Announcements of new sympa release

[Etienne MELEARD <>]

Sympa 6.2.16 released

June 17th, 2016

RENATER is proud to release the newest version of Sympa to the open-source community.

Sympa 6.2.16 is the new stable version of Sympa.

• Download sources
• Check the release notes
• Check the upgrade instructions if you come from pre-6.2 version

This version finally fixes the old problem for primo-installation when the sympa wizard would not start to generate the sympa.conf... because the sympa.conf file was empty. Our thoughts go to the listmasters who had to fight this problem. Let them get rest knowing that, thanks to their reports, future generations will never ever have to face it. Kudos.

In addition, Soji fixed a timeout problem when Sympa closed a list, because Sympa spent ages checking whether the list was included or not in another one. He simply added a table registering the lists inclusions to speed up the checking process. And because fixing the problem was not enough to him, he also added a new page in the Sympa web interface to visualize lists inclusions. In summary, what you have now is:

• “including_lists” page to get lists including particular lists. This page is accessible only by list owners and listmasters.
• Now looping by include_list settings can be detected. Inclusion is skipped if a setting will cause looping.
• the new 'include_sympa_list' parameter obsoletes 'include_list' in list config and named data sources. Older one may still be used as it is mapped to newer one internally.

This version fixes also several bugs. Please have a look at the release notes to see which ones. Some points of interest are:

[Reported by P. Kissman, Commonwealth of Massachusetts and D. Stoye, Univ. Berlin] The subindex page did not allow to actually accept/reject subscriptions. This was because of a badly named parameter being passed to the templates.

Improved sympa.service by ensuring other daemons will be started after invocation of sympa_msg.pl. Note that this fix does not solve starting order of database service and Sympa: sympa.service should be customized if necessary.