[Fetchmail-users] The 6.6.8.rc1 release candidate is available (revises fetchmail-SA-2026-01, adds zh_TW translation)

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

The 6.6.8.rc1 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/>.

The source archive is available at:
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/fetchmail-6.6.8.rc1.tar.xz/download>

The detached GnuPG signature is available at:
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/fetchmail-6.6.8.rc1.tar.xz.asc/download>

The SHA256 hashes for the tarballs are:
SHA2-256(fetchmail-6.6.8.rc1.tar.xz)= 52362d70bd03cda81544b96f638ddf6bc98ceb0100d05025e0084151e8ee94a5


Here are the release notes:
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fetchmail-6.6.8 (not yet released):

## SECURITY ADVISORY:
* fetchmail 6.6.8 updates the NEWS file (which you appear to be reading)
  and the fetchmail-SA-2026-01 security announcement.  There are no code
  changes since 6.6.7, but we need to prominently get the new documentation
  out.

## DEVELOPER-FACING CHANGE:
* The "make check-git" target in the autotools build is more verbose
  in case it errors out, usually due to uncommitted changes in the local
  checkout.

## TRANSLATION UPDATES were contributed by these fine people - thank you!
Please welcome the new traditional Chinese <zh_TW> translation!  非常感謝！
* zh_TW: Alang Hsu [Chinese (traditional)]
* sr:    Мирослав Николић [Serbian]

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