v2.2.26 release candidate released

Larry Rosenman
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:28:54 -0000

hacked on the FreeBSD port, and it works there as well.  (FreeBSD
10.3-STABLE)

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Eric Broch <ebroch at whitehorsetc.com>
wrote:

> Compiled on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 successfully.
>
>
>
> On 10/19/2016 3:01 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2.26.rc1.tar.gz
>> http://dovecot.org/releases/2.2/rc/dovecot-2.2.26.rc1.tar.gz.sig
>>
>> There are quite a lot of changes since v2.2.25. Please try out this RC
so
>> we can get a good and stable v2.2.26 out.
>>
>>         * master: Removed hardcoded 511 backlog limit for listen(). The
>> kernel
>>           should limit this as needed.
>>         * doveadm import: Source user is now initialized the same as
>> target
>>           user. Added -U parameter to override the source user.
>>         * Mailbox names are no longer limited to 16 hierarchy levels.
>> We'll
>>           check another way to make sure mailbox names can't grow
larger
>> than
>>           4096 bytes.
>>
>>         + Added a concept of "alternative usernames" by
returning user_*
>> extra
>>           field(s) in passdb. doveadm proxy list shows these alt
>> usernames in
>>           "doveadm proxy list" output. "doveadm
director&proxy kick" adds
>>           -f <passdb field> parameter. The alt usernames
don't have to be
>>           unique, so this allows creation of user groups and kicking
them
>> in
>>           one command.
>>         + auth: passdb/userdb dict allows now %variables in key
settings.
>>         + auth: If passdb returns noauthenticate=yes extra field,
assume
>> that
>>           it only set extra fields and authentication wasn't
actually
>> performed.
>>         + auth: passdb static now supports password={scheme} prefix.
>>         + imapc: Added imapc_max_line_length to limit maximum memory
>> usage.
>>         + imap, pop3: Added rawlog_dir setting to store IMAP/POP3
traffic
>> logs.
>>           This replaces at least partially the rawlog plugin.
>>         + dsync: Added dsync_features=empty-header-workaround setting.
>> This
>>           makes incremental dsyncs work better for servers that
randomly
>> return
>>           empty headers for mails. When an empty header is seen for an
>> existing
>>           mail, dsync assumes that it matches the local mail.
>>         + doveadm sync/backup: Added -I <max size> parameter to
skip too
>>           large mails.
>>         + doveadm sync/backup: Fixed -t parameter and added -e for
"end
>> date".
>>         + doveadm mailbox metadata: Added -s parameter to allow
accessing
>>           server metadata by using empty mailbox name.
>>
>>         - master process's listener socket was leaked to all child
>> processes.
>>           This might have allowed untrusted processes to capture and
>> prevent
>>           "doveadm service stop" comands from working.
>>         - auth: userdb fields weren't passed to auth-workers, so
>> %{userdb:*}
>>           from previous userdbs didn't work there.
>>         - auth: Each userdb lookup from cache reset its TTL.
>>         - auth: Fixed auth_bind=yes + sasl_bind=yes to work together
>>         - auth: Blocking userdb lookups reset extra fields set by
previous
>>           userdbs.
>>         - auth: Cache keys didn't include %{passdb:*} and
%{userdb:*}
>>         - auth-policy: Fixed crash due to using already-freed memory if
>> policy
>>           lookup takes longer than auth request exists.
>>         - lib-auth: Unescape passdb/userdb extra fields. Mainly
affected
>>           returning extra fields with LFs or TABs.
>>         - lmtp_user_concurrency_limit>0 setting was logging
unnecessary
>>           anvil errors.
>>         - lmtp_user_concurrency_limit is now checked before quota check
>> with
>>           lmtp_rcpt_check_quota=yes to avoid unnecessary quota work.
>>         - lmtp: %{userdb:*} variables didn't work in
mail_log_prefix
>>         - autoexpunge settings for mailboxes with wildcards didn't
work
>> when
>>           namespace prefix was non-empty.
>>         - Fixed writing >2GB to iostream-temp files (used by
fs-compress,
>>           fs-metawrap, doveadm-http)
>>         - director: Ignore duplicates in director_servers setting.
>>         - zlib, IMAP BINARY: Fixed internal caching when accessing
>> multiple
>>           newly created mails. They all had UID=0 and the next mail
could
>> have
>>           wrongly used the previously cached mail.
>>         - doveadm stats reset wasn't reseting all the stats.
>>         - auth_stats=yes: Don't update num_logins, since it doubles
them
>> when
>>           using with mail stats.
>>         - quota count: Fixed deadlocks when updating vsize header.
>>         - dict-quota: Fixed crashes happening due to memory corruption.
>>         - dict proxy: Fixed various timeout-related bugs.
>>         - doveadm proxying: Fixed -A and -u wildcard handling.
>>         - doveadm proxying: Fixed hangs and bugs related to printing.
>>         - imap: Fixed wrongly triggering assert-crash in
>>           client_check_command_hangs.
>>         - imap proxy: Don't send ID command pipelined with
>> nopipelining=yes
>>         - imap-hibernate: Don't execute quota_over_script or
last_login
>> after
>>           un-hibernation.
>>         - imap-hibernate: Don't un-hibernate if client sends
DONE+IDLE in
>> one
>>           IP packet.
>>         - imap-hibernate: Fixed various failures when un-hibernating.
>>         - fts: fts_autoindex=yes was broken in 2.2.25 unless
>>           fts_autoindex_exclude settings existed.
>>         - fts-solr: Fixed searching multiple mailboxes (patch by x16a0)
>>         - doveadm fetch body.snippet wasn't working in 2.2.25. Also
fixed
>> a
>>           crash with certain emails.
>>         - pop3-migration + dbox: Various fixes related to POP3 UIDL
>>           optimization in 2.2.25.
>>         - pop3-migration: Fixed "truncated email header"
workaround.
>>
>


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