= Mailman History =

Sumana Harihareswara has compiled a history list of Mailman releases, going all the way back to the 1.0 release.  Yes, there were releases before then, but they were fairly ad hoc and we don't have much of a record of them.

With Mailman 3, we've added some fun code names for releases.  The original main authors of core and Postorius are both bass players, so you might detect a certain bias in the naming scheme.  Core uses [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band)|Rush]] song names while Postorius uses [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primus_(band)|Primus]] song names.  Mailman 1 and 2 did not use code names.

||'''Version'''||Year||Announcement||
||1.0||1999||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/1999-July/000004.html||
||1.1||1999||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/1999-November/000005.html||
||2.0||2000||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2000-November/000020.html||
||2.0.1||2001||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2001-January/000021.html||
||2.0.2|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2001-March/000022.html||
||2.0.3|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2001-March/000024.html||
||2.0.4|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2001-April/000025.html||
||2.0.5|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2001-May/000026.html||
||2.0.6|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2001-July/000028.html||
||2.0.7|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2001-November/000030.html||
||2.0.8|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2001-November/000031.html||
||2.0.9||2002||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2002-April/000039.html||
||2.0.10|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2002-April/000040.html||
||2.0.11|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2002-May/000042.html||
||2.0.12|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2002-July/000043.html||
||2.0.13|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2002-July/000045.html||
||2.1b1|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2002-March/000038.html||
||2.1|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2002-December/000053.html||
||2.1.1||2003||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2003-February/000056.html||
||2.1.2|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2003-April/000057.html||
||2.1.3|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2003-September/000061.html||
||2.1.4|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2003-December/000066.html||
||2.1.5||2004||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2004-May/000072.html||
||2.1.6||2005||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2005-May/000079.html||
||2.1.8||2006||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-April/000085.html||
||2.1.9|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html||
||2.1.10||2008||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2008-April/000107.html||
||2.1.11|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2008-June/000116.html||
||2.1.12||2009||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2009-February/000131.html||
||2.1.13|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2009-December/000140.html||
||2.1.14||2010||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2010-September/000154.html||
||2.1.15||2012||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2012-June/000174.html||
||2.1.16||2013||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2013-October/000183.html||
||2.1.17|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2013-November/000186.html||
||2.1.18||2014||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2014-May/000193.html||
||2.1.18-1|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2014-May/000195.html||
||2.1.19||2015||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2015-March/000205.html||
||2.1.20|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2015-March/000209.html||
||2.1.21||2016||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2016-February/000220.html||
||2.1.22|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2016-April/000224.html||
||2.1.23|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2016-August/000226.html||
||2.1.24||2017||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2017-June/000229.html||
||2.1.25|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2017-October/000230.html||
||2.1.26||2018||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2018-February/000235.html||
||2.1.27|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2018-June/000236.html||
||2.1.28|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2018-July/000241.html||
||2.1.29|| ||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2018-July/000242.html||
||2.1.30||2020||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/TJLEX52N2ARNOQBC2ZNYMNV5U226R5NM/||
||2.1.31|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/BNYVQJNWJTNROW3BXM72IAP3GSZPMUTF/||
||2.1.32|| || ||
||2.1.33|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/SYBIZ3MNSQZLKN6PVKO7ZKR7QMOBMS45/||
||2.1.34|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/BLQ75U2RTMXKQDM4VUSZUQWSSQ2KE2R6/||
||2.1.35||2021||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/IKCO6JU755AP5G5TKMBJL6IEZQTTNPDQ/||
||2.1.36|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/I2X7PSFXIEPLM3UMKZMGOEO3UFYETGRL/||
||2.1.37|| || ||
||2.1.38|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/JKRWKP4BTVLYNRXV5WU6BJATLZONX3KQ/||
||2.1.39|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/D54X2LXETPMVP5KZNM2WP6Z6UOPJXSVD/||

Mailman 3 releases/versions, per https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/NEWS.html :

||'''Version'''||Code name||Announcement||Lyric||
||3.0a1||"Leave That Thing Alone"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2008-April/000104.html|| ||
||3.0a2||"Grand Designs"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2009-January/000126.html|| ||
||3.0 alpha 3||"Working Man"|| || ||
||3.0a4||"Vital Signs"|| || ||
||3.0a5||"Distant Early Warning"|| || ||
||3.0a6||"Cut to the Chase"|| || ||
||3.0a7||"Mission"|| || ||
||3.0a8||"Where's My Thing?"|| || ||
||3.0b1||"The Twilight Zone"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2012-March/000168.html|| Use the key, unlock the door / See what your fate might have in store... ||
||3.0b2||"Freeze"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2012-September/000175.html|| Sometimes we freeze until the light comes / Sometimes we're wrong and sometimes we're right ||
||3.0b3||"Here Again"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2012-December/000177.html|| I said I played this song so many times before / That the melody keeps repeating||
||3.0 suite beta 1 preview||"Time and Motion"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2014-April/000191.html|| Time and motion / Wind and sun and rain / Days connect like boxcars in a train ||
||3.0b5||"Carve Away The Stone"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2014-December/000197.html|| You can roll that stone / To the top of the hill / Drag your ball and chain behind you ||
||3.0||"Show Don't Tell"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2015-April/000210.html|| 3.0.3 is still "Show Don't Tell"||
||3.1.0||"Between the Wheels"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2017-May/000228.html|| ||
||3.2.0||"La Villa Strangiato"||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/AXF2VXRYBFT7725WS2MQNT23ZSFJGAC4/|| ||
||3.2.1|| || || ||
||3.2.2|| || || ||
||3.3.0||"Tom Sawyer"||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/UN55O5VORQUO235RX2SBKGR5MQNZS34G/|| ||
||3.3.1|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/5UWXUJ52NQ5OHNTUBLJSM2PRKKJ5LV7T/|| ||
||3.3.2|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/MMBXKIQ7HJP3KPGF2EMQQFGSC5IWYVS5/|| ||
||3.3.3|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/NFAKFSQHCS4NYG5RYFFINK7JBICJQOUJ/|| ||
||3.3.4|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/HLYEER2J7PAYEVLUCJZDYNXL7XA4GHPL/|| ||
||3.3.5|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/6D6NARYCGUVABAQIRSQ7UL5OSABJEOPV/|| ||
||3.3.6|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/LZJKYTXWBFBX35WAZFKDCZTZSJRINLSJ/|| ||
||3.3.7|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/JV5ESTELP3WCMNYACAN6G777HCCGIZMO/|| ||
||3.3.8|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/YDUYHVWBGBLASJHAYE2PQKY2F7PNEIKP/|| ||
||3.3.9|| ||https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-announce@python.org/thread/K4XUNWIQIV6L7IOVBN3ZREBUNMJYEY4A/|| ||
Postorius

||'''Version'''||Code name||Announcement||
||Postorius 1.0 alpha 1||"Space Farm"||https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2012-March/000168.html||
||1.0 alpha 2||“Is It Luck?”|| ||
||1.0 beta 1||“Year of the Parrot”|| ||
||1.0.0||“Frizzle Fry”|| ||
||Postorius 1.1.0||"Welcome to this World"||http://docs.mailman3.org/projects/postorius/en/latest/news.html||

Meta notes:

2017 "Time Stand Still" (passing the torch from Barry to Abhilash) https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/thread/YJI4WXZWUGXLXF4QL2BKRS3DSAXY2B23/