Tests compat. setgid failure / dropped_privilege

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@@ -9,9 +9,27 @@ test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once
 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
 
 
+Version 4.74
+------------
+
+ 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux)
+    the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to
+    arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based
+    on content supplied by the attacker.
+
+ 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your
+    platform's dlopen() functionality.  This has limited platform support
+    and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to
+    dlopen().  This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against
+    all the libraries needed for all the lookup types.
+
+
 Version 4.73
 ------------
 
+ NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the
+       items below carefully
+
  1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim
     is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL.  The option allows
     administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections;
@@ -38,6 +56,8 @@ Version 4.73
 
       av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local
 
+    ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled.
+
  4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users.  This option
     takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's
     malware-scanning framework.  This is intended purely as a debugging aid
@@ -92,6 +112,25 @@ Version 4.73
     default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME
     build option.
 
+11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now
+    the Exim run-time user, instead of root.
+
+12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and
+    is forced on.  This is mitigated by the new build option
+    TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which
+    are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches
+    a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time
+    user without Exim relinquishing root privileges.
+
+13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
+    trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line.  Going
+    forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
+    include the main config.  As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
+    providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
+    a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overriden by the Exim
+    run-time user.  The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
+    ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
+
 
 Version 4.72
 ------------