[Dovecot] Released v1.1.5 and v1.2.alpha3

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Wed Oct 22 21:46:49 EEST 2008


Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.5.tar.gz
> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.5.tar.gz.sig
> 
> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/alpha/dovecot-1.2.alpha3.tar.gz
> http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/alpha/dovecot-1.2.alpha3.tar.gz.sig
> 
> A combined release announcement for a change. :)
> 
> Largest changes since v1.1.4:
> 
> 	* Dovecot prints an informational message about authentication problems
> 	  at startup. The message goes away after the first successful
> 	  authentication. This hopefully reduces the number of "Why doesn't
> 	  my authentication work?" questions.
> 
> 	+ Maildir/dbox: Try harder to assign unique UIDVALIDITY values to
> 	  mailboxes to avoid potential problems when recreating or renaming
> 	  mailboxes. The UIDVALIDITY is tracked using dovecot-uidvalidity*
> 	  files in the mail root directory.
> 	+ Many logging improvements
> 	- In some conditions Dovecot could have stopped using existing cache
> 	  file and never used it again until it was deleted.
> 	- pop3 + Maildir: Make sure virtual sizes are always written to
> 	  dovecot-uidlist. This way if the indexes are lost Dovecot will never
> 	  do a huge amount of work to recalculate them.
> 	- mbox: Fixed listing mailboxes in namespaces with prefix beginning
> 	  with '~' or '/' (i.e. UW-IMAP compatibility namespaces didn't work).
> 	- dict quota: Don't crash when recalculating quota (when quota warnings
> 	  enabled).
> 	- Fixes to handling "out of disk space/quota" failures.
> 	- Blocking passdbs/userdbs (e.g. PAM, MySQL) could have failed lookups
> 	  sometimes when auth_worker_max_request_count was non-zero.
> 	- Fixed compiling with OpenBSD
> 
> Largest changes since v1.2.alpha2:
> 
> 	+ Added userdb checkpassword (by Sascha Wilde)
> 	+ Autocreate plugin: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Autocreate
> 	+ Listescape plugin: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Listescape
> 	- All the same fixes as for v1.1.5
> 

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> I was thinking about waiting for Kolab people's work for shared mailbox
> support to get done, get that code to v1.2 tree and then release
> v1.2.beta1 with feature freeze.

Hi Timo, i think this is a good idea

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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria


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