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diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5498e90 --- /dev/null +++ b/RELNOTES @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:11:10 +0100 +Subject: archivemail 0.7 released with security fixes + + +Hi folks, + +archivemail 0.7.0 is ready for download. This release comes with many and +important fixes, some of which address security issues; I strongly recommend to +upgrade. + +Despite the major version change, this is mostly a maintenance release, with +notable fixes in the IMAP code. There's actually just one new feature (size +stats, see below) if you don't count what in theory was already there, but just +didn't work. :-) + +Okay, here are my pet items from the changelog, roughly ordered by priority: + +* Fixed unsafe creation of temporary files in the test suite. + This addresses Debian bug #385253, and reading the BTS log, it seems this + issue was assigned CVE-2006-4245, although I cannot find any further + reference to that CVE. Note that the bug was initially reported to affect + archivemail itself, too. This is not correct. +* Fixed dotlocking race condition. +* IMAP was broken in v0.6.2 and is now working again. +* New feature: stats now report the total size of a mailbox and of the archived + messages therefrom. +* archivemail now writes valid mbox(5) archives and by default mangles From_ + lines; the latter can be disabled with the new option --dont-mangle (see the + man page for the details; see also Debian bugs #250410 and #250402) +* archivemail finally converts on-the-wire CRLF to native EOL when saving + messages from an IMAP folder. +* Fixed IMAP --delete which never worked at all. +* Fixed IMAP --dry-run so it doesn't download all messages that would be + archived. +* Fixed IMAP --size which never worked at all. +* archivemail now requires Python version >= 2.3. +* Fixed unittest failures. +* Distributing man page with the tarball again and fixed distutils setup. + + +The changes in this release probably better had went into several minor +releases, when we would have something like v0.6.6 now, but I was carried away +with bugfixing... + +In other news, archivemail has new maintainers, namely Peter Poeml and Nikolaus +Schulz (that's me, hi!). The former maintainer Brandon Knitter is currently not +active on the project. + +Cheers, +Nikolaus |