On 01/05/2023 05:26 EEST Shawn Heisey <elyograg@elyograg.org> wrote:

 

 

On 1/17/23 14:04, Shawn Heisey wrote:

I'm wondering whether there is a ballpark release date for Dovecot 2.4.

I know an exact release date is probably not available, but can it at

least be narrowed to a specific quarter?  Is it likely in 2023?

 

I have seen on previous messages that an Ubuntu repository for 22.04

(jammy) will appear with the 2.4 release.

 

My mail server in AWS is running Ubuntu 20.04 (focal), which I have

avoided upgrading for various reasons, including websites that don't

work with PHP 8.1.

 

Now the last remaining hurdle is the fact that there is no dovecot

repository for jammy.  I would prefer the official Dovecot repo over

dovecot packages included with Ubuntu, because it's likely to be a newer

release, and built from vanilla project code.  At the moment jammy

includes dovecot 2.3.16, which is even older than the 2.3.20 that I am

running on focal from the official dovecot repo.

 

Again, I know that a precise release date won't be possible.  I'm just

hoping for something like "soon" or "in about six months."

Is the release so far off that nobody wants to even make a guess? It

has been three months since I wrote the message I am replying to.

 

I don't see any indication in the github repo of a branch for

stabilization work on the new version.