The 5.9.4 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
including <URL:http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail>.
The source archive is available at:
<URL:http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-5.9.4.tar.gz>
Here are the release notes:
fetchmail-5.9.4 (Wed Oct 3 07:47:45 EDT 2001), 21104 lines:
* Finished license cleanup, all licenses in the distribution are now
officially GPL-compatible.
* Added a length check to from64tobits() after receiving a warning that
it might create buffer overflows. No exploitable overflows were found by
a careful case-by-case audit, and at minimum an exploit would have required
that the mailserver be subverted.
There are 371 people on fetchmail-friends and 623 on fetchmail-announce.
Just I as expected, the attempt to build fetchmail.pot at distribution
time triggered yet another obscure and fatal bug in the festering pile
of rancid dog vomit that is GNU gettext (that's with the latest
version installed, too).
I've had it. I'm done. At this point I am planning to remove
gettext support in the next release. I have left it in this release
only because I wanted to get the buffer-overflow guard code out quickly.
By popular demand, diffs from the previous release have been omitted.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
The kind of charity you can force out of people nourishes about as much as
the kind of love you can buy --- and spreads even nastier diseases.