From 67309fa53035304ad104723d4eb9d71142c20277 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Andree Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:14:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update info on the mimedecode fix. --- NEWS | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ac9bc429..f1fbcf4a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -56,11 +56,24 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -fetchmail-6.3.25 (released 2013-03-18, 26149 LoC): +fetchmail-6.3.26 (not yet released): # 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. + +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). @@ -156,14 +169,6 @@ fetchmail-6.3.23 (released 2012-12-10, 26106 LoC): * Clean up logfile vs. syslog handling, and in case logfile overrides syslog, send a message to the latter stating where logging goes. -# BUG FIXES -* 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. - # 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. -- 2.43.2