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# Cyrus IMAP 2.5.1 Release Notes

Important

This is a bug-fix release in the stable 2.5 series.

Refer to the Cyrus IMAP 2.5.0 Release Notes for important information about the 2.5 series, including upgrading instructions.

Download from GitHub:

> - https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/releases/download/cyrus-imapd-2.5.1/cyrus-imapd-2.5.1.tar.gz
> - https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/releases/download/cyrus-imapd-2.5.1/cyrus-imapd-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig

## Changes Since 2.5.0

### Bug fixes

- Fixed: allow SYNC_CRC to be optional, making upgrades easier in future
- Fixed: XFER deletes source mailbox less aggressively, avoiding data loss under pathological conditions
- Fixed task 163 : XFER no longer bails out on header CRC mismatch
- Fixed task 117 : now error out silently on non-TLS connections to services with implicit TLS
- Fixed reconstruct bug: upgrading mailbox format now adds GUIDs to shared folders (Thanks Norbert Warmuth)
- Fixed task 165 : xfer no longer fails due to bad version comparison
- Fixed xfer bug: version 2.5 is now detected properly
- Fixed task 109 : XLIST behaviour is now compatible with Outlook 2013 (Thanks Leena Heino)
- Fixed task 116 : LIST now correctly handles domains starting with “inbox.”
- Fixed task 120 : admin users can now SETANNOTATION correctly
- Fixed task 118 : imapd no longer crashes when selected mailbox is listed
- Fixed task 156 : LMTP no longer incorrectly rejects messages delivered using ‘deliver’
- Fixed task 76 : lmtpd no longer crashes when delivering to a shared mailbox (Thanks Leena Heino)
- Fixed quota bug: no longer crash when setting quotas on shared folder hierarchies
- Fixed compilation problem on Solaris 10 (Thanks Leena Heino)
- Fixed bug: QuotaChange event notification now always includes maxMessages parameter
- Fixed bug: event notifications now include paths for shared folders
- Fixed bug: GETMETADATA now handles mailbox patterns correctly
- Various fixes to compiling and tool chains

### Changes to cyradm

With thanks to Leena Heino and Norbert Warmuth for their contributions

- createmailbox command now accepts `--specialuse flag` if server supports CREATE-SPECIAL-USE
- listmailbox command now returns special-use attribute if server supports SPECIAL-USE
- listmailbox command now accepts `--specialuse` flag to list only mailboxes with special-use attribute
- cyradm now uses LIST and REMOTE rather than RLIST if server supports LIST-EXTENDED
- mboxconfig now accepts `--private flag` to switch from default shared to private version of an annotation
- getmetadata: new command
- setmetadata: new command
- Cyrus::IMAP::Admin::getinfo now returns a different data structure to support the above
- Cyrus::IMAP::Admin new ACL flag for modifying annotations