Overhaul of GnuTLS code.

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@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Version 4.78
     "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly.  Similarly for handling the TLS library support
     without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
 
+    In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
+    find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
+
  4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
 
  5. New lookup type, "dbmjz".  Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
@@ -42,6 +45,41 @@ Version 4.78
     administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
     compatibility at the cost of session security.
 
+ 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option
+    tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client
+    sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a
+    different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded.  You must
+    still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set.
+
+    The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname
+    for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too.
+
+    A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values
+    for Exim as a server.
+
+ 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true.  This means
+    that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant.  We're following
+    Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
+    Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
+    even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
+
+ 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
+    -bw<timespec>).  With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
+    already listening for connections.  This has a more modern name of
+    "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0.  We're
+    interested in adding more support for modern variants.
+
+10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms.  A new "G" suffux
+    for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
+
+11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
+    gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
+    tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
+    string, documentation for which is at:
+    http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
+
+    SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
+
 
 Version 4.77
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