[Dovecot-news] v2.0.beta5 released

Timo Sirainen
Sun, 09 May 2010 19:27:09 -0000

http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta5.tar.gz
http://dovecot.org/releases/2.0/beta/dovecot-2.0.beta5.tar.gz.sig

Sorry for being so quiet recently. Unfortunately I think it's still going to
last a while longer. I'll be in Italy for next two weeks and immediately
after that I'll move to Portugal. I'll probably write something about
that later to blog.

I had hoped that this beta5 would be almost the same as RC1, but I didn't
have time to put everything there yet, and thought beta4 is way too old already.
The few things that should still be done:

 - Change expire-tool to be a plugin for doveadm expunge command
 - doveadm mailbox * commands should use UTF-8 for mailbox names, not mUTF-7
(and add -7, -8 parameters to switch between them)
 - THREAD command seems to be crashing
 - some other bugfixes

Some of the changes since beta4:

 - default_login_user is now "dovenull". You should create this user.
 - imap, pop3 -u <user> now does userdb lookup + changes privileges if
necessary, so it's much easier to start imap/pop3 session for a specific
user from command line
 - doveadm has all kinds of new commands and changes
 - PostgreSQL supports now multiple connections to backend. Also supports
load-balancing / HA by specifying multiple host parameters. MySQL and PostgreSQL
now share the same code for that.
 - probably lots of other things I can't think of right now.
h