X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/29cfeb94e35eb8fe2b6f02fe9c9444edb251fd71..7e6a8985adde2af36313e3abe5883d6f0aaa2e81:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index b940afe34..487ce30b3 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.176 2010/06/14 18:51:10 pdp Exp $ - New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -8,6 +6,58 @@ Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can 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 4.78 +------------ + + 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present). + 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. + + 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only. + A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME + is no longer honoured for setuid programs by Heimdal. Use the + "server_keytab" option to point to the keytab. + + 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. Similarly for handling the TLS library support + without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS". + + +Version 4.77 +------------ + + 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=. + The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option. + + 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to + use SSL-on-connect outbound. + + 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when + there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running. + + 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists + and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not + support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion. + + 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was + built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of + the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain", + "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used. + + +Version 4.76 +------------ + + 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on + or off in the resolver library. + Version 4.75 ------------ @@ -65,7 +115,7 @@ Version 4.73 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default, - so that safety mechanism would have to be overriden for this option to + so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to be able to take effect. 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless @@ -151,7 +201,7 @@ Version 4.73 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides - a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overriden by the Exim + a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).