Today I just got an announcement from Wietse Venema (the developer of Postfix) via Postfix mailing list that Postfix 2.7.0 stable has been released. An on-line version of this announcement will be available at http://www.postfix.org/announcements/postfix-2.7.0.html.

For the past several releases, the focus has moved towards improving the code and documentation, and updating the system for changing environments.

Below are the new improvements and features available in Postfix 2.7.0 stable version:

- Improved before-queue content filter performance. With “smtpd_proxy_options = speed_adjust”, the Postfix SMTP server receives the entire message before it connects to a before-queue content filter. Typically, this allows Postfix to handle the same mail load with fewer content filter processes.

- Improved address verification performance. The verify database is now persistent by default, and it is automatically cleaned periodically, Under overload conditions, the Postfix SMTP server no longer waits up to 6 seconds for an address probe to complete.

- Support for reputation management based on the local SMTP client IP address. This is typically implemented with “FILTER transportname:” actions in access maps or header/body checks, and mail delivery transports in master.cf with unique smtp_bind_address values.

- The postscreen daemon (a zombie-blocker in front of Postfix) is still too rough for a stable release, and will be made “mature” in the Postfix 2.8 development cycle (however you can use Postfix 2.7 with the Postfix 2.8 postscreen and dnsblog executables and master.cf configuration; this code has already proven itself).

No functionality has been removed, but it is a good idea to review the RELEASE_NOTES file for the usual minor incompatibilities or
limitations.

You can find Postfix version 2.7.0 at the mirrors listed at http://www.postfix.org/

The same code is also available as Postfix snapshot 2.8-20100213. Updated versions of Postfix version 2.6, 2.5 and perhaps earlier
will be released with the same fixes that were already included with Postfix versions 2.7 and 2.8.