X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/2fe767453007d1b015f52313d16dc61635085621..76fbc01d6f1814bdbc2dedb31a405105b38a70f2:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 46fd6c4d8..2872d241f 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.176 2010/06/14 18:51:10 pdp Exp $ - New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -8,6 +6,85 @@ Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can 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 4.78 +------------ + + 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present). + This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at + http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/. + This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so + careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim. + + 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only. + A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME + is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the + "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab. + + 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference + cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather + than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and + "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support + without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS". + + 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits. + + 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will + be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass + into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as + used by Cyrus SASL. + + 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1. + + Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of + "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that + increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability + implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but + administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore + compatibility at the cost of session security. + + 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option + tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client + sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a + different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must + still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set. + + The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname + for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too. + + A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values + for Exim as a server. + + Currently OpenSSL only. + + +Version 4.77 +------------ + + 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=. + The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option. + + 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to + use SSL-on-connect outbound. + + 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when + there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running. + + 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists + and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not + support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion. + + 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was + built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of + the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain", + "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used. + + +Version 4.76 +------------ + + 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on + or off in the resolver library. + Version 4.75 ------------ @@ -22,6 +99,16 @@ Version 4.75 false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce. + 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available). + The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution. + + 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option, + in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines, + including any header additions or removals from transport. + + 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address, + Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup. + Version 4.74 ------------ @@ -55,7 +142,7 @@ Version 4.73 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default, - so that safety mechanism would have to be overriden for this option to + so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to be able to take effect. 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless @@ -141,7 +228,7 @@ Version 4.73 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides - a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overriden by the Exim + a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).