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  • From: Olivier Salaün - CRU <>
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  • Subject: [sympa-announce] New sympa release 5.1
  • Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:21:22 +0200

Downloading sympa 5.1 : http://www.sympa.org/distribution/

This release has a new web interface for Sympa, with support for CSS and XHTML (check the demo service to have an overview). Below is a list of other important changes / bug fixes.

Changes / new features :

  • the user interface has been translated to Japanese, modern Greek, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish, Occitan
  • German, Czech and Hungarian translations have been updated
  • new 'digest_max_size' list parameter. If a digest exceeds this limit, then multiple messages are sent.
  • "your lists" now present in all web pages
  • now clean buggy list config files at startup
  • made init script compatible with MacOS X, Debian and Suse
Bug fixes :
  • the regexp run by search_list could make wwsympa.fcgi process die ; now using eval{} Now escaping some more dangerous caracters.
  • Ldap search return code was not examined in _include_users_ldap()
  • incorrect parameters to encode_mimewords() ; Sympa previously encoded every string in iso-8859-1
  • xgettext.pl did not collect all gettext_id from List.pm ; some list parameters were not translated on the web interface
  • Users could set empty passwords
  • fxed a few RSS related bugs
For a more detailed description all this release, check the NEWS file

Thank you to all the contributors who have added new features or tested this new release of Sympa.

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