-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.14 2004/11/04 10:42:11 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.63 2005/01/04 13:31:41 ph10 Exp $
Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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-Exim version 4.44
+Exim version 4.50
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1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
+15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
+ connection timeout.
+
+16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
+ was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
+
+17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
+ the spool by the -Mrm option.
+
+18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
+ information about exactly what failed.
+
+19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
+
+20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
+ handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
+ CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
+
+21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
+ It is now set to "smtps".
+
+22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
+ ignore_target_hosts.
+
+23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
+ being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
+ matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
+ since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
+ "[x.x.x.x]".
+
+24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
+ code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
+ modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
+
+25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
+ SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
+ wake it up if nothing else does.
+
+26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
+ for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
+ The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
+ end up negative.
+
+27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
+ support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
+
+28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
+
+29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
+ subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
+ empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
+ because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
+ database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
+ lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
+ contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
+ address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
+
+30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
+ host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
+ than one IP address.
+
+31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
+ function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
+ is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
+ $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
+
+32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
+ such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
+ encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
+ generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
+ have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
+ 1024 to 2048 bytes.
+
+33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
+ condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
+ is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
+ cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
+
+34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
+ there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
+ respected.
+
+35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
+ canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
+ $sender_host_address.
+
+36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
+ "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
+ that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
+ for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
+ per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
+ very small.
+
+37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
+
+ (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
+ finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
+
+ (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
+ just the host names, not the priorities.
+
+ (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
+ looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
+ controlled by a keyword.
+
+ (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
+ multiple records are returned.
+
+38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
+ a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
+ domain.
+
+39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
+
+40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
+ delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
+
+41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
+ to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
+ of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
+
+42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
+
+43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
+
+44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
+
+45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
+ transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
+ < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
+ introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
+ because the tests only now provoked it.
+
+46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
+ (this can affect the format of dates).
+
+47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
+ which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
+ messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
+ deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
+
+48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
+
+49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
+ on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
+ contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
+ was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
+
+50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
+ (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
+ AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
+
+51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
+ autoreply.
+
+52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
+ recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
+ as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
+ increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
+ happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
+ have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
+ is going on).
+
+53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
+ the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
+ was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
+ the line.
+
+54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
+ patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
+ create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
+
+ "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
+ Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
+ Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
+ of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
+ But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
+ so I produce this patch..."
+
+55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
+ keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
+ dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
+ leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
+
+56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
+
+57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
+ long debug lines gets shown.
+
+58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
+ exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
+
+59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
+
+ (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
+ (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
+ of $primary_hostname.
+
+60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
+ to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
+ not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
+ if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
+ from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
+ components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
+ by change 4.50/55 above.
+
+ If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
+ itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
+ data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
+ exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
+ find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
+ running as the user.
+
+61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
+ (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
+ spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
+
+62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
+ os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
+
+63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
+ need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
+ deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
+ necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
+ when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
+
+64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
+ This has been fixed.
+
+65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
+ was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
+ consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
+ SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
+ the caching.)
+
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