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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 26 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -64,12 +64,22 @@ removed from a 6.5.0 or newer release.) for end-of-life OpenSSL versions may be removed even from patchlevel releases. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -fetchmail-6.4.12 (released 2020-09-04, 27596 LoC): +fetchmail-6.4.13 (work in progress): # BUG FIXES: -* The README file is now the one from Git again. The makerelease.pl script - used to roll and upload the tarball sometimes clobbered the README file and - replaced its contents by a part of the NEWS file. +* Errors about lock file (= pidfile) creation could be lost in daemon + configurations (-d option, or set daemon) when using syslog. Now they are also + logged to syslog. Found verifying a pidfile creation issue on 6.4.12 that was + previously reported by Alex Hall of Automatic Distributors. +* If the lock file cannot be removed (no write permission on directory), try + to truncate it, and if that fails, report error. +* If the pidfile was non-default, fetchmail -q or --quit would malfunction and + claim no other fetchmail were running, because it did not read the + configuration files or merge the command line options, thus it would look for + the PID in the wrong file. + +# CHANGES: +* Lockfile (= pidfile) creation errors are now logged with filename and reason. # KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the @@ -92,6 +102,14 @@ fetchmail-6.4.12 (released 2020-09-04, 27596 LoC): server to test against. Use GSSAPI. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +fetchmail-6.4.12 (released 2020-09-04, 27596 LoC): + +# BUG FIXES: +* The README file is now the one from Git again. The makerelease.pl script + used to roll and upload the tarball sometimes clobbered the README file and + replaced its contents by a part of the NEWS file. + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fetchmail-6.4.11 (released 2020-08-28, 27596 LoC): # REGRESSION FIX: |