Dovecot: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Dovecot from Dovecot

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-09

What is Dovecot?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementDovecot is an open-source IMAP and POP3 server for Unix-like operating systems, written primarily with security in mind. Dovecot developers primarily aim to produce a lightweight, fast and easy-to-set-up open-source email server.
 

The entire lifecycle of Dovecot

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Dovecot. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Dovecot (Dovecot) release, version and end-of-life information
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Dovecot (Dovecot)
 

Facts and figures about Dovecot

Product
Dovecot
Vendor
Dovecot
Latest version
2.4.2
Number of releases
5
Number of versions
153
Number of unstable versions
23
Number of versions affected by CVE
125
 
 

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