Announcements of new sympa release

[Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites <>]

Here is Sympa 2.7 release (http://listes.cru.fr/sympa) .
There is a lot of new features and changes from last stable
version 2.6.1.

Main new feature are :
* list creation using wwsympa
* S/MIME authentication method in both messages and comamnds
* homepage (list of lists) organized with categories. It uses
  a new list parameter topics (optional) and the file topics.conf
  to describe categories.
* sympa recognizes commands in multipart messages 
* RFC 2369 compliant header fields
* New subscriber option "summary"
* ...

Main other changes :
* Scenario, wwsympa templates and messages templates are now
  located in list directory, else in ~sympa/etc/ else  in ~sympa/bin/etc
  This prevent make install to overright your custom configuration
* A single Makefile in the distribution directory allow installation
  of nls, wwsympa and sympa. make help you to download and install
  prerequisite CPAN modules.
* choose your prefered color in main Makefile
* New HTTP cookie format. This cookie can be checked without access to
  user passwd. The goal is to allow different application to recognize
  Sympa cookies. New library module : cookie-lib.pl for developpers who
  want to share authentication with WWSympa.
* rule in a scenario now accept a list of auth method :
  exemple :  is_subcriber([listname],[sender]) smime,md5 -> do_it
  All scenario has been updated in order to accept S/MIME method,
* ...

How to update from previous versions
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-1- extract tar,
-2- edit main Makefile adapt to your configuration 
-3- create a ~sympa/etc/topics.conf (use the sample in distribution
    directory). (Beta test user should check for a new format of
    topics.conf)

In most case that all : make;  make install and retart sympa and httpd

-4- update each list configuration file to add one topics (optional)
-5- create ~sympa/etc/scenari ~sympa/etc/wws_templates,  ~sympa/etc/templates
-6- install your private scenario in  ~sympa/etc/scenari if any :
    update them : you must add the authentication method smime in 
    various rules, look at the src/etc/scenari to see how to do it.
    You must also add md5 in most rule where auth is smtp because now
    Web authentication method is always md5 (user = nobody if not logged)
-7- if any install your private wwsympa templates in ~sympa/etc/wws_templates
-8- if any, install your private  message templates in  ~sympa/etc/templates
-9- install openssl if you want to perform S/MIME authentication


In case of any trouble, don't forget to check the RELEASE_NOTE.

We want to thanks all the courageous users who test alpha and beta
version.

Serge Aumont, Olivier Salaün
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