From: "Daniel M. Zimmerman dmz@tffenterprises.com" <cgpsa-discuss@mail.tffenterprises.com>
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Subject: CGPSA 1.8 Released!
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 01:03:11 -0800
To: cgpsa-discuss@tffenterprises.com

It lives! The first new version of CGPSA in nearly 12 years, CGPSA 1.8, =
has been released. This update adds one major feature: backscatter =
prevention for CommuniGate Pro mailing lists. Backscatter prevention =
requires running in full-featured mode (with CGP CLI access), and also =
requires that the filter is run as part of CommuniGate=E2=80=99s =
synchronous rule processing at SMTP transaction time. More information =
is available in the documentation and the new example preferences file =
(which adds a new preference for the feature; it defaults to =E2=80=9Con=E2=
=80=9D, so you don=E2=80=99t need to update your preferences file if you =
don=E2=80=99t want to).

Another change, which is not a new feature but I think will make some =
people happy anyway: CGPSA is now on GitHub, at =
https://github.com/TFF-Enterprises/CGPSA, and is released under the =
3-Clause BSD License. This means a few things:

- CGPSA is officially open source, so you can modify it any way you want =
and do anything you like with it as long as the copyright notices remain =
intact
- There=E2=80=99s a structured place to report bugs and make feature =
requests (namely, GitHub issues on the repository)
- If you want to add features yourself and have them considered for =
inclusion in the main distribution, you can make pull requests

As always, the new release can be downloaded from the CGPSA web site, =
located at https://www.tffenterprises.com/cgpsa/ - there is no =
corresponding GitHub =E2=80=9Crelease=E2=80=9D, though cloning the =
repository will give you basically the same thing that=E2=80=99s in the =
archive.

And with that, here are the release notes:

1.8 - 22 January 2022

Major Changes

- CGPSA has been licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License.
- CGPSA has been verified to work with current versions of SpamAssassin =
(which is up to version 3.4.6 as of this writing).
- Added an option to prevent backscatter from CommunGate Pro mailing =
lists ("prevent_backscatter"). This only works if CGPSA is run in a =
synchronous server-wide rule (see the option documentation for details), =
and should eliminate backscatter that results from the LIST module =
bouncing email sent to mailing lists from unauthorized addresses.

Minor Changes

- Changed the Perl path at the top of the CGPSA script to =
"/usr/local/bin/perl", to better reflect the reality of the way Perl is =
packaged on most systems these days.
- Cleaned up the documentation to reflect the current URLs for various =
referenced products (amazing how things change in a decade).
- Updated the version of CLI.pm included in the CGPSA distribution.

Bug Fixes

- None

Known Issues

- Same as for Version 1.7 (all carried forward from Version 1.1)

-Dan