-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.159 2008/10/16 07:57:01 nm4 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.163 2010/06/01 11:13:54 pdp Exp $
New Features in Exim
--------------------
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 4.70
+
+Version 4.72
------------
- 1. Preliminary SPF Best Guess support. Documentation for this is in
- experimental-spec.txt.
+ 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
+ writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
+
+ 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
+
+ 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
+ messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
+ duplicates).
+
+ 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
+ in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
+ only the first string would be returned. The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
+ preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
+ separator specification. The first output separator is used to join
+ multiple TXT records together; use a second separator character, followed
+ by a colon, to join the strings within a TXT record on that second
+ character, or use a semicolon to concatenate strings within a TXT record
+ with no separator. Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no
+ ordering guarantees between multiple records in an RRset. For example:
+
+ foo.example. IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
+ foo.example. IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
+
+ ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}} -> "a/d"
+ ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}} -> "def/abc"
+ ${lookup dnsdb{>/+: txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
+
+ Some character combinations are currently unsupported.
+
+Version 4.70 / 4.71
+-------------------
+
+ 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
+
+ 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
+ and{} expansion operator).
+
+ 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
+ at delivery time.
+
+ 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
+ options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
+
+ 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
+ which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
+ security. Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
+
+ 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
+ "random" number less than the supplied integer. This randomness is
+ not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
+ Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
+
+ 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
+ OpenSSL.
+
+ 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
Version 4.68