Postfix 2.4.0 stable release available

From: Wietse venema (no email)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2007 - 11:15:08 EDT

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    The Postfix 2.4.0 stable release is available via the mirror sites
    listed at http://www.postfix.org/. It was uploaded in the middle
    of last week; a proper announcement had to wait because of travel.

       467397 Mar 28 14:12 postfix-2.4.0.HISTORY
         8634 Mar 28 14:18 postfix-2.4.0.RELEASE_NOTES
      2931537 Mar 28 14:24 postfix-2.4.0.tar.gz
          280 Mar 28 14:25 postfix-2.4.0.tar.gz.sig

    When Postfix 2.3.0 was released, I wrote:

        A few months later than usual, Postfix stable release 2.3.0 is
        now available. The release was postponed until Postfix was
        complete enough for today's email environment. Hopefully I can
        now spend more time doing new projects.

    The footprint of new features with Postfix 2.4.0 is significantly
    smaller than with earlier releases. And that is the whole point of
    approaching completeness: fewer visible changes.

    Below is a brief summary of what has changed. See the RELEASE_NOTES
    file for more, including compatibility issues that may affect your
    site. The HISTORY file gives a blow-by-blow account of what happened
    over the past year.

            Wietse

    - Postfix can now manage thousands of connections without needing
    special main.cf, master.cf, or compile-time tweaks, on systems with
    BSD kqueue, Solaris /dev/poll, or Linux epoll support.

    - Milter support for message body replacement. The resulting queue
    files are backwards compatible with Postfix 2.3. The existing Milter
    support for message header manipulations was revised and is now
    implemented by much simpler code.

    - Minor improvements in TLS session cache management and in the
    implementation of certificate fingerprint based authentication. A
    more extensive revision of TLS internals will appear first in Postfix
    2.5 snapshots.

    - Improvements in queue manager performance when deferring large
    amounts of mail, or when delivering mail with lots of recipients.

    - Workarounds for SMTP servers that reply and hang up prematurely,
    for file system clocks that are out of sync, and for broken kernel
    lock management in POP servers.


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