :
1052   
1053        - Added fix for incorrect job's size computation when
1054          hardware accounting fails.
1055         
1056    - 1.20alpha9 :
1057   
1058        - Small fixes wrt subprocesses.
1059       
1060    - 1.20alpha8 :
1061   
1062        - Added full support of PCL3 : HP Deskjet printers are now
1063          supported.
1064       
1065    - 1.20alpha7 :
1066   
1067        - First draft of PCL3GUI (Deskjet 640C for example) analyzer.
1068          Needs more work, but no documentation is available.
1069       
1070    - 1.20alpha6 :
1071     
1072        - Improved mailandpopup.sh script.
1073       
1074        - Small fixes for LPRng.
1075       
1076        - Now exports PYKOTAPRINTERHOSTNAME for network printers'
1077          hostname or IP address. Set to 'localhost' when not
1078          meaningful.
1079         
1080        - Fixed issue with how mod_auth_ldap Apache modules
1081          fills the REMOTE_USER environment variable.
1082         
1083        - Fixed a bug in LDAP user deletion code.
1084       
1085    - 1.20alpha5 :
1086     
1087        - Introduces the new configuration directive 'onaccountererror'
1088          to specify what must be done whenever the software or
1089          hardware accounter fails. Allowed values are 'continue' and
1090          'stop' (default).
1091         
1092        - Minor fix in software accounter for a recently introduced
1093          problem.
1094         
1095    - 1.20alpha4 :
1096   
1097        - Added support for more ghostscript devices in ESC/P2
1098          analyzer : stcolor, st800, escp, escpc are now supported.
1099         
1100    - 1.20alpha3 :
1101       
1102        - Small improvement in PostScript parser to avoid being
1103          fooled by a change in number of copies :
1104          The user can't ask for 200 copies of page 1 and 1 copy
1105          of page 2 to fool PyKota anymore :
1106          this would have been accounted for as 1 copy only, but
1107          now the maximum value seen is used.
1108         
1109        - Relax checks for PCL5 header to accomodate some strange
1110          printer drivers.
1111         
1112        - Now hardware accounting method works like software
1113          accounting method wrt the subprocess' output.
1114         
1115        - Hardware and Software accounting stop the print queue 
1116          when the accounting subprocess didn't work. This will
1117          be configurable in the near future.
1118         
1119    - 1.20alpha2 :
1120   
1121        - Now software accounting method reads accounter's
1122          answer until a line with a single integer is
1123          obtained or until all of its output has been read.
1124          This should fix the problem some people have
1125          when strange locale related messages are sent
1126          when running subprocesses (Solaris only ?).
1127         
1128        - First version of ESC/P2 analyzer. Seems to work
1129          ok at least with 'epson', 'epsonc', 'eps9mid'
1130          and 'esp9high' ghostscript devices. Needs more
1131          work to correctly analyze other devices.
1132       
1133    - 1.20alpha1 :
1134   
1135        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCLXL parser.
1136       
1137        - Fixed problem with number of copies in PCL5 parser,
1138          when number of copies was set outside of and before first
1139          page.
1140       
1141        - Added workaround for number of copies directly set in
1142          PostScript code.
1143         
1144        - Added german translation.
1145       
1146        - Fixed problem on first print for user group quota when
1147          "enforcement: strict" is used.
1148       
1149        - Fixed interpolation problem in french translation.
1150       
1151    - 1.19 :
1152   
1153        - Updated existing translations.   
1154       
1155        - Added final Thai and Greek translations.
1156       
1157        - Minor last minute bug fixes.
1158       
1159    - 1.19beta :
1160   
1161        - LPRng support for both software and hardware accounting seems
1162          to be OK.
1163         
1164        - Translation files fixed because of fuzzy matching problem. 
1165       
1166        - Fixed path to Swedish translation: 'sv' instead of 'se'.
1167       
1168        - Added first draft of Thai translation.
1169       
1170        - Fixed some minor bugs with Pychecker.
1171       
1172    - 1.19alpha35 :
1173   
1174        - Generic PDL analyzer now supports Binary PostScript documents
1175          in addition to DSC compliant ones.
1176       
1177    - 1.19alpha34 :
1178   
1179        - LPRng support : software accounting seems to work fine,
1180          but hardware accounting doesn't work yet.
1181   
1182    - 1.19alpha33 :
1183   
1184        - pykosd now accepts command line arguments. Enjoy !
1185          NB : due to a bug in xosd, you need xosd version 2.2.8
1186          or higher if you don't use the default C locale.
1187         
1188    - 1.19alpha32 :
1189   
1190        - Early (not working) version of the LPRng support rewrite.
1191       
1192        - Saner default configuration file.
1193       
1194    - 1.19alpha31 :
1195   
1196        - Fixed a double Python2.1 incompatibility with newer versions,
1197          which prevented the PCL5 and the PCLXL parsers to work with
1198          this older version of Python.
1199         
1200    - 1.19alpha30 :
1201   
1202        - Introduction of preliminary version of the pykosd command
1203       
1204        - Usernames, Groupnames and Printernames can now contain
1205          ANY character, expected '/' and '@'.
1206       
1207        - Integrated most of the Debian work from Sergio
1208          Gonz�z Gonz�z
1209         
1210    - 1.19alpha29 :
1211   
1212        - PCLXL parser should now correctly handle number of
1213          copies set for each page.
1214         
1215        - Added testsuite for generic PDL analyzer.
1216       
1217        - Typo fixed in PCLXL parser.
1218       
1219        - Correctly dispatches error messages depending on the
1220          situation : tools which can be run interactively will
1221          ALWAYS output their logs to stderr, excepted for
1222          their DEBUG messages, for which the "logger:"
1223          directive as set in pykota.conf will be honored.
1224          Tools which can't be run interactively will ALWAYS
1225          honor the "logger:" directive as set in pykota.conf
1226         
1227    - 1.19alpha28 :
1228   
1229        - The description field for printers can now be set,
1230          and is displayed in reports.
1231         
1232        - Fixed a small problem in SQL backend code.
1233         
1234        - Improved pkhint
1235       
1236        - First working PCL6 (aka PCLXL) parser !
1237          Doesn't handle copies yet.
1238       
1239    - 1.19alpha27 :
1240   
1241        - Additionnal 10% speed increase in PCL5 parser for GhostScript
1242          generated files (untested yet with other PCL files).
1243         
1244        - Reintroduced the use of mmap in PCL5 parser : this speedups
1245          PCL5 parsing by almost 4 times.
1246          This 4x with the 3x below give us in fact a twelvefold increase
1247          in performance for PCL5 parsing !
1248         
1249        - The Python accelerator Psyco is now used if available
1250          in the generic PDL parser : it speedups PCL5 parsing by
1251          almost three times automagically.
1252         
1253    - 1.19alpha26 :
1254   
1255        - Fixed PCL5 parser according to the sources of rastertohp.
1256       
1257        - Fixed number of copies handling in PCL5 parser : the number
1258          of copies could vary from page to page.
1259         
1260        - Added more debug information to PCLXL parser. 
1261       
1262    - 1.19alpha25 :
1263   
1264        - Added new "description" field to printers in both
1265          PostgreSQL and LDAP. No code to handle this yet.
1266         
1267        - Reversed the fix for power save mode in printers : 
1268          no paper or tray open would have caused people to
1269          be undercharged.
1270         
1271        - Preliminary version of MySQL initialization script.
1272         
1273    - 1.19alpha24 :
1274   
1275        - Native PDF parsing code now works perfectly with
1276          Python 2.1 and above, and is way faster than before.
1277          GhostScript is not used anymore to convert PDF to PS,
1278          because PDF is parsed directly.
1279         
1280    - 1.19alpha23 :
1281   
1282        - Fixed waitprinter.sh wrt PowerSave mode and some
1283          printers. Thanks to Ryan Suarez.
1284       
1285        - Smart PDL analyzer now recognizes PDF too : two
1286          PDF parsing methods are used : a native one which
1287          is very fast but requires Python 2.3 or above, and
1288          a slower one which uses Ghostscript. PyKota detects
1289          automatically which method to use depending on your
1290          version of Python.
1291       
1292        - All tracebacks now include PyKota's version number.
1293         
1294    - 1.19alpha22 :
1295   
1296        - Ensures that the file pointer for job's data is
1297          reset to the start of the job's datas after the
1298          job's size pre-computation phase.
1299         
1300        - Improved PostScript detection code for bad drivers
1301          which don't correctly switch languages between PJL
1302          and PS.
1303       
1304        - Even better debugging code.
1305       
1306    - 1.19alpha21 :
1307   
1308        - Additionnal check.
1309       
1310    - 1.19alpha20 :
1311   
1312        - More complete logging messages wrt accounters.
1313       
1314        - Now catches early failures occuring when the configuration
1315          files are parsed.
1316       
1317    - 1.19alpha19 :
1318   
1319        - Fixed over-verbose exits when displaying help
1320          or version.
1321         
1322        - Extended some PATH in the shell scripts 
1323       
1324        - Deleting an user now also deletes his payments history.
1325       
1326        - Doesn't explicitely ignore SIGCHLD anymore. This seems to
1327          cause problems.
1328
1329    - 1.19alpha18 :
1330   
1331        - History of payments is now stored in the database, and
1332          updated each time an user's balance is modified with
1333          edpykota --balance. This history represents each time
1334          the user was given some positive or negative credit,
1335          but doesn't reflect price paid for jobs, which appear
1336          in the jobs history instead.
1337         
1338        - Jobs history web reports now include the job's size in
1339          bytes. Also columns were reordered to render the report
1340          more easily readable.
1341         
1342    - 1.19alpha17 :
1343   
1344        - Mysterious bug (program exited unexpectedly without leaving
1345          any log message) which occured once in a while when
1346          cancelling jobs should be fixed now.
1347         
1348        - New 'crashrecipient' directive. Disabled by 
1349          default. See sample configuration file to see how
1350          to activate it. It is suggested that you activate it.
1351         
1352        - New PYKOTAJOBSIZEBYTES environment variable exported, 
1353          which contains the job's size in bytes. Empty jobs
1354          are now denied. This value is now stored in the job
1355          history (but not yet displayed from the web interface)
1356         
1357        - Preliminary work on payments storage : the PostgreSQL 
1358          and LDAP schemas should be OK now, but no code is written
1359          yet to support this functionnality.
1360         
1361    - 1.19alpha16 :
1362   
1363        - the newuser and newgroup LDAP specific directives now accept
1364          a second parameter to attach(), "fail" or "warn". If no entry
1365          is found to attach PyKota attributes to, and "fail" was used,
1366          then action is aborted and program exits in error. If "warn"
1367          is used, a new entry is created but a warning message is logged.
1368         
1369        - The job's originating hostname is now stored in the database,
1370          and exported as PYKOTAJOBORIGINATINGHOSTNAME in the environment.
1371       
1372    - 1.19alpha15 :
1373   
1374        - The old pykota filter is now removed. This means that
1375          currently PyKota doesn't support LPRng anymore, but
1376          LPRng support will be re-added, improved, in the near future.
1377         
1378    - 1.19alpha14 :
1379   
1380        - PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBSIZE and PYKOTAPRECOMPUTEDJOBPRICE
1381          are now exported as environment variables.
1382         
1383        - Heavy CPU usage is now completely fixed it seems, by
1384          introducing some 0.01 second sleeping when nothing to do.
1385         
1386        - Pre-computation of the job's size is now only
1387          done when enforcement is "STRICT", this saves
1388          CPU for people who don't want to use this new
1389          feature.
1390         
1391        - New 'enforcement' directive which accepts either
1392          STRICT or LAXIST. See sample configuration file
1393          for details.
1394         
1395    - 1.19alpha13 :
1396   
1397        - Get back to an old version of the polling loop which
1398          worked fine, but non-optimally. Will be optimized
1399          as time permits.
1400         
1401    - 1.19alpha12 :
1402   
1403        - Job's size is now precomputed unconditionnally using
1404          the generic PDL analyzer.
1405          NB : This value is not yet used to pre-allow/deny the
1406          job.
1407       
1408    - 1.19alpha11 :
1409   
1410        - The pykota filter is now completely deprecated and
1411          can't be used anymore. LPRng users MUST download
1412          an older version of PyKota. CUPS users MUST use
1413          cupspykota. Better support for LPRng will come
1414          in the near future.
1415         
1416    - 1.19alpha10 :
1417   
1418        - pykotme now uses generic PDL Analyzer directly instead
1419          of spawning a new process.
1420         
1421        - Improvements to generic PDL Analyzer.
1422       
1423        - 25% Speedup in PCL parser. Getting more of the Python version
1424          will probably be difficult, since the completely table driven
1425          parser I wrote is slower than the original algorithm. Then,
1426          the original algorithm is still used for now.
1427          Probable that more speed could be achieved using mmap, at the
1428          expense of severe memory consumption.
1429       
1430        - configuration simplifications : the "accounter" directive's
1431          'hardware' arguments now accepts what was in the "requester"
1432          directive as it's content. The "requester" directive is not
1433          supported anymore. See sample configuration file for details.
1434       
1435    - 1.19alpha9 :
1436       
1437        - pkpgcounter is now just a wrapper around the PDLAnalyzer class
1438       
1439        - pykotaOptions LDAP attribute now accepts non-ascii characters
1440          too.
1441         
1442        - First try at cupspykota main loop rewrite
1443       
1444    - 1.19alpha8 :
1445   
1446        - 'querying' accounting method is now called 'hardware'
1447       
1448        - 'external' accounting method is now called 'software'
1449       
1450        - 'stupid' accounting method doesn't exist anymore
1451       
1452        - 'snmp' requester doesn't exist anymore
1453       
1454        - code simplifications in external requester
1455       
1456    - 1.19alpha7 :
1457     
1458        - Database schema change (both LDAP and PostgreSQL) to
1459          allow storage of the job-originating-hostname attribute.
1460          An SQL upgrade script is present. The code is not yet
1461          capable of setting/retrieving this attribute. Support
1462          for this functionnality will be added in the future.
1463         
1464    - 1.19alpha6 :
1465   
1466        - problems connecting to SMTP servers are now catched.
1467       
1468        - pykotme now uses pkpgcounter to compute the size of the
1469          job. This modification adds PCL5 and soon PCLXL (PCL6)
1470          support. You can now get quotes for PCL in addition to
1471          PostScript.
1472         
1473        - pkpgcounter now includes first try at PCLXL parser. 
1474          It is currently disabled until it's finished.
1475         
1476    - 1.19alpha5 :
1477   
1478        - cupspykota polling loop fix for MacOSX (at least)
1479       
1480        - logging subsystem now logs PID too, to ease diagnosing
1481          problems under heavy load.
1482         
1483        - pkpgcounter enhancements.
1484       
1485        - pkprinters --skipexisting now tells pkprinters to not
1486          modify existing printers when --add is used.
1487          pkprinters logs a warning message whenever --add is
1488          used and a printer already exists.
1489         
1490        - LDAP schema now allows accented chars in pykotaFileName
1491          and pykotaTitle attributes.
1492       
1493    - 1.19alpha4 :
1494   
1495        - a bad copy&paste prevented pkpgcounter to work at all, this
1496          is now fixed.
1497         
1498        - improved PCL support in pkpgcounter, with the use of
1499          HP PCL/PJL Reference Set
1500          PCL5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference Guide
1501       
1502        - pkpgcounter now uses mmap to speed things up : duration
1503          is halved with the sample 87 pages PCL document I use for
1504          testing.
1505         
1506    - 1.19alpha3 :
1507   
1508        - pkprinters now accepts the --list command line argument
1509          to list informations about printers.
1510         
1511    - 1.19alpha2 :
1512   
1513        - pkpgcounter is now included as a smart external
1514          accounter which can handle both PostScript and PCL.
1515         
1516    - 1.19alpha1 :
1517   
1518        - PYKOTALIMITBY environment variable is now exported too.
1519       
1520        - Inclusion of Michele Baldessari's work on autotools.
1521       
1522    - 1.18 :
1523   
1524        - Improved documentation
1525       
1526    - 1.18beta2 :
1527     
1528        - Fix for raw jobs with cupspykota
1529       
1530    - 1.18beta :
1531   
1532        - Small fix for new waitprinter.sh script
1533       
1534        - Better tracebacks on error conditions
1535       
1536        - Improved translations
1537       
1538        - Improved documentation
1539       
1540    - 1.18alpha15 :
1541
1542        - waitprinter.sh replaced by a new and possibly faster
1543          and more powerful one.
1544   
1545        - Names can now begin with a digit.
1546       
1547        - Stability improvement for quotas set on printers groups.
1548       
1549    - 1.18alpha14 :
1550   
1551        - Catches more (all ?) problems with SMTP servers instead
1552          of breaking.
1553         
1554        - Italian translation added.
1555       
1556    - 1.18alpha13 :
1557   
1558        - Pre and Post hooks are now available in the pykota
1559          filter as well.
1560         
1561        - The pykota filter doesn't check last user's quota
1562          anymore when delayed hardware accounting is used :
1563          this will be done anyway the next time the last
1564          user will print again. This saves some database
1565          queries which are unneeded.
1566       
1567    - 1.18alpha12 :
1568   
1569        - Pre and Post hooks to external commands with many
1570          many environment variables available are useable
1571          from the cupspykota backend.
1572          See sample configuration file for details and help.
1573         
1574    - 1.18alpha11 :
1575   
1576        - Hopefully final fix wrt groups (users and printers)
1577       
1578    - 1.18alpha10 :
1579   
1580        - Fixed nested printer groups accounting.
1581       
1582        - Fixed user groups + printer groups problem.
1583       
1584    - 1.18alpha9 :
1585   
1586        - Fix for LDAP problem when job price was 0.
1587       
1588        - Fix for empty user groups with LDAP.
1589       
1590        - Preliminary version of the snmpprinterstatus command added.
1591       
1592    - 1.18alpha8 :
1593   
1594        - Don't retrieve data when not needed.
1595          This avoids many database queries.
1596       
1597    - 1.18alpha7 :
1598   
1599        - New experimental ldapcache directive to improve
1600          LDAP caching.
1601         
1602    - 1.18alpha6 :
1603       
1604        - New configuration directive added : maildomain
1605          to specify the domain to send mail to when user
1606          email address is not set in PyKota database.
1607         
1608        - More complete email message headers. 
1609         
1610    - 1.18alpha5 :
1611   
1612        - Debian packaging specific files, contributed by
1613          Peter Hawkins are now included in the project's tree.
1614         
1615        - Preliminary work on future low-level LDAP caching to speed
1616          up modifications (at least).
1617         
1618    - 1.18alpha4 :
1619   
1620        - Applied some of the modifications suggested by
1621          Peter Hawkins, for better Debian integration.
1622          Most notably cupspykota, pykota, and the shell
1623          scripts are now installed into /usr/share/pykota
1624          instead of into /usr/bin
1625          BEWARE : double check that your symbolic link
1626          to cupspykota is correct, and that your pykota.conf
1627          file use correct path for the shell scripts like
1628          waitprinter.sh and al.
1629         
1630        - pkhint command added, to help in configuring correct
1631          accounting method for PyKota.
1632         
1633    - 1.18alpha3 :
1634   
1635        - Fixed a rare bug in cupspykota backend which gave
1636          incorrect "CUPS backend died abnormally" messages.
1637       
1638    - 1.18alpha2 :
1639   
1640        - Added the pkprinters command line tool to manage printers
1641          exclusively.
1642       
1643    - 1.18alpha1 :
1644   
1645        - Preliminary work on Relationnal Database Independance.
1646       
1647        - Sample report made from OpenOffice.org added as PDF and SXC.
1648       
1649    - 1.17 :
1650   
1651        - Finalized release.
1652       
1653    - 1.17alpha2 :
1654   
1655        - Fix stupid software accounting bug in the CUPS backend.
1656       
1657    - 1.17alpha1 :
1658   
1659        - User/Group deletion code in edpykota rewritten.
1660       
1661    - 1.16 :
1662   
1663        - Preliminary documentation on how to use OpenOffice.org
1664          to create personnalized reports for PyKota + PostgreSQL.
1665         
1666        - Spanish installation guide for CUPS+PyKota+PostgreSQL
1667          added to the documentation. Doesn't yet document v1.16
1668          though.
1669       
1670        - Portuguese Portuguese translation replaces Brazilian
1671          Portuguese Translation. Brazilian portuguese
1672          translation is still available under the 'br' locale.
1673       
1674    - 1.16beta3 :
1675   
1676        - Swedish translation added.
1677       
1678        - Small fix in documentation.
1679       
1680    - 1.16beta2 :
1681   
1682        - Small fix for job cancelling code while job already
1683          printing in CUPS backend.
1684         
1685        - Big fix wrt printing policies for unknown users. 
1686       
1687    - 1.16beta1 :
1688   
1689        - Manpages upgraded.
1690       
1691    - 1.16alpha26 :
1692   
1693        - Job price is now computed like this :
1694       
1695          SUM((NbPages * PricePerPage) + PricePerJob)
1696         
1697          For current printer and all the printers groups it is
1698          a member of, if any.
1699         
1700          This may be difficult to grasp, but offers unprecedented
1701          flexibility.
1702         
1703    - 1.16alpha25 :
1704   
1705        - Email address can be set at user creation time,
1706          using the following syntax :
1707         
1708            $ edpykota --add username/email@yourdomain.com
1709       
1710    - 1.16alpha24 :
1711   
1712        - CGI script now can show the printing history.
1713       
1714        - Bug wrt number of copies should be fixed.
1715       
1716        - Major code refactoring => It is now possible to
1717          automatically add printers on first print.
1718       
1719    - 1.16alpha23 :
1720   
1721        - Fixed potential accuracy problem if a user printed on
1722          several printers at the very same time.
1723       
1724    - 1.16alpha22 :
1725   
1726        - edpykota now allows adding printers to printer groups
1727       
1728    - 1.16alpha21 :
1729   
1730        - Allows the dot in user and printer names.
1731       
1732        - Printer groups are now cached too.
1733       
1734    - 1.16alpha20 :
1735   
1736        - Fixed several small bugs with the help of PyChecker.
1737       
1738    - 1.16alpha19 :
1739     
1740        - Fixed a bug in PostgreSQL backend's code.
1741       
1742    - 1.16alpha18 :
1743   
1744        - Initial code for printer groups support. Printer groups have
1745          to be added with external tools like psql or gq for example.
1746          Printer groups seems to work fine with users. Untested with user
1747          groups for now.
1748
1749        - Several minor visual problems fixed in reports.
1750       
1751        - Fixed a bug in LDAP date handling.
1752       
1753        - Fix for LDAP problem with some combination of OpenLDAP + Python-LDAP
1754          + some particular settings.
1755         
1756        - mailandpopup.sh shell script added. See sample configuration file
1757          for details.
1758       
1759        - Several environment variables are now exported when executing
1760          external commands (accounters, requesters, mailers) :
1761           
1762            PYKOTAUSERNAME => user who is printing
1763            PYKOTAPRINTERNAME => printer on which the job is being sent
1764            PYKOTATITLE => Job's title
1765            PYKOTAFILENAME => Job's filename
1766            PYKOTACOPIES => number of copies asked
1767            PYKOTAOPTIONS => print command options (-o with CUPS)
1768         
1769    - 1.16alpha17 :
1770   
1771        - Added portugues translation.
1772       
1773        - Major code refactoring in accounters.
1774       
1775    - 1.16alpha16 :
1776   
1777        - Code refactoring, and addition of a real HTML reporter, to
1778          have nice looking and useful web based reports (in the future).
1779       
1780        - Added utolower configuration option to convert all usernames
1781          to lowercase during printing.
1782         
1783    - 1.15alpha15 :
1784   
1785        - Now includes the papwaitprinter.sh shell script to wait for
1786          AppleTalk enabled printers.
1787         
1788    - 1.16alpha14 :
1789   
1790        - Now printing on a printer not defined in the Quota Storage,
1791          results in the job being cancelled or stopped, depending
1792          on the printing system.
1793         
1794    - 1.16alpha13 :
1795   
1796        - Small bugfix wrt Python v2.1
1797       
1798        - If username is an empty string, user root is assumed.
1799       
1800        - 'postgresql' is not recognized anymore as a storage backend,
1801          you have to use 'pgstorage' instead. 'postgresql' used to
1802          be supported for compatibility with very old PyKota versions,
1803          this is not the case anymore.
1804         
1805    - 1.16alpha12 :
1806   
1807        - Job price added to job history, to keep accounting correct
1808          if a printer price per page or per job is modified and the
1809          history is not reset : the history would have given a false
1810          amount of money charged before the printer's prices were
1811          modified, this addition solves the problem.
1812         
1813    - 1.16alpha11 :
1814   
1815        - Some preliminary modifications to the database structure for
1816          PostgreSQL and OpenLDAP. A script to upgrade a PostgreSQL
1817          database is now provided. LDAP attributes now support
1818          eq, pres and sub indexes.
1819         
1820        - Job history now contains additional informations : 
1821          number of copies, filename, title and print options.
1822         
1823    - 1.16alpha10 :
1824       
1825        - Some modifications done to external policy handling.
1826          See sample configuration file for details.
1827   
1828        - Spanish translation added.
1829       
1830    - 1.16alpha9 :
1831   
1832        - mailto can be set to external(...) to warn users above
1833          quota with any command of your choice (e.g. linpopup).
1834          Several parameters are available, see sample configuration
1835          file for details.
1836         
1837    - 1.16alpha8 :
1838   
1839        - Now cupspykota transmits SIGTERMS to the original 
1840          backend when the user deletes a job being processed.
1841         
1842        - The documentation is now licensed under the terms of the
1843          GNU GPL too.
1844         
1845    - 1.16alpha7 :
1846   
1847        - The CUPS backend is now fully functionnal (it seems).
1848       
1849        - From now on, the use of the pykota filter with CUPS
1850          is deprecated. The pykota filter still has to be
1851          used with LPRng though.
1852       
1853    - 1.16alpha6 :
1854   
1855        - Bug fixed : when edpykota was used to add a printer
1856          with no user or group name, a bad user/group name "*" was
1857          added to the database.
1858         
1859    - 1.16alpha5 :
1860   
1861        - New CUPS backend supports device enumeration !
1862          This means that NO manual CUPS configuration has to
1863          be done. All can now be done from CUPS web interface.
1864       
1865    - 1.16alpha4 :
1866   
1867        - New CUPS backend added.
1868       
1869    - 1.16alpha3 :
1870       
1871        - Minimal FAQ document added.
1872       
1873    - 1.16alpha2 :
1874   
1875        - CGI script now partially supports browser's language preference
1876       
1877    - 1.16alpha1 :
1878   
1879        - Ensures that the LDAP connection is really closed at end.
1880       
1881        - More complete error messages in case of LDAP operation failure.
1882       
1883    - 1.15 :
1884     
1885        - Documentation improved.
1886       
1887    - 1.15beta :
1888   
1889        - Command line tools now accept multiple printer
1890          names or wildcards, separated with commas.
1891         
1892    - 1.15alpha9 :
1893   
1894        - External policy can be used to auto-add unknown users
1895          and any other interesting things you may want to do.
1896          WARNING : You can't auto-add printers for now.
1897          They have to be created manually before.
1898          Look at sample configuration file for examples.
1899         
1900    - 1.15alpha8 :
1901   
1902        - Job history can be disabled if needed.
1903          This feature may be useful for people who use the LDAP
1904          backend and don't want their LDAP tree to grow out of
1905          control.
1906       
1907    - 1.15alpha7 :
1908   
1909        - More work done on caching wrt groups.
1910       
1911    - 1.15alpha6 :
1912   
1913        - Performance bottleneck with LDAP solved.
1914       
1915    - 1.15alpha5 :
1916   
1917        - Caching mechanism for all database queries.
1918
1919    - 1.15alpha4 :
1920   
1921        - Problem with Python 2.3 fixed. Needs some definitive
1922          modification.
1923         
1924    - 1.15alpha3 :
1925   
1926        - CGI script now tries to restrict view when the
1927          REMOTE_USER environment variable is set. This allows
1928          people to protect its use with .htaccess files.
1929          When unprotected, or if REMOTE_USER is 'root', then
1930          unrestricted access is granted.
1931          NB : REMOTE_USER is automatically set by the web server
1932          (e.g. Apache) when a page with restricted access is viewed.
1933         
1934    - 1.15alpha2 :
1935   
1936        - Better detection of LPRng.
1937       
1938        - Outputs a warning if printing system is unknown.
1939       
1940    - 1.15alpha1 :
1941   
1942        - Bug fix in SQL code.
1943       
1944    - 1.14 :
1945   
1946        - The PostgreSQL database connection is now always closed before
1947          exit. The LDAP database connection too, but it didn't suffer
1948          from the problem anyway, AFAICT.
1949       
1950    - 1.14beta2 :
1951   
1952        - An LDAP-specific configuration field was introduced, usermail.
1953          Use it to specify which LDAP attribute contains a valid email
1954          address for the user. See sample configuration file for
1955          details.
1956       
1957    - 1.14beta :
1958   
1959        - Two new LDAP-specific configuration fields were introduced,
1960          newuser and newgroup. Use them to specify if you want to add
1961          quota information to existing entries or elsewhere.
1962          See sample configuration file for details.
1963         
1964    - 1.14alpha9 :
1965   
1966        - Documentation improved.
1967       
1968        - pykotme now also prints the user's account balance value
1969          if the user is registered in the Quota Storage and his
1970          limiting factor is "balance".
1971         
1972    - 1.14alpha8 :
1973   
1974        - bin/waitprinter.sh is now included to wait for
1975          SNMP enabled printers to be idle again before
1976          asking for their internal page counter.
1977          See sample configuration file for details.
1978         
1979    - 1.14alpha7 :
1980   
1981        - edpykota now doesn't check if the user/group is above
1982          quota. The check is only done at print time. This
1983          prevents the sending of email messages when creating
1984          user quotas if quota is already reached at creation
1985          time.
1986         
1987    - 1.14alpha6 :
1988   
1989        - Configuration file split and moved to /etc/pykota/pykota.conf
1990          and /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf to prevent simple users to
1991          have Read/Write access to the Quota Database.
1992          Don't forget to :
1993         
1994                $ chmod 640 /etc/pykota/pykotadmin.conf
1995               
1996        - storageuser and storageuserpw configuration fields reintroduced
1997          for the same reason.
1998         
1999        - Code cleaning for future implementation of email addresses
2000          support in the PostgreSQL and LDAP backends.
2001         
2002    - 1.14alpha5 :
2003       
2004        - Big bug fixed when changing the prices for a printer
2005       
2006    - 1.14alpha4 :
2007   
2008        - When adding an user, the user itself and its account balance
2009          are now added in the same LDAP entry. Before they were added
2010          as two different LDAP entries.
2011         
2012    - 1.14alpha3 :
2013   
2014        - Email field added to PostgreSQL database. An upgrade script
2015          is included in initscripts/postgresql.
2016       
2017    - 1.14alpha2 :
2018   
2019        - Typo fixed when using the --prototype option to edpykota
2020       
2021    - 1.14alpha1 :
2022   
2023        - Poor man's treshold included : users with a low account
2024          balance (below 1.0 by default, configurable) are sent
2025          a warning message.
2026         
2027        - All warning messages to users are now configurable. 
2028          NB : Warning messages to the administrator are not.
2029       
2030    - 1.13 :
2031   
2032        - Some small fixes wrt group handling.
2033       
2034        - The whole module code was passed through PyChecker and
2035          several small code inconsistencies were fixed,
2036          as well as a bug in the groups code.
2037         
2038    - 1.13alpha1 :
2039   
2040        - Bug fix wrt LDAP.
2041       
2042    - 1.12 :
2043   
2044        - More complete test added in edpykota.
2045       
2046    - 1.12alpha2 :
2047   
2048        - The previous bug fix was incomplete. This is corrected.
2049       
2050    - 1.12alpha1 :
2051   
2052        - Small bug fix.
2053       
2054    - 1.11 :
2055   
2056        - Now includes the pykotme command line tool, to produce
2057          printing quotes for users.
2058         
2059    - 1.10 :
2060   
2061        - Bug fixed wrt quota reports when print limiting is by
2062          account balance.
2063         
2064    - 1.09 :
2065   
2066        - Translations finalized.
2067       
2068        - Manpages updated.
2069       
2070        - Installation documentation improved wrt LDAP support.
2071       
2072    - 1.09beta2 :
2073   
2074        - The CGI script for quota reports works again, and
2075          is much more powerful.
2076       
2077    - 1.09beta :
2078   
2079        - edpykota finalized
2080       
2081    - 1.09alpha2 :
2082   
2083        - LDAP schema modified a bit. Please upgrade.
2084       
2085        - LDAP backend works !
2086       
2087        - repykota and warnpykota allow the root user to pass
2088          users or groups names on the command line. Users
2089          and groups names may contain wildcards.
2090         
2091        - repykota and warnpykota only reports or warns the
2092          current user when launched by non-root users.
2093         
2094        - Minor bug fixes. 
2095   
2096    - 1.09alpha1 :
2097   
2098        - More work on LDAP storage backend. Many options
2099          were added to /etc/pykota.conf to give some
2100          hints to the LDAP storage backend.
2101         
2102        - Severe database access optimizations were done by
2103          rewriting most of the Quota Storage backends drivers.
2104     
2105    - 1.08 :
2106   
2107        - Major bug fix wrt LPRng support for remote jobs.
2108       
2109        - Major bug fix wrt increase/decrease account balances.
2110       
2111    - 1.08alpha8 :
2112   
2113        - Code refactoring.
2114       
2115        - A single user/password pair is used to connect
2116          to the database backend. The storageuser configuration
2117          field, and its associated passwords storageuserpw, are
2118          not used anymore.
2119         
2120        - You can now set PyKota in debug mode, see sample configuration 
2121          file for details.
2122          WARNING : only Quota Storage backend queries are logged in
2123          debug mode, for now.
2124       
2125    - 1.08alpha7 :
2126   
2127        - Very latest LDAP schema.
2128       
2129        - Code enhancement wrt easy pluggability of PyKota attributes
2130          and object classes into an existing LDAP directory.
2131       
2132    - 1.08alpha6 :
2133   
2134        - Minor bug corrections
2135       
2136        - More work on LDAP : new schema
2137       
2138    - 1.08alpha5 :
2139   
2140        - More good work on LDAP storage.
2141          repykota now works reasonably well with the sample LDAP directory.
2142       
2143    - 1.08alpha4 :
2144   
2145        - LDAP schema included.
2146          THIS IS JUST FOR PEOPLE TO DISCUSS ABOUT THIS.
2147          LDAP SUPPORT DOESN'T WORK YET, AND THE SCHEMA
2148          MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE TELL US
2149          WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS SCHEMA ON THE
2150          MAILING LIST.
2151         
2152    - 1.08alpha3 :
2153   
2154        - External accounting methods were partly rewritten :
2155         
2156          - No more "broken pipe" should happen.
2157         
2158          - They now take care of the number of copies
2159            This may be unneeded though, if the postscript
2160            file already does this, because this would
2161            overcharge users (number of copies counted
2162            two times). NEEDS MORE TESTING.
2163           
2164          - The sample configuration file now contains 
2165            an external accounting method example which should
2166            work with all DSC compliant Postscript files.
2167           
2168        - Some small bugs were fixed.   
2169       
2170    - 1.08alpha2 :
2171   
2172        - Now works with net-snmp v5.0 and above.
2173          It already worked, but the sample configuration
2174          file didn't contain appropriate values...
2175       
2176    - 1.07 : Release of the Shame !
2177   
2178        - The external accounting methods driver was left out of
2179          the CVS tree. Nobody could use it since it wasn't included !
2180         
2181    - 1.06 :
2182   
2183        - Severe bug fixed : if you had a printer in
2184          power saving state which couldn't answer immediately,
2185          a bug was triggered.
2186          It was caused by a bad copy/paste which
2187          forgot to import a Python module at run time.
2188         
2189    - 1.05 :
2190   
2191        - External accounters are finally available !
2192          This means that you can plug any page accounting
2193          method you like by setting the appropriate
2194          'accounter' field in /etc/pykota.conf
2195          See the sample conf/pykota.conf.sample to
2196          learn how to do.
2197         
2198          NB : Both 'external' and 'stupid' accounting methods
2199               account a job size just before *this* job is
2200               sent to the printer.
2201               The original 'querying' method accounts a job
2202               size just before *the next* job is sent to
2203               the printer.
2204       
2205    - 1.05alpha3 :
2206   
2207        - A 'stupid' and unreliable accounting method was
2208          implemented to serve as an example on how to
2209          do this sort of things. This method only counts
2210          the 'showpage' statements in the input data.
2211          See sample configuration file for details.
2212          Pluggable accounting methods work, but I advise
2213          you TO NOT USE THIS ONE WHICH IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
2214          It is not reliable enough to be used.
2215          Use the 'querying' accounting method instead.
2216         
2217    - 1.05alpha2 :
2218   
2219        - Pluggable accounting methods.
2220       
2221        - Better error handling.
2222       
2223    - 1.05alpha1 :
2224   
2225        - SECURITY file added to help improve PyKota's security.
2226       
2227        - Extracting the printer's internal page counter is now
2228          tried several times, waiting several seconds between
2229          two tries. This lets the time to warm up for some printers
2230          which don't answer when they are sleeping (my Apple
2231          LaserWriter 16/600 PS is in this case, maybe others too)
2232         
2233        - Small display bug fixed in repykota
2234         
2235    - 1.04 :
2236   
2237        - Default print policy for users/groups unknown from
2238          the print quota system is now DENY instead of ALLOW,
2239          since ALLOW can generate inaccurate results
2240          (incorrect job sizes charged to the wrong persons)
2241         
2242        - LPRng support works !
2243       
2244        - A bug was introduced some time ago wrt printers' default
2245          policy for unknown users. It is now corrected.
2246       
2247        - repykota now displays prices per job and per page for each
2248          printer, if they are defined.
2249         
2250        - Minor display bug fixed in repykota.
2251       
2252        - Problem when running repykota with an empty database was fixed.
2253       
2254    - 1.03 :
2255   
2256        - Upgrade script included for earlier versions.
2257          Please look inside the initscripts subdirectory.
2258          THE DATABASE SCHEMA HAS CHANGED, PLEASE UPGRADE.
2259         
2260        - repykota now reports account balances too.
2261       
2262        - PyKota now has a nice logo, see the logos
2263          subdirectory.
2264       
2265        - Manual pages were finally updated.
2266       
2267        - Group quotas seem to work now !
2268       
2269        - The new database schema allows to keep an history of all
2270          jobs as well as charge users per page and/or per job,
2271          and track users' account balance.
2272         
2273        - edpykota now accepts much more command line options to 
2274          use the new functionnalities. See edpykota --help for
2275          details.
2276         
2277        - The installation script now allows to install the sample
2278          configuration file during first installation.
2279         
2280        - More group quota code works, but still not finished. 
2281       
2282        - The CGI script displays a link to PyKota's website.
2283       
2284        - The job history is now kept, this will allow per-period
2285          reports in the future.
2286         
2287        - After having modified the quota for an user with edpykota,
2288          a quota check is done to eventually warn the user/admin about
2289          a quota which is too low to print.
2290         
2291        - A workaround is provided for HP Printers : their internal
2292          page counter is only saved to NVRAM in a 10 increment, so
2293          if you switch them off and then on, the reported page counter
2294          may be lower than the real number of pages printed.
2295          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
2296          We unconditionnally set the last job's page count to
2297          abs(int((10 - abs(lastcounter(snmp) - lastcounter(storage)) / 2))
2298          in this case.
2299          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
2300          off.
2301         
2302        - A fix is provided for printers which only have a volatile 
2303          page counter (reset to 0 every time you switch the printer on)
2304          This should allow PyKota to work reasonably fine with HP Laserjet
2305          4L/5L/6L, not perfect, but better than nothing.
2306          See http://web.mit.edu/source/third/lprng/doc/LPRng-HOWTO-15.html
2307          For a more accurate accounting, never switch your HP printers
2308          off. This is untested, please report any problem.
2309         
2310        - A bug was fixed when edpykota --add was used with users who already
2311          had a quota on the specified printer.
2312         
2313        - A small display bug in repykota was introduced in preliminary
2314          1.03 versions, and fixed later on.
2315         
2316        - Some minor bugs which happened in rare situations were fixed.
2317       
2318        - Support for AppleTalk printers was added, see sample configuration
2319          file for details.
2320         
2321        - Users and group printing can now be controlled (limited) either by 
2322          print quota or by account balance.
2323       
2324    - 1.02 :
2325   
2326        - The installation script now checks for software availability
2327          and in case a software is missing asks the user if he
2328          wants to continue with the installation or abort it.
2329         
2330        - The configuration file pykota.conf is now expected to be
2331          found in /etc instead of in /etc/cups
2332          The installation script prompts the user to see if he
2333          wants to move an old configuration file to the new location
2334          if needed.
2335         
2336        - Improved documentation.
2337       
2338        - You can now set the tcp/ip port on which the Quota Storage
2339          Server is listening, see sample configuration file for details.
2340       
2341        - Better general error handling.
2342       
2343        - Upgrade script for pre 1.01 PostgreSQL database schema is now
2344          included as well.
2345       
2346    - 1.01 :
2347   
2348        - The configuration file now accepts an option   
2349          to choose the recipient(s) of the email messages :
2350         
2351            - DevNull means no one will receive them.
2352            - User means only the user will receive them.
2353            - Admin means only the admin will receive them.
2354            - Both means the User and the Admin will receive them.
2355           
2356        - The configuration file now uses hard-coded default values
2357          when an option is not set. See sample configuration file
2358          for details.
2359         
2360        - Manual pages are included since 1.00, but I forgot to   
2361          add this information to this file.
2362         
2363        - Redistribution terms for the official package have 
2364          softened and are now fully GPL compatible :
2365          unrestricted modification is now allowed even for
2366          the version number.
2367         
2368    - 1.00 :
2369   
2370        - edpykota now accepts a --noquota option. This
2371          disable quota checking while still doing page
2372          accounting. This is really useful for people
2373          who don't want to limit their users but want
2374          to know how much pages they print.
2375         
2376        - Some untested scripts were added to retrieve
2377          the life time page counter of non-SNMP printers.
2378         
2379        - Every directory now has a specific README file. 
2380       
2381    - 0.99 :
2382   
2383        - Under some circumstances while the user wasn't allowed
2384          to print, he didn't receive any email message. It is
2385          now fixed.
2386         
2387        - When an user wasn't allowed to print, the quota for
2388          the previous user wasn't updated. This is now fixed.
2389         
2390    - 0.98 :
2391   
2392        - Correctly handle the case where the printer is switched off.
2393       
2394        - Small bug wrt syslog fixed.
2395       
2396    - 0.97 :
2397   
2398        - edpykota accepts wildcards on its command line for users/groups too
2399          if the --add option is not set, e.g. :
2400         
2401              $ edpykota --printer lp --softlimit 50 --hardlimit 100 "jer*"
2402             
2403        - If no user name is passed at all, then a default wildcard of "*"
2404          which means apply the command on ALL users for this printer is used.
2405         
2406        - Small bug fixes.
2407       
2408    - 0.96 :
2409
2410        - Options requester, policy, admin, adminmail and gracedelay can now
2411          be set either globally or per printer. The printer option has
2412          priority if both are defined.
2413
2414        - More powerful configuration parser.
2415       
2416        - If all options are defined globally, there's no need to
2417          define a section for each printer in the configuration
2418          file anymore. Just define a [global] section and it's ok.
2419
2420    - 0.95 :
2421
2422        - External requesters for printers finally added.
2423
2424        - Full internationalization (english and french are supported)
2425 
2426        - More complete quota usage report
2427
2428        - CGI script to access to the quota usage report
2429
2430        - Several bugs fixed.
2431
2432
2433    - 0.9 :
2434
2435        - First public version
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