X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/b25bdce654559e4c832e0d557b986687edb2ccf0..0dda43406a4b207504213c58f668de9354ea915e:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index a732d9b2d..6159bf443 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -9,6 +9,38 @@ 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 4.75 +------------ + + 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there + is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client + libraries. The following global options have been added in support of + this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key, + ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls. + + 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default + 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. + + +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 ------------ @@ -103,9 +135,9 @@ Version 4.73 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; 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. + 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 overrides on the command-line. Going