[Mailman-Users] RELEASED Mailman 2.1.3
Ricardo Kleemann
ricardo at americasnet.com
Mon Sep 29 16:37:06 CEST 2003
Hi,
Is there a way for mailman's configure script to detect the
current settings (such as
--with-username, --with-mail-gid and so on)?
Or is there a quick way for me to manually check what they
should be?
I want to be able to upgrade mailman, but I never remember
exactly what those settings should be, and since I have
non-default settings, everytime I rebuild mailman,
everything goes out of whack because I haven't specified the
appropriate configuration.
----- Original Message Follows -----
>
>
> I have released Mailman 2.1.3, a bug fix release which
> also contains support for four new languages: Ukrainian,
> Serbian, Euskara (Basque), and Danish. This release also
> contains a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability in
> the 'create' cgi script, as well as improved performance
> of the bounce and outgoing queue runners. I recommend all
> sites running versions of the 2.1.x line upgrade to the
> new version.
>
> The full source tarball has been made available from the
> usual sites (although the gnu.org sites have not yet been
> updated). Sorry, there is no patch available, but you
> should be able to install 2.1.3 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. After installing, be sure you restart your
> Mailman daemon by doing a "mailmanctl restart".
>
> See also:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman
> http://www.list.org (not yet updated)
> http://mailman.sf.net
>
> Cheers,
> -Barry
>
> -------------------- snip snip --------------------
> 2.1.3 (28-Sep-2003)
>
> Performance, Reliability, Security
>
> - Closed a cross-site scripting exploit in the
> create cgi script.
>
> - Improvements in the performance of the bounce
> processor.
> Now, instead of processing each bounce
> immediately (which
> can cause severe lock contention), bounce events
> are queued.
> Every 15 minutes by default, the queued bounce
> events are
> processed en masse, on a list-per-list basis, so
> that each
> list only needs to be locked once.
>
> - When some or all of a message's recipients have
> temporary
> delivery failures, the message is moved to a
> "retry" queue.
> This queue wakes up occasionally and moves the
> file back to
> the outgoing queue for attempted redelivery.
> This should
> fix most observed OutgoingRunner 100% cpu
> consumption,
> especially for bounces to local recipients when
> using the
> Postfix MTA.
>
> - Optional support for fsync()'ing qfile data
> after writing.
> Under some catastrophic system failures (e.g.
> power lose),
> it would be possible to lose messages because
> the data
> wasn't sync'd to disk. By setting
> SYNC_AFTER_WRITE to True
> in Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py, you can force
> Mailman to
> fsync() queue files after flushing them. The
> benefits are
> debatable for most operating environments, and
> you must
> ensure that your Python has the os.fsync()
> function defined
> before enabling this feature (it isn't, even on
> all
> Unix-like operating systems).
>
> Internationalization
>
> - New languages Ukrainian, Serbian, Danish,
> Euskara/Basque.
>
> - Fixes to template lookup. Lists with local
> overriding
> templates would find the wrong template.
>
> - .mo files (for internationalization) are now
> generated at
> build time instead of coming as part of the
> source
> distribution.
>
> Documentation
>
> - A first draft of member documentation by Terri
> Oda. There
> is also a Japanese translation of this manual by
> Ikeda Soji.
>
> Archiver / Pipermail
>
> - In the configuration variables
> PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER, and
> PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER, %(hostname)s has been
> added to
> the list of allowable substitution variables.
>
> - The timezone is now taken into account when
> figuring the
> posting date for an article.
>
> Scripts / Cron
>
> - Fixes to cron/disabled for NotAMemberError
> crashes.
>
> - New script bin/show_qfiles which prints the
> contents of .pck
> message files. New script bin/discard which can
> be used to
> mass discard held messages.
>
> - Fixes to cron/mailpasswds to account for old
> password-less
> subscriptions.
>
> - bin/list_members has grown two new options:
> --invalid/-i
> prints only the addresses in the member database
> that are
> invalid (which could have snuck in via old
> releases);
> --unicode/-u prints addresses which are stored
> as Unicode
> objects instead of as normal strings.
>
> Miscellaneous
>
> - Fixes to problems in some configurations where
> Python wouldn't
> be able to find its standard library.
>
> - Fixes to the digest which could cause
> MIME-losing missing
> newlines when parts are scrubbed via the content
> filters.
>
> - In the News/Mail gateway admin page, the
> configuration variable
> nntp_host can now be a name:port pair.
>
> - When messages are pulled from NNTP, the member
> moderation checks
> are short-circuited.
>
> - email 2.5.4 is included. This fixes an RFC 2231
> bug, among
> possibly others.
>
> - Fixed some extra spaces that could appear in the
> List-ID header.
>
> - Fixes to ensure that invalid email addresses
> can't be invited.
>
> - WEB_LINK_COLOR in Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py should
> now work.
>
> - Fixes so that shunted message file names
> actually match
> those logged in log/errors.
>
> - An improved pending action cookie generation
> algorithm has
> been added.
>
> - Fixes to the DSN bounce detector.
>
> - The usual additional u/i, internationalization,
> unicode, and
> other miscellaneous fixes.
>
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