Maintenance Update 95 (01/10/2021)

Fixes

• When scanning a document from the glass of an Epson device with a duplex scanning setting the user will see an error message to advise this is not possible. ( SBT-3041 )

• Terminal server will send full ‘Portuguese’ translation files to the printer. (SBT-2995)

• Replication scripts are extend with DB instance information. (SBT-2985)

• Credit charger no longer crashes when the -c 0 parameter is used (GSS-4251)

Maintenance Update 94 (03/09/2021)

Fixes

• The user is able to effectively close the client window on the billing codes screen within the SAFEQ Client.  (SBT-3003)

• Start-up is successful upon installation of CRS. (SBT-2984)

• Correct translations are listed for km browser certificate installation in CML. (SBT-2966)

• Text for Cryptographic protocol in SAFEQ Client now reflects the correct Supported values these being 'TLSv1 and TLSv1.2'. (SBT-2855)

• Within guest accounts self-registration web portal the users PIN and Role are effectively saved to the database. (GSS-4228)

• Chrome Print Extension supports the printing of larger PDF files following change in parameters. (GSS-4209)

Maintenance Update 93 (06/08/2021)

Fixes

• When the user authenticates via card authentication they are able to access the user interface following an upgrade to Ricoh device with Java  (SBT-2792)

• During scanning on the new small Ricoh device paper size is detected allowing for successful scan of the document. (SBT-2495

Maintenance Update 92 (09/07/2021)

Fixes

• Security hardening of communication between terminal server and FujiXerox MFD.  (SBT-2804)

• When the Konica Minolta finishing options have been enabled the user is able to select the job detail and successfully release the job. (SBT-2759)

• SWC-40: The accurate settlement of transactions is reflected when multiple reservations are used in IPS integration. (GSS-4124)

• SWC-100: The user can successfully authenticate when utilizing a secure LDAP proxy. (GSS-4111)

Maintenance Update 91 (11/06/2021)

Fixes

• All print jobs shown in the Job list are accurately representing the time of printing. (SBT-2733)

• Security is improved as CML now signs SAML 2.0 message by using SHA-256. This complies with the SAML 2.0 specification. (SBT-2721)

•  It is now possible to connect SQL DB and SSAS named instance with non-default port. (SBT-2541)

Maintenance Update 90 (14/05/2021)

• No major fixes or changes in YSoft SafeQ 5 maintenance update 90.

Maintenance Update 89 (16/04/2021)

What's new

• Compatibility with YSoft MFX Mobile Reader, see https://portal.ysoft.com/education/webinars/get-to-know-the-new-ysoft-mfx-mobile-reader

Fixes

• Fix vulnerable Tomcat server, CVE-2021-24122 (SBT-2474)

• CRS performance optimization (SBT-2430)

• When printing from usb in Versalink C7020/C7000 with zero credit, the reservation is no longer stuck in Payment system (SBT-2223)

• .Net version was increased, Windows Server 2008 is not supported anymore (minimal supported version is Windows Server 2008R2 SP1) (SBT-1600)

What's new

• Compatibility with YSoft MFX Mobile Reader, see https://portal.ysoft.com/education/webinars/get-to-know-the-new-ysoft-mfx-mobile-reader

Fixes

• Fix vulnerable Tomcat server, CVE-2021-24122 (SBT-2474)

• CRS performance optimization (SBT-2430)

• When printing from usb in Versalink C7020/C7000 with zero credit, the reservation is no longer stuck in Payment system (SBT-2223)

• .Net version was increased, Windows Server 2008 is not supported anymore (minimal supported version is Windows Server 2008R2 SP1) (SBT-1600)

Maintenance Update 88 (22/01/2021)

What's new

• A list of supported MS SQL databases has been extended. YSoft SAFEQ 5 can now be installed on Microsoft SQL Server 2019. The full list of supported databases is in the “Software requirements” section in the YSoft SAFEQ 5 documentation. Central Reporting Services (CRS) obtained missing support for installing on Microsoft SQL Server 2016/2017 and 2019. (SQC-1437)

• YSoft SAFEQ Client for Windows 2.31 can be installed in enterprise mode on Windows Server 2019. A full list of all supported platforms and their versions can be found in the article "YSoft SAFEQ Client features". (SQC-4523)

Fixes:

• CRS database cleanup procedure was improved so it consumes less space on disk storage. (SBT-2234)

• CRS fixes processing of data cubes. There was a defect in selecting the previous partition in the 1^st month of the year. (SBT-2221)

• Installation/uninstallation of Embedded Terminal for Ricoh on devices with Java 7 or older is passing without failure. (SBT-2125)

• Embedded Terminal for Toshiba no longer continues to print when the user logged out.  (SBT-1736)

Warning:

Due to a Java platform change, a direct update from YSoft SAFEQ 5 MU48 and lower, to YSoft SAFEQ 5 MU70 and higher, is NOT supported. Installations with YSoft SAFEQ 5 MU48 and lower should be updated to YSoft SAFEQ 5 MU69 first. Then an update to the latest release can proceed.

Due to a Tomcat configuration improvement, it is recommended to manually update the server.xml when updating from YSoft SAFEQ 5 MU79 and lower. Update Tomcat's server.xml as described in the article "Configuring SSL/TLS for Web interface".

Maintenance Update 87 (12/11/2020)

What's new

• Web Reports no longer display inconsistent historical data.  The cleaning procedure was adjusted to use date instead of record ID. (SBT-1895)

• The documentation article, "Konica Minolta - Disable the Certificate Verification Settings option", for embedded terminals was updated with a detailed explanation and troubleshooting steps. (SBT-773)

Maintenance Update 86 (11/13/2020)

What's new

• Direct queue printing is not blocked with a payment system which was previously deactivated on the CML web interface. (SBT-1917)

• Internal Tomcat web server was updated to version 7.0.103 which mitigates the CVE-2020-13935 vulnerability. (SBT-1909)

• User replication for LDAP source no longer duplicates organization units (OU) when they exist in more than one LDAP source. (SBT-1897)

• CML update with built in PostgreSQL is able to correctly detect and update CML server. (SBT-1850)

• YSoft SAFEQ Client for macOS 4.16 has been notarized. (SBT-1797)

• Embedded Terminal for Lexmark is able to restrict access to functions blocked for a user group. (SBT-1683)

• Xerox Versalink devices correctly process print jobs with &,< or > characters in XCPT headers. (SBT-669)

Maintenance Update 85 (09/18/2020)

What's new

• List of supported currencies for YSoft Payment Machine was extended with Jordanian dinar (JOD) banknotes. Update of data set files in the machine is needed. See more details about update procedure in the article "Remote configuration tool for hardware terminals".

Maintenance Update 84 (08/21/2020)

What's new

• Using Microsoft OAuth2 based authentication for accessing emails in Mobile Print Server
  YSoft SafeQ now supports OAuth2 based authentication for accessing emails in the Mobile Print Server. (Microsoft announced that support for Basic Authentication using username and password will end later this year; the Mobile Print Server used Basic Authentication). From now on, administrators can choose to use the Mobile Print Server in OAuth mode. (SQC-1222)

• Using Google OAuth2 based authentication for accessing emails in Mobile Print Server
  YSoft SafeQ now supports OAuth2 based authentication for accessing emails in the Mobile Print Server. (Google announced the end of ability of less secure apps to access G Suite account data; the Mobile Print Server used this approach). From now on, administrators can choose to use the Mobile Print Server in OAuth mode. (SQC-2863)

Fixed:

• If HTTPS is enforced with 2nd Gen. Embedded Terminal, then images are downloaded over this protocol. (SBT-1544)
  

• Documentation article "Tools - LDAP Integration" was extended with on-demand replication warning informing about possible conflict with the domain's Account Lockout Policy. If the threshold for wrong password entry is set too low then end user can lock their domain account. (SBT-1443)

• Konica Minolta bizhub devices no longer fail during the first embedded terminal installation which was done after a restart of terminal server. (SBT-1511)

• Embedded terminal on Ricoh devices could not be installed in MU83 because of missing file dependency. (SBT-1648)

Maintenance Update 83 (07/24/2020)

Fixed:

• Domain user accounts for the MS SQL database in the payment system now have configurable fields for the standalone installer and the bundle installer.

• The security of the CML web interface was improved against DOM-based Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS).

• New firmware (version 2.5.2) for YSoft USB Card Reader 3 contains the following:

  • Fix for a critical bug on the MFX card reader where ISO15693 cards were read in the wrong byte order

  • Fix in the processing of some HID Elite configuration cards on MFX card readers

  • Fix in the processing of some Hitag 2 key fobs on MFX card readers

  • It is now possible to format blank Mifare DESFire EV1/EV2 8K cards as YSoft Configuration Cards on the MFX card reader

  • Some minor LF and HF technology fixes on the MFX card reader

  • Card removal notification (a.k.a Continous mode) is no longer configured as the default behavior on USB SmartCard readers

  • Protocols 1220 and 1222 on MF&Legic card readers were renumbered to 1320 and 1322 to reflect a difference in the protocol name compared to other readers. Original protocols will remain present as hidden protocols so there is no need to reconfigure  card readers in the field

  • The "update_to_2.5.2.bat" script does not update the service firmware if the correct version is already installed to reduce risk of bricking the card reader

  • "usbrdrtool.exe" now has a -d command line option to reset to defaults, which is suitable for batch script processing

Maintenance Update 82 (06/26/2020)

Fixed:

•  Embedded terminal reinstallation on Xerox Altalink device with a newer firmware version (103.001.000.06000) proceeds without failure.

Maintenance Update 81 (05/29/2020)

What's new

A list of supported operating systems has been extended. YSoft SafeQ 5 can now be installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2019. The full list of supported operating systems is in the “Software requirements” section in the YSoft SafeQ 5 documentation.

Fixed:

• All terminals will not allow free of charge operations if a payment system is used and the payment system did not fully start.

• Job list shows results for searches by cost center if a specific time interval was applied.

• Security of CML web interface was improved against Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) on Dashboard, Support Information Page and other areas.

Maintenance Update 80 (05/04/2020)

Fixed:

• Ricoh embedded terminals were not updated with each new version of the terminal.

• Improvement of LDAP replication so already deactivated objects in the database (users, groups, organisation units) are kept in memory and their processing has been optimized.

• The YSoft SafeQ installation package now includes a newer version of the third party component: Apache Tomcat version 7.0.103. A vulnerability of this component has been recently disclosed, known as CVE-2020-1938 (Ghostcat). The vulnerability is already fixed in Apache Tomcat version 7.0.100. Additionally, the AJP port 8009 is not open in new installations. When updating from MU79 or lower, you may consider disabling the AJP as an additional security level, see list of warning.

• Improved logging of sensitive information in ors.log file.

Maintenance Update 79 (04/03/2020)

Fixed:

• Java platform was updated to the latest minor version - Amazon Corretto 1.8.0_242.

• It could happen that an incorrect credit amount was shown in the Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox XCP when a user opened the embedded terminal print application after copying. It has been fixed in Embedded Terminal 2nd Gen.

Maintenance Update 78 (03/06/2020)

Fixed:

• System information in the CML web interface has been fixed.

Maintenance Update 77 (02/07/2020)

Fixed:

• The "DIGEST-MD5 SASL" protocol has been implemented as an option for the LDAP user accounts integration. The DIGEST-MD5 SASL mechanism performs an authentication to the Active Directory Server in a manner that does not expose the clear-text password. This new authentication option is in compliance with the Microsoft security advisory (ADV190023), which will result in a Microsoft security patch for Active Directory domain controllers planned for March 2020. See the article 2020 LDAP channel binding and LDAP signing requirement for Windows.

• Prints from the "User box" are now accounted for when Embedded Terminal 2nd Gen. for Konica Minolta is in use.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 security has been improved. When an unhandled PUT request is sent to the CML web interface, the SafeQ error page is now displayed instead of an Apache Tomcat one.

• The communication of HP devices with YSoft SafeQ has been optimized. The result is faster login into the Embedded Terminal for HP when the time from a previous login is not longer than 24 hours.

• System information is once again visible in the CML web interface.

• Users can now log into Embedded Terminal for OKI sXP2 with username and password authentication.

Maintenance Update 76 (01/17/2020)

Fixed:

• A new version of YSoft SafeQ Client, version 2.29, is included in the YSoft SafeQ installation package. YSoft SafeQ Client's communication with the YSoft SafeQ 5 server, which was updated from YSoft SafeQ 5 MU74 or lower, is no longer affected when a special configuration is used. The encryption is not enabled and the user identification, “Login dialog” or “Login dialog – username only”, is selected.

• Repeated installation of Embedded Terminal for Xerox AltaLink now passes the step for Convenience Authentication without a warning.

• A print job owner, who has authenticated to YSoft SafeQ Client when printing to a direct queue, is now preferred to a username extracted from a XCPT header created by a Xerox native print driver.

Maintenance Update 75 (12/16/2019)

Warnings:

Due to the Java platform change, a YSoft SafeQ Client's communication with YSoft SafeQ 5 MU75 server and higher, which was updated from a previous YSoft SafeQ 5 version, is affected when a special configuration is used: the encryption is not enabled and the user identification “Login dialog” or “Login dialog – username only” is selected.

To correct the communication, the encryption must be enabled at the Client. There are two options:

• An administrator, or a user with administrator rights, can check the “Use encryption” box in the YSoft SafeQ Client`s port options. (Windows Control panel -> Hardware and Sound Devices and Printers, select a print driver and click Print server properties. Go to Ports tab, select the SafeQ port and click Configure port.)

• The YSoft SafeQ Client can be reinstalled with the “Encryption =1” property in the SafeQ.ini file located in the client’s installation folder. 
  

Fixed:

• The "Settings" menu on HP devices is no longer accessible to users authenticated with Embedded Terminal for HP.

• A user’s credit import via the Credit Charger Tool in YSoft Payment System no longer fails when the username contains the dot character.

• A large scanned file was sometimes improperly processed by the YSoft SafeQ Workflow Processing System. The processing mistakenly started before the file was completely received. It has been fixed.

Maintenance Update 74 (11/15/2019)

• A list of supported operating systems for client application has been extended. The YSoft SafeQ Client application can now be installed on macOS 10.15 Catalina.

• The Cashdesk operator can now identify a new user via a card when the system property "onDemandPaymentAccountCreation" is enabled.

• Unnecessary scrollbars are no longer displayed in the “Wait a moment” window on the Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox.

• The User account in the YSoft Payment System can now be created even when the fields for the user`s name and surname in the Management Interface are empty. The username field is used as a displayed name.

• The Embedded Terminal for Ricoh no longer displays incompatible jobs when the property "showIncompatibleJob" is disabled.

• The Logout button once again correctly ends the user session in the Embedded Terminal for OKI sXP2.

Maintenance Update 73 (10/18/2019)

• Automated Scan Workflows are once again functional with Embedded Terminal for Ricoh on Ricoh IM 430F/350F devices.

• Embedded Terminal for Ricoh has been adapted for special conditions to prevent a random freeze of the terminal on older devices.

• The portrait/landscape orientation of scanned documents has been fixed for Ricoh IM 430 devices.

• The YSoft SafeQ installation package now includes a newer version of the third party component: Apache Tomcat version 7.0.94, to remove vulnerabilities of the previous version.

• Embedded Terminal for Ricoh now closes all sessions even when the device doesn`t send an ending message after a proceeding scan. A new system property, “ricohHotFolderScanConfirmationAfterLogoutTimeout“, has been created to solve the non-standard situations.

• The XML parser used for importing scan workflows from an XML file has been configured to prevent XML External Entity attacks.

Maintenance Update 72 (09/20/2019)

• Users can once again log into Terminal Professional v3.5 with username/password when the “Card and PIN or username/password” authentication method is set up.

• Card authentication on the Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox ApeosPort 4 has been fixed.

• Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox XCP now correctly opens the YSoft SafeQ application after an authentication when the system property “initial-screen” has the value “sq”.

• Mobile Print Server can now resolve the "Unicode (UTF-8)" encoding name.

• A new version of Google's cloud print connector, 1.5.19261.1103 (product extension SWC-22), is now available on Partner Portal. Updates include:

• The connector keeps a list of printers after a restart

• Administrators can configure a replacement of a print job owner per printer

• The update procedure keeps the current configuration

• A3, legal and letter formats are now supported in the default configuration

Maintenance Update 71 (08/23/2019)

• Embedded Terminal for Xerox no longer creates settlements in the YSoft Payment System (YPS) when an operation should be free of charge. In other words, a user can make a copy, print or scan when the user is a member of a group that has unlimited access as defined in the YPS.

• Device native scanning is now functional with Embedded Terminal for Samsung even when quotas from the YSoft Payment System are used.

• A new property "StoredDeliveriesMaxBatchSize' with a default value of 10 has been added to the Terminal Server configuration file. Also, the default value of the "PendingRequestsPeriod" property has been changed from 10 to 60. This change  improves the recovery process in a heavy loaded environment when the communication of Terminal Server to other services was temporarily interrupted.

• Newly installed third party applications on HP devices are no longer locked for an authenticated user.

Maintenance Update 70 (07/26/2019)

• The YSoft SafeQ installation package now includes a new Java platform, the third party component, Amazon Corretto 8 (https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/). The new platform replaces Oracle OpenJDK 8 because Oracle has announced that support for OpenJDK 8 will expire. Amazon Corretto 8 fulfills expectations from customers and partners: Amazon plans to apply urgent fixes (including security) when they are available and ready to use; updating YSoft SafeQ 5 to Amazon Corretto 8 is easier than updating to the Java 11 platform because the same Java version is used in both previous and upcoming YSoft SafeQ 5 releases.

• Cleaning of print jobs from the spooler has been optimized to decrease a server load.

• A user billing code is now reset to a default value when a user authenticates at Embedded Terminal for HP and SafeQ billing code application is not enabled.

• It could happen that a user received an empty scanned file when scanning on Embedded Terminal for Lexmark. It has been fixed; the Embedded Terminal has been adapted to a specific behavior of some Lexmark devices, mainly the Lexmark MX 711, that sends metadata earlier than the scanned file.

• A new SDK version, Lexmark ESS.62.045, is now used for Embedded Terminal for Lexmark. The new version keeps the Embedded Terminal compatible with the latest firmware used in Lexmark devices.

• Embedded Terminal for Xerox can now be installed on Xerox Workcentre 6515.

• The “Firewall settings for YSoft SafeQ” chapter has been added to the YSoft SafeQ 5 Administrative Guide. Administrators should follow the instructions to increase security of the YSoft SafeQ implementation.

Maintenance Update 69 (06/28/2019)

• After implementing a newer version of the third-party component, Aspose libraries, called from YSoft SafeQ 5 Mobile Print Server MU66 and later, images were not converted with the right proportions and orientation. It has been fixed.

• Embedded Terminal for Sharp has been fixed. Administrators can now install the terminal even when no application is defined yet in the "Sharp osa" menu of the Sharp device's system settings.

Maintenance Update 68 (05/31/2019)

• Device dependent accounting for Xerox AltaLink devices has been adapted to different situations. A PostScript print job is now accounted for even when the device’s accounting log file only includes one record assigned to the print job.

• When a YSoft SafeQ accounting driver is not correctly loaded to a device for any reason, an error message is now written in the log file.

• Temporary files are now automatically cleaned from an internal temporary folder after processing scanned documents from Toshiba devices.

• It is now possible to create a chart in the web reports even when a price field is chosen.

• The ORS overview window, which is accessible from the CML web → Reports menu, now correctly shows the CML servers' status in a clustered environment.

• The Rule-Based Engine now correctly modifies the print job’s XCPT headers and the attributes, like number of copies, are no longer ignored.

• In rare cases, it can happen that the third-party component, “Aspose.Word” called from YSoft SafeQ Mobile Print server, doesn’t convert a Microsoft Word document to a print file and the conversion process must be stopped. A process in the stoppage has been fixed and the computer no longer gets stuck when the conversion was interrupted accordingly to the “conversionTimeout” system property.

Maintenance Update 67 (05/03/2019)

• A scanned document’s file size is now smaller when the Compact PDF format is used for Embedded Terminal 2nd Gen. for Konica Minolta. Documents scanned as Compact PDF are now the same size for both browser type and native embedded terminals for Konica Minolta.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal’s failover functionality needs a right setup in a clustered environment. When the “enableNetworkLoadBalancer” system property was enabled and the “enableEtcd” system property was mistakenly disabled, users couldn’t authenticate on the Embedded Terminal. In this situation the failover behavior is now suppressed and users can authenticate.

• Firmware of External Terminals can now be upgraded from the YSoft SafeQ server even when the server has more network cards.

• Administrators can now configure user email notifications about successful or unsuccessful processing of mobile prints. New system properties “mpsMailUserSuccess” and “mpsMailUserFailure” have been created.

• Print job’s wrong accounting, that was recognized on Konica Minolta Bizhub 4050 devices with the MR13 firmware, has been fixed.

Maintenance Update 66 (04/05/2019)

• YSoft USB Card Reader 3 didn’t read the Mifare Classic cards for two minutes after restart of the reader. It has been fixed and the new firmware version 2.4.3 is in the YSoft SafeQ installation package.

• After implementing Aspose library for downloading emails in SafeQ 5 MU62 and later, email messages were not deleted from the email server when an IMAP connection was used. Furthermore, they were reprocessed as new jobs. A newer version or the Aspose library is now used and the problem is fixed.

• When network connectivity with a Xerox device was interrupted during authentication on Embedded Terminal for Xerox, it could happen that no subsequent authentications passed even when the network connectivity was fixed. It has been fixed.

• A new version of YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh (1.0.5) is certified and is now part of the YSoft SafeQ installation package. The main enhancements are:

  • A fix is in place for fail over functionality in clustered environments when “Primary node preferred” is used.

  • The “java.lang.NullPointerException” error no longer appears on the Embedded Terminal.

  • Communication between the Embedded Terminal and YSoft Payment System has been fixed.

Maintenance Update 65 (03/08/2019)

• YSoft Payment Machine now supports Lebanese and Georgian currencies.

• Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox can be once again installed and uninstalled on Fuji Xerox ApeosPort-VII devices from Management Interface.

• In rare cases, a secure print job could disappear from the user’s list when the ORS servers are in use in a clustered environment.  It has been fixed.

• Mobile Print Server can once again download emails when theTLSv1.0 protocol is disabled in the operating system’s registry.

• Prints from USB flash disk on devices with Embedded Terminal for Xerox are now accounted well even when the username only consists of numeric characters.

• When YSoft SafeQ installation checks the system readiness and a problem is recognized the real application name is now shown in the log instead of an unresolved text “${PRODUCT_NAME}”.

• CML recovery procedure in a clustered environment has been improved in case the recovery of a slave node is provided after the “remove-jobs-from-sq” property’s period. All jobs are now accounted.

• The billing code assigned to a print job is now visible on the info page in Embedded Terminal for Ricoh.

• The width of email address columns in YSoft SafeQ database has been extended to 256 characters to be in alignment with RFC 2821 SMTP.

Maintenance Update 64 (02/08/2019)

• Connection to the Central Reporting System (CRS) can now be secured, the SSL/TLS protocol version and ciphers used are configurable. See the "Configuring TLS connection for CRS" chapter in the YSoft SafeQ 5 Administrative Guide.

• Mobile Print Server email notifications now contain the correct URL address to the mobile web interface.

• YSoft Payment System installer now creates a “ps-conf” folder for configuration files.

• User detail data is now correctly shown to the operator in the YSoft Payment System web interface.

• A better error message is now displayed in the YSoft Payment System web interface when the administrator creates an entitlement and the user wasn’t found.

• The cash desk operator can now open the user’s account even when the user was already deleted in the web interface but his money account hasn’t been deleted yet. The system creates the user’s account again automatically.

• Reliability of printing in a CML clustered environment has been improved when an external terminal is used and the print job was sent to a different node than the device and terminal are connected to.

• Direct print is once again functional on devices where Embedded Terminal for Ricoh is installed with no accounting or off-line accounting options.

• A message about the expiration of a credit or quota reservation in YSoft Payment System, in some circumstances, was not replicated into Terminal Server and a user couldn’t log into Embedded Terminal. This has been fixed.

• LDAP settings are no longer modified in the device when installing Embedded Terminal for Xerox and the “enableXeroxAccessDefinition” property is set to “Application registry”.

Maintenance Update 63 (01/11/2019)

• When Embedded Terminal for Brother is in use, YSoft SafeQ Terminal Server services didn’t always start automatically. The services’ dependencies have been changed and the service now starts well.

• The default value of the system property "securityProtocolTypesForOutboundCommunication" has been changed from an empty value to "Ssl3, Tls, Tls11, Tls12" to avoid SSL/TLS configuration issues for Terminal Server communication.

• The password of SNMPv3 credentials is no longer logged as plain text in the Terminal Server log file.

• Device dependent accounting now correctly reads accounting data from Xerox devices even when users have special characters in their username, like â, ç, ĕ.

• A print job with a title containing the text string “Copy - (" is no longer accounted for as copies on Xerox devices.

• The application name of Embedded Terminal for HP no longer includes scan features when scanning is not requested in the Embedded Terminal definition.

• The YSoft Payment System upgrade to version 1.60.1.2 has been fixed. An error message about Tomcat uninstallation should no longer appear.

• Editing Entitlements in the YSoft Payment System management interface is now faster and no longer gets stuck with a “Please wait” message.

Maintenance Update 62 (11/23/2018)

• Embedded Terminal for Xerox has been improved. Color restrictions on copying can now be defined by adjusting YSoft SafeQ user roles.

• PowerPoint presentations with different formats are now correctly transformed and printed on A4  paper when the “correctSlideSize” property is true in the Mobile print server’s configuration file.

• A new version of firmware for Terminal Professional 3.5 (3.15.16) has been created. Improvements are:

  • User credentials are no longer written in the log file.

  • The logo visible on the touch screen can be customized via the remote configuration tool for hardware terminals (Termtool).

• User access to Xerox VersaLink native copy and fax functions can now be restricted based on a user role.

• The print progress window is once again shown on the Embedded Terminal 2nd Gen. for Xerox VersaLink.

• The Embedded Terminal installation guide for Toshiba / OKI devices, based on e-BRIDGE NEXT or later architecture, has been extended. An IP-specific certificate is necessary for secure communication.

• Connectivity of Embedded Terminals  to Terminal Server in a clustered environment with load balancing has been improved. The first start of Embedded Terminal is now quicker. This applies to Embedded Terminal for Xerox, Fuji Xerox, Toshiba, OKI, Sharp and Ricoh devices.

• When a terminal installation fails because the device is locked by a user or administrator, a better message is now written in the log file: “Could not log in to the device because it is in use.”

Maintenance Update 61 (10/26/2018)

• The YSoft SafeQ 5 Client popup window is no longer hidden under other windows and is always visible.

• The Mobile Print Server service crashed under some circumstances while stopping. It has been fixed.

• The YSoft Payment System could stop working with an “Out of Memory” error message in environments with YSoft Payment Machines. It has been fixed.

• The YSoft Payment System installation files now include a newer version of the third party component: Apache Tomcat version 9.0.12.

• Parsing of print jobs from a CAD environment has been fixed so that job names and accounting works correctly now on Toshiba /OKI devices.

• A security scan no longer can break the connection between the Terminal Server and the CML/ORS Server.

• Parsing of PostScript print jobs has been changed to fix printing on Ricoh devices.

• Oracle Java JConsole tool was added back into the YSoft SafeQ ORS installation package so the tool can be used once the YSoft SafeQ ORS is installed without any additional manual steps.

• Web reports no longer show scan counters when the scan module is not licensed.

• Communication with External Terminals (Terminal Professional v3.5 and Terminal Ultralight) is now secured by default. Additionally, any non secured communication attempts are refused when secured communication is used.

• Embedded Terminal for Toshiba / OKI now supports double byte characters so the Thai language is now supported correctly.

• Embedded Terminal for Lexmark has been adapted for small displays. Text no longer overflows the screen for the German language.

• The Embedded Terminal for HP no longer shows an error message when the user logs out from the terminal.

• The Embedded Terminal for Lexmark is no longer stuck when the user tries to switch to the print application or scans again when a previous scan job has finished.

• Communication of YSoft SafeQ Server with Embedded Terminal for Sharp now respects the "securityProtocolTypesForOutboundCommunication" property when it is set to Tls12.

• Administrator no longer has to manually download a special installation package for the Embedded Terminal for Ricoh.  It is now part of the native YSoft SafeQ installation.

Maintenance Update 60 (09/27/2018)

• New firmware (version 2.4.2) for YSoft USB Card Readers 2 and 3 is available. The ability to read the Indala UIN card technology is now functional.

• A new system property has been created: "maxNumberOfSosCommunicationTries". This new system property allows better adaption of Terminal Server – CML communication in environments with a high latency of the data transmission.

• Embedded Terminal for Lexmark has been adapted for devices with a small display (e.g. Lexmark CX725). Text no longer overflows the screen.

• Documentation on Embedded Terminal for OKI and Toshiba installations now includes correct information about a security certificate’s format.

• The expiration date of an SLA was fixed to always show a precise date in the Management Interface. When a support agreement is going to expire, Partners can contact their Y Soft Regional Sales Manager to arrange a Software Support/SLA extension for the impacted customer to ensure continuous future support.

• Deleted billing codes are now highlighted with a red italic font in reports.

• A new PJL header “@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL” is used for a print job header's modification instead of the “@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCLXL” for better compatibility with print devices.

Maintenance Update 59 (08/31/2018)

• YSoft Payment System: It is now possible to make changes to prepaid accounts of users already deleted in the Management Interface. Administrators can disable, enable or remove any existing account.
  Example: When a student postpones studies for a short time, the student's prepaid account can be manually disabled and enabled again when studies resume. When a new user with an identical username must be created in the Management Interface, the old prepaid account can be removed from the YSoft Payment System.

• A new version of YSoft SafeQ 5 Embedded Terminal for Ricoh (1.0.4) was certified and is now available on Partner Portal. The main enhancement: fail over functionality's fix for clustered environments. The new version has been tested with YSoft SafeQ 5 MU58 and higher.

• Customization Catalog item SWC-2, Credentials generator (PIN generator for guest mobile printing), has been improved. Administrators can now define a special list of keyboard characters which are not allowed in generated passwords to prevent frustrating users. For example, a user might confuse zero (0) for O or the capital letter “I” and the lower case letter “l”.

• Mobile Print Server no longer stops processing a document when the document is temporarily locked by an external process, e.g. an antivirus.

• YSoft Payment System administration no longer freezes when the Reports page is selected.

• Reporting of prints is functional again when “Only analyze jobs” option is used with YSoft Job Parser.

• Coverage’s reporting of print jobs has been fixed when the job is BW (or fully color) and has only one page.

• Billing codes are no longer visible in Embedded Terminals when this functionality is disabled.

• No error message is displayed now when a user selects the Home button during the printing of a job on Xerox devices with Embedded Terminal.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 data security has been improved related to the Java Deserialization vulnerability issue. All ports using the JMX protocol can now be closed via SafeQ configuration.

• Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta / Develop / Olivetti now supports devices with the “LK-114 Serverless pull printing” solution installed.

• Charging of copies on devices with Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox XCP has been fixed.

• Delivery of scan jobs from Lexmark devices has been fixed. All scanned documents are stored even if there is complex processing.

Maintenance Update 58 (08/03/2018)

• The scheduler responsible for the automatic reports’ creation and delivery no longer ends in a never-ending loop when a target email address doesn’t exist.

• CRS report page no longer shows a Java exception error when the data transfer to CRS is followed by the CML restart.

• Cost centres’ handling has been fixed in case the LDAP user replication is provided from more domain.

• If the initial screen of Embedded Terminal for Toshiba has MDS mode set to "Copy" in the CML, the UI on the device behaves accordingly.

• Installation of Embedded Terminal for HP has been improved. If a security certificate already exists in the HP device from a previous Embedded Terminal’s installation, it is automatically deleted and the new one is uploaded.

• Missing property is no longer logged as an error in the ORS logs for a scan logging. It is now logged as a warning.

Maintenance Update 57 (07/09/2018)

• Quotas’ propagation on the Embedded Terminal for Ricoh has been fixed in case more quotas are used.

• The new version, SRET 1.0.3 (Embedded Terminal for Ricoh), has been adapted to the newest firmware of Ricoh devices. Embedded Terminal for Ricoh is now compatible even with older versions of YSoft SafeQ 5.

• Export of web reports has been fixed in case a cost centre filter is used.

• Job listing was fixed for printing via Embedded Terminal for HP with IPPSSL backend on the  HP FutureSmart 4 devices.

• Terminal Server can now be secured when the device supports certificate usage and other necessary parts of secure communication. This improvement is applicable for Embedded Terminal's installation and scan's initialization.

• The Embedded Terminal for Sharp/Sagem no longer is stuck when an unknown card is used for user authentication.

Maintenance Update 56 (06/08/2018)

• Missing objects (users and cost centres) in CRS reports can now be automatically fixed by resending data to CRS from the CML.

• Translation of the configuration property “Terminal Server password (single)" to the Czech language has been improved.

• Only one Paypal icon can now be visible in the client interface when clustering of YSoft Payment Systems is implemented.

• Reservation in the YSoft Payment System is now properly cancelled when SafeQ was unable to deliver the print job to the printer using a direct queue with off-line accounting. Reservations and potential cancellations are done individually for each delivery attempt.

• Description of the system properties: “exp_locale” and “int_defaultLanguage” has been improved.

• One click with the user ID card is now sufficient for “waking-up” the device from sleep mode and successfully logging in to the Toshiba/OKI device with YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal.

• SNMP v3 Context default value of the Embedded Terminal for HP device definition now matches the default context value of the HP devices.

• Native Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta has been adapted to the new firmware of Konica Minolta devices. The following features are once again accessible:

  • PDF/A and PDF Web Optimization

  • Page Setting

  • JPEG file type

  • Scan Size

  • Original type

Maintenance Update 55 (05/11/2018)

• Data transfer into CRS database has been improved. Job titles with special characters could stuck the data flow to CRS. The job titles are now checked to prevent this situation.

• Printing from print drivers dedicated for “Non-postscript Fuji Xerox printers” has been fixed. The print jobs are now properly parsed, so the job attributes are recognized by YSoft SafeQ and the print preview is accessible.

• Recovery procedure of clustered YSoft SafeQ servers' documentation has been improved for the case when a non-master node has been left in an error state for a longer time than the “remove-jobs-from-sq” property says. When the right procedure is followed, job data are restored properly.

• The “Print all” check box is again accessible on Embedded Terminal for Sharp.

Maintenance Update 54 (04/13/2018)

• HTML to PDF conversion works now fine when a user prints web pages or emails using the YSoft SafeQ Mobile Print.

• The YSoft Payment System’s failover behavior has been improved in terms of its cooperation with the Management Servers. The ‘multiSubnetFailover=true’ JDBC configuration has been implemented.

• Ysoft SafeQ CML version is now shown in the System tab - System information – Components section on the CML management web page.

• Enumeration of the job total price is now more accurate. The ‘BigDecimal’ format is internally used instead of the ‘Float’ for the final price calculation.

• Firefox browser no longer offers to remember any password of service accounts.

• Security has been improved. SafeQ CML login page no longer makes visible the IP addresses of the network adapters in the html source in case there are more adapters on the server.

• A certificate’s upload to the device by an automatic Embedded Terminal installation procedure when secure connection is requested has been fixed.

• A clear message is shown when the installation of Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta fails because SSL/TLS is switched off in the device.

• A better message is shown when the installation of Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta fails because somebody else is directly logged in the device.

• Security has been improved. The 'securityProtocolTypesForOutboundCommunication' property is now considered in more cases for communication between Embedded Terminal and Terminal Server.

• A user can make a copy or print even when the price of the job is ‘more expensive’ and the value is comparable to (but lower than) the total amount of his credit.

• Charging of the jobs printed from the User Box on Konica Minolta devices has been fixed.

• It is now possible to install concurrently Embedded Terminals for Lexmark into the devices with different firmware versions. E.g. one device with firmware version 6 and a second one with firmware version 3 or 4.

Maintenance Update 53 (03/21/2018)

• Device deletion in the CML web interface now involves correct deactivation of the device in the CRS (reporting system).

• Users with the local admin rights can now filter print jobs for a specific device in the CML web interface.

• Analysis of the print job's XCPT header has been improved in term of detection B/W/color document's feature.

• Communication of the Terminal server with YPS (YSoft Payment System) has been improved in term of better handling of quota reservation. Unexpected errors should no longer appear when a user is logging in Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta just after quota entitlements' changing or restarting the YPS services by the administrator.

• Touch screen of Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta now reacts consistently at any item when the user’s tap is released.

• On Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox and Sharp, the advanced finishing options window is no longer mistakenly shown.

• Users can now repeatedly select and deselect the print job by double click on the Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox XCP.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 data security has been increased related to communications between YSoft SafeQ Terminal server and Embedded Terminals. This is accomplished with default use of the SHA256 certificate instead of the previously used SHA1 certificate.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 now supports Embedded Terminal for Lexmark devices with framework 6.

Maintenance Update 52 (02/22/2018)

• A log message in the MPS service log file has been improved when secured SMTP connection fails.

• Update process of YSoft SafeQ 5 has been fixed. The backup tool no longer modifies the comment lines which could cause a crash of the upgrade procedure.

• LDAP replication now parses the name and surname strings in a better way.

• Rule based engine now applies all watermark rules when defined.

• Print job price estimation is properly synchronized across all CML cluster nodes.

• On-line accounting processes now operates all “threads” correctly and the ORS so CML servers can run longer time without any restart.

• Refresh of the entitlement definitions in the YSoft Payment System admin interface no longer crashes when hundreds and more users have a common cost centre.

• A clear information message now appears when a user is not allowed to log in Embedded terminal due to lack of funds.

• The "initial-screen" system property works well with the Embedded terminal 2nd Gen. for Xerox.

• Rule based engine’s rules don’t longer override the Finishing options in Embedded terminal when the "finishingOptionsPriority" system property is  enabled.

• Embedded Terminal for Lexmark don’t longer crashes, when a print job name includes a special character like “&“.

• Uninstallation of Embedded Terminal for Lexmark don’t result in a blue screen on the device’s UI.

• It is now possible to restrict access to copy application in Embedded terminal for Xerox.

• Embedded terminal for Konica Minolta supports the Welsh language.

Maintenance Update 51 (02/06/2018)

• Device SW locks are now automatically released after a direct print failure and administrators don’t need to release locks manually.

• A new version of Microsoft.Owin, a third party component, has been implemented in YSoft SafeQ. Terminal server now use the Microsoft.Owin version 3.1.0.

• Security of Embedded Terminal for Toshiba and OKI devices has been increased. HTTPS communication can be used.

• Installation of Embedded Terminal for HP devices no longer fails when reporting and authentication is requested on the FutureSmart 4 family.

• ALL PAGES quota is now functional on Embedded Terminal for Lexmark MFDs.

• Embedded Terminal no longer crashes when “detail button” is tapped and the special character “&” is present in the text.

• Embedded Terminal no longer mistakenly downloads any print jobs just after installation.

• Administrators can now successfully stop the Terminal Server service.

• The "time variable" is now properly updated when a scan template is used more times in one session.

• In Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta the "Separate scan" button is now available when a device firmware has been upgraded to the version Q4 or R9.

Maintenance Update 50 (01/10/2018)

• Scan workflows can better utilize the hardware capabilities of Sharp multifunction devices. The compression level of PDF format is adjustable so the quality and size of the scanned documents are well adapted to its purpose.

• The security of data inside YSoft SafeQ has been increased related to communication between YSoft SafeQ and any type of Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta. This is accomplished with added support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 protocols.

• Connectivity CRS to the database has been fixed when a CRS-database-path is defined during the CRS installation.

• YSoft Payment System is now able to handle a large number of email notifications.

• Usernames are now correctly removed from the print jobs' title when the “parseUserFromTitle” property is enabled and the “parseUserFromTitlePreserverTitle” is disabled.

• Replicator.log cleared from unnecessary messages.

• Hex2ASCII conversion improved in the ID card conversion procedure. It can be now key sensitive.

• Tooltips in the Print Access definitions corrected.

•   Only YSoft SafeQ application are locked by default after installation of Embedded Terminal for Xerox with the "To each application" authentication mode.

• It is now possible to prefer one of two OpenAPI versions for Konica Minolta devices. A new property " kmOpenApiVersion" has been created.

• Stability of the Embedded Terminals for Lexmark has been improved.

Maintenance Update 49 (12/01/2017)

• Java version 8 has been implemented in YSoft SafeQ 5.

• Messages related to the YSoft SafeQ 5 installation programs have been revised and translated in all supported languages.

• Additional information for external payment systems is now provided. The device ID has been added into the details of payment records for further processing.

• Using the SNMPv3 protocol for communication between YSoft SafeQ and Konica Minolta devices no longer causes devices to lock down anymore.

• Users are better informed about their insufficient funds or quotas when using Embedded Terminals for HP, Sharp, Oki, Toshiba and Konica Minolta with browser based authentication.

• The delay before printing when the Print All feature is used has been significantly shortened.

• Export files from web reports now include all columns after updating from a previous YSoft SafeQ 5 version.

• When configuring SSL for communication with Konica Minolta devices, higher encryption key types, like RSA-2048_SHA-256 can be used.

• It is again possible to select a single job to print from the list on Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox.

• A warning message appears when the Xerox Secure Access must be manually set up after installation of Embedded Terminal for Xerox devices.

Maintenance Update 48 (10/23/2017)

Maintenance Update 47 (09/11/2017)

Fixes

• User access rights is considered correctly when the Print all functionality is used at Ricoh Embedded Terminals.

• Behavior of the Ricoh Embedded Terminal has been improved when machine is awakened after longer time of staying in sleep mode.

• Accounting of copy jobs has been fixed when YSoft Payment System is used at Ricoh Embedded Terminals.

• Default billing code is setup correctly to users and cost centers when LDAP synchronization is used. Accounting of print jobs is now more accurate.

• When copying on a MFD and short failures appears in the network communication with SafeQ servers, accounting of copies could be duplicated. It no longer happens.

• Job delivery timeout is now checked wen the IPP SSL backend is used for job transmission to a printer. Print process doesn't stuck in a special cases.

• Customers can now use the Xerox native PostScript print drivers and documents are printed without errors.. PJL modification by SafeQ is provided correctly.

• A new expert level configuration option was added: “removePjlDminfoForHp”. When it is enabled, SafeQ 5 is able suppress the @PJL DMINFO header from the print job and it can be correctly printed on the HP devices with SafeQ 5 Embedded Terminal.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 CRS can now be installed with the MS SQL 2008 x64 database running on a non-default instance.

• XML reports are generated correctly even if a cost centre name includes the “&” letter. The “&” is a reserved character in the XML and must be treated in a special way.

• Administrator is now properly informed when importing user PINs from a CSV file and a PIN is not stored in the database due to a PIN value duplication.

• Behavior of SafeQ 5 HP Embedded Terminal has been improved. The USB reader still works when a MFD has been staying in the sleep mode for a longer time.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 Embedded Terminal on Fuji Xerox now allows immediate login after logout when YSoft Payment System is implemented and used.

• Installation of YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox WorkCentre 4265 (EIP2.5) has been fixed.

• When the Print all functionality is applied at YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal while a user is logging in, printed documents are no more visible in the Waiting folder.

• Cooperation of Sharp Embedded Terminals with YSoft Payment System has been improved. User can print multiple jobs as a batch job if he has sufficient credit / quota.

Maintenance Update 46 (08/01/2017)

What's new

• The security of user data inside the YSoft SafeQ 5 system has been increased. We have enhanced security of communication between the MFD’s Embedded Terminal and YSoft SafeQ Terminal Server in order to make "snooping“ of user print jobs more difficult.

• On the Xerox Embedded Terminal, the "Favorites" button is now available only for layouts: "All in one" and "Waiting, Printed, Favorites". For the "Waiting, Printed" or "Waiting" layout the Favorite button was removed due to consistency of the product.

• On Lexmark Embedded Terminals, the system of messages was improved by pictograms replacing long texts.

Fixes

• CRS can be installed on a non-default SQL database port and an instance of the SQL database can be used as well.

• When CRS installation fails due to typos in installation files, it can be successfully installed again after manual correction of an xmla file.

• Mobile print server could stop monitoring a hot folder under some circumstances. This was fixed, and additionally it is possible to assign a hot folder with a standard Windows path.

• When HTTPS connection is enabled, the MPS is able to handle redirection to secure connection even without having to set the secure="true" property in SafeQ connection configuration.

• MPS logs messages about unsuccessful login to the mobile printing e-mail account could be discarded. This was fixed, and correct messages are displayed in the log.

• YSoft Payment System consumed too much memory for processing when many reservations are open. Handling of quota reservations is provided in a better way now.

• When billing codes are generally disabled, no billing code is used for job accounting now.

• Some customers were facing issues with pending jobs and locks in NRG. Locks are now removed immediately when a device finishes work and NRG works correctly.

• Descriptions of three properties in CML system settings were improved: max-stats-rows-full, max-stats-rows-base, web-stats-enable.

• Special characters such as  \$(-* can now be used for naming a custom report.

• Uninstallation of the Embedded Terminal on Konica Minolta devices now gives administrators a warning and refuses to uninstall when a user is currently logged in at an MFD.

• Behavior of Embedded Terminals on Konica Minolta devices has been improved when the YSoft Payment System is used and outage of the MFD occurs due to missing consumables exceeding a time limit. Now, the system doesn't create duplicated reservations in YPS.

• On FujiXerox XCP Embedded Terminals the authentication process can be repeated with one card without any error.

• On Sharp devices with OSA 2, the Embedded Terminal works properly even if the YSoft SafeQ scan application is not installed.

• On Xerox devices with Embedded Terminal, restricted access to applications now works properly. Administrators no longer need to make manual corrections in the MFD setup.

Maintenance Update 45 (06/23/2017)

What's new

• SafeQ Mac Client has been changed in accordance to a new Canon print drivers feature. Additional key word "command_" is accepted.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Hewlett Packard devices becomes a standard part of the YSoft SafeQ 5 MU45 and higher.

Maintenance Update 44 (05/26/2017)

What's new

• New configuration option "accountingCanceledScanWithZeroPages was introduced".  When enabled, canceled scan job (e.g. due to insufficient credit) is accounted as 0 pages. When Disabled (default value) canceled scan job are accounted according to accounting information provided by MFD.

• SHA/AES128 are now supported by the Terminal Server and can be used for SNMP communication encryption.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for HP: Scan workflows can now be configured to contain paper format and orientation which allows correct scanning on devices without paper sensor. 

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox: Fixed issue that caused incoming Fax to Mailbox to be accounted twice.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox: YSoft SafeQ now correctly records failed Fax transmission.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Fixed issues that randomly caused scan to fail when user scanned via ADF.

• Device Monitor stores counters even for MFD's with Embedded Terminal installed.

• Terminal inactivity timeout is correctly applied even for values smaller than 1.

Maintenance Update 43 ( 04/28/2017 )

What's new

• The name of the Terminal Server service 

• YSoft SafeQ is by default configured to make up-to 15 checks if the parser has already finished  processing the jobs. There is delay 30 seconds between each check. We introduced two new configuration properties that allow to set this in more details:

  • parserOutputTimeout (30 by default) - allows to define the delay between each check

  • parserOutputTimeoutAttempts (15 by default) - allows to define number of attempts

  • This will help to prevent situations where the parser estimated incorrect number of pages due to lack o time for completing the analysis.

Fixes

• Fixed issue that on ORS prevented the members of the VIP shared queue to access the shared jobs.

• Fixed issue that occasionally prevented jobs from being deleted in case the " refreshPrintJobs"  configuration property was enabled. 

• Fixed issue that prevented users from being able to enter the native applications when embedded terminal was not installed with all applications.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox with XPC: Fixed issue that prevented the terminal from being reinstalled.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox: Fixed issue that occasionally caused the accounting record was occasionally duplicated in clustered environment.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue with USB print on devices with  OpenAPI 3.7 and card authentication.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Direct prints are printed correctly in the order they were sent.

• A3 PCL jobs are correctly analyzed and displayed as incompatible on devices with disabled A3 tag.

• PDF files generated by Mobile Print Server can now be made PDF/A compliant. For this a new conversion option in conversion.config was added: <add key="ensurePdfA" value="true"/>.

• Fixed issue that Search for email recipients on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta Native has been returning also deleted users. It returns only active users now.

• Fixed issue that prevented Administrator to edit user parameters in Scan workflow definition in Internet Explorer 11.

Maintenance Update 42 (03/30/2017)

What's new

• In YSoft SafeQ 5 MU 41, we enabled scan job building (ability to generate a single output file when scanning from glass on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI and OKI sXP2). With MU42, we improved accounting of scans produced by job building.

• We made usage of hardware hosting YSoft SafeQ 5 Terminal Server more efficient. In particular, HP Web services are started only when at least one device with HP embedded terminal is installed in YSoft SafeQ.

Fixes

• Licence can be activated for customers with long names

• Improved print job parsing so amount of estimated pages is correct

• Browser terminal:

  • Broken format of billing codes in Japanese is fixed

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba:

  • A3 jobs that are specified as undefined are no longer accounted as A4 jobs when using bypass

  • "Ledger" paper type is accounted as a A3 job

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta:

  • User can no longer print pairs of color jobs infinitely when running out of quota for color jobs

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Lexmark:

  • Fixed issue with Lexmark MFD always using Letter page size when scanning

• YSoft SafeQ now supports Compact PDF as an output file format for scanned files on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox, Sharp and Sagem

Maintenance Update 41 (01/03/2017)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI sXP2 has been removed from the Early Access Program.

• It is possible to scan multiple documents into one output file from glass on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI and OKI sXP2. This function can be enabled via "okiJobBuilding" configuration property in the System Settings.

Fixes

• "Device - location" column in the Web reports is displayed correctly.

• Fixed issue with processing PPTX files using the Mobile Print Server.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox:

  • Fixed issue when in specific cases Print all function was not working. 

  • Japanese characters on the authentication screen are displayed correctly without overflowed texts.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta:

  • Public user accounting has been improved. The device counters are stored during installation/reinstallation, which allows to correctly account also first job from public user.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: 

  • Fixed issue with wrong screen displayed during card assignment flow. 

  • Print All on now works correctly with card authentication.

Maintenance Update 40 (26/01/2017)

What's new

• The cmlweb.log and cmlweb-audit-log.log files also contain information that particular authentication token (card/PIN/PUK) has been removed from the user.

• Several improvements to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery were implemented. For more information see the article Configuring CSRF protection.

Fixes

• Fixed defect that prevented the embedded terminal to be correctly uninstalled from the "Actions" menu.

• Fixed issue in CML preinstallation check that incorrectly calculated required space for installation/upgrade.

• YSoft Mobile Print Server: Fixed defect that occurred when file with invalid characters was uploaded, this caused further uploads were not processed.

• Fixed issue that prevented the user to release job from YSoft SafeQ Client before billing code was selected.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Accounting messages from non-existing users are accounted under the unknown user.

Maintenance Update 39 (15/12/2016)

Fixes

• Fixed problem when disallowing "color" jobs using Access Definition together with forcing B/W by Rule Based Engine caused that it was impossible to release a job.

• Fixed issue with (Novell) LDAP differential replication.

• Card number is now correctly displayed in terminal access and it is possible to use card assignment, when using unknown card on Toshiba Embedded Terminal with card number conversion.

• Fixed issue with accounting on Sharp Terminal Embedded when job was accounted as purged and also as printed.

• Fixed authentication issues with authorized FTP. Non VIP Users assigned to the shared queue are possible to see jobs sent to this queue on ORS.

• Performance of Ysoft Payment System has been improved by optimizing algorithms and adding indexes.

Maintenance Update 38 (16/11/2016)

Fixes

• YSoft Payment System now supports MS SQL 2016.

• Print Roaming module is no longer required for direct print.

• Mobile Print Server now logs certificate issues into "MPS.log" file, so if necessary, it is possible to check the log file for errors.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox: XPJL implementation syntax was updated.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Direct print in Near Roaming Group has been improved. When job was stored on ORS 1 and terminal  installed on ORS 2, terminal asked ORS 2 to get the jobs, instead of the ORS 1. now the terminal checks which ORS sent the original request to print a direct job.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung: Scan orientation is by default set to portrait in case the device is not capable to scan  A3 jobs.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Device credentials are now validated during terminal installation.

Maintenance Update 37 (20/10/2016)

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: User with insufficient credit is not able to access copy application and Czech characters with diacritics are now displayed correctly.

• Fixed problem when exports from web reports were generated empty on special occasions. 

• Fixed behavior when CML configuration files are overwritten by ORS configuration data. Final configuration is now merged from both.

• After MU36 SOSAPI print method caused long processing time and subsequently caused that SafeQ processed two or more same print jobs at the time.

• Fixed situation when a customer was not able to see shared print jobs sent to shared queues by different users. Shared jobs weren't refreshed during login operation.

Maintenance Update 36 (15/09 /2016)

What's new

• There is a new property  securityProtocolTypesForOutboundCommunication in System settings, which allows to define protocols used for communication with Terminal Server. More details can be found in the article configuring cryptographic protocols for outbound communication with terminals.  

• Auto-login was enabled for Generic/Waffle single sign-on and user can just navigate to the Mobile Print Server authentication page to get logged in automatically. SSO also also on MPS web installed on ORS.

• YSoft SafeQ Embbeded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Zoom function is disabled by default.

• New configuration option was added that allows to set time for Terminal Server to wait for Payment System response.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Several fixes in accounting were introduced.

• After update from SafeQ4 to SafeQ5, there was error displayed on web and SafeQ5 was not activated, also buttons for license activation did not work. This has been fixed.

Early Access Program

• Quotas: It is now possible to set quota limit to zero, this will automatically deny all quota reservations for specified quota identifiers.

Maintenance Update 35 (24/08 /2016)

What's new

• New firmware 3.15.6 for Terminal Professional has been added. This firmware adds support for new 50 CHF banknote.

Fixes

• Print job preview for A3 jobs is now displayed correctly, preview is scaled and the whole document is showed.

• Improved analysis of large print jobs (i.e. A2, A0, A0) sent from PostScript driver.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed issue that initiated another authentication when there was one in progress.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed issue in  detection of AMX2/AMX3 licences.

• It is now possible to open user in cash desk even by user name, that was not found among suggestions.

Maintenance Update 34 (21/07/2016)

What's new

• New Print Job Parser 3.7 has been added. This version fixes issues in processing of certain documents with non-standard paper size.

• A new configuration option "useMultipleJobsPendingStrategy" has been added allowing to configure, when are the print jobs switched to "Pending" state.  This option is by default disabled. When an user had many print jobs waiting to be printed and selected the "Print all" option on the authentication screen, the first job was switched to "Pending" state and printed, then the second job was switched to "Pending" state and printed and so on. The problem was, that if the user authenticated on another device and again selected the "Print all"option before all jobs were printed on the first device, some jobs were printed twice.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: New configuration property "kmReservationStep" has been added. This option allows to define the number of A3 duplex color pages reserved upfront for the user when the terminal is used in combination with Payment System. Frequent reservation requests can cause delays while printing.

•  YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Improved installation on the OSA 5 devices, updated documentation with configuration instructions.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OK: Fixed installation issues on some A4 BW machines.

• Simplex/duplex  finishing options are now working correctly when the job is sent via Mobile Print Server and print job parser is enabled.

Early Access Program

• Quotas: It is now possible to define users with unlimited access - this means that users can print or copy without any restrictions.

Maintenance Update 33 (23/06/2016)

What's new

• More detailed documentation of YSoft Payment System Administration and Cash Desk interfaces is now available.

• New version of YSoft SafeQ Proactive Care Agent (2.4.0) is in the installation package. Documentation is part of the package. 

Fixes

• Fixed issue that prevented a money account to be created for users with national characters in the user name when replicating user accounts from LDAP (option " Create money account when creating user account ").

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung: Fixed issues with terminal settings that has not been applied during terminal installation. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed issue with embedded terminal on devices with non Wide SVGA, Wide VGA and 480x272 display resolution. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed issue that prevented a user transaction to be released in case the copy operation was not finished due to an error (i.e. insufficient credit or paper supplies).

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed defect in installation of the Embedded Terminal in Kiosk mode.

Maintenance Update 32 (26/05/2016)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ CRS server now works correctly on MS SQL Server 2014 Standard and Enterprise (both 32/64bit versions).

• "Print all" settings can now be configured for each embedded terminal.  More details about the configuration are available in the article Configure Print all feature after login.

Fixes

• When ORS crashes or shuts down, it becomes unsynchronized with the rest of YSoft SafeQ environment. When it starts again, it might occasionally crash due to a huge load during the first far roaming synchronization. To solve this problem we have implemented paging (batch processing) for roamed job info. There is a new property in SafeQ System settings called limitOfRoamingJobsBatch (default value 10 000) which defines the size of one batch. If there are more than limitOfRoamingJobsBatch job info to be sent from CML to ORS, CML will always send only the amount defined in the limitOfRoamingJobsBatch property.When ORS processes the first batch it asks CML for another batch.

• Web reports and Management reports now use the same rounding and thus equal prices are displayed in both of them for the processed jobs.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba/OKI: Simplified Chinese characters (ZH-CN) are now displayed correctly on the embedded terminal. 

• Fixed defect that caused job to be improperly marked as incompatible, when the job had ForceBW tag it did not have Color tag and all system, user and device tags were enabled.

Maintenance Update 31 (28/04/2016)

What's new

• It is now possible to select billing codes right after the authentication on Sharp, OKI and Toshiba ET. The setting is configurable via configuration property "showBillingCodeAuthScreen" in System Settings.

• New button has been added to Cash Desk allowing the Cash Desk operator to decrease the virtual balance of the user.

• New firmware 3.15.5 for Terminal Professional has been added. This firmware adds support for Dutch language to Terminal Professional v3.

Fixes

• Fixed issue that prevented some users to receive their periodic recharge after an update to new maintenance update.

• Deauthorized SPM is no longer accepting money.

• Periodic recharge can now be created in YSoft SafeQ and then correctly edited in YSoft Payment System.

• Text variables DEVICE_IP, DEVICE_ID, DEVICE_NAME and DEVICE_BACKEND are correctly substituted in the Rule Based Engine notification email for locally monitored devices.

• Fixed issue with growing Terminal Server memory consumption.

Early Access Program

• New version of YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Lexmark has been released. This updated version updates the behavior and fixes the previously reported defects.

Maintenance Update 30 (31/03/2016)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ now supports Dutch language on the web interface, in all the terminals and the SafeQ client.

• For customers with subscription license, YSoft SafeQ now automatically enables monthly subscription reports. These are XML reports and include number of devices of various types that are currently activated or have been deactivated in the span of last month and information about used license.

Fixes

• We have added two new properties to ors.conf to specify the path for HPGL parser. This allows customers to use HPGL parser on ORS.

• Forcing black and white on a job sent via Mobile Print now prints the job correctly even on Samsung devices.

• We have Improved ORS cache performance when searching for user's print jobs and when working with entities (usernames, aliases, devices, tags, billing codes, ...) that include special characters.

• We have Fixed problem where job statistics were incorrectly generated if the file contained multiple file extensions.

• Check for users Cost center existence was added to CSV import. In case cost center assigned to user does not exist, user is not imported to SafeQ.

• We have fixed the logout button on session expiration dialogue in embedded terminals.

• When no file is selected and the "Upload file" button is pressed on the mobile print web interface, a correct error message is displayed instead of upload confirmation.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed restrictions for color operations. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Color scanning to JPEG is now supported. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Installation no longer fails on the newest OSA 5 devices.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba: Improved handling of accounting information.

Early Access Program

• We have fixed how EAP licenses "Fax access definition" and "Fax accounting" impact access to Fax application on Konica Minolta. Customers without these EAP features are able to use them freely as they could before MU26.
  

• Improvements in YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI devices based on sXP platform:

  • Added support for scanning using scanning workflows

  • Accounting of performed scans.

Maintenance Update 29 (03/03/2016)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: The overall terminal speed has been improved thanks to the various CSS optimizations. This improvement helps to reduce the time necessary both for authentication and switching between terminal pages. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung: The integration with the YSoft Payment System has been improved. Previously it was necessary to perform a minimum credit or quota reservation for 10 pages. In MU29 we were able to remove this limitation and the users are able to consume all their credit, operations are stopped on zero.

• YSoft SafeQ connector for AP improvements: 

  • It is possible to set a login level and logging of IPP messages can be turned off completely.

  • Every JPEG file sent via AirPrint is now converted to PDF. This allows to print JPEG files even on the printers that do not have a direct support for JPEG files (support for PDF is more common).

  • Job delivery protocol has to be selected during the installation now.

Fixes

• We have fixed an issue that prevented the N umber of copies settings from the print driver to be correctly applied on a job if the  device was used without an embedded terminal (e.g. with TP and online accounting). 

• Cash desk operator is now correctly notified with a message "The user has no credit account assigned" if a user without YSoft Payment System account authenticates using a card number in the Cash Desk application. 

• Mobile Print Server will no longer stop working when an email with a subject longer than 260 characters is received. 

• Reprinted jobs are now correctly calculated in the statistics.

Early Access Program

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI devices based on Smart Extendable Platform 2 has been introduced. The terminal supports:

  • User authentication using PIN or Card or Username and Password

  • Print Roaming functionality

  • Print job management 

  • Billing code selection 

  • Accounting of print and copy operations

Maintenance Update 28 (04/02/2016)

What's new

• In Mobile Print Server e-mail notifications, the text of footer can be configured.

• Released the last firmware update for YSoft Recharging Station. It also contains support for the new €20 banknote and other currency updates.

Fixes

• Scan workflows can be used multiple times in one session on Toshiba Embedded Terminal. Currently the second attempt triggered "Scanning error".

• YSoft Payment System can now be used with USB print of Fax on Fuji Xerox XCP Embedded Terminal.

• The fax feature is now accessible for users of Konica Minolta Embedded Terminal.

• In YSoft Payment System, text of Terms & Conditions in Payment Gateway is no longer required to be filled, when the Terms & Conditions are not used.

• The authentication on Xerox Embedded Terminal used to fail if machine did not respond in time. The timeout is now configurable.

• YSoft SafeQ Client for Mac has the client icon no longer missing in launchpad.

Early Access Program

• Extended accounting of colors - it is possible to account wider range of colors (1 color, 2 color, Full Color) on Konica Minolta.

• It is possible to track all prints, copies and scans that were performed by Public User on Konica Minolta devices. 

• New browser based authentication for Toshiba/OKI devices has been added. New authentication brings several improvements:

  • New authentication screen with Y Soft branding,

  • New authentication options including two factor authentication such as PIN and Card,

  • Support for card self-registration.

Maintenance Update 27 (07/01/2016)

What's new

• New firmware 3.15.1 for Terminal Professional and for Payment Machine is available.The new firmware 

  • Adds support for various special characters to username & password login method and card registration. We focused on special characters widely used in customer environments which rely on strong passwords.

  • Adds "Full keyboard" layout to username & password login method and to card registration as well. It makes it easier for users to type their username and password than on the legacy 12-button number pad. The new "login keyboard" settings in service menu allows to select the default keyboard layout for all users. More information available in  the article Terminal Professional Service Menu Items.

• Payment Machine banknote support has been updated. This update brings support for the new €20 banknote and some updates in British Pounds, Singapore Dollars and Israeli Sheqalim.

• Improvements in card reading capabilities and support for easier customization for USB card reader, Terminal Professional and Payment Machine.

• AirPrint version 2.3 has been added. This version brings minor fixes and improvements and also newly adds support for simple print output options - color/bw and simplex/duplex setting.

Fixes

• Fixed issue that prevented user who sent a job to shared print queue to release it. 

• The LDAP replicator service port configuration has been moved from Connect to LDAP screen to the System Settings to the new configuration property "Y Soft SafeQ LDAP replicator service port".

Early Access Program

• YSoft Payment System allows easier definition of quotas.

• Quotas for total number of pages (covering both print and copy pages) are now supported on YSoft SafeQ embedded terminals for Fuji Xerox, Konica Minolta, Ricoh and Xerox.

Maintenance Update 26 (19/11/2015)

What's new

• New YSoft SafeQ Client for Windows 2.26 has been released. This version adds adds compatibility with Microsoft Windows 10.  

• It is now possible to display user's personal and virtual balance separately on the embedded terminals. More details are available on Showing personal and virtual balance on embedded terminals.

• YSoft Payment System now downloads e.g. SMTP configuration and currency from YSoft SafeQ by itself during service start or during periodical checks.

• YSoft Payment System has new default value of timeout for transaction operations sets to 5 seconds. The limit can be changed in the environment-configuration.properties through "database.transactionTimeout" property (value is in seconds), in case the infrastructure is slower or is connected to external payment provider. We do not recommend to set the value higher than 60 seconds. 

• It is now possible to authenticate to the YSoft SafeQ, YSoft Mobile Print and YSoft Payment System web interfaces using SAML2. More details available on Configuring Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) single sign-on.

• It is now possible to set automatic correction of page size for MS Powerpoint presentations sent to YSoft SafeQ Mobile Print. More details on Configuring Mobile Print Server.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba/OKI: Access with unknown cards is now correctly displayed in the Terminal Access page.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh now accounts jobs to billing code selected on terminal, not to default one.

Early Access Program

• It is possible to select Billing Codes for print jobs directly on the embedded terminal. More details are available on Billing Code selection for Printing at the terminal. 

• It is possible to restrict the access rights also for fax operations. This allows to prevent unauthorized access More details available on Access rights for fax.

• Improvements in Quotas. More details in Quotas.

  • It is now possible to define Soft Quotas. When soft quotas are exceeded, user is notified, however MFD functions are not affected, so user is still able to print, copy or scan on the MFD.

  • It is now possible to define quota accounts for the entire Cost center.  

•  Users can let their PayEx account be charged directly for services.

Maintenance Update 25 (22/10/2015)

What's new

• New YSoft SafeQ Client for Mac v4.5 has been added. This version adds compatibility with the newly released Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11).

• YSoft SafeQ now supports Microsoft Exchange Online services. This can be enabled using the " Mail server TLS support" configuration property in order to upgrade plain text socket connection to encryption if offered by the server, usually on port 25 or 587
  

• YSoft Payment System installer is now checking connectivity to YSoft SafeQ User Management during installation. When updating, it is required update the YSoft SafeQ installation before updating YSoft Payment System.  

• YSoft SafeQ Client now shows user's money balance on Price Estimate screen (available for secure print).

Fixes

• Web dashboard widget for encryption now now supports also encryption of additional characters such as "%", "&" and "+".

• Fixed issue with Embedded Terminal mass reinstallation in combination with devices filter based on terminal type and status.

Early Access Program

• Page quotas can now be set up in YSoft Payment System administration UI.

• Minimal balance, Initial balance and assignment of Periodic recharges can be set during Payment entitlement creation.

• It is possible to have users charged for personal prints only on Konica Minolta Embedded Terminal (Browser).

• When Two-factor authentication is used, users can define their own PIN on YSoft SafeQ web administration.

Maintenance Update 24 (25/09/2015)

What's new

• New YSoft SafeQ Client for Windows 2.25 has been added. This versions fixes issue with crashing client, when multiple jobs are sent quickly in a row.

• New log file  "cmlweb-audit-log.log" has been introduced that contains all audit log messages. The log file is located in <SAFEQ_HOME>\logs\ directory. More information can be found in the  YSoft SafeQ log Files  article.

• Only one Terminal Server instance is part of YSoft SafeQ. The path to Terminal Server directory is <SafeQ5>\terminalserver\.

• Terminal Server can now utilize ETCD technology t o store data necessary for synchronization when failover using WNLB is implemented. More information about the configuration can found in the article  Configuring WNLB Server Failover .

• Documentation is no longer in provided in .chm format, instead HTML documentation is attached. 

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue with web authentication to A4 devices using PIN.  

• Fixed issue when occasionally Terminal Ultralight failed to decrypt the secure communication with SafeQ server which caused print jobs deletion by MFD.

Maintenance Update 23 (03/09/2015)

What's new

• Support for Swedish localization has been added to YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminals.

Fixes

• Incompatible jobs are no longer switched to "Cancelled" state after "Print all" action and remain in the  accepted state.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: It is now possible to set Quick copy an the initial screen displayed after user authentication (which is defined using the  initial-screen  configuration property).

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: maxPrintAllJobs configuration property works correctly when "Print all" is triggered.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: The jobs are now released correctly according the jobsAllSortOrder  configuration property when "Print all" is triggered.

Early Access Program

• Support for page quotas has been improved: 

  • It is possible to define quota specific user as an exception. The user is identified by user name.

  • Quotas are supported on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox with XCP.

Maintenance Update 22 (13/08/2015)

What's new

• New firmware 3.14.15 for Terminal Professional is available.This firmware introduces larger keyboard displayed on the billing code selection screen and brings additional improvements in localization.

• New YSoft SafeQ Client for Windows version 2.24 has been added. This versions brings updated Portuguese ( Brazil ) localization.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba/OKI: Automatic user logout has been implemented.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue with occasional incorrect accounting of duplex print and copy jobs.

• Device with online accounting is successfully moved to a different ORS group, even when it's turned off or it's offline for any specific reason.

• Improved tracking of Rule Based Engine rules execution in the log files.

Early Access Program

• Support for page quotas has been improved:

  • Improved behavior on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp (e.g. Print all after authentication is also validating user quotas).

  • Quotas configuration can be done via user interface instead of configuration file.

  • It is possible to define quota also for specific user, not only whole group.

  • Quota interface now allows see the user names.

Cumulative Update 2 (04/08/2015)

About Cumulative Update

• Cumulative Update contains additional stability and quality improvements. Y Soft recommends to update existing YSoft SafeQ 5 customers to this latest release. Additionally, Cumulative Update provides many new features under standard licenses.

What's new

• New version of SafeQ demo is available on the Partner Portal.  SafeQ Demo is a tool, that allows to update SafeQ database to specific state, when the YSoft SafeQ looks like it has been used by a real company for specific time period. The new version brings new graphical user interface that allows quick and easy configuration of the environment.

New features (moving from Early Access Program to general availability)

• YSoft SafeQ allows to delegate the administration of the print environment. Local administrators can be defined and assigned to one or more ORS servers. This administrators then have the rights to manage only the devices, jobs and related reports for the given ORS servers. More information can be found in the following article.

• YSoft SafeQ allows to print seamlessly from the iOS (version 4.2 and newer) and MacOS devices using the AirPrint connector. The connector utilizes the zero-configuration Bonjour protocol. Printing service presented by printer is registered via this protocol and any iOS or Mac client is able to discover it and use it. More information can be found in the following article.

• Payment System allows to defined virtual credit which can be assigned to users periodically. Users have the “available balance” which is the sum of users personal and virtual credit. New options were added to the web administration allowing to recharge credit to an entire role or cost center or to define periodic recharge initial balance for a cost center (also via LDAP replicator). More information can be found in the following article.

• Payment System does not require manual Java installation anymore. From this update, it will start to use only Java bundled in Payment System installer.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung has been added. The terminal is supported on devices based on the XOA-E platform.  and supports the standard embedded terminal feature set including various authentication methods, print job management, support for scanning via scanning workflows, billing code selection and credit operations in connection with YSoft Payment System. More information can be found in the following article.

• New YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox has been introduced. The terminal brings additional authentication options (PIN and Card, PIN or Card etc.), support for USB card readers and also improves the behavior in connection with Payment System.  The new terminal requires the device to support the eXtensible Customizing Platform (XCP). M ore information about the terminal can be found in the following article.

New features in Early Access Program

• Support for page quotas has been added. Quotas allow to limit user's consumption of print and copy services. Quotas are defined for specific time period (e.g. monthly). Once they are  consumed, the user is prevented from additional operations until the quotas are refreshed. Quotas are available on all embedded terminals for Konica Minolta, Xerox, Sharp, Ricoh, Samsung.

Maintenance Update 20 (02/07/2015)

What's new

• TLS secured connection has been implemented to YSoft SafeQ subsystems (LDAP replicator, Spooler for Client and IPPSSL Backend), the configuration is set to true by default. To change the protocol settings, please do so in configuration option with prefix customCipherSuites, filterExportedCipherSuites ,  cryptographicProtocol and allowCustomCipherSuites for particular subsystem.

Fixes

• Filtering of accounts by personal balance in the YSoft SafeQ web administration has been fixed. Personal and virtual balances are separated into two values.

• List of billing codes is now displayed in the same order in the YSoft SafeQ Client an in the embedded terminals.

• Scanning workflow parameters entered on the embedded terminal are validated before scan is started.

• Rule Based Engine action "Deny authentication at terminal" is working correctly.

• Price defined for locally monitored devices is correctly synchronized to ORS.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba/OKI: User access rights defined in the Access Definition are correctly applied.

Maintenance Update 19 (11/06/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI/Toshiba: Authentication by PIN is now supported. It is configured during embedded terminal installation.   

• The LDAP replicator additionally allows to import and convert PIN number from single-value attribute.

• User Roaming for Virtual Desktops: When YSoft SafeQ Client is used on virtual desktop, it is possible to print using ORS that is physically nearest to the user. This is available as new ServerDeliveryMode option in YSoft SafeQ Client.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: The enterprise mode, which allows the terminal to automatically connect to different SafeQ node in case the first node fails, was improved. The speed of connection to different node has been improved and it is also possible to select server selection strategy. More information about configuration is available in the article the following article.

• User name is correctly displayed in RTL ( Right-to-left) languages on Terminal Professional when Payment System is used.  

• Fixed an issue in money withdrawal procedure in recharging stations when using with SafeQ 5 Payment System.

• Fixed a few issues with scanning folders and scan-to-folder document delivery.

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Kiosk mode support has been added allowing the embedded terminal to be installed in a Kiosk mode.

• YSoft SafeQ now supports AirPrint integration allowing seamless printing from iOS (version 4.2 and newer) and MacOS devices. Apple’s zero-configuration Bonjour protocol is used. Printing service presented by printer is registered via this protocol and any iOS or Mac client is able to discover it and use it.
   

Maintenance Update 18 (21/05/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Button for PIN confirmation has been added to the authentication screen. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Embedded terminal installation speed has been improved.

Fixes

•     Mobile Print Server: Notifications are merged in case multiple attachments are send as part of one email.

•     LDAP replicator no longer fails during replication in case straight double quotes (") are used in the directory structure.

•     Jobs waiting in the shared queue are correctly released using in case the Print All option is enabled on the authentication screen.  

•     YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Duplex scanning from feeder is working correctly.

•     YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue when Terminal Server rejected card authentication in case the card information contained non hexadecimal character (0-9a-fA-F).

•     YSoft SafeQ is now able to correctly display the list of money accounts, in case the YSoft Payment System connects to an external purse (credit handled outside of YSoft Payment System).

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox with XCP:

  • Fixed issue preventing the users to navigate through the billing code list displayed after authentication.

Maintenance Update 17 (30/04/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ client 2.22 has been released. The new version contains the following changes:

  • Fixed issue preventing the YSoft SafeQ Client from being installed on Microsoft Windows XP.

  • Fixed issue allowing to switch off encryption during a man-in-the-middle attack.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh:

  • The print logic has been reworked.

  • Support for USB card readers has been improved on most devices. This should solve issues when entering sleep mode, plug and play issues after multiple pull-outs and some issues when the card was only partially read. Log files were also modified and should be more clear and readable.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp:

  • Authentication speed has been improved.

  • Support for failover using WNLB had been added. For more information about the configuration see the article configuring WNLB server failover.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox:

  • It is now possible to scan to Searchable PDF in case the device supports it (EIP 2.5 or higher is required).

  • The position of the YSoft SafeQ icon is preserved after the embedded terminal reinstallation. 

  • The print queue and printer status are no longer locked during the embedded terminal installation.

• YSoft Payment System allows to set up mailing directly in the Payment System Administration. After upgrade, it is necessary to set up mailing as described in the article configuring credit-based notifications.

• The Terminal Config tool has been removed from the installation package. To configure hardware terminals, please use the command-line Remote configuration tool for hardware terminals (Termtool) instead. More information can be found in Remote configuration tool for hardware terminals.

• There is a new option in Mobile Print to allow excluding certain types of automatically generated email attachments when email print job submission is used.

Fixes

• Fixed issue with incorrect rounding when calculating price for duplex jobs.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh:

  • Multiple jobs printed at once are now printed in the correct order.

Early Access Program

YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox with XCP:

• Fixed issue causing user access to be reported twice.

• Improved accounting of non standard media types and jobs of mixed sizes.

• Fixed an issue that caused the "Recharge credit" button to appear after user self-registration even when no payment gateway was set up in YSoft Payment System.

Maintenance Update 16 (13/04/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: The configuration of accounting is now automated during the embedded terminal installation process.

Fixes

• When updating CML, it is necessary to manually update the server.xml file to get rid of the SSL FREAK vulnerability (CVE-2015-0204): For https connector, update protocol and add SSLCipherSuite as described in the article Configuring SSL/TLS for Web interface.

• YSoft Mobile Print Server: Fixed issue with converting images in the main html body.

• YSoft SafeQ: Fixed issue with replication of terminal accesses by unassigned card from ORS server to CML server

• YSoft SafeQ: Fixed issue with migration of Pricelists when upgrading from YSoft SafeQ 4 to YSoft SafeQ 5 on MSSQL database.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed issue with correct color mode output of "auto" color mode in scanning workflow.

Maintenance Update 15 (19/03/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: It is possible to access the KM device using web access again.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: The authentication process was reworked which brings improvement in the authentication speed.

• YSoft Payment System now contains timeout that logs out users after period of inactivity.

• YSoft Payment System now shows customer balance and debt in YSoft Wallet and Payment Gateway deposits.

• YSoft Payment System allows to export administrative reports to CSV file.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed issue preventing users with disabled money accounts from using devices without payments.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba: Fixed issue preventing users to scan more pages on glass in one scanning session.

• YSoft Payment System: Fixed issue that balance notifications reacted to personal balance only and ignored possible virtual balances of user.

• YSoft SafeQ installer: Fixed issue that prevented to use custom installation path when upgrading from YSoft SafeQ 4.

• YSoft SafeQ: Fixed issue with duplication of cost centers when using LDAP replicator full replication and specific conditions are met.

• YSoft SafeQ: Fixed issue with Single Sign-on functionality preventing internal users from logging in after manual log out.

Maintenance Update 14 (02/03/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Payment System: It is now possible to export generated vouchers into a word template that allows to print all generated vouchers at once. More information can be found in the following article.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: The embedded terminal installation process has been improved. During the installation the SSL is now automatically set, security certificate is created (if missing) and the device features can be locked depending on the selected Authentication mode (To each application/ To device).

• Support for Turkish language has been added to the YSoft SafeQ installers.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Fixed issues with accounting.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed issue preventing the users from scanning when the price for scanning is set to 0.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed issue preventing the users from accessing copy menu in case the the price for B/W copies is set to 0.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Issue with incorrect page rotation of pages scanned from the glass has been fixed. Limitations are mentioned in the article embedded terminals

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba: Successful access to the embedded terminal are correctly recorded in the Terminal Access list. 

• YSoft Payment System: The speed of mass periodic recharge unassignment has been improved.  

• YSoft Payment System: Notifications are now sent even though the authentication on the SMTP server is disabled.

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox with XCP:

  • Improved language resources and localization.

  • Improved authentication speed in combination with Payment System.

Maintenance Update 13 (05/02/2015)

What's new

• An informative message about restricted permissions is displayed in case a user with access restrictions for printing navigates to the Print tab on the browser based  YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminals.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue that prevented the job list to be correctly displayed in case hundreds of print jobs are waiting in the print queue.   

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed issue when the card swipe was ignored in other application than YSoft SafeQ.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba: Details about authentication process were added to the log files.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed issue that prevented the embedded terminal to be installed in case the devices address was specified as fully qualified domain name.

Early Access Program

• New YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox has been introduced. The new terminal allows to use additional authentication options (PIN and Card, PIN or Card etc.), supports USB card readers and improves the behavior in connection with Payment System. The new terminal requires support of eXtensible Customizing Platform. M ore information about the terminal can be found in the following article.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung: Fixed issue when log out by a card swipe occasionally lead to unexpected behavior.

Maintenance Update 12 (15/01/2014)

What's new

• In YSoft Payment System, following changes and features were introduced:

  • Major performance improvements. 

  • New stable API v2 for connection with other systems and business processes was introduced.

  • It is possible to add virtual credit to single user as a free entitlement to print. 

  • It is possible to have multiple merchants (not only YSoft SafeQ) connected to use the YSoft Payment System.

• In YSoft SafeQ, the following related features were introduced:

  • It is possible to create money account based on cost center settings in the LDAP replicator.

  • It is possible to set up periodic recharge for cost center.

  • It is possible to perform an ad-hoc virtual credit recharge for the whole cost center or role.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI/Toshiba: The installation procedure has been improved and the amount of necessary manually steps before the installation has been significantly reduced. Detailed information can be found in the configuration guide for Toshiba or OKI.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: RXOP libraries has been updated to version 3.5.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: An error message is correctly displayed when user with insufficient credit prints a print job using the Print All functionality.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: The fields "Administrator username" and "Administrator password" on the Printer setting / Terminal tab were fixed. This fields allow to enter credentials used for the installation of the embedded terminal.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: The "Print-all-button-default-value" configuration option sets whether the waiting print jobs will be released after authentication or not (regardless on the value of "Print-all-button" configuration option).

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: The message informing about insufficient funds at copy session is correctly translated.

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung:

  • The behavior of the terminal in connection with Payment System was significantly improved.

  • Fixed card assignment issues.

Maintenance Update 11 (18/12/2014)

Fixes

• Terminal Professional correctly displays preview of a job from ORS.

• Mobil Print Server web interface no longer generates different MD5 hash of the password for the newly registered users than the SafeQ web. This caused the users to be unable to log in.

• Devices created from a template via CSV replicator now have a correct price lists define (from the template).

• Fixed issue that on specific conditions prevented the Terminal tab to be displayed when editing a device, even though the license was sufficient.

• Fixed issue causing the licenses for devices with Reporting were not displayed correctly on the web interface for some license module combinations.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed prevented the Embedded Terminal from being correctly installed in case Accounting was not selected for the installation.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Scanning from feeder has been fixed.

Early Access Program

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung devices has been introduced. Terminal supports devices based on the XOA-E platform and offers all standard YSoft SafeQ features such as user authentication, print roaming, print job management and scanning workflows. The Payment System is operations such as charging for prints/scans/copies are supported as well. More details can be found on the page Embedded Terminals.

Maintenance Update 10 (24/11/2014)

What's new

• The YSoft Payment System allows to define Terms & Conditions displayed to the end users by the Payment Gateway during the recharging flow. This allows our customers to match Payment Gateway compliance requirements that usually require user to sign Terms & Conditions before payment is processed.

• SafeQ Client v 2.20 has been released. The new version adds the option to disable the price estimation popup window. Information about the configuration can be found here.   

• Newest OpenSSL libraries containing fix for the so called Poodlebleed vulnerability has been implemented.

Fixes

• The characters supported in Billing Codes created via web administration are also supported in Billing Codes imported via CSV import. 

• Results of Embedded Terminal mass re-installation are displayed correctly in the YSoft SafeQ web interface.  

• Fixed issue that prevented the embedded terminal to be reinstalled from an ORS that was previously restarted.  

• Fixed issue with device re-installation after the IP address of the device has been changed.

• Fixed issue that allowed to release a print job to the printer and print it even though the Rule Based Engine rule is defined to reject the job.   

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI/Toshiba: Scanning from the native application works even thought the Scan Management module is not in licensed.    

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: User access rights for Print, Copy and Color operations are correctly applied.

Cumulative Update 1 (20/11/2014)

About Cumulative update 

• Cumulative Update contains additional stability and quality improvements. Y Soft recommends to update existing YSoft SafeQ 5 customers to this latest release. Additionally, Cumulative Update provides many new features under standard licenses.

• Please note that Service Release has been renamed to Maintenance Update to avoid existing confusion among our partners and customers about its purpose and contents.

What's new

• New installer has been introduced. The installer allows deployment of YSoft SafeQ CML Server, YSoft Payment System and YSoft Mobile Print Server together using one file and also eliminates the necessary additional steps to interconnect the installed components. This allows fast and easy deployment of YSoft SafeQ. More information about the installer can be found in the following article.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh fully certified by Ricoh Developer Program is part of the installation package.

New features (moving from Early Access Program to general availability)

• Guest user registration allows the visitors to create their own accounts directly on the Mobile Print Server web interface. Users can create a permanent or a temporary account (which will be deleted after specified time period). Once  the user creates the account, the user can submit the jobs to print via email or Mobile Print web interface and print them on any printer in the YSoft SafeQ environment. More information about the visitor registration can be found in the following article.

• The Payment System allows the administrators to define and redeem vouchers. A voucher is an alphanumeric code that represents specific amount of money. These vouchers can be sold offline and redeemed via Cash Desk or student self-service page. When redeemed, the specified amount of money is added to money account and the voucher cannot be used anymore. More information can be found in documentation of YSoft Payment System.

• Scanning support has been added to the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba. The users are allowed to scan the documents using the predefined scanning workflows (scan to folder, scan to mail, scan to script) and modify the scanning workflow parameters or scanning options such as Format, Quality, Color and Sides setting directly on the embedded terminal. The required configuration can be found in the following article.

• Option to define notifications via popup message in SafeQ client has been added to the Rule Based Engine. The notification can be displayed in the SafeQ client right after a rule is triggered which helps to further improve the user experience of the end users. More information about the setup and usage can be found in the  following article.

• Support the double byte characters in job names has been introduced. This feature allows the specific embedded terminals to display the job names in national characters not supported by the MFP (for example Hebrew or Arabic). More information and limitations can be found in the  following article .

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Develop and Olivetti has been added. As the Develop/Olivetti are re-branded Konica Minolta devices, the embedded terminal supports the standard Konica Minolta feature set including two versions of the embedded terminal (browser based and native), various authentication methods, print job management, support for scanning via scanning workflows, billing code selection and credit operations in connection with YSoft Payment System. More information can be found in the following article.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI has been added. The embedded terminal supports authentication, print job management, scanning via scanning workflows and support for billing codes. More information about can be found in the following article.

Service Release 9 (16/10/2014)

What's new

• SafeQ Client for Mac v 4.2 has been released. This version adds support for Arabic, Hebrew and Swedish language and also supports for the latest  Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite.

• The MPS server is now able to run even if the SMTP server is not defined in the SafeQ configuration.

• It is possible to access the SafeQ web interface without re-entering login details using Central Authentication Service (CAS).

Fixes

• Incompatible jobs are no longer displayed when the "showIncompatibleJobs" configuration property is disabled.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issues related with printing from USB, prints from USB drive are correctly accounted and charged.

• YSoft Payment System: Pending deposits are correctly displayed for the selected payment gateway.

• Fixed issue with Scan-to-script scanning workflows where most of external script command parameter is cut off.

Early Access Program

• Support for local admins has been added. The local admins are only able to see jobs for their service organization and manage devices in service organization.

Warning

• This Service Release requires re-installation of the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminals for Konica Minolta. In case the terminals are not re-installed, the users might not be able to authenticate.

Service Release 8 (25/09/2014)

What's new

• When user selects job(s) to be printed on the Embedded Terminal, the price for the job(s) is estimated and the print request is sent to SafeQ server only if the user has sufficient balance. Otherwise the print is rejected and the user is informed. This applies to YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox, Konica Minolta, Sharp and Xerox.

  • Note: This feature requires Print job parser to be enabled, so that the number of pages in the document can be correctly parsed.

• YSoft Payment System: When the “Initial account balance“ configuration option is defined and a new Payment System account is created and charged by this amount, the information about the transaction is saved in transaction history.

Fixes

• Print job preview on the Embedded Terminal is correctly working also for roaming print jobs.

• In case the Billing Codes are disabled, the Billing Code defined for the user is no longer displayed on the Embedded Terminal.

• The Job list folders configuration is correctly propagated to the Embedded Terminals during installation. 

• Print job is correctly removed from the Waiting folder once it has been printed on the Embedded Terminal.

• Searching for Billing Codes on YSoft SafeQ Client connected to ORS has been fixed.

• YSoft Payment System: Fixed issue when some of the periodic recharges were only visible in the YSoft SafeQ web interface.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox: The user's credit balance displayed on the Embedded Terminal is no longer reduced by the reservation. User is able to see his exact current credit balance.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed defect that prevented the Embedded Terminal to be properly installed in case a host name was defined in the "networkAddress" parameter in the Terminal Server configuration file.

Early Access Program

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Olivetti devices has been introduced. The embedded terminal supports all standard features and functions such as user authentication, print job management and support for scanning workflows and Payment System.

Service Release 7 (04/09/2014)

What's new

• SafeQ Client for Mac 4.1 has been released allowing the DHCP user roaming. The SafeQ Client for Mac is able to obtain the YSoft SafeQ CML or ORS server IP address(es) automatically from a particular DHCP option.

• The Payment System web interface allows to define the layout template used for credit based notification emails and reports. A WYSIWYG editor can be used for the template definition allowing to easily define the formatting with the option to simply insert tables or images.

• New firmware for banknote acceptors in YSoft Recharging Station v2 is available. This firmware contains updated information about CAD, EUR, GBP, ILS, PLN, RON, USD currencies. Please contact our Customer Support Service for further assistance with the update of the firmware.

• New  configuration  option “Enable faster print on Ricoh devices” was introduced on the YSoft SafeQ embedded Terminal for Ricoh. Enabling this option allows faster processing of print jobs on Ricoh devices in case multiple documents are printed at once. 

  • Note: This method may eventually cause incorrect accounting of print jobs in case of hardware issues (like paper jam) therefore it is recommended to keep it disabled when YSoft SafeQ is used in combination with Payment System.

Fixes

• Print jobs in the job list folders are sorted correctly according the " jobsSortOrder"  configuration property.

• Print all button releases print jobs in correct order. 

• Fixed several issues with favorite jobs on a device connected to an ORS in Near/Far Roaming group. The job cans be correctly marked as favorite and it is possible to correctly print/delete it.

• The repeat option "At the end of the month" for periodic recharge is available also on the YSoft SafeQ web interface. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox: Fixed defect that prevented the user to log into the terminal in case one of the services was free of charge.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Users are allowed to search for email address when using Scan-to-email scanning workflow also on a device connected to an ORS. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Printing a direct print job with insufficient credit no longer causes the device to be blocked for all following print jobs. Such job is correctly rejected by machine and job state is set to Canceled.

  • Note: Print job parser needs to be enabled for this functionality.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed defect with wrong encoding of national characters that were displayed incorrectly.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed issues with embedded terminal installation of Accounting on Xerox TE cannot be installed with accounting on WorkCentre 7242 and WorkCentre 74xx.

Early Access Program

• New authentication method for native YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta has been added. This authentication method allows to use “Card and PIN” authentication in combination with “Username and password”. This feature allows the users who lose their card to be able to authenticate using their credentials. More information can be found in the following article.

• Support for advanced scanning options has been added to the native YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta. The advanced scanning options include support for defining parameters Simplex/Duplex, Scan Size, Separate Scan, Page Setting and Original Type. More information can be found in the following article. 

  • Note: Special firmware is  required  on the devices.

Service Release 6 (14/08/2014)

What's new

• Credit based notifications were added to the YSoft Payment System allowing the administrators to define automatic e-mail notifications and reports. Notification can be sent or regular basis or in case specific conditions are met.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Support for print job preview has been added. Please not that the Print job preview function is not available on the devices with uWVGA displays.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox: Fixed issue with unsuccessful registration of the YSoft SafeQ application on older devices caused by long reboot duration.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Language is switched correctly even when the user is logged in the YSoft SafeQ application.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed several layout issues on the Authentication screen and Job list screen on the devices with small display. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Accounting of operations performed by a user without Payment System account works correctly.

• Print job preview on the Embedded Terminals is properly displayed for a jobs that were marked as favorite.

Early Access Program

• New functionality has been added to the Payment System which allows the administrators to define and redeem vouchers (alphanumeric codes that represent certain amount of money). These vouchers can be sold offline and redeemed via Cash Desk or student self-service page. When redeemed, specified amount of money is added to money account and the voucher cannot be used anymore.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Develop devices has been introduced. As the Develop MFPs are rebranded Konica Minolta MFPs, the embedded terminal supports all standard features and functions such as user authentication, print job management and support for scanning workflows and Payment System.

Service Release 5 (24/07/2014)

What's new

• SafeQ Payment Machine supports Croatian Kuna, South African Rand and Bahrain Dinar. For detailed information about supported currencies see the list of supported currencies.

Fixes

• Fixed defect that prevented unknown cards swiped on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta from being displayed in the Terminal Access screen. 

• Users without money account are able to release a direct print jobs on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh and browser-based YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta.

• It is now possible to delete jobs from favorite folder on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh.

• The "Color" restrictions are correctly applied on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh.

• The exit button on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp works correctly also on the devices equipped with only AMX3 module. 

• User printing a direct print job on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp is no longer logged into the SafeQ application in case he/she runs out of credit during the print.

• Convenience Authentication is automatically configured in case the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox is installed on the Xerox device built on the ConnectKey firmware.

• The estimated price in SafeQ Client is now displayed correctly according to the price list hierarchy. For more information about the price lists see the  following article .

• Billing code menu is also displayed when the embedded terminal is installed only with the Print application (this applies for all browser-based terminals).

• Embedded IIS web server is correctly configured during ORS installation.

• Fixed defect that prevented SafeQ CML installed without Terminal Server to be able to update to a newer Service Release.

Early Access Program

• Support for double byte characters in the job names has been introduced. This features allows the embedded terminals to show the job names in national characters which are not supported by the MFP (for example Hebrew or Arabic). More information can be found in the following article.

Service Release 4 (03/07/2014)

What's new

• The credit handling on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp has been improved. The terminal is able to interrupt print/copy operation in case the user's minimal balance is reached. More information can be found in the following article.

• The YSoft Payment System allows to define the initial balance when creating new money account. Also it is possible to define the maximum balance for periodic recharge, above which the periodic recharge will not add any new credit.

• Few improvements in the web administration have been done:

  • Favorite jobs are now distinguished in the job list. 

  • It is possible to filter the jobs with unidentified job owner.

  • It is possible to sort the list of automatic e-mail/file reports.

Fixes

• Copy and scan jobs are correctly accounted to the selected billing code on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp.

• Fixed defect that caused the card registration screen to be displayed even if the configuration property assign-new-card-enabled was set to disabled. 

• Fixed defect that prevented users with disabled rights for color to print in black and white  on the browser based YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta.

• Fixed defect that caused an exception to be thrown on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh in case the pagination arrows were used before page was refreshed after print.

• Automatic log out is working on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox.

• Fixed defect that prevented to assign card to a user using HID card with HID USB card reader.

• Double quotations (") are handled correctly in the Scan-to-script scanning workflows parameters. Previously the script was not executed if the  script parameter contained double quotations. 

• The jobs from a shared queue are visible also on an ORS in far roaming group where the owner of the shared queue was never logged before.

Early Access Program

• Mobile print for visitors: Fixed defect that prevented visitors to self-register via Internet Explorer.

Warning

• Because of the change in classes used for logging, update of the CRS server to SR4 or higher will overwrite the log4j.xml file.

Service Release 3 (12/06/2014)

What's new

• Language selection has been added to the Mobile Print Server web interface allowing the users to change the default language.

• The number of document formats accepted by the Mobile Print Server has been more than doubled. See the documentation for the complete list of 44 supported file formats.

• Support for new currencies has beend adde to the SafeQ Payment Machine. Detailed information can be found in the list of supported currencies. 

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba allows the selection of billing codes. Different billing codes can be selected for different copy and scan jobs in one session.

• New watermark variables (such as job name, file name etc.) are  available  in the Rule Based Engine. Complete list can be found in this article .

• Single sign-on functionality has been implemented to the YSoft Payment System allowing the users to log in seamlessly without having to type the password.

• Possibility to search through all transactions with advanced filtering options has been added to YSoft Payment System.

• Cancelling of open reservations is possible directly in the Payment System web interface. The open reservations can be also automatically closed after defined time period in order to allow customers to use their credit again.

• YSoft SafeQ CML server and YSoft SafeQ Payment System supports Microsoft SQL Server 2014. More information can be found in the article  software requirements.

Fixes

• It is possible to install the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh also on devices Ricoh MP C2003SP and Ricoh MP C2553. 

• JobLimits are now only utilized when the Payment System is used on YSoftSafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox. 

• Messages on the authentication screen on the YSoftSafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox are correctly localized.

• Fixed issue that prevented the copy and scan jobs to be accounted to the selected billing code on YSoftSafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp. 

• Fixed defect that prevented the PIN numbers to be overwritten in case the PIN-overwrite is enabled and users are imported from LDAP

• Jobs sent to the VIP shared queue are now visible also to the other members of the VIP shared queue. 

• Favorite job operations on the embedded terminals are now correctly reflected.

Early Access Program

• Mobile print for visitors has been introduced. This feature allows the visitors to self-register directly on the Mobile Print Server web interface. User can choose to create a permanent or a temporary account that will be deleted after a set time. Once the account is created, the user can send jobs to Mobile Print via email or web and print them on any printer in the YSoft SafeQ environment using just their account username and password.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI allows the selection of billing codes. Different billing codes can be selected for different copy and scan jobs in one session.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba and OKI now supports the Scan Management features. Users are able to scan documents using the predefined scanning workflows (scan to folder, scan to mail, scan to script) and modify the scanning workflow parameters or scanning options such as Format, Quality, Color and Sides setting directly on the embedded terminal.

• The Rule Based Engine now supports new notification option – popup in SafeQ client. More information can be found in following article.

Service Release 2 (30/04/2014)

What's new

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI is available.

  • Supported devices must be based on Toshiba OpenPlatform (Toshiba devices rebranded for OKI).

  • Embedded terminal for OKI devices can be installed remotely using YSoft SafeQ web administration.

  • The embedded terminal allows users to authenticate at the device, release print jobs, access the native copy application. Both copy and print job accounting is supported.

• YSoft SafeQ embedded terminal for Ricoh is now able to display session summary (list of print, copy jobs with prices) upon user logout. More information can be found in the following article.

• Mobile Print Server s upports additional file formats -  . epub , . xlsm , . xlsb , . xltx , . xltm , . pps , . ppsx , .pot, . potx , . fo , . pcl , . svg , . xps , . emf , . ico , . wmf , . dxf. The complete list of supported file formats can be found here.

• For better mobile printing results, LibreOffice and OpenOffice fonts are now distributed together with the  Mobile Print Server.

• Support for semi-automated upgrade from SafeQ 4 installations with external PostgreSQL/Microsoft SQL server has been added. More information about the upgrade procedure can be found here (PostgreSQL) or here (MicrosoftSQL).

• Added help to configuration options in payment system administration.

• It is possible to install the embedded terminal with accounting on Xerox devices with EIP 1.5 without JobLimits.

Fixes

•  YSoft SafeQ components contain the newest version of the OpenSSL library with the Heartbleed vulnerability fixed.

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ now provides two-factor authentication method (similar to Card and PIN authentication method), where the user always has only one specific Card and PIN combination (each card has always one PIN). More information can be found in the following article, the feature is available for Konica Minolta and Terminal Professional only.

• In university environment, where students migrate between different study programs (study program is a cost center in domain controller), it is possible to add initial free credit for each cost center once the user joins the program (is included in the cost center). This way, user is entitled to receive free credit (e.g. based on legal requirements in some countries).

  • Students may migrate between different study programs (cost centers). Therefore this custom feature additionally handles situation when given credit is removed and replaced with another one (each study program/cost center may have different initial free credit).

  • Students also may receive in some study programs (cost centers) regular free credit from the university. Each study program (cost center) can be then configured to include its users into regular account recharge.

  • More details are available upon request.

  • Please consult use of this early access feature with Y Soft as it might not be suitable for every environment.

Service Release 1 (10/04/2014)

What's new

• SafeQ 5 SR1 includes the embedded terminal for Toshiba devices.

  • Supported devices are based on Toshiba OpenPlatform.

  • Embedded terminal for Toshiba devices can be installed remotely using YSoft SafeQ web administration.

  • The embedded terminal allows users to authenticate at the device, release print jobs, access the native copy application. Both copy and print job accounting is supported. 

• Billing code can be added to the scan to script scanning workflows via the %billingCode% property. More information can be found in the Scanning workflow definition article.

• Upgrade from SafeQ 4 to SafeQ 5 is now supported for embedded Microsoft SQL Server database. More information can be found in the Upgrade from YSoft SafeQ 4 to YSoft SafeQ 5 - MS-SQL Embedded database article.

• YSoft SafeQ can now be configured to automatically create money accounts for users from particular LDAP server, during LDAP replication process.

• Ricoh embedded terminal improvements:

  • Added support for direct printing, jobs printed via direct queue are correctly printed, accounted and charged (if Payment System is used). 

  • Minor changes to the terminal graphics have been included (new icons on the authentication screen).

  • Credit balance of logged in user is displayed with the corresponding currency.

  • Number of steps performed in the installation is displayed correctly.

  • Embedded terminal has been localized to the following languages: Czech, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian,  Japanese , Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Russian, Slovak, Chinese.

Fixes

• Fixed installation issues on multiple Xerox devices (such as Xerox WC7845 and Xerox WC3315).

• The installation fails with proper error message in case XSA is disabled on Xerox machines

• Fixed defect that caused the installation to take 30 minutes on Windows Server 2012 due to the installation of the web role features.

• License activation can be performed only on the first node of the cluster.

• Fixed error on Sharp embedded terminal that caused Unexpected error to be thrown. This error occured in case the user swiped an unregistered card or entered incorrect Card Activation Code or login and password during card activation.

Maintenance Update 86 (11/13/2020)

What's new

• Direct queue printing is not blocked with a payment system which was previously deactivated on the CML web interface. (SBT-1917)

• Internal Tomcat web server was updated to version 7.0.103 which mitigates the CVE-2020-13935 vulnerability. (SBT-1909)

• User replication for LDAP source no longer duplicates organization units (OU) when they exist in more than one LDAP source. (SBT-1897)

• CML update with built in PostgreSQL is able to correctly detect and update CML server. (SBT-1850)

• YSoft SAFEQ Client for macOS 4.16 has been notarized. (SBT-1797)

• Embedded Terminal for Lexmark is able to restrict access to functions blocked for a user group. (SBT-1683)

• Xerox Versalink devices correctly process print jobs with &,< or > characters in XCPT headers. (SBT-669)

Warning:

Due to a Java platform change, a direct update from YSoft SafeQ 5 MU48 and lower, to YSoft SafeQ 5 MU70 and higher, is NOT supported. Installations with YSoft SafeQ 5 MU48 and lower should be updated to YSoft SafeQ 5 MU69 first. Then an update to the latest release can proceed.

Due to a Tomcat configuration improvement, it is recommended to manually update the server.xml when updating from YSoft SafeQ 5 MU79 and lower. Update Tomcat's server.xml as described in the article "Configuring SSL/TLS for Web interface".

Maintenance Update 85 (09/18/2020)

What's new

• List of supported currencies for YSoft Payment Machine was extended with Jordanian dinar (JOD) banknotes. Update of data set files in the machine is needed. See more details about update procedure in the article "Remote configuration tool for hardware terminals".

Maintenance Update 84 (08/21/2020)

What's new

• Using Microsoft OAuth2 based authentication for accessing emails in Mobile Print Server
  YSoft SafeQ now supports OAuth2 based authentication for accessing emails in the Mobile Print Server. (Microsoft announced that support for Basic Authentication using username and password will end later this year; the Mobile Print Server used Basic Authentication). From now on, administrators can choose to use the Mobile Print Server in OAuth mode. (SQC-1222)

• Using Google OAuth2 based authentication for accessing emails in Mobile Print Server
  YSoft SafeQ now supports OAuth2 based authentication for accessing emails in the Mobile Print Server. (Google announced the end of ability of less secure apps to access G Suite account data; the Mobile Print Server used this approach). From now on, administrators can choose to use the Mobile Print Server in OAuth mode. (SQC-2863)

Fixed:

• If HTTPS is enforced with 2nd Gen. Embedded Terminal, then images are downloaded over this protocol. (SBT-1544)
  

• Documentation article "Tools - LDAP Integration" was extended with on-demand replication warning informing about possible conflict with the domain's Account Lockout Policy. If the threshold for wrong password entry is set too low then end user can lock their domain account. (SBT-1443)

• Konica Minolta bizhub devices no longer fail during the first embedded terminal installation which was done after a restart of terminal server. (SBT-1511)

• Embedded terminal on Ricoh devices could not be installed in MU83 because of missing file dependency. (SBT-1648)

Maintenance Update 83 (07/24/2020)

Fixed:

• Domain user accounts for the MS SQL database in the payment system now have configurable fields for the standalone installer and the bundle installer.

• The security of the CML web interface was improved against DOM-based Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS).

• New firmware (version 2.5.2) for YSoft USB Card Reader 3 contains the following:

  • Fix for a critical bug on the MFX card reader where ISO15693 cards were read in the wrong byte order

  • Fix in the processing of some HID Elite configuration cards on MFX card readers

  • Fix in the processing of some Hitag 2 key fobs on MFX card readers

  • It is now possible to format blank Mifare DESFire EV1/EV2 8K cards as YSoft Configuration Cards on the MFX card reader

  • Some minor LF and HF technology fixes on the MFX card reader

  • Card removal notification (a.k.a Continous mode) is no longer configured as the default behavior on USB SmartCard readers

  • Protocols 1220 and 1222 on MF&Legic card readers were renumbered to 1320 and 1322 to reflect a difference in the protocol name compared to other readers. Original protocols will remain present as hidden protocols so there is no need to reconfigure  card readers in the field

  • The "update_to_2.5.2.bat" script does not update the service firmware if the correct version is already installed to reduce risk of bricking the card reader

  • "usbrdrtool.exe" now has a -d command line option to reset to defaults, which is suitable for batch script processing

Maintenance Update 82 (06/26/2020)

Fixed:

•  Embedded terminal reinstallation on Xerox Altalink device with a newer firmware version (103.001.000.06000) proceeds without failure.

Maintenance Update 81 (05/29/2020)

What's new

A list of supported operating systems has been extended. YSoft SafeQ 5 can now be installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2019. The full list of supported operating systems is in the “Software requirements” section in the YSoft SafeQ 5 documentation.

Fixed:

• All terminals will not allow free of charge operations if a payment system is used and the payment system did not fully start.

• Job list shows results for searches by cost center if a specific time interval was applied.

• Security of CML web interface was improved against Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) on Dashboard, Support Information Page and other areas.

Maintenance Update 80 (05/04/2020)

Fixed:

• Ricoh embedded terminals were not updated with each new version of the terminal.

• Improvement of LDAP replication so already deactivated objects in the database (users, groups, organisation units) are kept in memory and their processing has been optimized.

• The YSoft SafeQ installation package now includes a newer version of the third party component: Apache Tomcat version 7.0.103. A vulnerability of this component has been recently disclosed, known as CVE-2020-1938 (Ghostcat). The vulnerability is already fixed in Apache Tomcat version 7.0.100. Additionally, the AJP port 8009 is not open in new installations. When updating from MU79 or lower, you may consider disabling the AJP as an additional security level, see list of warning.

• Improved logging of sensitive information in ors.log file.

Maintenance Update 79 (04/03/2020)

Fixed:

• Java platform was updated to the latest minor version - Amazon Corretto 1.8.0_242.

• It could happen that an incorrect credit amount was shown in the Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox XCP when a user opened the embedded terminal print application after copying. It has been fixed in Embedded Terminal 2nd Gen.

Maintenance Update 78 (03/06/2020)

Fixed:

• System information in the CML web interface has been fixed.

Maintenance Update 77 (02/07/2020)

Fixed:

• The "DIGEST-MD5 SASL" protocol has been implemented as an option for the LDAP user accounts integration. The DIGEST-MD5 SASL mechanism performs an authentication to the Active Directory Server in a manner that does not expose the clear-text password. This new authentication option is in compliance with the Microsoft security advisory (ADV190023), which will result in a Microsoft security patch for Active Directory domain controllers planned for March 2020. See the article 2020 LDAP channel binding and LDAP signing requirement for Windows.

• Prints from the "User box" are now accounted for when Embedded Terminal 2nd Gen. for Konica Minolta is in use.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 security has been improved. When an unhandled PUT request is sent to the CML web interface, the SafeQ error page is now displayed instead of an Apache Tomcat one.

• The communication of HP devices with YSoft SafeQ has been optimized. The result is faster login into the Embedded Terminal for HP when the time from a previous login is not longer than 24 hours.

• System information is once again visible in the CML web interface.

• Users can now log into Embedded Terminal for OKI sXP2 with username and password authentication.

Maintenance Update 76 (01/17/2020)

Fixed:

• A new version of YSoft SafeQ Client, version 2.29, is included in the YSoft SafeQ installation package. YSoft SafeQ Client's communication with the YSoft SafeQ 5 server, which was updated from YSoft SafeQ 5 MU74 or lower, is no longer affected when a special configuration is used. The encryption is not enabled and the user identification, “Login dialog” or “Login dialog – username only”, is selected.

• Repeated installation of Embedded Terminal for Xerox AltaLink now passes the step for Convenience Authentication without a warning.

• A print job owner, who has authenticated to YSoft SafeQ Client when printing to a direct queue, is now preferred to a username extracted from a XCPT header created by a Xerox native print driver.

Maintenance Update 75 (12/16/2019)

Warnings:

Due to the Java platform change, a YSoft SafeQ Client's communication with YSoft SafeQ 5 MU75 server and higher, which was updated from a previous YSoft SafeQ 5 version, is affected when a special configuration is used: the encryption is not enabled and the user identification “Login dialog” or “Login dialog – username only” is selected.

To correct the communication, the encryption must be enabled at the Client. There are two options:

• An administrator, or a user with administrator rights, can check the “Use encryption” box in the YSoft SafeQ Client`s port options. (Windows Control panel -> Hardware and Sound Devices and Printers, select a print driver and click Print server properties. Go to Ports tab, select the SafeQ port and click Configure port.)

• The YSoft SafeQ Client can be reinstalled with the “Encryption =1” property in the SafeQ.ini file located in the client’s installation folder. 
  

Fixed:

• The "Settings" menu on HP devices is no longer accessible to users authenticated with Embedded Terminal for HP.

• A user’s credit import via the Credit Charger Tool in YSoft Payment System no longer fails when the username contains the dot character.

• A large scanned file was sometimes improperly processed by the YSoft SafeQ Workflow Processing System. The processing mistakenly started before the file was completely received. It has been fixed.

Maintenance Update 74 (11/15/2019)

• A list of supported operating systems for client application has been extended. The YSoft SafeQ Client application can now be installed on macOS 10.15 Catalina.

• The Cashdesk operator can now identify a new user via a card when the system property "onDemandPaymentAccountCreation" is enabled.

• Unnecessary scrollbars are no longer displayed in the “Wait a moment” window on the Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox.

• The User account in the YSoft Payment System can now be created even when the fields for the user`s name and surname in the Management Interface are empty. The username field is used as a displayed name.

• The Embedded Terminal for Ricoh no longer displays incompatible jobs when the property "showIncompatibleJob" is disabled.

• The Logout button once again correctly ends the user session in the Embedded Terminal for OKI sXP2.

Maintenance Update 73 (10/18/2019)

• Automated Scan Workflows are once again functional with Embedded Terminal for Ricoh on Ricoh IM 430F/350F devices.

• Embedded Terminal for Ricoh has been adapted for special conditions to prevent a random freeze of the terminal on older devices.

• The portrait/landscape orientation of scanned documents has been fixed for Ricoh IM 430 devices.

• The YSoft SafeQ installation package now includes a newer version of the third party component: Apache Tomcat version 7.0.94, to remove vulnerabilities of the previous version.

• Embedded Terminal for Ricoh now closes all sessions even when the device doesn`t send an ending message after a proceeding scan. A new system property, “ricohHotFolderScanConfirmationAfterLogoutTimeout“, has been created to solve the non-standard situations.

• The XML parser used for importing scan workflows from an XML file has been configured to prevent XML External Entity attacks.

Maintenance Update 72 (09/20/2019)

• Users can once again log into Terminal Professional v3.5 with username/password when the “Card and PIN or username/password” authentication method is set up.

• Card authentication on the Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox ApeosPort 4 has been fixed.

• Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox XCP now correctly opens the YSoft SafeQ application after an authentication when the system property “initial-screen” has the value “sq”.

• Mobile Print Server can now resolve the "Unicode (UTF-8)" encoding name.

• A new version of Google's cloud print connector, 1.5.19261.1103 (product extension SWC-22), is now available on Partner Portal. Updates include:

• The connector keeps a list of printers after a restart

• Administrators can configure a replacement of a print job owner per printer

• The update procedure keeps the current configuration

• A3, legal and letter formats are now supported in the default configuration

Maintenance Update 71 (08/23/2019)

• Embedded Terminal for Xerox no longer creates settlements in the YSoft Payment System (YPS) when an operation should be free of charge. In other words, a user can make a copy, print or scan when the user is a member of a group that has unlimited access as defined in the YPS.

• Device native scanning is now functional with Embedded Terminal for Samsung even when quotas from the YSoft Payment System are used.

• A new property "StoredDeliveriesMaxBatchSize' with a default value of 10 has been added to the Terminal Server configuration file. Also, the default value of the "PendingRequestsPeriod" property has been changed from 10 to 60. This change  improves the recovery process in a heavy loaded environment when the communication of Terminal Server to other services was temporarily interrupted.

• Newly installed third party applications on HP devices are no longer locked for an authenticated user.

Maintenance Update 70 (07/26/2019)

• The YSoft SafeQ installation package now includes a new Java platform, the third party component, Amazon Corretto 8 (https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/). The new platform replaces Oracle OpenJDK 8 because Oracle has announced that support for OpenJDK 8 will expire. Amazon Corretto 8 fulfills expectations from customers and partners: Amazon plans to apply urgent fixes (including security) when they are available and ready to use; updating YSoft SafeQ 5 to Amazon Corretto 8 is easier than updating to the Java 11 platform because the same Java version is used in both previous and upcoming YSoft SafeQ 5 releases.

• Cleaning of print jobs from the spooler has been optimized to decrease a server load.

• A user billing code is now reset to a default value when a user authenticates at Embedded Terminal for HP and SafeQ billing code application is not enabled.

• It could happen that a user received an empty scanned file when scanning on Embedded Terminal for Lexmark. It has been fixed; the Embedded Terminal has been adapted to a specific behavior of some Lexmark devices, mainly the Lexmark MX 711, that sends metadata earlier than the scanned file.

• A new SDK version, Lexmark ESS.62.045, is now used for Embedded Terminal for Lexmark. The new version keeps the Embedded Terminal compatible with the latest firmware used in Lexmark devices.

• Embedded Terminal for Xerox can now be installed on Xerox Workcentre 6515.

• The “Firewall settings for YSoft SafeQ” chapter has been added to the YSoft SafeQ 5 Administrative Guide. Administrators should follow the instructions to increase security of the YSoft SafeQ implementation.

Maintenance Update 69 (06/28/2019)

• After implementing a newer version of the third-party component, Aspose libraries, called from YSoft SafeQ 5 Mobile Print Server MU66 and later, images were not converted with the right proportions and orientation. It has been fixed.

• Embedded Terminal for Sharp has been fixed. Administrators can now install the terminal even when no application is defined yet in the "Sharp osa" menu of the Sharp device's system settings.

Maintenance Update 68 (05/31/2019)

• Device dependent accounting for Xerox AltaLink devices has been adapted to different situations. A PostScript print job is now accounted for even when the device’s accounting log file only includes one record assigned to the print job.

• When a YSoft SafeQ accounting driver is not correctly loaded to a device for any reason, an error message is now written in the log file.

• Temporary files are now automatically cleaned from an internal temporary folder after processing scanned documents from Toshiba devices.

• It is now possible to create a chart in the web reports even when a price field is chosen.

• The ORS overview window, which is accessible from the CML web → Reports menu, now correctly shows the CML servers' status in a clustered environment.

• The Rule-Based Engine now correctly modifies the print job’s XCPT headers and the attributes, like number of copies, are no longer ignored.

• In rare cases, it can happen that the third-party component, “Aspose.Word” called from YSoft SafeQ Mobile Print server, doesn’t convert a Microsoft Word document to a print file and the conversion process must be stopped. A process in the stoppage has been fixed and the computer no longer gets stuck when the conversion was interrupted accordingly to the “conversionTimeout” system property.

Maintenance Update 67 (05/03/2019)

• A scanned document’s file size is now smaller when the Compact PDF format is used for Embedded Terminal 2nd Gen. for Konica Minolta. Documents scanned as Compact PDF are now the same size for both browser type and native embedded terminals for Konica Minolta.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal’s failover functionality needs a right setup in a clustered environment. When the “enableNetworkLoadBalancer” system property was enabled and the “enableEtcd” system property was mistakenly disabled, users couldn’t authenticate on the Embedded Terminal. In this situation the failover behavior is now suppressed and users can authenticate.

• Firmware of External Terminals can now be upgraded from the YSoft SafeQ server even when the server has more network cards.

• Administrators can now configure user email notifications about successful or unsuccessful processing of mobile prints. New system properties “mpsMailUserSuccess” and “mpsMailUserFailure” have been created.

• Print job’s wrong accounting, that was recognized on Konica Minolta Bizhub 4050 devices with the MR13 firmware, has been fixed.

Maintenance Update 66 (04/05/2019)

• YSoft USB Card Reader 3 didn’t read the Mifare Classic cards for two minutes after restart of the reader. It has been fixed and the new firmware version 2.4.3 is in the YSoft SafeQ installation package.

• After implementing Aspose library for downloading emails in SafeQ 5 MU62 and later, email messages were not deleted from the email server when an IMAP connection was used. Furthermore, they were reprocessed as new jobs. A newer version or the Aspose library is now used and the problem is fixed.

• When network connectivity with a Xerox device was interrupted during authentication on Embedded Terminal for Xerox, it could happen that no subsequent authentications passed even when the network connectivity was fixed. It has been fixed.

• A new version of YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh (1.0.5) is certified and is now part of the YSoft SafeQ installation package. The main enhancements are:

  • A fix is in place for fail over functionality in clustered environments when “Primary node preferred” is used.

  • The “java.lang.NullPointerException” error no longer appears on the Embedded Terminal.

  • Communication between the Embedded Terminal and YSoft Payment System has been fixed.

Maintenance Update 65 (03/08/2019)

• YSoft Payment Machine now supports Lebanese and Georgian currencies.

• Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox can be once again installed and uninstalled on Fuji Xerox ApeosPort-VII devices from Management Interface.

• In rare cases, a secure print job could disappear from the user’s list when the ORS servers are in use in a clustered environment.  It has been fixed.

• Mobile Print Server can once again download emails when theTLSv1.0 protocol is disabled in the operating system’s registry.

• Prints from USB flash disk on devices with Embedded Terminal for Xerox are now accounted well even when the username only consists of numeric characters.

• When YSoft SafeQ installation checks the system readiness and a problem is recognized the real application name is now shown in the log instead of an unresolved text “${PRODUCT_NAME}”.

• CML recovery procedure in a clustered environment has been improved in case the recovery of a slave node is provided after the “remove-jobs-from-sq” property’s period. All jobs are now accounted.

• The billing code assigned to a print job is now visible on the info page in Embedded Terminal for Ricoh.

• The width of email address columns in YSoft SafeQ database has been extended to 256 characters to be in alignment with RFC 2821 SMTP.

Maintenance Update 64 (02/08/2019)

• Connection to the Central Reporting System (CRS) can now be secured, the SSL/TLS protocol version and ciphers used are configurable. See the "Configuring TLS connection for CRS" chapter in the YSoft SafeQ 5 Administrative Guide.

• Mobile Print Server email notifications now contain the correct URL address to the mobile web interface.

• YSoft Payment System installer now creates a “ps-conf” folder for configuration files.

• User detail data is now correctly shown to the operator in the YSoft Payment System web interface.

• A better error message is now displayed in the YSoft Payment System web interface when the administrator creates an entitlement and the user wasn’t found.

• The cash desk operator can now open the user’s account even when the user was already deleted in the web interface but his money account hasn’t been deleted yet. The system creates the user’s account again automatically.

• Reliability of printing in a CML clustered environment has been improved when an external terminal is used and the print job was sent to a different node than the device and terminal are connected to.

• Direct print is once again functional on devices where Embedded Terminal for Ricoh is installed with no accounting or off-line accounting options.

• A message about the expiration of a credit or quota reservation in YSoft Payment System, in some circumstances, was not replicated into Terminal Server and a user couldn’t log into Embedded Terminal. This has been fixed.

• LDAP settings are no longer modified in the device when installing Embedded Terminal for Xerox and the “enableXeroxAccessDefinition” property is set to “Application registry”.

Maintenance Update 63 (01/11/2019)

• When Embedded Terminal for Brother is in use, YSoft SafeQ Terminal Server services didn’t always start automatically. The services’ dependencies have been changed and the service now starts well.

• The default value of the system property "securityProtocolTypesForOutboundCommunication" has been changed from an empty value to "Ssl3, Tls, Tls11, Tls12" to avoid SSL/TLS configuration issues for Terminal Server communication.

• The password of SNMPv3 credentials is no longer logged as plain text in the Terminal Server log file.

• Device dependent accounting now correctly reads accounting data from Xerox devices even when users have special characters in their username, like â, ç, ĕ.

• A print job with a title containing the text string “Copy - (" is no longer accounted for as copies on Xerox devices.

• The application name of Embedded Terminal for HP no longer includes scan features when scanning is not requested in the Embedded Terminal definition.

• The YSoft Payment System upgrade to version 1.60.1.2 has been fixed. An error message about Tomcat uninstallation should no longer appear.

• Editing Entitlements in the YSoft Payment System management interface is now faster and no longer gets stuck with a “Please wait” message.

Maintenance Update 62 (11/23/2018)

• Embedded Terminal for Xerox has been improved. Color restrictions on copying can now be defined by adjusting YSoft SafeQ user roles.

• PowerPoint presentations with different formats are now correctly transformed and printed on A4  paper when the “correctSlideSize” property is true in the Mobile print server’s configuration file.

• A new version of firmware for Terminal Professional 3.5 (3.15.16) has been created. Improvements are:

  • User credentials are no longer written in the log file.

  • The logo visible on the touch screen can be customized via the remote configuration tool for hardware terminals (Termtool).

• User access to Xerox VersaLink native copy and fax functions can now be restricted based on a user role.

• The print progress window is once again shown on the Embedded Terminal 2nd Gen. for Xerox VersaLink.

• The Embedded Terminal installation guide for Toshiba / OKI devices, based on e-BRIDGE NEXT or later architecture, has been extended. An IP-specific certificate is necessary for secure communication.

• Connectivity of Embedded Terminals  to Terminal Server in a clustered environment with load balancing has been improved. The first start of Embedded Terminal is now quicker. This applies to Embedded Terminal for Xerox, Fuji Xerox, Toshiba, OKI, Sharp and Ricoh devices.

• When a terminal installation fails because the device is locked by a user or administrator, a better message is now written in the log file: “Could not log in to the device because it is in use.”

Maintenance Update 61 (10/26/2018)

• The YSoft SafeQ 5 Client popup window is no longer hidden under other windows and is always visible.

• The Mobile Print Server service crashed under some circumstances while stopping. It has been fixed.

• The YSoft Payment System could stop working with an “Out of Memory” error message in environments with YSoft Payment Machines. It has been fixed.

• The YSoft Payment System installation files now include a newer version of the third party component: Apache Tomcat version 9.0.12.

• Parsing of print jobs from a CAD environment has been fixed so that job names and accounting works correctly now on Toshiba /OKI devices.

• A security scan no longer can break the connection between the Terminal Server and the CML/ORS Server.

• Parsing of PostScript print jobs has been changed to fix printing on Ricoh devices.

• Oracle Java JConsole tool was added back into the YSoft SafeQ ORS installation package so the tool can be used once the YSoft SafeQ ORS is installed without any additional manual steps.

• Web reports no longer show scan counters when the scan module is not licensed.

• Communication with External Terminals (Terminal Professional v3.5 and Terminal Ultralight) is now secured by default. Additionally, any non secured communication attempts are refused when secured communication is used.

• Embedded Terminal for Toshiba / OKI now supports double byte characters so the Thai language is now supported correctly.

• Embedded Terminal for Lexmark has been adapted for small displays. Text no longer overflows the screen for the German language.

• The Embedded Terminal for HP no longer shows an error message when the user logs out from the terminal.

• The Embedded Terminal for Lexmark is no longer stuck when the user tries to switch to the print application or scans again when a previous scan job has finished.

• Communication of YSoft SafeQ Server with Embedded Terminal for Sharp now respects the "securityProtocolTypesForOutboundCommunication" property when it is set to Tls12.

• Administrator no longer has to manually download a special installation package for the Embedded Terminal for Ricoh.  It is now part of the native YSoft SafeQ installation.

Maintenance Update 60 (09/27/2018)

• New firmware (version 2.4.2) for YSoft USB Card Readers 2 and 3 is available. The ability to read the Indala UIN card technology is now functional.

• A new system property has been created: "maxNumberOfSosCommunicationTries". This new system property allows better adaption of Terminal Server – CML communication in environments with a high latency of the data transmission.

• Embedded Terminal for Lexmark has been adapted for devices with a small display (e.g. Lexmark CX725). Text no longer overflows the screen.

• Documentation on Embedded Terminal for OKI and Toshiba installations now includes correct information about a security certificate’s format.

• The expiration date of an SLA was fixed to always show a precise date in the Management Interface. When a support agreement is going to expire, Partners can contact their Y Soft Regional Sales Manager to arrange a Software Support/SLA extension for the impacted customer to ensure continuous future support.

• Deleted billing codes are now highlighted with a red italic font in reports.

• A new PJL header “@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL” is used for a print job header's modification instead of the “@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCLXL” for better compatibility with print devices.

Maintenance Update 59 (08/31/2018)

• YSoft Payment System: It is now possible to make changes to prepaid accounts of users already deleted in the Management Interface. Administrators can disable, enable or remove any existing account.
  Example: When a student postpones studies for a short time, the student's prepaid account can be manually disabled and enabled again when studies resume. When a new user with an identical username must be created in the Management Interface, the old prepaid account can be removed from the YSoft Payment System.

• A new version of YSoft SafeQ 5 Embedded Terminal for Ricoh (1.0.4) was certified and is now available on Partner Portal. The main enhancement: fail over functionality's fix for clustered environments. The new version has been tested with YSoft SafeQ 5 MU58 and higher.

• Customization Catalog item SWC-2, Credentials generator (PIN generator for guest mobile printing), has been improved. Administrators can now define a special list of keyboard characters which are not allowed in generated passwords to prevent frustrating users. For example, a user might confuse zero (0) for O or the capital letter “I” and the lower case letter “l”.

• Mobile Print Server no longer stops processing a document when the document is temporarily locked by an external process, e.g. an antivirus.

• YSoft Payment System administration no longer freezes when the Reports page is selected.

• Reporting of prints is functional again when “Only analyze jobs” option is used with YSoft Job Parser.

• Coverage’s reporting of print jobs has been fixed when the job is BW (or fully color) and has only one page.

• Billing codes are no longer visible in Embedded Terminals when this functionality is disabled.

• No error message is displayed now when a user selects the Home button during the printing of a job on Xerox devices with Embedded Terminal.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 data security has been improved related to the Java Deserialization vulnerability issue. All ports using the JMX protocol can now be closed via SafeQ configuration.

• Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta / Develop / Olivetti now supports devices with the “LK-114 Serverless pull printing” solution installed.

• Charging of copies on devices with Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox XCP has been fixed.

• Delivery of scan jobs from Lexmark devices has been fixed. All scanned documents are stored even if there is complex processing.

Maintenance Update 58 (08/03/2018)

• The scheduler responsible for the automatic reports’ creation and delivery no longer ends in a never-ending loop when a target email address doesn’t exist.

• CRS report page no longer shows a Java exception error when the data transfer to CRS is followed by the CML restart.

• Cost centres’ handling has been fixed in case the LDAP user replication is provided from more domain.

• If the initial screen of Embedded Terminal for Toshiba has MDS mode set to "Copy" in the CML, the UI on the device behaves accordingly.

• Installation of Embedded Terminal for HP has been improved. If a security certificate already exists in the HP device from a previous Embedded Terminal’s installation, it is automatically deleted and the new one is uploaded.

• Missing property is no longer logged as an error in the ORS logs for a scan logging. It is now logged as a warning.

Maintenance Update 57 (07/09/2018)

• Quotas’ propagation on the Embedded Terminal for Ricoh has been fixed in case more quotas are used.

• The new version, SRET 1.0.3 (Embedded Terminal for Ricoh), has been adapted to the newest firmware of Ricoh devices. Embedded Terminal for Ricoh is now compatible even with older versions of YSoft SafeQ 5.

• Export of web reports has been fixed in case a cost centre filter is used.

• Job listing was fixed for printing via Embedded Terminal for HP with IPPSSL backend on the  HP FutureSmart 4 devices.

• Terminal Server can now be secured when the device supports certificate usage and other necessary parts of secure communication. This improvement is applicable for Embedded Terminal's installation and scan's initialization.

• The Embedded Terminal for Sharp/Sagem no longer is stuck when an unknown card is used for user authentication.

Maintenance Update 56 (06/08/2018)

• Missing objects (users and cost centres) in CRS reports can now be automatically fixed by resending data to CRS from the CML.

• Translation of the configuration property “Terminal Server password (single)" to the Czech language has been improved.

• Only one Paypal icon can now be visible in the client interface when clustering of YSoft Payment Systems is implemented.

• Reservation in the YSoft Payment System is now properly cancelled when SafeQ was unable to deliver the print job to the printer using a direct queue with off-line accounting. Reservations and potential cancellations are done individually for each delivery attempt.

• Description of the system properties: “exp_locale” and “int_defaultLanguage” has been improved.

• One click with the user ID card is now sufficient for “waking-up” the device from sleep mode and successfully logging in to the Toshiba/OKI device with YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal.

• SNMP v3 Context default value of the Embedded Terminal for HP device definition now matches the default context value of the HP devices.

• Native Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta has been adapted to the new firmware of Konica Minolta devices. The following features are once again accessible:

  • PDF/A and PDF Web Optimization

  • Page Setting

  • JPEG file type

  • Scan Size

  • Original type

Maintenance Update 55 (05/11/2018)

• Data transfer into CRS database has been improved. Job titles with special characters could stuck the data flow to CRS. The job titles are now checked to prevent this situation.

• Printing from print drivers dedicated for “Non-postscript Fuji Xerox printers” has been fixed. The print jobs are now properly parsed, so the job attributes are recognized by YSoft SafeQ and the print preview is accessible.

• Recovery procedure of clustered YSoft SafeQ servers' documentation has been improved for the case when a non-master node has been left in an error state for a longer time than the “remove-jobs-from-sq” property says. When the right procedure is followed, job data are restored properly.

• The “Print all” check box is again accessible on Embedded Terminal for Sharp.

Maintenance Update 54 (04/13/2018)

• HTML to PDF conversion works now fine when a user prints web pages or emails using the YSoft SafeQ Mobile Print.

• The YSoft Payment System’s failover behavior has been improved in terms of its cooperation with the Management Servers. The ‘multiSubnetFailover=true’ JDBC configuration has been implemented.

• Ysoft SafeQ CML version is now shown in the System tab - System information – Components section on the CML management web page.

• Enumeration of the job total price is now more accurate. The ‘BigDecimal’ format is internally used instead of the ‘Float’ for the final price calculation.

• Firefox browser no longer offers to remember any password of service accounts.

• Security has been improved. SafeQ CML login page no longer makes visible the IP addresses of the network adapters in the html source in case there are more adapters on the server.

• A certificate’s upload to the device by an automatic Embedded Terminal installation procedure when secure connection is requested has been fixed.

• A clear message is shown when the installation of Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta fails because SSL/TLS is switched off in the device.

• A better message is shown when the installation of Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta fails because somebody else is directly logged in the device.

• Security has been improved. The 'securityProtocolTypesForOutboundCommunication' property is now considered in more cases for communication between Embedded Terminal and Terminal Server.

• A user can make a copy or print even when the price of the job is ‘more expensive’ and the value is comparable to (but lower than) the total amount of his credit.

• Charging of the jobs printed from the User Box on Konica Minolta devices has been fixed.

• It is now possible to install concurrently Embedded Terminals for Lexmark into the devices with different firmware versions. E.g. one device with firmware version 6 and a second one with firmware version 3 or 4.

Maintenance Update 53 (03/21/2018)

• Device deletion in the CML web interface now involves correct deactivation of the device in the CRS (reporting system).

• Users with the local admin rights can now filter print jobs for a specific device in the CML web interface.

• Analysis of the print job's XCPT header has been improved in term of detection B/W/color document's feature.

• Communication of the Terminal server with YPS (YSoft Payment System) has been improved in term of better handling of quota reservation. Unexpected errors should no longer appear when a user is logging in Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta just after quota entitlements' changing or restarting the YPS services by the administrator.

• Touch screen of Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta now reacts consistently at any item when the user’s tap is released.

• On Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox and Sharp, the advanced finishing options window is no longer mistakenly shown.

• Users can now repeatedly select and deselect the print job by double click on the Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox XCP.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 data security has been increased related to communications between YSoft SafeQ Terminal server and Embedded Terminals. This is accomplished with default use of the SHA256 certificate instead of the previously used SHA1 certificate.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 now supports Embedded Terminal for Lexmark devices with framework 6.

Maintenance Update 52 (02/22/2018)

• A log message in the MPS service log file has been improved when secured SMTP connection fails.

• Update process of YSoft SafeQ 5 has been fixed. The backup tool no longer modifies the comment lines which could cause a crash of the upgrade procedure.

• LDAP replication now parses the name and surname strings in a better way.

• Rule based engine now applies all watermark rules when defined.

• Print job price estimation is properly synchronized across all CML cluster nodes.

• On-line accounting processes now operates all “threads” correctly and the ORS so CML servers can run longer time without any restart.

• Refresh of the entitlement definitions in the YSoft Payment System admin interface no longer crashes when hundreds and more users have a common cost centre.

• A clear information message now appears when a user is not allowed to log in Embedded terminal due to lack of funds.

• The "initial-screen" system property works well with the Embedded terminal 2nd Gen. for Xerox.

• Rule based engine’s rules don’t longer override the Finishing options in Embedded terminal when the "finishingOptionsPriority" system property is  enabled.

• Embedded Terminal for Lexmark don’t longer crashes, when a print job name includes a special character like “&“.

• Uninstallation of Embedded Terminal for Lexmark don’t result in a blue screen on the device’s UI.

• It is now possible to restrict access to copy application in Embedded terminal for Xerox.

• Embedded terminal for Konica Minolta supports the Welsh language.

Maintenance Update 51 (02/06/2018)

• Device SW locks are now automatically released after a direct print failure and administrators don’t need to release locks manually.

• A new version of Microsoft.Owin, a third party component, has been implemented in YSoft SafeQ. Terminal server now use the Microsoft.Owin version 3.1.0.

• Security of Embedded Terminal for Toshiba and OKI devices has been increased. HTTPS communication can be used.

• Installation of Embedded Terminal for HP devices no longer fails when reporting and authentication is requested on the FutureSmart 4 family.

• ALL PAGES quota is now functional on Embedded Terminal for Lexmark MFDs.

• Embedded Terminal no longer crashes when “detail button” is tapped and the special character “&” is present in the text.

• Embedded Terminal no longer mistakenly downloads any print jobs just after installation.

• Administrators can now successfully stop the Terminal Server service.

• The "time variable" is now properly updated when a scan template is used more times in one session.

• In Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta the "Separate scan" button is now available when a device firmware has been upgraded to the version Q4 or R9.

Maintenance Update 50 (01/10/2018)

• Scan workflows can better utilize the hardware capabilities of Sharp multifunction devices. The compression level of PDF format is adjustable so the quality and size of the scanned documents are well adapted to its purpose.

• The security of data inside YSoft SafeQ has been increased related to communication between YSoft SafeQ and any type of Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta. This is accomplished with added support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 protocols.

• Connectivity CRS to the database has been fixed when a CRS-database-path is defined during the CRS installation.

• YSoft Payment System is now able to handle a large number of email notifications.

• Usernames are now correctly removed from the print jobs' title when the “parseUserFromTitle” property is enabled and the “parseUserFromTitlePreserverTitle” is disabled.

• Replicator.log cleared from unnecessary messages.

• Hex2ASCII conversion improved in the ID card conversion procedure. It can be now key sensitive.

• Tooltips in the Print Access definitions corrected.

•   Only YSoft SafeQ application are locked by default after installation of Embedded Terminal for Xerox with the "To each application" authentication mode.

• It is now possible to prefer one of two OpenAPI versions for Konica Minolta devices. A new property " kmOpenApiVersion" has been created.

• Stability of the Embedded Terminals for Lexmark has been improved.

Maintenance Update 49 (12/01/2017)

• Java version 8 has been implemented in YSoft SafeQ 5.

• Messages related to the YSoft SafeQ 5 installation programs have been revised and translated in all supported languages.

• Additional information for external payment systems is now provided. The device ID has been added into the details of payment records for further processing.

• Using the SNMPv3 protocol for communication between YSoft SafeQ and Konica Minolta devices no longer causes devices to lock down anymore.

• Users are better informed about their insufficient funds or quotas when using Embedded Terminals for HP, Sharp, Oki, Toshiba and Konica Minolta with browser based authentication.

• The delay before printing when the Print All feature is used has been significantly shortened.

• Export files from web reports now include all columns after updating from a previous YSoft SafeQ 5 version.

• When configuring SSL for communication with Konica Minolta devices, higher encryption key types, like RSA-2048_SHA-256 can be used.

• It is again possible to select a single job to print from the list on Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox.

• A warning message appears when the Xerox Secure Access must be manually set up after installation of Embedded Terminal for Xerox devices.

Maintenance Update 48 (10/23/2017)

Maintenance Update 47 (09/11/2017)

Fixes

• User access rights is considered correctly when the Print all functionality is used at Ricoh Embedded Terminals.

• Behavior of the Ricoh Embedded Terminal has been improved when machine is awakened after longer time of staying in sleep mode.

• Accounting of copy jobs has been fixed when YSoft Payment System is used at Ricoh Embedded Terminals.

• Default billing code is setup correctly to users and cost centers when LDAP synchronization is used. Accounting of print jobs is now more accurate.

• When copying on a MFD and short failures appears in the network communication with SafeQ servers, accounting of copies could be duplicated. It no longer happens.

• Job delivery timeout is now checked wen the IPP SSL backend is used for job transmission to a printer. Print process doesn't stuck in a special cases.

• Customers can now use the Xerox native PostScript print drivers and documents are printed without errors.. PJL modification by SafeQ is provided correctly.

• A new expert level configuration option was added: “removePjlDminfoForHp”. When it is enabled, SafeQ 5 is able suppress the @PJL DMINFO header from the print job and it can be correctly printed on the HP devices with SafeQ 5 Embedded Terminal.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 CRS can now be installed with the MS SQL 2008 x64 database running on a non-default instance.

• XML reports are generated correctly even if a cost centre name includes the “&” letter. The “&” is a reserved character in the XML and must be treated in a special way.

• Administrator is now properly informed when importing user PINs from a CSV file and a PIN is not stored in the database due to a PIN value duplication.

• Behavior of SafeQ 5 HP Embedded Terminal has been improved. The USB reader still works when a MFD has been staying in the sleep mode for a longer time.

• YSoft SafeQ 5 Embedded Terminal on Fuji Xerox now allows immediate login after logout when YSoft Payment System is implemented and used.

• Installation of YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox WorkCentre 4265 (EIP2.5) has been fixed.

• When the Print all functionality is applied at YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal while a user is logging in, printed documents are no more visible in the Waiting folder.

• Cooperation of Sharp Embedded Terminals with YSoft Payment System has been improved. User can print multiple jobs as a batch job if he has sufficient credit / quota.

Maintenance Update 46 (08/01/2017)

What's new

• The security of user data inside the YSoft SafeQ 5 system has been increased. We have enhanced security of communication between the MFD’s Embedded Terminal and YSoft SafeQ Terminal Server in order to make "snooping“ of user print jobs more difficult.

• On the Xerox Embedded Terminal, the "Favorites" button is now available only for layouts: "All in one" and "Waiting, Printed, Favorites". For the "Waiting, Printed" or "Waiting" layout the Favorite button was removed due to consistency of the product.

• On Lexmark Embedded Terminals, the system of messages was improved by pictograms replacing long texts.

Fixes

• CRS can be installed on a non-default SQL database port and an instance of the SQL database can be used as well.

• When CRS installation fails due to typos in installation files, it can be successfully installed again after manual correction of an xmla file.

• Mobile print server could stop monitoring a hot folder under some circumstances. This was fixed, and additionally it is possible to assign a hot folder with a standard Windows path.

• When HTTPS connection is enabled, the MPS is able to handle redirection to secure connection even without having to set the secure="true" property in SafeQ connection configuration.

• MPS logs messages about unsuccessful login to the mobile printing e-mail account could be discarded. This was fixed, and correct messages are displayed in the log.

• YSoft Payment System consumed too much memory for processing when many reservations are open. Handling of quota reservations is provided in a better way now.

• When billing codes are generally disabled, no billing code is used for job accounting now.

• Some customers were facing issues with pending jobs and locks in NRG. Locks are now removed immediately when a device finishes work and NRG works correctly.

• Descriptions of three properties in CML system settings were improved: max-stats-rows-full, max-stats-rows-base, web-stats-enable.

• Special characters such as  \$(-* can now be used for naming a custom report.

• Uninstallation of the Embedded Terminal on Konica Minolta devices now gives administrators a warning and refuses to uninstall when a user is currently logged in at an MFD.

• Behavior of Embedded Terminals on Konica Minolta devices has been improved when the YSoft Payment System is used and outage of the MFD occurs due to missing consumables exceeding a time limit. Now, the system doesn't create duplicated reservations in YPS.

• On FujiXerox XCP Embedded Terminals the authentication process can be repeated with one card without any error.

• On Sharp devices with OSA 2, the Embedded Terminal works properly even if the YSoft SafeQ scan application is not installed.

• On Xerox devices with Embedded Terminal, restricted access to applications now works properly. Administrators no longer need to make manual corrections in the MFD setup.

Maintenance Update 45 (06/23/2017)

What's new

• SafeQ Mac Client has been changed in accordance to a new Canon print drivers feature. Additional key word "command_" is accepted.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Hewlett Packard devices becomes a standard part of the YSoft SafeQ 5 MU45 and higher.

Maintenance Update 44 (05/26/2017)

What's new

• New configuration option "accountingCanceledScanWithZeroPages was introduced".  When enabled, canceled scan job (e.g. due to insufficient credit) is accounted as 0 pages. When Disabled (default value) canceled scan job are accounted according to accounting information provided by MFD.

• SHA/AES128 are now supported by the Terminal Server and can be used for SNMP communication encryption.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for HP: Scan workflows can now be configured to contain paper format and orientation which allows correct scanning on devices without paper sensor. 

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox: Fixed issue that caused incoming Fax to Mailbox to be accounted twice.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox: YSoft SafeQ now correctly records failed Fax transmission.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Fixed issues that randomly caused scan to fail when user scanned via ADF.

• Device Monitor stores counters even for MFD's with Embedded Terminal installed.

• Terminal inactivity timeout is correctly applied even for values smaller than 1. 

Maintenance Update 43 ( 04/28/2017 )

What's new

• The name of the Terminal Server service 

• YSoft SafeQ is by default configured to make up-to 15 checks if the parser has already finished  processing the jobs. There is delay 30 seconds between each check. We introduced two new configuration properties that allow to set this in more details:

  • parserOutputTimeout (30 by default) - allows to define the delay between each check

  • parserOutputTimeoutAttempts (15 by default) - allows to define number of attempts

  • This will help to prevent situations where the parser estimated incorrect number of pages due to lack o time for completing the analysis. 

Fixes

• Fixed issue that on ORS prevented the members of the VIP shared queue to access the shared jobs.

• Fixed issue that occasionally prevented jobs from being deleted in case the " refreshPrintJobs"  configuration property was enabled. 

• Fixed issue that prevented users from being able to enter the native applications when embedded terminal was not installed with all applications.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox with XPC: Fixed issue that prevented the terminal from being reinstalled.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox: Fixed issue that occasionally caused the accounting record was occasionally duplicated in clustered environment.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue with USB print on devices with  OpenAPI 3.7 and card authentication.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Direct prints are printed correctly in the order they were sent.

• A3 PCL jobs are correctly analyzed and displayed as incompatible on devices with disabled A3 tag.

• PDF files generated by Mobile Print Server can now be made PDF/A compliant. For this a new conversion option in conversion.config was added: <add key="ensurePdfA" value="true"/>.

• Fixed issue that Search for email recipients on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta Native has been returning also deleted users. It returns only active users now.

• Fixed issue that prevented Administrator to edit user parameters in Scan workflow definition in Internet Explorer 11.

Maintenance Update 42 (03/30/2017)

What's new

• In YSoft SafeQ 5 MU 41, we enabled scan job building (ability to generate a single output file when scanning from glass on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI and OKI sXP2). With MU42, we improved accounting of scans produced by job building.

• We made usage of hardware hosting YSoft SafeQ 5 Terminal Server more efficient. In particular, HP Web services are started only when at least one device with HP embedded terminal is installed in YSoft SafeQ.

Fixes

• Licence can be activated for customers with long names

• Improved print job parsing so amount of estimated pages is correct

• Browser terminal:

  • Broken format of billing codes in Japanese is fixed

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba:

  • A3 jobs that are specified as undefined are no longer accounted as A4 jobs when using bypass

  • "Ledger" paper type is accounted as a A3 job

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta:

  • User can no longer print pairs of color jobs infinitely when running out of quota for color jobs

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Lexmark:

  • Fixed issue with Lexmark MFD always using Letter page size when scanning

• YSoft SafeQ now supports Compact PDF as an output file format for scanned files on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox, Sharp and Sagem

Maintenance Update 41 (01/03/2017)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI sXP2 has been removed from the Early Access Program.

• It is possible to scan multiple documents into one output file from glass on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI and OKI sXP2. This function can be enabled via "okiJobBuilding" configuration property in the System Settings.

Fixes

• "Device - location" column in the Web reports is displayed correctly.

• Fixed issue with processing PPTX files using the Mobile Print Server.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox:

  • Fixed issue when in specific cases Print all function was not working. 

  • Japanese characters on the authentication screen are displayed correctly without overflowed texts.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta:

  • Public user accounting has been improved. The device counters are stored during installation/reinstallation, which allows to correctly account also first job from public user.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: 

  • Fixed issue with wrong screen displayed during card assignment flow. 

  • Print All on now works correctly with card authentication.

Maintenance Update 40 (26/01/2017)

What's new

• The cmlweb.log and cmlweb-audit-log.log files also contain information that particular authentication token (card/PIN/PUK) has been removed from the user.

• Several improvements to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery were implemented. For more information see the article Configuring CSRF protection.

Fixes

• Fixed defect that prevented the embedded terminal to be correctly uninstalled from the "Actions" menu.

• Fixed issue in CML preinstallation check that incorrectly calculated required space for installation/upgrade.

• YSoft Mobile Print Server: Fixed defect that occurred when file with invalid characters was uploaded, this caused further uploads were not processed.

• Fixed issue that prevented the user to release job from YSoft SafeQ Client before billing code was selected.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Accounting messages from non-existing users are accounted under the unknown user.

Maintenance Update 39 (15/12/2016)

Fixes

• Fixed problem when disallowing "color" jobs using Access Definition together with forcing B/W by Rule Based Engine caused that it was impossible to release a job.

• Fixed issue with (Novell) LDAP differential replication.

• Card number is now correctly displayed in terminal access and it is possible to use card assignment, when using unknown card on Toshiba Embedded Terminal with card number conversion.

• Fixed issue with accounting on Sharp Terminal Embedded when job was accounted as purged and also as printed.

• Fixed authentication issues with authorized FTP. Non VIP Users assigned to the shared queue are possible to see jobs sent to this queue on ORS.

• Performance of Ysoft Payment System has been improved by optimizing algorithms and adding indexes.

Maintenance Update 38 (16/11/2016)

Fixes

• YSoft Payment System now supports MS SQL 2016.

• Print Roaming module is no longer required for direct print.

• Mobile Print Server now logs certificate issues into "MPS.log" file, so if necessary, it is possible to check the log file for errors.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox: XPJL implementation syntax was updated.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Direct print in Near Roaming Group has been improved. When job was stored on ORS 1 and terminal  installed on ORS 2, terminal asked ORS 2 to get the jobs, instead of the ORS 1. now the terminal checks which ORS sent the original request to print a direct job.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung: Scan orientation is by default set to portrait in case the device is not capable to scan  A3 jobs.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Device credentials are now validated during terminal installation.

Maintenance Update 37 (20/10/2016)

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: User with insufficient credit is not able to access copy application and Czech characters with diacritics are now displayed correctly.

• Fixed problem when exports from web reports were generated empty on special occasions. 

• Fixed behavior when CML configuration files are overwritten by ORS configuration data. Final configuration is now merged from both.

• After MU36 SOSAPI print method caused long processing time and subsequently caused that SafeQ processed two or more same print jobs at the time.

• Fixed situation when a customer was not able to see shared print jobs sent to shared queues by different users. Shared jobs weren't refreshed during login operation.

Maintenance Update 36 (15/09 /2016)

What's new

• There is a new property  securityProtocolTypesForOutboundCommunication in System settings, which allows to define protocols used for communication with Terminal Server. More details can be found in the article configuring cryptographic protocols for outbound communication with terminals.  

• Auto-login was enabled for Generic/Waffle single sign-on and user can just navigate to the Mobile Print Server authentication page to get logged in automatically. SSO also also on MPS web installed on ORS.

• YSoft SafeQ Embbeded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Zoom function is disabled by default.

• New configuration option was added that allows to set time for Terminal Server to wait for Payment System response.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Several fixes in accounting were introduced.

• After update from SafeQ4 to SafeQ5, there was error displayed on web and SafeQ5 was not activated, also buttons for license activation did not work. This has been fixed.

Early Access Program

• Quotas: It is now possible to set quota limit to zero, this will automatically deny all quota reservations for specified quota identifiers.

Maintenance Update 35 (24/08 /2016)

What's new

• New firmware 3.15.6 for Terminal Professional has been added. This firmware adds support for new 50 CHF banknote.

Fixes

• Print job preview for A3 jobs is now displayed correctly, preview is scaled and the whole document is showed.

• Improved analysis of large print jobs (i.e. A2, A0, A0) sent from PostScript driver.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed issue that initiated another authentication when there was one in progress.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed issue in  detection of AMX2/AMX3 licences.

• It is now possible to open user in cash desk even by user name, that was not found among suggestions.

Maintenance Update 34 (21/07/2016)

What's new

• New Print Job Parser 3.7 has been added. This version fixes issues in processing of certain documents with non-standard paper size.

• A new configuration option "useMultipleJobsPendingStrategy" has been added allowing to configure, when are the print jobs switched to "Pending" state.  This option is by default disabled. When an user had many print jobs waiting to be printed and selected the "Print all" option on the authentication screen, the first job was switched to "Pending" state and printed, then the second job was switched to "Pending" state and printed and so on. The problem was, that if the user authenticated on another device and again selected the "Print all"option before all jobs were printed on the first device, some jobs were printed twice.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: New configuration property "kmReservationStep" has been added. This option allows to define the number of A3 duplex color pages reserved upfront for the user when the terminal is used in combination with Payment System. Frequent reservation requests can cause delays while printing.

•  YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Improved installation on the OSA 5 devices, updated documentation with configuration instructions.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OK: Fixed installation issues on some A4 BW machines.

• Simplex/duplex  finishing options  are now working correctly when the job is sent via Mobile Print Server and print job parser is enabled. 

Early Access Program

• Quotas: It is now possible to define users with unlimited access - this means that users can print or copy without any restrictions.

Maintenance Update 33 (23/06/2016)

What's new

• More detailed documentation of YSoft Payment System Administration and Cash Desk interfaces is now available.

• New version of YSoft SafeQ Proactive Care Agent (2.4.0) is in the installation package. Documentation is part of the package. 

Fixes

• Fixed issue that prevented a money account to be created for users with national characters in the user name when replicating user accounts from LDAP (option " Create money account when creating user account ").

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung: Fixed issues with terminal settings that has not been applied during terminal installation. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed issue with embedded terminal on devices with non Wide SVGA, Wide VGA and 480x272 display resolution. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed issue that prevented a user transaction to be released in case the copy operation was not finished due to an error (i.e. insufficient credit or paper supplies).

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed defect in installation of the Embedded Terminal in Kiosk mode.

Maintenance Update 32 (26/05/2016)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ CRS server now works correctly on MS SQL Server 2014 Standard and Enterprise (both 32/64bit versions).

• "Print all" settings can now be configured for each embedded terminal.  More details about the configuration are available in the article Configure Print all feature after login.

Fixes

• When ORS crashes or shuts down, it becomes unsynchronized with the rest of SafeQ environment. When it starts again, it might occasionally crash due to a huge load during the first far roaming synchronization. To solve this problem we have implemented paging (batch processing) for roamed job info. There is a new property in SafeQ System settings called limitOfRoamingJobsBatch (default value 10 000) which defines the size of one batch. If there are more than limitOfRoamingJobsBatch job info to be sent from CML to ORS, CML will always send only the amount defined in the limitOfRoamingJobsBatch property.When ORS processes the first batch it asks CML for another batch.

• Web reports and Management reports now use the same rounding and thus equal prices are displayed in both of them for the processed jobs.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba/OKI: Simplified Chinese characters (ZH-CN) are now displayed correctly on the embedded terminal. 

• Fixed defect that caused job to be improperly marked as incompatible, when the job had ForceBW tag it did not have Color tag and all system, user and device tags were enabled.

Maintenance Update 31 (28/04/2016)

What's new

• It is now possible to select billing codes right after the authentication on Sharp, OKI and Toshiba ET. The setting is configurable via configuration property "showBillingCodeAuthScreen" in System settings.

• New button has been added to Cash Desk allowing the Cash Desk operator to decrease the virtual balance of the user.

• New firmware 3.15.5 for Terminal Professional has been added. This firmware adds support for Dutch language to Terminal Professional v3.

Fixes

• Fixed issue that prevented some users to receive their periodic recharge after an update to new MU

• Deauthorized SPM is no longer accepting money.

• Periodic recharge can now be created in YSoft SafeQ and then correctly edited in YSoft Payment System.

• Text variables DEVICE_IP, DEVICE_ID, DEVICE_NAME and DEVICE_BACKEND are correctly substituted in the Rule Based Engine notification email for locally monitored devices.

• Fixed issue with growing Terminal Server memory consumption.

Early Access Program

• New version of YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Lexmark has been released. This updated version updates the behavior and fixes the previously reported defects.

Maintenance Update 30 (31/03/2016)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ now supports Dutch language on the web interface, in all the terminals and the SafeQ client.

• For customers with subscription license, YSoft SafeQ now automatically enables monthly subscription reports. These are XML reports and include number of devices of various types that are currently activated or have been deactivated in the span of last month and information about used license.

Fixes

• We have added two new properties to ors.conf to specify the path for HPGL parser. This allows customers to use HPGL parser on ORS.

• Forcing black and white on a job sent via Mobile Print now prints the job correctly even on Samsung devices.

• We have Improved ORS cache performance when searching for user's print jobs and when working with entities (usernames, aliases, devices, tags, billing codes, ...) that include special characters.

• We have Fixed problem where job statistics were incorrectly generated if the file contained multiple file extensions.

• Check for users Cost center existence was added to CSV import. In case cost center assigned to user does not exist, user is not imported to SafeQ.

• We have fixed the logout button on session expiration dialogue in embedded terminals.

• When no file is selected and the "Upload file" button is pressed on the mobile print web interface, a correct error message is displayed instead of upload confirmation.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed restrictions for color operations. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Color scanning to JPEG is now supported. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Installation no longer fails on the newest OSA 5 devices.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba: Improved handling of accounting information.

Early Access Program

• We have fixed how EAP licenses "Fax access definition" and "Fax accounting" impact access to Fax application on Konica Minolta. Customers without these EAP features are able to use them freely as they could before MU26.
  

• Improvements in YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI devices based on sXP platform:

  • Added support for scanning using scanning workflows

  • Accounting of performed scans.

Maintenance Update 29 (03/03/2016)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: The overall terminal speed has been improved thanks to the various CSS optimizations. This improvement helps to reduce the time necessary both for authentication and switching between terminal pages. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung: The integration with the YSoft Payment System has been improved. Previously it was necessary to perform a minimum credit or quota reservation for 10 pages. In MU29 we were able to remove this limitation and the users are able to consume all their credit, operations are stopped on zero.

• YSoft SafeQ connector for AP improvements: 

  • It is possible to set a login level and logging of IPP messages can be turned off completely.

  • Every JPEG file sent via AirPrint is now converted to PDF. This allows to print JPEG files even on the printers that do not have a direct support for JPEG files (support for PDF is more common).

  • Job delivery protocol has to be selected during the installation now. 

Fixes

• We have fixed an issue that prevented the N umber of copies settings from the print driver to be correctly applied on a job if the  device was used without an embedded terminal (e.g. with TP and online accounting). 

• Cash desk operator is now correctly notified with a message "The user has no credit account assigned" if a user without YSoft Payment System account authenticates using a card number in the Cash Desk application. 

• Mobile Print Server will no longer stop working when an email with a subject longer than 260 characters is received. 

• Reprinted jobs are now correctly calculated in the statistics.

Early Access Program

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI devices based on Smart Extendable Platform 2 has been introduced. The terminal supports:

  • User authentication using PIN or Card or Username and Password

  • Print Roaming functionality

  • Print job management 

  • Billing code selection 

  • Accounting of print and copy operations

Maintenance Update 28 (04/02/2016)

What's new

• In Mobile Print Server e-mail notifications, the text of footer can be configured.

• Released the last firmware update for YSoft Recharging Station. It also contains support for the new €20 banknote and other currency updates.

Fixes

• Scan workflows can be used multiple times in one session on Toshiba Embedded Terminal. Currently the second attempt triggered "Scanning error".

• YSoft Payment System can now be used with USB print of Fax on Fuji Xerox XCP Embedded Terminal.

• The fax feature is now accessible for users of Konica Minolta Embedded Terminal.

• In YSoft Payment System, text of Terms & Conditions in Payment Gateway is no longer required to be filled, when the Terms & Conditions are not used.

• The authentication on Xerox Embedded Terminal used to fail if machine did not respond in time. The timeout is now configurable.

• YSoft SafeQ Client for Mac has the client icon no longer missing in launchpad.

Early Access Program

• Extended accounting of colors - it is possible to account wider range of colors (1 color, 2 color, Full Color) on Konica Minolta.

• It is possible to track all prints, copies and scans that were performed by Public User on Konica Minolta devices. 

• New browser based authentication for Toshiba/OKI devices has been added. New authentication brings several improvements:

  • New authentication screen with Y Soft branding,

  • New authentication options including two factor authentication such as PIN and Card,

  • Support for card self-registration.

Maintenance Update 27 (07/01/2016)

What's new

• New firmware 3.15.1 for Terminal Professional and for Payment Machine is available.The new firmware 

  • Adds support for various special characters to username & password login method and card registration. We focused on special characters widely used in customer environments which rely on strong passwords.

  • Adds "Full keyboard" layout to username & password login method and to card registration as well. It makes it easier for users to type their username and password than on the legacy 12-button number pad. The new "login keyboard" settings in service menu allows to select the default keyboard layout for all users. More information available in  the article Terminal Professional Service Menu Items.

• Payment Machine banknote support has been updated. This update brings support for the new €20 banknote and some updates in British Pounds, Singapore Dollars and Israeli Sheqalim.

• Improvements in card reading capabilities and support for easier customization for USB card reader, Terminal Professional and Payment Machine.

• AirPrint version 2.3 has been added. This version brings minor fixes and improvements and also newly adds support for simple print output options - color/bw and simplex/duplex setting.

Fixes

• Fixed issue that prevented user who sent a job to shared print queue to release it. 

• The LDAP replicator service port configuration has been moved from Connect to LDAP screen to the System Settings to the new configuration property "Y Soft SafeQ LDAP replicator service port".

Early Access Program

• YSoft Payment System allows easier definition of quotas.

• Quotas for total number of pages (covering both print and copy pages) are now supported on YSoft SafeQ embedded terminals for Fuji Xerox, Konica Minolta, Ricoh and Xerox.

Maintenance Update 26 (19/11/2015)

What's new

• New YSoft SafeQ Client for Windows 2.26 has been released. This version adds adds compatibility with Microsoft Windows 10.  

• It is now possible to display user's personal and virtual balance separately on the embedded terminals. More details are available on Showing personal and virtual balance on embedded terminals.

• YSoft Payment System now downloads e.g. SMTP configuration and currency from YSoft SafeQ by itself during service start or during periodical checks.

• YSoft Payment System has new default value of timeout for transaction operations sets to 5 seconds. The limit can be changed in the environment-configuration.properties through "database.transactionTimeout" property (value is in seconds), in case the infrastructure is slower or is connected to external payment provider. We do not recommend to set the value higher than 60 seconds. 

• It is now possible to authenticate to the YSoft SafeQ, YSoft Mobile Print and YSoft Payment System web interfaces using SAML2. More details available on Configuring Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) single sign-on.

• It is now possible to set automatic correction of page size for MS Powerpoint presentations sent to YSoft SafeQ Mobile Print. More details on Configuring Mobile Print Server

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba/OKI: Access with unknown cards is now correctly displayed in the Terminal Access page.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh now acounts jobs to billing code selected on terminal, not to default one.

Early Access Program

• It is possible to select Billing Codes for print jobs directly on the embedded terminal. More details are available on Billing Code selection for Printing at the terminal. 

• It is possible to restrict the access rights also for fax operations. This allows to prevent unauthorized access More details available on Access rights for fax.

• Improvements in Quotas. More details in Quotas.

  • It is now possible to define Soft Quotas. When soft quotas are exceeded, user is notified, however MFD functions are not affected, so user is still able to print, copy or scan on the MFD.

  • It is now possible to define quota accounts for the entire Cost center.  

•  Users can let their PayEx account be charged directly for services.

Maintenance Update 25 (22/10/2015)

What's new

• New YSoft SafeQ Client for Mac v4.5 has been added. This version adds compatibility with the newly released Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11).

• YSoft SafeQ now supports Microsoft Exchange Online services. This can be enabled using the " Mail server TLS support" configuration property in order to upgrade plain text socket connection to encryption if offered by the server, usually on port 25 or 587
  

• YSoft Payment System installer is now checking connectivity to YSoft SafeQ User Management during installation. When updating, it is required update the YSoft SafeQ installation before updating YSoft Payment System.  

• YSoft SafeQ Client now shows user's money balance on Price Estimate screen (available for secure print).

Fixes

• Web dashboard widget for encryption now now supports also encryption of additional characters such as "%", "&" and "+".

• Fixed issue with Embedded Terminal mass reinstallation in combination with devices filter based on terminal type and status.

Early Access Program

• Page quotas can now be set up in YSoft Payment System administration UI.

• Minimal balance, Initial balance and assignment of Periodic recharges can be set during Payment entitlement creation.

• It is possible to have users charged for personal prints only on Konica Minolta Embedded Terminal (Browser).

• When Two-factor authentication is used, users can define their own PIN on YSoft SafeQ web administration.

Maintenance Update 24 (25/09/2015)

What's new

• New YSoft SafeQ Client for Windows 2.25 has been added. This versions fixes issue with crashing client, when multiple jobs are sent quickly in a row.

• New log file  "cmlweb-audit-log.log" has been introduced that contains all audit log messages. The log file is located in <SAFEQ_HOME>\logs\ directory. More information can be found in the  YSoft SafeQ log Files  article.

• Only one Terminal Server instance is part of YSoft SafeQ. The path to Terminal Server directory is <SafeQ5>\terminalserver\.

• Terminal Server can now utilize ETCD technology t o store data necessary for synchronization when failover using WNLB is implemented. More information about the configuration can found in the article  Configuring WNLB Server Failover .

• Documentation is no longer in provided in .chm format, instead HTML documentation is attached. 

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue with web authentication to A4 devices using PIN.  

• Fixed issue when occasionally Terminal Ultralight failed to decrypt the secure communication with SafeQ server which caused print jobs deletion by MFD.

Maintenance Update 23 (03/09/2015)

What's new

• Support for Swedish localization has been added to YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminals.  

Fixes

• Incompatible jobs are no longer switched to "Cancelled" state after "Print all" action and remain in the  accepted state.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: It is now possible to set Quick copy an the initial screen displayed after user authentication (which is defined using the  initial-screen  configuration property).

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: maxPrintAllJobs configuration property works correctly when "Print all" is triggered.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: The jobs are now released correctly according the jobsAllSortOrder  configuration property when "Print all" is triggered.

Early Access Program

• Support for page quotas has been improved: 

  • It is possible to define quota specific user as an exception. The user is identified by user name.

  • Quotas are supported on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox with XCP.

Maintenance Update 22 (13/08/2015)

What's new

• New firmware 3.14.15 for Terminal Professional is available.This firmware introduces larger keyboard displayed on the billing code selection screen and brings additional improvements in localization.

• New YSoft SafeQ Client for Windows version 2.24 has been added. This versions brings updated Portuguese ( Brazil ) localization.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba/OKI: Automatic user logout has been implemented.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue with occasional incorrect accounting of duplex print and copy jobs.

• Device with online accounting is successfully moved to a different ORS group, even when it's turned off or it's offline for any specific reason.

• Improved tracking of Rule Based Engine rules execution in the log files.

Early Access Program

• Support for page quotas has been improved:

  • Improved behavior on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp (e.g. Print all after authentication is also validating user quotas).

  • Quotas configuration can be done via user interface instead of configuration file.

  • It is possible to define quota also for specific user, not only whole group.

  • Quota interface now allows see the user names. 

Cumulative Update 2 (04/08/2015)

About Cumulative Update

• Cumulative Update contains additional stability and quality improvements. Y Soft recommends to update existing YSoft SafeQ 5 customers to this latest release. Additionally, Cumulative Update provides many new features under standard licenses.

What's new

• New version of SafeQ demo is available on the Partner Portal.  SafeQ Demo is a tool, that allows to update SafeQ database to specific state, when the YSoft SafeQ looks like it has been used by a real company for specific time period. The new version brings new graphical user interface that allows quick and easy configuration of the environment.

New features (moving from Early Access Program to general availability)

• YSoft SafeQ allows to delegate the administration of the print environment. Local administrators can be defined and assigned to one or more ORS servers. This administrators then have the rights to manage only the devices, jobs and related reports for the given ORS servers. More information can be found in the following article.

• YSoft SafeQ allows to print seamlessly from the iOS (version 4.2 and newer) and MacOS devices using the AirPrint connector. The connector utilizes the zero-configuration Bonjour protocol. Printing service presented by printer is registered via this protocol and any iOS or Mac client is able to discover it and use it. More information can be found in the following article.

• Payment System allows to defined virtual credit which can be assigned to users periodically. Users have the “available balance” which is the sum of users personal and virtual credit. New options were added to the web administration allowing to recharge credit to an entire role or cost center or to define periodic recharge initial balance for a cost center (also via LDAP replicator). More information can be found in the following article.

• Payment System does not require manual Java installation anymore. From this update, it will start to use only Java bundled in Payment System installer.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung has been added. The terminal is supported on devices based on the XOA-E platform.  and supports the standard embedded terminal feature set including various authentication methods, print job management, support for scanning via scanning workflows, billing code selection and credit operations in connection with YSoft Payment System. More information can be found in the following article.

• New YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox has been introduced. The terminal brings additional authentication options (PIN and Card, PIN or Card etc.), support for USB card readers and also improves the behavior in connection with Payment System.  The new terminal requires the device to support the eXtensible Customizing Platform (XCP). M ore information about the terminal can be found in the following article.

New features in Early Access Program

• Support for page quotas has been added. Quotas allow to limit user's consumption of print and copy services. Quotas are defined for specific time period (e.g. monthly). Once they are  consumed, the user is prevented from additional operations until the quotas are refreshed. Quotas are available on all embedded terminals for Konica Minolta, Xerox, Sharp, Ricoh, Samsung.

Maintenance Update 20 (02/07/2015)

What's new

• TLS secured connection has been implemented to YSoft SafeQ subsystems (LDAP replicator, Spooler for Client and IPPSSL Backend), the configuration is set to true by default. To change the protocol settings, please do so in configuration option with prefix customCipherSuites, filterExportedCipherSuites , cryptographicProtocol and allowCustomCipherSuites for particular subsystem.

Fixes

• Filtering of accounts by personal balance in the YSoft SafeQ web administration has been fixed. Personal and virtual balances are separated into two values.

• List of billing codes is now displayed in the same order in the YSoft SafeQ Client an in the embedded terminals.

• Scanning workflow parameters entered on the embedded terminal are validated before scan is started.

• Rule Based Engine action "Deny authentication at terminal" is working correctly.

• Price defined for locally monitored devices is correctly synchronized to ORS.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba/OKI: User access rights defined in the Access Definition are correctly applied.

Maintenance Update 19 (11/06/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI/Toshiba: Authentication by PIN is now supported. It is configured during embedded terminal installation.   

• The LDAP replicator additionally allows to import and convert PIN number from single-value attribute.

• User Roaming for Virtual Desktops: When YSoft SafeQ Client is used on virtual desktop, it is possible to print using ORS that is physically nearest to the user. This is available as new ServerDeliveryMode option in YSoft SafeQ Client.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: The enterprise mode, which allows the terminal to automatically connect to different SafeQ node in case the first node fails, was improved. The speed of connection to different node has been improved and it is also possible to select server selection strategy. More information about configuration is available in the article the following article.

• User name is correctly displayed in RTL ( Right-to-left) languages on Terminal Professional when Payment System is used.  

• Fixed an issue in money withdrawal procedure in recharging stations when using with SafeQ 5 Payment System.

• Fixed a few issues with scanning folders and scan-to-folder document delivery.

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Kiosk mode support has been added allowing the embedded terminal to be installed in a Kiosk mode.

• YSoft SafeQ now supports AirPrint integration allowing seamless printing from iOS (version 4.2 and newer) and MacOS devices. Apple’s zero-configuration Bonjour protocol is used. Printing service presented by printer is registered via this protocol and any iOS or Mac client is able to discover it and use it.
   

Maintenance Update 18 (21/05/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Button for PIN confirmation has been added to the authentication screen. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Embedded terminal installation speed has been improved.

Fixes

•     Mobile Print Server: Notifications are merged in case multiple attachments are send as part of one email.

•     LDAP replicator no longer fails during replication in case straight double quotes (") are used in the directory structure.

•     Jobs waiting in the shared queue are correctly released using in case the Print All option is enabled on the authentication screen.  

•     YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Duplex scanning from feeder is working correctly.

•     YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue when Terminal Server rejected card authentication in case the card information contained non hexadecimal character (0-9a-fA-F).

•     YSoft SafeQ is now able to correctly display the list of money accounts, in case the YSoft Payment System connects to an external purse (credit handled outside of YSoft Payment System).

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox with XCP:

  • Fixed issue preventing the users to navigate through the billing code list displayed after authentication.  

Maintenance Update 17 (30/04/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ client 2.22 has been released. The new version contains the following changes:

  • Fixed issue preventing the YSoft SafeQ Client from being installed on Microsoft Windows XP.

  • Fixed issue allowing to switch off encryption during a man-in-the-middle attack.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh:

  • The print logic has been reworked.

  • Support for USB card readers has been improved on most devices. This should solve issues when entering sleep mode, plug and play issues after multiple pull-outs and some issues when the card was only partially read. Log files were also modified and should be more clear and readable.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp:

  • Authentication speed has been improved.

  • Support for failover using WNLB had been added. For more information about the configuration see the article configuring WNLB server failover.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox:

  • It is now possible to scan to Searchable PDF in case the device supports it (EIP 2.5 or higher is required).

  • The position of the YSoft SafeQ icon is preserved after the embedded terminal reinstallation. 

  • The print queue and printer status are no longer locked during the embedded terminal installation.

• YSoft Payment System allows to set up mailing directly in the Payment System Administration. After upgrade, it is necessary to set up mailing as described in the article configuring credit-based notifications.

• The Terminal Config tool has been removed from the installation package. To configure hardware terminals, please use the command-line Remote configuration tool for hardware terminals (Termtool) instead. More information can be found in Remote configuration tool for hardware terminals.

• There is a new option in Mobile Print to allow excluding certain types of automatically generated email attachments when email print job submission is used.

Fixes

• Fixed issue with incorrect rounding when calculating price for duplex jobs.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh:

  • Multiple jobs printed at once are now printed in the correct order.

Early Access Program

YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox with XCP:

• Fixed issue causing user access to be reported twice.

• Improved accounting of non standard media types and jobs of mixed sizes.

• Fixed an issue that caused the "Recharge credit" button to appear after user self-registration even when no payment gateway was set up in YSoft Payment System.

Maintenance Update 16 (13/04/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: The configuration of accounting is now automated during the embedded terminal installation process.

Fixes

• When updating CML, it is necessary to manually update the server.xml file to get rid of the SSL FREAK vulnerability (CVE-2015-0204): For https connector, update protocol and add SSLCipherSuite as described in the article Configuring SSL/TLS for Web interface.

• YSoft Mobile Print Server: Fixed issue with converting images in the main html body.

• YSoft SafeQ: Fixed issue with replication of terminal accesses by unassigned card from ORS server to CML server

• YSoft SafeQ: Fixed issue with migration of Pricelists when upgrading from YSoft SafeQ 4 to YSoft SafeQ 5 on MSSQL database.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed issue with correct color mode output of "auto" color mode in scanning workflow.

Maintenance Update 15 (19/03/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: It is possible to access the KM device using web access again.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: The authentication process was reworked which brings improvement in the authentication speed.

• YSoft Payment System now contains timeout that logs out users after period of inactivity.

• YSoft Payment System now shows customer balance and debt in YSoft Wallet and Payment Gateway deposits.

• YSoft Payment System allows to export administrative reports to CSV file.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed issue preventing users with disabled money accounts from using devices without payments.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba: Fixed issue preventing users to scan more pages on glass in one scanning session.

• YSoft Payment System: Fixed issue that balance notifications reacted to personal balance only and ignored possible virtual balances of user.

• YSoft SafeQ installer: Fixed issue that prevented to use custom installation path when upgrading from YSoft SafeQ 4.

• YSoft SafeQ: Fixed issue with duplication of cost centers when using LDAP replicator full replication and specific conditions are met.

• YSoft SafeQ: Fixed issue with Single Sign-on functionality preventing internal users from logging in after manual log out.

Maintenance Update 14 (02/03/2015)

What's new

• YSoft SafeQ Payment System: It is now possible to export generated vouchers into a word template that allows to print all generated vouchers at once. More information can be found in the following article.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: The embedded terminal installation process has been improved. During the installation the SSL is now automatically set, security certificate is created (if missing) and the device features can be locked depending on the selected Authentication mode (To each application/ To device).

• Support for Turkish language has been added to the YSoft SafeQ installers.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Fixed issues with accounting.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed issue preventing the users from scanning when the price for scanning is set to 0.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed issue preventing the users from accessing copy menu in case the the price for B/W copies is set to 0.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Issue with incorrect page rotation of pages scanned from the glass has been fixed. Limitations are mentioned in the article embedded terminals

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba: Successful access to the embedded terminal are correctly recorded in the Terminal Access list. 

• YSoft Payment System: The speed of mass periodic recharge unassignment has been improved.  

• YSoft Payment System: Notifications are now sent even though the authentication on the SMTP server is disabled.

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox with XCP:

  • Improved language resources and localization.

  • Improved authentication speed in combination with Payment System.

Maintenance Update 13 (05/02/2015)

What's new

• An informative message about restricted permissions is displayed in case a user with access restrictions for printing navigates to the Print tab on the browser based  YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminals.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issue that prevented the job list to be correctly displayed in case hundreds of print jobs are waiting in the print queue.   

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed issue when the card swipe was ignored in other application than YSoft SafeQ.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba: Details about authentication process were added to the log files.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed issue that prevented the embedded terminal to be installed in case the devices address was specified as fully qualified domain name.

Early Access Program

• New YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox has been introduced. The new terminal allows to use additional authentication options (PIN and Card, PIN or Card etc.), supports USB card readers and improves the behavior in connection with Payment System. The new terminal requires support of eXtensible Customizing Platform. M ore information about the terminal can be found in the following article.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung: Fixed issue when log out by a card swipe occasionally lead to unexpected behavior.

Maintenance Update 12 (15/01/2014)

What's new

• In YSoft Payment System, following changes and features were introduced:

  • Major performance improvements. 

  • New stable API v2 for connection with other systems and business processes was introduced.

  • It is possible to add virtual credit to single user as a free entitlement to print. 

  • It is possible to have multiple merchants (not only YSoft SafeQ) connected to use the YSoft Payment System.

• In YSoft SafeQ, the following related features were introduced:

  • It is possible to create money account based on cost center settings in the LDAP replicator.

  • It is possible to set up periodic recharge for cost center.

  • It is possible to perform an ad-hoc virtual credit recharge for the whole cost center or role.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI/Toshiba: The installation procedure has been improved and the amount of necessary manually steps before the installation has been significantly reduced. Detailed information can be found in the configuration guide for Toshiba or OKI.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: RXOP libraries has been updated to version 3.5.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: An error message is correctly displayed when user with insufficient credit prints a print job using the Print All functionality.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: The fields "Administrator username" and "Administrator password" on the Printer setting / Terminal tab were fixed. This fields allow to enter credentials used for the installation of the embedded terminal.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: The "Print-all-button-default-value" configuration option sets whether the waiting print jobs will be released after authentication or not (regardless on the value of "Print-all-button" configuration option).

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: The message informing about insufficient funds at copy session is correctly translated.

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung:

  • The behavior of the terminal in connection with Payment System was significantly improved.

  • Fixed card assignment issues.

Maintenance Update 11 (18/12/2014)

Fixes

• Terminal Professional correctly displays preview of a job from ORS.

• Mobil Print Server web interface no longer generates different MD5 hash of the password for the newly registered users than the SafeQ web. This caused the users to be unable to log in.

• Devices created from a template via CSV replicator now have a correct price lists define (from the template).

• Fixed issue that on specific conditions prevented the Terminal tab to be displayed when editing a device, even thought the license was sufficient.

• Fixed issue causing the licenses for devices with Reporting were not displayed correctly on the web interface for some license module combinations.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed prevented the Embedded Terminal from being correctly installed in case Accounting was not selected for the installation.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI: Scanning from feeder has been fixed.

Early Access Program

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Samsung devices has been introduced. Terminal supports devices based on the XOA-E platform and offers all standard YSoft SafeQ features such as user authentication, print roaming, print job management and scanning workflows. The Payment System is operations such as charging for prints/scans/copies are supported as well. More details can be found on the page Embedded Terminals.

Maintenance Update 10 (24/11/2014)

What's new

• The YSoft Payment System allows to define Terms & Conditions displayed to the end users by the Payment Gateway during the recharging flow. This allows our customers to match Payment Gateway compliance requirements that usually require user to sign Terms & Conditions before payment is processed.

• SafeQ Client v 2.20 has been released. The new version adds the option to disable the price estimation popup window. Information about the configuration can be found here.   

• Newest OpenSSL libraries containing fix for the so called Poodlebleed vulnerability has been implemented.

Fixes

• The characters supported in Billing Codes created via web administration are also supported in Billing Codes imported via CSV import. 

• Results of Embedded Terminal mass re-installation are displayed correctly in the YSoft SafeQ web interface.  

• Fixed issue that prevented the embedded terminal to be reinstalled from an ORS that was previously restarted.  

• Fixed issue with device re-installation after the IP address of the device has been changed.

• Fixed issue that allowed to release a print job to the printer and print it even though the Rule Based Engine rule is defined to reject the job.   

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI/Toshiba: Scanning from the native application works even thought the Scan Management module is not in licensed.    

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: User access rights for Print, Copy and Color operations are correctly applied.    

Cumulative Update 1 (20/11/2014)

About Cumulative update 

• Cumulative Update contains additional stability and quality improvements. Y Soft recommends to update existing YSoft SafeQ 5 customers to this latest release. Additionally, Cumulative Update provides many new features under standard licenses.

• Please note that Service Release has been renamed to Maintenance Update to avoid existing confusion among our partners and customers about its purpose and contents.

What's new

• New installer has been introduced. The installer allows deployment of YSoft SafeQ CML Server, YSoft Payment System and YSoft Mobile Print Server together using one file and also eliminates the necessary additional steps to interconnect the installed components. This allows fast and easy deployment of YSoft SafeQ. More information about the installer can be found in the following article.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh fully certified by Ricoh Developer Program is part of the installation package.

New features (moving from Early Access Program to general availability)

• Guest user registration allows the visitors to create their own accounts directly on the Mobile Print Server web interface. Users can create a permanent or a temporary account (which will be deleted after specified time period). Once  the user creates the account, the user can submit the jobs to print via email or Mobile Print web interface and print them on any printer in the YSoft SafeQ environment. More information about the visitor registration can be found in the following article.

• The Payment System allows the administrators to define and redeem vouchers. A voucher is an alphanumeric code that represents specific amount of money. These vouchers can be sold offline and redeemed via Cash Desk or student self-service page. When redeemed, the specified amount of money is added to money account and the voucher cannot be used anymore. More information can be found in documentation of YSoft Payment System.

• Scanning support has been added to the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba. The users are allowed to scan the documents using the predefined scanning workflows (scan to folder, scan to mail, scan to script) and modify the scanning workflow parameters or scanning options such as Format, Quality, Color and Sides setting directly on the embedded terminal. The required configuration can be found in the following article.

• Option to define notifications via popup message in SafeQ client has been added to the Rule Based Engine. The notification can be displayed in the SafeQ client right after a rule is triggered which helps to further improve the user experience of the end users. More information about the setup and usage can be found in the  following article.

• Support the double byte characters in job names has been introduced. This feature allows the specific embedded terminals to display the job names in national characters not supported by the MFP (for example Hebrew or Arabic). More information and limitations can be found in the  following article .

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Develop and Olivetti has been added. As the Develop/Olivetti are re-branded Konica Minolta devices, the embedded terminal supports the standard Konica Minolta feature set including two versions of the embedded terminal (browser based and native), various authentication methods, print job management, support for scanning via scanning workflows, billing code selection and credit operations in connection with YSoft Payment System. More information can be found in the following article.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI has been added. The embedded terminal supports authentication, print job management, scanning via scanning workflows and support for billing codes. More information about can be found in the following article.

Service Release 9 (16/10/2014)

What's new

• SafeQ Client for Mac v 4.2 has been released. This version adds support for Arabic, Hebrew and Swedish language and also supports for the latest  Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite.

• The MPS server is now able to run even if the SMTP server is not defined in the SafeQ configuration.

• It is possible to access the SafeQ web interface without re-entering login details using Central Authentication Service (CAS).

Fixes

• Incompatible jobs are no longer displayed when the "showIncompatibleJobs" configuration property is disabled.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Fixed issues related with printing from USB, prints from USB drive are correctly accounted and charged.

• YSoft Payment System: Pending deposits are correctly displayed for the selected payment gateway.

• Fixed issue with Scan-to-script scanning workflows where most of external script command parameter is cut off

Early Access Program

• Support for local admins has been added. The local admins are only able to see jobs for their service organization and manage devices in service organization. 

Warning

• This Service Release requires re-installation of the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminals for Konica Minolta. In case the terminals are not re-installed, the users might not be able to authenticate.

Service Release 8 (25/09/2014)

What's new

• When user selects job(s) to be printed on the Embedded Terminal, the price for the job(s) is estimated and the print request is sent to SafeQ server only if the user has sufficient balance. Otherwise the print is rejected and the user is informed. This applies to YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox, Konica Minolta, Sharp and Xerox.

  • Note: This feature requires Print job parser to be enabled, so that the number of pages in the document can be correctly parsed.

• YSoft Payment System: When the “Initial account balance“ configuration option is defined and a new Payment System account is created and charged by this amount, the information about the transaction is saved in transaction history.

Fixes

• Print job preview on the Embedded Terminal is correctly working also for roaming print jobs.

• In case the Billing Codes are disabled, the Billing Code defined for the user is no longer displayed on the Embedded Terminal.

• The Job list folders configuration is correctly propagated to the Embedded Terminals during installation. 

• Print job is correctly removed from the Waiting folder once it has been printed on the Embedded Terminal.

• Searching for Billing Codes on YSoft SafeQ Client connected to ORS has been fixed.

• YSoft Payment System: Fixed issue when some of the periodic recharges were only visible in the YSoft SafeQ web interface.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox: The user's credit balance displayed on the Embedded Terminal is no longer reduced by the reservation. User is able to see his exact current credit balance.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed defect that prevented the Embedded Terminal to be properly installed in case a host name was defined in the "networkAddress" parameter in the Terminal Server configuration file.

Early Access Program

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Olivetti devices has been introduced. The embedded terminal supports all standard features and functions such as user authentication, print job management and support for scanning workflows and Payment System.

Service Release 7 (04/09/2014)

What's new

• SafeQ Client for Mac 4.1 has been released allowing the DHCP user roaming. The SafeQ Client for Mac is able to obtain the YSoft SafeQ CML or ORS server IP address(es) automatically from a particular DHCP option.

• The Payment System web interface allows to define the layout template used for credit based notification emails and reports. A WYSIWYG editor can be used for the template definition allowing to easily define the formatting with the option to simply insert tables or images.

• New firmware for banknote acceptors in YSoft Recharging Station v2 is available. This firmware contains updated information about CAD, EUR, GBP, ILS, PLN, RON, USD currencies. Please contact our Customer Support Service for further assistance with the update of the firmware.

• New  configuration  option “Enable faster print on Ricoh devices” was introduced on the YSoft SafeQ embedded Terminal for Ricoh. Enabling this option allows faster processing of print jobs on Ricoh devices in case multiple documents are printed at once. 

  • Note: This method may eventually cause incorrect accounting of print jobs in case of hardware issues (like paper jam) therefore it is recommended to keep it disabled when YSoft SafeQ is used in combination with Payment System.

Fixes

• Print jobs in the job list folders are sorted correctly according the " jobsSortOrder"  configuration property.

• Print all button releases print jobs in correct order. 

• Fixed several issues with favorite jobs on a device connected to an ORS in Near/Far Roaming group. The job cans be correctly marked as favorite and it is possible to correctly print/delete it.

• The repeat option "At the end of the month" for periodic recharge is available also on the YSoft SafeQ web interface. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox: Fixed defect that prevented the user to log into the terminal in case one of the services was free of charge.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Users are allowed to search for email address when using Scan-to-email scanning workflow also on a device connected to an ORS. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta: Printing a direct print job with insufficient credit no longer causes the device to be blocked for all following print jobs. Such job is correctly rejected by machine and job state is set to Canceled.

  • Note: Print job parser needs to be enabled for this functionality.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Fixed defect with wrong encoding of national characters that were displayed incorrectly.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox: Fixed issues with embedded terminal installation of Accounting on Xerox TE cannot be installed with accounting on WorkCentre 7242 and WorkCentre 74xx.

Early Access Program

• New authentication method for native YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta has been added. This authentication method allows to use “Card and PIN” authentication in combination with “Username and password”. This feature allows the users who lose their card to be able to authenticate using their credentials. More information can be found in the following article.

• Support for advanced scanning options has been added to the native YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta. The advanced scanning options include support for defining parameters Simplex/Duplex, Scan Size, Separate Scan, Page Setting and Original Type. More information can be found in the following article. 

  • Note: Special firmware is  required  on the devices. 

Service Release 6 (14/08/2014)

What's new

• Credit based notifications were added to the YSoft Payment System allowing the administrators to define automatic e-mail notifications and reports. Notification can be sent or regular basis or in case specific conditions are met.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Support for print job preview has been added. Please not that the Print job preview function is not available on the devices with uWVGA displays.

Fixes

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Fuji Xerox: Fixed issue with unsuccessful registration of the YSoft SafeQ application on older devices caused by long reboot duration.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh: Language is switched correctly even when the user is logged in the YSoft SafeQ application.

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Fixed several layout issues on the Authentication screen and Job list screen on the devices with small display. 

• YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp: Accounting of operations performed by a user without Payment System account works correctly.

• Print job preview on the Embedded Terminals is properly displayed for a jobs that were marked as favorite.

Early Access Program

• New functionality has been added to the Payment System which allows the administrators to define and redeem vouchers (alphanumeric codes that represent certain amount of money). These vouchers can be sold offline and redeemed via Cash Desk or student self-service page. When redeemed, specified amount of money is added to money account and the voucher cannot be used anymore.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Develop devices has been introduced. As the Develop MFPs are rebranded Konica Minolta MFPs, the embedded terminal supports all standard features and functions such as user authentication, print job management and support for scanning workflows and Payment System.

Service Release 5 (24/07/2014)

What's new

• SafeQ Payment Machine supports Croatian Kuna, South African Rand and Bahrain Dinar. For detailed information about supported currencies see the list of supported currencies.

Fixes

• Fixed defect that prevented unknown cards swiped on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta from being displayed in the Terminal Access screen. 

• Users without money account are able to release a direct print jobs on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh and browser-based YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta.

• It is now possible to delete jobs from favorite folder on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh.

• The "Color" restrictions are correctly applied on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh.

• The exit button on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp works correctly also on the devices equipped with only AMX3 module. 

• User printing a direct print job on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp is no longer logged into the SafeQ application in case he/she runs out of credit during the print.

• Convenience Authentication is automatically configured in case the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox is installed on the Xerox device built on the ConnectKey firmware.

• The estimated price in SafeQ Client is now displayed correctly according to the price list hierarchy. For more information about the price lists see the  following article.

• Billing code menu is also displayed when the embedded terminal is installed only with the Print application (this applies for all browser-based terminals).

• Embedded IIS web server is correctly configured during ORS installation.

• Fixed defect that prevented SafeQ CML installed without Terminal Server to be able to update to a newer Service Release.

Early Access Program

• Support for double byte characters in the job names has been introduced. This features allows the embedded terminals to show the job names in national characters which are not supported by the MFP (for example Hebrew or Arabic). More information can be found in the following article.

Service Release 4 (03/07/2014)

What's new

• The credit handling on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp has been improved. The terminal is able to interrupt print/copy operation in case the user's minimal balance is reached. More information can be found in the following article.

• The YSoft Payment System allows to define the initial balance when creating new money account. Also it is possible to define the maximum balance for periodic recharge, above which the periodic recharge will not add any new credit.

• Few improvements in the web administration have been done:

  • Favorite jobs are now distinguished in the job list. 

  • It is possible to filter the jobs with unidentified job owner.

  • It is possible to sort the list of automatic e-mail/file reports.

Fixes

• Copy and scan jobs are correctly accounted to the selected billing code on YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp.

• Fixed defect that caused the card registration screen to be displayed even if the configuration property assign-new-card-enabled was set to disabled. 

• Fixed defect that prevented users with disabled rights for color to print in black and white  on the browser based YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Konica Minolta.

• Fixed defect that caused an exception to be thrown on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh in case the pagination arrows were used before page was refreshed after print.

• Automatic log out is working on the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for FujiXerox.

• Fixed defect that prevented to assign card to a user using HID card with HID USB card reader.

• Double quotations (") are handled correctly in the Scan-to-script scanning workflows parameters. Previously the script was not executed if the  script parameter contained double quotations. 

• The jobs from a shared queue are visible also on an ORS in far roaming group where the owner of the shared queue was never logged before.

Early Access Program

• Mobile print for visitors: Fixed defect that prevented visitors to self-register via Internet Explorer.

Warning

• Because of the change in classes used for logging, update of the CRS server to SR4 or higher will overwrite the log4j.xml file.

Service Release 3 (12/06/2014)

What's new

• Language selection has been added to the Mobile Print Server web interface allowing the users to change the default language.

• The number of document formats accepted by the Mobile Print Server has been more than doubled. See the documentation for the complete list of 44 supported file formats.

• Support for new currencies has beend adde to the SafeQ Payment Machine. Detailed information can be found in the list of supported currencies. 

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba allows the selection of billing codes. Different billing codes can be selected for different copy and scan jobs in one session.

• New watermark variables (such as job name, file name etc.) are  available  in the Rule Based Engine. Complete list can be found in this article .

• Single sign-on functionality has been implemented to the YSoft Payment System allowing the users to log in seamlessly without having to type the password.

• Possibility to search through all transactions with advanced filtering options has been added to YSoft Payment System.

• Cancelling of open reservations is possible directly in the Payment System web interface. The open reservations can be also automatically closed after defined time period in order to allow customers to use their credit again.

• YSoft SafeQ CML server and YSoft SafeQ Payment System supports Microsoft SQL Server 2014. More information can be found in the article software requirements.

Fixes

• It is possible to install the YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Ricoh also on devices Ricoh MP C2003SP and Ricoh MP C2553. 

• JobLimits are now only utilized when the Payment System is used on YSoftSafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox. 

• Messages on the authentication screen on the YSoftSafeQ Embedded Terminal for Xerox are correctly localized.

• Fixed issue that prevented the copy and scan jobs to be accounted to the selected billing code on YSoftSafeQ Embedded Terminal for Sharp. 

• Fixed defect that prevented the PIN numbers to be overwritten in case the PIN-overwrite is enabled and users are imported from LDAP

• Jobs sent to the VIP shared queue are now visible also to the other members of the VIP shared queue. 

• Favorite job operations on the embedded terminals are now correctly reflected.

Early Access Program

• Mobile print for visitors has been introduced. This feature allows the visitors to self-register directly on the Mobile Print Server web interface. User can choose to create a permanent or a temporary account that will be deleted after a set time. Once the account is created, the user can send jobs to Mobile Print via email or web and print them on any printer in the YSoft SafeQ environment using just their account username and password.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI allows the selection of billing codes. Different billing codes can be selected for different copy and scan jobs in one session.

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for Toshiba and OKI now supports the Scan Management features. Users are able to scan documents using the predefined scanning workflows (scan to folder, scan to mail, scan to script) and modify the scanning workflow parameters or scanning options such as Format, Quality, Color and Sides setting directly on the embedded terminal.

• The Rule Based Engine now supports new notification option – popup in SafeQ client. More information can be found in following article.

Service Release 2 (30/04/2014)

What's new

• The YSoft SafeQ Embedded Terminal for OKI is available.

  • Supported devices must be based on Toshiba OpenPlatform (Toshiba devices rebranded for OKI).

  • Embedded terminal for OKI devices can be installed remotely using YSoft SafeQ web administration.

  • The embedded terminal allows users to authenticate at the device, release print jobs, access the native copy application. Both copy and print job accounting is supported.

• YSoft SafeQ embedded terminal for Ricoh is now able to display session summary (list of print, copy jobs with prices) upon user logout. More information can be found in the following article.

• Mobile Print Server s upports additional file formats -  . epub , . xlsm , . xlsb , . xltx , . xltm , . pps , . ppsx , .pot, . potx , . fo , . pcl , . svg , . xps , . emf , . ico , . wmf , . dxf. The complete list of supported file formats can be found here.

• For better mobile printing results, LibreOffice and OpenOffice fonts are now distributed together with the  Mobile Print Server.

• Support for semi-automated upgrade from SafeQ 4 installations with external PostgreSQL/Microsoft SQL server has been added. More information about the upgrade procedure can be found here (PostgreSQL) or here (MicrosoftSQL).

• Added help to configuration options in payment system administration.

• It is possible to install the embedded terminal with accounting on Xerox devices with EIP 1.5 without JobLimits.

Fixes

•  YSoft SafeQ components contain the newest version of the OpenSSL library with the Heartbleed vulnerability fixed. 

Early Access Program

• YSoft SafeQ now provides two-factor authentication method (similar to Card and PIN authentication method), where the user always has only one specific Card and PIN combination (each card has always one PIN). More information can be found in the following article, the feature is available for Konica Minolta and Terminal Professional only.

• In university environment, where students migrate between different study programs (study program is a cost center in domain controller), it is possible to add initial free credit for each cost center once the user joins the program (is included in the cost center). This way, user is entitled to receive free credit (e.g. based on legal requirements in some countries).

  • Students may migrate between different study programs (cost centers). Therefore this custom feature additionally handles situation when given credit is removed and replaced with another one (each study program/cost center may have different initial free credit).

  • Students also may receive in some study programs (cost centers) regular free credit from the university. Each study program (cost center) can be then configured to include its users into regular account recharge.

  • More details are available upon request.

  • Please consult use of this early access feature with Y Soft as it might not be suitable for every environment. 

Service Release 1 (10/04/2014)

What's new

• SafeQ 5 SR1 includes the embedded terminal for Toshiba devices.

  • Supported devices are based on Toshiba OpenPlatform.

  • Embedded terminal for Toshiba devices can be installed remotely using YSoft SafeQ web administration.

  • The embedded terminal allows users to authenticate at the device, release print jobs, access the native copy application. Both copy and print job accounting is supported. 

• Billing code can be added to the scan to script scanning workflows via the %billingCode% property. More information can be found in the Scanning workflow definition article.

• Upgrade from SafeQ 4 to SafeQ 5 is now supported for embedded Microsoft SQL Server database. More information can be found in the Upgrade from YSoft SafeQ 4 to YSoft SafeQ 5 - MS-SQL Embedded database article.

• YSoft SafeQ can now be configured to automatically create money accounts for users from particular LDAP server, during LDAP replication process.

• Ricoh embedded terminal improvements:

  • Added support for direct printing, jobs printed via direct queue are correctly printed, accounted and charged (if Payment System is used). 

  • Minor changes to the terminal graphics have been included (new icons on the authentication screen).

  • Credit balance of logged in user is displayed with the corresponding currency.

  • Number of steps performed in the installation is displayed correctly.

  • Embedded terminal has been localized to the following languages: Czech, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian,  Japanese , Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Russian, Slovak,  Chinese.

Fixes

• Fixed installation issues on multiple Xerox devices (such as Xerox WC7845 and Xerox WC3315).

• The installation fails with proper error message in case XSA is disabled on Xerox machines

• Fixed defect that caused the installation to take 30 minutes on Windows Server 2012 due to the installation of the web role features.

• License activation can be performed only on the first node of the cluster.

• Fixed error on Sharp embedded terminal that caused Unexpected error to be thrown. This error occured in case the user swiped an unregistered card or entered incorrect Card Activation Code or  login and password during card activation.