Yesterday I released Mailman 2.1.19rc2 as noted below. Today I have released Mailman 2.1.19rc3 which can be downloaded from the same places as noted below for 2.1.19rc2. The reason for the quick replacement is I have augmented Mailman's versions.py to "fix" the encoding for strings in list attributes for existing Romanian and Russian language lists which should ease the pain of the utf-8 transition for these lists. See the attached README and yesterday's announcement copied below for more details. On 02/06/2015 09:05 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
I am pleased to announce the second release candidate for Mailman 2.1.19.
Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended.
This release has several new features since 2.1.18-1, 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.
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.
There are also bug fixes.
See the attached README for more details.
The differences between this and the first 2.1.19 candidate are the following.
The subscribe_auto_approval feature in the first candidate has been augmented to accept @listname to auto approve members of another list. (LP: #1417093)
Organization: headers are unconditionally removed from posts to anonymous lists and a bug involving ANONYMOUS_LIST_KEEP_HEADERS has been fixed. (LP: #1419132)
The admindb interface display of a held message body has been fixed to not stop in the middle of a multi-byte character and not fail to convert to the display character set message bodies with invalid characters. (LP: #1415406)
Additionally, and the main reason for this second candidate, Mailman's character set for both Romanian and Russian has been changed to utf-8. (LP: #1418735) and (LP: #1418448). This may be disruptive in that following this change, some archive pages and some list attributes for lists whose preferred_language is one of those two languages may not display correctly. Archives can be fixed by running 'bin/arch --wipe' for the affected lists, but list attributes will probably have to be fixed manually. I hope the benefits of this change will outweigh the pain, and I encourage anyone with Romanian or Russian Language lists to try this release and report your experience. It may be possible to fix at least some list attributes programmatically as part of the version update process.
I plan to release the final 2.1.19 release at the end of February, and it would be good to have as many i18n updates as possible by then.
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.org http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://mailman.sourceforge.net/
Mailman 2.1.19rc2 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