PaperCut 7.1 (Build 4550)

This release contains the following changes:

• Added support hierarchical shared accounts (e.g. parent and sub-accounts).
• New optional advanced user client that provides enhanced functionality for selecting account. e.g. search for account, select preferred accounts, enter print job comments, etc.
• Various reporting improvements and additional shared account reports.
• Added a “Template Shared Account” that is used to define defaults for newly created accounts (e.g. default security options).
• Added a bulk account operations page to allow updating balances and settings of accounts in bulk.
• Added an option to automatically import/sync shared accounts from various external sources.
• Enhancements to the pre-paid/top-up cards as requested by users (case insensitive card entry, shorter alpha-numeric card numbers, localized date formats, etc).
• Perform bulk user operations in the background and provide progress feedback which improves usability when operation is long running.
• Optimize various long running operations to reduces database locking (e.g. user/group sync, bulk user and account operations, etc).
• Optimized print monitoring to improve start-up time and reduce initial load on application server.
• Improved copy count detection for printing on Macs.
• Improved duplex detection for PCL and Postscript printers.
• Automatically configure the “guest” account as an “unauthenticated” user in PaperCut. This simplifies configuration on peer-to-peer networks.
• Increased the maximum number of allowed printers on a single print server to over 1900.
• Improved usability when changing user/group sync settings to avoid accidental changes.
• Improved support for running user client on Windows Vista.
• Fixed small memory leak in print provider service.
• Additional commands added to web-service API and server-command.
• Added support for new daylight-savings timezone in US and Australia.
• User Client: Ensure that account selection window is focused when popup appears.
• Net Control: Increased default network timeout in Squid ACL helper.
• Net Control: Correctly decode usernames containing backslashes () passed to the Squid ACL helper.
• Mac: Included a desktop widget to display the user’s balance.
• Various documentation improvements.
• Translation updates for German, Portuguese, and Chinese.