Cc python-announce@python.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Mailman 1.0rc3 X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 21.1 "20 Minutes to Nikko" XEmacs Lucid (patch 2) Reply-To: bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us (Barry A. Warsaw) X-Attribution: BAW X-Oblique-Strategy: A very small object. Its center X-Url: http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw X-Face: bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass bass

Hi folks,

Mailman 1.0 release candidate 3 (1.0rc3) has just been uploaded to www.list.org. This is an important bug fix release which primarily fixes a performance problem in the archiver. Since the GNU folks are getting ready to put together their next source CDROM, this increases the possibility that 1.0rc3 will be short-lived -- with 1.0 final right around the corner!

From the NEWS file:

1.0rc3

• new script bin/check_perms which checks (and optionally fixes) the permissions and group ownerships of the files in your Mailman installation.

• Removed a bottleneck in the archiving code that was causing performance problems on highly loaded servers.

• The code that saves a list's state and configuration database has been made more robust.

• Additional exception handlers have been added in several places to alleviate problems with Mailman bombing out when it really would be better to print/log a helpful message.

• The "password" mail command will now mail back the sender's subscription password when given with no arguments.

• The embarrassing subject-prefixing bug present in rc2 has been fixed.

• A small (but nice :) collection of other squashed bugs.

On behalf of the entire development team, -Barry