X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/3b4f55a3467f3c0dc52711f14fb3a593daa93f36..f0f5a555bee153477d12bcbce90875d46884281c:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index b962b61a2..6eae4ce7b 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -33,6 +33,33 @@ Version 4.78 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 ------------