The Roundcube team have released a new version. It contains another round of bug fixing. You can download it from their download page. Please note that a new version of 0.8 is on its way, it is currently in beta.

I would advise you that if you use Roundcube please upgrade to this version. Here is a document on how to upgrade.

The upgrade to 2.4.x was a bit more complicated then first expected as there is more to it then just a compilation and check if it works. This release has some more changes to it then just a bug fix and some new features.

First most apparent change is that the APR stuff is no longer included in the download. You now have go get it yourself from http://apr.apache.org/.

Download the APR and APR-util from the site, unpack them and copy them into the ‘./srclib‘ directory (after you downloaded Apache and unpacked the archive). Rename the directories to ‘./srclib/apr‘ and ‘./srclib/apr-util‘ (without the version number). For instance by using these commands:

cp -R apr-1.4.6 httpd-2.4.1/srclib/apr
cp -R apr-util-1.4.1 httpd-2.4.1/srclib/apr-util

From then on you can follow the regular instructions on Compiling Apache.

The only problem is the change in the modules that are compiled and included by this new version. Please comment the following list of modules out of the httpd.conf configuration file located in /etc/httpd/.

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_fcgi_module modules/mod_proxy_fcgi.so
LoadModule proxy_scgi_module modules/mod_proxy_scgi.so
LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule proxy_express_module modules/mod_proxy_express.so

We are not using the proxy anyway

You need to recompile PHP as well to get it working with this version of Apache. Next I will change the actual compilation instructions.

Note: this works on Snow Leopard and Leopard as well as PowerPC!

Postfix got updated quite quickly after the 2.9.0 release with 2 small bug fixes.

• The “change header” Milter request could replace the wrong header. A long header name could match a shorter one, because a length check was done on the wrong string. Reported by Vladimir Vassiliev. This was introduced with Postfix 2.3.
• “sendmail -bs” segfault, due to a missing guard statement after an smtpd_check_rewrite() call was moved closer to the command processor loop. Fix by Bartek Szady. This was introduced 20111219 near the end of the 2.9 development cycle.

From the earlier stable release 2.9.0, the main changes in no particular order are:

• Support for long, non-repeating, queue IDs (queue file names). The main benefit of non-repeating names is simpler logfile analysis. See the description of “enable_long_queue_ids” in postconf(5) for details.
• Memcache client support, and support to share postscreen(8) and verify(8) caches via the proxymap server. Details about memcache support are in memcache_table(5) and MEMCACHE_README.
• Gradual degradation: if a database is unavailable (can’t open, most read or write errors) a Postfix daemon will log a warning and continue providing the services that don’t depend on that table, instead of immediately terminating with a fatal error. To terminate immediately when a database file can’t be opened, specify “daemon_table_open_error_is_fatal = yes”.
• Revised postconf(1) command. It warns about unused parameter name=value settings in main.cf or master.cf (likely mistakes), understands “dynamic” parameter names such as names that depend on the name of a master.cf entry (finally, “postconf -n” shows all parameter settings), and it can display main.cf and master.cf in a more user-friendly format (postconf -nf, postconf -Mf).
• Read/write deadline support in the SMTP client and server to defend against application-level DOS attacks that very slowly write or read data one byte at a time.

I’ve tested it and running it on my servers without any problems.

Things went very quickly this week as I indicated in my earlier post. I was still working on version 2.1.0 when we got another update to solve some of the bugs that where found. To read al about the changes in 2.1.0 please read the release notes. The changes in 2.1.1 were minor but read the notes for that here.

I’ve got it running on my machines and I’m very happy with it.

The only change that might affect your installation in the upgrade to 2.1.x is that Dovecot lost the case sensitivity for its usernames. If you want to re-enable that please set auth_username_format= (i.e. to empty).

And as an extra here are the upgrade instructions for Dovecot!

I feel the need to ask for patience as this week we got bombarders by a lot of updates. Dovecot did a major upgrade to 2.1, Apache released a major upgrade to 2.4, postfix released 2.9.1 a small bugfix and MySQL released 5.5.21.

I need to compile, test and adjust everything where necessary and as you might understand with major upgrade there is more going on then just a compile, run and test. There are new configuration options to be evaluated and older ones deprecated that might need a new one or a workaround for lost functionality.

So I’m working on it but it take a bit longer then usual…