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RELEASED Mailman 2.1.2
by Barry Warsaw 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

[Apologies for the empty dups -- been fiddling with my email client again. ;} -BAW] I've just released Mailman 2.1.2 which includes many bug fixes and language updates, as well as support for two new languages, Portuguese/Portugal and Polish. I recommend all Mailman 2.1 users upgrade to this release. The full source tarball has been made available from the usual sites. Currently, there is no patch available, but you should be able to install 2.1.2 over your existing 2.1.x installation. See http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103 for links to download all the patches and the source tarballs. Be sure you restart your mailman daemon by doing a "mailmanctl restart" after installing. See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://www.list.org (not yet updated) http://mailman.sf.net Cheers, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1.2 (22-Apr-2003) - New languages Portuguese (Portugal) and Polish. - Many convenient constants have been added to the Defaults.py module to (hopefully) make it more readable. - Email addresses which contain 8-bit characters in them are now rejected and won't be subscribed. This is not the same as 8-bit characters in the realname, which is still allowed. - The X-Originating-Email header is removed for anonymous lists. Hotmail apparently adds this header. - When running make to build Mailman, you can specify $DESTDIR to the install target to specify an alternative location for installation, without influencing the paths stored in e.g. Defaults.py. This is useful to package managers. - New Defaults.py variable DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT which controls how long the outgoing qrunner will wait before it retries a tempfailure delivery. - The semantics for the extend.py hook to MailList objects has changed slightly. The hook is now called before attempting to lock and load the database. - Mailman now uses the email package version 2.5.1 - bin/transcheck now checks for double-%'s - bin/genaliases grew a -q / --quiet flag - cron/checkdbs grew a -h / --help option. - The -c / --change-msg option has been removed from bin/add_members - bin/msgfmt.py has been added, taken from Python 2.3's Tools/i18n directory. The various .mo files are now no longer distributed with Mailman. They are generated at build time instead. - A new file misc/sitelist.cfg which can be used with bin/config_list provides a small number of recommended settings for your site list. Be sure to read it over before applying! sitelist.cfg is installed into the data directory. - Many bug fixes, including these SourceForge bugs closed and patches applied: 677668, 690448, 700538, 700537, 673294, 683906, 671294, 522080, 521124, 534297, 699900, 697321, 695526, 703941, 658261, 710678, 707608, 671303, 717096, 694912, 707624, 716755, 661138, 716754, 716702, 667167, 725369, 726415

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1.2
by Barry Warsaw 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

I've just released Mailman 2.1.2 which includes many bug fixes and language updates, as well as support for two new languages, Portuguese/Portugal and Polish. I recommend all Mailman 2.1 users upgrade to this release. The full source tarball has been made available from the usual sites. Currently, there is no patch available, but you should be able to install 2.1.2 over your existing 2.1.x installation. See http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103 for links to download all the patches and the source tarballs. Be sure you restart your mailman daemon by doing a "mailmanctl restart" after installing. See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://www.list.org (not yet updated) http://mailman.sf.net Cheers, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1.2 (22-Apr-2003) - New languages Portuguese (Portugal) and Polish. - Many convenient constants have been added to the Defaults.py module to (hopefully) make it more readable. - Email addresses which contain 8-bit characters in them are now rejected and won't be subscribed. This is not the same as 8-bit characters in the realname, which is still allowed. - The X-Originating-Email header is removed for anonymous lists. Hotmail apparently adds this header. - When running make to build Mailman, you can specify $DESTDIR to the install target to specify an alternative location for installation, without influencing the paths stored in e.g. Defaults.py. This is useful to package managers. - New Defaults.py variable DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT which controls how long the outgoing qrunner will wait before it retries a tempfailure delivery. - The semantics for the extend.py hook to MailList objects has changed slightly. The hook is now called before attempting to lock and load the database. - Mailman now uses the email package version 2.5.1 - bin/transcheck now checks for double-%'s - bin/genaliases grew a -q / --quiet flag - cron/checkdbs grew a -h / --help option. - The -c / --change-msg option has been removed from bin/add_members - bin/msgfmt.py has been added, taken from Python 2.3's Tools/i18n directory. The various .mo files are now no longer distributed with Mailman. They are generated at build time instead. - A new file misc/sitelist.cfg which can be used with bin/config_list provides a small number of recommended settings for your site list. Be sure to read it over before applying! sitelist.cfg is installed into the data directory. - Many bug fixes, including these SourceForge bugs closed and patches applied: 677668, 690448, 700538, 700537, 673294, 683906, 671294, 522080, 521124, 534297, 699900, 697321, 695526, 703941, 658261, 710678, 707608, 671303, 717096, 694912, 707624, 716755, 661138, 716754, 716702, 667167, 725369, 726415

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1.2
by Barry Warsaw 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

I've just released Mailman 2.1.2 which includes many bug fixes and language updates, as well as support for two new languages, Portuguese/Portugal and Polish. I recommend all Mailman 2.1 users upgrade to this release. The full source tarball has been made available from the usual sites. Currently, there is no patch available, but you should be able to install 2.1.2 over your existing 2.1.x installation. See http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103 for links to download all the patches and the source tarballs. Be sure you restart your mailman daemon by doing a "mailmanctl restart" after installing. See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://www.list.org (not yet updated) http://mailman.sf.net Cheers, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1.2 (22-Apr-2003) - New languages Portuguese (Portugal) and Polish. - Many convenient constants have been added to the Defaults.py module to (hopefully) make it more readable. - Email addresses which contain 8-bit characters in them are now rejected and won't be subscribed. This is not the same as 8-bit characters in the realname, which is still allowed. - The X-Originating-Email header is removed for anonymous lists. Hotmail apparently adds this header. - When running make to build Mailman, you can specify $DESTDIR to the install target to specify an alternative location for installation, without influencing the paths stored in e.g. Defaults.py. This is useful to package managers. - New Defaults.py variable DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT which controls how long the outgoing qrunner will wait before it retries a tempfailure delivery. - The semantics for the extend.py hook to MailList objects has changed slightly. The hook is now called before attempting to lock and load the database. - Mailman now uses the email package version 2.5.1 - bin/transcheck now checks for double-%'s - bin/genaliases grew a -q / --quiet flag - cron/checkdbs grew a -h / --help option. - The -c / --change-msg option has been removed from bin/add_members - bin/msgfmt.py has been added, taken from Python 2.3's Tools/i18n directory. The various .mo files are now no longer distributed with Mailman. They are generated at build time instead. - A new file misc/sitelist.cfg which can be used with bin/config_list provides a small number of recommended settings for your site list. Be sure to read it over before applying! sitelist.cfg is installed into the data directory. - Many bug fixes, including these SourceForge bugs closed and patches applied: 677668, 690448, 700538, 700537, 673294, 683906, 671294, 522080, 521124, 534297, 699900, 697321, 695526, 703941, 658261, 710678, 707608, 671303, 717096, 694912, 707624, 716755, 661138, 716754, 716702, 667167, 725369, 726415

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1.1
by barry＠python.org 08 Feb '03

08 Feb '03

I've released Mailman 2.1.1 which includes many bug fixes and language updates. This release includes a fix for the cross-site scripting vulnerability, a fix for the cookie problem, any many other bugs. I recommend that all Mailman 2.1 users upgrade to this release. As usual, I've made both a full source tarball and a patch file available. See http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103 for links to download all the patches and the source tarballs. If you decide to install the patches, please do read the release notes first: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=97760 Note that applying the patch does /not/ completely update the language support. If you go the patch route, you will want to cd into the messages directory and run "make catalogs" before installing. This will only work if your OS has the necessary language tools installed. You don't need to do this if your lists are all English-only. If you have a problem, please download and install the full release. It is safe to install this over version 2.1. You can simply run configure the way you did for 2.1, then do a make install. Be sure you restart your mailman daemon by doing a "mailmanctl restart" after installing. See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://www.list.org http://mailman.sf.net Cheers, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1.1 (08-Feb-2003) Lots of bug fixes and language updates. Also: - Closed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the user options page. - Restore the ability to control which headers show up in messages included in plaintext and MIME digests. See the variables PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS and MIME_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS in Defaults.py. - Messages included in the plaintext digests are now sent through the scrubber to remove (and archive) attachments. Otherwise, attachments would screw up plaintext digests. MIME digests include the attachments inline.

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Attention Mailman Hosting Sites
by barry＠python.org 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

A long while ago, I offered to put up a page listing sites that offered commercial Mailman list hosting services. Sadly, I don't have the time to maintain this or even put it together. However, there is a MoinMoin page (think: Wiki) listing general Python hosting services, of which Mailman is included. I encourage all Mailman hosting facilities to add entries to the page: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonHosting There is currently only one Mailman hosting site listed. The MoinMoin is on the honor system, and you don't need a password to add content to it. If you do add an entry, be sure to include the word "Mailman" so the page is easy to search. Cheers, -Barry

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Fix for cross-site scripting bug in Mailman 2.1.0
by barry＠python.org 26 Jan '03

26 Jan '03

The cross-site scripting bug in Mailman 2.1.0 that was reported on Bugtraq has been fixed. My thanks to all who reported this (except unfortunately the person who posted it to bugtraq before contacting me first. :/ ). Special thanks to Tokio Kikuchi who worked out the essential fix. The patch is at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103 (see the file xss-2.1.0-patch.txt) And the original Bugtraq announcement is here: http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/308154 This patch will be part of Mailman 2.1.1 which is nearing release. -Barry

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1 - final
by barry＠python.org 31 Dec '02

31 Dec '02

After nearly two years of development, we are happy to announce the release of GNU Mailman 2.1. Mailman is free software that enables users to manage email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Its integrated web interface provides easy-to-use access for list members and list administrators. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more. Mailman 2.1 is fully internationalized, supporting 17 languages out-of-the-box. A summary of additional new features in Mailman 2.1 is outlined below. The NEWS file in the source distribution contains more details about all the new features. For more information on Mailman, including downloading and installation instructions, please visit one of the following mirror sites: http://www.list.org http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://mailman.sf.net The Mailman developers wish to thank Control.com for their sponsorship of several Mailman 2.1 features, Zope Corporation for their support, and the entire Mailman community for their contributions. -Barry Warsaw Pythonlabs, Zope Corporation -------------------- snip snip -------------------- - Multi-lingual support for all web pages and Mailman generated email notices, with languages selectable on a per-site, per-list, and per-user basis. - Through-the-web list creation and removal; (with automatic support depending on the MTA) - "Real name" support for members - Improved simple user-task operation (e.g. no passwords required for subscription and unsubscription). - Support for personalized deliveries and VERP-like message delivery for foolproof bounce detection - Emergency moderation - MIME-based content-filtering, with demime/stripmime-like options - Regular expression based topic-filtering - Better membership management, including searching - Re-organized administrative requests pages - Moderated newsgroup support - A new architecture for the mail delivery subsystem, removing dependence on cron, resulting in improved responsiveness and scalability - New moderation and privacy controls - Invitations - Autoresponse governors - Users can now change some delivery options globally, for all lists at a site, including their password, delivery status, real name, and more. - Improved MIME and I18n support in the archiver - Addition of a separate "list moderator" role - Urgent: header support (bypasses digests to reach all users immediately).

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1 rc 1
by barry＠python.org 24 Dec '02

24 Dec '02

Well, it's Christmas Eve and it's snowing outside, so what more festive thing is there to do but announce the release candidate for Mailman 2.1 final. :) It's been a long time coming, but hopefully it's worth unwrapping this present! I believe we're on track to make the final release before the end of the year. My humble thanks to everyone who's been involved in the project. See below for the short list of changes since 2.1 beta 6. Most importantly, Lithuanian support has been added. The new tarball has been uploaded to SourceForge and the various web sites have been updated too. Enjoy, and seasons greetings to all, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1 rc 1 (24-Dec-2002) Bug fixes and language updates. Also, - Lithuanian support has been added. - bin/remove_members grew --nouserack and --noadminack switches - configure now honors --srcdir

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1 beta 6
by barry＠python.org 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

I've released Mailman 2.1 beta 6. This is the last planned beta release before MM2.1 final, which I still expect to release before the end of the year. See below for a list of changes since 2.1b5. There have been lots of bug fxes and lots of translations updates. The new tarball has been uploaded to SourceForge, and the various web sites will be updated shortly. Enjoy, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1 beta 6 (09-Dec-2002) Lots and lots of bug fixes, and translation updates. Also, - ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS is now set to true by default. - QRUNNER_SAVE_BAD_MESSAGES is now set to true by default. - Bounce messages which were recognized, but in which no member addresses were found are no longer forwarded to the list administrator. - bin/arch grew a --wipe option which first removes the entire old archive before regenerating the new one. - bin/mailmanctl -u now prints a warning that permission problems could appear, such as when trying to delete a list through the web that has some archives in it. - bin/remove_members grew --nouserack/-n and -noadminack/-N options. - A new script bin/list_owners has been added for printing out list owners and moderators. - Dates in the web version of archived messages are now relative to the local timezone, and include the timezone names, when available.

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1 beta 5
by barry＠python.org 19 Nov '02

19 Nov '02

I've released Mailman 2.1 beta 5, and upgraded the python.org server to run this version, so with this announcement you are seeing its effects. :) Everything seems to be cruising along smoothly, so hopefully we'll have better luck with this version than with 2.1b4. See below for a list of changes since 2.1b4. Lots of bug fixes, u/i tweaks, and added support for Estonian. Be sure to read the IMPORTANT note in the change file below. If you're seeing horrible performance with Pipermail archives under 2.1b4, there is a fix available but you will have to take some manual steps. Enjoy, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1 beta 5 (19-Nov-2002) As is typical for a late beta release, this one includes the usual bug fixes, tweaks, and massive new features (just kidding). IMPORTANT: If you are using Pipermail, and you have any archives that were created or added to in 2.1b4, you will need to run bin/b4b5-archfix, followed by bin/check_perms to fix some serious performance problems. From you install directory, run "bin/b4b5-archfix --help" for details. - The personalization options have been tweaked to provide more control over mail header and decoration personalizations. In 2.1b4, when personalization was enabled, the To and Cc headers were always overwritten. But that's usually not appropriate for anything but announce lists, so now these headers aren't changed unless "Full personalization" is enabled. - You now need to go to the General category to enable emergency moderation. - The order of the hold modules in the GLOBAL_PIPELINE has changed, again. Now Moderate comes before Hold. - Estonian language support has been added. - All posted messages should now get decorated with headers and footers in a MIME-safe way. Previously, some MIME type messages didn't get decorated at all. - bin/arch grew a -q/--quiet option - bin/list_lists grew a -b/--bare option

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