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    attribute as a comma-separated list.  Note the distinction from multiple
    attributes being returned, where each one is a name=value pair.
 
+ * accept_8bitmime now defaults on, which is not RFC compliant but is better
+   suited to today's Internet.  See http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html for a
+   sane rationale.  Those who wish to be strictly RFC compliant, or know that
+   they need to talk to servers that are not 8-bit-clean, now need to take
+   explicit configuration action to default this option off.  This is not a
+   new option, you can safely force it off before upgrading, to decouple
+   configuration changes from the binary upgrade while remaining RFC compliant.
+
+ * The GnuTLS support has been mostly rewritten, to use 2.12.x APIs.  As part
+   of this, these three options are no longer supported:
+
+     gnutls_require_kx
+     gnutls_require_mac
+     gnutls_require_protocols
+
+   Their functionality is entirely subsumed into tls_require_ciphers, which is
+   no longer parsed apart by Exim but is instead given to
+   gnutls_priority_init(3), which is no longer an Exim list.  See:
+
+     http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
+
+   for fuller documentation of the strings parsed.  The three gnutls_require_*
+   options are still parsed by Exim and, for this release, silently ignored.
+   A future release will add warnings, before a later still release removes
+   parsing entirely and the presence of the options will be a configuration
+   error.
+
+   This rewrite means that Exim will continue to build against GnuTLS in the
+   future, brings Exim closer to other GnuTLS applications and lets us add
+   support for SNI and other features more readily.  We regret that it wasn't
+   feasible to retain the three dropped options.
+
 
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