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@@ -2,6 +2,37 @@ Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System Copyright (C) 1998 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA +1.1 (05-Nov-1999) + +- All GIFs removed. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html for + the reason why. + +- Improvements to the Pipermail archiver which make things faster. + Primary change is that the .txt files are not gzip'd on every posted + message. Instead, use the new cron script `nightly_gzip' to gzip + the .txt file in batches (this means that the .txt file will lag + behind the on-line archives a little). + +- From the C drivers programs, Python is invoked with the -S option. + This tells Python to avoid importing the site module, which can + improve start up time of the Python process considerably. Note that + the command line script invocation has not been changed. + +- New configuration variables PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and + PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER which can contain a shell command string + for os.popen(). This can be used to invoke an external archiver + instead of the bundled Pipermail archiver. See Defaults.py for + details. + +- new script `bin/find_member' which can be used to search for a + member by regular expression. + +- More child processes are reaped, which should eliminate most + occurances of zombie processes. + +- A few small miscellaneous bug fixes (including PR#99, PR#107) and + improvements to the file locking algorithms. + 1.0 - Configure script now allows $PREFIX (by default /home/mailman) to be |