[Fetchmail-devel] ANNOUNCE: The 6.4.17 release of fetchmail is available (translation update and minor fixes)

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

Greetings,

The 6.4.17 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/>.

It contains a few bug fixes and is more willing to give information on the
trust store paths it is using (with -V or --version).

The source archive is available at:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.17.tar.xz/download>
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.17.tar.lz/download>

Detached GnuPG signatures for the respective tarballs are at:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.17.tar.xz.asc/download>
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.17.tar.lz.asc/download>

SHA256 hash values for the tarballs:
SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.17.tar.lz)= 1f4aa30f4d62a3e786af01c7dd128611027ef92af85a351368f9dcc97fa50b02
SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.17.tar.xz)= a41bcdf11b41aa0682b259aee4717c617c15dadd43fa008b2ed38b770f4d50c6

Here are the release notes:

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fetchmail-6.4.17 (released 2021-03-07, 29998 LoC):

# BUG FIXES
* IMAP client: it used to leak memory for username and password when trying
  the LOGIN (password-based) authentication and encountered a timeout situation.
* dist-tools/getstats.py: also counts lines in *.py files, shown above.

# CHANGES
* fetchmail.man: now mentions that you may need to add --ssl when specifying
  a TLS-wrapped port.
* fetchmailconf: --version (-V) now prints the Python version in use.

# TRANSLATION UPDATES
  This fine person has contributed updated translations for fetchmail:
* ja:    Takeshi Hamasaki [Japanese]

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Happy fetches,
Matthias