[Mailman-Developers] RELEASED Mailman 2.1.2

[Apologies for the empty dups -- been fiddling with my email client again. ;} -BAW]

I've just released Mailman 2.1.2 which includes many bug fixes and language updates, as well as support for two new languages, Portuguese/Portugal and Polish. I recommend all Mailman 2.1 users upgrade to this release.

The full source tarball has been made available from the usual sites. Currently, there is no patch available, but you should be able to install 2.1.2 over your existing 2.1.x installation. See

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

for links to download all the patches and the source tarballs.

Be sure you restart your mailman daemon by doing a "mailmanctl restart" after installing.

See also:

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman
http://www.list.org (not yet updated)
http://mailman.sf.net

Cheers, -Barry

-------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.1.2 (22-Apr-2003)

- New languages Portuguese (Portugal) and Polish.

- Many convenient constants have been added to the Defaults.py
  module to (hopefully) make it more readable.

- Email addresses which contain 8-bit characters in them are now
  rejected and won't be subscribed.  This is not the same as 8-bit
  characters in the realname, which is still allowed.

- The X-Originating-Email header is removed for anonymous lists.
  Hotmail apparently adds this header.

- When running make to build Mailman, you can specify $DESTDIR to
  the install target to specify an alternative location for
  installation, without influencing the paths stored in
  e.g. Defaults.py.  This is useful to package managers.

- New Defaults.py variable DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT which controls how
  long the outgoing qrunner will wait before it retries a
  tempfailure delivery.

- The semantics for the extend.py hook to MailList objects has
  changed slightly.  The hook is now called before attempting to
  lock and load the database.

- Mailman now uses the email package version 2.5.1

- bin/transcheck now checks for double-%'s

- bin/genaliases grew a -q / --quiet flag

- cron/checkdbs grew a -h / --help option.

- The -c / --change-msg option has been removed from bin/add_members

- bin/msgfmt.py has been added, taken from Python 2.3's Tools/i18n
  directory.  The various .mo files are now no longer distributed
  with Mailman.  They are generated at build time instead.

- A new file misc/sitelist.cfg which can be used with
  bin/config_list provides a small number of recommended settings
  for your site list.  Be sure to read it over before applying!
  sitelist.cfg is installed into the data directory.

- Many bug fixes, including these SourceForge bugs closed and
  patches applied: 677668, 690448, 700538, 700537, 673294, 683906,
  671294, 522080, 521124, 534297, 699900, 697321, 695526, 703941,
  658261, 710678, 707608, 671303, 717096, 694912, 707624, 716755,
  661138, 716754, 716702, 667167, 725369, 726415