[Users] Zimbra 8.7.0 Upgrade Concerns Expanded

[Malte Stretz]

Hi Mark,

thanks for the pointer to the LDAP replication bug. Just to be sure I checked 
if ITS8054 was backported to the OpenLDAP in version 8.6 as well and luckily 
it wasn't.

Our general recommendation for our customers for any Zimbra upgrades is not to 
do it until at least one patch release is available. Ie. never use a dot-zero 
unless you have really good reasons to do so. 

That's one reason I am still looking forward to a 8.6.1 rollup release 
eagerly. Unfortunately it looks like it will never happen :-/

Cheers,
Malte

On Friday, 16 September 2016 00:34:03 CEST L. Mark Stone wrote:
> I did a little more bug researching tonight as part of trying to get a sense
> how far away an 8.6.1, 8.71 or 8.6.0 Patch8 release might be, to fix the
> Oracle padding bug (and others). As compared to previous bugzilla searches
> I've done, there seems to be not as much activity on the open bugs as there
> was earlier in the summer. Maybe I'm doing the searches sub optimally...
> 
> More importantly though, an LDAP MMR bug filed by Quanah caused me to update
> my blog post on upgrading to 8.7.0:
> http://www.reliablenetworks.com/zimbra-8-7-0-fine-new-installs-wait-little-> longer-though-upgrade/
> 
> Essentially, I've shrunk my 8.7.0 upgrade recommendation eligibility further
> by eliminating any Zimbra farm with multiple LDAP servers. It's pretty much
> new installations with only one LDAP server which should consider 8.7.0 as
> of this writing.
> 
> See for reference:
> https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=106513
> http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=8490
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Mark
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