> On 20/10/2022 12:24 EEST Steff Majeur <afamiliarta...@proton.me> wrote: > > > I recently stumbled upon the following commit on the Dovecot core Github > repository: > https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/4a187116dc2311804be22724007d357323005358 > > Apparently, Dovecot Director is going to be removed in the next major version > of Dovecot and the commercial Dovecot cluster architecture will be its > successor: > https://github.com/dovecot/documentation/blob/a85b742ec4fc2744db30a6943b3c25f004e46720/source/admin_manual/cluster/index.rst >
Yes, this is going to happen. > This would be a huge blow for many organizations around the world that are > currently using Dovecot with Director in a shared storage environment. > > Can anyone of the Dovecot developers maybe enlighten us about the future of > Dovecot? > - Will there still be the Director feature in the next community release of > Dovecot? Next 2.3 CE release will have a director. > - If not, will there be a community feature that is on par with the current > Director feature? There will be more information about this closer to new major release, that we are working on. Director is still present in https://github.com/dovecot/core/tree/release-2.3 > - For how long will Dovecot version 2.3 still be supported (security fixes, > bug fixes)? Is there any EOL plan? > This will be informed later, but as general rule, once we make a new major release, 2.3 will go into maintenance mode, and will receive only select bug fixes and CVE fixes. > Thanks for any clarification! > Steff Aki
