Re: [SM-DEVEL] What's the release model currently?

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

On Sun, March 21, 2021 2:18 pm, Thorsten Schöning wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to host an arbitrary old instance of SquirrelMail originally
> not set up by me at all. Though, I needed to update that host from UB
> 16.04 to 20.04 because I needed a newer PHP and ran into some problems
> with SquirrelMail, e.g. the INBOX simply doesn't show any mails for
> anyone anymore.

Yes, as with most any software, running some old version of SquirrelMail
won't work on newer systems.  There are also potential security
vulnerabilities related to running out-of-date software.

> So, is the linked GitHub-repo some kind of official fork or is it
> "only" an interested user like me?

The latter.  From its byline, I assume it appeared near the time PHP 7 was
released.  At this time, SquirrelMail itself (upstream) is, as far as I am
aware, fully compatible with PHP versions 7 and 8, as long as you use one
of our SVN nightly builds from the downloads page.

> Any reason why you didn't release
> anything for years, even though you seem to have maintained the
> software? Are you going to release in the near future and if so, how
> compatible will 1.4.23 with 1.4.22 and 1.5.2 with whatever pre-dated
> that?

There will eventually be a release for 1.4.23 for certain; and probably
for 1.5.2, but I can't give you a timeline for that at the moment.  Not
sure what you have in mind when asking about compatibility, but there
shouldn't be much headache upgrading from previous versions of 1.4.x to
1.4.23 since that is our STABLE branch.

> I would like to know if it makes more sense to e.g. work with trunk or
> alike directly instead of waiting for releases.

I only recommend using the nightly snapshot releases since they contain
important features and fixes, including some security related matters.

Cheers,
-- 
Paul Lesniewski
SquirrelMail Team
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