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more to their own repo's for those that might still want to use them?
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allow plugins to modify advertised capabilities. (#pull request 86)
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We are starting to gradually remove some of these parts, which are unused, untested or deprecated.
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- Authentication drivers: vpopmail, checkpassword, bsdauth, shadow, sia
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- Dict drivers: memcached, memcached-ascii (use redis instead)
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future. Features will begin to be dropped as of v2.3.11.
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