X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/252e0c7b1235b8474023a0ab187c35a3088d3cb1..f0f5a555bee153477d12bcbce90875d46884281c:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 1e5629c2b..6eae4ce7b 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -13,10 +13,7 @@ Version 4.78 This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/. This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so - careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim. Note that - this can not yet be used as a drop-in replacement for Cyrus SASL, as - Exim is currently unable to construct strings with embedded NULs for - use as keys in lookups against sasldb2. + careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim. 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only. A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME @@ -26,7 +23,42 @@ Version 4.78 3. The "pkg-config" system can now be used when building Exim to reference cflags and library information for lookups and authenticators, rather than having to update "CFLAGS", "AUTH_LIBS", "LOOKUP_INCLUDE" and - "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. + "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly. Similarly for handling the TLS library support + without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS". + + 4. New expansion variable $tls_bits. + + 5. New lookup type, "dbmjz". Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will + be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass + into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as + used by Cyrus SASL. + + 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1. + + Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of + "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that + increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability + implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but + administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore + compatibility at the cost of session security. + + 7. Use of the new expansion variable $tls_sni in the main configuration option + tls_certificate will cause Exim to re-expand the option, if the client + sends the TLS Server Name Indication extension, to permit choosing a + different certificate; tls_privatekey will also be re-expanded. You must + still set these options to expand to valid files when $tls_sni is not set. + + The SMTP Transport has gained the option tls_sni, which will set a hostname + for outbound TLS sessions, and set $tls_sni too. + + A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values + for Exim as a server. + + Currently OpenSSL only. + + 8. SSLv2 now disabled by default in OpenSSL. (Never supported by GnuTLS). + Use "openssl_options -no_sslv2" to re-enable support, if your OpenSSL + install was not built with OPENSSL_NO_SSL2 ("no-ssl2"). Version 4.77