dovecot - Jun 2010 - Dovecot 1.1.x and 1.2.x differencies

Hello,

I have been using successfully Dovecot 1.1.x for about a year now. It 
has been very stable.
Now I'm uprading that same system to newer and more powerful hardware 
and I was wondering whether it is good idea or not to switch to Dovecot 
1.2.x series. Could anybody direct me to feature comparision document or 
explain here main differences betweeen thos two branches?

-- 
Veiko

On 14.06.2010 14:43, Veiko Kukk wrote:
> Could anybody direct me to feature comparision document or
> explain here main differences betweeen thos two branches?
Check the release notes:
http://www.dovecot.org/doc/NEWS

and the fine manual on upgrading to 1.2:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Upgrading/1.2

-- 
Eray

On 2010-06-14 7:43 AM, Veiko Kukk wrote:
> Could anybody direct me to feature comparision document or explain
> here main differences betweeen thos two branches?
Isn't it enough to know that 1.2 is the current *stable* branch?

Personally, unless there was something about 2.0 that wasn't stable in
my environment, I'd go with that, since its almost to RC status, and
will be the next stable branch soon.

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:43, Veiko Kukk <veiko.kukk at ekp.ee>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using successfully Dovecot 1.1.x for about a year now. It has
> been very stable.
> Now I'm uprading that same system to newer and more powerful hardware
and I
> was wondering whether it is good idea or not to switch to Dovecot 1.2.x
> series. Could anybody direct me to feature comparision document or explain
> here main differences betweeen thos two branches?
Where the option to upgrade to the latest version (not just a newer
version), it is almost always the best choice.  Advantages of the
latest version include not hearing those words "it is already fixed in
the latest version".

If you need to stay back at an older version, you should already know
why you need to do so.  In my case, I have done so because the first
round of servers were being quickly deployed based on Ubuntu 9.10,
which is known to not always be friendly to building things from
source for which it also has packages.  The next round will be more
slowly built, based on Slackware 13.1 (or so), and use the latest
versions of all major software in use, built from developer released
source.