The 6.1.0 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-6.1.0.tar.gz>
Here are the release notes:
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.
The tradition that stable releases instantly call forth critical problems
is affirmed once again. An advisory describing the exact nature of the bug
will be forthcoming.
By popular demand, diffs from the previous release have been omitted.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic
weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple
weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the
weak.
-- George Orwell, "You and the Atom Bomb", 1945