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

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

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

It also includes fetchmail 6.6.7's security bugfix for NTLM, which
has now been assigned CVE-2026-94184.

The security announcement is attached to this message for 
reader convenience.

The source archive is available at:
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/fetchmail-6.6.8.tar.xz/download>
<https://gitlab.com/-/project/188557/uploads/98eb580f02ae23a757173b2ead73ea7f/fetchmail-6.6.8.tar.xz>

The detached GnuPG signature is available at:
<https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fetchmail/branch_6.6/fetchmail-6.6.8.tar.xz.asc/download>
<https://gitlab.com/-/project/188557/uploads/8e45eb994a8cb6008fe08ddecc52b92e/fetchmail-6.6.8.tar.xz.asc>

The SHA256 hashes for the tarball is:
SHA2-256(fetchmail-6.6.8.tar.xz)= fff279d7ffbf4d9449110f715c0deb5ff5a2b13b317914b6f2c810ea12a0b7e1


Here are the release notes:
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fetchmail-6.6.8 (released 2026-09-22, 31232 LoC):

## 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.  fetchmail-SA-2026-01 has been assigned CVE Id CVE-2026-94184.

## BUGFIX:
* The Serbian (sr) translation was not installed due to an oversight in the
  po/LINGUAS file.

## 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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