ANNOUNCEMENT: mICQ 0.4.10.5 released

[RüdigerKuhlmann]

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Since 0.4.10.4 had a bunch of annoying bugs, 0.4.10.5 is released quickly.
It fixes all those bugs announced shortly after 0.4.10.4's release, plus a
few more, including segfaults and problems downloading the server side
contact list. No new features have been added, but the Italian and the
Portuguese have been updated. 0.4.10.4 has been removed from micq.org.

Remember that versions prior to 0.4.10.4 are supectible to a remote DoS
attack; packets, where a variable amount of TLVs are expected in, that
contain enough TLVs to cause the TLV table to be expanded, can cause mICQ to
crash (namely, if the expanded table ends up on another memory location).
Nothing serious, but a security problem nevertheless.

The following is unfortunately still true:
> Kudos are in order for Mandrake and the PLD Linux Distribution as
> they're the only Linux distributions with recent mICQ packages on
> rpmfind.net that get the copyright of mICQ right. Guess why mICQ
> now displays it pretty prominently. Red Hat and ASPLinux still
> consider mICQ to be freely available or BSD licence. Those
> distributions also might consider shipping the translated man pages
> of mICQ... No Kudos go to the Debian project who still ships a
> version of mICQ with a seriously annoying yet trivially to fix bug
> and a copyright notice disclaiming my part of the authorship of
> mICQ. Shame on you!

.deb users, remember that

deb http://www.micq.org/deb/ stable main
deb http://www.micq.org/deb/ unstable main

in your /etc/apt/sources.list will make things easier for you.

> Cygwin users, simply point your Cygwin setup.exe to
> http://www.micq.org/cygwin/
> as a "download site", and mICQ should pop up in your package list.

... as soon as I have a Cygwin binary *g*

Anyway, here are the checksums:

md5sum 25b2763345bb8e184a444af7cb49144f  source/micq-0.4.10.5.tgz
md5sum 6c3237036aef70818677a01f6cbbe745  binary/micq_0.4.10.5-0woody1_i386.deb
md5sum e4c1ec9f19746f94c46e80fa2199e5d5  binary/micq_0.4.10.5-1_i386.deb
md5sum fde0c4bb6a24079d47829d3da3b1e26c  binary/micq-0.4.10.5-1.i386.rpm
md5sum b59d619222e9f28870d9d008bf59f2be  binary/micq-0.4.10.5-AmigaOS.tgz
md5sum addab10e2def991085ecea525a8bd2b3  binary/micq-ssl_0.4.10.5-0woody1_i386.deb

sha1sum 442070ea30160ac4942d4fb3235d999459096460  source/micq-0.4.10.5.tgz
sha1sum 5df92dd2009d724054c872ea3913ba02b2afc4fd  binary/micq_0.4.10.5-0woody1_i386.deb
sha1sum a8e47eecefd27bf7000338e60c3c8836535fbc78  binary/micq_0.4.10.5-1_i386.deb
sha1sum 0962a1c0a5c5d0357b69da95a12953f081a31090  binary/micq-0.4.10.5-1.i386.rpm
sha1sum 11b9d8d7a8f30cb2e82471d0887f5629ba2ec94b  binary/micq-0.4.10.5-AmigaOS.tgz
sha1sum 96d8112acefcc66a4fad40a4521d8dcf33b0957d  binary/micq-ssl_0.4.10.5-0woody1_i386.deb

Yours, Rüdiger.

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