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The headers of the four copies whose documents were the same at batch54 as at an earlier copy - the Command Line, Secure Defaults, The Update Feed and Third-Party Binaries - say that batch55, 36bd59faa, changes the document in the places they list, the list following the link to 36bd59faa, and say in a sentence of their own after it that the document was the same at batch54, 9336fdd59, as at the commit or the tag each copy was last made from, 0c0b6bae7, the tag v6.3.7, 5e49abf06 and 6fb8164c6, where the clause saying so stood between the link and the list, so that the list read as that commit's or that tag's changes. Secure Defaults' header says that the copied sentence of The certificate, a host added to AcmeDomains later issued for at once, is so from the release after 6.3.7, and that up to 6.3.7 a host added waits until the certificate in use is due for renewal, as Encryption and Certificates says under When it renews, where it gave the sentence no release; the copied text is the document's, unchanged. Third-Party Binaries' header says that the document's opening named the icon library with its archive, the documents' images and the OpenPGP fixtures alone, where it left the images out. Headers only: no copied text changes. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 26, 2026

The eight copies whose documents batch55 changes - the Assurance Case, the Command Line, Contributing, the Release Process, Secure Defaults, the Security Policy, The Update Feed and Third-Party Binaries - are copied again from the documents as master has them from batch55, 36bd59faa, on master since 26 October 2026, and each header says so and names what changed. The Security Policy's Verifying a release says that the release's SLSA provenance names every file of the release but the Sigstore bundles, how the commit, the tag and the pipeline its statement names are compared with those its signing certificate records, which from the release after 6.3.7 the release pipeline holds before it publishes, and, under SLSA Build level, that the releases from 6.3.6 meet Build L1 of SLSA v1.0 and claim no higher level, with why L2 and L3 are not met; For a security questionnaire names SECURITY-INSIGHTS.yml; and Renovate opens its merge request for an advisory at its next run, for a NuGet package with a fixed release, where it said at once for any dependency. Contributing says, under Code style and licence headers, that a file of the original hMailServer's whose own file in the original carried Martin Knafve's copyright notice keeps it on the line below the header, and that every file of the tree has its copyright and its licence as the REUSE Specification 3.3 asks, by its header or a table of REUSE.toml, with every licence's text in LICENSES/ and the reuse job holding it, which The checkers, the tables of the checkers and generators and Governance, conduct and licence name too. Secure Defaults says that a host added to AcmeDomains later is issued for at once, and that from the release after 6.3.7 the Compose file and the Helm chart secure a new installation's database at its first start, which the charts of 6.3.6 and 6.3.7 do not. The Command Line has the new passage on trusting a server's self-signed certificate on the machine you administer from; the Release Process's step 3 of The release on GitLab has release wait for the AArch64 packages' start jobs and linux-image-arm64, and its step 6 has container-image-start ask whether the update check knows it runs in a container; the Assurance Case's residual risk on coverage gives the linux-coverage job's weekly schedule and its first run on GitLab, where it said that the schedule had yet to be created; The Update Feed says that a server from 6.2.28 to 6.3.3 is offered only the newest release and so reaches neither it nor 6.3.3 by the live update, where it said that a 6.3.3 server found itself up to date and that one on 6.2.28 could go to 6.3.3 that way; and Third-Party Binaries says what the tree still carries that git shows as binary, and that the SQL Server Compact headers are 4.0's. A link of the copied text to a document the wiki copies is a wiki link, and every other link to a repository file points at it as 36bd59faa has it, where they pointed at 9336fdd59 or, in the Command Line, The Update Feed and Third-Party Binaries, at 0c0b6bae7, 5e49abf06 and 6fb8164c6 and, in Secure Defaults, at the tag v6.3.7, each document being the same at those commits as at 9336fdd59; the text is otherwise the documents', but for the adaptations and additions the headers declare. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 26, 2026

The twenty-two pages that copy a repository document are copied again from the documents as the tag v6.3.7 (31d656c0c), the release of 17 October 2026, has them, each keeping what this wiki adds of its own, and each header says so and what 6.3.7 changes in it, where the nine brought up on 17 October 2026 named the batch 6.3.7 was to be made from, at the same commit, and said that the rest of the copy was v6.3.6's. Re-copied from the tag: Security Policy (SECURITY.md: its latest release 6.3.7, published on 17 October 2026; "6.3.7 was the exception" under What gets a release, and step 3's pointer to it; Every change and Declaring a finding not exploitable; the release's scans as the second evaluation; the libraries dependency-scan says UNKNOWN for), Release Process (RELEASE.md: the release's notes and their Download table, step 9's gate asked before the tag with master's copy of the exceptions, 6.3.7's paragraph under A security release during the pause), Contributing (CONTRIBUTING.md: the runners each pipeline runs on, the change checks, the eighteen fetched inputs, the new checkers and generated files, the secret scans, sign-off since batch41, step 6 of Merge requests), Governance, Assurance Case, Regression Test Environment (Connector/C 3.4.11's folder; the 7-Zip path the document now writes right), The Service Account (/ProtectFolders hardening the program folder, Bin and ControlPanel, and the steps before upgrading an installation at a drive's root), The Update Feed (the Control Panel's Updates page, the summary past the Download table, the pages job on the project's own runners, where this copy said GitLab's shared runners), Upgrading Guide (the route between backends, the .NET 10 runtime setup leaves as it is), Third-Party Binaries (MariaDB Connector/C 3.4.11 built from MariaDB's source and fetched from build-inputs-2), Database TLS, Diagnosing Stalled Mail (the spam tests' failed lookups and the DNSSEC deferral's reasons), Event Scripts, Fuzzing (UTS 46 against ada), High Availability Runbook (the PROXY protocol behind a load balancer), Secrets at Rest, Secure Defaults, The SNMP Agent, Migrating the Database Backend, Regulatory Scope and Architecture (a transaction is its thread's). Command Line is unchanged at the tag; its header says so and its links point at it. A link to a document the wiki copies is a wiki link; every other link to a repository file that pointed at v6.3.6 points at it as v6.3.7 has it. The headers no longer list as this copy's departures what the tag's documents now say themselves: the day 6.3.6 was published (Security Policy, Contributing), the count of the findings accepted at 6.3.4 (Security Policy), the report of a command run as root on Linux (The Service Account), the route between backends (Upgrading Guide) and the 7-Zip path (Regression Test Environment). Release Process's notes marked Now at steps 9 and 11 say that every release since 6.3.5 has been made by its tag's pipeline, where step 9's said that no pipeline had run on a release tag, and that the installer's inputs are fetched from the build-inputs-1 and build-inputs-2 releases. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 18, 2026

The twenty-two pages that copy a repository document are copied again from the documents as the tag v6.3.6, the release, has them, each keeping what this wiki adds of its own. Re-copied from the tag v6.3.6 (e3c448aa6), each header saying so and what 6.3.6 changes in it: The Update Feed (UpdateFeed.md), The Service Account (ServiceAccount.md), Security Policy (SECURITY.md), Release Process (RELEASE.md), Upgrading Guide (Upgrading.md), Secure Defaults (SecureDefaults.md), Third-Party Binaries (ThirdPartyBinaries.md), Contributing (CONTRIBUTING.md), Secrets at Rest (SecretsAtRest.md), Assurance Case (ASSURANCE-CASE.md), Event Scripts (EventScripts.md), Command Line (CommandLine.md), Governance (GOVERNANCE.md), Regression Test Environment (RegressionEnvironment.md), The SNMP Agent (Snmp.md), High Availability Runbook (HighAvailabilityRunbook.md), Regulatory Scope (RegulatoryScope.md) and Fuzzing (Fuzzing.md). Architecture (ARCHITECTURE.md), Database TLS (DatabaseTls.md), Diagnosing Stalled Mail (DiagnosingStalledMail.md) and Migrating the Database Backend (MigratingDatabaseBackend.md) are unchanged at the tag; their headers say so and their links point at it. The wiki's own additions - the diagrams, the tables and the notes each header names as the wiki's - are kept. A link to a document the wiki copies is a wiki link; every other link to a repository file points at it as v6.3.6 has it. Where SECURITY.md and CONTRIBUTING.md say 6.3.6 was published on 1 October 2026, the copies give 6 October 2026, the day of its publication, and their headers say so. Where Upgrading.md says there is no first-class route from one database backend to another, the copy keeps its pointer at Migrating the Database Backend, the repository's own document on it. Secrets at Rest, "Who can open it": a wiki note under the paragraph that still describes the permissions hMailServer.ini inherits under Program Files, which 6.3.6's /ProtectFolders closes. Contributing, the wiki's own Service Desk section: the address at the group's path, as SECURITY.md gives it. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 5, 2026

Every link to the project points at its address in the group, gitlab.com/hmailserver/hmailserver, where it has been since 29 September 2026; the identities 6.3.5 was signed with, and the setting row that lists both paths, keep the path the project began at. The project's path in all 63 pages that linked it (548 links), 6.3.6 being the first release made at the group's path. Left as they were: the seven signing identities https://gitlab.com/Progressiverobot/hmailserver//.gitlab-ci.yml@refs/tags/v... (Release Process, Security Policy, The Update Feed, and the UpdateSigningIdentity row of Settings Reference), which name what 6.3.5 was signed as; and the UpdateSourceRepository row of Settings Reference, which lists both paths on purpose. The container registry's name is corrected with the container page. Signed-off-by: Christopher Holloway <chris.holloway@progressiverobot.com>

Christopher Holloway committed Oct 5, 2026

Seven features 6.3.4 added have a page of their own, each a copy of its repository document as the tag v6.3.4 (51e2dbda0) has it, headed by the Source of truth note the other copies carry (GitLab issue #25): The SNMP Agent (Snmp.md), Event Scripts (EventScripts.md: the JavaScript engine of the Linux builds, and the contract for all three languages), Secure Defaults (SecureDefaults.md), The Service Account (ServiceAccount.md), Secrets at Rest (SecretsAtRest.md), Database TLS (DatabaseTls.md) and The Update Feed (UpdateFeed.md). A link to a document the wiki copies became a wiki link - Command Line, Third-Party Binaries, Warm Standby, High Availability Runbook, Upgrading Guide and The Service Account, the last two to their sections - and every other became a link to the document at v6.3.4. Each note says where the tag has moved on from its document. The installer smoke test SecureDefaults.md expects on a branch is in the tree at the tag, and does not yet make the checks it lists. ServiceAccountName and ServiceAccountPassword, which ServiceAccount.md calls no longer read, are still loaded by the settings loader (IniFileSettings.cpp:457-458) and used by nothing. The site that UpdateFeed.md's opening note calls not yet deployed has served the feed over HTTPS since 26 September 2026, and at 05:31 UTC on 27 September answered /releases/latest and /releases.json with 6.3.4 and /download/hMailServer-x64.exe with a 302 to 6.3.4's installer. The sidebar and the landing page list each page in its group: Database TLS, Secure Defaults, The Service Account and Secrets at Rest under Secure it; The SNMP Agent and The Update Feed under Operate it; Event Scripts under Extend it. The landing page counts 72 pages (the 74 files less the sidebar and the footer), the other 71, and twenty-two with a Source of truth note; the guides stay 38, since a copy is a repository document. The Runbooks Digest names the seven among the copies. Monitoring and Health, The COM API and Scripting, Security Hardening, Encryption and Certificates, Migrating the Database Backend and Upgrading hMailServer keep what they say of each feature, and gain a line pointing to its page. Every page was rendered with GitLab's Markdown API in the project's context on 27 September 2026: every wiki link, relative link, anchor and link into the repository, at master and at v6.3.4, resolves, and nothing on the new pages is HTML that could be stripped. The one finding, a link to Sigstore's cosign on GitHub from Installing hMailServer, is that project's own page and predates this change.

Christopher Holloway committed Sep 27, 2026