X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/ed7f7860402395aedcb9e9c0cbade291c675a12f..81d4380e69bcdb3fa10f1182f85c09ba039031f9:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index a8606870c..91c9b5f71 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.170 2010/06/06 00:27:52 pdp Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.174 2010/06/07 08:23:20 pdp Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -63,6 +63,26 @@ Version 4.73 control = debug/opts=+expand+acl control = debug/tag=.$message_exim_id/opts=+expand + 7. It has always been implicit in the design and the documentation that + "the Exim user" is not root. src/EDITME said that using root was + "very strongly discouraged". This is not enough to keep people from + shooting themselves in the foot in days when many don't configure Exim + themselves but via package build managers. The security consequences of + running various bits of network code are severe if there should be bugs in + them. As such, the Exim user may no longer be root. If configured + statically, Exim will refuse to build. If configured as ref:user then Exim + will exit shortly after start-up. If you must shoot yourself in the foot, + then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip + the safeties off. + + 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL + condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many + strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings + do evaluate true. + Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true. + + 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests, + Version 4.72 ------------ @@ -106,7 +126,7 @@ Version 4.70 / 4.71 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha). 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to - true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjuction with the + true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjunction with the and{} expansion operator). 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available @@ -130,6 +150,12 @@ Version 4.70 / 4.71 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too. +Version 4.69 +------------ + + 1. Preliminary DKIM support in Experimental. + + Version 4.68 ------------