Original features


Sympa logo Sympa is an open source mailing list manager. It provides advanced features with a rich and secure web interface.

  • scalable for big mailings lists ( > 1.000.000 list members)
  • list member provisioning using LDAP, SQL or other data sources
  • various authentication method (SSO, LDAP, X509)
  • S/MIME and DKIM
  • web archive with access control, message removal etc
  • virtual hosting for service providers.
  • automatic bounce management
  • easily customizable web interface
  • SOAP interface for integration with other applications

More features description.

Sympa contacts

Whichever you chose: welcome to the community!

Sympa 6.2.63 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.63b.1

Sympa beta logo 31 May 2021

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 6.2.63b.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, 6.2.64, is planned to be released on Monday, 21st June 2021 (in UTC).
  • Translations added on translation site before 14th June 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant changes

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.62 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.62

Sympa logo 27th April 2021

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.62 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2.

This version fixes several bugs and introduces some enhancements. Translations to several languages have been mostly completed. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade Sympa to this version.

Highlights of this version

  • cookie parameter in sympa.conf was obsoleted #1091. For more details read Security Advisory 2021-001.
  • By a request from the user with English background, the term "blacklist" was replaced with "blocklist". By this change, names of some parameters and configuration file were changed #1111 #1144. This change will be migrated automatically during upgrading process.

About the other bug fixes and improvements, check the release notes for details.

Internationalization

Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa almost completely supports following languages:

  • Japanese (日本語)
  • Russian (Русский)
  • Galician (Galego)
  • Spanish (Español)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • French (Français)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • US English

Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:

  • Catalan (Català)
  • Basque (Euskara)
  • Polish (Polski)

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.61 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.61b.2

Sympa beta logo 5 April 2021

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 6.2.61b.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, 6.2.62, is planned to be released in April 2021.

Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.61 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.61b.1

Sympa beta logo 18 February 2021

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 6.2.61b.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, 6.2.62, is planned to be released on Saturday, 20th March 2021 (in UTC).

Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.

  • Translations added on translation site before 13th March 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant changes

  • The parameter "cookie" was obsoleted #1091.
  • MHonArc resource template mhonarc-ressources.tt2 was renamed to mhonarc_rc.tt2 and format of tags in it was changed. Existing customizations will be migrated during upgrading process #1095.
  • By a request from the user with English background, the term "blacklist" was replaced with "blocklist". By this change, names of some parameters and configuration file were changed #1111. This change will be migrated automatically during upgrading process.
  • Drop support for Perl prior to 5.16 #1030.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.60 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.60

Sympa logo 4 January 2021

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.60 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2.

This version fixes several bugs and introduces some enhancements. Especially, it includes the fix for security flaw (see below). Translations to several languages have been mostly completed. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade Sympa to this version.

Highlights of this version

Security flaw found in previous versions (CVE-2020-29668)

Administrators that are running instances which match the following conditions are strongly recommended to upgrade Sympa to this version:

  • Sympa 6.2.58 or earlier is installed,
  • SOAP/HTTP interface (`sympa_soap_server.fcgi`) is running, and
  • `authenticateAndRun` call can be accessed by any SOAP clients.

See also Security Advisory for details.

Some features may be restricted by default

  • The behaviour of the personalization / merge feature has been changed and may affect the processing of your emails. We strongly recommend to read the Upgrading notes if you have this feature enabled globally or for some lists.
  • Several options at installation and run time to get rid of setuid wrappers were introduced. See Upgrading notes for details.

Bug fixes and improvements

Check the release notes for details.

Internationalization

Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa almost completely supports following languages:

  • Japanese (日本語)
  • Russian (Русский)
  • Galician (Galego)
  • Spanish (Español)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • French (Français)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • US English

Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:

  • Catalan (Català)
  • Basque (Euskara)
  • Polish (Polski)

Related project

MHonArc will be maintained by us

Now The Sympa Community is in charge of maintenance of MHonArc, a mail-to-HTML converter.

Have a great new year with Sympa!

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.59 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.59b.2

Sympa beta logo 7 December 2020

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 6.2.59b.2 is the new beta version of Sympa 6.2.

This version introduces some improvements and fixes several bugs. See also "Significant changes" below.

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, 6.2.60, is planned to be released on Monday, 21st December 2020 (in UTC).

Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.

  • Translations added on translation site before 19th December 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant changes

  • Several options at installation and run time to get rid of setuid wrappers were introduced. These changes may help avoiding potential risk by using setuid programs.
    • Now the setuid wrappers may be disabled, if installation process allows. Packagers are encouraged to provide configuration not using setuid wrappers as possible. See also #943 and related issues/PRs.
  • Personalization (formerly sometimes called "merge feature") is now restricted by default: It is enabled only when the message is posted via web interface, and is applied only on footer and header (if any). This behavior may be changed using personalization list parameter, however, listmasters are recommended to review whether wide range of conversion as previous versions is required. See also #1037.

Related project

MHonArc will be maintained by us

Now The Sympa Community is in charge of maintenance of MHonArc, a mail-to-HTML converter.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.59 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.59b.1

Sympa beta logo 25 November 2020

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 6.2.59b.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, 6.2.60, is planned to be released on Monday, 21st December 2020 (in UTC).

Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.

  • Translations added on translation site before 19th December 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant changes

  • Several options at installation and run time to get rid of setuid wrappers were introduced. These changes may help avoiding potential risk by using setuid programs.

Related project

MHonArc will be maintained by us

Now The Sympa Community is in charge of maintenance of MHonArc, a mail-to-HTML converter.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.58 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.58

Sympa logo 20 October 2020

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.58 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2.

This version fixes several bugs and introduces some enhancements. Translations to several languages have been mostly completed. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade Sympa to this version.

Highlight of this version

Improvements

This version implements several improvements that increase convenience of users, including that: - No owner defined in a list is no longer treated as erroneous configuration; - Unexpected synchronization of included users will no longer occur; - Command line option to rebuild archives of particular list.

Check the release notes for more details.

Internationalization

Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa almost completely supports following languages:

  • Japanese (日本語)
  • Russian (Русский)
  • Galician (Galego)
  • Spanish (Español)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • French (Français)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • US English

Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:

  • Catalan (Català)
  • Basque (Euskara)
  • Polish (Polski)

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.57 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.57b.2

Sympa beta logo 23 September 2020

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 6.2.57b.2 is the new beta version of Sympa 6.2.

This version fixes several bugs and makes some improvements.

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, 6.2.58, is planned to be released in October.

Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.

  • Translations added on translation site in September will be shipped with the stable release.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.57 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.57b.1

Sympa beta logo 25 July 2020

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 6.2.57b.1 is the new beta version of Sympa 6.2.

This version 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, 6.2.58, is planned to be released on Tuesday, 22nd September 2020 (in UTC).

Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.

  • Translations added on translation site before 19th September 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.56 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.56

Sympa logo 24 May 2020

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.56 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2.

This version fixes several bugs including serious security flaw and introduces some enhancements. Translations to several languages have been mostly completed. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade Sympa to this version (See also below).

Highlight of this version

Security flaw found in previous versions

Administrators are strongly recommended to upgrade Sympa to this version or to take a workaround so that security flaw found in all previous versions has been fixed. See also Security Advisory for details.

Internationalization

Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa almost completely supports following languages:

  • Russian (Русский)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Spanish (Español)
  • Galician (Galego)
  • French (Français)
  • Japanese (日本語)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • US English

Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:

  • Catalan (Català)
  • Basque (Euskara)
  • Polish (Polski)

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.54 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.54

Sympa logo 24 February 2020

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.54 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2.

This version fixes several bugs including serious security flaw and introduces some enhancements. Translations to several languages have been mostly completed. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade Sympa to this version (See also below).

Highlight of this version

Security flaw found in previous versions

Administrators using Sympa 6.2.38 to 6.2.52 (inclusive) are strongly recommended to upgrade Sympa to this version so that security flaw found in those previous versions has been fixed. See also Security Advisory for details.

Internationalization

Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa almost completely supports following languages:

  • Russian (Русский)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Spanish (Español)
  • Galician (Galego)
  • French (Français)
  • Japanese (日本語)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • US English

Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:

  • Catalan (Català)
  • Basque (Euskara)
  • Polish (Polski)

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.52 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.52

Sympa logo 27 December 2019

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.52 is the newest patch release of Sympa 6.2. Administrators running or planning to run previous version (6.2.50) are strongly recommended to upgrade to this version. For more details, see “Note for upgrading” below.

Note for upgrading

This version fixes a bug introduced by Sympa 6.2.50 (See issue #831 for details). This bug does not affect Sympa 6.2.48 and earlier versions.

Administrators that are running instances which match the following conditions are recommended to upgrade Sympa to this version:

  • Sympa 6.2.50 is running, and
  • there are list(s) either with the ---
    • setting "Who can send messages" (send) parameter as "Moderated" (editorkey), or
    • enabling "Post" (compose_mail) feature on web interface.

If you could not upgrade entire software, a patch including equivalent fixes may be applied.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.50 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.50

Sympa logo 22 December 2019

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.50 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2.

This version fixes several bugs, introduces some enhancements and made refactoring on some internal code. Translations to several languages have been mostly completed. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade Sympa to this version.

Highlight of this version

Significant changes

  • Some scenarios and list creation templates for "intranet" use cases were made optional: They have been moved into samples/ #119. See also "upgrading notes" for details.

Internationalization

Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa almost completely supports following languages:

  • Russian (Русский)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Spanish (Español)
  • Galician (Galego)
  • French (Français)
  • Japanese (日本語)
  • Italian (Italiano)
  • US English

Along with languages above, help documents for users are provided in following languages:

  • Catalan (Català)
  • Basque (Euskara)
  • Polish (Polski)

Have a great new year with Sympa!

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.49 beta 3 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.49b.3

Sympa beta logo 15 December 2019

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 6.2.49b.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, 6.2.50, is planned to be released on Sunday, 22nd December 2019 (in UTC).

Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.

  • Translations added on translation site before 19th December 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant changes

  • Scenarios & list creation templates: Some configuration files for "intranet" use cases were made optional. See the notes for details.
  • Scenarios: Codebase has been rewritten to make execution of scenarios fast (see #782).
  • Family: Codebase has been refactored and regression tests are desirable (see #771).

Planned changes in the future

New Sympa logo is proposed. If you have any idea, please comment on the issue #665.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.49 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.49b.2

Sympa beta logo 3 December 2019

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 6.2.49b.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, 6.2.50, is planned to be released on Sunday, 22nd December 2019 (in UTC).

Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.

  • Translations added on translation site before 19th December 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant changes

  • Scenarios & list creation templates: Some configuration files for "intranet" use cases were made optional. See the notes for details.
  • Scenarios: Codebase has been rewritten to make execution of scenarios fast (see #782).
  • Family: Codebase has been refactored and regression tests are desirable (see #771).

Planned changes in the future

New Sympa logo

New Sympa logo is proposed. If you have any idea, please comment on the issue #665.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.49 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.49b.1

Sympa beta logo 23 November 2019

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 6.2.49b.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, 6.2.50, is planned to be released on Sunday, 22nd December 2019 (in UTC).

Translation catalog was updated because some messages were added mainly for new features.

  • Translations added on translation site before 19th December 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant changes

  • Scenarios & list creation templates: Some configuration files for "intranet" use cases were made optional. See the notes for details.
  • Scenarios: Codebase has been rewritten to make execution of scenarios fast (see #782).
  • Family: Codebase has been refactored and regression tests are desirable (see #771).

Planned changes in the future

New Sympa logo

New Sympa logo is proposed. If you have any idea, please comment on the issue #665.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.48 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.48

Sympa logo 29 September 2019

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.48 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2 (Note that 6.2.46 has been withdrawn).

This version fixes several bugs, and introduces some enhancements. Translations to several languages have been mostly completed. Administrators are encouraged to upgrade Sympa to this version.

Highlight of this version

Significant changes

  • Data sources: Codebase has entirely been rewritten. It will work a bit faster with less memory usage in exchange for some changes on behaviors.
  • Perl: From now on, Perl earlier than 5.10.1 will never be supported.

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

FreeBSD

Currently, FreeBSD ports/packages provides mail/sympa with Sympa 6.2.44.

RPM: Sympa is available in both Fedora and EPEL

Xavier Bachelot has been working to add Sympa to Fedora and EPEL (Extras packages for Enterprise Linux) for years. From now on, sympa RPMs will be provided through these repositories.

To install Sympa packages on Fedora, use : bash dnf install sympa For RHEL/CentOS with the additional EPEL repository, use : bash yum install sympa

RPMs for pre-release (beta) versions of Sympa are provided in a COPR sympa-beta repository (See the documentation for details).

All current Fedora versions and RHEL/CentOS 6 and 7 are supported. However, please note sympa is not yet available for RHEL/CentOS 8, this is still a work in progress.

Planned changes in the future

New Sympa logo

New Sympa logo is proposed. If you have any idea, please comment on the issue #665.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.46 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.46

Sympa logo ***Withdrawn***

Sympa 6.2.45 beta 3 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.45b.3

Sympa beta logo 23 August 2019

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

  • 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.
  • 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: bash dnf install --enablerepo=updates-testing sympa or, with EPEL, bash yum install --enablerepo=epel-testing sympa In 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).

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.45 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.45b.2

Sympa beta logo 27 July 2019

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.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.45 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.45b.1

Sympa beta logo 20 July 2019

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.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.44 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.44

Sympa logo 21 June 2019

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.

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.

  • Hide full email addresses in archives #621 (ldidry)A new option gecos for "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.
  • 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.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.43 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.43b.2

Sympa beta logo 10 June 2019

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.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.43 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.43b.1

Sympa beta logo 22 May 2019

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.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.42 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.42

Sympa logo 20 March 2019

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.

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.

  • 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.

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)

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.41 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.41b.2

Sympa beta logo 9 March 2019

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.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.41 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.41b.1

Sympa beta logo 2 February 2019

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.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.40 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.40

Sympa logo 19 January 2019

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.40 is the newest patch release of Sympa 6.2. Administrators running or planning to run previous version (6.2.38) are strongly recommended to upgrade to this version. For more details, see “Note for upgrading” below.

Note for upgrading

This version fixes a bug introduced into Sympa 6.2.38 (See issue #527 for details). This bug does not affect earlier versions.

Administrators matching following conditions are recommended to upgrade Sympa to this version.

  • Sympa 6.2.38 is running,
  • web interface is available, and
  • there are lists which either:
    • make archives open to public and enable "cookie" spam protection (note that "cookie" setting is enabled by default),
    • allow the users to unsubscribe themselves from the list using web interface (including use of "auto_signoff" link in message footer), or
    • allow to use URL links in system messages so that users authorize requests for adding, removing, moving or reminding users.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.38 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.38

Sympa logo 21 December 2018

The Sympa Community is proud to release the newest version of Sympa.

Sympa 6.2.38 is the newest stable version of Sympa 6.2.

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

ARC support

Sympa supports ARC (Authenticated Received Chain). Its implementation and documentation were contributed by John Levine.

In a nutshell, ARC is an e-mail authentication scheme that remedies a problem of DMARC especially with mailing list service. About ARC in general, see a slide by DMARC.org (PDF). To enable ARC on Sympa, documentation on DKIM and ARC with Sympa.

CSRF tolerance

Random token to prevent CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgeries) attacks will be inserted in every form on web interface. This enhancement was contributed by Michael Kaczmarczik, UT Austin.

Internationalization

Thanks to heavy works by translators on translation site, Sympa completely or almost completely supports following languages:

  • 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)

Binary distribution for Fedora and RHEL (and clones)

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.

For Fedora, see instruction in the pages 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.

Have a great new year with Sympa!

The Sympa Community

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