[Users] Zimbra 8.7.0 Upgrade Concerns Expanded

[Malte Stretz]

Hi again,

I have to correct myself: I looked at the wrong branch and judaspriest-860-
foss does carry an ITS8054.patch so I guess version 8.6 is affected as well?  
According to the Git log it was added on 2015-11-10, unfortunately is there no 
Bugzilla reference in the commit message.

Regards,
Malte

On Friday, 16 September 2016 15:21:31 CEST Malte Stretz wrote:
> 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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