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TapQueue server and station 0.16.0
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Added
- A tap no longer holds up the next person. A release station used to wait for the whole
release (up to 2 minutes of retrying a busy printer, 5 minutes to send each job) before it read
another card. Now the server answers a tap after at most 5 seconds and carries on sending by
itself, and the station reads cards while earlier taps are still being answered. What came of a
slow release is in the activity log; a job the printer refuses is held again. The wait, how long
a busy printer is retried and how long one job may take to send are settings (tap-wait,
printer-busy,printer-send). - Job history and the activity log are kept as long as you choose.
job-historydeletes
finished jobs (document names, owners, source PCs) after a number of days; the default is still
for ever.activity-logreplaces the fixed 90 days. Reports reach back only as far as job
history is kept. - Colour and two-sided printing are recorded for each job and added up in reports, the CSV
andtapqueue-admin report, from the print dialog's choices or what a raster document says. A
job that left colour to the printer counts as neither; so do jobs from before this version. - A time zone setting (
time-zone, e.g.Europe/Oslo) for where days start: page limit
periods, reports, and the times of the daily backup and directory sync. Until now it was the
server machine's, so a server on UTC reset "daily" limits at UTC midnight. The default is
still the machine's. - Reverse proxies:
server.trusted_proxiesinserver.tomllists proxies whose
X-Forwarded-ForandX-Forwarded-Protoare believed, so callers behind one are told apart.
See docs/install-server.md. - Encrypted backups, and backups off the server's disk.
backup.passphraseinserver.toml
encrypts every new backup (AES-256-GCM);backup.copy_tocopies each one to a second folder,
such as a mounted network share, and keeps that folder in step with what the server keeps.
tapqueue-server --restoredecrypts with the passphrase fromserver.tomlor
--passphrase-file. See docs/backup.md. - All of the settings above are on the console's Server page and in
tapqueue-admin server set.
Changed
- Sign-in lockout is per name and address, not per name. Five wrong passwords for a name used
to lock that name for everyone, so anyone on the network could keep an admin out of the console.
Now they lock that name from that address only, and an address that gets 20 wrong over any
names is refused altogether. The number of tries and the minutes are settings
(sign-in-attempts,sign-in-lockout). - Card numbers are hashed with a secret key (HMAC-SHA-256) instead of plain SHA-256, which
for numbers that short could be reversed by trying them all. The key is made on first start in
data_dir/secrets/badge.keyand is included in backups. Stored cards are converted when this
version first starts; nobody has to tap again. Going back to 0.15 after that needs the
upgradebackup made at that start (as any downgrade does): 0.15 can't read the new hashes.
If you copy the database to another machine by hand, copysecrets/with it. - Backups now hold
secrets/as well, and the daily backup's time is in the time zone setting. - A release station that taps while the server is busy with an earlier tap may get the new
outcomereleasing("your jobs are on their way") instead ofreleased.