Fixed a problem seen on some Windows XP desktops where the client software would report an annoying "End Now?" dialog on logout or system shutdown. The problem was caused by a 3rd party component.
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.
New features:
Added group-based printer restrictions allowing administrators to restrict the use of a printer to a group or set of groups. This is particularly useful on Mac servers, as OS X server does not have in-built group-based access controls.
Added a new account selection mode to automatically charge a user's print jobs to a single shared account. This is useful when a user works in a single department or project, as it automates account selection and removes the need to display the popup and run the client software.
Admin rights may now be assigned at the group level in addition to individual users. This offers more convenient management on sites with a large number of administrators.
Full support for Apple Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) on both the server and the client.
PaperCut now supports Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) offering an alternate clustering option in addition to Microsoft Clustering services.
Added new admin access controls (ACLs) to limit management tasks such as Pre-Paid card management and refunding of print jobs.
A new set of transaction based reports providing detailed listing and summary of transaction types and amounts.
Enhanced user account synchronization allowing users' card/identity numbers to be automatically imported/updated from fields in Active Directory or LDAP.
The Internet Control module now supports Squid proxy server running directly on Max OSX.
Mac and Linux base systems can now be configured to run as a "secondary Internet Control server".
Improve the format of various CSV reports to make them easier to use.
Much improved documentation covering Apple Mac setup including deployment on Leopard and using the Workgroup Manager to publish printers.
... and many more features and improvements since the release of version 7
Enhancements:
Changed terminology from "print release station" to "hold/release queue" to better reflect that this feature can also be used via a web browser rather than just dedicated release stations.
Added total/summary rows to the bottom of all of reports.
Add a new option to allow the popup authentication to remember the authentication for "this job only".
Add more filters to the transaction log pages providing more flexibility searching of the transaction logs.
Improved the performance of the internal database, by automatically optimizing database tables.
Added a new configuration option to ignore standard system users such as all users ending in "$". These accounts usually represent machine accounts. The setting also accepts user-defined regular expressions, providing the power to ignore site specific accounts such as system mailboxes.
Improved default notification messages delivered to users when their printing is denied.
Updated system runtime libraries to improve performance and stability.
Add a web-service API and server-command operation to query the status of a previously started task (e.g. a user sync or backup running in the background).
Add a web-service API and server-command to retrieve the print job and page counts.
Added example shell scripts that make use of the "server-command" functionality.
Improved support for non-compliant LDAP servers (e.g. OpenLDAP 2.2.13).
Improved support for Arabic languages in PDF reports.
Updated translations for Dutch, Czech, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Portuguese.
Improved support for various external devices.
Add an end-user page to allow users to change their own card/identity number PIN.
Allow the card PIN to be retrieved/set through the web-service and server-command API.
Allow the card PIN to be updated/imported using the bulk user import/update.
Fixes:
Fixed a potential crash bug in the Windows print provider service that may occur with selected printer drivers when the error reporting feature is enabled.
Fixed a potential crash bug that may have occured if a misbehaving driver returns invalid data.
Fixed account selection popup problems that may occur if Terminal Server and popup authentication was used together on the same network.
Fix a problem where hold/release queue settings were lost when switching between printer tabs.
Improved reliability when processing badly formatted user or account import files.
Fix a problem where the account selection popup could display repeatedly on the same desktop.
Improved error messages when problems are encountered when restoring a database (e.g. running "db-tools import-db").
Addressed server load issues that may occur when many print jobs (100+) are bulk cancelled from a blocked queue.
Fixed a problem where Internet control settings changed by one admin user were immediately visible by other admins.
Fixed problem that stopped page-level color detection and printer error reporting from working on printers that contain non-ASCII characters (e.g. Chinese characters) in their name.
Fixed icon display issue when the Mac client was installed using the client-local-install program.
Fixed issue seen on very large systems where default SQL Server timeouts where halting the upgrade process.
Fixed problems in the Spanish translation that was causing some unexpected errors.
Various documentation improvements.
Page counting improvements:
Improved page counting and copy count detection for QPDL printers (e.g. Samsung ML-2010, Samsung CLP-510).
Improved duplex detection for selected PCL6 based printers (in particular the IBM Infoprinter 1357).
Improved duplex detection on recent driver updates for the Kyocera FS9520DN.
Improved page count and copy count detection with Canon CAPT based drivers (e.g. Canon iR1200/1300).
Added grayscale detection for the OKI 5600 printer.
Smarter page-level color detection methods used with selected Postscript drivers.
Improved page-level color detection when printing and rendering images directly from Photoshop.
