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v1.1.beta1 released
by Timo Sirainen 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/beta/dovecot-1.1.beta1.tar.gz.sig Alpha6 seemed to finally work quite well, so I think it's time for a feature freeze (except for dbox changes). I started a new wiki page to list incompatibilities between v1.0 and v1.1: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.1 Fixes since alpha6: - deliver + maildir caused "UID 0 in transaction log" errors - deliver + maildir no longer blocks if dovecot-uidlist.lock file exists. The mail is simply delivered without updating uidlist or indexes. - Quota handling fixes, especially dict quota - etc.

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v1.0.5 released
by Timo Sirainen 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.5.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.5.tar.gz.sig v1.0.4 was a bit bad release. - deliver: v1.0.4 broke home directory handling - maildir: Creating mailboxes didn't use dovecot-shared's group for cur/new/tmp directories.

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v1.0.4 released
by Timo Sirainen 08 Sep '07

08 Sep '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.4.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.4.tar.gz.sig * Assume a MIME message if Content-Type: header exists, even if Mime-Version: header doesn't. - IMAP: CREATE ns_prefix/box/ didn't work right when namespace prefix existed. - deliver: plugin {} settings were overriding settings from userdb. - mbox: Expunging the first message might not have worked always - PostgreSQL: If we can't connect to server, timeout queries after a while instead of trying forever. - Solaris: sendfile() support was broken and could have caused 100% CPU usage and the connection hanging. And one more thing I forgot from NEWS file: - IMAP: Fixed infinite loop in some situations

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v1.0.3 released
by Timo Sirainen 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.3.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.0/dovecot-1.0.3.tar.gz.sig - deliver: v1.0.2's bounce fix caused message to be always saved to INBOX even if Sieve script had discard, reject or redirect commands. - LDAP: auth_bind=yes and empty auth_bind_userdn leaked memory - ACL plugin: If user was given i (insert) right for a mailbox, but not all s/t/w (seen, deleted, other flags) rights, COPY and APPEND commands weren't supposed to allow saving those flags. This is technically a security fix, but it's unlikely this caused problems for anyone. - ACL plugin: i (insert) right didn't work unless user was also given l (lookup) right. - Solaris: Fixed filesystem quota for autofs mounts.

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v1.1.alpha1 released
by Timo Sirainen 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz.sig This is the first alpha release of Dovecot v1.1. I hope that it stabilizes into final release within a few months. There are a lot of new features since v1.0. The most important ones are listed at the end of this post. This is the only v1.1.alpha announcement I send to dovecot-news list (or to www.dovecot.org news). The next one probably will be v1.1.rc1. I've been stress testing the code a lot and I've also been using it myself for almost a year, so I think this release should actually be quite stable and usable. But since I haven't tested everything, there might be some crashes and misbehaving commands. So this release should now have all the major features that I intend to add to v1.1 (except for dbox rewrite, see below). Some smaller features will still be added. The rest of the major features in my previous v1.1 list will go to v1.2. While v1.1 is getting stabilized I'm beginning to rewrite dbox code. Its code is isolated from the rest of Dovecot, so it can't destabilize anything else. Hopefully it will be ready before v1.1 release, although maybe still marked as experimental. Some of the features might not be considered quite ready yet: - Mailbox list indexes improve STATUS performance a lot (maybe 7x) when mailboxes haven't changed. Handling updates however is a lot slower than I'd want (2x with one client, more with multiple), so you may want to disable them with mailbox_list_index_disable=yes until the update performance gets better. - THREAD code is completely rewritten with support for incremental updates and index files. I tested it last year and it seemed OK, but I didn't dare try it now so I wouldn't have to delay this alpha if it was broken :) I'll do some more testing soon, but for now be careful with using v1.1 with webmails. - SORT code also uses indexes now, but it's a lot simpler so it probably works. - Squat indexes work and I'm using them myself, but they'll be rewritten for v1.2 with a new faster format. - Although Dovecot now flushes NFS attribute/data caches when needed, I'm not sure if it's done in all the necessary places. - I don't remember if I've tested expire plugin at all. So, the largest changes I've added to NEWS file (which BTW won't contain changes between alphas/betas/rcs, those will be only in my mailing list posts): * After Dovecot v1.1 has modified index or dovecot-uidlist files, they can't be opened anymore with Dovecot versions earlier than v1.0.2. * Empty passwords in passdb doesn't allow user to log in with any password anymore. To do that you'll also need to set nopassword extra field. + IMAP: Added support for UIDPLUS and LIST-EXTENDED extensions. + IMAP SORT: Sort keys are indexed, which makes SORT commands faster. + IMAP THREAD: Threads are indexed into a dovecot.index.thread file. It can usually be updated incrementally, so this makes THREAD fast. + Added Dovecot-specific X-REFERENCES2 threading algorithm. It's similar to REFERENCES, but it doesn't do base subject merging and it sorts the threads by their newest message. + When saving messages, update cache file immediately with the data that we expect client to fetch later. Maildir-only currently. + NFS attribute and data caches are are flushed whenever needed. See mail_nfs_storage and mail_nfs_index settings. + Mailbox list indexes. Mailbox metadata is stored there, so STATUS commands can return synchronized mailboxes' metadata simply by reading a single mailbox list index file. Currently works only with Maildir++ layout. + Out of order command execution (SEARCH, FETCH, LIST), nonstandard command cancellation (X-CANCEL <tag>) + Expire plugin can be used to keep track of oldest messages in specific mailboxes. A nightly run can then quickly expunge old messages from the mailboxes that have them. The tracking is done using lib-dict, so you can use either Berkeley DB or SQL database. + Namespaces are supported everywhere now. + Full text search indexing support with Lucene and Squat backends. + OTP and S/KEY authentication mechanisms (by Andrey Panin). + mbox and Maildir works with both Maildir++ and FS layouts. You can change these by appending :LAYOUT=maildir++ or :LAYOUT=fs to mail_location. + LDAP: Support templates in pass_attrs and user_attrs + Support for listening in multiple IPs/ports. + Quota plugin rewrite: Support for multiple quota roots, warnings, allow giving storage size in bytes or kilo/mega/giga/terabytes, per-mailbox quota rules.

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v1.0.2 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.2.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.2.tar.gz.sig Fixes several bugs. This release also adds compatibility with upcoming Dovecot v1.1 so it'll be possible to upgrade to v1.1 and back to v1.0.2 without anything breaking. * dbox isn't built anymore by default. It will be redesigned so it shouldn't be used. + Maildir: Support reading dovecot-uidlist (v3) files created by Dovecot v1.1. - Maildir: "UIDVALIDITY changed" errors could happen with newly created mailboxes - If "INBOX." namespace was used, LIST returned it with \HasNoChildren which caused some clients not to show any other mailboxes. - Maildir++ quota: If multiple processes were updating maildirsize at the same time, we failed with "Unknown error". - IMAP: IDLE didn't actually disconnect client after 30 minutes of inactivity. - LDAP passdb/userdb was leaking memory - deliver: %variables in plugin {} weren't expanded - deliver: Don't bounce the mail if Sieve plugin returns failure

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v1.0.1 released
by Timo Sirainen 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.1.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.1.tar.gz.sig Lots of small fixes. * deliver: If Return-Path doesn't contain user and domain, don't try to bounce the mail (this is how it was supposed to work earlier too) * deliver: %variables in mail setting coming from userdb aren't expanded anymore (again how it should have worked). The expansion could have caused problems if paths contained any '%' characters. + Print Dovecot version number with dovecot -n and -a + deliver: Added -e parameter to write rejection error to stderr and exit with EX_NOPERM instead of sending the rejection by executing sendmail. + dovecot --log-error logs now a warning, an error and a fatal - Trying to start Dovecot while it's already running doesn't anymore wipe out login_dir and break the running Dovecot. - maildir: Fixed "UID larger than next_uid" errors which happened sometimes when dovecot-uidlist file didn't exist but index files did (usually because mailbox didn't have any messages when it was selected for the first time) - maildir: We violated maildir spec a bit by not having keyword characters sorted in the filename. - maildir: If we don't have write access to cur/ directory, treat the mailbox as read-only. This fixes some internal error problems with trying to use read-only maildirs. - maildir: Deleting a symlinked maildir failed with internal error. - mbox: pop3_uidl_format=%m wasn't working right - mbox: If non-filesystem quota was enabled, we could have failed with "Unexpectedly lost From-line" errors while saving new messages - mysql auth: %c didn't work. Patch by Andrey Panin - APPEND / SEARCH: If internaldate was outside valid value for time_t, we returned BAD error for APPEND and SEARCH never matched. With 64bit systems this shouldn't have happened. With 32bit systems the valid range is usually for years 1902..2037. - COPY: We sent "Hang in there.." too early sometimes and checked it too often (didn't break anything, but was slower than needed). - deliver: Postfix's sendmail binary wasn't working with mail_debug=yes - Don't corrupt ssl-parameters.dat files when running multiple Dovecot instances. - Cache compression caused dovecot.index.cache to be completely deleted with big endian CPUs if 64bit file offsets were used (default) - Fixed "(index_mail_parse_header): assertion failed" crash

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CVS to Mercurial switch
by Timo Sirainen 19 May '07

19 May '07

I've been meaning to switch away from CVS for a few years now, but I was never sure what I wanted to switch to, so I kept delaying it. I finally decided yesterday that Mercurial is pretty nice. The Mercurial repository is available from http://hg.dovecot.org/ (has a nice web interface). I wrote a small Mercurial mini-howto below. I'm not a Mercurial expert yet, so if you know better ways to do some things please let me know. The CVS repositories will still exist for a while, but they won't be updated anymore. If you notice the CVS being referenced somewhere (wiki, docs, etc.) please let me know (or fix yourself in wiki). 1. Fetch the initial repository: - ex. CVS HEAD: hg clone http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot/ - ex. branch_1_0: hg clone http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/ - sieve plugin: hg clone http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-sieve-1.0/ The Sieve plugin currently works only with v1.0. I'll make a new "dovecot-sieve" repository for CVS HEAD later. 2. Update the repository: hg pull hg merge # only needed if you had done any changes hg update # to actually see the pulled changes All of this can be done with fetch extension. You can enable it by adding to ~/.hgrc: [extensions] hgext.fetch = After that you can use "hg fetch" which does all the above 3 commands (as far as I know, haven't really tried yet). 3. If you want to modify the sources, add your name to ~/.hgrc so it goes nicely into changelogs: [ui] username = Timo Sirainen <tss(a)iki.fi> You're able to "hg commit" your own changes into your repository. If you want to publish them, use "hg log" to see the changeset ID, and then use "hg export changesetid" to get patch ("hg export tip" might work too if you just want the last change(?)). You can then email the patch to Dovecot mailing list to get it merged. With CVS the ChangeLog file was updated every 15 minutes. Now the ChangeLog file doesn't exist in the repository at all. Instead it's generated with "hg log --style=changelog" when running "make dist".

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v1.0.0 released
by Timo Sirainen 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.0.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig It took almost 5 years, but it's finally ready. I'm not expecting to release v1.0.1 anytime soon, unless someone's been sitting on a major bug just waiting for v1.0 to be released. :) People wanting new features should start testing the upcoming v1.1. http://dovecot.org/nightly/ contains now snapshots from CVS HEAD. It already has tons of new features. I've been using it myself for half a year, so it should be mostly stable too. I'll write a separate mail about this later.

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1.0.rc32 released
by Timo Sirainen 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc32.tar.gz http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc32.tar.gz.sig Pretty late for changes if v1.0 is supposed to come out tomorrow, but I can't really leave these LDAP bugs unfixed. They shouldn't anyway break anything, so here's one more day for you people to find out about any bugs. One thing that I'm a bit concerned about is the addition of #define LDAP_DEPRECATED. I know it fixes crashes with OpenLDAP 2.3 + 64bit systems, but I hope it doesn't break compiling with some old versions or non-OpenLDAP libraries.. - LDAP, auth_bind=no: Don't crash if doing non-plaintext ldap passdb lookup for unknown user. This also broke deliver when userdb static was used. - LDAP, auth_bind=yes and userdb ldap: We didn't wait until bind was finished before sending the userdb request, which could have caused problems. - LDAP: Don't break when compiling with OpenLDAP v2.3 library - Convert plugin: Don't create "maildirfolder" file to Maildir root.

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