Tarka Revision History - Netcraft Australia

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New or changed in 4.6.0:

Added multi-tenant support.
Added support for setting the enforcement time and weekend grace period option per-credit class.
Improve display of credit class due date, enforcement and reminder information.
Update statement reminders to use transaction matching.
Added statement reminder template balance field.
Added support for not sending the original invoice with a statement reminder email (per reminder).
Added most-recent Internet session report.
Added Customer Revenue by Month report.

New or changed in 4.5.5:

Added Tarka certbot DNS challenge integration.

New or changed in 4.5.4:

Added support for easily deleting all transaction matches for a customer.
Added interface to automatically match all transactions for a customer.
Added support for holding credit card payments with the credit class "Payment Delay Days" field.

New or changed in 4.5.3:

Added new extra field type "number" supporting bps, bytes, and percentage values with minimum/maximum values configurable.
Added column for the original amount to the Aged Debtors Transaction report.
Added matching and transaction date options to the Aged Debtors report.
Added support for per-customer discounts.
Added support for DNS CAA resource records.
Added ability to send just a single table of a scheduled report.
Added support for any combination of multiple hotspot gateway customer interfaces with and without VLANs.
Adding/removing hotspot networks now does not require a network restart.
Removing a hotspot network will automatically log off all users connected to that network.
Added hotspot configuration option to share a user's allocated bandwidth between simultaneous logins.
Added support for sending aggregate usage to parent customer logins.
Added support for automatically expiring DNS records.

New or changed in 4.5.2:

Email accounts now have a Last Login field, to show when users last logged in to their email account.
Added Revenue by Tier of Service, Credit Card Capture, Services by Activation Date, and Service Changes reports.
Added Monthly Revenue column to service reports.
Added support for TXT records longer than 255 characters.
Replaced the customer and contact extra field support with generic extra field support.

New or changed in 4.5.1:

Added support for postpaid phone services.
Changed time block minimum cost charge to be prorated.
Added support for per-resource record TTLs.
Added support for importing iBoss VoIP CDRs.
Added support for bulk deletion of transactions.
Added support for per-domain RNAME (responsible email address).
Added tracking of CDR batches and support for deleting batches through the admin interface.
Added support for automatically sending receipts for payments, enabled by uploading an email receipt template.
Statements containing only receipted payments will not be sent automatically and will be held until another transaction has been added.
Added support for having a separate Call Rate Rate table for each Phone Service Type.
Added support for EziDebit payment gateway for Credit Card and Direct Debit payment methods.
Customers can now update their Credit Card and Direct Debit details for Stripe and EziDebit through the custdata interface.
Added support for uploading Email templates via email.
Added support for a statement_sort_order customer extra field to include a user-defined value in generated statement PDF filenames.
Added support for Cisco Wireless radius clients.
Added support to the Internet Event Search for CLID/MAC Address queries and date ranges.
Added support for hotspot auto-login.
Added a custdata interface so users can add CLID Authenticated Devices. This is useful when devices can’t login to a captive portal natively (eg. TV, Game Console).
Added support for searching the access log by table name and key field value.
Added Recurring Service Changes report.
Added support for custdata domain resource record editing.

New or changed in 4.5.0:

Added support for PABXSoft CDR decoding.
Added ability to specify a separate IP Address and Port for RADIUS kicking.
Added support for Stripe payment gateway.
Added support for matching credits/payments against debits/invoices.

New or changed in 4.4.11:

Added custdata time block purchase tracking report and API.

New or changed in 4.4.10:

Added domain nameservers report.
Changed Admin User Delete to redirect to the Contact View page on completion.
Changed the Extend Credit parameter to be a maximum number of days instead of a fixed number of days.

New or changed in 4.4.9:

Added support for “ANAME” DNS records.

New or changed in 4.4.8:

Added support for Ruckus SmartZone AAA and Hotspot.
Added JSON API for adding transactions.
Added display of page generation time to the access log report.
Improved the usability of the IP Port Device List page.
Added display of the enabled field to the IP Port Services and Recurring Service Types reports.
Added an All Site Details report.
Added support for report generation from the Online User list.
Added support for customised tier-of-service time block selection.
Added display of the total number of time blocks and the most recent close date to the Unassigned Internet Schemes list.
Added support for customising IP Port transaction groups.
Added support for including the IP Port Service Valid From field in transaction description templates.
Added support for excluding particular IP Port Device Ports from the selection available when adding a new IP Port service to a customer.
Added support for restricting web and API access by admin group.

New or changed in 4.4.7:

Added support for more than two nameservers with the roles selected per-domain.
Added support for manual enforcement of credit terms.

New or changed in 4.4.6:

Added support for moving payment/refund transactions between customers.
Added support for deleting the most-recent account export.
Added support for allocating sites/nodes to customer Internet services.
Added support for once-off emailing of reports.

New or changed in 4.4.5:

Added support for approval groups/admin requests, initially for manual charge, credit, payment, refund, and deposit transactions.
Added non-renewing scheme time blocks report.
Added sessions by NAS group report.
Updated to automatically cleanup temporary customers by default.
Added support for agency and agency commission group extra fields.
Added support for agency voucher credit limit.
Added support for customer balance transfer transactions.
Added JSON API for customer, contact, login, and time block manipulation.

New or changed in 4.4.4:

Added agency voucher interface.
Updated hotspot redirect to use a 302 redirect rather than a 511 HTTP status code.
Added support for specifying walled garden addresses by domain.
Added links to the Login View and RADIUS Check pages from the Internet table on the Customer View page.
Added recurring services by customer report.
Added support for Cisco ISG walled-garden, rate-limiting, and per-user firewall.
Added a new admin feature for editing time blocks, so admins groups can edit internet information without being able to edit time blocks.
Added support for IP Port Servers, to allow servers other than Tarka to configure IP Ports.
Added support for cisco port provisioning, so interfaces can be configured based on information in Tarka (Eg. IP Ports).
Added support for disabling the billing of IP Ports, and setting the Next BIll Date when adding them.

New or changed in 4.4.3:

Added display of current Internet sessions & kick link to the Login View page.
Added date selection to the job count report.
Added job open duration to the job list report.
Changed IP Port excess data billing from $/MB to $/GB.
Added RADIUS check page linked from Login View.
The default Custdata template now uses the updated web interface.
Search box now also searches IP Port Services, Domain Services, Recurring Services and Email Aliases.

New or changed in 4.4.2:

Added additional sorting options to the online user list.
Added support for job extra fields.
Added support for the SecurePay credit card payment gateway.
Improved the recurring service billing interface; the valid-to date has been replaced with the next-billing date which can be entered when the service is created, and backdated charges will be applied immediately.
Added support for tracking unearned (deferred) revenue automatically.
Changed the default timestamp on reversed transactions to match the original transaction.

New or changed in 4.4.1:

Added support for viewing RADIUS logs on remote AAA servers.
Updated statement display to also show the statement sent date.
Added support for managing Barracuda inbound filtering.
Added support for custom DHCP ranges for Hotspot networks.
Improved performance of hotspot login redirect.
Updated Card Captures to show associated logins, RRN and transaction reference.
Updated job-list to also show the job creation time.
Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
Added prepaid-balance USSD API.

New or changed in 4.4.0:

Redesigned web interface.
Added relative date options to reports.

New or changed in 4.3.9:

Added support to the hotspot gateway for excluding certain destinations from NAT.
Added support for Signup Scheme and Statement extra fields.
Added the Multi-line Text extra field type.
Added support for multiple time blocks valid from first login on the same login.
Added support for configuring all prepaid card code, username, and password parameters.
Added Prepaid Batch Login Summary and Detail reports.
Added support for setting up mail servers without also creating the associated MX record.
Added mail domain hosting report.
When the time block simultaneous limit is one, the newer user will be permitted on and the oldest user will be disconnected if possible.
Added display of agency and extra fields to the aged debtors report.
Updates to the Tarka USSD framework and time block purchase application.

New or changed in 4.3.8:

Added support for Scheme and Internet extra fields.
Added support for an extra field type for money.
Allow the aged debtors report to include zero-balance customers.
Added support for creating hotspot logins through a USSD interface.

New or changed in 4.3.7:

Added support for monitoring online users through SNMP.

New or changed in 4.3.6:

Added total statement credits and debits columns to the billing history pages.
Added support for selecting a revenue code for manual charges and credits.
Added new admin features for each report category.
Added support for multiple mail storage servers for realms and aliases.
Added Search -> by Prepaid Card for searching by prepaid card sequence number.

New or changed in 4.3.5:

Added support for creating websites without the associated address record.

New or changed in 4.3.4:

Minor bugfixes only.

New or changed in 4.3.3:

Added link from customer-view to the associated agency customer.
Added agency revenue commissions report.
Remove access server list method and simplify kick method setup.

New or changed in 4.3.2:

Updated manual statement close to delete empty statements.
Added support for duplicating admin groups.
Added support for tracking credit class by statement.
Added support for tracking IP Port transactions.
Added support for custdata purchases on credit.
Added Customers with Credit Extended report.
Added Customer Transactions List report.
Added Sent Statements report.
Added Revenue by State report.
Added Time Block Scheme Changes report.
Added support for aggregate time blocks to the move time block usage feature.
Added support for rollover top-up time blocks.
Added Receipt reports.
Added support for reopening closed statements.
Added support for the outbound SMTP server delivering mail for hosted domains via the inbound SMTP server instead of directly to the hidden primary.
Added display of last contact access time to the admin user list page.
Added support for monitoring minimum expected access server user counts.
Added Tax-Exempt Customers report.
Added DR/CR selection to the Customer Transactions List report.
Added Monthly Revenue and by-Day reports.
Added support for banking individual payment types.
Added Single Day Usage by User report.
Added support for disabling statement reminders per-payment-method.
Added display of deposit transactions to the daily accounting reports.
Added excess charge display to the Excess Usage report.
Added display of the service type to the Last Login Details report.
Added selection and display of the service type to the Inactive Logins report.
Added support for interval descriptions in hotspot and domain settings to be entered in natural language.

New or changed in 4.3.1:

Added support for one authoritative nameserver to host domains from multiple Tarka instances.
Added support for holding customer security deposits.
Improved Customer View display for customers with few services.
Added support for customer-private realms and VRF services.
Added support for Access Server, Tier-of-Service, and VRF extra fields.
Added explicit download/upload rates to the Tier-of-Service table.
Added support for prorated postpaid time block charges.
Added support for rollover time blocks.
Added support for limiting the number of instances of a particular scheme that a customer can purchase online.
Added “Reset Password” button for automatically generating random passwords.
Added support for multiple contact email addresses.
Added support for multiple statement template documents, selectable per credit-class.
Added support for maildir mailbox day limits.
Added credit class field to the aged debtor reports.

New or changed in 4.3.0:

Improve RADIUS configurability.
Allow RADIUS server to run on hot standby PostgreSQL databases.
Tarka Hotspot Gateway rewritten; will now run independently of the Tarka server and supports all time block features.
Added support for tracking Internet usage by Internet service type for the same time block/login.
Added support for assigning default Internet service types to access servers and netflow clients.
Added support for the MasterCard Internet Gateway Service Value Added Services (MIGS VAS) payment gateway.

New or changed in 4.2.1:

Added customer credit enforcement report.

New or changed in 4.2.0:

Internet access query performance improvements.
Added display of contacts to the DSLAM Port List page.
Added support for manual port assignment to the DSL Service Add page.

New or changed in 4.1.1:

Daily RADIUS logs are now also stored compressed.
Added support for enforce_days, enforce_date, and enforce_amount fields in reminder templates.

New or changed in 4.1.0:

Added support for arbitrary recurring service and transaction fields.
Added support for CSV statements.
Added support for multiple reminder templates, managed through the web interface.

New or changed in 4.0.7:

Added support for inclusion of contact phone numbers in warning emails.
Added support for deletion of Exchanges, DSLAMs, DSLAM Ports and DSL Parameters.
Added “Last Internet Login Details” report showing all logins and their most-recent login details (start time, NAS, Port, Task, IP Address, CLID, and DNIS).
Added totals to the Customers by Balance report.
Added support for agency commissions for direct payments.
Updated reverse transaction function to automatically reverse associated commission transactions.
Updated Internet Excess Usage report to include rate limited time blocks.
Updated Internet Excess Usage report to include totals.
Added Unrated CDRs report.

New or changed in 4.0.6:

Added display of overlapping IP addresses to the admin customer view.
Added bulk-add time blocks feature.
Added aggregate scheme feature.
Added “Other” inbound SMTP server type and support for multiple MX records.
Improved access log insert performance.
Added support for handling NetFlow records from multiple NASs with overlapping IP address ranges.
Added support for DNS AAAA records.
Added credit card interactive payments report.

New or changed in 4.0.5:

Added support for agencies generating receipts.

New or changed in 4.0.4:

Added Excel CSV page download format.
Added display format selection links to reports.
Added support for emailing reports on a schedule.
Added HTML report email format.
Added support for generating receipts separately from statements.

New or changed in 4.0.3:

Added support for IP Port Access and Domain service creation and deletion timestamps.
Added Internet excess usage report.
Added Login View page.
Added “Can Kick Dialin Sessions” admin feature.
Added support for configuring multiple inbound SMTP servers.
Added support for managing IronPort inbound filtering.
Added Tier of Service field to the Online Users page.
Added DPS Payment Express PxPay support.
Added custdata setting for controlling credit card payments.
Added Internet behaviour report.

New or changed in 4.0.2:

Added Motorola WiNG and m0n0wall access server types.
Added phone service creation date field.
Added additional phone service reports.
Added RADIUS daemon watchdog.
Added support for bulk updates to existing time blocks.
Added support for SRV DNS records.
Added support for automated outbound SMTP spam filtering.
Added support for email quotas with postfix.
Added support for cookie-based admin/custdata/agency sessions.
Added support for per-netflow-client free address lists.
Added support for agencies to see customer passwords, selectable per agency group.
Added support for agencies to not take payments immediately upon customer create and time block purchase.

New or changed in 4.0.1:

Added support for provisioning users on Nokia MSANs.
Added support for case-insensitive usernames.
Added tracking of last-received-data timestamp per NetFlow client for alerting purposes.
Added support for automated configuration of nfcapd.
Added support for defining kilo/mega/gigabytes as multiples of 1024 instead of 1000.
Added support for tracking NetFlow usage for customers with static subnets defined.
Added Internet Usage per User report.
Added display of overlapping IP addresses to the static IP report.

New or changed in 4.0.0:

Added additional information for Internet access login rejections.
Added included-data field to the transaction description template for prepaid Internet charges.
Added support for realms to login names.
Added realm support to FreeRADIUS.
Added support for postfix, including realm support for login names and mapping from domain names to realm names.
Added support for mail subdomains within a domain.
Added support for Tarka inbound mail filtering, forwarding to a customer mail server.
Added support for time blocks valid for a certain number of minutes.
Added support for time blocks valid from first login.
Added support for prepaid cards that include a login name/password instead of a sequence number/code to be applied to an existing login.
Added support for managing FreeRADIUS clients.conf through Tarka.
Added support for admin user own password changes.
Added optional display of temporary customers to customer search.
Added support for arbitrary RADIUS check items per Internet Service Type.
Replaced time block destroy admin feature with separate permissions for time block reopen, move, and usage move.
Lowered latency between closing and billing time blocks for time blocks with no postpaid component.
Added support for allowing static IP address customers to log in to dynamic-IP-address only access servers such as hotspots using the same login name.
Added support for transaction exporting to a separate accounting system.

New or changed in 3.5.2:

Added support for revenue code tagging for Internet and IP Port services.
Added support for transaction description groups for Internet services (per-plan selection of the transaction description to use for charges).
Added IP Port Low Usage report.
Added Unused Schemes report.
Updated custdata to show all of a logged-in contact’s logins.

New or changed in 3.5.1:

Various minor bugfixes.
Added support for reloading and reprocessing RADIUS data.

New or changed in 3.5.0:

Added support for adjustable schemes where the cost per time or cost per data ratio is fixed.
Added support for monitoring periodic job run completion.
Added support for custom transaction descriptions for Internet service charges.
Added Mikrotik/RouterOS API support for kicking users.
Added support for metrics to Internet service subnets routed.
Added support for CLID-authenticated logins.
Added support for obtaining customer data usage with NetFlow.
Added support for automatic configuration of mail relay servers.
Added per-LNS out-of-time support, including per-LNS pool name, address range, timeout, and tier of service.
Added support for static IP address out-of-time customers.
Added support for the client-mac-address Cisco-AVPair attribute.
Changed paper statements by email feature to batch the statement PDFs together.
Changed to automatically compress monthly RADIUS logs after combining.
Added support in custdata for customers to pay for new time blocks using existing credit.
Added support for defaulting entered credit card details to not be used automatically.
Added support for per-agency-group credit class setting.
Added support for tracking the charged cost per time-block.
Added settlement date field to the customer card captures display.
Added support for managing the Dialin/Internet service list.
Added support for changing the IP Port Access and Line plans simultaneously.
Added totals displays to IP Port reports.
Updated admin time block add page to only display schemes where the service type is valid for the login.
Added display of free data usage to the custdata daily usage graph.

New or changed in 3.4.7:

Added support for including the original statement as an attachment to automatically emailed account reminders.
Added support for temporarily extending credit to a customer without manually adjusting their credit class.
Added support for assigning contacts to IP Port services and permitting custdata users to only see their IP Port services.
Extended the “require credit” scheme support to optionally permit access while the customer is using their included usage.
Added “Daily Usage by Scheme” option on the admin user dialin usage page.
Added support for searching by statement ID.

New or changed in 3.4.6:

Added support for customising IP Port charge descriptions.
Added support for additional fields to warning messages: customer_id and valid_to.
Updates for FreeRADIUS 2.1.
Added support for displaying IP Port meters in custdata.
Added support for automatically loading Freshtel CDRs.
Added support for grouping and exporting transactions into an external accounting system.
Added support for editing the available payment types and setting the sort order.
Added support for customising the custdata realm name.
Added support for renewing time blocks when the prepaid data allowance is used up.
Added support for customer and contact extra fields in all places where new customers or contacts can be created.
Updated the Monthly Dialin Report by Scheme to display data uploaded/downloaded per login per day.
Added IP Port excess usage report.
Added display of “IP Port Lines Configured” to the IP Port Device Problems table.
Added support for static attachments to all emails.

New or changed in 3.4.5:

Bug fixes to IP Port billing

New or changed in 3.4.4:

Improved handling of implicitly created PTR records; these will now be suppressed if there are multiple matching A records or an explicit PTR record.
Added support for turning off credit enforcement per-customer for a predefined number of days, without needing to adjust the customer’s credit class manually.
Added many new admin features to control admin setup and customer editing at a more fine-grained level.
Added support for moving aliases between customers.

New or changed in 3.4.3:

Added support for localising the locality and state field names.
Added support for prebilling recurring services.
Added support for SNMP port descriptions containing whitespace.
Added support for tracking the original customer that was billed when billing agencies on behalf of customers.
Added support for more flexible IP Port billing by supporting multiple IP Port types, multiple ports sharing the same usage plan, and billing physical access separate from network access.
When adding new time blocks, changed the default valid from date to be after the latest time block with the same priority.

New or changed in 3.4.2:

Added support for per-agency-group customer anniversary date setting.
Added support for tax-exempt customers.

New or changed in 3.4.1:

Added support for DNS TXT records.
Updated to support all-numeric usernames with PostgreSQL 8.3.

New or changed in 3.4.0:

Added support for multiple phone service CDR providers.
Added support for billing phone calls to 1/10ths of a cent.
Added support for rating phone calls.
Added support for not enforcing credit limits when below a certain balance threshold.
Added support for not enforcing credit limits on the weekend.
Added support for not renewing time blocks when a customer’s credit limit has been reached.
Fixed slave nameserver software to automatically remove old zone files.
Changed excess data billing from $/MB to $/GB.
Added support for maildir mailboxes.
Added IP address management feature.

New or changed in 3.3.4:

Added support for new billing methods “suspended” (temporarily don’t send statements) and “none” (close statements without sending).
Added support for temporary customers.
Added separate admin permissions for deleting and reversing transactions.

New or changed in 3.3.3:

Added support for agencies editing customer contact details.
Changed email/www size billing calculations to use average values instead of maximum values.
Updated the “daily usage graph” to not display the “over target usage” label if there is no data in that category.
Fixed issue where SNMP polling could get stuck.
Added support for adding arbitrary comments to statements.
Added support for applying commissions to agencies for automatically renewed time blocks.
Added support for negative agency commissions (such as for automatic credits).

New or changed in 3.3.2:

Added support for restricting customer time block purchases based on the time blocks that they currently have.
Added support for searching for customers by customer-extra text fields, billing method, payment method, credit class, and email address.

New or changed in 3.3.1:

Added tracking of uploaded data by time block.
Added support for billing based on uploaded data (only, combined, or maximum of up/down).
Changed agency password-change field to hide the password being typed.
Added support for sending account reminders to customers with outstanding charges.
Added support for iss, routeros, and servpoet NAS types.
Added support for automatically handling invalid Apache configurations by automatically disabling problematic web site configurations.
Added support for controlling transaction editing more specifically (separate permissions for charge, credit, payment, refund).
Added support for commissions for multi-level agencies.
Improved customer search in the case where multiple contacts from one customer match the search.
Fixed the dialin service NAS port type field so that all services are automatically updated.
Added additional checks for valid CNAME DNS records.
Changed displayed order of DNS RRs to be more intelligent.
Changed so that every login must be associated with a contact.
Added report showing the users with the most number of successful logins for a day.
Added support for rewriting web sites requests to https URLs, and to URLs with characters including “?”, “&”, and “=”.
Enhanced scheme descriptions of MB allowances.

New or changed in 3.3.0:

Added support for setting contacts against admin users and agency logins.
Simplified deduplication of contacts by permitting in-use contacts to be deleted with its references changed to another existing contact.
Added audit log facility.
Simplified maintenance of in-addr.arpa domains by autocreating PTR records based on A records.
Added support for creating multiple A and/or PTR records across a number of IP addresses with a single range entry.

New or changed in 3.2.4:

Added support for agencies seeing individual customers’ information on a per-agency commission group basis.
Added support for agencies seeing customers’ account balances and payment histories.
Updated email document importing to check the subject line for a customer ID number as well as the attachment filename.
Added new admin feature “Can Delete Documents”.
Added support for contact extra selection fields.
Streamlined installation procedure.
Added support for importing BPAY transaction logs and automatically applying payments to customers.
Added support for voice billing with CDRs from MyNetFone.

New or changed in 3.2.3:

Updated warning feature to send warning when x MB has been used rather than when x MB is left.
Hotspot bug fixes.
Added support for billing agencies for their customer’s charges.
Added new reports: Customers by Credit Class, Customers by Payment Method, and Payments by Payment Method.
Fixed to prevent customers with an open statement from being deleted.
Enhanced recovery from failed credit card transactions for the PayStream gateway.

New or changed in 3.2.2:

Bugfixes only.

New or changed in 3.2.1:

Added support for Soul L2TP.
Improved support for in-addr.arpa domains.
Added support for uploading the text statement template in DOS format.

New or changed in 3.2.0:

Added support for billing recurring services before their renewal date.
Added support for recurring service credits.
Added hotspot support.
Updated poll-snmp to run as a long-lived process so that it can poll more frequently and provide a list of ports to the web interface.
Added support for different ToS parameters per access server type.
Added support for the Payment Express – PX Post interface.
Added support for CAS ecomcli 3.2.
Added Tarka status page, initially for monitoring IP Port health.
Added SNMP server support for checking Tarka status.
Added document management support.
Added support for forms to generate standard customer documents.
Added shaping info to the custdata customer view page.
Added daily usage and time block graphs to custdata.
Added support for OpenOffice 2.
Added support for per-customer payment terms.
Added BPAY as a payment type.
Added support for exporting ABA files for direct debit.
Added support for exporting direct debit files separately from marking the customers as having paid.
Changed IP Port MB warnings to be specified as MB downloaded instead of MB remaining.
Added support for generating large prepaid card batches and managing portions of the batch (assigning to agencies, enabling, disabling, and setting commissions).
Added direct debit reference numbers to the customer payment transaction descriptions.
Added support for wildcard A records.
Updated domain view to be explicit as to when the domain name gets automatically appended, and to why automatically-generated resource records are there.
Added sub-reports to monthly accounting summary to see transactions by product.
Added separate display of existing and deleted customers to the customers by agency report.
Updated customer detail report to support customer extra fields.

New or changed in 3.1.1:

Fixes for the customer contact support.
Added support for contact extra fields.
Added support for automatically provisioning Quick Eagle modems
Added support for managing Ericsson DSLAMs.
Added support for managing Telstra SSS services through their LOLIG interface.

New or changed in 3.1.0:

Added support to the customer billing history page (admin and custdata interfaces) for showing all transactions from the previous six months of statements.
Added support for multiple customer contacts (name, address, telephone numbers, email address) and associating these contacts with billing and services.
Added support for tracking agency logins against customers.
Added support for localising the date format, local tax name, digit grouping symbol, currency symbol, placement, and number of decimal places.
Added time block meter display in custdata.
Added support for searching by agency.
Added Customer Dialin Schemes report.
Added admin interface for updating the tax rate.

New or changed in 3.0.7:

Added support for tracking contract commitments with time blocks.
Added support for renewing time blocks with a different scheme further into the future than just the next renewal.
Added support for FreeRADIUS.
Removed limitation on the length of the email alias redirection field and changed it to a textarea field.
Added support for viewing and editing the access server Interim Update and NAS Port Type parameters.
Added search by domain page.
Updated the Dialin Scheme Summary report to show unassigned schemes as well as assigned schemes and also added support for displaying the currently-assigned Renew End Schemes instead of the Current Schemes.
Added support for limiting dialin services (based on the NAS-Port-Type field) by scheme and access server.
Updated the wording of scheme and time block descriptions to make more sense with untimed services.

New or changed in 3.0.6:

Added additional agency features: customer search, view, job and note viewing/editing, and password change.
Fixed bug where deleted domain & web_site services would be billed.
Added support for the StGeorge credit card gateway.
Enhanced recovery from failed credit card transactions for the Ingenico gateway.
Added support for Motorola Canopy wireless equipment.
Added support for the ADNAP Acct-TRANSIT-Input/Output-Octets RADIUS attributes.
Added a default custdata access-denied page.
Added support for customers paying by credit card through custdata and optionally adding/updating their card details.
Added support for optionally paying agency commission on customer creation done through the admin interface.
Added support for zero-cost signup schemes.
Added support for emailing customers based on a customer search.
Added support for managing in-addr.arpa domains.
Added support for search by IMEI number.
Enhanced the customer extra fields report with additional options.
Fixed the Dialin Scheme Summary report to show MBytes used intsead of KBytes.
Added support for credit card refunds with PayStream.
Fixed signup page to not display fields with blank questions.
Fixed bug where send-statements would fail if not all customers had a valid email address set.

New or changed in 3.0.5:

Added support for a second tier-of-service once a MB limit has been reached.
Added tier-of-service support for Cisco LNSs.
Added support for testing at login time whether customers are within their credit terms.

New or changed in 3.0.4:

Added support for prepaid cards.
Added support for welcome emails.

New or changed in 3.0.3:

Restructured the Setup menu and divided into categories and subcategories.
Added support for changing “Dialin” throughout the Tarka interface to eg. “Wireless” or “ADSL”.
Added support for changing “Salutation” throughout the Tarka interface to eg. “Preferred Name”.
Added support for sending an email to customers whose credit card could not automatically be charged.
Added support for sending an email to customers whose credit card has expired.

New or changed in 3.0.2:

Various minor bugfixes.

New or changed in 3.0.1:

Added support for emailing all users with a particular dialin service type selected.
Added support for changing the default aged debtor ranges.
Added Aged Debtors by Agency report.

New or changed in 3.0.0:

Added support for capped overtime and excess MB usage charges.
Added support for a second Tier-of-Service to be used when a customer exceeds a particular MB limit.
Added support for kicking ADNAP users.
Updated customer view page to highlight when a contact or billing email address is missing.

New or changed in 3.0.0-pre6:

Added support for making a real-time credit card payment through the Customer Billing History page.
Updated Camtech credit card gateway interface to work with Camtech system release 6.x.x.

New or changed in 3.0.0-pre5:

Added support for setting the ADNAP ADSL Class RADIUS attribute based on a time block’s Tier-of-Service setting.
Added support for viewing deleted customers as a separate admin feature.

New or changed in 3.0.0-pre4:

Added support for viewing all of a customer’s transactions at once to the admin, custdata, and agency interfaces.
Updated IP Port support to work with net-snmp instead of ucd-snmp.
Added support for webalizer.

New or changed in 3.0.0-pre3:

Added support for credit card refunds to the PayStream interface.
Added support for MailScanner.

New or changed in 3.0.0-pre2:

Added display of the next-type and the expiry date (for changed services) for email, www, and ip_port services in custdata.
Added support for displaying information about domain, web_site, and recurring services in custdata.
Added support for email quotas.
Added support for ISP-definable additional customer fields.
Added support for moving any service between customers.

New or changed in 3.0.0-pre1:

Added PayStream credit card billing support.
Added IPWireless support.
Added support for Radiance.
Added RADIUS Acct-Input/Output-Gigawords support.
Added dialin Tier-of-Service support.
Added domain and web site support.
Added automatic temporary backup of deleted WWW user home directories.
Added support for duplicating signup schemes.
Updated customer signup page to show credit card billing errors as regular errors rather than on a separate failure screen.

New or changed in 2.5.11:

Added support for agencies to view dialin usage and time remaining for their customers.
Added support for mailboxes in /var/spool/imap/*/INBOX.
Improved handling of unusual RADIUS records.
Update CAS support to work with ecomcli 3.1.
Updated ABS report for new ABS Survey.
Added postcode field to the Customer Details report.

New or changed in 2.5.10:

Added support for ‘+’ in alias names and login names.
Added Dialin->Search Log page.

New or changed in 2.5.9:

Added support for vsftpd (replacing wu-ftpd) and apache-2.
Added support for automatically refreshing the dialin online page.

New or changed in 2.5.8:

Added support for agencies to add credit card details to customers.

New or changed in 2.5.7:

Added support for resending statement by email from the custdata interface.
Added suburb and state fields to the Customer Details report.

New or changed in 2.5.6:

Added support for Red Hat Linux 9
Added support for PostgreSQL 7.3.
Added OpenOffice support for statement rendering.
Added support for showing AV services in the Expiring Services report.
Added support for resending statements by email from the web interface.

New or changed in 2.5.5:

Changed the Agency Revenue by Customer report to include customer login names.
Added updates for Apache 2.0.

New or changed in 2.5.4:

Made the agency menu customer-configurable.
Added RAV Anti-Virus Integration support.
Changed custdata feature list to not list features not enabled.
Added display of Credit Card Capture tags to the Transaction View page.

New or changed in 2.5.3:

Added support for schemes/timeblocks with extra MB not permitted.
Enhancements to infinite session/kick support.
Added support for schemes where only the date is prorated (not the charge or the amount of time).
Added dialin-online-history report.
Changed “Require Credit Balance” feature to put Direct Debit customers in the same category as Credit Card customers.

New or changed in 2.5.2:

Added support for Cisco Packet-of-Disconnect.
Added support for the Framed-IP-Netmask RADIUS attribute.
Changed “Preview” checkbox on banking, card capture, and direct debit screens to default to “on”.

New or changed in 2.5.1:

Added support for non-prorata monthly and daily excess periods for customer services that can have excess charges (Email, WWW, and IP Port).
Added support for IP port warnings.
Added support for dialin warnings for time blocks with no free MB allowance.
Added support for considering disabled customers as being ‘out of time’.
Added support for setting the sent_date on a statement.
Added support for DNIS/CLID fields over 32 characters.
Added support for admin users viewing credit card details and passwords.
Added support for charging for paper statements (selectable per-customer).
Removed constraint requiring commissions for agency scheme purchases.
Added support for viewing customers with credit balances in the “Aged Debtors” report.
Added support for viewing historical “Aged Debtors” reports
Added new report to show what services will be being renewed in the future.
Added support for negative MB limits for dialin warnings

New or changed in 2.5.0:

Added support for non-prorata monthly and daily time periods for renewal of all customer services (email, www, etc.).
Added support for billing for arbitrary recurring services.
Added support for not marking credit cards invalid on expiry.
Added scripts to verify the email and www password files.
Added support for ‘&’ in alias names.
Updated to be more lenient with what login names and passwords are accepted.
Added support for SNMP polling of devices where the ifDescr and ifInOctets/ifOutOctets objects don’t all have the same entries.
Improved support for systems under heavy authentication load.
Added support for the #DATE# field in the daily dialin email.
Added support for showing the available balance to admin users, and also custdata users when the “View Available Balance” custdata feature is enabled.
Updated the default daily dialin email template.
Removed constraint requiring commissions for agency signup.
Updated links in errors on deleting referenced records.
Minor changes to the format of the “Customer View” page.
Added support of editing the “Valid To” date for domain services.
Changed to not permit “Valid To” dates of email and www services more than 90 days ago to be entered.
Updated reports to not link to scripts which the admin user doesn’t have access to.
Changed “Customer Details” report to allow the admin user to add or remove any “Customer Information” fields from the report, and added option for Standard/Print/CSV formats to the form.
Added report of assigned domain, web site, and recurring service types.
Added “Customer Name” field to email alias report.
Updated “Credit Cards Expiring” report to list cards that should have been expired.
Added report to show assignment of IP port devices and ports to customers.
Enhanced the IP port scheme report.
Changed format and wording in setup pages to be more consistent.
Moved all links under “Admin” and “Admin User” in the sidebar into a separate “Setup” page.
Updated commission transaction descriptions to include the customer name, and also to use the BPay CRN instead of the internal customer ID if that option has been selected.
Change the display of statements to use DMY instead of ISO date formats.
Improved support of web site and domain features.
Changed transaction description for dialin time block purchases to more closely match the other services’ transaction descriptions.

New or changed in 2.4.8:

Added support for tracking and showing the free ADNAP Gaming Data in the MB usage reports.
Added support for linking the WWW service with smbpasswd.

New or changed in 2.4.7:

Changed to accept and lowercase mixed-case aliases and contact/billing email addresses.

New or changed in 2.4.6:

Added support for closing a statement manually so that new transactions can be placed on a separate statement, or so that the statement can be printed or emailed immediately.
Added support for allowing admin users with the “Can Destroy Time Block Information” to make changes to used or closed time blocks, to move time between time blocks, and to move time blocks between logins.

New or changed in 2.4.5:

Added support for agencies to view their billing history without needing to log in to custdata.
Added support for kicking off users with no time after 1 second instead of rejecting the login.
Added out-of-time support for Tigris access server.
Added support for Acc-Connect-[TR]x-Speed RADIUS attributes.
Added support for displaying different payment terms per customer.
Added customer contact email field.
Added support for sending statements monthly instead of daily on a per-customer basis.
Added support for disabling or not disabling time blocks when a customer’s credit card expires.
Reformatted the “Dialin Users Online” report and changed display of KBytes to MBytes.
Added preliminary support for grouping NASs together.
Added reports for viewing NAS peak usage by NAS or NAS group.
Added support for custdata users logging in with their email address.
Updated the statement preview to have more realistic sample data in it.
Added support for additional fields in the statement template for supporting individual display of credit and debit amounts.

New or changed in 2.4.4:

Completed support for the four customisable phone number fields.

New or changed in 2.4.3:

Added support for routing multiple subnets to a dialin customer.
Added preliminary support for up to four customisable phone number fields.

New or changed in 2.4.2:

Added “ABS Internet Activity Survey” report.

New or changed in 2.4.1:

Added support for login names up to 32 characters.
Removed support for more than one warning parameter being set at a time.
Changed usage displays from KB to MB.