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Mailman 2.1.19 release
by Mark Sapiro 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

I am pleased to announce the first 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, 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. 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 2.1.19rc1 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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Heads up on pending Mailman 2.1.19 release
by Mark Sapiro 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

I will soon be packaging and announcing the first release candidate for Mailman 2.1.19. The details of changes since the 2.1.18-1 release are in the attached README. The reason for this heads up is there are many things in this release that have i18n impacts and I want to give as much notice as possible of these changes so that people who are interested in updating templates and the message catalogs for a particular language can hopefully get their changes in in time for the final release. If you are interested in helping with this, whether or not you are a current translator, see <http://wiki.list.org/x/MQ>. Many of the changes have to do with the fact that for several years, I have been maintaining the officially defunct 2.2 branch in parallel with 2.1. This branch had a number of features and fixes that had never been put in the 2.1 branch because of their i18n impacts. I have now decided to backport all those changes and finally abandon the 2.2 branch. These changes affect the message catalog and add a new adminaddrchgack.txt template and make a minor change to the admindbdetails.html template. I have also implemented new features that weren't in the 2.2 branch, but add new strings to the web admin UI. See the attached README for more on what all these changes are. The mailman.pot message template has been updated with all these changes and msgmerged with the various mailman.po files. All of this can be retrieved from the bazaar branch at <https://code.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1> at rev. 1520 (or later). -- 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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RELEASED: GNU Mailman (core) 3.0b5
by Barry Warsaw 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hello friends of Mailman, and Happy New Year! You can roll that stone To the top of the hill Drag your ball and chain behind you Once again, it's time for the traditional "avoid the copyright year bump" release. I'm happy to announce the fifth beta release of Mailman 3.0 core, code named "Carve Away The Stone". We're really quite close now, but this release is a little different. Those of you who follow the proceedings on the mailman-developers mailing list will note that I have ported the core engine to Python 3.4. While it is my intent to release Mailman 3.0 core[*] final as a Python 3 application, some of the details are still be hashed out on the mailing list, and in the code base. For this reason, I am releasing two "flavors" of 3.0b5: * "A" release, which remains on Python 2.7 * "B" release, which is only compatible with Python 3.4 The A and B releases are functionally equivalent. There may be different bugs in them, but they both implement the exact same feature set, with the only difference being the version of Python they are compatible with. Some time early in 2015, I will be merging the Python 3 branch back into trunk, and dropping Python 2 support. I would encourage you to download the "B" release and try it out. If you do try both, please submit bugs for any functional differences you encounter. You can download GNU Mailman 3.0b5 core (both "A" and "B" releases) from the Python Cheeseshop: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman/3.0.0b5 The documentation is available online at: http://pythonhosted.org/mailman Mailman 3.0 is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. Detailed changes in 3.0b5 are available here: http://tinyurl.com/p9fpgrh Bugs can be reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman Special thanks go to Abhilash Raj and Aurélien Bompard, who implemented the conversion of the ORM layer from Storm to SQLAlchemy and Alembic. Thanks also to Kurt Griffiths for his excellent Falcon Framework package, which now replaces restish as our WSGI-compatible REST layer. Both of these changes were critical in allowing me to port the core to Python 3. Enjoy, and Happy New Year. -Barry [*] Postorious and HyperKitty will port to Python 3 on their own time schedule, and may remain Python 2 applications for the final release of the GNU Mailman Suite. mailman.client, the standalone REST client will be a bilingual library, supporting both Python 2 and Python 3.

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Changes coming to the GNU Mailman wiki
by Barry Warsaw 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hi folks. I'm happy to announce some changes to the GNU Mailman infrastructure that has been a long time coming. For many years, our wiki hosted at wiki.list.org has been running on a donated instance of Atlassian Confluence. We are extremely grateful to both Atlassian and the hosting provider Contegix for their support over the years. However, Confluence is not free software and because Mailman is a GNU project, it is incumbent on the project to utilize free software throughout our infrastructure. Thus I am here to announce the imminent switch of our wiki to a new Moin server. Huge, huge thanks go to Paul Boddie for the incredible amount of work he's put into the conversion process. Paul has been able to import most if not all of the content, along with most of the account names, into the new wiki. Because of the difference in organizing principles between Confluence and Moin, some post conversion gardening will be needed, and eventually we'd like to improve the style, but the conversion has really been done masterfully. Of course, passwords have not been imported into the new wiki, so if you were an approved author of the old wiki, you'll need to do a password reset to gain control of your new wiki account. However, the group permissions have been imported, so if you were able to edit the old wiki, you should be able to edit the new wiki. As always, contact mailman-cabal(a)python.org if you need assistance. We're doing the last few fiddly bits of the conversion, so you may see some down time while things fall into place. We still need to set up the SSL certificates and twiddle the DNS, so please be aware of this. I'll make another announcement when everything should be settled. In the meantime, I've disabled write permissions to the Confluence wiki. Huge thanks also go out to the Python Software Foundation and the PSF infrastructure team for donating the resources that the new wiki is running on. Thanks too to the other Mailpersons who have helped review the moin conversion process. Cheers, -Barry

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Mailman 2.1.18 final release
by Mark Sapiro 06 May '14

06 May '14

A critical incompatibility between the Mailman 2.1.18 final release and Python versions older than 2.6.5 or thereabouts affecting the DMARC Wrap Message action was discovered and fixed. This incompatibility also existed in the 2.1.16 and 2.1.17 releases. Thus, I have released Mailman 2.1.18-1 with a fix for this incompatibility. Please use 2.1.18-1 and not 2.1.18. These releases have new features to help with mitigation of the impacts of DMARC on mailing lists as well as fixing several bugs. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended. There are significant new i18n strings associated with the DMARC mitigation features. If you are interested in helping with the translations of these strings, see <http://wiki.list.org/x/MQ>. There is also a new dependency associated with these features. Namely, the new Privacy options -> Sender filters -> dmarc_moderation_action feature requires that the dnspython <http://www.dnspython.org/> package be available in Python. 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 2.1.18-1 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 2.1.18 final release
by Mark Sapiro 06 May '14

06 May '14

I'm pleased to announce the final release for Mailman 2.1.18. This release has new features to help with mitigation of the impacts of DMARC on mailing lists as well as fixing several bugs. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended. There are significant new i18n strings associated with the DMARC mitigation features. If you are interested in helping with the translations of these strings, see <http://wiki.list.org/x/MQ>. There is also a new dependency associated with these features. Namely, the new Privacy options -> Sender filters -> dmarc_moderation_action feature requires that the dnspython <http://www.dnspython.org/> package be available in Python. 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 2.1.18 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 2.1.18 release
by Mark Sapiro 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

I am pleased to announce the first release candidate for Mailman 2.1.18. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended. This release has new features to help with mitigation of the impacts of DMARC on mailing lists. There is also a new dependency associated with these features. Namely, the new Privacy options -> Sender filters -> dmarc_moderation_action feature requires that the dnspython <http://www.dnspython.org/> package be available in Python. There are also bug fixes. 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 2.1.18rc1 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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ANNOUNCE: The GNU Mailman 3 suite, beta 1 preview
by Barry Warsaw 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Hello Mailman enthusiasts! Time and motion Wind and sun and rain Days connect like boxcars in a train Another Pycon has come and gone and with it, another fantastic sprint among the core developers. We accomplished quite a bit, and now we'd like to share the results with you. On behalf of the Mailman development team, I am happy to announce the first beta release of the full Mailman 3 suite. This release includes: * Postorius 1.0.0b1 (Year of the Parrot), our new Django-based web user interface for list owners and list members. * HyperKitty 1.0.0b1, the fantastic new Django-based archiver. * Mailman Core 3.0b4 (Time and Motion), the mailing list engine and administrative REST API. * The mailman-bundler package 3.0b1, a helpful buildout-based tool for putting it all together. We're very excited to finally be able to announce this preview of the entire suite of tools, and we hope you'll give it a try. As with any beta software, we give a word of caution should you be adventurous enough to want to try it in production. There are surely bugs and missing features, but we feel confident enough to encourage you to play with the system and provide us with feedback, bug reports, suggestions, and above all, contributions! Each project is separately downloadable from the Python Cheeseshop, and links are provided below. Perhaps the best way to begin is to grab the bundler, unpack it and, follow the directions included in the bundle. It should work on most modern *nixes with Python 2.7. You can download the bundler tarball from: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman-bundler/3.0b1 See below for links to the individual project pages, bug report packages, and package documentation. The best place to discuss Mailman 3 is on the mailman-developers mailing list, or on IRC via the freenode #mailman channel. Enjoy! -Barry (On behalf of the entire GNU Mailman development team) P.S. My personal, deepest thanks to Florian, Terri, Aurélien, Mark, John, and Piotr for coming to Pycon, working hard and joyfully at the sprints, sharing friendly meals and tea shop excursions, and to Steve who wasn't able to make it in person, and also to all the contributors to the project who make the code better and the community an honor to be a part of. Postorius project - https://launchpad.net/postorius bugs - https://bugs.launchpad.net/postorius download - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/postorius/1.0.0b1 docs - http://pythonhosted.org//postorius/ HyperKitty project - https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/ bugs - https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/report download - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/HyperKitty/1.0 docs - https://hyperkitty.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Core project - https://launchpad.net/mailman bugs - https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bugs?field.tag=mailman3 download - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman/3.0.0b4 docs - http://pythonhosted.org/mailman/ Bundler project - https://launchpad.net/mailman-bundler bugs - https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman-bundler download - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman-bundler/3.0b1 docs - README.rst (in the unpacked tarball)

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GNU Mailman sprinting at Pycon 2014
by Barry Warsaw 24 Feb '14

24 Feb '14

Hello sprinters! Once again, the GNU Mailman project will be sprinting at Pycon, this time the 2014 conference in Montreal. I've created a placeholder page for adding ideas about what you would like to work on, as well as our priorities. We'll be filling out details over the next few weeks, but feel free to start discussing ideas here. http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/PyCon+2014+Sprint Cheers, -Barry

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Mailman 2.1.16 release.
by Mark Sapiro 23 Nov '13

23 Nov '13

FYI, I will be releasing 2.1.16rc1 in a few days with a target of a final release in early September. I believe the release will be very solid and stable. The main purpose of the candidate release is to expose any i18n changes so that translators can submit any updates and get them in the final release. There are a few new features, contributed programs, i18n changes and bug fixes, all of which will be announced when the candidate is released. -- 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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