From: Matthias A. <mat...@gm...> - 2021-11-27 12:41:48
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Greetings, The 6.4.25 release CANDIDATE #2 of fetchmail is now available at <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/>. It fixes up the OpenSSL 1.0.2 workaround for Let's Encrypt Sites. It contains support for wolfSSL 5.0, blocks out LibreSSL due to licensing issues, and overhauls the configure script for OpenSSL. release candidate #2 adds contrib/systemd (which see) and makes some fixes to configure.ac. See COPYING, INSTALL, README.SSL, README.packaging for more details on the news. Please test this thoroughly and report your findings so we can be sure that 6.4.25 will be a good release. It has been mailed out to the translation project to solicit translation updates. The source archive is available at: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.25.rc2.tar.xz/download> Detached GnuPG signatures for the respective tarballs are at: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.25.rc2.tar.xz.asc/download> SHA256 hash values for the tarballs: SHA256(fetchmail-6.4.25.rc2.tar.xz)= dd5aae3ae1061640a273482ae44583be70052a4fb6be257b90803cefd849410f Thanks to Corey Halpin for the suggestion about license clarification with gnu.org links (submitted through FreeBSD's Bugzilla). Here are the release notes: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fetchmail-6.4.25.rc2 (release candidate 2021-11-27, 31633 LoC): # BREAKING CHANGES: * Since distributions continue patching for LibreSSL use, which cannot be linked legally, block out LibreSSL in configure.ac and socket.c, and refer to COPYING. OpenSSL and wolfSSL 5 can be used. SSL-related documentation was updated, do re-read COPYING, INSTALL, README, README.packaging, README.SSL. * Bump OpenSSL version requirement to 1.0.2f in order to safely remove the obsolete OpenSSL flag SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE. This blocks out 1.0.2e and older 1.0.2 versions. 1.0.2f was a security fix release, and 1.0.2u is publicly available from https://www.openssl.org/source/old/1.0.2/ # BUG FIXES: * 6.4.24's workaround for OpenSSL 1.0.2's X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST flag contained a typo and would not kick in properly. * Library and/or rpath setting from configure.ac was fixed. # ADDITIONS: * Added an example systemd unit file and instructions to contrib/systemd/ which runs fetchmail as a daemon with 5-minute poll intervals. Courteously contributed by Barak A. Pearlmutter, Debian Bug#981464. # CHANGES: * fetchmail can now be used with wolfSSL 5's OpenSSL compatibility layer, see INSTALL and README.SSL. This is considered experimental. Feedback solicited. * The getstats.py dist-tool now counts lines of .ac and .am files. * ./configure --with-ssl now supports pkg-config module names, too. See INSTALL. # TRANSLATIONS: language translations were updated by these fine people: (in reverse alphabetical order of language codes so as not to prefer people): * sv: Göran Uddeborg [Swedish] * sq: Besnik Bleta [Albanian] * pl: Jakub Bogusz [Polish] * ja: Takeshi Hamasaki [Japanese] * fr: Frédéric Marchal [French] * eo: Keith Bowes [Esperanto] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy fetches, Matthias |