Add ${listextract {n}{list}...}

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diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
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--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -371,11 +371,13 @@ contributors.
 .section "Exim documentation" "SECID1"
 . Keep this example change bar when updating the documentation!
 
+.new
 .cindex "documentation"
 This edition of the Exim specification applies to version &version() of Exim.
 Substantive changes from the &previousversion; edition are marked in some
 renditions of the document; this paragraph is so marked if the rendition is
 capable of showing a change indicator.
+.wen
 
 This document is very much a reference manual; it is not a tutorial. The reader
 is expected to have some familiarity with the SMTP mail transfer protocol and
@@ -7038,6 +7040,18 @@ With sufficiently modern LDAP libraries, Exim supports forcing TLS over regular
 LDAP connections, rather than the SSL-on-connect &`ldaps`&.
 See the &%ldap_start_tls%& option.
 
+.new
+Starting with Exim 4.83, the initialization of LDAP with TLS is more tightly
+controlled. Every part of the TLS configuration can be configured by settings in
+&_exim.conf_&. Depending on the version of the client libraries installed on
+your system, some of the initialization may have required setting options in
+&_/etc/ldap.conf_& or &_~/.ldaprc_& to get TLS working with self-signed
+certificates. This revealed a nuance where the current UID that exim was
+running as could affect which config files it read. With Exim 4.83, these
+methods become optional, only taking effect if not specifically set in
+&_exim.conf_&.
+.wen
+
 
 .section "LDAP quoting" "SECID68"
 .cindex "LDAP" "quoting"
@@ -9167,6 +9181,44 @@ of <&'string2'&>, whichever is the shorter. Do not confuse &%length%& with
 &%strlen%&, which gives the length of a string.
 
 
+.vitem "&*${listextract{*&<&'number'&>&*}&&&
+        {*&<&'string1'&>&*}{*&<&'string2'&>&*}{*&<&'string3'&>&*}}*&"
+.cindex "expansion" "extracting list elements by number"
+.cindex "&%listextract%&" "extract list elements by number"
+.cindex "list" "extracting elements by number"
+The <&'number'&> argument must consist entirely of decimal digits,
+apart from an optional leading minus,
+and leading and trailing white space (which is ignored).
+
+After expansion, <&'string1'&> is interpreted as a list, colon-separated by
+default, but the separator can be changed in the usual way.
+
+The first field of the list is numbered one.
+If the number is negative, the fields are
+counted from the end of the list, with the rightmost one numbered -1.
+The numbered element of the list is extracted and placed in &$value$&,
+then <&'string2'&> is expanded as the result.
+
+If the modulus of the
+number is zero or greater than the number of fields in the string,
+the result is the expansion of <&'string3'&>.
+
+For example:
+.code
+${listextract{2}{x:42:99}}
+.endd
+yields &"42"&, and
+.code
+${listextract{-3}{<, x,42,99,& Mailer,,/bin/bash}{result: $value}}
+.endd
+yields &"result: 99"&.
+
+If {<&'string3'&>} is omitted, an empty string is used for string3.
+If {<&'string2'&>} is also omitted, the value that was
+extracted is used.
+You can use &`fail`& instead of {<&'string3'&>} as in a string extract.
+
+
 .vitem "&*${lookup{*&<&'key'&>&*}&~*&<&'search&~type'&>&*&~&&&
         {*&<&'file'&>&*}&~{*&<&'string1'&>&*}&~{*&<&'string2'&>&*}}*&"
 This is the first of one of two different types of lookup item, which are both
@@ -13638,6 +13690,9 @@ a very large time at the end of the list. For example:
 .code
 delay_warning = 2h:12h:99d
 .endd
+Note that the option is only evaluated at the time a delivery attempt fails,
+which depends on retry and queue-runner configuration.
+Typically retries will be configured more frequently than warning messages.
 
 .option delay_warning_condition main string&!! "see below"
 .vindex "&$domain$&"
@@ -26055,6 +26110,12 @@ validation to succeed, of course, but if it's not preinstalled, sending the
 root certificate along with the rest makes it available for the user to
 install if the receiving end is a client MUA that can interact with a user.
 
+Note that certificates using MD5 are unlikely to work on today's Internet;
+even if your libraries allow loading them for use in Exim when acting as a
+server, increasingly clients will not accept such certificates.  The error
+diagnostics in such a case can be frustratingly vague.
+
+
 
 .section "Self-signed certificates" "SECID187"
 .cindex "certificate" "self-signed"