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This document contains detailed information about incompatibilities that might
be encountered when upgrading from one release of Exim to another. The
information is in reverse order of release numbers. Mostly these are relatively
Exim version 4.74
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- * 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.
+ * 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.
+
+ * Some parts of the build system are now beginning to assume that the host
+ environment is POSIX. If you're building on a system where POSIX tools are
+ not the default, you might have an easier time if you switch to the POSIX
+ tools. Feel free to report non-POSIX issues as a request for a feature
+ enhancement, but if the POSIX variants are available then the fix will
+ probably just involve some coercion. See the README instructions for
+ building on such hosts.
Exim version 4.73
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_/.-]*$
+ overridden, 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
git://git.exim.org / exim.git / blobdiff