Mailman 3 March 2015 - Mailman-announce

Mailman 2.1.20 release.
by Mark Sapiro 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

I am pleased to announce the release Mailman 2.1.20. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended. This release has one new feature, a few bug fixes, an update to the Polish message catalog and a fix for a recently discovered security vulnerability. See the attached README for more details. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites. For more information, please see: http://www.list.org http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://mailman.sourceforge.net/ Mailman 2.1.20 can be downloaded from https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/ -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

1 0

Security patch and Mailman 2.1.20 to be released on 31 March
by Mark Sapiro 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

A security vulnerability in Mailman has been found and fixed. It has been assigned CVE-2015-2775. The details of this vulnerability and fix will be announced next Tuesday, 31 March 2015, at which time both a patch for this specific vulnerability and Mailman 2.1.20 will be released. In addition to this security fix, Mailman 2.1.20 includes a new feature allowing a list owner to change a list member's address through the admin Membership Management... Section, and a couple of minor bug fixes. The new feature is a fix for <https://launchpad.net/bugs/266809>. The bugs fixed are: <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1426825>, <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1426829> and <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1427389>. The security vulnerability, the details of which are currently private, is <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1437145>. The security vulnerability only affects those installations which use Exim, Postfix's postfix_to_mailman.py or similar programmatic (not aliases) MTA delivery to Mailman, and have untrusted local users on the Mailman server. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

1 1

Announcing the new wiki.list.org
by Barry Warsaw 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

I am very happy to announce our new wiki! If you go to wiki.list.org you will see our shiny new Moin-based wiki. We are retiring the old Confluence-based wiki at the end of February. Until then, you can access it at old-wiki.list.org. Our very huge thanks go to Paul Boddie who did the amazing conversion work, almost single-handedly reverse engineering the Confluence dump through several iterations. Of course, our thanks also go to John Viega, owner of the list.org domain and Mailman's inventor for helping us get the DNS flipped over. Thanks too to everyone who gave feedback on the new wiki, contributed to the old wiki, and continue to help edit this important resource for the Mailman community. Our thanks also go to the Python Software Foundation and the PSF infrastructure team for providing us with the virtual machine hosting our new wiki. If you had write access to the old wiki and want it again for the new wiki, you will have to re-submit a request to mailman-cabal(a)python.org. Please be sure to register with wiki.list.org and provide us with your user name. With this conversion, I am happy to say that GNU Mailman is finally fully hosted on free software. While we appreciate the years of service donated to us by Atlassian and Contegix, it's important that we set an example by utilizing an entirely free software stack for our development and outreach. The wiki was our last remaining non-free bits. Let the gardening begin! Cheers, -Barry (On behalf of the GNU Mailman steering committee) P.S. We are working on the SSL certificate for the new wiki. Stay tuned.

3 3

Mailman 2.1.19 release
by Mark Sapiro 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

I am very pleased to announce the release Mailman 2.1.19 final. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended. This release has several new features, some newly implemented and some backported from the now truly defunct 2.2 branch - there is nothing left in that branch that isn't in this release. There are also bug fixes. See the attached README for more details. Associated with those changes are many things that have i18n impacts including new and modified strings in the message catalog, a new adminaddrchgack.txt template and a minor change to the admindbdetails.html template. I strongly encourage anyone with an interest in translations of Mailman to get this release and help with updating the translations. This is the final release of Mailman 2.1.19, but if I receive additional i18n updates, I will release those later. There have been a few changes since the first candidate release, some of which were in the second and third candidates. - There have been updates to the Romanian, Russian, Polish, Japanese and Interlingua translations. - Mailman's character set for both Romanian and Russian has been changed to utf-8 and Mailman's version updater has been augmented to try to find strings in the old character set in list configurations and convert them. - The admindb held message display has been improved to not break multi-byte characters and not abandon conversion to the list's character set on an invalid character. - There was a new subscribe_auto_approval feature in the first release candidate and this is augmented to accept the @listname syntax. - Organization: headers are now removed from posts to anonymous lists. - The display of real names on the list roster added in the first release candidate has been made conditional on a new ROSTER_DISPLAY_REALNAME mm_cfg.py switch that defaults to No due to privacy concerns. Information on these and other changes in this release are in the attached README and in the NEWS file in the release tarball. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites. For more information, please see: http://www.list.org http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://mailman.sourceforge.net/ Mailman 2.1.19 can be downloaded from https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/ -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

1 0