diff --git a/metadata/news/2025-05-23-dovecot-2_4-upgrade/2025-05-23-dovecot-2_4-upgrade.en.txt b/metadata/news/2025-05-23-dovecot-2_4-upgrade/2025-05-23-dovecot-2_4-upgrade.en.txt index 124b3c7cdaf75..ec622c6f9ade6 100644 --- a/metadata/news/2025-05-23-dovecot-2_4-upgrade/2025-05-23-dovecot-2_4-upgrade.en.txt +++ b/metadata/news/2025-05-23-dovecot-2_4-upgrade/2025-05-23-dovecot-2_4-upgrade.en.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: net-mail/dovecot-2.4.x may break on upgrade Author: Eray Aslan Posted: 2025-05-23 -Revision: 2 +Revision: 4 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: net-mail/dovecot @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ The following steps typically make the upgrade process easier: 3. Move ALL your configuration files to a temporary location 4. Upgrade to dovecot-2.4.x 5. Read the new configuration files and uncomment as necessary -6. Compare the new doveconf -n output with the old one and add missing +6. Compare the new doveconf -nP output with the old one and add missing configuration settings one by one while checking that the system works after each change + +A configuration upgrader is available at https://dovecot.org/upgrader/ but +it doesn't cover all cases. diff --git a/metadata/news/2026-01-08-dovecot-2_4-stabilization/2026-01-08-dovecot-2_4-stabilization.en.txt b/metadata/news/2026-01-08-dovecot-2_4-stabilization/2026-01-08-dovecot-2_4-stabilization.en.txt index c599e69eb1e1e..98732f20e0cb4 100644 --- a/metadata/news/2026-01-08-dovecot-2_4-stabilization/2026-01-08-dovecot-2_4-stabilization.en.txt +++ b/metadata/news/2026-01-08-dovecot-2_4-stabilization/2026-01-08-dovecot-2_4-stabilization.en.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: net-mail/dovecot-2.4.2 stabilization Author: Eray Aslan Posted: 2026-01-08 -Revision: 2 +Revision: 3 News-Item-Format: 2.0 Display-If-Installed: net-mail/dovecot Display-If-Keyword: amd64 @@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ The following steps typically make the upgrade process easier: 3. Move ALL your configuration files to a temporary location 4. Upgrade to dovecot-2.4.2 5. Read the new configuration files and uncomment as necessary -6. Compare the new doveconf -n output with the old one and add missing +6. Compare the new doveconf -nP output with the old one and add missing configuration settings one by one while checking that the system works after each change +A configuration upgrader is available at https://dovecot.org/upgrader/ but +it doesn't cover all cases. + [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/967978