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NEWS
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More news for 2.1.3.
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2.1.3 (XX-Sep-2003)
- - New languages Ukrainian, Serbian, Danish, Euskara/Basque.
+ Performance and Reliability
- - Improvements in the performance of the bounce processor. Now,
- instead of processing each bounce immediately (which can cause
- severe lock contention), bounce events are queued. Every 15
- minutes by default, the queued bounce events are processed en
- masse, on a list-per-list basis, so that each list only needs to
- be locked once.
+ - Improvements in the performance of the bounce processor.
+ Now, instead of processing each bounce immediately (which
+ can cause severe lock contention), bounce events are queued.
+ Every 15 minutes by default, the queued bounce events are
+ processed en masse, on a list-per-list basis, so that each
+ list only needs to be locked once.
- - When some or all of a message's recipients have temporary
- delivery failures, the message is moved to a "retry" queue.
- This queue wakes up occasionally and moves the file back to the
- outgoing queue for attempted redelivery. This should fix most
- observed OutgoingRunner 100% cpu consumption, especially for
- bounces to local recipients when using the Postfix MTA.
+ - When some or all of a message's recipients have temporary
+ delivery failures, the message is moved to a "retry" queue.
+ This queue wakes up occasionally and moves the file back to
+ the outgoing queue for attempted redelivery. This should
+ fix most observed OutgoingRunner 100% cpu consumption,
+ especially for bounces to local recipients when using the
+ Postfix MTA.
- - A first draft of member documentation by Terri Oda. There is
- also a Japanese translation of this manual by Ikeda Soji.
+ - Optional support for fsync()'ing qfile data after writing.
+ Under some catastrophic system failures (e.g. power lose),
+ it would be possible to lose messages because the data
+ wasn't sync'd to disk. By setting SYNC_AFTER_WRITE to True
+ in Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py, you can force Mailman to
+ fsync() queue files after flushing them. The benefits are
+ debatable for most operating environments, and you must
+ ensure that your Python has the os.fsync() function defined
+ before enabling this feature (it isn't, even on all
+ Unix-like operating systems).
- - In the configuration variables PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER, and
- PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER, %(hostname)s has been added to the
- list of allowable substitution variables.
+ Internationalization
- - In the News/Mail gateway admin page, the configuration variable
- nntp_host can now be a name:port pair.
+ - New languages Ukrainian, Serbian, Danish, Euskara/Basque.
- - email 2.5.4 is included.
+ - Fixes to template lookup. Lists with local overriding
+ templates would find the wrong template.
- - WEB_LINK_COLOR in Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py should now work.
+ - .mo files (for internationalization) are now generated at
+ build time instead of coming as part of the source
+ distribution.
- - Fixes to cron/disabled for NotAMemberError crashes.
+ Documentation
- - New script bin/show_qfiles which prints the contents of .pck
- message files. New script bin/discard which can be used to mass
- discard held messages.
+ - A first draft of member documentation by Terri Oda. There
+ is also a Japanese translation of this manual by Ikeda Soji.
- - Fixes so that shunted message file names actually match those
- logged in log/errors.
+ Archiver / Pipermail
- - .mo files (for internationalization) are now generated at build
- time instead of coming as part of the source distribution.
+ - In the configuration variables PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER, and
+ PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER, %(hostname)s has been added to
+ the list of allowable substitution variables.
+
+ - The timezone is now taken into account when figuring the
+ posting date for an article.
+
+ Scripts / Cron
+
+ - Fixes to cron/disabled for NotAMemberError crashes.
+
+ - New script bin/show_qfiles which prints the contents of .pck
+ message files. New script bin/discard which can be used to
+ mass discard held messages.
+
+ - Fixes to cron/mailpasswds to account for old password-less
+ subscriptions.
+
+ - bin/list_members has grown two new options: --invalid/-i
+ prints only the addresses in the member database that are
+ invalid (which could have snuck in via old releases);
+ --unicode/-u prints addresses which are stored as Unicode
+ objects instead of as normal strings.
+
+ Miscellaneous
+
+ - Fixes to problems in some configurations where Python wouldn't
+ be able to find its standard library.
+
+ - Fixes to the digest which could cause MIME-losing missing
+ newlines when parts are scrubbed via the content filters.
+
+ - In the News/Mail gateway admin page, the configuration variable
+ nntp_host can now be a name:port pair.
+
+ - When messages are pulled from NNTP, the member moderation checks
+ are short-circuited.
+
+ - email 2.5.4 is included. This fixes an RFC 2231 bug, among
+ possibly others.
+
+ - Fixed some extra spaces that could appear in the List-ID header.
+
+ - Fixes to ensure that invalid email addresses can't be invited.
+
+ - WEB_LINK_COLOR in Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py should now work.
+
+ - Fixes so that shunted message file names actually match
+ those logged in log/errors.
+
+ - An improved pending action cookie generation algorithm has
+ been added.
+
+ - Fixes to the DSN bounce detector.
+
+ - The usual additional u/i, internationalization, unicode, and
+ other miscellaneous fixes.
2.1.2 (22-Apr-2003)
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