Sendmail 8.11.5

Sendmail, Inc., and the Sendmail Consortium announce the availability of sendmail 8.11.5. 8.11.5 fixes bugs found since the release of 8.11.4:

A timing problem sometimes caused problems restarting the daemon with SIGHUP
Better support for wildcard IPv6 sockets (which can accept IPv4 connections)
Portability fixes for BSD/OS
Other minor bug fixes

8.11.5 is planned to be the final 8.11 release before 8.12.0 is released.

See the release notes for complete details and other changes.

The release is available from:

ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.5.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.5.tar.Z
ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.11.5.tar.sig

or on a mirror near to you.

with MD5 signatures:

7b8c5771e5e80799c94292ff6429b7ce sendmail.8.11.5.tar.gz
a296cd37d6ace601bb668005e664819c sendmail.8.11.5.tar.Z
b6d3d9592d530f6db019b8c14d57d879 sendmail.8.11.5.tar.sig

Since sendmail 8.11 and later releases include hooks to cryptography, the following information from OpenSSL applies to sendmail as well.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT EXPORT/IMPORT AND/OR USE OF STRONG CRYPTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE, PROVIDING CRYPTOGRAPHY HOOKS OR EVEN JUST COMMUNICATING TECHNICAL DETAILS ABOUT CRYPTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE IS ILLEGAL IN SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD. SO, WHEN YOU IMPORT THIS PACKAGE TO YOUR COUNTRY, RE-DISTRIBUTE IT FROM THERE OR EVEN JUST EMAIL TECHNICAL SUGGESTIONS OR EVEN SOURCE PATCHES TO THE AUTHOR OR OTHER PEOPLE YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO ANY EXPORT/IMPORT AND/OR USE LAWS WHICH APPLY TO YOU. THE AUTHORS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY VIOLATIONS YOU MAKE HERE. SO BE CAREFUL, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.