Multiple Service Upgrades – Friday

After a two week testing period, several services will be upgraded to the latest software distributions on Friday March 25 beginning at 11 PM EDT (-0400 GMT) .   Affected services may be briefly inaccessible shortly after 11 PM.  Changes will provide improvements to performance and stability, as well as new features.  The list of upgrades includes:

• Apache (http server): general security upgrade
• Dovecot (IMAP/POP3): performance and security improvements, major upgrade from 1.0 -> 1.2
• Postfix (SMTP): performance upgrade 2.5 -> 2.7
• SpamAssassin (spam filtering): improved spam filtering capabilities, major upgrade from 3.2 -> 3.3
• vsftpd (FTP): security upgrade, 2.1 -> 2.2

11:37 PM: all upgrades have been completed.