PLOSSYS 5.7.0¶
New Features¶
-
As of version 5.7.0, PLOSSYS 5 supports document streams. Document streams are the Output Engine way to ensure that a series of individual documents can be printed without being interrupted by other documents. The new service key
DOCUMENT_STREAM_TIMEOUT
specifies the inactivity timeout of a printer after processing the last job of a document stream. For more information, refer to Using Document Streams. (PLS-1822, PLS-1848) -
PLOSSYS 5 can be monitored by Prometheus. For available metrics, refer to Metrics. (PLS-1872)
-
Internal communication has been changed to NATS methods. Thus the service keys MONGO_ACTIONS_URL and MONGO_ACTIONS_AGE are no longer needed or available. (PLS-1579)
-
The new environment variable
TLS_MIN_VERSION
allows to define the minimum TLS protocol version to be used. (PLS-1771) -
PLOSSYS CLI can be used to check if a printer supports the IPP or LPR protocol. The output will display the tested connection instead of the printer name. If a test file is specified, it will be transmitted using the requested protocol. For more information, refer to Check Printer Connections. (PLS-137, PLS-138)
-
The new environment key
NOTIFICATION_CALLBACKS
specifies callback actions for particular events like task or document updates. For more information on the usage of callback actions, refer toCreate Callback Actions
(PLS-1856) -
Log messages about attempted client connections to the
ipp-checkin
service have been added to theseal-ipp-checkin.log
. (PLS-1894) -
In PLOSSYS Administrator, the following features have been implemented:
- Job log files can be downloaded using the meatballs menu at a job. SEAL Elastic Stack as of version 7.17.0 has to be installed for it. (PLS-1820, PLS-1895)
Bug-Fixes¶
-
Log data of the services has been unified.
metadata.printer
is now used in all instances wheremetadata.printername
has been used previously. (PLS-1539) -
The
firewall.sh
script will not start the firewall anymore. (PLS-1628) -
Base of the timeout for
JOB_LIFETIME_PROCESSED_ACCOUNTING
,JOB_LIFETIME_PROCESSED_CANCELED
,JOB_LIFETIME_PROCESSED_ERROR
andJOB_LIFETIME_PROCESSED_PROCESSED
of a job is now the time when the respective state got reached. (PLS-1526) -
The bug has been fixed, where repeating jobs in virtual queues took too long. (PLS-1901)
-
The bug with unprocessed notifications from the
seal-notifier
andseal-co-notifier
services has been fixed. (PLS-1852) -
The bug has been fixed, that caused jobs being stuck in
waiting for preprocessing
forever if all queues have been stopped for some time. (PLS-1921) -
The time
seal-housekeeper
service needs to sweep old jobs has been improved. (PLS-302) -
In PLOSSYS Administrator, the following bugs have been fixed:
-
The bug has been fixed, where some timestamps were not displayed in human readable form. (PLS-1823, PLS-1834)
-
The bug has been fixed, where self-defined columns were excluded from sorting. (PLS-1875)
-