PaperCut 7.4 (Build 5011)

New major features:

• Admin alerts. Administrators can now choose to be notified via email (or SMS if you have an email-SMS gateway) on the following events:
  • Printer errors – be notified when a printer goes into error. For example when there is a paper jam or the printer is out of toner. This feature allows administrators to be aware of issues faster, rather than waiting for an irate user to complain.
  • Error level events – if PaperCut encounters an error the details will be logged to the ‘App. Log’ tab, the log file, and now optionally sent out via email. This feature allows administrators to be aware of errors sooner, such as problems communicating with the directory server.
  • License notifications – this can be used to notify interested parties when there is a licensing issue, such as exceeding the licensed user count.

New minor features:

• Add print job comments and some other information into reports that show print logs.
• Make the ‘Print Logs’ page load faster on large sites by decreasing the default date range of the data shown from one month to two weeks.
• On Mac and Linux systems with no directory server, include the ‘primary group’ when considering group membership.
• Add some new calls to the web services API and server-command for performing user balance transactions.
• If the ‘Use SSL if available’ option is enabled, end-user HTTPS access is enforced.

Fixes and enhancements:

• Improve handling of Excel/CSV reports so that they open correctly in Excel when using Internet Explorer.
• Fixed an issue that may have prevented large backups from being imported.
• Fix bug when using the administration interface in Internet Explorer that prevented selecting a list of printers that an administrator should have access to.
• Prevent DNS lookups from taking a long time on Windows networks. On Windows networks where DNS lookups are slow, this could slow down the time taken for printing to be processed.
• When a report contains no data (for example when there was no printing in the selected date range), a message is added to the report to indicate this.
• When running very large reports and the maximum row count is reached (by default 10,000 rows), a message is now displayed on the report indicating that the data has been truncated (and to see the user guide for how to increase the maximum row count).
• Fix an issue where clicking the ‘Details’ link on the user client would not work if there were spaces in the username.
• Fix an issue with the Mac client auto-restart login hook when there are spaces in usernames.
• Improve reliability of notification delivery in the user client tool.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent the admin ACL option ‘Change printer settings’ from working.
• Fix an issue preventing logging into the user web interface when using Active Directory, multi-domain support and a UPN formatted username.
• Fix an issue with file permissions during installation on Mandriva Linux.
• Added support for CUPS 1.3 on Mac and Linux.
• Fix some minor rendering problems with Internet Explorer.
• Fix some minor problems reported users through the “Submit Error Report” feature.

Page counting improvements:

• Better copy count detection with some Mac drivers.
• Fixed a page count problem with Canon IR2016 PCL5 drivers.
• Fixed a copy count problem with HP Designjet plotters using HPGL drivers.
• Fixed a page size issue with Fuji-Xerox Docuwide 2050 plotters using GDI drivers.
• Improve support for Unix text based printing.

Translations:

• New complete translation for Czech.
• New end-user translations for Hungarian and Slovak.
• Updated translations for Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, German, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.