Peter via Postfix-users:
> On 21/02/24 12:40, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote:
> > Peter via Postfix-users:
> >>> A quick status update.
> >>>
> >>> First, several features have been logging warnings that they would
> >>> be removed for 10 years or more, so we could delete them in good
> >>> conscience (perhaps keeping the warning with the suggested alternative).
> >>> This change has not yet been made.
> >
> > Note that this IS a breaking change: features are removed. But
> > there have been warnings for 10+ years that this was coming.
>
> Right, this is the main reason why I think that releasing as 4.0 would
> be appropriate. I do realize that these features have been deprecated
> for a long time but still they are, as you say, breaking changes and so
> releasing as 4.0 will help a lot to distinguish that.
It's three (permit_naked_ip_address, reject_maps_rbl, check_relay_domains)
that have been logging warnings since 2005 or earlier). I find it
hard to justify a major version change for their removal.
> >>> Next, I have added new warnings for the following features, so that
> >>> they can be removed some 5 years down the road.
> >> ...
> >>> The present state is in postfix-3.9-20240218. I have slienced the
> >>> noisy warnings for deprecated and unused configuration parameters
> >>> so that they are not logged while upgrading or installing Postfix.
> >>> The warnings are still logged, once, with postfix start, start-fg,
> >>> check, reload, or status.
> >>
> >> Just a quick thought here. I think it would make sense to release this
> >> as Postfix 4.0 since removing and deprecating a large number of features
> >> should probably be considered quite a major change.
> >
> > I'm not sure that I follow. This is not a breaking change. it just logs
> > a reminder that there will be a breaking change a few years from now.
>
> I didn't mean to imply that these are breaking changes. Simply taking
> the whole of these changes into account along with the breaking changes
> above seems to lend support to releasing as 4.0.
There is a lot more work that needs to be done, that could result
in 5.x in just a few years. It's not impossible to have major
versions a few yearts apart, but I'd like keep a major version for
the time that were removing those 17 obsolete TLS parameters
(_use_tls, _enforce_tls, _per_site, and some otther ones).
Wietse
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