Re: [Fetchmail-users] ANNOUNCE: The 6.4.23 release of fetchmail is available (usability fix for IMAP plugin + auth ssh, translation updates)

[Gene H. <ghe...@sh...>]

On Sunday 31 October 2021 08:14:20 Matthias Andree wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> The 6.4.23 release of fetchmail is now available at
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/>.
>
Sourceforge is still serving up 6.4.22 as the latest.
 
> It updates the Japanese and Serbian translations and improves an error
> message around STARTTLS with IMAP --auth ssh and --plugin.
>
> Note the tarball was re-rolled to include the German translation
> update, missed in the first upload.
>
> DISTRIBUTORS please note OpenSSL's licensing change for OpenSSL 3,
> and you may want to review COPYING.
>
> The source archive is available at:
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail
>-6.4.23.tar.xz/download>
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail
>-6.4.23.tar.lz/download>
>
> Detached GnuPG signatures for the respective tarballs are at:
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail
>-6.4.23.tar.xz.asc/download>
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail
>-6.4.23.tar.lz.asc/download>
>
> SHA256 hash values for the tarballs:
> SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.23.tar.lz)=
> 0fa3b57f05ec38b3ecb58d2221223b6a4da6e30dd857af37b49798c3e84a71e5
> SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.23.tar.xz)=
> 5f7a5e13731431134a2ca535bbced7adc666d3aeb93169a0830945d91f492300
>
> Here are the release notes:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------- fetchmail-6.4.23 (released 2021-10-31, 30206 LoC):
>
> # USABILITY:
> * For common ssh-based IMAP PREAUTH setups (i. e. those that use a
> plugin - no matter its contents - and that set auth ssh), change the
> STARTTLS error message to suggest sslproto '' instead.
>   This is a commonly reported issue after the CVE-2021-39272 fix in
> 6.4.22. Fixes Redhat Bugzilla 2008160. Fixes GitLab #39.
>
> # TRANSLATIONS: language translations were updated by these fine
> people: * ja:    Takeshi Hamasaki [Japanese]
> * sr:	 Мирослав Николић (Miroslav Nikolić) [Serbian]
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------
>
> Happy fetches,
> Matthias


Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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