[Dovecot] 1.0.alpha4 released

[Sebastjan Trepca]

And what does zlib-plugin do ?

Regads, Sebastjan

On 20/10/05, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> The actual alpha4 release this time. With a few changes since the
> pre-release.
>
> The important changes again:
>
>  - Default lock_method changed to flock instead of the old fcntl.
> Solaris users will need to set it back to fcntl. This makes sure that
> Dovecot's indexes aren't accidentally used with NFS.
>
>  - IMAP: We might have sent extra EXPUNGE messages when output buffer
> got full. This could have caused various sorts of very bad behavior.
> This is the main reason why everyone should upgrade as soon as possible.
>
>  - POP3: We sent duplicate replies for LIST command when output buffer
> got full. Probably caused Thunderbird's duplicate deletion bugs?
> (Although I thought someone checked that Dovecot's reply was correct
> when the bug occurred?)
>
>  - pop3_uidl_format setting is now required to be explicitly set in
> configuration file for pop3 to work at all. I want to get rid of the old
> default setting which breaks Outlooks, and simply changing the default
> would break existing setups.
>
>  - Multiple passdbs and userdbs of same type can now be added with
> different parameters. Some people asked about this earlier.
>
>  - Authentication cache works now with other than SQL and LDAP passdbs.
> Some passdbs such as PAM require some additional settings to work. See
> example config file.
>
>  - Some other fixes to authentication cache related to failure handling
> and non-plaintext authentication.
>
>  - deny passdb wasn't working for non-plaintext authentication.
>
> New changes since alpha4 pre-release:
>
>  - imap/pop3 proxy feature was broken
>  - fixed an assert-crash in ostream-file.c that was only in the
> pre-release
>
> And some more changes since alpha3 that I didn't mention before:
>
>  - zlib plugin updated in
> http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/zlib-plugin.tar.gz to be much faster than
> before
>  - Added ssl_username_from_cert setting. Not actually tested yet, does
> it work?
>  - epoll was broken with 64bit systems
>  - Added deny password databases.
>  - Dovecot can be run from inetd again
>  - Index breakage/crashfix related to adding new keywords
>
>
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