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Release Notes

5.1.0

New Features:

  • With the version 5.1.0 of PLOSSYS 5, the directory structure of PLOSSYS 5 has been changed. Due to this, some steps have to be done manually when updating to this version. For more information, refer to Update on Windows or Update on Linux.

  • ELK has been updated to the version 7.6.0. ELK has been renamed to Elastic Stack and Logstash is no longer required. Also, Elasticsearch Curator is no longer required for purging Logstash indices. The installation of Elastic Stack for PLOSSYS 5 has two parts now, one for the management server containing Elaticsearch, Kibana and Logrotate and one for the {{ SHORT_NAME }} server containing Filebeat. For this, two different installation packages are provided.

  • MongoDB has been updated due to security vulnerabilities.

  • Node has been updated to version 12 due to version 8 is no longer supported.

  • The default authentication has been changed from Basic Auth/NTLM to OIDC.

  • The default authentication type and the allowed OIDC clients with default roles has been added to the default configuration file (plossys.yml).

  • PLOSSYS 5 recognizes PCL-5, PCL-6 and OTF (UTF-16 and ASCII) jobs.

  • PLOSSYS 5 recognizes ZPL jobs and routes them through without conversion by default.

  • After receiving the SIGINT or SIGTERM signal, the server tries a graceful shutdown by closing the TCP server for incoming new connections and waiting until all currently open connections are closed.

  • Consul is initialized only once and the configuration is passed to all modules.

  • The configuration of PLOSSYS 5 can be read from local files instead of Consul.

  • If the SERVICE_DISCOVERY environment variable is set to cloud, the seal-sapgof service reads the configuration from the local file instead of from Consul.

  • For the seal-sapgof service and the seal-pdfstamp service, the CONFIG_DIR environment variable is available for specifying a directory containing the configuration files, for example, when running PLOSSYS 5 without Consul in the cloud.

  • The seal-ipp-proxy service is available.

  • The seal-attributes tags contained in IPP jobs are now merged into the job object used by printer templates. If values are specified either in IPP and in the job, IPP takes priority.

  • The IPP operation Get-Notifications is available. With the notify-wait attribute, the connection stays open until the job is in a final state in order to get more notifications.

  • The IPP operation CUPS-Get-Printers is available for returning all printers.

  • Test jobs can be created via IPP. Therefore, printer names containing special characters (UTF-8) are possible.

  • With PLOSSYS CLI, the config update command is available, which is similar to config import but imports only those keys which do not exist yet.

  • PLOSSYS CLI can get HTPASSWD data from Consul, generate a template for this data and import it to Consul.

  • PLOSSYS CLI can get ALLOWED_OIDC_CLIENTS data from Consul, generate a template for this data and import it to Consul.

  • The PRINT_ERROR_SHEET environment variable is available which specified if an error sheet is output in case of error. Before, the error sheet was output in case of error, now the error sheet is not output by default but can be activated by setting PRINT_ERROR_SHEET to Y.

  • All tables with PLOSSYS Administrator have been redesigned.

  • Texts which do not fit into the column no longer overwrite the text in the next column but are displayed partly. The complete text is displayed in a tooltip when hoovering over it.

  • The service configuration file for the PLOSSYS Administrator service has been changed to /usr/lib/systemd/system.

  • In PLOSSYS Administrator, the roles received from the identity provider and the effective roles are shown.

  • IPP Checkin, IPP Proxy and IPP Checkout stream data directly into MongoDB instead of loading it into the memory.

  • For the seal-dispatcher service, the JOB_MAX_POSTPONED_COUNT environment variable is available, which specifies how often a job will be postponed in case the next service is not available for example. After reaching the specified maximum of postponements, the job will be considered erroneous.

  • Ghostscript version 9.27.0 is used by PLOSSYS 5.

  • PDF Tools version 3.5.1.1 is used by PLOSSYS 5.

  • sapgofu2pdf version 9.0.6 is used by PLOSSYS 5.

  • Message Server is supported with the job reply to SAP BC-XOM.

  • SAP NW RFC SDK 7.50 is supported due to version 7.20 no longer is supported.

Bug-Fixes:

  • The {{ SHORT_NAME }} status has been corrected for IPP status aborted.

  • Some bugs in PLOSSYS Administrator have been fixed, for example, the select button for printer and date in Internet Explorer.

  • The path of the Ghostscript binary has been corrected.

  • The bug with the fatal error message when starting ELK has been fixed.

  • The bug with JOB_LIFETIME_WAITING_PICKUP has been fixed.

  • ipp-checkin sets the compression-supported attribute correctly to none when an IPP client requested the attributes with get-printer-attributes.

  • The bug with printer names consisting of digits only has been fixed.

  • The UUID is logged by all services correctly.

  • The bug with handling special characters in the printer name has been fixed.

5.0.5

New Features:

  • Allow authentication via OIDC (JWT, Json Web Token) with PLOSSYS CLI.

  • OIDC password flow is supported for authentication as alternative to Basic Auth.

  • For PLOSSYS CLI, new commands are available for setting and getting values of configuration keys in Consul and creating templates for specific keys such as ALLOWED_OIDC_CLIENTS.

  • With PLOSSYS CLI, the value of the HTPASSWD key can be read from and writes to a file that is given with the HTPASSWD_FILE key for the Basic Auth authentication.

  • The pickup status has been introduced and is set correctly for new printers. With a pickup printer, the status cannot be changed. The jobs in pickup printer queues are not processed.

  • With JOB_LIFETIME_CANCELED, a time interval can be specified after which the canceled jobs will be removed.

  • With JOB_LIFETIME_WAITING_PICKUP, a time interval can be specified after which the jobs waiting in a pickup printer queue will be removed.

  • With the SHOW_ALL_JOBS_FOR_PRINTER key, all jobs of a printer can be displayed.

  • Basic Auth is available as user authentication.

  • The following IPP operations have been implemented: Hold-Job, Restart-Job, Validate-Job, Cancel-Job for a specific job-id, Get-Job-Attributes, Release-Job

  • Release-Job and moveJob have been enhanced in order to find the target printer with Secure&Pickup Printing.

  • Canceled jobs are hidden in the Get-Jobs response. This prevents the Windows printer queue from listing canceled jobs with Deleting status and thus confusing the user.

  • Attributes have been added to the Get-Printer-Attributes response for supporting the iOS printer profiles.

  • Secure&Pickup Printing is supported. Pickup queues are configured via the pickup=true queue parameter.

  • The version of Ghostscript is logged in the verbose mode.

  • Reading print data from database as buffer instead of a utf-8-encoded string allows sending binary data via IPP.

  • Jobs can be canceled. The cancelation is logged.

  • Via the MONGO_EVENTS_COLLECTION_SIZE key, you can specify the size of the capped collection for storing the events.

Bug-Fixes:

  • Every POST and PUT route is checked for valid permission. If the permission check fails, 403 is returned.

  • If authenticating with Basic Auth is used and no htpasswd file has been specified with the HTPASSWD_FILE key, authentication will never be granted. Before it was granted to everyone without checking the user and the password.

  • The canceled jobs are taken into account with the timeline statistics.

  • The current.seal-attributes.finalEventSent flag is set in the job properties correctly when the final status has been sent to SAP.

  • The bug with canceling jobs has been fixed.

  • seal-ipp-checkin no longer starts with an unsupported SERVICE_URL, ://localhost:631 or tls://localhost:631 for example. Now, an HTTPS server is started if the SERVICE_URL starts with https://... or ipps://... and an HTTP server if it starts with http:// or ipp://. If the Service URL is unknown, an error is output instead of starting the server.

  • The bug with activating TLS has been fixed.

  • The job-statusIPP attribute is set correctly if the job is in the canceled or aborted state.

  • The bug that jobs checked-in via IPP were mistaken as SAP notifications and repeatedly notified about has been fixed.

  • The copies IPP attribute correctly starts at 1 instead of 0.

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