Hi folks,

Mailman 1.0 release candidate 1 (1.0rc1) has just been uploaded to www.list.org. Barring any major screwups by me, this will be the final 1.0 release. The next step is to create the GNU web pages. I just want to personally thank everyone who's helped with ideas, contributions, suggestions, and support in getting us to where we are.

Here are a few things to note about this release:

• We have a logo contest winner! By a narrow margin, Dragon's logo has won. My thanks to the other 3 logo creators; in different ways I liked them all, and they are all much better than /I/ could ever have done!

  Mailman will now display Dragon's small logo on (most) generated pages; I may have missed a few, but those will all be fixed when we revamp the page designs after 1.0.

  You need to read the instructions in the INSTALL file for putting mailman.gif in a place that your Web server can find them, and for setting up the img src URL. Comments on how to improve this manual installation step would be appreciated.

• There is a new cron/mailpasswd script which groups users by virtual domains if mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW is true (the default). While I've tested this feature, I would /really/ appreciate some more detailed testing by you folks who run multiple virtual domains (hi Greg S. :-). Please, let's not wait until June 1 to find out something is broken, but also be careful not to spam too many of your users!

• If anybody feels like they are being left out of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS file, or have any other updates for this file, please send them directly to me. I haven't kept up with this as well as I should have, so don't be shy. :-)

That's all I can think of. Grab the tarball from

http://www.list.org/mailman.tar.gz

Enjoy, -Barry

P.S. I'll probably somewhat unresponsive to the mailing lists for a while. I need to concentrate on getting the next JPython release out.