Postfix

Comprehensive overview of the Postfix product lifecycle - Releases, last patch, long-term support, maintenance and support

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What is Postfix?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

Postfix is a mail transfer agent for Unix and Unix derivatives. At the time of development, the software was intended to be a compatible alternative to Sendmail.

The entire lifecycle of Postfix

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Postfix. 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.

Postfix (Wietse Venema) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Postfix (Wietse Venema)

What is the Postfix release strategy?

Typically last 4 releases are supported and receive patches.

Facts and figures about Postfix

Product

Postfix

Vendor

Wietse Venema

Latest version

3.10.2

Number of releases

Number of versions

494

Number of unstable versions

Number of versions affected by CVE

344

Version command

postconf mail_version

Last verification date

2025-05-21

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Keywords

Postfix

Comprehensive overview of the Postfix product lifecycle - Releases, last patch, long-term support, maintenance and support

What is Postfix?

The entire lifecycle of Postfix

What is the Postfix release strategy?

Facts and figures about Postfix

Questions or interested? Talk to me!

Postfix

Wietse Venema

Application

Release

Version

Major

Minor

Patch

End-of-life

EOL

Support

End-of-support

EOS

Maintenance

End-of-maintenance

EOM

Security

Long-term support

LTS

Vulnerabilities

Common vulnerabilities & exposures

CVE

Security