[Dovecot] 1.0.beta2 released

Brad brad at comstyle.com
Tue Jan 24 02:35:30 EET 2006


On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:50:14PM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> >I had originally thought that I'd do a complete audit of the Dovecot's
> >sources this weekend, but looks like I didn't. Hopefully I've been
> >writing good enough code that the "1000 EUR for security hole" offer
> >lasts for a long time. :)
> >
> >This release should fix the SSL parameter regeneration problem. There
> >were two changes that were needed to fix it, but I had forgotten the
> >other one.
> >
> >v1.0.beta2 2006-01-22  Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> >
> >	+ Added SQLite support. Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
> >	+ Added auth_debug_passwords setting. If it's not enabled, hide all
> >	  password strings from logs.
> >	+ Added mail_cache_min_mail_count and mbox_min_index_size settings
> >	  which can be used to make Dovecot do less disk writes in small
> >	  mailboxes where they don't benefit that much.
> >	+ Added --build-ssl-parameters parameter to dovecot binary
> >	- SSL parameters were being regenerated every 10 minutes, although
> >	  not with all systems.
> >	- Fixed dovecot-auth crashing at startup. Happened only with some
> >	  specific compilers.
> >	- base_dir was supposed to be set world-readable, not world-writable
> >
> > 
> >
> Hi,
> I have attached patch that should fix all kqueue issues (I hope). It is 
> smaller than it looks because I also reindented both kqueue files with 
> tabs as is the rest of the source.
> 
> The ioloop.c hunk is necessarry for me to be able to io_remove() handle 
> in io_loop_notify_handler_deinit() that I have added in 
> io_loop_notify_handler_init(). Without it io_loop_destroy() will remove 
> the io record behind my back which crashes the program.
> 
> The other attached patch is what I used for easier debugging. I think it 
> could help somebody else too.

This kqueue diff resolves a number of issues reported to me about Dovecot
1.0.beta1 plus the previous kqueue diff.


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