Hi,
On 2026/01/07 10:01, Sam James wrote:
Eray Aslan <[email protected]> writes:
Feedback welcome
Title: net-mail/dovecot-2.4.2 stabilization
Author: Eray Aslan <[email protected]>
Posted: 2026-01-08
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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...
Agree with Sam. Some large systems (including clusters that will need
to be upgraded in parallel) ... not looking forward to this one. At
least the initial noise on the dovecot mailing list regarding issues
seems to have quieted down now.
If I may, I would like do request that 2.3 please be left in the tree
for a while still and not be cleaned too aggressively.
Kind regards,
Jaco
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
