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PLOSSYS 5.3.5

New Features

  • Opening the firewall ports is no longer part of the installation of PLOSSYS 5 due to this is normally done by the system administrators on customer side. However, a separate script firewall.ps1 for Windows or firewall.sh for Linux is contained in delivery and can be used for opening the firewall ports. For more information, refer to Open the Firewall Ports on Windows or Open the Firewall Ports on Linux.

  • After installing or updating PLOSSYS 5 and the components such as Elastic Stack or MongoDB, the install scripts no longer start the services. The services have to be started manually after the installation or update. For more information, refer to the installation and update descriptions for Windows and Linux.

  • Installation and update times have been significantly reduced.

  • The default of the time after which the successfully terminated jobs (JOB_LIFETIME_PROCESSED) are deleted has been set to one hour.

  • The PICKUP_BLOCK_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT key is available for specifying an additional inactivity timeout after processing one or more pickup jobs released by a user via IPP.

  • PLOSSYS 5 can use the WIN_INF_PAGES and WIN_INF_COPIES IPP attributes with the accounting.

  • The PDF/A conversion in the sap-convert-sapgof service generates PDF/A-2B by default.

  • The version 9.52.0.12 of Ghostscript is used.

  • The version 3.5.1.5 of PDF Tools is used.

  • The v2 REST routes have been deactivated. Now, only v3 with authentication is supported. For this, easyPRIMA as of version 1.7.0 or version 1.4.0 (development release only) is required. For easyPRIMA 1.3.1, a patch concerning the version change of the REST routes is available.

  • PLOSSYS 5 provides accounting. The accounting data (queue name, job name, PLS_COSTCENTER, the total amount of pages in combination with copies, color, format, page number from SAP, simplex/duplex, final status) is available in Elasticsearch.

  • The Accounting status is available for the jobs.

  • For IPP, HTTPS is supported with the printer connection.

  • The mapping of the psProperties and the job attributes from IPP, LPD and PostScript have been standardized to a unique metadata structure.

  • The JOBNAME and USERNAME parameters are stored in the job as jobName and userName. A compatibility layer is active in the current version, but in a future PLOSSYS 5 version, it will be deactivated. In order that the job and user names are displayed correctly at the printer, which is important especially when using 3rd-party pickup printing systems or secure printing with a PIN, make sure you will soon update to printer templates from March 2022 or later.

  • For the check-in services, the PRINTER_CACHE_TTL key is available for specifying the time interval after that a cached printer object expires.

  • In PLOSSYS Administrator, the following new features have been implemented:

    • The AUTH_IDP_CONNECT_TIMEOUT key is available for specifying the timeout for the connection to the OIDC identity provider.

    • The KIBANA_INDEX_PATTERN_LOG key is available for specifying the index pattern in Kibana used by PLOSSYS Administrator.

    • Via the user settings, the job and printer lists can be switched to a condensed mode.

    • Via the user settings, the display of the technical property names can be activated. The technical property names are required for the configuration of the stamp texts for example.

    • When searching in the log dialog, pressing TAB jumps to the next hit, Shift + TAB to the previous hit.

    • Beside German and English, PLOSSYS Administrator is now available in French.

    • Jobs in the Accounting status are visualized by a new icon.

    • The user can log on to different servers and ports within one browser instance.

    • All properties of a job are displayed in a simple structure. The page-specific properties are displayed with Get Job Properties.

Bug-Fixes

  • The messages when updating PLOSSYS 5 has been improved.

  • The error handling with the installation script has been improved.

  • The bug that sometimes erroneous jobs were not deleted completely has been fixed.

  • The bug that sometimes SAP notifications were logged more than once has been fixed.

  • The bug that erroneous jobs were replied to SAP as successful has been fixed.

  • Empty pages with duplex printing are no longer considered in the accounting.

  • Temporary errors in the processing are logged as errors and no longer as warnings.

  • If an error occurs while processing a job and, therefore, an error sheet is generated, this is no longer replied to SAP as successful.

  • The port numbers opened by the firewall script has been fixed.

  • The PLOSSYS CLI commands on Linux execute the commands with sudo for users without root privileges.

  • The housekeeper service no longer harm jobs which just have arrived.

  • The memory leak with controller and checkout has been fixed.

  • In PLOSSYS Administrator, the following bugs have been fixed:

    • After reloading the user interface, the clear all button is active.

    • The details view has been improved so that large JSON objects can be displayed.

    • The bug that error messages without metadata.err.stack were not displayed in the job log has been fixed.

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