Update faq.rst to clarify how to deploy tagged releases

## 0.7.7 - 2026-09-11

### Performance

- Don't convert Bytes to Vec

## 0.7.6 - 2026-09-11

### Miscellaneous Tasks

- Always use --locked flag in CI

### Performance

- Don't keep multiple copies of the same mail data in memory

## 0.7.5 - 2026-09-10

### Performance

- Pass HttpsClient by reference instead of cloning it
- Remove connection pool

### Refactor

- Do not evaluate smtp_write! argument twice
- Do not clone the Config unnecessarily

Signed-off-by: Jagoda Ślązak <jslazak@jslazak.com>

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
           ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
           persist-credentials: false
       - name: download filtermail
-        run: curl -L https://github.com/chatmail/filtermail/releases/download/v0.7.4/filtermail-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/filtermail && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/filtermail
+        run: curl -L https://github.com/chatmail/filtermail/releases/download/v0.7.7/filtermail-x86_64 -o /usr/local/bin/filtermail && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/filtermail
       - name: run chatmaild tests 
         working-directory: chatmaild
         run: pipx run tox

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,38 @@
 # Changelog for chatmail deployment
 
+## [1.13.0] - 2026-09-22
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+- Actually use UTC time instead of just seemingly using it
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Describe Madmail v2 as a Rust chatmail relay
+
+### Features
+
+- Serve an APPVERSIONS.json index file to clients via IMAP metadata
+- *(mtail)* Deploy filtermail.mtail and gate mtail rule copy on mtail_address
+- *(mtail)* Validate programs during deploy
+- Move doveauth from dictproxy to lua/http
+- Distinguish AUTHENTICATION_FAILED/UNAVAILABLE login failures
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- Try to fix lack of RFC822 item support in madmail and make CI pass
+- Un-hardcode executable paths in some systemd service files
+- Follow the new mtail release source, upgrade 3.0.8 to 3.4.9
+- *(cmdeploy)* Refactor all pins into pins.py
+- *(doc)* Use sphinx roles for referencing repository files and dirs
+- update deltachat-android link to 2.59.1
+
+### Testing
+
+- Integrate lua testing into regular pytest run for push notifications
+- Cleanup and allow a repo-root level "pytest -n6" to succeed.
+- [**breaking**] Remove global registration of pytest plugins
+
 ## [1.12.0] - 2026-07-31
 
 ### Breaking Changes

RELEASE.md

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # Releasing a new version of chatmail relay
 
-For example, to release version 1.13.0 of chatmail relay, do the following steps.
+For example, to release version 1.14.0 of chatmail relay, do the following steps.
 
-1. Update the changelog: `git cliff --unreleased --tag 1.13.0 --prepend CHANGELOG.md` or `git cliff -u -t 1.13.0 -p CHANGELOG.md`.
+1. Update the changelog: `git cliff --unreleased --tag 1.14.0 --prepend CHANGELOG.md` or `git cliff -u -t 1.14.0 -p CHANGELOG.md`.
 
 2. Open the changelog in the editor, edit it if required.
 
-3. Commit the changes to the changelog with a commit message `chore(release): prepare for 1.9.0`.
+3. Commit the changes to the changelog with a commit message `chore(release): prepare for 1.14.0`.
 
 4. Open a PR with the new commit, merge it to main after review.
 

cmdeploy/src/cmdeploy/pins.py

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 """Versions, hashes, and download URLs for pre-built artifacts fetched during deploy."""
 
-FILTERMAIL_VERSION = "v0.7.4"
+FILTERMAIL_VERSION = "v0.7.7"
 FILTERMAIL_ARTIFACTS = {
     "x86_64": (
         f"https://github.com/chatmail/filtermail/releases/download/{FILTERMAIL_VERSION}/filtermail-x86_64",
-        "484cb8dff083134aefba9fce4a6b7ef4784a0f0e28e5108ecf8bb9e58a44fd2c",
+        "0691debf501f854f4e6a9dd6516f3a0ef03d95721a9b540309014bfe1a1f52b1",
     ),
     "aarch64": (
         f"https://github.com/chatmail/filtermail/releases/download/{FILTERMAIL_VERSION}/filtermail-aarch64",
-        "66aa0ca2ca9add7a12d92883d76f8786384092adfde24a3d3a1d0b1f30d23a9e",
+        "964f85df8b65b812666113f968cbfdd8da88ce16d218284deb359c1e2400d2da",
     ),
     "mtail": (
         f"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chatmail/filtermail/{FILTERMAIL_VERSION}/contrib/filtermail.mtail",

doc/source/faq.rst

@@ -63,9 +63,17 @@ and run the following commands:
        scripts/initenv.sh
        scripts/cmdeploy run
 
-If you don't want the latest development version,
+To upgrade to the latest tag,
-but a specific tagged release like `1.10.0 <https://github.com/chatmail/relay/releases/tag/1.10.0>`_,
+``cd`` into your local checkout of https://github.com/chatmail/relay/
-run ``git pull origin 1.10.0`` instead.
+and run the following commands:
+
+   ::
+
+       git fetch --tags
+       latestTag=$(git describe --tags "$(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1)")
+       git checkout $latestTag
+       scripts/initenv.sh
+       scripts/cmdeploy run
 
 If you made local changes for your setup,
 they will be reapplied as long as they don't conflict with the upgrade.