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@@ -29,10 +29,12 @@ This affects, f.i., LibreSSL, unless it is part of the operating system
(f. i., on OpenBSD). However, LibreSSL diverges from OpenSSL and is
not supported by the fetchmail maintainer.
-Since 6.4.27, there is experimental support for wolfSSL 5.1.1 or newer,
+Since 6.4.27, there has been experimental support for wolfSSL 5.1.1 or newer,
which is under GNU GPL v2 or later license and hence may be easier for
a consistent GPLv2+ licensing of fetchmail. This support requires a C99
-or newer compiler.
+or newer compiler, and requires up-to-date wolfSSL versions as wolfSSL keeps
+fixing vulnerabilities in newer version, so new fetchmail releases will
+consistently raise the bar on wolfSSL version.
Choose between OpenSSL or wolfSSL.