X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/7e6a8985adde2af36313e3abe5883d6f0aaa2e81..f16be9794c6eec65385dca68e88978b30efd6012:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 487ce30b3..2872d241f 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -13,10 +13,7 @@ Version 4.78 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. Note that - this can not yet be used as a drop-in replacement for Cyrus SASL, as - Exim is currently unable to construct strings with embedded NULs for - use as keys in lookups against sasldb2. + 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 @@ -29,6 +26,36 @@ Version 4.78 "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 ------------