PaperCut 8.4 (Build 6244)

New features:

• Native support for iPrint queues on Novell OES Linux. For more information see the associated news item.
• New “Internal Users” feature. This feature allows managing a set of users in addition to those in the configured user directory. It can be used for managing guest users (who may not have a domain account), or in organizations without a directory server.
• New client authentication feature allowing authentication to be remembered forever.
• Very large account lists can now be efficiently distributed to remote sites with slow network connections.
• New shared account invoice report to display the detailed print logs allocated to each account.
• A custom currency sign/symbol can now be displayed. This is useful in organizations using a currency different than their standard national currency.
• Added support for the UK’s Barclaycard ePDQ CPI card payment service in the payment gateway module.

Enhancements:

• A variety of enhancements to the “Bulk Account Operations” feature:
  • Allow changes to be applied to a subset of accounts based on the account name.
  • Allow modifying the account security settings for multiple accounts at once.
  • Allow accounts to be deleted in bulk.
• Large performance improvements viewing print logs and running print reports for sites using the default/internal database. The database settings are now better optimized for database queries that run over large datasets.
• Reduced the amount of client account data downloaded by the client by 25 to 30 times. This could dramatically speed up the loading of accounts over slow network connections.
• Improved support for Mac OS X when users have multiple “short names”.
• Improved performance and reduced server resource usage when the users client downloads large account lists.
• Improved performance when modifying shared account security settings on many (10’s of thousands) accounts at once.
• Improved performance of retrieving members of a group from LDAP. This also reduces the number of concurrent connections to the LDAP server.
• Added a new print charging model to charge by “Paper length”. This can be used as an alternative to paper area charging for large format plotters.
• Allowed the ‘initial creation rules’ to be re-applied to either a single user or a group of users. This can be done through the user interface and server-command tool.
• Improved the display and layout of the Shared Accounts list displayed in the end-user web pages.
• Mac/Linux: LDAP settings are automatically populated during installation.
• Added a username filter to the account transactions page, making it easier to find transactions for a given user.
• Improved support for complex domain hierarchies by following “referrals” sent by Active Directory.
• Improved documentation for creating and installing SSL certificates.
• Added new server-command and web services API to list all shared accounts and the shared accounts available to a given user.
• Improved the client launcher “pc-client-local-cache.exe” to more aggressively retry starting the client when problems occur.
• Improved setup/install documentation by adding a separate section for each platform.
• Linux: Added an uninstall script to automate the uninstallation process.
• Updated translations for Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Spanish, Italian and Czech.

Fixes:

• Fixed a problem that could stop printing notification messages to be delivered to user clients under some circumstances.
• Fixed a rare problem that could stop a job from appearing in the release station. This problem could only occur when the release station timeout was set to a very long period.
• Improved reliability of the print popup notifications when the user does not exist in PaperCut and needs to identify themselves using the client tool’s identity dialog.
• Improved security of the client identity dialog which is displayed when the logged in user does not exist in PaperCut.
• Fixed an error that could occur on the printer charts and statistics page.
• Improved support for processing very large spool files (greater than 1.5 GB) on Windows.
• Improved reliability of page-level color detection of very large images in PCL print jobs.
• Improved reliability and error reporting during scheduled quota allocations.

Printer compatibility improvements:

• Improved page counting for duplex documents for a variety of PCL and Postscript printers.
• Improved copy count detection for the Seiko Teriostar LP-1010L.
• Improved page size detection for custom paper size with PCL 5 printer drivers.
• Fixed page count problem with Xerox booklet printing setting used on the APEOS PORT II – C7500.
• Linux/Mac: Added paper size detection support for the CUPS raster spool file format.
• Added support for the FXPLW language used by the FujiXerox DocuCentre Color 400 CP and other FujiXerox printers.
• Improved page count and page size detection for printing for HPGL plotters.