dovecot - Jan 2023 - Up to date dovecot packages on Ubuntu 22.4LTS

I just found out that Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS has a dovecot apt package that is
2.3.16. Debian 11 (stable) is at dovecot 2.3.13 with apt. if I looked correctly.
Dovecot itself is at 2.3.20.

That surprised me (I am new to the Linux distro and package management world) as
Ubuntu 22.04 is a Long-Time Support version, and I was expecting packages to be
updated as well (as many users will want updated packages.  How does that work
in the dovecot world? How come macOS MacPorts (2.3.19) has more recent packages
than any of the large Debian-based Linuxes?

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On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 12:54:38AM +0100, Gerben Wierda
wrote:
> I just found out that Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS has a dovecot apt package that
is 2.3.16. Debian 11 (stable) is at dovecot 2.3.13 with apt. if I looked
correctly. Dovecot itself is at 2.3.20.
> 
> That surprised me (I am new to the Linux distro and package management
world) as Ubuntu 22.04 is a Long-Time Support version, and I was expecting
packages to be updated as well (as many users will want updated packages.  How
does that work in the dovecot world? How come macOS MacPorts (2.3.19) has more
recent packages than any of the large Debian-based Linuxes?
That sounds right. 2.3.16 would have been current a couple of months
before Ubuntu 22.04 was released.

LTS releases generally don't get feature updates, but just major bug
fixes. If you want a system with (overall) more current packages, you
might as well be using a much more recent Ubuntu release.

You can install the Dovecot project's own Ubuntu packages though, which
are new Dovecot versions compiled for older distribution releases. See
https://repo.dovecot.org/

Jelmer