PCRE_PRERELEASE fix, again

[users/heiko/exim.git] / src / README.UPDATING

diff --git a/src/README.UPDATING b/src/README.UPDATING
index 5b6bea869ae5ab3a26b634ef742d6d2144873451..7ce35dff83a7d75a9f9ccbdb9e6d0a77e7290b9b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/README.UPDATING
+++ b/src/README.UPDATING
@@ -26,9 +26,12 @@ The rest of this document contains information about changes in 4.xx releases
 that might affect a running system.
 
 
-Exim version 4.78
+Exim version 4.80
 -----------------
 
+ * BEWARE backwards-incompatible changes in SSL libraries, thus the version
+   bump.  See points below for details.
+
  * The value of $tls_peerdn is now print-escaped when written to the spool file
    in a -tls_peerdn line, and unescaped when read back in.  We received reports
    of values with embedded newlines, which caused spool file corruption.
@@ -69,6 +72,45 @@ Exim version 4.78
    attribute as a comma-separated list.  Note the distinction from multiple
    attributes being returned, where each one is a name=value pair.
 
+ * accept_8bitmime now defaults on, which is not RFC compliant but is better
+   suited to today's Internet.  See http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html for a
+   sane rationale.  Those who wish to be strictly RFC compliant, or know that
+   they need to talk to servers that are not 8-bit-clean, now need to take
+   explicit configuration action to default this option off.  This is not a
+   new option, you can safely force it off before upgrading, to decouple
+   configuration changes from the binary upgrade while remaining RFC compliant.
+
+ * The GnuTLS support has been mostly rewritten, to use APIs which don't cause
+   deprecation warnings in GnuTLS 2.12.x.  As part of this, these three options
+   are no longer supported:
+
+     gnutls_require_kx
+     gnutls_require_mac
+     gnutls_require_protocols
+
+   Their functionality is entirely subsumed into tls_require_ciphers.  In turn,
+   tls_require_ciphers is no longer an Exim list and is not parsed by Exim, but
+   is instead given to gnutls_priority_init(3), which expects a priority string;
+   this behaviour is much closer to the OpenSSL behaviour.  See:
+
+     http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
+
+   for fuller documentation of the strings parsed.  The three gnutls_require_*
+   options are still parsed by Exim and, for this release, silently ignored.
+   A future release will add warnings, before a later still release removes
+   parsing entirely and the presence of the options will be a configuration
+   error.
+
+   Note that by default, GnuTLS will not accept RSA-MD5 signatures in chains.
+   A tls_require_ciphers value of NORMAL:%VERIFY_ALLOW_SIGN_RSA_MD5 may
+   re-enable support, but this is not supported by the Exim maintainers.
+   Our test suite no longer includes MD5-based certificates.
+
+   This rewrite means that Exim will continue to build against GnuTLS in the
+   future, brings Exim closer to other GnuTLS applications and lets us add
+   support for SNI and other features more readily.  We regret that it wasn't
+   feasible to retain the three dropped options.
+
 
 Exim version 4.77
 -----------------
@@ -79,6 +121,9 @@ Exim version 4.77
    problem.  Prior to this release, supported values were "TLS1" and "SSL3",
    so you should be able to update configuration prior to update.
 
+    [nb: gnutls_require_protocols removed in Exim 4.80, instead use
+         tls_require_ciphers to provide a priority string; see notes above]
+
  * The match_<type>{string1}{string2} expansion conditions no longer subject
    string2 to string expansion, unless Exim was built with the new
    "EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS" option.  Too many people have inadvertently created