12 January 2010 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.8 (Build 9413)
This is a bugfix release for PaperCut
ChargeBack 9.8 for Mac and Linux only,
and contains the following changes:
Fixes:
More improvments to support
for print servers running CUPS
1.4, such as Mac OS 10.6 and recent
Linux distributions.
23 December 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.8 (Build 9360)
This is a bugfix release for
PaperCut ChargeBack 9.8, and contains
the following changes:
Enhancements:
New option to alert users by
email when their refund requests
are processed.
Fixes:
The advanced client now uses
a case-insensitive sort to improve
the ordering of accounts that
contain a mix of uppercase and
lowercase characters.
Improved web service proxy code
and examples on how to use the
PaperCut XML Web Services API.
Fixed regression that caused
slow analysis of PostScript spool
files when using page-level color
detection.
22 December 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.8 (Build 9347)
This release includes improvements
for print servers running CUPS 1.4,
such as Mac OS 10.6 and recent Linux
distributions. Customers with such
print servers should update to this
version when possible.
Enhancements:
Improved low toner notifications
to clearly separate which printers
are newly low in toner and those
that have been notified previously.
Also added a new option to only
send the low toner notification
email when there is at least one
new printer that is newly low
on toner.
User client: new option default-account-pin
to specify a default PIN/code
to be pre-entered on the account
selection pop-up.
Improved user manual documentation
for configuring Web Print in sandbox
mode.
Fixes:
Improved support for print servers
running CUPS 1.4, such as Mac
OS 10.6 and recent Linux distributions.
Fixed PAM configuration issue
that may have prevented Unix Standard
authentication working on Mac
OS 10.6.
Improved stability of print
provider when analysing very large
Canon spool files.
Fixed error running the Printer
Environmental Impact report.
Fixed problem when displaying
the pending printer refunds which
could cause the paging controls
to not work as expected. E.g.
the paging controls may not appear
even though there was more than
a page of refund requests.
Fixed display problems with
Simplified Chinese text in the
Windows installer.
Fixed a problem that could stop
the user client from closing when
the Exit menu was selected.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Improved page-level color detection
with the "HP Universal"
PostScript driver.
Improve detection of blank last
pages in duplex mode on the HP
LaserJet 4000 series using a PCL6
driver.
Improved page size detection
on the Konica Minolta C552 using
the Visual Postscript driver.
Improved support for the UFR2
driver on the Canon MF4000 and
related printers.
19 November 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.7 (Build 9159)
New features:
Web Print: Added support for
accepting Microsoft XML Paper
Specification (XPS) documents.
A Quick find box is now shown
when viewing a user's details,
making it easy to quickly switch
to a different user.
Support for MySQL is now included
at no extra cost, as per our External
Database Support Policy.
Added several new reports designed
to display or compare settings:
Group configuration, Printer configuration
and Shared account configuration.
New report: Denied print jobs.
Displays the details for print
jobs that have been denied.
New report: Group printing -
shared account summary. Shows
the shared accounts that were
charged to by each group.
New manual section about configuring
PaperCut for use with Novell Cluster
Services (NCS).
Enhancements:
Improved performance for large
sites by tuning server configuration
based on system specifications
and architecture.
User manual:
Added to the manual a new
end-user information sheet
about using Web Print.
Improved documentation for
configuring Find Me Printing
for redirecting jobs between
servers.
Shared account security can
now be used to control access
to PIN/code charging as well as
for selecting accounts from a
list. This feature provides enhanced
security for sites that use short
shared account PIN/codes.
Added many new filters to reports
and tables throughout the application,
making it possible to display
new or different data combinations.
Added more details to various
reports when exported as CSV.
Print queues with the same IP
address but different LPR port
names now appear as different
devices in the device-level reports.
Internet control: The Squid
ACL helper now has an option to
invert the allow/deny logic. This
can make it easier to integrate
the helper into existing ACL rule
sets.
Icons in the shared account
list now indicate disabled accounts.
The user web interface Jobs
Pending Release screen now automatically
refreshes periodically.
Improved support for running
the print provider as a non-system
(and non-admin) account.
Fixes:
Fixed issue where Mac Standard
user directory and user authentication
may not work on Mac OS 10.6.
Tuned memory configuration to
avoid low memory errors that may
occur at some large sites.
Fixed issue that could cause
multiple authentication pop-ups
for very large print jobs when
the authentication timeout was
set to "For this job only".
Web Print jobs may now be submitted
to unauthenticated print queues
without requiring additional authentication.
This allows the same print queues
to be used for both Web Print
and regular printing.
Fixed a problem importing users
from Active Directory org units
that contain slashes.
Allow importing users from Active
Directory with usernames that
begin with hash (#).
Changed MySQL database creation
process to create tables using
the preferred InnoDB table type.
Fixed a problem that could occur
after defining a very long list
of preferred accounts via the
advanced account selection pop-up.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Added basic page count detection
for the Epson C2000 model printer.
Added support for Kyocera FS-720
KX and related GDI printers.
Improved duplex detection support
for Canon UFR printers such as
IRC 2550i.
Improved support for the HP
LaserJet 1020.
Improved detection for RISO
HC3R series printers when using
GDI drivers.
8 October 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.6 (Build 8924)
This is a bugfix release for PaperCut
ChargeBack 9.6, and contains the following
changes:
New features:
New User configuration report
providing information about user
settings.
Enhancements:
Improved support for CUPS 1.4
(used in Mac OS 10.6 and up-to-date
Linux systems).
Improved detection and logging
of problems when CUPS print jobs
fail (Linux and Mac).
Fixes:
Fixed problem that could cause
the incorrect date ranges to be
used when running one-click reports.
Web Print:
Fixed issues with the wizard
for users with automatic charging
to shared accounts or some
of the more unusual account
selection settings configured.
Fixed problem uploading
documents to a non-Windows
primary server from a Windows
workstation using IE6.
Fixed problems handling
jobs with document names that
contained non-ASCII Unicode
characters.
Improved detection of Adobe
Reader popping up a license
agreement window when trying
to print a job (can happen
after initial configuration
if the admin hasn't acknowledged
the agreement).
Corrected "enabled
on X printers" text on
the Options tab not including
virtual queues.
Fixed problems that can occur
when performing edits of users,
accounts and printers across multiple
browser tabs/windows.
Fixed an issue on Novell OES
Linux where a print queue with
hold/release enabled may not be
able to accept a backlog of more
than three jobs at a time.
Fixed problem that would allow
limited admins without the "edit
user" right to use the "Re-apply
initial user settings" feature.
Fixed problem viewing the iPhone
user web interface.
28 September 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.6 (Build 8855)
This is a bugfix release for PaperCut
ChargeBack 9.6, and contains the following
changes:
Enhancements:
Enabled virtual queues (Find
Me Printing and load balancing)
for use with Web Print.
Improved memory allocation on
PPC based Macs, resulting in better
performance on this platform.
Improved Slovenian translations.
Mac: Performance improvements
when analyzing very large PostScript
jobs.
Group selection lists in the
admin interface now all include
"Enlarge" links next
to them, for sites with very long
group/OU names that all start
the same.
Shared account list report in
CSV now includes the parent account
code on each line.
Added feature to allow real-time
lookup of a user's card/ID number
in an external database.
Fixes:
Introduced workaround for long-standing
Windows bug that resulted in network
connectivity issues and non-paged
pool memory leaks at some large
sites.
Fixed problems using the new
print job refund requesting features
when running PaperCut on an Oracle
database.
Fixed problem preventing print
jobs from being manually refunded
when the cost had been rounded
for display.
Fixed problem using Web Print
for users who had the manager
mode pop-up enabled.
Fixed problems with Find Me
Printing when the print queue
name contained non-ASCII Unicode
characters.
Web Print: Fixed problems handling
jobs with document names that
contained non-ASCII Unicode characters.
Fixed problem that could cause
the Web Print service to stop
unexpectedly.
Fixed issue on CentOS x64 running
CUPS that may have prevented PaperCut
from working with particular backend
types.
Improved Web Print support when
using the sandbox method with
a Linux primary server.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Improved page size detection
when printing custom sizes with
InDesign on the Mac.
15 September 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.6 (Build 8761)
New features:
Web Print:
Web Print is a driver-less printing
service that allows users to print
by uploading documents from a
web browser. No client software
or driver installation is required.
Web Print provides a simple way
to enable printing for laptop,
wireless and anonymous users without
the overhead of installing printer
drivers and managing server authentication.
Refund Management System:
Print job refund management tools
have been added to PaperCut. If
a user finds that some or all
of their job wasn't printed, e.g.
due to a paper jam or toner problem,
they can now easily request a
refund via the user web interface.
Administrators can be notified
of refund requests via email and
approve or deny them via the admin
interface.
Added the ability to rename
printers. This can be useful after
renaming a print queue in the
OS or after migrating a print
queue to a new system.
New payment gateway module for
RBS WorldPay's Business Gateway
Plus service.
New payment gateway module for
CBORD's Odyssey range of card
systems.
Enhancements:
Faster detection of printer
errors for Find Me Printing and
printer load balancing, preventing
jobs being sent to an errored
printer sooner.
Ad hoc and scheduled printer
reports now support filtering
to a set of printers rather than
just one. E.g. a printer summary
report can be scheduled for sending
to a department head, showing
just the printers in their department.
New bulk user operation option
for deleting users, e.g. to delete
all users with no balance.
Updated the embedded web server
library (Jetty) for improved reliability
and robustness.
Updated database connection
pooling component to provide more
efficient use of DB connections.
When editing a print log, added
the ability to change the associated
account from personal to a shared
account and vice versa.
More detailed printing statistics
in the web/JSON APIs.
Added an option to enable log
web requests in NCSA HTTPd format.
This will log both user web requests
and all web service requests.
On Windows workstations using
Novell client software and a generic
Windows account: the client tool
now detects the Novell username
automatically and uses this in
preference.
Improved error reporting in
batch user import when the import
file is in an invalid format.
Add support for Cyrillic characters
(e.g. Russian) in PDF reports.
Mac: Added a convenient way
to increase the amount of memory
allocated to PaperCut.
The config editor now displays
the SMTP and LDAP passwords in
HTML form password mode.
Added simple web services example
code for the PHP language.
Added more examples for batch/shell
scripting server-command.
The Linux installer will now
automatically detect and warn
if SELinux is enabled. SELinux
may prevent CUPS queue integration.
Log remote IP address to the
App. Log when calling the web
services API with a bad authentication
token.
Improved translations for most
languages. New complete Russian
translation.
New application icons for improved
look on Windows Server 2008.
Various user manual improvements.
Fixes:
Fixed bug that prevented charge
rates from working (advanced account
selection popup or manager mode
popup) where rates contained commas
(if numbers were higher than 1,000
and in countries using a comma
as the decimal separator).
Fixed problem applying shared
account invoice options to print
jobs when users are configured
to "Automatically charge
to a single shared account".
Improved error detection on
printers that "re-errored"
(errored, cleared, errored again)
in the space of a few hours.
Fixed problem when using Find
Me Printing or load balancing
to redirect jobs to printers containing
an ampersand (&).
Fixed error raised when running
the Shared account print/copy
breakdown - summary report.
Novell: Improved importing of
users from eDirectory when the
user's LDAP structure contains
unusual information (e.g. duplicate
CN fields).
Minor change to resolve a situation
where very small jobs on Novell
OES Linux may be left in a held
state.
Fixed the department and office
filters on the User List report.
Fixed the status filters when
exporting/creating a report from
a print log.
Allow large paper surplus charges
greater than 100%.
Improved accuracy of environmental
impact reporting based on feedback
from environmental experts in
the Paper-Less Alliance.
When a workstation is configured
to login as an unauthenticated
user, do not send low balance
notifications to to the user client.
In the user client, do not remember
the previously selected account
between user logins (when using
popup authentication).
Fixed problem in LDAP environments
associating new users (created
on demand) with groups if the
LDAP username is defined in uppercase.
Novell: Improved retrieval of
printer hostname information from
iPrint when a hostname (and not
an IP) address is used.
Fixed rare crash bug in PostScript
analysis code.
Fixed issue that prevented editing
a print job on certain very specific
configurations.
Removed restriction preventing
a shared account having the same
name as a user account.
Improved explanation of options
available in the release station
configuration file.
Fixed set-printer-property server-command.
Improved error reporting and
reliability when the application
database is unavailable when the
PaperCut application server starts.
Changed formatting of the hours
used field in the CSV internet
usage reports to work around an
Excel bug.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Improved page-level color detection
on Mac.
Improved blank page detection
when printing in duplex on a Mac.
Better support for custom page
sizes in selected Apple Mac design
applications.
Improved detection for the Epson
C1100 on Mac.
Improved support for HP LaserJet
P1505 and related printers.
Improved page size detection
on some large format Canon printers
using Canon UFR drivers.
Improved support for the Oce
TCS500.
Improved grayscale detection
when printing from legacy DOS
applications.
25 June 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.5 (Build 8168)
New features:
New manager mode pop-up designed
to allow authorized users to perform
printing as other users and allocate
to accounts. It also allows various
cost adjustments to be applied
to jobs. A common use for the
manager mode popup would be in
school/college print rooms where
staff print on behalf of other
users. See the Client Tool section
of the PaperCut ChargeBack product
tour for a screenshot.
Add support for CyberSource
payment services in the payment
gateway module.
Added a new report Shared
account security access that
lists the shared accounts that
each user may access.
New options for release stations
to better support small, high
resolution screens and touch screens:
option to display links as buttons,
option to scale the size of all
elements.
Added more ad-hoc report filters
to several reports.
Added the ability to remove
all user balance information (balance
history graph, transaction history)
from the user web pages. This
may be useful in corporate environments
where the focus is on account/department
tracking.
Added new filters to the Jobs
Pending Release page in the
user web interface: document name,
workstation name.
New filter for print log tables:
minimum and/or maximum pages.
Enhancements:
Improved the charge rates
functionality to allow additional
cost adjustment types, including
per job and per page
adjustments. The charge rates
feature has been renamed to cost
adjustments. Cost adjustments
may now be defined at both the
global and printer level. This
simplifies the configuration when
all/most printers have exactly
the same adjustments.
More flexible quota custom scheduling
options, including wildcards for
the year and month.
Added support for importing
user card numbers from the Active
Directory description
field.
The frequency of administrative
email error alerts is now configurable
via the Options tab.
Display the username of the
logged in user in the release
station.
Add support for sending WinPopup/msg
notifications from Windows Server
2008.
The ad-hoc report department
and office filters now
accept entering multiple values
(a comma separated list), allowing
reports to show data from several
chosen departments or offices.
Added a new filter to the user
list page to show users who do
not belong to any groups.
New client tool option to disable
notification area balloon tips
(and use dialog boxes instead).
The user web interface will
now indicate when a user's printing
is disabled.
The icon next to users in the
user list now indicates when a
user's account has been disabled.
When an invalid line is detected
in a shared account import file
the warning message now lists
the associated line number.
Added an option to expand the
group selection list on shared
account security settings so that
very long group names can be displayed.
Improved documentation regarding
setting up PaperCut in a clustered
server environment.
Log the IP address of failed
login attempts in the application
log.
Fixes:
Improved reliability of pop-ups
and notification delivery on networks
using IPv6 and IPv4 concurrently.
Improved stability on Novell
OES Linux.
Improved reliability of Find
Me Printing and job redirection
on Novell OES Linux.
Improved reliability of Find
Me Printing on servers using virus
scanners that can interfere with
the print job redirection.
Fixed issue in the web based
release station where status messages
would not disappear.
Fixed problem displaying web
widgets and Vista gadgets in regions
that use a comma as the decimal
separator.
Improved user client authentication
pop-up reliability for Mac workstations
using an HTTPS proxy.
Fixed a rare case where a driver
bug may have incorrectly caused
a job to be flagged as partially
printed - not refunded.
Improved reliability of restoring
database backups that contain
invalid unicode characters.
Fixed an issue that could cause
installation on Linux systems
to take a long time.
Fixed problem running the Shared
Account List CSV report with
a large number of accounts.
Fixed a potential issue that
could occur when PaperCut connects
to SQL Server before SQL Server
has fully initialized.
Fixed issue where the "last
updated" date shown in the database
statistics area on the About page
may not be correct.
Fixed possible issue on Linux
in the setup wizard when detecting
what kinds of user directories
are available.
Fixed various documentation
and interface wording and typos.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Page count improvement for recent
PCL driver versions for the Canon
iR2220/iR3320 PCL5e.
Improved support for analyzing
unicode documents printed on the
Ricoh MP 6000.
Improved page-level color detection
on Linux.
Improve color detection for
Ricoh Aficio SP C811DN and other
PCL5 printers.
Fixed duplex detection issue
seen on Lexmark X945e printers.
Fixed duplex detection issue
when using external duplexer on
the Utax 3316 and the Kyocera
C5025N.
Fixed duplex detection issue
seen occasionally on Ricoh Aficio
MP C4000 MFDs and related devices
when using PCL drivers.
Improved page size detection
from CAD jobs using Nemetschek
print drivers.
29 April 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.4 (Build 7770)
New features:
Support for 64 bit installations
of Novell OES2 Linux.
Native support for 64 bit Linux
installations (no longer requires
32 bit compatibility libraries
to be installed, as well as providing
unparalled scalability).
New reports: Department
printing - job type summary,
Office printing - job type
summary
Enhancements:
New filter options on the Printer
tab for showing all printers on
a particular server and/or only
enabled/disabled printers.
Added the ability to customize
the messages used in the client
tool. More details in this KB
article.
Added the Bulk account actions...
link to the Account Details page.
Display a tool-tip help when
hovering the mouse over the report
format icons (PDF, HTML, CSV).
Improved display of server-command
help.
Various documentation improvements.
Improved translations for Chinese,
Croatian, Dutch, German, Spanish
and Portuguese.
Fixes:
Linux: Fixed warning message
displayed when installing Linux
distributions that use dash
as their default shell (e.g. Ubuntu).
Group based reports previously
did not display statistics for
users who have been deleted (but
existed during the report period).
Statistics for deleted users are
now included in group based reports.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Improved page-level color detection
for documents containing large
images on Postscript printers.
Fixed page size detection problem
seen with some Mac wide format
drivers when printing from Adobe
Photoshop.
15 April 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.3 (Build 7651)
New features:
Re-design of the reports list:
reports now include sample screenshots
that show what they will look
like and what kind of information
they will contain.
New reports showing printing
information by paper area (useful
when using the by paper area
charging model): Printer usage
- paper area summary and
Shared account printing -
paper area summary.
Option to define a list of
groups in addition to those in
the network user directory via
an additional-groups.txt
file.
New language translations: Croatian
and Czech.
Enhancements:
The office and department
fields will now be imported when
synchronizing PaperCut with an
LDAP server.
New advanced option for bulk
user actions: apply operation
to users whose balance equals
a given amount (to complement
the existing less than
and greater than options).
New filter options for ad-hoc
reports, including parent
account name and parent
account PIN/code options
on shared account reports, and
department and office
options on others.
Allow a job to be canceled
from the advanced account selection
popup by closing the dialog (rather
than pressing the Cancel
button).
New filter option for the User
List: show only disabled
or enabled users.
Introduce a filter for the
Shared Account List with
several filter options, making
it easier to find particular shared
accounts. Also allow searching
for shared accounts by code in
the quick find box.
Add an example for calling the
web services API using Python.
Add an option to the user client
config file to specify the default
account selected when the standard
account selection popup is shown.
The previous account selection
is now also remembered and used
as the default selection the next
time a popup is shown.
Added the ability to copy charge
rate settings between printers.
New server-command and web
services API to run a batch user
data import. This can be used
to schedule an update of user
data from a text file, for example
after user data has been updated
by a third party system.
New server-command and web
services API to delete a printer,
or all printers on a specified
server. This can be used to batch
delete printers after a print
server migration.
A log message is now written
to the App. Log when
a print job times out after being
in a hold/release queue too long.
Scheduled reports now include
the report date range in the email
subject and body.
Smoother animations in the web
interfaces.
Updated Chinese, French, German,
Portuguese and Spanish translations.
Fixes:
Don't allow access to the Schedule
/ Email Reports page if a
limited administrator does not
have the Access reports section
right.
Fixed the user client to correctly
display the "Register new user"
link when internal user registration
is enabled.
Improved client print popup
reliability for sites with inaccurate
DNS servers.
Fixed problem that could occur
when using a custom currency sign
and a custom number of decimal
places.
Fix problem running the report
Group printing - printer job
type summary.
Allow virtual print queues
to be selected when specifying
administrator rights and when
displaying jobs in the web based
release station.
When looking up shared accounts
by PIN and there is a sub-account
with a globally unique PIN, require
the use of the parent PIN to charge
to it (e.g. 123-456
instead of just 456.
Fixed the user web interface
defaulting to the interface for
mobile devices when using the
Opera browser.
Fixed issue running reports
in a Turkish locale. Did you know
that an uppercase i
is not I in Turkish?
Fix PDF reports not displaying
some Slovene characters.
Linux installer: make sure which
is installed. Yes, some distributions
leave it out.
Improved our spelling ability.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Added support for the GDI driver
on RISO HC3R-HC5500 printers.
Improved grayscale detection
on the Lexmark X945e.
Fixed some page count and page
size issue seen with Adobe products
on the Mac with some driver combinations.
26 February 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.2 (Build 7345)
This is a bugfix release for
PaperCut ChargeBack 9.2, and contains
the following changes:
Fixes:
Windows: Fixed a problem that
would cause the user client task-tray
icon to be disabled when run with
the "--silent" option.
Improved support for running
PaperCut on a MySQL database.
Mac/Linux: Fixed a problem when
using "Mac/Unix Standard" user
source. This could cause PaperCut
to miss one user or group from
the user sync.
Mac/Linux: Improved support
for Samba 3.3 as a user source.
Fixed problem with the Internet
usage graph.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Improved page size detection
for HPGL plotters.
Fixed PCL page count problem
seen on RICOH Aficio MP 6500 PCL
5e.
12 February 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.2 (Build 7214)
Enhancements:
Import full user details from
AD/LDAP (e.g. email, full name,
etc) when user accounts are created
on first print. Previously this
was only done overnight.
Improved SNMP toner-level detection
for network printers.
The Shared Account List CSV
report now includes the users/groups
access permissions.
The Print List CSV report now
includes the printer serial number.
Improved LDAP logon authentication
for sites with complex LDAP structures.
The user client now includes
an option to disable the task
tray icon on Windows.
Improved the default print denied
notification messages.
A user friendly error message
is now displayed when an external
database connection cannot be
established on start-up.
MySQL is now a supported external
database option (See external
database support policy).
Added a quick link to the PaperCut
knowledge base on the "About"
page.
Various documentation improvements.
Updated French, Czech and Dutch
translations.
Fixes:
The group access control on
printers now support the "[Internal
Users]" group.
Fixed a problem with Excel/CSV
where some numeric values were
not exported properly in some
European regions.
Fixed a Microsoft Word data
access warning message that may
display when running the TopUp
Card Wizard with Word 2007.
Improved the Mac user client
logon hook script to ensure that
any existing/zombie user client
processes are stopped when a new
user logs in.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Improved page count detection
issue seen on OKI B4600n with
PCL print driver.
Improved color detection for
PCL6 based print drivers.
Fixed duplex page count problem
on HP 4100 Series, Dell 5110cn
and related printers.
Improved page size detection
when printing certain documents
from Adobe Indesign on the Mac.
27 January 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.1 (Build 7117)
New features:
PaperCut will now query and
list devices serial numbers for
most network printers (if supported
via SNMP). This will help administrators
track physical printers. The serial
number is displayed on printer
CSV reports and printer details
page.
Enhancements:
Optimized the creation of on-demand
user creation with systems with
many groups.
Improved toner detection on
various printer makes and models
(e.g. for devices that use custom
SNMP extensions).
Improved SNMP device-type detection
for network printers.
Enhanced the "Group Details"
screen so the number of group
members is conveniently listed.
Also added a "quick link" to display
the members of the group.
Improved handling of offline/errored
printers for load balancing and
Find Me printing.
Improved handling for LDAP directories
with aliased user entries.
Added a new advanced option
to disable LDAP alias dereferencing.
This can offer performance benefits
in some large LDAP environments.
Fixes:
Fix corrupted file included
in the Mac installer that caused
Windows clients and release stations
to fail to start.
Fixed 30 second delay establishing
a HTTPS connection to PaperCut
when running Firefox 3.
Various improvements in all
areas to address the errors most
commonly reported via the "Report
this error" feature.
Correctly auto-detect the "Portuguese
(Portugal)" language for users
in Portugal.
Linux: Improved installation
to handle systems where /dev/null
is not writable by the 'papercut'
user.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Added support for Panasonic
GDI based printers (e.g. the Panasonic
DP-190 and related printers).
Fixed a Postscript page size
detection regression introduced
in the 9.0 release.
6 January 2009 - PaperCut ChargeBack
9.0 (Build 7022)
Special Notes:
This is a major release. Please
check the Upgrade Policy for upgrade
eligibility. This release also contains
a database upgrade and administrators
should factor this into their upgrade
plan.
Payment Gateway Users:
Please note that this version is
not compatible with old versions
of the PaperCut Payment Gateway.
If you are using PayPal or other
banking gateway via the Payment
Gateway add-on, upgrade the gateway
to the latest version immediately
after installing version 9.
New features, enhancements and fixes:
Please also see the PaperCut
ChargeBack 9.0 Release Candidate
(Build 6998) for improvements
over the last official version
8.5 (Build 6739).
Enhancements:
Account popup option to charge
print jobs to another user is
now off by default.
Automatic overnight user import
now enabled by default.
Fixes:
Fixed a problem with notification
emails in non-English languages.
Fixed broken manual link in
printer details page.
Printer compatibility improvements:
Fixed page size detection for
Acrobat Reader with the "Choose
Paper Source by PDF page size"
option for some postscript printers.
Load balancing: Spread print
load over fleets of group printers.
Find-Me Printing: Intelligent
routing of print jobs to release
stations at large sites.
Printer toner level reporting
and notification for supported
network printers.
Added 6 new reports:
User printing - printer
summary
Printer usage - user job
type summary
Physical printer usage -
summary
Group environmental impact
- summary
Department environmental
impact - summary
Office environmental impact
- summary
Added various new filter and
sort options to the existing reports.
Revamped networking code (implemented
using latest Asynchronous IO technology)
offering greatly improved scalability.
PaperCut can now support tens-of-thousands
of simultaneous user clients even
when running on standard 32-bit
server hardware.
Across-the-board performance
improvements.
The Internet bandwidth control
module is now included as standard
rather than licensed separately.
Enhancements:
Improved presentation on LCD
screens with use of anti-aliased
fonts in user client and release
station.
Show the report filtering parameters
in the Excel/CSV report headers.
Added more reports to the list
that support scheduling via email.
Added an option to charge all
printing to a print queue to a
single shared account (overriding
any user settings).
Include total/summary information
in the "Printer usage - logs",
"Printer usage - job type summary"
and "Printer usage - job type
summary" reports.
Improved client popup reliability
on workstations with names longer
than 15 characters.
Do not display the "Cards" tab
when TopUp/Prepaid cards are not
enabled.
Changed default configuration
so that printing is automatically
refunded if the jobs are cancelled
within 24 hours (Previously was
60 minutes).
Novell: Automatically register
printers with the server at install
time.
Linux: Improved reliability
of user client start script.
Added support for additional
online banking payment service
in the payment gateway module.
Improved error messages displayed
to users under various circumstances
(e.g. when the PaperCut external
database is unavailable).
Improved error message when
access is denied to the web service
interfaces.
Various improvements to error
logging to help assist problem
diagnosis.
Various documentation improvements.
Updated translations for Dutch,
Portuguese, Chinese Simplified,
Chinese Traditional, Spanish,
Italian and Czech.
Fixes:
Fixed a problem with Excel/CSV
where some numeric values were
not exported properly in some
European regions.
Fixed some minor problems with
the web widgets.
Allowed the LDAP BaseDN to be
blank. This allows searching of
servers that have multiple root
nodes (seen on some Novell eDirectory
sites).
Printer compatibility improvements:
Improved page count detection
for Brother HL 4040.