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-$Cambridge: exim/src/README.UPDATING,v 1.16 2007/06/20 14:19:23 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/src/README.UPDATING,v 1.17 2009/10/16 07:35:42 tom Exp $

 
 This document contains detailed information about incompatibilities that might
 be encountered when upgrading from one release of Exim to another. The
 
 This document contains detailed information about incompatibilities that might
 be encountered when upgrading from one release of Exim to another. The


@@ -28,6 +28,63 @@ The rest of this document contains information about changes in 4.xx releases
 that might affect a running system.
 
 
 that might affect a running system.
 
 

+Exim version 4.74
+-----------------
+
+ * No incompatible changes within Exim itself, but the integrated support for
+   dynamically loadable lookup modules has an ABI change from the modules
+   supported by some OS vendors through an unofficial patch. Don't try to
+   mix & match.
+
+
+Exim version 4.73
+-----------------
+
+ * The Exim run-time user can no longer be root; this was always
+   strongly discouraged, but is now prohibited both at build and
+   run-time.  If you need Exim to run routinely as root, you'll need to
+   patch the source and accept the risk.  Here be dragons.
+
+ * Exim will no longer accept a configuration file owned by the Exim
+   run-time user, unless that account is explicitly the value in
+   CONFIGURE_OWNER, which we discourage.  Exim now checks to ensure that
+   files are not writable by other accounts.
+
+ * The ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY build option is no longer optional and is forced
+   on; the Exim user can, by default, no longer use -C/-D and retain privilege.
+   Two new build options mitigate this.
+
+    * TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST defines a file containing a whitelist of config
+      files that are trusted to be selected by the Exim user; one per line.
+      This is the recommended approach going forward.
+
+    * WHITELIST_D_MACROS defines a colon-separated list of macro names which
+      the Exim run-time user may safely pass without dropping privileges.
+      Because changes to this involve a recompile, this is not the recommended
+      approach but may ease transition.  The values of the macros, when
+      overriden, are constrained to match this regex: ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$
+
+ * The system_filter_user option now defaults to the Exim run-time user,
+   rather than root.  You can still set it explicitly to root and this
+   can be done with prior versions too, letting you roll versions
+   without needing to change this configuration option.
+
+ * ClamAV must be at least version 0.95 unless WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM is
+   defined at build time.
+
+
+Exim version 4.70
+-----------------
+
+1. Experimental Yahoo! Domainkeys support has been dropped in this release.
+It has been superceded by a native implementation of its successor DKIM.
+
+2. Up to version 4.69, Exim came with an embedded version of the PCRE library.
+As of 4.70, this is no longer the case. To compile Exim, you will need PCRE
+installed. Most OS distributions have ready-made library and develoment
+packages.
+
+

 Exim version 4.68
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 Exim version 4.68
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