On 25/01/2026 15:00 EET John Fawcett via dovecot
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On 25/01/2026 12:46, Marek Gresko via dovecot 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
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Hi Marek
I don't want to underestimate people's irritation and surprise about
finding incompatible changes in Dovecot after upgrading a distro that
includes 2.4. If I had done the same thing I would also be irritated,
just maybe more with myself.
It's a good point about the major versioning, I am sure there is a logic
behind why Dovecot CE did a minor version update and Dovecot Pro did a
major one, linked to the amount of change that went into Dovecot Pro.
For those using Dovecot CE the amount of change they see between 2.3 and
2.4 could have warranted a major release too. But now that can only be a
lesson for the future.
As Dovecot CE is over 20 years old, the versioning is slightly different
than what people assume.
For us 2.4 is major release, 2.4.1 is minor release. I understand that
this is not what semver says, but thats how it is.
Aki
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