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@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