[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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