Mailman 3 - Mailman-announce

Mailman 2.1.17
by Mark Sapiro 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

Since the release of Mailman 2.1.16 last month, there have been some i18n updates, a new feature affecting which headers are kept in posts to anonymous lists and a few bug fixes. One of these bugs was introduced in 2.1.16 and is fairly serious although it only affects lists with defined topics. See <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1251495>. For this reason, I plan to release Mailman 2.1.17 in about a week. If there are any i18n changes or other things that should go in 2.1.17, please get them to me before next weekend. -- 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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Re: [Mailman-Announce] Mailman 2.1.16 release.
by Mark Sapiro 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

On 10/16/2013 10:44 AM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > > Thanks for this. All working fine this end. Only thing I can see is the version text still says that it is running RC3. and On 10/16/2013 07:21 PM, Christopher Schulte wrote: > Hi Mark, I pulled down > > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/mailman-2.1.16.tgz > > and my list web interface shows version 2.1.16rc3. Maybe someone > forgot to bump Version.py ? Actually, it's a bit more tangled than that. For those keeping score at home, I have a script that I use to 1) bump the version 2) tag the release and 3) package the tarball. The issue is step 1) bumps the version, but doesn't commit, then step 2) tags the latest (prior) commit and then commits, and step 3) packages the tagged version which doesn't have the bump. Sometimes I remember to commit between steps 1) and 2), and sometimes I don't. I have updated the script to commit after the bump in step 1) which will avoid this in the future I hope. I have replaced the tarballs at the download sites: https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/ with ones that have the correct version. This is the only difference between the new tarballs and the prior ones. If you downloaded one earlier and care about the displayed version, you can either download a new one or apply the attached Version.py.patch. -- 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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ANN: wiki.list.org migrations
by Barry Warsaw 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hello everyone, I want to mention a few things related to wiki.list.org. First and most immediately, our currently wiki hosting provider Contegix, is in the process of a major infrastructure update which will cause some downtime for wiki.list.org. Contegix has been hosting our wiki gratis for several years, for which we are very grateful. Their support over the years has been superb. Unfortunately, the infrastructure our wiki is hosted on is quite legacy, and in fact, we are the last organization to be hosted on it. The time has come to for them to retire it, but they have again graciously offered to continue hosting our wiki gratis on their new infrastructure. The migration process is tricky, since we have to coordinate with Contegix's timing and our DNS changes with John Viega (Mailman's original author and owner of the list.org domain). Please be aware that the wiki may experience some downtime as both DNS and the instance get shuffled around. As some of you know, Paul Boddie has been working diligently on migrating our current Atlassian Confluence wiki to Moin. While Confluence has served us well over the years, we recognize that it is inappropriate for a GNU project such as Mailman to utilize a non-free wiki. Moin is our current choice for a free software wiki hosting platform, and Paul has done an amazing job on the migration, as anyone who reads mailman-developers can see. That work is close, but not quite ready for production. Stay tuned for more announcements on that front, or join mailman-developers for more information, or if you'd like to pitch in to help. We will send another announcement when the Contegix transfer is complete. In the meantime, if you see outages for wiki.list.org, please be patient. I hope there won't be too much of a disruption of service. Cheers, -Barry

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RELEASED: GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 3
by Barry Warsaw 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Hello friends of Mailman! I said I played this song so many times before That the melody keeps repeating Time for my usual "sneak one in before the new year" release! I'm happy to announce the third beta release of the core Mailman 3.0 engine. Mailman 3.0b3 is code named "Here Again". You can download GNU Mailman 3.0b3 from Launchpad or the Python Cheeseshop: https://launchpad.net/mailman http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman The GNU Mailman documentation is available online at: http://packages.python.org/mailman Alpha releases of Postorius, our new web ui are available at: https://launchpad.net/postorius http://pypi.python.org/pypi/postorius You might also like to take a look at the new archiver project called Hyperkitty: https://launchpad.net/hyperkitty GNU Mailman, Postorius, and Hyperkitty are all distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. Detailed changes in Mailman 3.0b3 are available here: http://tinyurl.com/adgeuwg Here's a summary of the most user and developer visible changes: * Python 2.7 is now required. Python 2.6 is no longer officially supported. * The canonical resource for a mailing list in the REST API now uses its list-id by default instead of its posting address. For backward compatibility, you can still reference a mailing list by its posting address. However the list-id is more stable since it will not change. * REST API change: The JSON representation for held messages has changed to a more flat representation. * You can now specify a list style to use when creating a mailing list through the REST API. * The `subject_prefix` attribute of mailing lists can be get/set through the REST API. Thanks to Terri Oda. * Membership change moderation (subscriptions and unsubscription requests) are available through the REST API. * `list_id` is added to the JSON representation for a mailing list. Thanks to Jimmy Bergman. * User resources are expanded in the REST API. You can change a user's display name or password, and you can now verify their password through REST by posting the plain text password and checking the HTTP response code. * Addresses can now be verified and unverified through the REST API. * Some changes have been made to the configuration file format. - [passlib]path is renamed to [passlib]configuration - [mta]configuration names a separate file to configure Postfix - The default style is now called `legacy-default`, and a `legacy-announce` style has been added. You can select the system default style through via the [styles]default configuration. * More database schema cleanups, in both the ban table and the mailinglist table. * Changes in the options for the `bin/mailman aliases` command. * Lots of other bug fixes. Enjoy, and Happy New Year, -Barry

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list.org upgrade
by Barry Warsaw 17 Nov '12

17 Nov '12

Quick heads up that the owners of the list.org domain will be upgrading the machine today. This should only affect www.list.org and perhaps email @list.org. It will not affect the wiki or the mailing lists. The downtime should be minimal and the IP addresses will remain the same after the upgrade. In the meantime, you can always use the various www mirrors: * http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html * http://mirror.list.org/ * http://mailman.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, -Barry

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RELEASED: GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 2
by Barry Warsaw 08 Sep '12

08 Sep '12

Hello friends of Mailman! Sometimes we freeze until the light comes Sometimes we're wrong and sometimes we're right I'm happy to announce the second beta release of Mailman 3.0, code named "Freeze". I expect the code name to appropriately reflect the stability of the database schema and REST API. From here on out, there should be no more major changes or new features, just bug fixes leading to the 3.0 final release. You can download GNU Mailman 3.0b2 from Launchpad or the Python Cheeseshop: https://launchpad.net/mailman http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman The GNU Mailman documentation is available online at: http://packages.python.org/mailman/ Don't forget that alpha releases of Postorious, our new web ui are also available: https://launchpad.net/postorius http://pypi.python.org/pypi/postorius You can submit bug reports to GNU Mailman and Postorius at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman https://bugs.launchpad.net/postorius GNU Mailman and Postorius are released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. Detailed changes in Mailman 3.0b2 are available here: http://tinyurl.com/93xlt5m Here's a summary of the most user and developer visible change: * The link between members and mailing lists is now the list-id, not the mailing list's posting address. This is reflected in changes to the REST API for members, and other internal APIs. * Many other database schema changes have been made, compatible with both the SQLite3 and PostgreSQL backends, and with fully tested automatic migration. * passlib is now used for password hashing instead of flufl.password. There is a separate configuration file for controlling the hash used, with the default being sha512_crypt. * Internally, all datetimes are interpreted in UTC, but stored in naive format. * The `news` runner is now called the `nntp` runner. Beta testers can safely remove $var_dir/queue/news. * Many internal events have been added and renamed. * Archiving policies are now controlled by a single enumeration. This change is also reflected in the REST API. * Many configuration file changes have been made, including the addition of the new [antispam] section. * The usual slew of bug fixes have been applied. Enjoy, -Barry

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Mailman 2.1.15 final released.
by Mark Sapiro 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to announce the final release of Mailman 2.1.15. This release is identical to the 2.1.15rc1 release except for the version number and the inclusion of a missing part of the HTML installation manual. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.6 is recommended. This release should work with Python 2.7, but has not been tested with that version. This release includes minor security enhancements, new features and bug fixes. See the Changelog at <https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/2.1.15> 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 2.1.15 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFP22s7VVuXXpU7hpMRAmqOAJ9rDBhSkYDW2yiaqljJzjQtPX8xgwCfXpS7 4I6YOtQjk4tn/UGrtyCGgIQ= =rsB+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mailman 2.1.15rc1 released
by Mark Sapiro 18 May '12

18 May '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to announce the first release candidate for Mailman 2.1.15. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.6 is recommended. This release should work with Python 2.7, but has not been tested with that version. This release includes minor security enhancements, new features and bug fixes. See the Changelog at <https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/2.1.15rc1> 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 Mailman 2.1.15rc1 can be downloaded from https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/ It is anticipated that the 2.1.15 final release will be on or about June 13. Bugs found between now and then will be fixed if possible, but I hope that most if not all changes between now and June 13 will be i18n updates. Please send any updates to the templates and/or message catalogs in the 2.1.15rc1 release directly to me no later than June 11. - -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFPs0HiVVuXXpU7hpMRAhEfAKDHkpFORnL9a6ka3RRn4WP8m7EsHgCcCKFi C17WrK2wc2irrXn9Gp2ju8I= =5wvM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fw: [Mailman-Developers] Congratulations to our GSoC Students!
by Barry Warsaw 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Congratulations to our new GSoC students! Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:57:51 -0600 From: Terri Oda <terri(a)zone12.com> To: mailman-developers(a)python.org, sophron(a)latthi.com, Aamir Khan <syst3m.w0rm(a)gmail.com>, alexander(a)sulfrian.net Subject: [Mailman-Developers] Congratulations to our GSoC Students! The announcement from Google went out on Monday, so I'm a bit slow, but I'd like to congratulate the three students who will be working with GNU Mailman as part of Google Summer of Code 2012: Aamir Khan will be working on improving Hyperkitty. Alexander Sulfrian will be working on NNTP access to the archives. George Chatzisofroniou will be working on metrics, integrating his MailmanStats package with Mailman 3.0. Congratulations to all of you, and thank you to all our other talented applicants this year. It was a very tough field and we were very lucky to get three slots allocated to us by our umbrella organization, the Python Software Foundation. I believe this is the largest number of students we've ever had! We're now in what Google calls the "community bonding period" where we get to know each other and get things set up. Students: this would be a great time to post a short email to mailman-developers reminding everyone about what you're planning to do this summer (Google only gives the short abstract in their public list). I know the mentors are pretty excited about the projects, and this gives everyone else a chance to get excited too! Coding starts on May 21st. So be prepared: this is going to be one amazing year for Mailman! Terri _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/barry%40list.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9

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Re: [Mailman-Announce] [Mailman-Developers] RELEASED: GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 1 and Postorius 1.0 alpha 1
by Barry Warsaw 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

On Mar 26, 2012, at 04:11 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote: >Great news Barry, but just one thing, I checked now on list.org and the GNU >Mailman website and there is no mention of this release.. is that on purpose? Not really. The server moved recently and my keys hadn't been installed. Looks like they still aren't, so let me ping the admins. -Barry

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