X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/c4b57fddcae8301f324d2626083c13b2c5e60521..e4a04f2a8de013abe125d9d04219343b0a32662e:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 1ff45b425..e21446533 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -6,6 +6,104 @@ Before a formal release, there may be quite a lot of detail so that people can test from the snapshots or the Git before the documentation is updated. Once the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list. +Version 4.94 +------------ + + 1. EXPERIMENTAL_SRS_NATIVE optional build feature. See the experimental.spec + file. + + 2. Channel-binding for authenticators is now supported under OpenSSL. + Previously it was GnuTLS-only. + + 3. A msg:defer event. + + 4. Client-side support in the gsasl authenticator. Tested against the + plaintext driver for PLAIN; only against itself for SCRAM-SHA-1 and + SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS methods. + + 5. Server-side support in the gsasl authenticator for encrypted passwords, as + an alternate for the existing plaintext. + + 6. Variable $local_part_verified, set by the router check_local_part condition + with untainted data. + + 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do + not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options. + + +Version 4.93 +------------ + + 1. An "external" authenticator, per RFC 4422 Appendix A. + + 2. A JSON lookup type, and JSON variants of the forall/any expansion conditions. + + 3. Variables $tls_in_cipher_std, $tls_out_cipher_std giving the RFC names + for ciphersuites. + + 4. Log_selectors "msg_id" (on by default) and "msg_id_created". + + 5. A case_insensitive option for verify=not_blind. + + 6. EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME optional build feature. See the experimental.spec + file. + + 7. A main option exim_version to override the version Exim + reports in verious places ($exim_version, $version_number). + + 8. Expansion operator ${sha2_N:} for N=256, 384, 512. + + 9. Router variables, $r_... settable from router options and usable in routers + and transports. + +10. The spf lookup now supports IPv6. + +11. Main options for DKIM verify to filter hash and key types. + +12. With TLS1.3, support for full-chain OCSP stapling. + +13. Dual-certificate stacks on servers now support OCSP stapling, under OpenSSL. + +14: An smtp:ehlo transport event, for observability of the remote offered features. + +15: Support under OpenSSL for writing NSS-style key files for packet-capture + decode. The environment variable SSLKEYLOGFILE is used; if an absolute path + it must indicate a file under the spool directory; if relative the the spool + directory is prepended. Works on the server side only. Support under + GnuTLS was already there, being done purely by the library (server side + only, and exim must be run as root). + +16: Command-line option to move messages from one named queue to another. + +17. Variables $tls_in_ver, $tls_out_ver. + + +Version 4.92 +-------------- + + 1. ${l_header:} and ${l_h:} expansion items, giving a colon-sep + list when there are multiple headers having a given name. This matters + when individual headers are wrapped onto multiple lines; with previous + facilities hard to parse. + + 2. The ${readsocket } expansion item now takes a "tls" option, doing the + obvious thing. + + 3. EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS and EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT optional build + features. See the experimental.spec file. + + 4. If built with SUPPORT_I18N a "utf8_downconvert" option on the smtp transport. + + 5. A "pipelining" log_selector. + + 6. Builtin macros for supported log_selector and openssl_options values. + + 7. JSON variants of the ${extract } expansion item. + + 8. A "noutf8" debug option, for disabling the UTF-8 characters in debug output. + + 9. TCP Fast Open support on MacOS. + Version 4.91 -------------- @@ -14,6 +112,7 @@ Version 4.91 2. DANE is now supported under GnuTLS version 3.0.0 or later. Both GnuTLS and OpenSSL versions are moved to mainline support from Experimental. + New SMTP transport option "dane_require_tls_ciphers". 3. Feature macros for the compiled-in set of malware scanner interfaces. @@ -34,7 +133,7 @@ Version 4.91 under OpenSSL version 1.1.1 or later. 9. DKIM operations can now use the Ed25519 algorithm in addition to RSA, under - GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. + GnuTLS 3.6.0 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later. 10. Builtin feature-macros _CRYPTO_HASH_SHA3 and _CRYPTO_SIGN_ED25519, library version dependent. @@ -45,9 +144,19 @@ Version 4.91 Authentication-Results: header. 13. EXPERIMENTAL_ARC. See the experimental.spec file. + See also new util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for use with DMARC/ARC. 14: A dane:fail event, intended to facilitate reporting. +15. "Lightweight" support for Redis Cluster. Requires redis_servers list to + contain all the servers in the cluster, all of which must be reachable from + the running exim instance. If the cluster has master/slave replication, the + list must contain all the master and slave servers. + +16. Add an option to the Avast scanner interface: "pass_unscanned". This + allows to treat unscanned files as clean. Files may be unscanned for + several reasons: decompression bombs, broken archives. + Version 4.90 ------------ @@ -120,7 +229,7 @@ Version 4.89 2. A main-section config option "debug_store" to control the checks on variable locations during store-reset. Normally false but can be enabled - when a memory corrution issue is suspected on a production system. + when a memory corruption issue is suspected on a production system. Version 4.88 @@ -913,7 +1022,7 @@ Version 4.68 longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the line termination character(s). - 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analagous to + 7. Host lists can now include +ignore_defer and +include_defer, analogous to +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.