ANNOUNCE: fetchmail 6.4.31 is available (netrc, configure, manpage updates)

Matthias Andree <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Jul 2022 14:11:52 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Message-ID	<YtKrCNnc1RxUdr5/[email protected]>

The 6.4.31 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/>.

It should make the build a bit more robust and the manpage more
portable, and adds some error checking to the .netrc file parser.

Further .netrc parser updates and documentation of expected input
formats are postponed to fetchmail 6.5 because they might break existing
setups, so should not change in a patchlevel release.

Note that OpenSSL and wolfSSL both had security updates, OpenSSL for
c_rehash, and wolfSSL had fixes for side channel attacks. Upgrade those
before you upgrade fetchmail. Versions are at least OpenSSL 1.1.1q or
3.0.5, or wolfSSL 5.4.0. The documentation has been updated accordingly,
but fetchmail does not enforce these, leaving it up to distributors.

The source archive is available at:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.31.tar.xz/download>
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.31.tar.lz/download>

The detached GnuPG signature is available at:
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.31.tar.xz.asc/download>
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_6.4/fetchmail-6.4.31.tar.lz.asc/download>

The SHA256 hashes for the tarballs are:
SHA2-256(fetchmail-6.4.31.tar.xz)= 904bf9247054df8e91b47b1a9fe15a31dda8478c25b5291da0424653744a28f7
SHA2-256(fetchmail-6.4.31.tar.lz)= db7bf0af57f5a5b41ef5cb4c8d62e3f20b3513fc5b964fd2ea84cf1b7814a53c

Here are the release notes:
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fetchmail-6.4.31 (released 2022-07-16, 31694 LoC):

# BUG FIXES:
* Try to fix ./configure --with-ssl=... for systems that have multiple OpenSSL
versions installed. Issues reported by Dennis Putnam.
* The netrc parser now reports its errors to syslog or logfile when appropriate,
previously it would always log to stderr.
* Add error checking to .netrc parser.

# CHANGES:
* manpage: use .UR/.UE macros instead of .URL for URIs.
* manpage: fix contractions. Found with FreeBSD's igor tool.
* manpage: HTML now built with pandoc -> python-docutils
(manServer.pl was dropped)

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Happy fetches,
Matthias

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