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# Cyrus IMAP

# Cyrus IMAP 3.0.0 rc3 Release Notes

Warning

Cyrus IMAP 3.0 is under active development, and subject to change.

Do NOT use this version unless you’re a developer of sorts.

Download from GitHub:

> - https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/releases/download/cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-rc3/cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-rc3.tar.gz
> - https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/releases/download/cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-rc3/cyrus-imapd-3.0.0-rc3.tar.gz.sig

## Major changes since the 2.5.x series

- The source repository has moved to GitHub, Bugzilla and Phabricator have been deprecated. Their issue lists are being imported into GitHub.

- Support added for FastMail-style conversations (threaded messages). (See the `conversations` options in imapd.conf)

- Optional Xapian integration for faster and shinier search. Note that this requires custom patches to Xapian, in this release. (See the `search_engine` option in imapd.conf, and `doc/README.xapian` in the source distribution.)) Compiling Xapian support requires gcc 4.9 or later.

- Archive support has arrived! Requires addition of an archive partition. (See `archive_*` options in imapd.conf)

- Basic JMAP support. (See `httpmodules` in imapd.conf)

- ClamAV integration for AntiVirus support is now working again.

- Dropped support for Berkeley DB.

- The handling of configure options has changed, dropping support for `--with-cyrus-prefix` and `--with-service-path` in favour of the more conventional `--prefix`, `--bindir`, `--sbindir`, and `--libexecdir`.

- Binaries executed by the master(8) service process are now installed to `--libexecdir`. Other binaries are installed to `--bindir` and/or `--sbindir`.

  The `make installbinsymlinks` target can be used to set up symlinks to everything in `--bindir`, if you need that in your environment.

- Added support for replicating mailboxes/users to a particular partition. `sync_client` now accepts a `-p` option.

- The `defaultdomain` setting in imapd.conf now defaults to “internal” (was: NULL)

- Added experimental backup service. See Cyrus Backups

- Support for Apple’s Push service (XAPPLEPUSH). See Cyrus Eventsource

- Sieve now supports special use folders. See Cyrus Sieve

- Sieve now supports the following extensions:

  - RFC 5490 Checking Mailbox Status and Accessing Mailbox Metadata
  - RFC 5229 Variables

- Sieve bytecode is now automatically recompiled when it is detected to be missing or out of date

- New numeric header available for sorting: X-Spam-Score

- Added IMIP notification support to notifyd(8). See `imipnotifier` in imapd.conf

- Optimised CRC32 implementation

- Added support for reverse ACLs, enabling faster LIST response. See `reverseacls` in imapd.conf

- Added cross-domain sharing support. See `crossdomains` and `crossdomains_onlyother` in imapd.conf

- Added experimental object storage for mail data, with preliminary support for OpenIO and Caringo backends. See configure.ac `--enable-objectstore`, and the `object_storage_*`, `openio_*` and `caringo_*` options in imapd.conf.

- Configurable POP3 UIDL format for compatibility with other mail servers. Supports Courier Mail Server and Dovecot formats, in addition to Cyrus formats. See `uidl_format` in imapd.conf

- Under `delete_mode: delayed`, only the 20 most recently deleted mailboxes are kept for any given name.

- Documentation cleanup: we are moving toward having a single restructured text source for man pages and html/text documentation, which are pre-generated for inclusion in release tarballs. If you wish to rebuild these, or are building from a git clone in which they are not pregenerated, you will need to install `sphinx-build`, and the perl module `Pod::POM::View::Restructured`. The top level Makefile now has `man` and `doc` targets for building these.

- Added support for OpenSSL 1.1.0.

- Replication now supports incremental partial updates, so massive updates (such as mail imports) won’t stall replication for other users. See `sync_batchsize` in imapd.conf

- The mailbox cache minor version has been incremented to store a GUID for each body part.

## Updates to default configuration

- `unixhierarchysep` (`/`) is now `on` by default (instead of netnews style `.`)
- `altnamespace` is now `on` by default (was `off`)
- `virtdomains` is actually still `off` by default. (Previously we stated it was now defaulting to `userid`: this was an error. )

## Significant bugfixes

- Lots of fixes to caldav and carddav.

  Includes the addition of a new daemon (calalarmd) which periodically processes a global database containing the “next” alarm for each item, and sends the relevant mboxevents. (See configure.ac `--with-calalarmd`)

- Replication reliability fixes.

- Improved `LIST-EXTENDED`: more imap tests now succeed.

- Extensive cleanup of mailbox name handling

- `master` now requests a sane maximum number of open file descriptors, and only complains if this isn’t allowed.

- Fixes to compiling on Solaris (thanks Jens Erat, Marty Lee)

- Improved handling of mailbox renames during replication