-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Timo Sirainen schrieb: > http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz > http://dovecot.org/releases/1.1/alpha/dovecot-1.1.alpha1.tar.gz.sig > > This is the first alpha release of Dovecot v1.1. I hope that it > stabilizes into final release within a few months. There are a lot of > new features since v1.0. The most important ones are listed at the end > of this post. > > This is the only v1.1.alpha announcement I send to dovecot-news list (or > to www.dovecot.org news). The next one probably will be v1.1.rc1. > > I've been stress testing the code a lot and I've also been using it > myself for almost a year, so I think this release should actually be > quite stable and usable. But since I haven't tested everything, there > might be some crashes and misbehaving commands. > > So this release should now have all the major features that I intend to > add to v1.1 (except for dbox rewrite, see below). Some smaller features > will still be added. The rest of the major features in my previous v1.1 > list will go to v1.2. > > While v1.1 is getting stabilized I'm beginning to rewrite dbox code. Its > code is isolated from the rest of Dovecot, so it can't destabilize > anything else. Hopefully it will be ready before v1.1 release, although > maybe still marked as experimental. > > Some of the features might not be considered quite ready yet: > > - Mailbox list indexes improve STATUS performance a lot (maybe 7x) when > mailboxes haven't changed. Handling updates however is a lot slower than > I'd want (2x with one client, more with multiple), so you may want to > disable them with mailbox_list_index_disable=yes until the update > performance gets better. > > - THREAD code is completely rewritten with support for incremental > updates and index files. I tested it last year and it seemed OK, but I > didn't dare try it now so I wouldn't have to delay this alpha if it was > broken :) I'll do some more testing soon, but for now be careful with > using v1.1 with webmails. > > - SORT code also uses indexes now, but it's a lot simpler so it > probably works. > > - Squat indexes work and I'm using them myself, but they'll be > rewritten for v1.2 with a new faster format. > > - Although Dovecot now flushes NFS attribute/data caches when needed, > I'm not sure if it's done in all the necessary places. > > - I don't remember if I've tested expire plugin at all. > > So, the largest changes I've added to NEWS file (which BTW won't contain > changes between alphas/betas/rcs, those will be only in my mailing list > posts): > > * After Dovecot v1.1 has modified index or dovecot-uidlist files, > they can't be opened anymore with Dovecot versions earlier than > v1.0.2. > * Empty passwords in passdb doesn't allow user to log in with any > password anymore. To do that you'll also need to set nopassword > extra field. > > + IMAP: Added support for UIDPLUS and LIST-EXTENDED extensions. > + IMAP SORT: Sort keys are indexed, which makes SORT commands faster. > + IMAP THREAD: Threads are indexed into a dovecot.index.thread file. > It can usually be updated incrementally, so this makes THREAD fast. > + Added Dovecot-specific X-REFERENCES2 threading algorithm. > It's similar to REFERENCES, but it doesn't do base subject merging > and it sorts the threads by their newest message. > + When saving messages, update cache file immediately with the data > that we expect client to fetch later. Maildir-only currently. > + NFS attribute and data caches are are flushed whenever needed. > See mail_nfs_storage and mail_nfs_index settings. > + Mailbox list indexes. Mailbox metadata is stored there, so STATUS > commands can return synchronized mailboxes' metadata simply by > reading a single mailbox list index file. Currently works only with > Maildir++ layout. > + Out of order command execution (SEARCH, FETCH, LIST), nonstandard > command cancellation (X-CANCEL <tag>) > + Expire plugin can be used to keep track of oldest messages in > specific mailboxes. A nightly run can then quickly expunge old > messages from the mailboxes that have them. The tracking is done > using lib-dict, so you can use either Berkeley DB or SQL database. > + Namespaces are supported everywhere now. > + Full text search indexing support with Lucene and Squat backends. > + OTP and S/KEY authentication mechanisms (by Andrey Panin). > + mbox and Maildir works with both Maildir++ and FS layouts. You can > change these by appending :LAYOUT=maildir++ or :LAYOUT=fs to > mail_location. > + LDAP: Support templates in pass_attrs and user_attrs > + Support for listening in multiple IPs/ports. > + Quota plugin rewrite: Support for multiple quota roots, warnings, > allow giving storage size in bytes or kilo/mega/giga/terabytes, > per-mailbox quota rules. > Hi Timo, wasnt full imap acl planed for the 1.1 release, i dont see it here .....should i take new glasses*gg??
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