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Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
-Copyright (C) 1998-2004 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1998-2005 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
2.1.6 (XX-XXX-200X)
+ - Most of the installation instructions have been moved to a latex
+ document. See admin/www/mailman-install/index.html for details.
+
+ - VERP_PROBES is disabled by default.
+
- bin/withlist can be run without a list name, but only if -i is given.
Also, withlist puts the directory it's found in at the end of sys.path,
making it easier to run withlist scripts that live in $prefix/bin.
+ - bin/newlist grew two new options: -u/--urlhost and -e/--emailhost which
+ lets the user provide the web and email hostnames for the new mailing
+ list. This is a better way to specify the domain for the list, rather
+ 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
@@ -25,8 +36,8 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
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 that the both
- languages are not supported yet.
+ respectively for compliance to the IANA spec. Note that neither language
+ is supported yet.
- Python 2.4 compatibility issue: time.strftime() became strict about the
'day of year' range. (1078482)