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@@ -56,12 +56,41 @@ removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -fetchmail-6.3.23 (released 2012-12-10, 26106 LoC): +fetchmail-6.3.24 (not yet released): # NOTE THAT THE RELEASE OF FUTURE FETCHMAIL 6.3.X VERSIONS IS UNCLEAR. Should a 7.0 release be made earlier, chances are that the 6.3.X branch is abandoned and its changes be folded into the 7.0 release, with changes -after 6.3.22 not available on their own in a newer 6.3.X release. +after 6.3.24 not available on their own in a newer 6.3.X release. + +# REGRESSION FIX +* The --logfile option now works again outside daemon mode, reported by Heinz + Diehl. The documentation that I had been reading was inconsistent with the + code, and only parts of the manual page claimed that --logfile was only + effective in daemon mode. + +# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS + (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the + current release information) +* Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well + (See sourceforge.net bug #780933) +* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output. +* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in + 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit + fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code, + so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties. +* Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes. +* The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance, + fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running. +* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if + no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured. + (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.) +* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error + messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5 + server to test against. Use GSSAPI. + + +fetchmail-6.3.23 (released 2012-12-10, 26106 LoC): # REGRESSION FIXES * Fix compilation with OpenSSL implementations before 0.9.8m that lack @@ -94,26 +123,6 @@ after 6.3.22 not available on their own in a newer 6.3.X release. [sv] Swedish, by Göran Uddeborg [vi] Vietnamese, Trần Ngọc Quân -# KNOWN BUGS AND WORKAROUNDS - (This section floats upwards through the NEWS file so it stays with the - current release information) -* Fetchmail does not handle messages without Message-ID header well - (See sourceforge.net bug #780933) -* BSMTP is mostly untested and errors can cause corrupt output. -* Sun Workshop 6 (SPARC) is known to miscompile the configuration file lexer in - 64-bit mode. Either compile 32-bit code or use GCC to compile 64-bit - fetchmail. Note that fetchmail doesn't take advantage of 64-bit code, - so compiling 32-bit SPARC code should not cause any difficulties. -* Fetchmail does not track pending deletes across crashes. -* The command line interface is sometimes a bit stubborn, for instance, - fetchmail -s doesn't work with a daemon running. -* Linux systems may return duplicates of an IP address in some circumstances if - no or no global IPv6 addresses are configured. - (No workaround. Ubuntu Bug#582585, Novell Bug#606980.) -* Kerberos 5 may be broken, particularly on Heimdal, and provide bogus error - messages. This will not be fixed, because the maintainer has no Kerberos 5 - server to test against. Use GSSAPI. - fetchmail-6.3.22 (released 2012-08-29, 26077 LoC): |