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1.3.8

(xxxx-xx-xx)

  • Make it compatible with elasticsearch 8.0.0
  • Removed unnecessary SESSION_SERIALIZER from settings.py. (Closes #455)
  • Updated the contrib/check_hk_import script to catch more issues.
  • Update API Views to use LimitOffsetPagination as the default pagination style. (Fix #457)
  • Added a new contrib/cleanarch3 script it check/fix mboxes for unescaped “From ” lines and bad Date: headers.

1.3.7

(2023-01-04)

  • hyperkitty_import will now import messages to a list with archiving disabled. (Closes #451)
  • Add support for Python 3.11.

1.3.6

(2022-10-22)

  • Fixed an issue in hyperkitty_import with an empty Message-ID. (Closes #396)
  • Set Q_CLUSTER retry > timeout in example_project. (Closes #402)
  • Set DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD to silence errors with Django >= 3.2.
  • Require mistune >= 2.0.0 and fix a problem with importing from it. (Closes #395)
  • Adapt parsing of emails to be compatible with python 3.10. (Closes #401)
  • Add gitlab-ci integration for python 3.10.
  • Skip lists with private archives in the find list search. (Closes #237)
  • Add a new setting HYPERKITTY_MBOX_EXPORT which, when set to false, removes the Download button and disables the export view. ( Fixes #386)
  • Return 400 instead of 500 when the sort mode is invalid. (Fixes #270)
  • Allow HyperKitty to find attachments in either the database or the HYPERKITTY_ATTACHMENT_FOLDER. (Closes #213)
  • Implemented a new attachments_to_file management command to move attachment content to the file system after setting HYPERKITTY_ATTACHMENT_FOLDER. (Closes #413)
  • Handle exception when a banned address tries to post. (Fixes #325)
  • Add an index on the ‘name’ column (fqdn)for the MailingList table since it is most frequently used to query the MailingList object.
  • Add the ability to view a thread without Javascript enabled. This uses the same mechanism we use with bot-detection and rendering of the entire page at once, which will be slow to load but allow reading. (See #422)
  • Improve the performance of the thread view for logged-in users by optimizing the total database calls made. (See !409)
  • Add support for Django <= 4.1
  • Remove support for Django < 3.2
  • Remove support for Python 3.6
  • Fix tests to be compatible with Python 3.10
  • Replace use of mock with unittest.mock in all tests. (Closes #429)
  • The check for writability of HYPERKITTY_ATTACHMENT_FOLDER when set has been improved to avoid a potential race condition. (Closes #389)

Third Party

  • Bump Jquery-ui to 1.13.1 to fix the broken search. (Closes #411)

UI

  • Change the design of the thread list page and some minor tweaks to the index page. (See !398)
  • Remove the counter in the “Top posters” section and all the list of threads in the list of overview page. (Fixes #31)

Misc

  • Use Pytest as the test runner.

1.3.5

(2021-10-12)

  • Added feed for mailing lists with an option to configure the number of items in those feeds using `HYPERKITTY_MLIST_FEED_LENGTH` which defaults to 30
  • Print a warning message when skipping older emails during hyperkitty_import execution. (Closes #304)
  • Remove links to google fonts (Closes #344)
  • Scrubbed messages now have null bytes removed. (Fixed in django-mailman3) (Closes #346)
  • Add support for rendering Emails as rich text using Markdown parsing rules. ( See !324)
  • Use markdown renderer based on MailingList settings. (Closes #352)
  • Mangle lines starting with From when exporting mbox. (Closes #348)
  • Let tasks for non-existent mailing lists fail gracefully.
  • hyperkitty_import now does clean-up of incoming Message-ID headers. (Closes #382)
  • The Email.as_message() method removes some bogus characters from the Message-ID. (Closes #383)
  • Bump jQuery to 3.6.0.
  • Selecting threads by month now works on non-English mobile devices. (Closes #384)
  • Replace control characters in RSS feed with HTML entities. (Closes #388)

Security

  • Importing a private mailing list with hyperkitty_import will enforce the visibility of the archives for the duration of the import. This fixes a bug where the private archives would have public visibility during imports which could lead to temporary information leakage. (CVE-2021-33038, Closes #380)
  • Check the secret archiver key in a way that is resistant to timing attacks. (CVE-2021-35057, Closes #387)
  • Pass the secret archiver key in a HTTP Authorization header instead of a GET query parameter so it doesn’t appear in logs. (CVE-2021-35058, Closes #387)
  • Fix a vulnerability added in !320, which exposes the archives of Private Mailing lists through the new RSS Feeds API due to missing authn/authz checks in the new view. (See !362)

1.3.4

(2021-02-02)

  • Sync owners and moderators from Mailman Core for MailingList. (Fixes #302)
  • Implemented a new HYPERKITTY_JOBS_UPDATE_INDEX_LOCK_LIFE setting to set the lock lifetime for the update_and_clean_index job. (Closes #300)
  • Implemented a new HYPERKITTY_ALLOW_WEB_POSTING that allows disabling the web posting feature. (Closes #264)
  • Add the ability to disable Gravatar using HYPERKITTY_ENABLE_GRAVATAR settings. (Closes #303)
  • Replaced deprecated ugettext functions with gettext. (Closes #310)
  • Fix export of Email message where the In-Reply-To header doesn’t include the <> brackets. (Closes #331)
  • We now catch a few more exceptions in hyperkitty_import when getting messages from a mbox. (Closes #313 and #314)
  • Added a new contrib/check_hk_import script to check mboxes before running hyperkitty_import.
  • We now ignore a ValueError in hyperkitty_import when trying to replace a Subject: header. (Closes #317)
  • hyperkitty_import now includes the mbox name in error messages when importing multiple mboxes. (Closes #318)
  • `` at `` is now only replaced with @ in From: header values when necessary and not unconditionally. (Closes #320)
  • The wildcard notation for any host '*' is now supported into MAILMAN_ARCHVER_FROM to disable Hyperkitty clients IP checking.
  • Join the searchbar and search button like it was before bootstrap 4 migration. (See !301)
  • Use the umd builds for popper.js instead of the regular ones. (See !309)
  • Exceptions thrown by smtplib in sending replies are now caught and give an appropriate error message. (Closes #309)

1.3.3

(2020-06-01)

  • Allow SHOW_INACTIVE_LISTS_DEFAULT setting to be configurable. (Closes #276)
  • Fix a bug where the user couldn’t chose the address to send reply or new post as. (Closes #288)
  • Improve the Django admin command reference from hyperkitty_import. (Closes #281)
  • Fix FILTER_VHOST to work with web hosts other than the email host. (Closes #254)
  • Fixed a bug where export can fail if certain headers are wrapped. (Closes #292)
  • Fixed hyperkitty_import to allow odd line endings in a folded message subject. (Closes #280)
  • Fixed a bug that could throw an IndexError when exporting messages. (Closes #293)
  • Use errors='replace' when encoding attachments. (Closes #294)

1.3.2

(2020-01-12)

  • Remove support for Django 1.11. (Closes #273)
  • Skip Thread.DoesNotExist exception when raised within rebuild_thread_cache_votes. (Closes #245)
  • Send 400 status code for ValueError when archiving. (Closes #271)
  • Fix a bug where exception for elasticsearch backend would not be caught. (Closes #263)

1.3.1

(2019-12-08)

  • Add support to delete mailing list. (Closes #3)
  • Fix a bug where messages with attachments would skip adding the body when exporting the email. (Closes #252)
  • Fix a bug where exporting mbox with messages that have attachments saved to disk would raise exception and return a corrupt mbox. (Closes #258)
  • Fix a bug where downloaded attachments are returned as a memoryview object instead of bytes and hence fail to download. (Closes #247)
  • Fix a bug where migrations would fail with exceptions on postgresl. (Closes #266)
  • Add support for Django 3.0.
  • Add support for Python 3.8 with Django 2.2.

1.3.0

(2019-09-04)

  • Unread messages now have a blue envelope icon, instead of a gray one before to to make them more visible.
  • Quoted text in emails have different visual background to improve readability.
  • Quoted text is now visually quoted to 3 levels of replies with different visual background to improve readability.
  • Add a new “All Threads” button in MailingList overview page to point to all the the threads in reverse date order. This should give a continuous list of threads.
  • Fixes a bug where “All Threads” button leads to 500 page if there aren’t any threads. (Closes #230)
  • Add support for Django 2.2.
  • Fix a bug where bad Date header could cause hyperkitty_import to exit with TypeError due to bad date type.
  • Change the Overview page to remove the List of months from left side bar and convert different thread categories into tabs.
  • Replace unmaintained lockfile dependency with flufl.lock.
  • Remove SingletonAsync implementation of AsyncTask and use the upstream version for better maintenance.
  • Run update_index job hourly by default instead of minutely for performance reasons of whoosh.
  • Email body now preserves leading whitespaces on lines and wraps around line boundary. (Closes #239)
  • Do not indent replies on small screens. (Closes #224)
  • Add a keyboard shortcut ? to bring up list of keyboard shortcuts.
    (Closes #240)

1.2.2

(2019-02-22)

  • paintstore is no longer a dependency of Hyperkitty. This change requires that people change their settings.py and remove paintstore from INSTALLED_APPS. (See #72)
  • Folded Message-ID headers will no longer break threading. (#216)
  • MailingList descriptions are no longer a required field. This makes HyperKity more aligned with Core. (Closes #211)

1.2.1

(2018-08-30)

  • Several message defects that would cause hyperkitty_import to abort will now just cause the message to be skipped and allow importing to continue. (#183)
  • If an imported message has no Date: header, hyperkitty_import will now look for Resent-Date: and the unixfrom date before archiving the message with the current date. (#184)
  • Add support for Django 2.1. Hyperkitty now supports Django 1.11-2.1 (#193)

1.2.0

(2018-07-10)

  • Handle email attachments returned by Scrubber as bytes or as strings with no specified encoding. (#171)
  • Remove robotx.txt from Hyperkitty. It wasn’t working correctly anyway. If you still need it, serve it from the webserver directly. (#176)
  • Add the possibility to store attachments on the filesystem, using the HYPERKITTY_ATTACHMENT_FOLDER config variable.
  • If a message in the mbox passed to hyperkitty_import is missing a Message-ID, a generated one will be added. (#180)
  • There is a new management command update_index_one_list to update the search index for a single list. (#175)

1.1.4

(2017-10-09)

  • Use an auto-incrementing integer for the MailingLists’s id. WARNING: this migration will take a very long time (hours!) if you have a lot of emails in your database.
  • Protect a couple tasks against thread and email deletion
  • Improve performance in the cache rebuilding async task
  • Drop the mailman2_download command. (#148)
  • Adapt to the newest mailmanclient version (3.1.1).
  • Handle the case when a moderated list is opened and there are pending subscriptions. (#152)
  • Protect export_mbox against malformed URLs. (#153)

1.1.1

(2017-08-04)

  • Fix the Javascript in the overview page
  • Make two Django commands compatible with Django >= 1.10
  • Fix sorting in the MailingList’s cache value
  • Don’t show emails before they have been analyzed
  • Fix slowdown with PostgreSQL on some overview queries

1.1.0

(2017-05-26)

  • Add an async task system, check out the installation documentation to run the necessary commands.
  • Support Django < 1.11 (support for 1.11 will arrive soon, only a dependency is not compatible).
  • Switch to the Allauth login library
  • Performance optimizations.
  • Better REST API.
  • Better handling of email sender names.
  • Improve graphic design.

1.0.3

(2015-11-15)

  • Switch from LESS to Sass
  • Many graphical improvements
  • The SSLRedirect middleware is now optional
  • Add an “Export to mbox” feature
  • Allow choosing the email a reply or a new message will be sent as

0.9.6

(2015-03-16)

  • Adapt to the port of Mailman to Python3
  • Merge KittyStore into HyperKitty
  • Split off the Mailman archiver Plugin in its own module: mailman-hyperkitty
  • Compatibility with Django 1.7

0.1.7

(2014-01-30)

Many significant changes, mostly on: * The caching system * The user page * The front page * The list overview page

0.1.5

(2013-05-18)

Here are the significant changes since 0.1.4:

  • Merge and compress static files (CSS and Javascript)
  • Django 1.5 compatibility
  • Fixed REST API
  • Improved RPM packaging
  • Auto-subscribe the user to the list when they reply online
  • New login providers: generic OpenID and Fedora
  • Improved page loading on long threads: the replies are loaded asynchronously
  • Replies are dynamically inserted in the thread view

0.1.4

(2013-02-19)

Here are the significant changes:

  • Beginning of RPM packaging
  • Improved documentation
  • Voting and favoriting is more dynamic (no page reload)
  • Better emails display (text is wrapped)
  • Replies are sorted by thread
  • New logo
  • DB schema migration with South
  • General style update (Boostream, fluid layout)

0.1 (alpha)

(2012-11-22)

Initial release of HyperKitty.

  • login using django user account / browserid / google openid / yahoo openid
  • use Twitter Bootstrap for stylesheets
  • show basic list info and metrics
  • show basic user profile
  • Add tags to message threads