Gespage v9.0 release Notes

Amélie Brunel

Modified on: Thu, 1 Feb, 2024 at 3:26 AM

Version 9.0.0

You will find below the 9.0.0 release notes and attached the release notes in PDF format.

Admin interface
- New easy-to-use user interface for the administration
- Minor modifications have been done into the menu’s architecture:
  - The navigation is now offered from the menu on the left
  - The Document menu has been added to setup the mobile printing and scan parameters.

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Printers’ management
1. Gespage Direct Agent
  - The management of printers has been fully redesigned to distinguish printers from printer queues:
    - Multiple printer queues installed on different servers or computers and referencing the same MFP are now aggregated to a single printer device.
    - A single printer and eTerminal configuration can therefore be shared between multiple printers’ queues.
    - The reports are referencing the printers, that can be aggregated from different printer queues.
  - This allows various new configurations:
    - Install print agents on user computers to get rid of print servers.
    - Share a common eTerminal between separate networks (ex: education and administration networks)
    - The standard management of printers through a print server remains of course possible.
  - The aggregation is done automatically based on printer queue’s IP addresses:
    - From several printer queues referencing the same printer, the aggregation printer is called the ‘Priority printer’.
    - By default, the ‘priority printer’ is the first queue referencing a printer that is registered on Gespage.
    - It is possible to manually modify the ‘Priority printer’ and to rename it.

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eTerminals
- Gespage embedded applications
  - eTerminal Ricoh
    1. Gespage Ricoh eTerminal v2.3.0
      - New design of the user interface.
      - Add advanced scan feature.
      - Allow logo customization.
      - See eTerminal release notes for further information.
  - eTerminal Lexmark
    - Gespage Lexmark eTerminal v7.0.0.0
      - Allow logo customization.
      - Better support for latest models.
      - See eTerminal release notes for further information.
- Gespage web eTerminals
  - The web eTerminals management has evolved to be more resilient to complex network architecture:
    - To do so, the eTerminals unique identifier has been moved from the device IP address to the device serial number.
    - For example, NAT traversal between the server and MFP is now supported.
  - The impacted eTerminals are the following:
    - eTerminal Brother
    - eTerminal Epson
    - eTerminal KM
    - eTerminal Sharp
    - eTerminal Toshiba
    - eTerminal Xerox
  - These changes do impact each eTerminal configuration. Please see the each eTerminal v9 manual for further details

System
- Upgrades to the technical stack:
  - PostgreSQL v15.2
  - Java OpenJDK v11.0.15
  - Payara v5.2022.4

eTerminals
- eTerminal Epson
  - It is now possible to customize the Gespage MFP service user credentials.
- eTerminal Kyocera
  - Gespage Kyocera eTerminal v1.7.4.0
    - Fixes linked to advanced scan customer journey.
    - See eTerminal release notes for further information.
- eTerminal Sharp / eTerminal Toshiba
  - It is now possible to setup if the MFP certificate is checked or not (for server to MFP flows).
- Gespage scan
  - For scan to mail, it is now possible to setup a destination to the secondary user’s mail.

Hardware peripherals
- cBot
  - Add support for self-association of a card to an existing account.
  - Fix support in print options modification from cBot
- cPad-Pay
  - Embed firmware cPad-Pay v2.6.4.

Printers’ management
- When a printer queue is deleted, the printer’s configuration remains available in Gespage. This allows the easily restore the printer’s and eTerminal configuration on a new printer queue.
- Fix management of BW printing when color quota is exceeded on the user’s service.

Mobile printing
- Web printing: Hide mobile printers that are not allowed to the user.
- It is now supported to setup an advanced price profile on a cloud printer.

Gespage Agent v9.0.0.0
- The installer is now also available with .msi format.
- SNMP monitoring: Add support for new range of MFPs.
- Improve Gespage agent startup delay.

Gespage Remote
- In the users’ synchronization process, some additional parameters of the user are now synchronized (email, home directory…)

Admin interface
- A new menu for Gespage print agent’s monitoring has been added.
- In users’ parameters menu, it is now possible to setup the random numeric code length.
- For scan to mail, it is now possible to setup a maximum size for attachment (setup in SMTP parameters)
- The admin web access roles have been adapted to the new menu structure (role added for the Document menu).
- In the license menu, the maximum number of allowed eTerminal is now displayed.

Installation
- After installation, Gespage printing mode will now be setup by default in level 2 (management of user's balance).
- The Gespage installer is now unique on Windows whatever the required eTerminal.

Miscellaneous
- Minimum TLS allowed by Gespage is now setup to TLS 1.2
- Add new languages: Italian, Portuguese

Installation
- Before upgrade, Gespage must be up to date with latest Gespage v8 version (v8.2.7)
- The migration procedure (see Gespage V8 > V9 Migration) must be followed during the upgrade.
- The migration impact is depending on the eTerminal brand.
Licenses
- Xerox eTerminal and Gespage web payment licenses must be reinstalled after migration to be compatible with their new format.