* BEWARE backwards-incompatible changes in SSL libraries, thus the version
bump. See points below for details.
+ Also an LDAP data returned format change.
* The value of $tls_peerdn is now print-escaped when written to the spool file
in a -tls_peerdn line, and unescaped when read back in. We received reports
the message. No tool has been provided as we believe this is a rare
occurence.
+ * For OpenSSL, SSLv2 is now disabled by default. (GnuTLS does not support
+ SSLv2). RFC 6176 prohibits SSLv2 and some informal surveys suggest no
+ actual usage. You can re-enable with the "openssl_options" Exim option,
+ in the main configuration section. Note that supporting SSLv2 exposes
+ you to ciphersuite downgrade attacks.
+
* With OpenSSL 1.0.1+, Exim now supports TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2. If built
against 1.0.1a then you will get a warning message and the
"openssl_options" value will not parse "no_tlsv1_1": the value changes
"openssl_options" gains "no_tlsv1_1", "no_tlsv1_2" and "no_compression".
COMPATIBILITY WARNING: The default value of "openssl_options" is no longer
- "+dont_insert_empty_fragments". We default to unset. That old default was
- grandfathered in from before openssl_options became a configuration option.
+ "+dont_insert_empty_fragments". We default to "+no_sslv2".
+ That old default was grandfathered in from before openssl_options became a
+ configuration option.
Empty fragments are inserted by default through TLS1.0, to partially defend
against certain attacks; TLS1.1+ change the protocol so that this is not
needed. The DIEF SSL option was required for some old releases of mail
security for compatibility. Exim is now defaulting to higher security and
rewarding more modern clients.
+ If the option tls_dhparams is set and the parameters loaded from the file
+ have a bit-count greater than the new option tls_dh_max_bits, then the file
+ will now be ignored. If this affects you, raise the tls_dh_max_bits limit.
+ We suspect that most folks are using dated defaults and will not be affected.
+
* Ldap lookups returning multi-valued attributes now separate the attributes
with only a comma, not a comma-space sequence. Also, an actual comma within
a returned attribute is doubled. This makes it possible to parse the
attribute as a comma-separated list. Note the distinction from multiple
attributes being returned, where each one is a name=value pair.
+ If you are currently splitting the results from LDAP upon a comma, then you
+ should check carefully to see if adjustments are needed.
+
+ This change lets cautious folks distinguish "comma used as separator for
+ joining values" from "comma inside the data".
+
* 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
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:
+ * The GnuTLS support has been mostly rewritten, to use APIs which don't cause
+ deprecation warnings in GnuTLS 2.12.x. 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:
+ Their functionality is entirely subsumed into tls_require_ciphers. In turn,
+ tls_require_ciphers is no longer an Exim list and is not parsed by Exim, but
+ is instead given to gnutls_priority_init(3), which expects a priority string;
+ this behaviour is much closer to the OpenSSL behaviour. See:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
support for SNI and other features more readily. We regret that it wasn't
feasible to retain the three dropped options.
+ * If built with TLS support, then Exim will now validate the value of
+ the main section tls_require_ciphers option at start-up. Before, this
+ would cause a STARTTLS 4xx failure, now it causes a failure to start.
+ Running with a broken configuration which causes failures that may only
+ be left in the logs has been traded off for something more visible. This
+ change makes an existing problem more prominent, but we do not believe
+ anyone would deliberately be running with an invalid tls_require_ciphers
+ option.
+
+ This also means that library linkage issues caused by conflicts of some
+ kind might take out the main daemon, not just the delivery or receiving
+ process. Conceivably some folks might prefer to continue delivering
+ mail plaintext when their binary is broken in this way, if there is a
+ server that is a candidate to receive such mails that does not advertise
+ STARTTLS. Note that Exim is typically a setuid root binary and given
+ broken linkage problems that cause segfaults, we feel it is safer to
+ fail completely. (The check is not done as root, to ensure that problems
+ here are not made worse by the check).
+
+ * The "tls_dhparam" option has been updated, so that it can now specify a
+ path or an identifier for a standard DH prime from one of a few RFCs.
+ The default for OpenSSL is no longer to not use DH but instead to use
+ one of these standard primes. The default for GnuTLS is no longer to use
+ a file in the spool directory, but to use that same standard prime.
+ The option is now used by GnuTLS too. If it points to a path, then
+ GnuTLS will use that path, instead of a file in the spool directory;
+ GnuTLS will attempt to create it if it does not exist.
+
+ To preserve the previous behaviour of generating files in the spool
+ directory, set "tls_dhparam = historic". Since prior releases of Exim
+ ignored tls_dhparam when using GnuTLS, this can safely be done before
+ the upgrade.
+
+
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