Releases: sympa-community/sympa
Sympa 6.2.46 released
Sympa 6.2.45 beta 3 released
The Sympa Community is proud to release the new beta of the next version of Sympa. Please install it to test and report bugs, translate user interface to your language, or enhance documentation of Sympa, if you want to help the Sympa community deliver a more reliable version of Sympa.
Sympa 6.2.45b.3 is the new beta version of Sympa 6.2.
This version introduces some improvements and fixes several bugs.
About beta version
This version is a pre-release version of the next stable release. We expect feedback from users and developers. To know how to report bugs or improvements, see Contributing to Sympa.
- Next stable release, 6.2.46, is planned to be released on Monday, 23rd September 2019 (in UTC).
Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.
- Translations added on translation site before 17th September 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.
Significant changes
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Data sources: Codebase has entirely been rewritten. Some behaviors will be changed. If you noticed any problem, please let us know on issue page #693.
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Perl: From now on, Perl earlier than 5.10.1 will never be supported. See also #620.
Packaging
RPM: Sympa is joining to Fedora/EPEL
Xavier Bachelot has been working to add Sympa to Fedora/EPEL for years. Now it is coming true.
To install Sympa packages under tests on Fedora/EPEL, you have to enable "testing" repository, like:
dnf install --enablerepo=updates-testing sympaor, with EPEL,
yum install --enablerepo=epel-testing sympaIn near future, RPM will be provided through these repositories. Until then, administrators who need stable RPM packages may use older repository, Sympa-JA.org. RPMs for pre-release (beta) vdersion of Sympa are provided by COPR sympa-beta repository (See the documentation for details).
Sympa 6.2.45 beta 2 released
The Sympa Community is proud to release the new beta of the next version of Sympa. Please install it to test and report bugs, translate user interface to your language, or enhance documentation of Sympa, if you want to help the Sympa community deliver a more reliable version of Sympa.
Sympa 6.2.45b.2 is the new beta version of Sympa 6.2.
This version fixes several fatal bugs in the last beta. Please use this version for beta testing.
About beta version
This version is a pre-release version of the next stable release. We expect feedback from users and developers. To know how to report bugs or improvements, see Contributing to Sympa.
- Next stable release, 6.2.46, is planned to be released on Monday, 23rd September 2019 (in UTC).
Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new feature.
- Translations added on translation site before 17th September 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.
Significant changes
-
Data sources: Codebase has entirely been rewritten. Some behavior will be changed. If you noticed any problem, please let us know on issue page #693.
-
Perl: From now on, Perl earlier than 5.10.1 will never be supported. See also #620.
Sympa 6.2.45 beta released
The Sympa Community is proud to release the first beta of the next version of Sympa. Please install it to test and report bugs, translate user interface to your language, or enhance documentation of Sympa, if you want to help the Sympa community deliver a more reliable version of Sympa.
Sympa 6.2.45b.1 is the new beta version of Sympa 6.2.
This version introduces some improvements and fixes several bugs.
About beta version
This version is a pre-release version of the next stable release. We expect feedback from users and developers. To know how to report bugs or improvements, see Contributing to Sympa.
- Next stable release, 6.2.46, is planned to be released on Monday, 23rd September 2019 (in UTC).
Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new feature.
- Translations added on translation site before 17th September 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.
Significant changes
-
Data sources: Codebase has entirely been rewritten. Some behavior will be changed. If you noticed any problem, please let us know on issue page #693.
-
Perl: From now on, Perl earlier than 5.10.1 will never be supported. See also #620.
Sympa 6.2.44 released
The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.
Sympa 6.2.44 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2.
- Download source distribution
- Check the release notes
- Check the upgrade instructions from earlier versions
- How to contribute to Sympa
This version fixes several bugs, and introduces some enhancements including new features described in below. Translations to several languages have been mostly completed. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade Sympa to this version.
Highlight of this version
New features
Here are some of remarklable enhancements on this release. See also release notes to know about all of improvements.
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Hide full email addresses in archives #621 (ldidry)
A new option
gecosfor "email address protection method" (web_archive_spam_protection) which allows to hide e-mail in archives entirely. -
Button for full export of subscribers #616 (ldidry)
With "Dump with names" button, list owners may export subscribers with their display names.
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Admin function to bulk unsubscribe #27 (ldidry)
This feature has been implemented on 6.1.x, dropped on 6.2 and now restored.
Internationalization
Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa almost completely supports following languages:
- German (Deutsch)
- Spanish (Español)
- French (Français)
- Galician (Galego)
- Italian (Italiano)
- Japanese (日本語)
- Russian (Русский)
- US English
Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:
- Catalan (Català)
- Basque (Euskara)
- Polish (Polski)
Packaging
Debian
At last Debian 10 "buster" will be released on 2019-07-06! It will provide sympa package with Sympa 6.2.40.
FreeBSD
Ports/packages provides mail/sympa with Sympa 6.2.42.
RPM
People running either Fedora or RHEL (and clones) can find ready to use RPMs for sympa in a COPR sympa repository. People willing to also get sympa beta releases should additionally use this COPR sympa-beta repository.
- Note that unofficial repository on Sympa-JA.org is still available. Administrators who have used it and are not planning to install beta do not need to change their repository settings.
Support for RHEL8/CentOS8 is yet to be decided.
Planned changes in the future
Dropping support for Perl 5.8.x
Currently, Sympa officially supports Perl 5.8.1 and better. However, older versions of Perl have number of flaws while distributors will no longer close them. That's why we decided to drop support for older versions gradually.
Since Sympa 6.2.46, the next stable release, Perl 5.10.1 and later will be supported. Nevertheless, administrators are recommended to use as recent version of Perl as they can.
If you have any idea, please comment on the issue #620.
New Sympa logo
New Sympa logo is proposed. If you have any idea, please comment on the issue #665.
Sympa 6.2.43 beta 2 released
The Sympa Community is proud to release the second beta of the next version of Sympa. Please install it to test and report bugs, translate user interface to your language, or enhance documentation of Sympa, if you want to help the Sympa community deliver a more reliable version of Sympa.
Sympa 6.2.43b.2 is a beta version of Sympa 6.2.
As this version fixes several bugs, it is intended to be the last beta before the next stable release mainly for regression tests.
About beta version
This version is a pre-release version of the next stable release. We expect feedback from users and developers. To know how to report bugs or improvements, see Contributing to Sympa.
- Next stable release, 6.2.44, is planned to be released on Friday, 21st June 2019 (in UTC).
After the last stable release, translation catalog has been updated because some messages were added mainly for new feature.
- Translations added on translation site before 18th June 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.
Sympa 6.2.43 beta released
The Sympa Community is proud to release the first beta of the next version of Sympa. Please install it to test and report bugs, translate user interface to your language, or enhance documentation of Sympa, if you want to help the Sympa community deliver a more reliable version of Sympa.
Sympa 6.2.43b.1 is the new beta version of Sympa 6.2.
This version introduces some improvements and fixes several bugs.
About beta version
This version is a pre-release version of the next stable release. We expect feedback from users and developers. To know how to report bugs or improvements, see Contributing to Sympa.
- Next stable release, 6.2.44, is planned to be released on Friday, 21st June 2019 (in UTC).
Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new feature.
- Translations added on translation site before 18th June 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.
Sympa 6.2.42 released
The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.
Sympa 6.2.42 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2.
- Download source distribution
- Check the release notes
- Check the upgrade instructions from earlier versions
- How to contribute to Sympa
This version fixes several bugs, and introduces some enhancements including new features described in below. Translations to several languages have been mostly completed. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade Sympa to this version.
Highlight of this version
New features
This version introduces several enhancements. Among them, following features are contributed by Luc Didry, Framasoft.
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Global "quiet add" policy (#503)
Have aquiet_subscriptionsetting insympa.confallowing to enforce the "quiet add" policy, either for forcing quiet subscriptions (in enterprise for ex.) or disabling quiet subscriptions (public Sympa server, have to respect GDPR). Default behavior will be no enforcing, so quiet add is list's owner's choice. -
"Delete my account" button (#300)
A "delete my account" button wll unsubscribe you from all lists and remove your account immediately. To protect that feature, Sympa could asks for the user password. By default this feature is disabled:allow_account_deletionsetting insympa.confmay activate it. -
"Domain blacklist" feature (#295)
domains_blacklistsetting insympa.confwill prevent addresses with particular domain(s) from subscribing to list. This feature may be useful for some purposes, for example not to register addresses with domains no longer providing mail service.
Internationalization
Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa almost completely supports following languages:
- Italian (Italiano)
- Spanish (Español)
- Galician (Galego)
- German (Deutsch)
- French (Français)
- Russian (Русский)
- Japanese (日本語)
- US English
Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:
- Catalan (Català)
- Basque (Euskara)
- Polish (Polski)
Sympa 6.2.41 beta 2 released
The Sympa Community is proud to release the new beta of the next version of Sympa. Please install it to test and report bugs, translate user interface to your language, or enhance documentation of Sympa, if you want to help the Sympa community deliver a more reliable version of Sympa.
Sympa 6.2.41b.2 is the new beta version of Sympa 6.2.
This version introduces some improvements and fixes several bugs.
About beta version
This version is a pre-release version of the next stable release. We expect feedback from users and developers. To know how to report bugs or improvements, see Contributing to Sympa.
- Next stable release, 6.2.42, is planned to be released on Wednesday, 20th March 2019 (in UTC).
Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new feature.
- Translations added on translation site before 13th March 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.
Along with several bug fixes, this version introduces several features including following things for beta testing.
Global "quiet add" policy (#503)
Have a quiet_subscription setting in sympa.conf allowing to enforce the "quiet add" policy, either for forcing quiet subscriptions (in enterprise for ex.) or disabling quiet subscriptions (public Sympa server, have to respect GDPR). Default behavior will be no enforcing, so quiet add is list's owner's choice.
"Delete my account" button (#300)
A "delete my account" button wll unsubscribe you from all lists and remove your account immediately. To protect that feature, Sympa could asks for the user password. By default this feature is disabled: allow_account_deletion setting in sympa.conf may activate it.
"Domain blacklist" feature (#295)
domains_blacklist setting in sympa.conf will prevent addresses with particular domain(s) from subscribing to list. This feature may be useful for some purposes, for example not to register addresses with domains no longer providing mail service.
Packaging
Debian
The freeze for the next Debian release has been started and will culminate in a full freeze on 2019-03-12.
The latest stable release of Sympa (6.2.40) has been migrated to Debian testing. If possible, more improvements may be added before the doors are closed. In addition to that, it is planned that the latest release will be go into stretch backports.
To help Debian Sympa Team with testing the packages, please contact them.
RPM
People running either Fedora or RHEL (and clones) can find ready to use RPMs for sympa beta releases in a COPR sympa-beta repository.
For Fedora, see instruction in the page above. For RHEL and clones, you also need to enable the EPEL repository.
- Note that unofficial repository on Sympa-JA.org is still available. Administrators who have used it and are not planning to install beta do not need to change their repository settings.
Sympa 6.2.41 beta released
The Sympa Community is proud to release the first beta of the next version of Sympa. Please install it to test and report bugs, translate user interface to your language, or enhance documentation of Sympa, if you want to help the Sympa community deliver a more reliable version of Sympa.
Sympa 6.2.41b.1 is the new beta version of Sympa 6.2.
This version introduces some improvements and fixes several bugs.
About beta version
This version is a pre-release version of the next stable release. We expect feedback from users and developers. To know how to report bugs or improvements, see Contributing to Sympa.
- Next stable release, 6.2.42, is planned to be released on Wednesday, 20th March 2019 (in UTC).
Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new feature.
- Translations added on translation site before 13th March 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.
Along with several bug fixes, this version introduces several features including following things for beta testing.
Global "quiet add" policy (#503)
Have a quiet_subscription setting in sympa.conf allowing to enforce the "quiet add" policy, either for forcing quiet subscriptions (in enterprise for ex.) or disabling quiet subscriptions (public Sympa server, have to respect GDPR). Default behavior will be no enforcing, so quiet add is list's owner's choice.
"Delete my account" button (#300)
A "delete my account" button wll unsubscribe you from all lists and remove your account immediatly. To protect that feature, Sympa could asks for the user password. By default this feature is disabled: allow_account_deletion setting in sympa.conf may activate it.
"Domain blacklist" feature (#295)
domains_blacklist setting in sympa.conf will prevent addresses with particular domain(s) from subscribing to list. This feature may be useful for some purposes, for example not to register addresses with domains no longer providing mail service.
Packaging
Debian
The freeze for the next Debian release has been started and will culminate in a full freeze on 2019-03-12.
The latest stable release of Sympa (6.2.40) has been migrated to Debian testing. If possible, more improvements may be added before the doors are closed. In addition to that, it is planned that the latest release will be got into stretch backports.
To help Debian Sympa Team with testing the packages, please contact them.
RPM
People running either Fedora or RHEL (and clones) can find ready to use RPMs for sympa beta releases in a COPR sympa-beta repository.
For Fedora, see instruction in the page above. For RHEL and clones, you also need to enable the EPEL repository.
- Note that unofficial repository on Sympa-JA.org is still available. Administrators who have used it and are not planning to install beta do not need to change their repository settings.