[Dovecot] 1.0.rc9 released

Taras Savchuk taras at elantech.ru
Sat Oct 14 19:04:54 UTC 2006


Timo Sirainen пишет:
> http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc9.tar.gz
> http://dovecot.org/releases/dovecot-1.0.rc9.tar.gz.sig
>
> Most importantly this should fix the login process problems that people
> have been reporting. There were also some bugs in the proxying feature. 
>
> Also note the 64bit change in dovecot.index.cache files. Unless you
> delete dovecot.index.cache files manually, you'll these kind of error
> messages into your logs:
>
> Error: Corrupted index cache file ...dovecot.index.cache:
> registered field date.sent size changed
>
> They'll get fixed automatically of course, but it might be a bit
> annoying to see them.
>
> 	* 64bit systems: dovecot.index.cache file will be rebuilt because
> 	  some time fields have been changed from 64bit fields to 32bit
> 	  fields. Now the same cache file can be used in both 32bit and
> 	  64bit systems without it being rebuilt.
> 	* Added libmysqlclient workaround to conflicting sha1_result symbol,
> 	  which caused Dovecot to fail logging into MySQL.
>
> 	+ dovecot.index.cache file opening is delayed until it's actually
> 	  needed. This reduces disk accesses a bit with eg. STATUS commands.
> 	+ auth_cache: Try to handle changing passwords automatically: If
> 	  password verification fails, but the last one had succeeded, don't
> 	  use the cache. This works only with plaintext auth.
> 	- dovecot.index.cache: We didn't properly detect if some fields were
> 	  different length than we expected, which caused assert crashes
> 	- Lots of fixes to login/master process handling
> 	- mbox: Fixed a bug causing "X-IMAPbase uid-last unexpectedly lost
> 	  in mbox file" errors, and possibly others.
>
>   
Sorry for importunity, but what about kqueue 100% cpu load fix?
In rc8 notes it was marked with '-' sign, but in rc9 notes there is no 
status of kqueue problem at all ;-)
I'm waiting for kqueue fix to start process of improving mail service by 
adding dspam and another things :)

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