RELEASED Mailman 2.1.5

[Steve Holden]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Today I am releasing Mailman 2.1.5, a bug fix release that also contains
> new support for the Turkish language, and a few minor new features. 
> Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and
> e-newsletters.  Mailman is used for all the python.org mailing lists.
> 
> Mailman 2.1.5 is a significant upgrade which should improve disk i/o
> performance, administrative overhead for discarding held spams, and the
> behavior of bouncing member disables.  This version also contains a fix
> for an exploit that could allow 3rd parties to retrieve member
> passwords.  It is thus highly recommended that all existing sites
> upgrade to the latest version.
> 
> For more information, please see:
> 
> 	http://www.list.org
> 	http://mailman.sf.net
> 	http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman
> 
> Finally, a personal note.  I have left Zope Corporation to join Secure
> Software, a company started by John Viega -- Mailman's original author. 
> Although I won't be working on Mailman in any official capacity, it is
> exciting to be working with him and the rest of the folks there.  I
> leave Zope Corp on a positive note and wish nothing but success for them
> too.
> 
> You can find Secure Software on the web at
> http://www.securesoftware.com.  Please continue to use my
> barry at python.org email address for all Mailman correspondences.  I don't
> expect much to change for the Mailman project at all.
> 
> Enjoy,
> -Barry
> 
> 2.1.5 (15-May-2004)
> 
>     - The admindb page has a checkbox that allows you to discard all held
>       messages that are marked Defer.  On heavy lists with lots of spam holds,
>       this makes clearing them much faster.
> 
>     - The qrunner system has changed to use only one file per message.
>       However the configuration variable METADATA_FORMAT has been removed, and
>       support for SAVE_MSGS_AS_PICKLES has been changed.  The latter no longer
>       writes messages as plain text.  Instead, they are stored as pickles of
>       plain strings, using the text pickle format.  This still makes them
>       non-binary files readable and editable by humans.
> 
>       bin/dumpdb also works differently.  It will print out the entire pickle
>       file (with more verbosity) and if used with 'python -i', it binds msg to
>       a list of all objects found in the pickle file.
> 
>       Removed from Defaults.py: PENDINGDB_LOCK_TIMEOUT,
>       PENDINGDB_LOCK_ATTEMPTS, METAFMT_MARSHAL, METAFMT_BSDDB_NATIVE,
>       METAFMT_ASCII, METADATA_FORMAT
> 
>     - The bounce processor has been redesigned so that now when an address's
>       bounce score reaches the threshold, that address will be sent a probe
>       message.  Only if the probe bounces will the address be disabled.  The
>       score is reset to zero when the probe is sent.  Also, bounce events are
>       now kept in an event file instead of in memory.  This should help
>       contain the bloat of the BounceRunner.
> 
>       New supporting variables in Defaults.py: VERP_PROBE_FORMAT,
>       VERP_PROBE_REGEXP
> 
>       REGISTER_BOUNCES_EVERY is promoted to a Defaults.py variable.
> 
>     - The pending database has been changed from a global pickle file, to a
>       unique pickle file per mailing list.
> 
>     - The 'request' database file has changed from a marshal, to the more
>       secure pickle format.
> 
>     - Disallow multiple password retrievals.
> 
>     - The email package is updated to version 2.5.5.
> 
>     - New language: Turkish.
> 
>     - Bugs and patches: 869644, 869647 (NotAMemberError for old cookie data),
>       878087 (bug in Slovenian catalog), 899263 (ignore duplicate pending
>       ids), 810675 (discard all defers button)
> 
> 
Barry:

I hope this is congrats time. How's Jim Fulton nowadays, I don't hear 
much of him lately.

regards
  Steve