Where is the sample configuration files now?  I don't see them in the
tarball.

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM Aki Tuomi via Dovecot-news <
dovecot-n...@dovecot.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> after a very long wait we are finally happy to release Dovecot v2.4.0!
>
> Some IMPORTANT things to notice:
>
>  - We have changed the signing key for 2.4 going forward, releases are
> signed with EF0882079FD4ED32BF8B23B2A1B09EF84EDC5219, which can be found at
> https://repo.dovecot.org/DOVECOT-REPO-GPG-2.4 and is signed with the
> previous key.
>
> The old key has been renamed to
> https://repo.dovecot.org/DOVECOT-REPO-GPG-2.3.
>
> - New 2.4 packages **are not** compatible with old 2.3 configuration,
> please carefully review
> https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html before
> installing the new packages.
>
> - We are happy to provide experimental arm64 support in the form of a
> Docker image.
>
> - Docker images are now ran rootless, with UID 1000 as vmail using built
> sources. Please take this into consideration when upgrading. Latest 2.3
> image can be used with tag 2.3-latest, if you are not ready for this change.
>
> We won't be sending separate mail about Pigeonhole anymore as we will
> release one anyways when we release Dovecot, and Pigeonhole versioning has
> been changed to match Dovecot versioning.
>
> Source codes available at
>
> - https://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-2.4.0.tar.gz
> - https://www.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-2.4.0.tar.gz.sig
> -
> https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-pigeonhole-2.4.0.tar.gz
> -
> https://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/releases/2.4/dovecot-pigeonhole-2.4.0.tar.gz.sig
>
> Binary packages in https://repo.dovecot.org/
> Docker images in https://hub.docker.com/r/dovecot/dovecot
>
> Kind regards,
> Aki Tuomi
> Open-Xchange oy
> ---
>
> Dovecot Core NEWS
> -----------------
> * config: dovecot_config_version must be the first non-comment
>   line in configuration file.
> * config: dovecot_storage_version must be in the configuration
>   file.
> * config: Many configuration options have changed so old configuration
>   files do not work without rewrite. See
>   https://doc.dovecot.org/main/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html
> * config: New variable expansion syntax has been introduced, see
>   https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/settings/variables.html
> * config: Some default settings have changed.
> * config: plugin {} section has been removed.
> * *-login: With ssl=required, connections from login_trusted_networks
>   are now also required to be SSL/TLS encrypted.
> * acl: Use ACL settings instead of Global ACL Directories.
> * auth-worker: auth_worker_max_count is replaced with
>   service auth-worker { process_limit }.
> * auth: Weak password schemes are disabled by default, use
>   auth_allow_weak_schemes to enable them.
> * auth_debug, mail_debug: Use log_debug filter instead.
> * config: All sections require a name, for example passdb/userdb:
>   passdb static {
>      password=secret
>    }
> * db2: Remove Berkeley DB support.
> * dict-memcached: This is removed, use Redis instead.
> * director: Feature has been removed. See potential replacement at
>   https://github.com/dovecot/tools/blob/main/director.lua
> * doveadm: USER environment variable is only supported with
>   --no-userdb-lookup. One of -u, -F or -A must be used
>   otherwise.
> * doveconf: Option -n is now default when running doveconf.
> * dsync: Use doveadm sync instead, legacy symlink has been removed.
> * fs-sis: Feature is now deprecated and has been made read-only.
>   It will be removed in future release.
> * fts-lucene, fts-squat: These have been removed, use fts-flatcurve or
>   fts-solr instead.
> * imap-login: IMAP compression is now handled in proxies.
> * imap_quota: SETQUOTA / quota_set has been removed.
> * imap_zlib: This plugin is no longer needed, it's always enabled.
> * imapc: All features are enabled by default, imapc_features can be used
>   to explicitly disable features that are not wanted.
> * lib-storage: mbox driver is now frozen.
> * mail_compress: XZ and LZMA algorithm support has been removed.
> * mailbox-alias: Plugin has been removed.
> * old_stats, auth_stats: These have been removed.
> * openssl: Minimum supported version of OpenSSL is now 1.1.1.
> * openssl: Add support for OpenSSL 3.x
> * quota-dict, quota-dirsize: These have been removed, use quota-count
>   instead. You can use quota_clone to copy quota usage to some database.
> * replicator: Feature has been removed. Use NFS or some other shared
>   filesystem instead, or run doveadm sync in crontab.
> * stats: The bytes_in and bytes_out field in several events have been
>   renamed as net_in_bytes and net_out_bytes.
> * zlib: Renamed to mail_compress plugin.
> + Experimental SMTPUTF8 and IMAP UTF8=ACCEPT support has been added.
>   Needs --enable-experimental-mail-utf8 configure option and
>   mail_utf8_extensions=yes setting.
> + Long running mail commands can be aborted with Ctrl-C / doveadm kick.
> + auth: LDAP driver now supports multi-value attributes.
> + auth: Add support for SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS and SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS.
> + auth: Add support for TLS channel binding.
> + auth: Support sending JA3 hash to policy server.
> + configure: Detect latest Lua version.
> + *-login: Support for TLS Server Name has been improved to allow pre-login
>   settings. For example capabilities to be changed based on TLS Server
> Name.
> + *-login: Support for TLS ALPN has been added, connections with
> mismatching
>   application are now refused. Missing ALPN is accepted.
> + fts-flatcurve: New Xapian based FTS plugin has been added.
> + imap: Support for INPROGRESS untagged messages as per RFC 9585.
> + lib-lua: Expose Dovecot DNS client.
> + lib-lua: Expose Dovecot HTTP client.
> + lib-sasl: Support SCRAM-SHA mechanisms.
> + lmtp: SNI support has been added which allows settings to be applied
>   based on TLS Server Name.
> + sqlite: Support WAL mode.
> + stats: Submetric name size has been increased.
> + submission: Add submission_add_received_header setting to protect
>   sender identity by suppressing the Received: header.
> - Many bugs have been fixed.
>
> Pigeonhole NEWS
> ---------------
> * Change configuration syntax to match new Dovecot configuration syntax.
> * vacation: Reduce default days to 60 from infinity
> * vacation: vacation_max_period=0 is now an error.
> * Version has been changed to match Dovecot version.
> + Added i;unicode-casecmp comparator.
> - Lots of bugs have been fixed.
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