Announcements of new sympa release

[Olivier Salaün - CRU <>]

Download : http://www.sympa.org/distribution/

We are pleased to announce that a new major version of Sympa is now available for testing.
We hope to have alpha testers for this version of Sympa that includes many interresting new features :

• New SOAP features allow remote list creation, ADD and DEL of list members
• Automatic list creation : this is a contribution from the A.Amrani (French Ministry of Defence) that allows to trigger list creation when a message is sent for the list.
• DB logs (developped by A.Bard) : each operations that changes the status of messages/subscriptions/list config is now logged in a structured DB entry. Both listmasters and listowners can search this events DB using the Sympa web interface.
• Picture upload (developped by A.Brard) : List members can upload and share their pictures via the REVIEW web page.
• Blacklist : list owners can manage a blacklist for their list, via the web interface
• New user and admin web documentation (provided by V.Paitrault, Uni Rennes 2). In French version only, the English version will be available in next version.
• Accessibility of the web interface has been enhanced (work done by A.Brard)
• Compatibility with IE 7
• Generalization of UTF-8 : Sympa now uses Unicode for its web interface, thus making it easier to mix different characters encodings
  
• Revised version of English translations (J.Gemmill, Univ. Alabama at Birmingham)
• Custom scenario conditions (S.Amrani) : you can use a Perl package of your own to evaluate a custom scenario condition
• SQL named filters (S.Amrani) : listmasters can now define SQL search conditions in authorization scenarios

We'd like to thank all the contributors who have designed new features or extended existing ones.
Thank you also to those who have already been running pre-alpha versions and made the code more stable.