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@@ -6,50 +6,182 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman. 2.1 alpha 2 (XXX) - - Redesign of the membership management page. The page is now - split into three subcategories (Membership List, Mass - Subscription, and Mass Removal). The Membership List - subcategory now supports searching for member addresses by - regular expression, and if necessary, it groups member addresses - first alphabetically, and then by chunks. + - Building + o mimelib 0.3 is now required. Get it from + http://mimelib.sourceforge.net + If you've installed mimelib 0.2, you must upgrade. + + - Security + o Better definition of authentication domains. The following + roles have been defined: user, list-admin, list-moderator, + creator, site-admin. - Mass Subscription and Mass Removal now alternatively support - file upload, with one address per line. + o There is now a separate role of "list moderators", which has + access to the pending requests (admindb) page, but not the + list configuration pages. - - Subscription confirmations can now be performed via email or via - URL. When a subscription is received, a unique (sha) confirm - URL is generated in the confirmation message. Simply visiting - this URL completes the subscription process. + o Subscription confirmations can now be performed via email or + via URL. When a subscription is received, a unique (sha) + confirm URL is generated in the confirmation message. + Simply visiting this URL completes the subscription process. - - In a similar manner, removal requests (via web or email command) - no longer require the password. If the correct password is - given, the removal is performed immediately. If no password is - given, then a confirmation message is generated. + o In a similar manner, removal requests (via web or email + command) no longer require the password. If the correct + password is given, the removal is performed immediately. If + no password is given, then a confirmation message is + generated. + + - Internationalization + o More I18N patches. The basic infrastructure should now be + working correctly. Spanish templates and catalogs are + included (although out-of-date at the moment), and English, + French, Hungarian, and Big5 templates are included. - - In email commands, "join" is a synonym for "subscribe". "remove" - and "leave" are synonyms for "unsubscribe". + o Cascading specializations and internationalization of + templates. Templates are now search for in the following + order: list-specific location, domain-specific location, + site-wide location, global defaults. Each search location + is further qualified by the language being displayed. This + means that you only need to change the templates that are + different from the global defaults. - - Fixes in 2.0.5 ported forward: + Templates renamed: admlogin.txt => admlogin.html + Templates added: private.html - Fix a lock stagnation problem that can result when the user hits - the `stop' button on their browser during a write operation that - can take a long time (e.g. hitting the membership management admin - page). - - - Fixes in 2.0.4 ported forward: + - Web UI + o Redesigned the user options page. It now sits behind an + authentication so user options cannot be viewed with the + proper password. The other advantage is that the user's + password need not be entered on the options page to + unsubscribe or change option values. The login screen also + provides for password mail-back, and unsubscription w/ + confirmation. + + Other new features accessible from the user options page + include: ability to change email address (with confirmation) + both per-list and globally for all list on virtual domain; + global membership password changing; global mail delivery + disable/enable; ability to suppress password reminders both + per-list and globally; logout button. + + [Note: the handle_opts cgi has gone away] + + o Color schemes for non-template based web pages can be defined + via mm_cfg. + + o Redesign of the membership management page. The page is now + split into three subcategories (Membership List, Mass + Subscription, and Mass Removal). The Membership List + subcategory now supports searching for member addresses by + regular expression, and if necessary, it groups member + addresses first alphabetically, and then by chunks. + + Mass Subscription and Mass Removal now support file upload, + with one address per line. + + o Hyperlinks from the logos in the footers have been removed. + The sponsors got too much "unsubscribe me!" spam from + desperate user of Mailman at other sites. + + o New buttons on the digest admin page to send a digest + immediately (if it's non-empty), to start a new digest + volume with the next digest, and to select the interval with + which to automatically start a new digest volume (yearly, + monthly, quarterly, weekly, daily). + + DEFAULT_DIGEST_VOLUME_FREQUENCY is a new configuration + variable, initially set to give a new digest volume monthly. + + o Through-the-web list creation and removal, using a separate + site-wide authentication role called the "list creator and + destroyer" or simply "creator". If the configuration + variable OWNERS_CAN_DELETE_THEIR_OWN_LISTS is set to 1 (by + default, it's 0), then list admins can delete their own + lists. + + This feature requires an adaptor for the particular MTA + you're using. An adaptor for Postfix is included, as is a + dumb adaptor that just emails mailman@yoursite with the + necessary Sendmail style /etc/alias file changes. Some MTAs + like Exim can be configured to automatically recognize new + lists. The adaptor is selected via the MTA option in + mm_cfg.py + + - Email UI + o In email commands, "join" is a synonym for + "subscribe". "remove" and "leave" are synonyms for + "unsubscribe". New robot addresses are support to make + subscribing and unsubscribing much easier: + + mylist-join@mysite + mylist-leave@mysite + + - Performance + o Refinements to the new qrunner subsystem which preserves + FIFO order of message clearing. + + - Command line scripts + o bin/change_pw script added (eases mass changing of list + passwords). + + o bin/update grows a -f switch to force an update. + + o bin/newlang renamed to bin/addlang; bin/rmlang removed. + + o bin/mmsitepass has grown a -c option to set the creator's + password. The site-wide `create' web page is linked to from + the admin overview page. + + o bin/newlist's -o option is removed. This script also grows + a way of spelling the creation of a list in a specific + virtual domain. + + o The `auto' script has been removed. + + - Archiver + o New archiver date clobbering option, which allows dates to + only be clobber if they are outrageously out-of-date + (default setting is 15 days on either side of received + timestamp). New configuration variables: + + ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY + ARCHIVER_ALLOWABLE_SANE_DATE_SKEW + + The archived copy of messages grows an X-List-Received-Date: + header indicating the time the message was received by + Mailman. + + o PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL configuration variable is removed (this + can be calculated on the fly, and removing it actually makes + site configuration easier). + + - Miscellaneous + o Several new README's have been added. + + o Most syslog entries for the qrunner have been redirected to + logs/error. + + - Patches and bug fixes + o SF patches and bug fixes applied: 420396, 424389, 227694, 426002 - Python 2.1 compatibility release. There were a few - questionable constructs and uses of deprecated modules that - caused annoying warnings when used with Python 2.1. This - release quiets those warnings. + o Fixes in 2.0.5 ported forward: + Fix a lock stagnation problem that can result when the + user hits the `stop' button on their browser during a + write operation that can take a long time (e.g. hitting + the membership management admin page). - - Fixes in 2.0.3 ported forward: + o Fixes in 2.0.4 ported forward: + Python 2.1 compatibility release. There were a few + questionable constructs and uses of deprecated modules + that caused annoying warnings when used with Python 2.1. + This release quiets those warnings. - Bug fix release. There was a small typo in 2.0.2 in - ListAdmin.py for approving an already subscribed member - (thanks Thomas!). Also, an update to the OpenWall security - workaround (contrib/securelinux_fix.py) was included. Thanks - to Marc Merlin. + o Fixes in 2.0.3 ported forward: + Bug fix release. There was a small typo in 2.0.2 in + ListAdmin.py for approving an already subscribed member + (thanks Thomas!). Also, an update to the OpenWall + security workaround (contrib/securelinux_fix.py) was + included. Thanks to Marc Merlin. 2.1 alpha 1 (04-Mar-2001) |