This is a major release. Please check the Upgrade Policy for upgrade eligibility.
New features:
- Version 11 includes a new Dashboard tab to provide administrators with a real-time view of the state and activity of the system. The dashboard contains seven new gadgets allowing administrators to view everything from system uptime, pages printed today, printers currently in error, and what jobs are happening right now.
- One of the most notable new features of this release is the visual appearance of the admin interface. The interface has been given a fresh new modern look and a general GUI overhaul with them aim of improving both look and usability.
- Watermarking and job attribution is now available for PCL6 printer drivers, in addition to the existing PostScript and PCL5 support. This feature is listed as experimental in this release. Our aim is to support as wide variety of PCL6 drivers as possible.
Enhancements:
- Various improvements to the end-user web interface to improve accessibility (e.g. for use with screen readers).
- Improved the time taken to release jobs from a hold/release queue.
- Windows: Added an option to hide the document names of jobs held in Windows print queues. This can be useful when there are privacy or security concerns of letting other users see the document names of other users.
- Provide simpler setup of Web Print Sandbox mode on Linux and Mac. There is now a simple way to disable Simple Mode so it does not conflict with Sandbox mode.
- When "user and group sync" tasks are started through "server-command" scripting or the Web Services APIs, administrators can to view progress of the task from the Options->User/Group Sync page.
- The user creation date has been added to the User List CSV report.
Fixes:
- Fixed a problem that could cause the Account Selection popup to not select/default to the previously selected account options.
- Improved Web Print error status reporting when the Web Print service doesn't have permissions to write to the hot folder.
- Fixed a problem that can occur running the printer list CSV report when PaperCut is monitoring more than 1,000 printers.
- Fixed issue with the batch user data import from text file option where new users would be created despite this option being disabled.
- Novell OES: Fixed a problem that may cause iPrint to crash if log file permissions were not correctly set.
- Novell OES: Reduced time to release held print jobs when Novell iPrint is running in some VM environments.
Printer compatibility improvements:
- Improved support for the Dell 2330 printer.
- Added support for the Epson 7900 printer.
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