RPM Development Roadmap
for Windows NT-based platforms

This page lists the features and issues that were resolved in each minor release of RPM Remote Print Manager beginning with version 4.5.0.1 and continuing to the current version of RPM, 4.5.1.12.

RPM 4.5.1.12

February 2, 2008

• Resolved a buffer overflow security vulnerability during the receive data file LPD subcommand. This issue was originally report by Luigi Auriemma here.

RPM 4.5.1.11

November 12, 2004

• RPM now installs and uninstalls correctly on systems running Windows XP SP2
• The setup program has been signed with a digital certificate
• Remote Print Administrator for RPM Elite is signed with a digital certificate for better integration with Windows Server 2003
• The EBCDIC table has been updated (character 0x9F is converted to 0x80 [euro])

RPM 4.5.1.9

October 23, 2003

• Corrected a problem upon startup when the license was validated.
• Improved communication between the user interface and the service.

RPM 4.5.1.8

September 17, 2003

• Resolved issue with text queues where banner page overwrote the first page of the print job.
• Corrected a problem with the translate LF to CR/LF function where extra carriage returns were added in the print job.
• RPM now saves the windows that were opened previously; the same windows come up next time RPM is started.
• When calling a filter program and %s is not specified in the command line, RPM now inserts the path to the data file as documented.
• Resolved an issue when specifying an alternate location to save control files.
• RPM now determines the largest available buffer size per TCP/IP connection and uses it, improving speed when receiving large files.
• Some files with embedded null characters were printed incorrectly; this was also causing ASA translation issues.

RPM 4.5.0.4

November 12, 2002

• Remove PCL codes option has been enhanced to remove all PCL codes, including graphics.
• Batch files are now shown by default when browsing for filter programs.
• Some files and folders were not properly removed during uninstallation.
• Users can now successfully specify a range of pages to print.
• RPM Elite could not be upgraded to unlimited printers.

RPM 4.5.0.3

October 08, 2002

• Queue List window can now be sorted on the title column; before it would not sort properly.
• RPM installation failed on Windows NT with service pack 5 or earlier during dll registrations.
• Queues were not always listed in the Queue List window after upgrading from previous versions.
• Print jobs and queues with uppercase letters were not displayed properly in the Queue List window.
• Some escape sequences that were not true PCL, but similar, were improperly removed.
• When renaming and deleting a queue, the Queue List window was not properly refreshed.
• The license manager and RPM user interfaces could not be opened by anyone other than a member of the Administrators group.
• Export configuration was not properly handling file paths, either during uninstallation or when called from the File menu.
• When receiving multiple copies of a print job, not all copies were printed and RPM logged warning messages.
• From the Brooks License Manager (BLM), copying to clipboard and printing license information would not work properly, and license information was not displayed properly in the BLM user interface for non-English languages.
• You can now specify the folder for saving control files on a per queue basis as well as globally.
• The printer limit during trial was increased from 2 to 5 on RPM Select.
• Printer module shows actual printers instead of additional printers. The module quantity can now be increased during trial as well, but is reset to the appropriate amount during licensing or after the module expires.
• Brooks License Manager now allows editing of proxy settings; before it silently used the proxy information defined in Internet Explorer if a normal connection could not be made.
• RPA can now be accessed securely using secure socket layers (SSL). An example is https://your.website.com/rpm.
• Various issues with upgrading from RPM 2.3/3.0 NT versions were resolved.

RPM 4.5.0.1

August 14, 2002

• Remote Print Administrator added to allow RPM to be configured remotely; this requires IIS on the RPM host and a browser at a client computer.
• Software license manager enhanced for relicensing software and connecting through proxy servers.
• Queue Status window would not display job names longer than 16 characters. It has now been increased to 40.
• Many default settings modified in text queues and filter queues to support recent changes in many operating systems.
• Added support for importing and exporting configuration. This is done from the File menu.
• Support for specifying the destination folder of the control file information.
• Added banner page support for all queue types. Previously was only allowed in raw and text type queues.
• When printing a banner and inserting files or bytes, the file or bytes were inserted only after the banner. RPM now provides a way to select where the information is inserted.
• The Report2Web style was updated to support the most current version of Report2Web. All versions are supported, but must be modified for previous versions.
• Opening the Queue Status window after it was closed manually caused too many spaces between print job information.
• When configuring RPM to preserve more than 7 days of log files, only 7 logfiles were saved.
• Some tabbed dialogs were not using the system colors, but instead were forced to a gray color.
• Some blank pages were printed whether the suppress blank pages setting was selected or not.