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authorbwarsaw <>2005-05-30 20:09:15 +0000
committerbwarsaw <>2005-05-30 20:09:15 +0000
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Updates for 2.1.6 final.
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@@ -4,21 +4,36 @@ Copyright (C) 1998-2005 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
-2.1.6 (XX-May-2005)
+2.1.6 (30-May-2005)
- - Mail-to-news gateway now strips subject prefix off from a response
- by a mail user if news_prefix_subject_too is not set.
+ Security
- Critical security patch for path traversal vulnerability in private
archive script (CAN-2005-0202).
- - Date and Message-Id headers are added for digests. (1116952)
+ - Added the ability for Mailman generated passwords (both member and list
+ admin) to be more cryptographically secure. See new configuration
+ variables USER_FRIENDLY_PASSWORDS, MEMBER_PASSWORD_LENGTH, and
+ ADMIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH. Also added a new bin/withlist script called
+ reset_pw.py which can be used to reset all member passwords. Passwords
+ generated by Mailman are now 8 characters by default for members, and 10
+ characters for list administrators.
- - List owners can now cusomize the non-member rejection notice from
- admin/<listname>/privacy/sender page. (1107169)
+ - A potential cross-site scripting hole in the driver script has been
+ closed. Thanks to Florian Weimer for its discovery. Also, turn
+ STEALTH_MODE on by default.
- - Most of the installation instructions have been moved to a latex
- document. See admin/www/mailman-install/index.html for details.
+ Internationalization
+
+ - Chinese languages are now supported. They have been moved from 'big5'
+ and 'gb' to 'zh_TW' and 'zh_CN' respectively for compliance to the IANA
+ spec. Note, however, that the character sets were changed from 'Big5'
+ or 'GB2312' to 'UTF-8' to cope with the insufficient codecs support in
+ Python 2.3 and earlier. You may have to install Chinese capable codecs
+ (like CJKCodecs) separately to handle the incoming messages which are in
+ local charsets, or upgrade your Python to 2.4 or newer.
+
+ Behavior or defaults changes
- VERP_PROBES is disabled by default.
@@ -32,31 +47,13 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
than the old 'mylist@hostname' syntax (which is still supported for
backward compatibility, but deprecated).
- - Added the ability for Mailman generated passwords (both member and list
- admin) to be more cryptographically secure. See new configuration
- variables USER_FRIENDLY_PASSWORDS, MEMBER_PASSWORD_LENGTH, and
- ADMIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH. Also added a new bin/withlist script called
- reset_pw.py which can be used to reset all member passwords. Passwords
- generated by Mailman are now 8 characters by default for members, and 10
- characters for list administrators.
-
- - Allow editing of the welcome message from the admin page (1085501).
-
- - A potential cross-site scripting hole in the driver script has been
- closed. Thanks to Florian Weimer for its discovery. Also, turn
- STEALTH_MODE on by default.
-
- - Chinese languages moved from 'big5' and 'gb' to 'zh_TW' and 'zh_CN'
- respectively for compliance to the IANA spec. Note, however, that the
- character sets were changed from 'Big5' or 'GB2312' to 'UTF-8' to cope
- with the insufficient codecs support in Python 2.3 and earlier. You
- may have to install Chinese capable codecs (like CJKCodecs) separately
- to handle the incoming messages which are in local charsets, or upgrade
- your Python to 2.4 or newer.
+ Compatibility
- Python 2.4 compatibility issue: time.strftime() became strict about the
'day of year' range. (1078482)
+ New Features
+
- New feature: automatic discards of held messages. List owners can now
set how many days to hold the messages in the moderator request queue.
cron/checkdb will automatically discard old messages. See the
@@ -64,10 +61,6 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
DEFAULT_MAX_DAYS_TO_HOLD in Defaults.py. This defaults to 0
(i.e. disabled). (790494)
- - Improved mail address sanity check. (1030228)
-
- - SpamDetect.py now checks attachment header. (1026977)
-
- New feature: subject_prefix can be configured to include a sequence
number which is taken from the post_id variable. Also, the prefix is
always put at the start of the subject, i.e. "[list-name] Re: original
@@ -76,12 +69,33 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
If the list owner is using numbering feature by "%d" directive, the new
style, "[list-name 123] Re:", is always used.
+ - List owners can now cusomize the non-member rejection notice from
+ admin/<listname>/privacy/sender page. (1107169)
+
+ - Allow editing of the welcome message from the admin page (1085501).
+
- List owners can now use Scrubber to get the attachments scrubbed (held
in the web archive), if the site admin permits it in mm_cfg.py. New
variables introduced are SCRUBBER_DONT_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME and
SCRUBBER_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME_EXTENSION in Defaults.py for scrubber
behavior. (904850)
+ Documentation
+
+ - Most of the installation instructions have been moved to a latex
+ document. See admin/www/mailman-install/index.html for details.
+
+ Bug fixes and other patches
+
+ - Mail-to-news gateway now strips subject prefix off from a response
+ by a mail user if news_prefix_subject_too is not set.
+
+ - Date and Message-Id headers are added for digests. (1116952)
+
+ - Improved mail address sanity check. (1030228)
+
+ - SpamDetect.py now checks attachment header. (1026977)
+
- Filter attachments by filename extensions. (1027882)
- Bugs and patches: 955381 (older Python compatibility), 1020102/1013079/