Up to date dovecot packages on Ubuntu 22.4LTS

[Patrick Domack]

I generally publish newer version to my ubuntu ppa at:
https://launchpad.net/~patrickdk/+archive/ubuntu/production

I don't hit every single release though.
But yes, only security updates are ever done to packages in released  
versions. that is how they keep it stable.

The fastest releasing I have seen is alpine, if you want to stick to  
os released packages.

Quoting Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at debian.org>:

> On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 12:54:38AM +0100, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>> I just found out that Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS has a dovecot apt  
>> package that is 2.3.16. Debian 11 (stable) is at dovecot 2.3.13  
>> with apt. if I looked correctly. Dovecot itself is at 2.3.20.
>>
>> That surprised me (I am new to the Linux distro and package  
>> management world) as Ubuntu 22.04 is a Long-Time Support version,  
>> and I was expecting packages to be updated as well (as many users  
>> will want updated packages.  How does that work in the dovecot  
>> world? How come macOS MacPorts (2.3.19) has more recent packages  
>> than any of the large Debian-based Linuxes?
>
> That sounds right. 2.3.16 would have been current a couple of months
> before Ubuntu 22.04 was released.
>
> LTS releases generally don't get feature updates, but just major bug
> fixes. If you want a system with (overall) more current packages, you
> might as well be using a much more recent Ubuntu release.
>
> You can install the Dovecot project's own Ubuntu packages though, which
> are new Dovecot versions compiled for older distribution releases. See
> https://repo.dovecot.org/
>
> Jelmer