Release Notes:

(The `lines' figures total .c, .h, .l, and .y files under version control.
Names in parentheses are the maintainers who handled the respective change.
Abbreviations: MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk)

fetchmail 6.3.0 (not yet released officially):

# SECURITY FIX
* The POP3 UIDL code doesn't sufficiently validate/truncate the input
  length, so a (malicious or compromised) server that sends UIDs longer
  than 128 bytes can corrupt fetchmail's stack and crash fetchmail.
  This vulnerability is remotely exploitable to inject code run in a
  root shell. This is tracked under the CVE Name: CAN-2005-2335

# MAJOR INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
* Remove support for --netsec/-T options, the required inet6_apps library is no
  longer available.
  http://www.inner.net/pub/ipv6/ states, as of 2005-07-03: "/pub/ipv6
  Our IPv6 software is now long defunct. Please find a more modern source."
  I haven't been able to find a more modern source.  Matthias Andree
* Operating systems that do not conform to the Single Unix Specification v2
  (1997) or v3 (2001, aka IEEE Std 1003.1-2001) are no longer supported. They
  may continue to work and non-intrusive patches to support them may be
  accepted.  Matthias Andree

# OBSOLETION WARNINGS
* The MX and host alias lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode are
  obsolete, deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version
  without further notice. Their support for IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4)
  is unspecified.  Matthias Andree
* The monitor and interface options may also be removed from a future fetchmail
  version as they are not sufficiently portable.

# OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
* Sunil Shetye's fix to force fetchsizelimit to 1 for APOP and RPOP. (ESR)
* PopDel.py removed from contrib at author's request. (ESR)
* Matthias Andree's fix for Sunil Shetye's fetch-split patch. (ESR)
* Include James Stone's moldremover.py script. (ESR)
* Enable .fetchmailrc permissions checking under Cygwin. (ESR)
* Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication. (ESR)
* Revised Nalin Dahyabai's fix for POP3 strong authentication (the
  original version would go into an infinite loop when CAPA failed;
  found by David Greaves.) (MA)
* HOME_ETC patch for PLD Linux. (ESR)
* Sunil Shetye's fix for SSL configuration. (ESR)
* Simon Josefsson's patch for GSS library support. (ESR)
* Added Andrey Lelikov's recipe for Hotmail and Lycos Webmail. (ESR)
* Remove blank between MAIL FROM: and <, which causes Cyrus to complain.
  Patch by Phil Endecott. (RF)
* Build fixes for HESIOD and resolv.h trouble on FreeBSD. (MA)
* Fabrice Bellet's fix for Red Hat bug #113492, fetchmail hangs in IMAP
  mode after EXPUNGE when the server (Dovecot 0.99.10) doesn't update
  RECENT and EXISTS counts. (MA)
* Holger Mauermann's bounce patch, to use a NULL envelope from, not
  write a Return-Path header (both to meet RFC-2821), changed From,
  added Subject header, rewording the human readable part.  Fixes Debian
  bug #316446. (MA)
* Merge Sunil Shetye's time.h handling fix. (MA)
* Merge Gerd von Egidy's patch to avoid a segfault in multidrop/received
  mode when the Received: headers are malformatted. (MA)
* MIME-encode bodies and Subject headers of warning messages, limiting
  the header to 7 bits. (MA)
* Normalize most locale codesets to IANA codesets, based on
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2. Check in all files to RCS with an appropriate release label.

3. Run &quot;makerelease&quot; is root.  Read the script to see what it generates.

4. Run &quot;upload&quot; as yourself.
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* The RFC-822 parser no longer strips the last character of bare addresses.
  Matthias Andree
* The IP address matching code was broken and 
  1. didn't search exhaustively, but matched only the first IP address of the
  server's queryname against the IP addresses of the server name to match.
  2. didn't match IP aliases versus MX hosts.  Matthias Andree
* gettext (intl/) has been removed from the fetchmail package. Install GNU
  gettext 0.14 separately for NLS (i18n).  Matthias Andree
* fetchmailconf is now a shell wrapper that calls the byte-compiled
  fetchmailconf.py script, which is now installed in the regular python
  directory. Matthias Andree.
* The "port" option, while still understood, is being replaced by the "service"
  option, which is now supported even without --enable-inet6. Matthias Andree.
* The default distribution format is now bzip2. Matthias Andree.
* fetchmailconf redirects fetchmail's input from /dev/null so it doesn't
  wait for the user to enter a password when the user doesn't even see
  the prompt. Reported by Michal Marek. Matthias Andree.
* Write RFC-compliant BSMTP envelopes. Reported by Nico Golde. Matthias Andree.
* Fix --with-gssapi compilation problem. Simon Josefsson. (MA)
* Foster protocol-independence to support IPv6 better, for instance, providing
  IPv6 addresses in Received: headers. Matthias Andree.
* The --enable-inet6 configure option was removed. The code is mostly protocol
  agnostic, a fully IPv6 aware OS is expected to provide getaddrinfo(),
  getnameinfo() and the macro AF_INET6.  Matthias Andree.
* Received: headers now enclose the for <...> destination address in angle
  brackets for consistency with Postfix.  Matthias Andree.
* Operating systems that do not support at least one of gethostbyname,
  gethostbyname_r, getipnodebyname are no longer supported.  Matthias Andree.
* Fixes to --with-hesiod option. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
* Delete oversized messages with the news --limitflush option. Debian
  Bug#212240. Sunil Shetye. (MA)
* Fix MacOS X compilation failures in sink.c (ru_*time has incomplete type).
  Berlios Bug #4725. Matthias Andree.
* Fix "auth ntlm" to send AUTH NTLM (rather than AUTH MSN). Add "auth msn"
  officially. Reported by Yves Boisjoly. Matthias Andree

# INTERNAL CHANGES
* Switched to automake. Matthias Andree.
* Got rid of alloca() in fetchmail proper.  Matthias Andree
* Got rid of ipv6-connect, inner_connect and thereabouts.  Matthias Andree

fetchmail-6.2.5 (Wed Oct 15 18:39:22 EDT 2003), 23079 lines:

* Updated Spanish, Turkish, and German translation files.
* Matthew Gregan's patch to handle garbage lengths from dbmail;
  closes Debian bug #212484.
* Fix IMAP query so new-message count doesn't include deleted messages.
* Man page typo fix, closes Debian bug #205892.
* OpenSSL cleanup patches from levinedl@acm.org.
* Benjamin Drieu's patch to fix Debian bug #212240, no oversized-message
  flushing if both "flush" and "limit" were specified.
* Benjamin Drieu's patch for Debian bug #156592, incorrect handing of 
  host/port option.
* Smash all NULs out of headers right after the socket read.
* Dup-killer code now keys on an MD5 hash of the raw headers.
* Sunil Shetye's patches to break up fetching of sizes and UIDLs.

There are 599 people on fetchmail-friends and 748 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.4 (Wed Aug 13 04:27:35 EDT 2003), 22625 lines:

* Updated German, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish translations.
* IDLE is now supported using no-ops even if the server doesn't support
  the IMAP IDLE extension.
* Sunil Shetye's patch to do better password shrouding.
* Sunil Shetye's bug-fix rollup patch.
* Introduce a translation item for the word "seen".
* Back out the hack to deal with lack of byte stuffing on some POP3 servers.
* Thomas Steudten's patch to improve SMTP handling of 550 errors.

There are 585 people on fetchmail-friends and 745 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.3 (Thu Jul 17 14:53:00 EDT 2003), 22490 lines:

* French, German, Danish, Spanish, and Turkish translations updated.
* Brian Sammon's patch to deal with malformed message lines containing NULs.
* Fai's patch to ignore all but the first Return-Path (some spams have
  more than one of these).
* Benjamin Drieu's patch to properly byte-stuff when talking to BSNTP.
  Fixes Debian bug #184469.
* Benjamin Drieu's patch to enable auth=cram-md5.
  Fixes Debian bug #185232.
* Sunil Shetye's configure.in patch to avoid spurious search order messages
  from GCC.
* Header-reading code now copes better with lines ending in \n only.
* Elias Israel's patches for POP3 NTLM support and dealing with byte-
  stuffing failures at socket level.

There are 580 people on fetchmail-friends and 750 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:

* Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior on empty messages.
* Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful 
  STARTTLS negotiation.
* Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
* Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security.
* Christophe GIAUME <christophe@giaume.com> finished the implementation
  of RFC2177 IDLE.
* Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
* Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
* Fix for Debian bug #108977, clean up config file evaluation,
  by Benjamin Drieu.

There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.1 (Tue Jan 14 08:17:19 EST 2003), 22219 lines:

* Updated German, Turkish, Spanish, and Danish translation files.
* Integrated Sunil Shetye's patch to make mark_seen an explicit method.
* Removed FAQ warning about GMX and associated fetchmailconf check, 
  we have a report that its servers are conformant now.
* Another Sunil patch to fix a minor bug in bouncemail generation.

There are 536 people on fetchmail-friends and 716 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.2.0 (Fri Dec 13 00:10:07 EST 2002), 22235 lines:

* Applied Steffen Esser's fix for a buffer-overflow bug in rfc822.c
* Updated Danish, German, and Turkish translation files.
* Sunil Shetye's SMTP timeout patch.

There are 538 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.1.3 (Thu Nov 28 05:35:15 EST 2002), 22203 lines:

* Updated Turkish, Danish, German, Spanish, Catalan po files.
* Added Slovak support.
* Configure.in update for autoconf 2.5 (Art Haas). 
* Be case-insensitive when looking for IMAP responses.
* Fix logout-after-idle-delivery bug (Sunil Shetye).
* Sunil Shetye's patch to bulletproof end-of-header detection.
* Sunil's fix for the STARTTLS problem -- repoll if TLS nabdshake
  fails.  The attempt to set up STARTTLS can be suppressed with 'sslproto ""'.

There are 540 people on fetchmail-friends and 701 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.1.2 (Thu Oct 31 11:41:02 EST 2002), 22135 lines:

* Jan Klaverstijn's verbosity-lowering patch.
* Updated Turkish, German, Catalan, and Danish translation files.
* Fix processing of POP3 messages with missing bodies.
* Minor fixes by Sunil Shetye: fix generation of auth fail note, handle
  unexpected SIGALRM, plug memory leak, handle lines beginning with '\0',
  try to bulletproof error handling against read failures.

There are 535 people on fetchmail-friends and 696 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.1.1 (Fri Oct 18 14:53:51 EDT 2002), 22087 lines:

* OTP fix patches from Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>
* fix patch for writing antispam capability correctly in conf.c.
* Fix patches for Debian bugs #162571, #156592.
* Correction to manpage re -b and qmail.
* Patch to disable use of STLS if auth passwd is specified.
* Fix specfile generation to handle SSL correctly.
* New Danish, Turkish, and Catalan translation files.
* Improved ODMR debug messages.
* IMAP efficiency hack; don't fetch sizes unless needed.
* Detect and rewrite invalid return paths beginning with @.
* Fix for subtle freeing bug that suppressed information in some bounce msgs.
* Newline fix patches for internationalization files.
* Fix reversed test guarding authentication-failure warnings.
* Fix POP3 breakage starting at 5.9.14.

There are 529 people on fetchmail-friends and 693 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.1.0 (Sun Sep 22 18:31:23 EDT 2002), 21999 lines:

* Updated French translation.
* Stefan Esser's fix for potential remote vulnerability in multidrop mode.
  This is an important security fix!

There are 519 people on fetchmail-friends and 680 on fetchmail-announce.

fetchmail-6.0.0 (Tue Sep 17 19:48:25 EDT 2002), 21972 lines:

* Applied Matt Kraai's fix for minor Debian bug #144539.
* Nerijus Baliunas's patch to support STARTTLS over IMAP.
* More cleanups and minor bugfixes from Sunil Shetye.
* Default antispam-response list is now empty.
* Updated de and po translations.

There are 520 people on fetchmail-friends and 683 on fetchmail-announce.

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