This message is to announce the release of GNU Mailman 2.0.9 which fixes a race condition that can cause mail to occasionally be lost, among other useful fixes. I recommend anybody running any version of Mailman 2.0.x to upgrade to 2.0.9, the latest stable release. Details of what's changed is included below.

Note that this problem does not affect the Mailman 2.1 betas.

As usual, I've made both full source tarballs and patches available. See

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103

for links to download all the patches and the source tarball. If you decide to install the patches, please do read the release notes first:

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=63042

See also:

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman
http://www.list.org
http://mailman.sf.net

Cheers, -Barry

2.0.9 (02-Apr-2002)

- Closed a race condition which could, under rare circumstances,
  cause the occasional message to get lost.

- HTML escape message excerpts and headers on the admindb page so
  JavaScript and other evil tags can't mess up the display.

- Some additional Python 2.2 compatibility fixes.

- Unlink the footer logos so as not to bug the python.org and
  gnu.org maintainers as much. :(

- Fix a crash in the DSN bounce detection module, which could
  cause some bounce messages to remain in the queue.

- Add the RFC-2822 mandated Date: header on internally generated
  outgoing messages.  Not all MTAs add this field if missing
  (read: Qmail).