The latest release is 3.13. This is an incremental - upgrade with some new features, however old 3.0x configuration - files should be fully compatible. Upgrading from previous - releases is worth doing, particularly since a denial-of-service - hole has been fixed over 3.0x and lower versions.
+The latest release is 4.41. This is a bug fix and new + features upgrade in the 4.xx series of releases - see the + download pages. Documentation has been + updated for 4.40. Version 4.40 had a bug which can cause the + daemon to die - it should be upgraded to 4.41
-The previous release is 3.03. This was a major upgrade - over the 2.1x series, and some features of the configuration file - are not backward compatible - although there is a conversion - utility. Earlier version 3.0x users should upgrade, - although the bug fixes are relatively minor.
+New features are documented in the doc/ChangeLog and doc/NewStuff files within + the distribution. These files are also available separately from + the main package files on the main ftp site and its mirrors in the + ChangeLogs directory - see + the download pages.
-The last 2.x release version was 2.12. This is a bugfix - release over earlier 2.1x releases. Upgrade from 2.0x releases is - not imperative.
+All versions of exim + previous to version 4.x are now considered obsolete and + everyone is strongly recommended to upgrade to a current + release.
-There were a number of early beta versions of exim with version - numbers less than 1.0. These should now be avoided. - Versions earlier than 2.0x should also be upgraded.
+The last 3.x release was 3.36.
There may be beta versions with available from the ftp sites in the Testing directory. Many people are using these without @@ -35,6 +36,6 @@