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ANNOUNCING: GNU Mailman 3.0.1
by Barry Warsaw 15 Nov '15

15 Nov '15

I'm happy to announce the first maintenance release of GNU Mailman 3. This version 3.0.1 release includes updates to the core, Postorius, HyperKitty, and mailman.client. The release matrix of versions is available here: http://wiki.list.org/Mailman3 You can find more information about the changes in each component by following the version links in that overview page. Enjoy, -Barry (on behalf of the entire Mailman development team)

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Newly redesigned www.list.org
by Barry Warsaw 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

If you haven't noticed, we've just pushed out a newly redesigned website. Thanks (again!) to Abhilash Raj. http://www.list.org Not only has the style been modernized and cleaned up, but the content has undergone a review and update. You'll find links to both the documentation and source for Mailman 2.1 and 3, links to the wiki and donation page, and more detail on contacting "us". The site itself is now built using Pelican, instead of the crufty and *very* old ht2html templating system. If you notice any problems, you can submit bug reports here: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman-website Enjoy! -Barry (on behalf of the Mailman Steering Committee)

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The full Mailman 3 suite is now on GitLab
by Barry Warsaw 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi everyone. Through Abhilash's diligent work, we've finally brought all Mailman 3 development under one group on GitLab. https://gitlab.com/groups/mailman This includes the Core, Postorius, HyperKitty, the client library, the bundler, Postorius-standalone, documentation, and even the soon-to-be deployed new website. Please remember that Launchpad is still used for Mailman 2.1, and there are no plans to move any of the project artifacts for that series. All Mailman 3 issues, feature requests, merge requests, etc. for all other related projects should be filed against the appropriate project on GitLab. While we're at it, I'll also point out that Abhilash has pushed out a rtfd site for the Mailman Suite, with pointers to the various sub-projects: http://gnu-mailman.readthedocs.org/ Thanks Abhilash! Cheers, -Barry

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Please consider donating to the GNU Mailman project
by Barry Warsaw 05 May '15

05 May '15

I should have included this in our release announcement. I'd like to remind everyone that GNU Mailman has a directed donation fund set up at the Free Software Foundation. Please consider donating! http://wiki.list.org/x/4816967 This year, we used a portion of our fund to sponsor Abhilash coming to PyCon 2015. Abhilash has been a core developer since his participation in GSoC, and has proven himself to be indispensable across a wide range of the project. We were beyond happy to be able to meet him in person and work with him over the course of the sprints, and we reached the 3.0 release in large part because of his participation at the sprints. Your donations can help with future sprints, user testing, hosting, and more. We're a small team of volunteers and every dollar can help. A portion of your donation also goes to the Free Software Foundation, so you can help two great organizations with one donation. Cheers, -Barry

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ANNOUNCING: GNU Mailman 3.0
by Barry Warsaw 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Twenty years ago, I attended the first Python Workshop at NIST with about 20 other old school Pythonistas. Earlier this month I attended PyCon 2015 in Montreal. PyCon is always exhilarating, but this one was incredibly special for me personally, because my son was on spring break and joined me for the first half of the conference. Both the Python language and its community have grown a little bit <wink> in the intervening years, but what hasn't changed is our love of the language, and the truly amazing people we share that love with. The Python community really is one of the very best open source communities on the planet. The best community inside that great Python family has to be the GNU Mailman team. They're all smart and cool, fun to hang out with, and fun to hack with. With diverse backgrounds, each and every one are good friends and valued technical peers. As has been the case for the last few years, we've sprinted on Mailman 3, getting lots of great work done, but never quite getting something we were satisfied enough with to release. The first alpha of Mailman 3 was released a little over 7 years ago. And so I'm here --and on behalf of Abhilash, Aurélien, Florian, John, Mark, Stephen, Sumana, Terri, our GSoC students, and all the great people who have contributed over the years-- to proudly announce the official release of GNU Mailman 3.0, code named "Show Don't Tell". Mailman 3 is really a suite of 5 tools: * The core, which provides the mail delivery engine, the unified user model, moderation and modification of email messages, and interfaces to external archivers; * Postorius, our new Django-based web user interface for users and list administrators; * HyperKitty, our new Django-based web archiver, providing rich access to the historical record of mailing list traffic; * mailman.client, the official Python bindings to the core's REST API; * mailman-bundler, a set of scripts to make it easy to deploy the full suite inside Python virtual environments. What's new about Mailman 3? Well, lots! Some highlights include: * Backed by a relational database; * True support for multiple domains, with no cross-domain mailing list naming restrictions; * One user account to manage all your subscriptions on a site; * The core's functionality exposed through an administrative REST+JSON API; * All passwords hashed by default, and no monthly password reminders! * Users can post to lists via the web interface; * Built-in archive searching! and more. Tons more. There will be things you love about Mailman 3, and things you don't like. You'll glimpse great possibilities and glaring holes. You'll be excited and frustrated. Such is life with an all-volunteer free software project. For the things you like, and the exciting possibilities, we encourage you to experiment, to do wacky things we haven't thought of, integrate it with your own tools, or just carefully go about deploying a Mailman 3 system. Tell us how you're using it! For the things you don't like, we invite you to join us. Come to the mailing list <mailman-developers(a)python.org> and talk with us. Submit bug reports and pull requests. Help us close the gaps and make Mailman 3 better. Whether your interests are for Internet RFCs, web site development, operations, or you just want to find a fun Python project to hack on with cool people, as they say, contributions are welcome. See the release notes, as well as links to download each component: http://wiki.list.org/Mailman3 You probably want to start with the bundler and let it grab and install all the other parts. More information is available at: http://www.list.org http://wiki.list.org http://launchpad.net/mailman #mailman on freenode mailman-developers(a)python.org Happy Mailman Day, -Barry & the Mailman Cabal

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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Mailman 2.1.19 release
by Mark Sapiro 07 Feb '15

07 Feb '15

I am pleased to announce the second release candidate for Mailman 2.1.19. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended. This release has several new features since 2.1.18-1, 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. 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. There are also bug fixes. See the attached README for more details. The differences between this and the first 2.1.19 candidate are the following. The subscribe_auto_approval feature in the first candidate has been augmented to accept @listname to auto approve members of another list. (LP: #1417093) Organization: headers are unconditionally removed from posts to anonymous lists and a bug involving ANONYMOUS_LIST_KEEP_HEADERS has been fixed. (LP: #1419132) The admindb interface display of a held message body has been fixed to not stop in the middle of a multi-byte character and not fail to convert to the display character set message bodies with invalid characters. (LP: #1415406) Additionally, and the main reason for this second candidate, Mailman's character set for both Romanian and Russian has been changed to utf-8. (LP: #1418735) and (LP: #1418448). This may be disruptive in that following this change, some archive pages and some list attributes for lists whose preferred_language is one of those two languages may not display correctly. Archives can be fixed by running 'bin/arch --wipe' for the affected lists, but list attributes will probably have to be fixed manually. I hope the benefits of this change will outweigh the pain, and I encourage anyone with Romanian or Russian Language lists to try this release and report your experience. It may be possible to fix at least some list attributes programmatically as part of the version update process. I plan to release the final 2.1.19 release at the end of February, and it would be good to have as many i18n updates as possible by then. 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 2.1.19rc2 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

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