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@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman.
- An XSS vulnerability, CVE-2011-0707, has been fixed.
+ - The web admin interface has been hardened against CSRF attacks by adding
+ a hidden, encrypted token with a time stamp to form submissions and not
+ accepting authentication by cookie if the token is missing, invalid or
+ older than the new mm_cfg.py setting FORM_LIFETIME which defaults to one
+ hour. Posthumous thanks go to Tokio Kikuchi for this implementation
+ which is only one of his many contributions to Mailman prior to his
+ death from cancer on 14 January 2012.
+
New Features
- Eliminated the list cache from the qrunners. Indirect self-references