Mercury 12 Release History

[02/12/2024]

Mercury Version 12.41

Bugfixes

Webclient: Fixed an issue where sorting print jobs by creation date no longer worked.
Extension Server: Memory leak fixed.
Output Port: Fixed crash when picking up spooled jobs.
Barcode Filter: Resend OCR_B Fonts after PCL-Reset if necessary.

New Features / Changes

REST-API: Connecting to OneDrive for printer app.
Mail-Input (IMAP, POP3, Entra ID)
The VIPP- and Postscript Processor emulation now supports also the Ghostscript Version 10.04.0.
PHP 8.3.14

[11/09/2024]

Bugfixes

CV-OMR Plugin: Page tag and barcode positioning improved.
CV-OMR Plugin: Duplex front and back wasn't handled correctly
Fixed an issue where the XML content of ppdxml files was not returned correctly when queried by the global printer client (GPC).
BC-XOM: Fixed an issue that no more log messages has been given out to the event log from 'XOM Input' for SAP Callback Client. This happened only WHEN USING 'sapnwrfc.dll' Version "RFC NW SDK V7.50 (Patch Level 14) from 15.06.2024" or newer. Since changed behaviour of RfcSAPUCToUTF8(...) and RfcUTF8ToSAPUC(...) within that Version, all text conversion failed and resulted into empty messages.
Rest API: The behavior when returning paperTrays has been corrected. These are now returned as an array, as described in the documentation.
Barcode filter: use macro buffering if barcode definitions are used.

New Features / Changes

In a Mercury Print process, a path can now be defined that is used as the default spool directory for all output ports of this print process.
Apache Server V2.4.62
PHP 8.3.11
Entra ID Authentication

[04/07/2024]

Bugfixes

Field Scanner: Evaluation of fields for variables now uses empty values for unrecognized fields.
Field Scanner: Configuring form types with 2 letters as e.g. "de" did not work.
Doc Separator: Optional parameter <jobnamenoext> added to command line parameters.
Print process: Fixed crash on job timeout at input port in connection with protocol.
Print process: When using job timeout, server ID was not transferred to the successor job.

New Features / Changes

Accounting: Statistic format reported to MPS now supports extended columns of bw and color for each paper format.
Webclient: XMLRPC_MAX_-values can be redefined now. To do this, a copy of the file nps-define-sample.php must be created and renamed to nps-define.php. The XMLRPC_MAX_ definitions can then be changed in this file.
PHP 8.3.9
Apache 2.4.61
Raw-Emulation has now a switch "Split at trigger". Trigger can be set in DFOpts.ini [Common Options] RawEmu_SplitTrigger.

[07/06/2024]

New Features / Changes

Load balancer support for a network of multiple Mercury systems. This allows the monitoring of GPC print jobs that are distributed by a load balancer. Requirements: The addresses of the Mercury NPS servers involved must be stored on the Mercury index server. An INI file with the name npsservers.ini in the directory %ProgramData%\docuFORM\MercuryIndexServer is used for this purpose. The Mercury servers are entered in the [NPS Servers] section as nps-server-id = nps-server-address entries. The file is created automatically after starting the index server and the NPS servers involved (in this order) or can be created manually before the first start of the entire system.
PHP 8.3.8

[15/05/2024]

New Features / Changes

The Merkury web pages now support UTF-8 encoding, so that characters that are not ISO-8859-1 encoded can now be displayed. Note: To enable the generation and display of print job names in global languages, the “Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support” setting must be activated in the region settings of the Control Panel depending on the Windows version. You can see this option by going to Settings and then: All Settings -> Time & Language -> Language -> "Administrative Language Settings".
PHP 8.3 support.

[12/04/2024]

Bugfixes

New Features / Changes

DocSeparator PIE Plugin: Now supports PJL command SET FORM = "<name>" to automatically switch configuration. Also a new option to uses a splitter change as document start makes splitting possible without a document trigger.
Field scanner filter: Scanner method 'PCL job scanned for text areas' now supports PJL command SET FORM = "<name>" to automatically switch configuration. Also the new storage method 'write to XML file' is introduced.
A separator page is printed if there are spooled print jobs when a print process starts
OAUTH2 performance increased
MCS REST-API support
CV-OMR Plugin

[15/09/2023]

Bugfixes

PclRdr based configuration for frame based PCL triggers has been revised.
Field Scanner: Memory leak fixed.
Mobile website: LDAP login with domain part possible (domain\user or user@domain).
REST-API: LDAP login with domain part possible (domain\user or user@domain).

New Features / Changes

Field Scanner: New method for creating XML data files from scanned data.
Field Scanner: New form type allows multiple configurations controlled by '@PJL SET FORM' in PJL Header. The default configuration is always required, even if empty.
New DFOPTS.INI parameters to increase scan area for all PclRdr based modules using frame based PCL triggers.

[14/06/2023]

Bugfixes

Setup: Fixed an issue where the reference to the database directory was lost when upgrading an older Mercury (< 11.21) installation.
Server Extension: Better exception handling and garbage colletion to avoid locked import files.
Server Extension: Smart card number was not imported during automatic AD import.
Web client: Fixed an issue that occurred when saving the settings if the Netbios domain was included in the name of the service user.

[27/04/2023]

New Features / Changes