[Fetchmail-devel] ANNOUNCE: fetchmail 6.4.11 is now available (regression fixes, + new translation for Romanian by Florentina Mușat)

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Greetings,

The 6.4.11 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.4/>.

== NOTE ==
I intend this to be the last 6.4.x version with functional changes, and new
6.4.x are not planned, except if regressions, critical fixes, or new
translations or important documentation fixes appear and 6.5.0 is too far out.

Fetchmail 6.4.x is the last branch that will tolerate OpenSSL 1.0.2 and C89
compilers, and support Python 2.7.x (for newer x) for fetchmailconf.

== EXCURSION ---------
The direction for the near future is to do some bugfixing and possibly minor
features on the Git branch 'legacy_6x', for now called 6.5.0.dev*, it is a
branch that will require newer operating systems, toolchains, library, for
instance, OpenSSL 1.1.1 with TLSv1.3 support, C99 (for long long support) or
possibly C11 (TBD) and possibly newer IEEE Std 1003.1 compliance.
== END EXCURSION -----


The source archive is available at:
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.4//fetchmail-6.4.11.tar.lz>
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.4//fetchmail-6.4.11.tar.xz>

Detached GnuPG signatures for the respective tarballs are at:
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.11.tar.lz.asc>
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.11.tar.xz.asc>

SHA256 hash values:
SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.11.tar.lz)= cc7ca0899e93b77a2c248dd2f2ac84d5451b73a393b1d601699bcad8ef5e79cb
SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.11.tar.xz)= 3e481dd869907c3786b486fd8a7bb4b24e60889b1ac449b786ec0a059b39e29c

Here are the release notes:

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fetchmail-6.4.11 (released 2020-08-28, 27596 LoC):

# REGRESSION FIX:
* configure: fetchmail 6.4.9 and 6.4.10 would miss checking for TLS v1.2 and
  TLS v1.3 support if AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS came up with something such as
  /path/to/libssl.so, rather than -lssl. (For instance on FreeBSD)

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fetchmail-6.4.10 (released 2020-08-27, 27596 LoC):

# REGRESSION FIX:
* configure: fetchmail 6.4.9's configure was unable to pick up OpenSSL
  if it wasn't announced by pkg-config, for instance, on FreeBSD.

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fetchmail-6.4.9: (not announced by e-mail, withdrawn)

## DOCUMENTATION UPDATE:
* manpage: mention that the SSL/TLS certificate fingerprint uses an MD5 hash.

## CHANGES:
* configure: try to use AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS to obtain proper link flags for 
  libcrypto and libssl if pkg-config failed.
  This is an attempt to fix borderline issues when users building on systems 
  with obsolete OpenSSL try to use a local newer OpenSSL from a separate 
  directory.

## NEW TRANSLATION, with thanks to the translator:
* ro:    Florentina Mușat [Romanian]

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Happy fetches,
Matthias