PaperCut 7.5 (Build 5189)

New features:

• Added support for per user (and per shared account) overdrafts/credit limits.
• Added a “local installer” to simplify installation and deployment of the user client on Mac systems. e.g. Laptop installs.
• Added a “Release Any” mode to the end-user web pages. This can be used in environments where users are not authenticated, and is an alternative to using the standard release station in “Release Any” mode.
• Improve ad-hoc reports to allow the user to filter the results and customize the report title.
• In the user client, allow the background and link colors to be customized.
• New server commands (and web-service APIs) to enumerate all users, rename a user account and to set the balance of all members of a group.
• Improved support for printing to “unauthenticated” print queues – the “unauthenticated” accounts are no longer created in the user database. This feature, combined with the new “local installer” will assist Mac sites that allowed unauthenticated printing from laptops.

Enhancements:

• Display low-balance warnings when the user client starts.
• Only send low-balance warnings to “restricted” users.
• Improvement to user/group sync on Mac systems. Now the standard system/daemon accounts are ignored by default.
• Allow the reports and statistics to display data over the past week and fortnight (in addition to the 30, 60 and 90 day options).
• Change the advanced client to focus on the search field by default.
• Improved print logs screen filters to allow only denied jobs to be displayed.
• Warn users at the time of release if they do not have enough credit and attempt to release a job from the web-based release station.
• Add a configurable system option to change the time-out for jobs waiting for the user to respond to the popup, or waiting to be released from a release station.
• Allow users to choose whether job comments should be displayed in log reports.
• Add a totals row to the account transaction report.
• Added a denied image on the print log screen to make it clear which jobs were denied by PaperCut.
• Do not allow users to authenticate using the credentials of a user flagged as “unauthenticated” in PaperCut.
• More flexible searching of TopUp/Prepaid cards – e.g. search for partial card numbers.
• Added support for some less popular Linux distributions.
• Improved application logging to assist with trouble-shooting issues.
• Various minor usability/layout improvements.
• Various documentation improvements.
• Updated translations for Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese. Added a translation of the user client into Swedish.
• Improved support for a variety of printer hardware including new wide-format models and new Mac drivers.

Fixes:

• Do not lose the shared account pin when the account is changed from a parent to a sub-account or vice-versa.
• Fixed issue that may have caused printers to appear twice on Mac systems under different system names.
• Fixed some problems in web-service APIs when using the Oracle external database.
• Fix TopUp/Pre-paid card wizard problems in countries where the decimal separator is a comma (e.g. France and Germany).
• Improved sorting of the accounts in the “Edit Print Log” page when using an external database.
• Allow email notifications to include non-latin characters (e.g. Chinese).
• Improved page counting, paper size detection and duplex detection for a variety of printers.
• Net Charging: Fix rare problem that stopped Internet Provider service from starting.
• Net Charging: Improved parsing of Microsoft ISA W3C logs to stop denied usage from being recorded in PaperCut.
• Net Charging: Improved reliability of displaying the Internet usage charts and statistics.