Merge branch 'tom_dev'

[users/heiko/exim.git] / doc / doc-txt / NewStuff

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@@ -9,6 +9,52 @@ 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.
 
 
 the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list.
 
 

+Version 4.76
+------------
+
+ 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on
+    or off in the resolver library.
+
+
+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.
+
+ 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option,
+    in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines,
+    including any header additions or removals from transport.
+
+ 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address,
+    Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup.
+
+
+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
 ------------
 
 Version 4.73
 ------------
 


@@ -26,7 +72,7 @@ Version 4.73
  2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
     diagnosis in some scenarios.  Note that Exim is typically installed as
     a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,
  2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem
     diagnosis in some scenarios.  Note that Exim is typically installed as
     a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default,

-    so that safety mechanism would have to be overriden for this option to
+    so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to

     be able to take effect.
 
  3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless
     be able to take effect.
 
  3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless


@@ -103,16 +149,16 @@ 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
 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<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line.  Going
     forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
     include the main config.  As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
     providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides
 
 13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically
     trusted to supply -D<Macro[=Value]> overrides on the command-line.  Going
     forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that
     include the main config.  As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily
     providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides

-    a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overriden by the Exim
+    a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim

     run-time user.  The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
     ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).
 
     run-time user.  The values of these macros are constrained to the regex
     ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).