[Dovecot] 1.0.rc29 released

[Aria Stewart]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:05 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, March 30, 2007 3:24 PM -0700 Frank Cusack 
> <fcusack at fcusack.com> wrote:
> 
> >> This is why I'm still using 0.99. The RC's still look like betas and I
> >> have no idea which one (if any) is less a regression than any other.
> >
> > They ARE betas.  That's no reason to stay with 0.99.  It's effectively
> > beta as well.
> 
> In principle, a "release candidate" should be a gamma. It should be 
> effectively ready for release, and distributed to check for awful 
> show-stoppers.
> 
> Is 1.0rc29 stable enough to replace 0.99 from Fedora? Will I suddenly have 
> a bunch of angry users seeing things break?

It is stable enough. I've been using it in production, and each RC, with
no issues. Really damn good software.

> 
> 1.0.rc1 was released in June. Here's a quote from the release message for 
> rc11 (November 4):
> 
> > Hopefully the last RC release? As far as I know there are no major
> > problems left now. If nothing big shows up, v1.0 should be out in a
> > couple of weeks.
> 
> In rc27:
> 
> > A few new small features and lots of index/mbox fixes. I've been heavily
> > stress testing this release, so I think it should be about perfect. :)
> 
> *Features*?! In an rc?! No wonder there's no convergence.
> 

Oddly, the new features don't seem to act up. Just little issues keep
coming up.