-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.71 2005/01/14 10:25:33 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.105 2005/03/29 15:19:25 ph10 Exp $
Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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+
+Exim version 4.51
+-----------------
+
+TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
+ doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
+
+TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
+
+TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
+
+PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
+ to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
+
+PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
+ that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
+ The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
+ if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
+ old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
+ means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
+ file.
+
+PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
+ work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
+ parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
+ again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
+ these two options.
+
+PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
+ redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
+ entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
+ consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
+ "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
+ address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
+ certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
+ address. A one-line patch to add the appropriate test fixes the bug.
+
+PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
+ in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
+
+PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
+ header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
+ In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
+ reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
+ supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
+ lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
+
+PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
+ defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
+ commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
+ SMTP commands that take arguments.
+
+PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
+ Finch).
+
+PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
+ "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
+
+PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
+ an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
+ whatever). Otherwise not only does the password appear in the log, it may
+ also be put in a bounce message.
+
+PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
+
+PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
+ of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
+
+PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
+ the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
+ to what was transported.)
+
+TF/01 Added $received_time.
+
+PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
+ commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
+ SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
+ spamd_address settings.
+
+PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
+ and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
+ errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
+ where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
+ negation of where the condition IS allowed.
+
+PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
+
+PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
+ header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
+ value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
+ API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
+ radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
+
+PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
+ files or directories, for OpenSSL.
+
+PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
+ file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
+ ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
+ the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
+ fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
+ for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
+ run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
+ for failure.
+
+
+A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
+----------------------------------------
+
+Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
+changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
+needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
+in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
+that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
+release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
+from 4.43.
+
+I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
+4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
+those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
+historical information.
+
+
Exim version 4.50
-----------------
keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
+ CAN-2005-0021
56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
running as the user.
+ CAN-2005-0021
61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
(which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
+ CAN-2005-0022
62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
+73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
+ during host lookups.
+
+74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
+ when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
+
+ verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
+
+75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
+ those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
+ wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
+ could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
+ stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
+ background.
+
+76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
+ log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
+
+77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
+ the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
+ for the non-SMTP ACL.
+
+78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
+
+79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
+ restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
+ a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
+ connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
+ earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
+ else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
+ process earlier.
+
+80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
+ or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
+ It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
+ related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
+ illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
+
+81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
+ tables).
+
+82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
+
+83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
+ "vacation" handling.
+
+84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
+ OS variants using glibc.
+
+85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------
+See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+
+Exim version 4.44
+-----------------
+
+ 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
+ incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
+ transport
+
+ 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
+ bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
+ place.
+
+ 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
+ filter fails to execute.
+
+ 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
+ subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
+ was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
+ now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
+ filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
+
+ 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
+ descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
+ unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
+ systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
+
+ 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
+ was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
+ controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
+ "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
+ control that does not make sense is encountered.
+
+ 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
+
+ 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
+ received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
+ failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
+ cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
+
+ 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
+ of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
+ sender verification.
+
+10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
+ was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
+
+11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
+ the spool by the -Mrm option.
+
+12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
+ ignore_target_hosts.
+
+13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
+ being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
+ matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
+ since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
+ "[x.x.x.x]".
+
+14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
+ code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
+ modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
+
+15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
+ SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
+ wake it up if nothing else does.
+
+16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
+ for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
+ The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
+ end up negative.
+
+17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
+ support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
+
+18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
+
+19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
+ Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
+ empty pattern.
+
+20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
+ host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
+ one IP address.
+
+21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
+ such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
+ encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
+ generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
+ have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
+ 1024 to 2048 bytes.
+
+22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
+ there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
+ respected.
+
+23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
+ canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
+ $sender_host_address.
+
+24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
+
+25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
+ to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
+ of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
+
+26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
+ As per change 25.
+
+27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
+ (this can affect the format of dates).
+
+28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
+ which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
+ messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
+ deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
+
+29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
+ 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
+ 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
+
+30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
+ on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
+ contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
+ was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
+
+31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
+ (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
+ AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
+
+31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
+ autoreply.
+
+32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
+ recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
+ as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
+ increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
+ happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
+ have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
+ is going on).
+
+33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
+ keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
+ dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
+ leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
+ CAN-2005-0021
+
+34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
+ to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
+ not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
+ if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
+ from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
+ components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
+ by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
+
+ If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
+ itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
+ data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
+ exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
+ find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
+ running as the user.
+ CAN-2005-0021
+
+35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
+ (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
+ spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
+ CAN-2005-0022
+
+36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
+ need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
+ deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
+ necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
+ when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
+
+37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
+ was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
+ consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
+ SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
+ the caching.)
+
+38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
+ transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
+ < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
+ introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
+ because the tests only now provoked it.
+
Exim version 4.43
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