* The --bsmtp - mode of operation may be removed in a future release.
* Given that OpenSSL is severely underdocumented, and needs license exceptions,
fetchmail may switch to a different SSL library.
-
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fetchmail-7.0.0 (not yet released):
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-fetchmail-6.3.23 (not yet released)
+fetchmail-6.3.27 (not yet released, if ever):
+
+# FIXES
+* Fix a typo in the FAQ. Submitted by David Lawyer, Debian Bug#706776.
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.26 (released 2013-04-23, 26180 LoC):
+
+# NOTE THAT FETCHMAIL IS NO LONGER PUBLISHED THROUGH IBIBLIO.
+* They have stopped accepting submissions and consider themselves an archive.
+
+# CRITICAL BUG FIX for setups using "mimedecode":
+* The mimedecode feature failed to ship the last line of the body if it was
+ encoded as quoted-printable and had a MIME soft line break in the very last
+ line. Reported by Lars Hecking in June 2011.
+
+ Bug introduced on 1998-03-20 when the mimedecode support was added by ESR
+ before release 4.4.1 through code contributed by Henrik Storner.
+ Workaround for older releases: do not use mimedecode feature.
+
+ Earlier versions of this NEWS file claimed this bug fixed in fetchmail-6.3.23,
+ but it was not.
-# 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 6.3.22 not available on their own in a newer 6.3.X release.
+ Fixes Launchpad Bug#1171818.
+
+# 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-6.3.25 (released 2013-03-18, 26149 LoC):
+
+# BUG FIXES
+* Fix a memory leak in out-of-memory error condition while handling plugins.
+ Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer).
+* Fix a NULL pointer dereference in out-of-memory error condition while handling
+ plugins.
+ Report and patch by John Beck (found with Parfait static code analyzer).
+
+# CHANGES
+* Improved reporting when SSL/TLS X.509 certificate validation has failed,
+ working around a not-so-recent swapping of two OpenSSL error codes, and
+ a practical impossibility to distinguish broken certification chains from
+ missing trust anchors (root certificates).
+* OpenSSL decoded errors are now reported through report(), rather than dumped
+ to stderr, so that they should show up in logfiles and/or syslog.
+* The fetchmail manual page no longer claims that MD5 were the default OpenSSL
+ hash format (for use with --sslfingerprint). Reported by Jakob Wilk,
+ PARTIAL fix for Debian Bug#700266.
+* The fetchmail manual page now refers the user to --softbounce from the
+ SMTP/ESMTP ERROR HANDLING section. Reported by Anton Shterenlikht.
+
+# WORKAROUNDS
+* Older systems that provide the older RFC-2553 implementation of getaddrinfo,
+ rather than the current RFC-3493, and systems that do not provide this
+ getaddrinfo() interface at all and thus use the replacement functions from
+ libesmtp/getaddrinfo.?, might return EAI_NODATA when a host is registered in
+ DNS as MX or similar, but without A or AAAA records. Handle this situation
+ when checking for multidrop aliases and treat EAI_NODATA the same as
+ EAI_NONAME, i. e. name cannot be resolved.
+
+ The proper fix, however, is to upgrade the operating system.
+
+# TRANSLATION UPDATES
+[cs] Czech, by Petr Pisar
+[da] Danish, by Joe Hansen
+[de] German
+[eo] Esperanto, by Sian Mountbatten and Felipe Castro
+[fr] French, by Frédéric Marchal
+[ja] Japanese, by Takeshi Hamasaki
+[pl] Polish, by Jakub Bogusz
+[sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg
+[vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.24 (released 2012-12-23, 26108 LoC):
+
+# 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.
+
+
+fetchmail-6.3.23 (released 2012-12-10, 26106 LoC):
# REGRESSION FIXES
* Fix compilation with OpenSSL implementations before 0.9.8m that lack
# 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):
* [vi] Vietnamese, by Trần Ngọc Quân
+
fetchmail-6.3.21 (released 2011-08-21, 26011 LoC):
# CRITICAL BUG FIX
log (and hexdump non-printing characters) raw socket data to a file. It proved
useful to debug Antoine's bug described above.
+
fetchmail-6.3.20 (released 2011-06-06, 26005 LoC):
# SECURITY BUG FIXES
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