On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 12:54:38AM +0100, Gerben Wierda wrote: > I just found out that Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS has a dovecot apt package that > is 2.3.16. Debian 11 (stable) is at dovecot 2.3.13 with apt. if I looked > correctly. Dovecot itself is at 2.3.20. > > That surprised me (I am new to the Linux distro and package management world) > as Ubuntu 22.04 is a Long-Time Support version, and I was expecting packages > to be updated as well (as many users will want updated packages. How does > that work in the dovecot world? How come macOS MacPorts (2.3.19) has more > recent packages than any of the large Debian-based Linuxes?
That sounds right. 2.3.16 would have been current a couple of months before Ubuntu 22.04 was released. LTS releases generally don't get feature updates, but just major bug fixes. If you want a system with (overall) more current packages, you might as well be using a much more recent Ubuntu release. You can install the Dovecot project's own Ubuntu packages though, which are new Dovecot versions compiled for older distribution releases. See https://repo.dovecot.org/ Jelmer
