Eray Aslan <[email protected]> writes: > Feedback welcome > > > Title: net-mail/dovecot-2.4.2 stabilization > Author: Eray Aslan <[email protected]> > Posted: 2026-01-08 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > Display-If-Installed: net-mail/dovecot > Display-If-Keyword: amd64 > Display-If-Keyword: arm > Display-If-Keyword: arm64 > Display-If-Keyword: ppc > Display-If-Keyword: ppc64 > Display-If-Keyword: x86 > > net-mail/dovecot-2.4.2 will be stabilized soon[1] and will be the first > dovecot-2.4 release that will be stable in Gentoo.
LGTM. Thanks for doing this. I have to say I'm a bit nervous about my own setups and I'll have to try do that this weekend or so... > > Dovecot-2.3 configuration settings will not work with Dovecot-2.4 and > manual intervention is required for the upgrade. Please read > > https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.2/installation/upgrade/overview.html > > before upgrading your dovecot instance. > > We strongly recommend finalizing your Dovecot 2.4 configuration on a > test system before upgrading any production systems. > > The following steps typically make the upgrade process easier: > > 1. Make a note of your current configuration by running doveconf -n > 2. Stop the dovecot daemon > 3. Move ALL your configuration files to a temporary location > 4. Upgrade to dovecot-2.4.2 > 5. Read the new configuration files and uncomment as necessary > 6. Compare the new doveconf -n output with the old one and add missing > configuration settings one by one while checking that the system works after > each change > > [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/967978
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