[Dovecot] v2.0.0 released

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.0.tar.gz
> http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/dovecot-2.0.0.tar.gz.sig
>
> As promised last Friday, here's the v2.0.0 release finally. I'm
> cautiously optimistic that v2.0.1 won't (have to) be released for a few
> weeks, since there was quite a lot of testing and fixing going on in the
> RC stage.
>
> Remember to read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Upgrading/2.0 before upgrading
> from v1.x. Although there is automatic config conversion, it can't
> handle everything, so reserve some extra time for upgrading. If you find
> an upgrade problem that isn't listed on the wiki page, please add it
> there or email Dovecot mailing list about it.
>
> Pigeonhole Sieve and ManageSieve support can now be installed without
> patching Dovecot. Unfortunately there isn't a Pigeonhole release yet for
> v2.0, but its Mercurial code tree should be quite stable. See
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole
>
> There are no changes since v2.0.rc6. The largest changes since v1.2 are:
>
>        * Dovecot uses two system users for internal purposes now by
> default:
>          dovenull and dovecot. You need to create the dovenull user or
> change
>          default_login_user setting.
>        * Global ACLs are now looked up using namespace prefixes. For
> example
>          if you previously had INBOX. namespace prefix and a global ACL for
>          "INBOX.Sent", it's now looked up from "INBOX.Sent" file instead of
>          "Sent" as before.
>        * Maildir: File permissions are no longer based on dovecot-shared
> file,
>          but the mailbox directory.
>
>        + Redesigned master process. It's now more modular and there is less
>          code running as root.
>        + Configuration supports now per-local/remote ip/network settings.
>        + dsync utility does a two-way mailbox synchronization.
>        + LMTP server and proxying.
>        + Added mdbox (multi-dbox) mail storage backend.
>        + doveadm utility can be used to do all kinds of administration
>          functions. Old dovecotpw and *view utilities now exist in its
>          subcommands.
>        + imap and pop3 processes can now handle multiple connections.
>        + IMAP: COMPRESS=DEFLATE is supported by imap_zlib plugin
>        + director service helps NFS installations to redirect users always
>          to same server to avoid corruption
>
>
>
It is yet another major milestone for Dovecot!

Congratulations Timo.


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