[Dovecot] v2.2.0 released
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Mon Apr 15 18:55:28 EEST 2013
On 4/12/13 12:33 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.0.tar.gz
> http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/dovecot-2.2.0.tar.gz.sig
>
> Everything now seems to be stable and working in v2.2, so I can finally
> move onto developing great new interesting features for v2.3. :)
>
> My company has also launched a web shop where you can buy various
> products. One of them is cheap access to Dovecot enterprise edition
> repositories, which are basically same as regular Dovecot releases,
> except they are kept patched with the latest important bugfixes. We
> currently have releases for RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6, Debian Squeeze and
> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. By buying Dovecot-EE you'll also get a 30 day demo
> license for object storages, if you want to try it out.
> http://shop.dovecot.fi/
>
> * When creating home directories, the permissions are copied from the
> parent directory if it has setgid-bit set. For full details, see
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/SharedMailboxes/Permissions
> * "doveadm auth" command was renamed to "doveadm auth test"
> * IMAP: ID command now advertises server name as Dovecot by default.
> It was already trivial to guess this from command replies.
> * dovecot.index.cache files can be safely accessed only by v2.1.11+.
> Older versions may think they're corrupted and delete them.
> * LDA/LMTP: If saving a mail brings user from under quota to over
> quota, allow it based on quota_grace setting (default: 10%
> above quota limit).
> * pop3_lock_session=yes now uses a POP3-only dovecot-pop3-session.lock
> file instead of actually locking the mailbox (and causing
> IMAP/LDA/LMTP to wait for the POP3 session to close).
> * mail_shared_explicit_inbox setting's default switched to "no".
> * ssl_client_ca_dir setting replaced imapc_ssl_ca_dir and
> pop3c_ssl_ca_dir settings.
>
> + Implemented IMAP MOVE and BINARY extensions
> + Implemented IMAP CATENATE, URLAUTH and URLAUTH=BINARY extensions
> (by Stephan Bosch).
> + Implemented IMAP NOTIFY extension. Requires mailbox_list_index=yes
> to be enabled.
> + Redesigned and rewritten dsync. The new design makes the syncing
> faster, more reliable and more featureful. The new dsync protocol
> isn't backwards compatible with old dsync versions (but is designed
> to be forwards compatible with future versions).
> + All mailbox formats now support per-user message flags for shared
> mailboxes by using a private index. It can be enabled by adding
> :INDEXPVT=<path> to mail location. This should be used instead of
> :INDEX also for Maildir/mbox to improve performance.
> + Improved mailbox list indexes. They should be usable now, although
> still disabled by default.
> + Added LAYOUT=index. The mailbox directories are created using their
> GUIDs in the filesystem, while the actual GUID <-> name mapping
> exists only in the index.
> + LMTP proxy: Implemented XCLIENT extension for passing remote IP
> address through proxy.
>
>
Does the new obox plugin support any of the open source object storage
systems such as openstack, glusterfs, or ceph? From your store site it
does not appear so.
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