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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.

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Whichever you chose: welcome to the community!

Sympa 6.2.68 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.68

Sympa logo 25th January 2022

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

Sympa 6.2.68 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

Major enhancements and bug fixes

  • The font of the text on the web UI is now more comfortable to read #1305.
  • Now sympa.pl has the new name sympa and the new command line form #1286. For backward compatibility, The older name and form will also be supported.
  • sympa.pl has a new command del/--del to remove emails from list with command line #911.
  • Significant memory consumption when downloading archives has been resolved #1235.

For details on the other changes see the release notes.

Internationalization

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

  • Galician (Galego)
  • Spanish (Español)
  • Japanese (日本語)
  • French (Français)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Russian (Русский)
  • 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 6.2.67 beta 3 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.67b.3

Sympa beta logo 20 December 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 6.2.67b.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, 6.2.68, is planned to be released in early January 2022.

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

  • Translations added on translation site before 31st December 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant improvements and bug fixes

  • Improvement of command line format of sympa.pl utility #1303. Previous format will also be available for the time being.
  • The new option --add and --del for sympa.pl command line utilityt. These options also may add/remove list owners and moderators along with list subscribers #911 #1251. The option --import was deprecated.
  • Fixed memory consumption while archive download #1235. This fix requires new Perl modules: Check cpanfile file.

For details on the other changes see the release notes.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.67 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.67b.2

Sympa beta logo 26 November 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 6.2.67b.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, 6.2.68, is planned to be released in late December 2021.

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

  • Translations added on translation site before 17th December 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant improvements and bug fixes

  • The new option --del to remove emails from list using sympa.pl command line interface #911.
  • The new option --add to add emails to list using sympa.pl command line interface #1251. The option --import was deprecated.
  • The --add and --del options also may add and remove list owners and moderators along with list subscribers.
  • Fixed memory consumption while archive download #1235. This fix requires new Perl modules: Check cpanfile file.

For details on the other changes see the release notes.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.67 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.67b.1

Sympa beta logo 24 October 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 6.2.67b.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, 6.2.68, is planned to be released in late Decdember 2021.
  • Translations added on translation site before 17th December 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant improvements and bug fixes

  • The new option --del to remove emails from list using sympa.pl command line interface #911.
  • Fixed memory consumption while archive download #1235. This fix requires new Perl modules: Check cpanfile file.

For details on the other changes see the release notes.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.66 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.66

Sympa logo 29th September 2021

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

Sympa 6.2.66 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

  • Improving data source synchronization performance (#1186)The sync_include process (synchronization of list users with data sources) was optimized. Some benchmarks show a 3x reduction of processing time.
  • Now the characters used for e-mail addresses conform to RFC 5322 (#1217)Some characters such as backtick are allowed in the e-mail addresses of the users.

For details on the other changes see the release notes.

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 6.2.65 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.65b.2

Sympa beta logo 30 August 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 6.2.65b.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, 6.2.66, is planned to be released in late September 2021.

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

  • Translations added on translation site before 15th September 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant changes

  • Improving data source synchronization performance (#1186)The sync_include (synchronization of list users with data sources) process was optimized. Some benchmarks show a 3x reduction of processing time. More tests are desired.
  • Now the characters used for e-mail addresses conform to RFC 5322 (#1217)Some characters such as backtick are allowed in the e-mail addresses of the users.

For details on the other changes see the release notes.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.65 beta released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.65b.1

Sympa beta logo 30 July 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 6.2.65b.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, 6.2.66, is planned to be released in late September 2021.
  • Translations added on translation site before 15th September 00:00 UTC will be shipped with the stable release.

Significant changes

  • Improving data source synchronization performance (#1186)The sync_include (synchronization of list users with data sources) process was optimized. Some benchmarks show a 3x reduction of processing time. More tests are desired.

For details on the other changes see the release notes.

The Sympa Community

Sympa 6.2.64 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.64

Sympa logo 30th June 2021

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

Sympa 6.2.64 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

Improvements:

  • New scenarios: List visibility scenario visibility.identified for logged in users #1140, and the scenario create_list.closed to disallow list creation #1191.
  • Ability to forbid some list names with prohibited_listnames and prohibited_listnames_regex parameters #672.

Bug fixes:

  • S/MIME: Extracting certificate with multiple email values fails #1196.

Many more bug fixes and improvements have been done on this release. 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 6.2.63 beta 2 released

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/tag/6.2.63b.2

Sympa beta logo 21 June 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.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, 6.2.64, is planned to be released in June 2021.

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

The Sympa 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!

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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.

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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

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