On 08/12/2016 03:38 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > A friend runs 6.8 but would like to add postscreen > to his email server. It is provided with postfix > version 2.8 and up. The newest postfix for 6.8 > is 2.6.x. Any likelyhood it will be further > updated? Or is there another source for newer > postfix versions for CentOS 6.8? > > Similar query for the clamav db, now at 0.99.1 > with 0.99.2 out for quite some time. > > Jon >
For the record, Enterprise Linux distributions do not normally switch major server versions during the lifetime of the distribution. This is ACTUALLY the whole reason ENTERPRISE distros exist. Backporting of security and bug fixes is done to make the released version more stable and more secure over the lifetime of the distro so that custom software that you pay to be written does not become obsolete with an API/ABI change of a component. See this link about backporting by Red Hat: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting So, for almost any server related services (IPA, LDAP, EMail, httpd, samba, etc., etc., ... ), there will likely not be an upgrade of the service within the main distribution. CentOS-6 will most likely always have httpd version 2.2.15-XX (where XX will change, but not 2.2.15). CentOS-7 will have version 2.4.6-XX of httpd. If you want server services always moving to the latest and greatest, CentOS is the distribution you are looking for. That is Fedora (if you want a Red Hat family equivalent). Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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