I am pleased to announce the release Mailman 2.1.20.
Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended.
This release has one new feature, a few bug fixes, an update to the
Polish message catalog and a fix for a recently discovered security
vulnerability.
See the attached README 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.orghttp://www.gnu.org/software/mailmanhttp://mailman.sourceforge.net/
Mailman 2.1.20 can be downloaded from
https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/
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A security vulnerability in Mailman has been found and fixed. It has
been assigned CVE-2015-2775. The details of this vulnerability and fix
will be announced next Tuesday, 31 March 2015, at which time both a
patch for this specific vulnerability and Mailman 2.1.20 will be released.
In addition to this security fix, Mailman 2.1.20 includes a new feature
allowing a list owner to change a list member's address through the
admin Membership Management... Section, and a couple of minor bug fixes.
The new feature is a fix for <https://launchpad.net/bugs/266809>.
The bugs fixed are: <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1426825>,
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1426829> and
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/1427389>.
The security vulnerability, the details of which are currently private,
is <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1437145>.
The security vulnerability only affects those installations which use
Exim, Postfix's postfix_to_mailman.py or similar programmatic (not
aliases) MTA delivery to Mailman, and have untrusted local users on the
Mailman server.
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Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
I am very happy to announce our new wiki!
If you go to wiki.list.org you will see our shiny new Moin-based wiki. We are
retiring the old Confluence-based wiki at the end of February. Until then,
you can access it at old-wiki.list.org.
Our very huge thanks go to Paul Boddie who did the amazing conversion work,
almost single-handedly reverse engineering the Confluence dump through several
iterations. Of course, our thanks also go to John Viega, owner of the
list.org domain and Mailman's inventor for helping us get the DNS flipped
over. Thanks too to everyone who gave feedback on the new wiki, contributed
to the old wiki, and continue to help edit this important resource for the
Mailman community.
Our thanks also go to the Python Software Foundation and the PSF
infrastructure team for providing us with the virtual machine hosting our
new wiki.
If you had write access to the old wiki and want it again for the new wiki,
you will have to re-submit a request to mailman-cabal(a)python.org. Please be
sure to register with wiki.list.org and provide us with your user name.
With this conversion, I am happy to say that GNU Mailman is finally fully
hosted on free software. While we appreciate the years of service donated to
us by Atlassian and Contegix, it's important that we set an example by
utilizing an entirely free software stack for our development and outreach.
The wiki was our last remaining non-free bits.
Let the gardening begin!
Cheers,
-Barry
(On behalf of the GNU Mailman steering committee)
P.S. We are working on the SSL certificate for the new wiki. Stay tuned.
I am very pleased to announce the release Mailman 2.1.19 final.
Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended.
This release has several new features, some newly implemented and some
backported from the now truly defunct 2.2 branch - there is nothing left
in that branch that isn't in this release.
There are also bug fixes.
See the attached README for more details.
Associated with those changes are many things that have i18n impacts
including new and modified strings in the message catalog, a new
adminaddrchgack.txt template and a minor change to the
admindbdetails.html template.
I strongly encourage anyone with an interest in translations of Mailman
to get this release and help with updating the translations.
This is the final release of Mailman 2.1.19, but if I receive additional
i18n updates, I will release those later.
There have been a few changes since the first candidate release, some of
which were in the second and third candidates.
- There have been updates to the Romanian, Russian, Polish, Japanese and
Interlingua translations.
- Mailman's character set for both Romanian and Russian has been changed
to utf-8 and Mailman's version updater has been augmented to try to find
strings in the old character set in list configurations and convert them.
- The admindb held message display has been improved to not break
multi-byte characters and not abandon conversion to the list's character
set on an invalid character.
- There was a new subscribe_auto_approval feature in the first release
candidate and this is augmented to accept the @listname syntax.
- Organization: headers are now removed from posts to anonymous lists.
- The display of real names on the list roster added in the first
release candidate has been made conditional on a new
ROSTER_DISPLAY_REALNAME mm_cfg.py switch that defaults to No due to
privacy concerns.
Information on these and other changes in this release are in the
attached README and in the NEWS file in the release tarball.
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.orghttp://www.gnu.org/software/mailmanhttp://mailman.sourceforge.net/
Mailman 2.1.19 can be downloaded from
https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/
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Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
