This release revises the way the User Permissions file is held to make it just "default" and a list of exceptions.
This has been asked for in particular in contexts where externally-submitted jobs by a user not in the password file are to be processed and having to rebuild the user file is a problem.
Note that the manuals tell a few lies in this regard. I'll fix these for version 1.9.
This tidies some parts of the source code and adds Debian material for building a Debian package set.
A Debian installation directory is provided.
Some improvements have been made to printer installation and an optional PyQt interface has been provided to make this easier where available.
A CUPS emulation package is now included for the benefit of software which assumes it's present. This provides for virtual CUPS printers which have the effect of queuing GNUspool jobs with various options.
A GUI front-end is provided for configuring the CUPS package.
The libtools package is now used for administering the shared libraries.
This clarifies some aspects of the install.
Grammar and lex files are included.
Also included is the newly-written Python-based CUPS emulation for the benefit of software which insists on talking to CUPS.
This release fixes a few build problems on some systems and points out that failure to build GTK programs isn't critical.
This release just updates some of the manual pages and removes some unneeded binary files.
The UKUUG (the UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group) is holding its Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) User Group from 24-26 March 2009 in London, England.
One speaker will be John Collins, author of GNUspool and GNUbatch, probably on 25th March who will be presenting GNUspool.
Not too late to book - and book for the conference dinner on 25th March.
For details and booking instructions see www.ukuug.org
This release is mostly corrections in the documents of user program names - which were changed from the original names to names beginning with "gspl-". In a few cases the changes were too aggressive changing the middle of words and have been changed back.
One minor bug (deletion of job and printer macros in the GTK interface) has been corrected.
One minor "extra" (double-click of macro lists in the GTK interface to edit macros) has been added.
The layout of some of the dialog boxes has been tidied a little.