Hello, there was no offence just an opinion. But if you use some Linux distribution, which includes thousands of packages, do you really read release notes for every package before upgrade?
Marek Odoslané pomocou bezpečného emailu Proton Mail. nedeľa 25. januára 2026, 12:57, Washington Odhiambo via dovecot <[email protected]> napísal/a: > > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 2:47 PM Marek Greško via dovecot < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > it may be true the change was announced long time before, but me > > personally also did not notice and was quite surprised. If there is such a > > big compatibility change I would expoect major version number change (3.0) > > not a minor (2.4) which evokes some higher progress but not the > > configuration compatibility change. > > > > I would also expect on such change if the software accepts also old config > > for some time and logs about deprecated config. Just to get prepared. I > > accept there could be reasons which did not allow authors to do it like > > that. > > > > Marek > > > Every major release or point release always comes with a Release > Announcement and if there are any breaking changes, they are always listed. > Your expectations as stated are personal. The developers just do their > thing as always. > Before any upgrade/update, always refer to the Release Announcement! > > -- > Best regards, > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, > Nairobi,KE > +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 > In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. > "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\(ツ)/¯ :-) > [How to ask smart questions: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html] > On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 2:47PM Marek Gresko via dovecot > <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > it may be true the change was announced long time before, but me > personally also did not notice and was quite surprised. If there is such > a big compatibility change I would expoect major version number change > (3.0) not a minor (2.4) which evokes some higher progress but not the > configuration compatibility change. > > I would also expect on such change if the software accepts also old > config for some time and logs about deprecated config. Just to get > prepared. I accept there could be reasons which did not allow authors to > do it like that. > > Marek > > Every major release or point release always comes with a Release > Announcement and if there are any breaking changes, they are always > listed. > Your expectations as stated are personal. The developers just do their > thing as always. > Before any upgrade/update, always refer to the Release Announcement! > -- > Best regards, > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, > Nairobi,KE > +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 > In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. > "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' -\(Tu)/- :-) > [How to ask smart > questions: [2]http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html] > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
