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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@trincoll.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:42:14 -0400 Subject: PPR: PPR 1.51 released Version 1.51 of PPR has been released. This release fixes all reported problems with PPR 1.50. Other highlights include: * Reduced use of setUID programs, especially of setUID root programs. * Reimplemented ppr-passwd so it no longer depends on Apache's htpasswd. * Simplified the build process, eliminating the "fixup" step. * Fixed bug which prevented the printing of banner pages for jobs without job log files. * Added code so that the Manualfeedtimeout and JobTimeout values set with "ppad userparams" take effect on level 2 PostScript printers too. * Added ppr-index command as the front end for index generation. The separate commands, such as ppr-indexfonts, and ppr-indexppds have become backend programs that are run by ppr-index. * Added support for a "meta responder". When using a meta responder, the user uses the ppr-followme command to register a responder method and address which can be used to contact him. The ppr-followme command can be used to change this registration at any time. This greatly simplifies things for X-Windows users since they no longer have to set environment variables such as PPR_RESPONDER in their windowing systme startup scripts. All they need to do is run ppr-responder and since the meta responder is the default, their print job message will get to them. See the ppr-followme(1) manpage and the -m switch section in the ppr(1) manpage for details. * Made the new Configure script the default one. The old one is still available as Configure_old. * Added support for gzip compressed PPD files. * Improved ppr-panel (a Perl/Tk interface to PPR). These improvements include the addition of a print dialog so that it can be used as a drag-and-drop target for printing files in desktop environments such as KDE. * Converted the tab stops in the source code from every 8 columns to every 4 columns. * Added "socketapi", "appsocket", and "jetdirect" as aliases for the tcpip interface. Some of them have different default options. * Added "pros" interface for Axis print servers (this may still need debugging). * Changed human-readable "ppad show" output to better group things by category and to indent second and subsequent lines of logical groups. * More web interface fixes to suppress spurious Perl 5.8.0 warnings. * Corrected sorting of AppleTalk names in the added printer wizard. * Refined the reporting of printer status by "ppad status", especially for status derived from PJL USTATUS messages. ================================================================ David Chappell David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Computing Center Postmaster@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Trinity College (860) 297-2114 Hartford, Connecticut 06106 U.S.A.