This release contains a database upgrade and administrators should factor this into their upgrade plan.

New features:

• Multiple Personal Accounts - Administrators can now configure users to have multiple personal account balances. This advanced feature can be used at a basic level to separate cash from quota and at an advanced level to give departments better control over cost recovery processes.
• Re-sending data after connection - Secondary Print Servers now have the ability to store print event results when communication with the PaperCut Application Server is lost. These events can be then replayed back to the primary server when communication is restored.
• Watermarking and Job Attribution - It is now possible to add dynamically constructed text to the bottom of each page (e.g. username, student number, date) as a watermark. The font sizes, gray-level and position on page to be changed. (Watermarking is currently listed as an experimental feature and only supports PostScript printers)
• Digital Signatures - Watermarking has been extended to also support adding a unique digital signature to each document. Signatures are generated using a cryptographic HMAC based on SHA1 or MD5. This may be used to verify the origin and author of any print job.
• Print Policy Support - A print script recipe is included that implements a standard corporate print policy where:
  • users are reminded via a popup to print duplex (and must opt-in to print simplex)
  • printing emails is discouraged
  • printing web pages in color is discouraged
• Simple mode Web print for Mac And Linux - Web Print (Simple Mode for PDF) is now cross platform! Organizations using Mac OSX and Linux print servers can now enable the Simple Mode (PDF) for Web Print.
• Ad-hoc bulk user updates - Bulk user actions can now be performed on a list of users defined on-the-fly in the PaperCut Administration Console. You are no longer restricted to pre-defined groups or individual users.
• New environmental impact desktop widget developed in conjunction with the Do Something, the non-profit organization supporting the Paper-Less Alliance.

Enhancements:

• Added report filters to all the shared account and group logs reports.
• Added an option on the Printer Charts page to get list statistics/charts for the previous day (yesterday).
• When "run now" link is clicked under Scheduled Reports, it will inform the user about the selected date range.
• Various small usability improvements to the Web Print interface.
• Added printer group, printer name filters to the department and office printing summary reports.
• Reduced memory usage of the Windows Print Provider service when handling many simultaneous print jobs (e.g. when many jobs are held in a hold/release queue).
• Add a time-out when performing LDAP authentication requests. This improves behavior when the LDAP server is not responding to requests in a timely manner.
• End user web pages: If a user is automatically charging to a single shared account, allow them to view this account's balance.
• Advanced Printer Scripting:
  • New company/corporate print policy script. The policy script reminds users to print double-sided and not print emails and web pages in color.
  • Enhanced printer scripting to allow scripts to change the user associated with a job.
  • Enhanced printer scripting to access the selected shared account (after the account selection popup is displayed).
  • Added new script action to allow the print job document name to be changed/updated.
• Added new web services APIs and server-commands to look up a user by card/id number.
• When allowing users to register their own internal user account and choose their own id, the minimum ID length is now configurable.
• When configuring the destination queue for Find-Me Printing, sort the list of print queues in alphabetical order.
• Updated SSL CA root certificates from Verisign, Thawte, GeoTrust, SECOM, GlobalSign, Entrust, Keynectis, Quovadis, T-Systems and Unizeto.
• Customizable admin interface - The look of the admin interface can be tailored according to an organization's intranet site including the main admin logo and tab colors.

Fixes:

• Fix a small memory leak in Windows print provider that is triggered when print jobs are redirected (e.g. when using find-me printing or load-balancing). Sites that make heavy use of find-me printing or load balancing (more than 10k jobs/day) are encouraged to upgrade.
• Mac: Fix a possible crash in the print provider when establishing a connection to the Application Server when the application server is not running.
• Fixed a problem that could cause a duplicate account selection popup to appear if a very large print job took longer than 15 minutes to complete spooling and analysis.
• Fixed a problem where the names of the color and grayscale columns in the "Printer Group - printer summary" (CSV only) report were not in the correct order.
• Fixed an admin rights problem preventing printer access from being delegated to the group level.
• In "Printer Usage - Log" report, the logs will be sorted by date within printer.
• Fixed a problem when clicking "Cancel" on the TopUp card import in the PaperCut Administration console would still attempt to import the card file.
• Fixed sorting of scheduled reports list by report title.
• Fixed an error caused by ordering scheduled reports list by the recipients/location column.
• Fixed an install error that may be seen when installing PaperCut on a Windows print server with some less common printer drivers.
• The list of printers in the Web Print wizard now correctly sorts alphabetically.
• Mac/Linux: Fixed a problem that could stop the printer's make/model from being recorded in the interface.
• Printer Scripting: Fix a problem with the "inputs.job.isColor" property that may not report the correct value if page-level color detection is enabled.
• Fixed a problem importing the legacy PaperCut Quota user database when hosting PaperCut on a machine running Chinese Windows.
• Fixed problem displaying Chinese characters in the title of the standard release station.

Printer compatibility improvements:

• Status check jobs submitted by the Brothers MFC-7440n device monitoring tool are now ignored.
• Fixed minor and rare memory leak that may occur when analyzing certain PostScript spool files.