A number of changes from the unofficial 2.2 branch have been backported to

the 2.1 branch for release with 2.1.19.  The 2.2 branch is now no different
from the 2.1 branch and will no longer be maintained.

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 Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
 
+2.2 Branch Backports (released in conjunction with 2.1.19)
+
+  The following New Features and Bug Fixes have been in an "unofficial,
+  never to be released" Mailman 2.2 branch for several years. Until now,
+  they were never implemented on the official 2.1 branch because of their
+  i18n impacts.  Given that there have been a number of i18n impacting
+  changes due to DMARC mitigations in the last few releases, it has been
+  decided to backport these as well.
+
+  All of these changes have been running in production on several lists
+  for years without problems other than untranslated strings, so they should
+  be reasonably "bug free".
+
+  New Features
+
+    - There is a new list attribute 'subscribe_auto_approval' which is a list
+      of email addresses and regular expressions matching email addresses
+      whose subscriptions are exempt from admin approval.  (LP: #266609)
+
+    - Confirmed member change of address is logged in the 'subscribe' log,
+      and if admin_notify_mchanges is true, a notice is sent to the list
+      owner using a new adminaddrchgack.txt template.
+
+    - Added an 'automate' option to bin/newlist to send the notice to the
+      admin without the prompt.
+
+    - The processing of Topics regular expressions has changed. Previously the
+      Topics regexp was compiled in verbose mode but not documented as such
+      which caused some confusion.  Also, the documentation indicated that
+      topic keywords could be entered one per line, but these entries were not
+      handled properly.  Topics regexps are now compiled in non-verbose mode
+      and multi-line entries are 'ored'.  Existing Topics regexps will be
+      converted when the list is updated so they will continue to work.
+
+    - Added real name display to the web roster.  (LP: #266754)
+
+
+  Bug fixes and other patches
+
+    - Changed the response to an invalid confirmation to be more generic.
+      Not all confirmations are subscription requests.
+
+    - Changed the default nonmember_rejection_notice to be more user friendly.
+      (LP: #418728)
+
+    - Added "If you are a list member" qualification to some messages from the
+      options login page.  (LP: #266442)
+
+    - Changed the 'Approve' wording in the admindbdetails.html template to
+      'Accept/Approve' for better agreement with the button labels.
+
+    - Added '(by thread)' to the previous and next message links in the
+      archive to emphasize that even if you got to the message from a
+      subject, date or author index, previous and next are still by thread.
+
 2.1.19 (xx-xxx-xxxx)
 
   New Features