X-Git-Url: http://pileus.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d78cdcfd1a026ce2f68e651396ff58b3d2f2e96e;hb=ecade79a63e9abad933e3705a02533620ddc92b5;hp=ffe07fe9875f5ef45ce87ab7ca7069d299ea9106;hpb=2629c4511c68729d98acfd08637c1f00d3807f49;p=~andy%2Ffetchmail diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ffe07fe9..d78cdcfd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -56,7 +56,53 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -fetchmail-6.3.23 (not yet released) +fetchmail-6.3.24 (released 2012-12-23, 26108 LoC): + +# NOTE THAT THE RELEASE OF FUTURE FETCHMAIL 6.3.X VERSIONS IS UNCLEAR. +Should a 7.0 release be made earlier, chances are that the 6.3.X branch +is abandoned and its changes be folded into the 7.0 release, with changes +after 6.3.24 not available on their own in a newer 6.3.X release. + +# NOTE THAT FETCHMAIL IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED THROUGH IBIBLIO. + They have stopped accepting submissions and consider themselves an archive. + +# CRITICAL AND REGRESSION FIXES +* Plug a memory leak in OpenSSL's certificate verification callback. + This would affect fetchmail configurations running with SSL in daemon mode + more than one-shot runs. + Reported by Erik Thiele, and pinned by Dominik Heeg, + fixes Debian Bug #688015. + This bug was introduced into fetchmail 6.3.0 (committed 2005-10-29) + when support for subjectAltName was added through a patch by Roland + Stigge, submitted as Debian Bug#201113. + +* The --logfile option now works again outside daemon mode, reported by Heinz + Diehl. The documentation that I had been reading was inconsistent with the + code, and only parts of the manual page claimed that --logfile was only + effective in daemon mode. + +# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS + (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the + current release information) +* Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well + (See sourceforge.net bug #780933) +* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output. +* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in + 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit + fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code, + so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties. +* Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes. +* The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance, + fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running. +* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if + no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured. + (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.) +* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error + messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5 + server to test against. Use GSSAPI. + + +fetchmail-6.3.23 (released 2012-12-10, 26106 LoC): # REGRESSION FIXES * Fix compilation with OpenSSL implementations before 0.9.8m that lack @@ -64,6 +110,31 @@ fetchmail-6.3.23 (not yet released) Note that the use of older OpenSSL versions with fetchmail is unsupported and *not* recommended. +# BUG FIXES +* Fix combination of --plugin and -f -. Patch by Alexander Zangerl, + to fix Debian Bug#671294. +* Clean up logfile vs. syslog handling, and in case logfile overrides + syslog, send a message to the latter stating where logging goes. + +# CHANGES +* The build process can now be made a bit more silent and concise through + ./configure --enable-silent-rules, or by adding "V=0" to the make command. + +# WORKAROUNDS +* Make Maillennium POP3 workarounds less specific, to encompass + Maillennium POP3/UNIBOX (Maillennium V05.00c++). Reported by Eddie + via fetchmail-users mailing list, 2012-10-13. + +# TRANSLATION UPDATES +[cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar +[da] Danish, by Joe Hansen +[de] German +[fr] French, Frédéric Marchal +[ja] Japanese, Takeshi Hamasaki +[pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz +[sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg +[vi] Vietnamese, Trần Ngọc Quân + fetchmail-6.3.22 (released 2012-08-29, 26077 LoC): @@ -144,26 +215,6 @@ fetchmail-6.3.22 (released 2012-08-29, 26077 LoC): * [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg --- NEW TRANSLATION - Thank you! * [vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân -# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS - (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the - current release information) -* Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well - (See sourceforge.net bug #780933) -* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output. -* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in - 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit - fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code, - so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties. -* Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes. -* The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance, - fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running. -* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if - no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured. - (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.) -* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error - messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5 - server to test against. Use GSSAPI. - fetchmail-6.3.21 (released 2011-08-21, 26011 LoC):