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v1.2.rc6 released
by Timo Sirainen 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc6.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc6.tar.gz.sig I think it's time to get v1.2.0 released soon. There is apparently still one rare crashing bug in virtual plugin, but unless someone can reproduce the bug I'm not going to delay v1.2.0 because of it. The release plan is: - Release v1.2.rc7 next Friday (assuming there have been some fixes) - Release v1.2.0 the next Monday I'll be giving a Dovecot talk in Berlin on July 2nd, and I really want to have v1.2.0 released by them. So July 1st is the absolute final deadline for v1.2.0. :) Changes since rc5: * imap proxy: Pass through to client unexpected untagged replies from remote server (e.g. alerts). * Solr: Don't use "any" copyfield, it doubles the index size. * mail_location: Allow using ":" characters in dir names by escaping it as "::". - mbox: Don't crash with invalid From_-lines. - IMAP: Don't crash if IDLE command is pipelined after a long-running UID FETCH or UID SEARCH. - ACL / shared mailbox fixes - Some metadata files were incorrectly getting 0666 permissions.

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Released Sieve v0.1.6 and ManageSieve v0.11.5 for Dovecot v1.2.rc5
by Stephan Bosch 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hello Dovecot users, After more than a week on one of the Dutch islands, I finally managed to update the Sieve and Managesieve packages for the new v1.2.rc5 release. Sorry for the delay. Changelog Sieve v0.1.6: * Adjusted to changes in Dovecot to make it compile against v1.2.rc5 * Made default of sieve_dir setting match the ManageSieve implementation. - Fixed a few problems in de body extension that caused assert failures in specific situations. Changelog ManageSieve v0.11.5: * Incorporated various changes from imap-login into managesieve-login. This includes changes in the proxy support. -- The releases are available as follows: Sieve: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.6.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.6.tar.gz.sig ManageSieve (package + patch): http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.5.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.5.tar.gz.s… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.rc5-managesieve-0.11.5.diff… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.rc5-managesieve-0.11.5.diff… -- Have fun testing the new releases and don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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v1.2.rc5 released
by Timo Sirainen 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc5.tar.gz.sig Some small fixes mainly. I guess I'll still have to release rc6 and rc7 after all. I've been a bit busy with v2.0 changes recently. BTW. I'm leaving tomorrow to San Francisco and I'm going to check out what's happening in Apple WWDC next week. * auth_cache_negative_ttl is now used also for password mismatches (currently only with plaintext authentication mechanisms). + Added support for EXTERNAL SASL mechanism. + FETCH X-SAVEDATE can now be used to get messages' save timestamps + deliver_log_format: %s is now in UTF8 - If message body started with a space, some operations could have assert-crashed. - Fixed using LDAP support as a plugin - Fixes to virtual mailboxes.

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v1.1.16 released
by Timo Sirainen 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.16.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.16.tar.gz.sig Fixes a couple of bugs in v1.1.15's changes. Hopefully the last v1.1 release before v1.2.0. - v1.1.15 could have crashed if mailbox-closing command was pipelined after a mailbox-accessing command. - v1.1.15's zlib plugin may have caused crashes when fetching INTERNALDATE. - Maildir: If messages had been deleted externally from new/ directory and mailbox was opened with EXAMINE, Dovecot didn't immediately notice that the messages were deleted. - If message body started with a space, some operations could have assert-crashed.

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v1.2.rc4 released
by Timo Sirainen 18 May '09

18 May '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc4.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc4.tar.gz.sig I'm pretty hopeful that virtual mailbox code is finally crash-free. If people don't find many problems from this release, I'm thinking that rc5 could come in a couple of weeks and that would be renamed to v1.2.0 after a week or so if no one has reported bugs. v1.2.rc4 2009-05-17 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * If /dev/arandom exists, use it instead of /dev/urandom (OpenBSD). * When logging to a file, the lines now start with a timestamp instead of "dovecot: " prefix. + IMAP: When multiple commands are pipelined, try harder to combine their mailbox syncing together. For example with Maildir pipelining STORE 1:* +FLAGS \Deleted and EXPUNGE commands the files won't be unnecessarily rename()d before being unlink()ed. + imap-proxy: Send backend's CAPABILITY if it's different from what was sent to client before. + IMAP: struct mail now keeps track of all kinds of statistics, such as number of open()s, stat()s, bytes read, etc. These fields could be exported by some kind of a statistics plugin (not included yet). + IMAP: SEARCH command now dynamically figures out how to run about 0.20 .. 0.25 seconds before seeing if there's other work to do. This makes the SEARCH performance much better. - Fixes to shared mailbox handling. - Fixes to virtual mailboxes. - THREAD command could have crashed. - Fixes to expire-tool. - mbox: Don't break if From_-line is preceded by CRLF (instead of LF). - dict process wasn't restarted after SIGHUP was sent to master.

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v1.1.15 released
by Timo Sirainen 18 May '09

18 May '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.15.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.15.tar.gz.sig The command pipelining fix is pretty interesting. Wonder how much it improves performance, especially when deleting lots of messages from a large mailbox. v1.1.15 2009-05-17 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> + IMAP: When multiple commands are pipelined, try harder to combine their mailbox syncing together. For example with Maildir pipelining STORE 1:* +FLAGS \Deleted and EXPUNGE commands the files won't be unnecessarily rename()d before being unlink()ed. - IMAP: SEARCH command was slower than necessary in a large mailbox. - deliver: When forwarding messages, if -f parameter was given, it should have been used as the Return-Path. - Maildir saving: Fixed race condition bugs in uidlist handling, causing files to be given new UIDs sometimes. - mbox: Don't crash when expunging all messages and file doesn't end with [CR]LF. - expire-tool: Use mail_uid and mail_gid settings if userdb doesn't return uid/gid. - Berkeley DB dict: Transaction rollbacking was implemented wrong. - zlib plugin: Some email / FETCH command combinations could have disconnected the client or sent compressed garbage.

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Released Sieve v0.1.5 and ManageSieve v0.11.4 for Dovecot v1.2.rc3 and ManageSieve v0.10.6 for Dovecot v1.1.14
by Stephan Bosch 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

Hello Dovecot users, This is a simultaneous release of new versions of Sieve-related software for Dovecot v1.1 and v1.2. Only the Sieve implementation itself has seen significant development. The ManageSieve packages only have small fixes and the ManageSieve patches are updated as usual to match the new Dovecot releases. Changelog Sieve v0.1.5: * Ported the implementation of the Sieve include extension to the latest draft. This means that the import and export commands are replaced by a new command called global. The import and export commands are now DEPRICATED and are mere aliases for the global command. The new specification also adds the :once modifier to the include command. The also newly specified global.* variable namespace is not implemented yet as support for variable namespaces is currently missing. * Did a major rework of the multiscript support for better error handling and made sure that persistent global scripts (sieve_before/sieve_after) are always executed, even when the user does not have a script of his own and a global default is missing. + Provided basic support for the environment extension. Currenly, the name, version and host items are useful. Others are pending. + Improved error message that is presented when an unknown Sieve extension is provided as argument to the require command. It now notifies the user that Sieve core commands do not need to be specified in require. - Fixed bug in includes at levels deeper than one. - Fixed bug in address matching that was caused by the failure to handle group specifications. In Dovecot, these are marked by address items with NULL elements, which causes a segfault if not considered. The group 'undisclosed-recipients:;' in particular triggered this bug. Bug reported by Bernhard Schmidt. Changelog ManageSieve v0.11.4 (Dovecot v1.2.rc3): * Adjusted to changes in the Dovecot signal handler API. Changelog ManageSieve v0.10.6 (Dovecot v1.1.14): - Fixed small problems in the login proxy support. -- The releases are available as follows: Sieve for Dovecot 1.2: http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.5.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.5.tar.gz.sig ManageSieve for Dovecot v1.2 (package + patch): http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.4.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2-managesieve-0.11.4.tar.gz.s… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.rc3-managesieve-0.11.4.diff… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.2/dovecot-1.2.rc3-managesieve-0.11.4.diff… ManageSieve + patch for Dovecot v1.1 (package + patch): http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.1/dovecot-1.1-managesieve-0.10.6.tar.gz http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.1/dovecot-1.1-managesieve-0.10.6.tar.gz.s… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.1/dovecot-1.1.14-managesieve-0.10.6.diff.… http://www.rename-it.nl/dovecot/1.1/dovecot-1.1.14-managesieve-0.10.6.diff.… -- Have fun testing the new releases and don't hesitate to notify me when there are problems. Regards, -- Stephan Bosch stephan(a)rename-it.nl

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v1.1.14 and v1.2.rc3 released
by Timo Sirainen 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.14.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/dovecot-1.1.14.tar.gz.sig http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc3.tar.gz.sig Fixed lots of bugs in v1.2 related to shared mailboxes and virtual mailboxes. Keep on testing and sending bug reports and hopefully we'll get v1.2.0 release out soon. :) Also v1.3 branch has started and it's coming along nicely. Multi-dbox is working and looks like its performance is very nice. LMTP server is basically implemented, except master process doesn't start it. Adding the master code started becoming so annoying that I think I'll finally finish the master process rewrite, or at least the most important parts of it. So looks like v1.3 might become v2.0 after all. v1.1.14 2009-04-16 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * IMAP: Don't allow APPEND to specify INTERNALDATE more than 2 hours into future. With Maildir future INTERNALDATEs may mess up incremental backups. - Date: header was always being added to cache file when saving messages, even if clients didn't really want it. This caused POP3-only users to have dovecot.index.cache file unneededly. - Character set conversion in specific mails may have caused Dovecot to allocate all the available memory (in default configuration dying after having allocated 256 MB). This happened only while searching messages. - Message address parser didn't handle empty group:; correctly. - imap/pop3-login: Don't crash when shutting down and destroying clients. - deliver wasn't using mail_access_groups setting. - mbox: When doing autodetection, if mbox didn't find an existing mail directory it just went and created it anyway, instead of failing the storage creation. - Fixed some error handling in maildir and index code. v1.2.rc3 2009-04-16 Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> * IMAP proxy no longer simply forwards tagged reply from remote authentication command. It's now done only if the remote server sent a [resp-code], otherwise all failure strings are converted to Dovecot's "Authentication failed." to make sure that if remote isn't using Dovecot it won't reveal user's existence. + Quota roots can now specify which namespace's quota they're tracking. This is probably the most useful for giving public namespaces a quota. + Added imap_idle_notify_interval setting. - Fixes to shared mailbox handling - Fixes to virtual mailboxes - Fixed compiling with some FreeBSD and NetBSD versions - THREAD REFS still might have returned one (0) at the beginning. - deliver wasn't using mail_access_groups setting. - Fixed some error handling in maildir and index code.

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v1.2.rc2 released
by Timo Sirainen 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc2.tar.gz.sig Somehow I forgot to check that "make distcheck" finished successfully in rc1, so rc1 didn't actually even fully compile. No other changes since rc1 than the compile fix.

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v1.2.rc1 released
by Timo Sirainen 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.2/rc/dovecot-1.2.rc1.tar.gz.sig I think it's time to get v1.2.0 out soon. Shared mailbox code is beginning to look like it's working and other features should work fine also. I don't really see any reasons to delay it, so please start testing and let's get the last bugs found and fixed quickly. I'm also going to start v1.3 branch soon with configuration rewrite and multi-dbox support. Changes since beta4: * Renamed THREAD X-REFERENCES2 to THREAD REFS (from INTHREAD draft) + When a process is killed, show the signal code and the sending process's pid and uid. + quota-fs: Added support for NFS group quota. - Several fixes to shared mailboxes and ACLs - Removed umask setting. We're nowadays creating practically all files with proper umasks. - acl: Dropped default ACL cache timeout from 5 minutes to 30 seconds. - fts-solr fixes - virtual mailbox fixes - Write to main index file less often.

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