diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index fddff8c7a4..6e418661cd 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>October 21st, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[timtas] - Update to dovecot-2.3.8. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12623">#12623</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to xorgproto-2019.2. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12662">#12662</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 6b24447f12..b078c4e672 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -613,10 +613,10 @@ to avoid building libxml2 twice, which is slow with all deps -->
 <!-- Chapter 21 -->
 <!ENTITY dovecot-major                "2">
 <!ENTITY dovecot-minor                "3">
-<!ENTITY dovecot-micro                "7">
-<!ENTITY dovecot-nano                 "2">
-<!ENTITY dovecot-version              "&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;.&dovecot-micro;.&dovecot-nano;">
-<!--<!ENTITY dovecot-version              "&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;.&dovecot-micro;">-->
+<!ENTITY dovecot-micro                "8">
+<!ENTITY dovecot-nano                 "0">
+<!--<!ENTITY dovecot-version              "&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;.&dovecot-micro;.&dovecot-nano;">-->
+<!ENTITY dovecot-version              "&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;.&dovecot-micro;">
 
 <!ENTITY exim-version                 "4.92.3">
 <!ENTITY postfix-version              "3.4.7">
diff --git a/server/mail/dovecot.xml b/server/mail/dovecot.xml
index e47b18af63..86cb01f7a0 100644
--- a/server/mail/dovecot.xml
+++ b/server/mail/dovecot.xml
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
   <!ENTITY dovecot-download-http
   "https://www.dovecot.org/releases/&dovecot-major;.&dovecot-minor;/dovecot-&dovecot-version;.tar.gz">
   <!ENTITY dovecot-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY dovecot-md5sum        "c4817055f4a32e10c2c7eb3d42e14736">
-  <!ENTITY dovecot-size          "6.8 MB">
-  <!ENTITY dovecot-buildsize     "175 MB">
+  <!ENTITY dovecot-md5sum        "363a999284d97cc257ca9ce4b190bed8">
+  <!ENTITY dovecot-size          "6.9 MB">
+  <!ENTITY dovecot-buildsize     "180 MB">
   <!ENTITY dovecot-time          "3.9 SBU">
 ]>
 
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@
       <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
       <xref linkend="xfsprogs"/>,
       <ulink url="https://cassandra.apache.org/">Cassandra</ulink>,
-      <ulink url="https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4">lz4</ulink>, and
-      <ulink url="https://github.com/shibukawa/snowball_py">stemmer</ulink>
+      <ulink url="https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4">lz4</ulink>,
+      <ulink url="https://github.com/shibukawa/snowball_py">stemmer</ulink> and
+      <ulink url="https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/">libsodium</ulink>
     </para>
 
     <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes: