[Fetchmail-announce] ANNOUNCE: The 6.4.15 release of fetchmail is available (bug fixes)

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

Greetings,

and a happy new year 2021!

The 6.4.15 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/branch_6.4/>.

It contains a few bug fixes that were contributed via Gitlab.

The source archive is available at:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.15.tar.xz/download>
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.15.tar.lz/download>

Detached GnuPG signatures for the respective tarballs are at:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.15.tar.xz.asc/download>
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.15.tar.lz.asc/download>

SHA256 hash values for the tarballs:
SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.15.tar.lz)= 6f56d0c08278f190de840ae4d1affa767a2545b056e1993b8d3f80294bbf7ad3
SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.15.tar.xz)= 735b217474937e13cfcdea2d42a346bf68487e0d61efebe4d0d9eddcb3a26b96

Here are the release notes:

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fetchmail-6.4.15 (released 2021-01-03, 27614 LoC):

# BUG FIXES
* Fix a typo in the manual page reported by David McKelvie.
* Fix cross-compilation with openssl, by Fabrice Fontaine. Merge request !23.
* Fix truncation of SMTP PLAIN AUTH with ^ in credentials, by Earl Chew.
  Gitlab issue #23, merge request !25.

# 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)
* Fetchmail currently uses 31-bit signed integers in several places
  where unsigned and/or wider types should have been used, for instance,
  for mailbox sizes, and misreports sizes of 2 GibiB and beyond. 
  Fixing this requires C89 compatibility to be relinquished.
* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output.
* 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.
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Happy fetches,
Matthias