[Fetchmail-users] ANNOUNCE: The 6.4.13 release of fetchmail is available (lock file/pidfile bug fixes)

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

Greetings,

Fetchmail 6.4.13 has been released and is now available at the usual location,
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.4/>.

Please test it and report back. I'll send it off to the translation project in parallel.

The source archive is available at:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.13.tar.xz/download>
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.13.tar.lz/download>

Detached GnuPG signatures for the respective tarballs are at:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.13.tar.xz.asc/download>
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.13.tar.lz.asc/download>

SHA256 hash values for the tarballs:
SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.13.tar.lz)= 326dcea5b001ef11e1bf0e3e53da9a4dcb4069120772480fc16b8fa7683672b6
SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.13.tar.xz)= 7d28cf060b06b9c8ec72267be7edc9a99b70f61d7d32d8b609458dcedfa74be1

Here are the release notes:

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fetchmail-6.4.13 (released 2020-10-25, 27608 LoC):

# BUG FIXES:
* Errors about lock file (= pidfile) creation could be lost in daemon 
  configurations (-d option, or set daemon) when using syslog. Now they are also 
  logged to syslog.  Found verifying a pidfile creation issue on 6.4.12 that was 
  previously reported by Alex Hall of Automatic Distributors.
* If the lock file cannot be removed (no write permission on directory), try
  to truncate it, and if that fails, report error.
* If the pidfile was non-default, fetchmail -q or --quit would malfunction and
  claim no other fetchmail were running, because it did not read the 
  configuration files or merge the command line options, thus it would look for 
  the PID in the wrong file.

# CHANGES:
* Lockfile (= pidfile) creation errors are now logged with filename and reason.

# TRANSLATION UPDATES were made by these fine people:
* cs:    Petr Pisar [Czech]
* ja:    Takeshi Hamasaki [Japanese]
* sq:    Besnik Bleta [Albanian]
* zh_CN: Boyuan Yang [Chinese (simplified)]
* sv:    Göran Uddeborg [Swedish]
* pl:    Jakub Bogusz [Polish]
* fr:    Frédéric Marchal [French]
* eo:    Keith Bowes [Esperanto]
* de:    [German - by current maintainer]
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Happy fetches,
Matthias