-$Cambridge: exim/src/README.UPDATING,v 1.17 2009/10/16 07:35:42 tom Exp $
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This document contains detailed information about incompatibilities that might
be encountered when upgrading from one release of Exim to another. The
information is in reverse order of release numbers. Mostly these are relatively
The rest of this document contains information about changes in 4.xx releases
that might affect a running system.
+Exim version 4.93
+-----------------
+
+For a detailed list of changes that might affect Exim's operation with
+an unchanged configuration, please see the doc/ChangeLog file.
+
+Build:
+
+ * SUPPORT_DMARC replaces EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC
+
+ * DISABLE_TLS replaces SUPPORT_TLS
+
+ * Bump the version for the local_scan API.
+
+Runtime:
+
+ * smtp transport option hosts_try_fastopen defaults to "*".
+
+ * DNSSec is requested (not required) for all queries. (This seemes to
+ ask for trouble if your resolver is a systemd-resolved.)
+
+ * Generic router option retry_use_local_part defaults to "true" under specific
+ pre-conditions.
+
+ * Introduce a tainting mechanism for values read from untrusted sources.
+
+ * Use longer file names for temporary spool files (this avoids
+ name conflicts with spool on a shared file system).
+
+ * Use dsn_from main config option (was ignored previously).
+
+
+Exim version 4.92
+-----------------
+
+ * Exim used to manually follow CNAME chains, to a limited depth. In this
+ day-and-age we expect the resolver to be doing this for us, so the loop
+ is limited to one retry unless the (new) config option dns_cname_loops
+ is changed.
+
+Exim version 4.91
+-----------------
+
+ * DANE and SPF have been promoted from Experimental to Supported status, thus
+ the options to enable them in Local/Makefile have been renamed.
+ See current src/EDITME for full details, including changes in dependencies,
+ but loosely: replace EXPERIMENTAL_SPF with SUPPORT_SPF and replace
+ EXPERIMENTAL_DANE with SUPPORT_DANE.
+
+ * Ancient ClamAV stream support, long deprecated by ClamAV, has been removed;
+ if you were building with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM enabled then your problems
+ have marginally increased.
+
+ * A number of logging changes; if relying upon the previous DKIM additional
+ log-line, explicit log_selector configuration is needed to keep it.
+
+ * Other incompatible changes in EXPERIMENTAL_* features, read NewStuff and
+ ChangeLog carefully if relying upon an experimental feature such as DMARC.
+ Note that this includes changes to SPF as it was promoted into Supported.
+
+
+Exim version 4.89
+-----------------
+
+ * SMTP CHUNKING in Exim 4.88 did not ensure that received mails had a final
+ newline; attempts to deliver such messages onwards to non-chunking hosts
+ would probably hang, as Exim does not insert the newline before a ".".
+ In 4.89, the newline is added upon receipt. For already-received messages
+ in your queue, try util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl
+ to walk the queue, fixing any affected messages. Note that because a
+ delivery attempt will be hanging, attempts to lock the messages for fixing
+ them will stall; stopping all queue-runners temporarily is recommended.
+
+ * OpenSSL: oldest supported release series is now 1.0.2, which is the oldest
+ supported by the OpenSSL project. If you can build Exim with an older
+ release series, congratulations. If you can't, then upgrade.
+ The file doc/openssl.txt contains instructions for installing a current
+ OpenSSL outside the system library paths and building Exim to use it.
+
+ * FreeBSD: we now always use the system iconv in libc, as all versions of
+ FreeBSD supported by the FreeBSD project provide this functionality.
+
+
+Exim version 4.88
+-----------------
+
+ * The "demime" ACL condition, deprecated for the past 10 years, has
+ now been removed.
+
+ * Old GnuTLS configuration options "gnutls_require_kx", "gnutls_require_mac",
+ and "gnutls_require_protocols" have now been removed. (Inoperative from
+ 4.80, per below; logging warnings since 4.83, again per below).
+
+
+Exim version 4.83
+-----------------
+
+ * SPF condition results renamed "permerror" and "temperror". The old
+ names are still accepted for back-compatibility, for this release.
+
+ * TLS details are now logged on rejects, subject to log selectors.
+
+ * Items in headers_remove lists must now have any embedded list-separators
+ doubled.
+
+ * Attempted use of the deprecated options "gnutls_require_kx" et. al.
+ now result in logged warning.
+
+
+Exim version 4.82
+-----------------
+
+ * New option gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 defaults false; if you have GnuTLS 2.12.0
+ or later and do want PKCS11 modules to be autoloaded, then set this option.
+
+ * A per-transport wait-<name> database is no longer updated if the transport
+ sets "connection_max_messages" to 1, as it can not be used and causes
+ unnecessary serialisation and load. External tools tracking the state of
+ Exim by the hints databases may need modification to take this into account.
+
+ * The av_scanner option can now accept multiple clamd TCP targets, all other
+ setting limitations remain.
+
+
+Exim version 4.80
+-----------------
+
+ * BEWARE backwards-incompatible changes in SSL libraries, thus the version
+ bump. See points below for details.
+ Also an LDAP data returned format change.
+
+ * The value of $tls_peerdn is now print-escaped when written to the spool file
+ in a -tls_peerdn line, and unescaped when read back in. We received reports
+ of values with embedded newlines, which caused spool file corruption.
+
+ If you have a corrupt spool file and you wish to recover the contents after
+ upgrading, then lock the message, replace the new-lines that should be part
+ of the -tls_peerdn line with the two-character sequence \n and then unlock
+ the message. No tool has been provided as we believe this is a rare
+ occurrence.
+
+ * For OpenSSL, SSLv2 is now disabled by default. (GnuTLS does not support
+ SSLv2). RFC 6176 prohibits SSLv2 and some informal surveys suggest no
+ actual usage. You can re-enable with the "openssl_options" Exim option,
+ in the main configuration section. Note that supporting SSLv2 exposes
+ you to ciphersuite downgrade attacks.
+
+ * With OpenSSL 1.0.1+, Exim now supports TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2. If built
+ against 1.0.1a then you will get a warning message and the
+ "openssl_options" value will not parse "no_tlsv1_1": the value changes
+ incompatibly between 1.0.1a and 1.0.1b, because the value chosen for 1.0.1a
+ is infelicitous. We advise avoiding 1.0.1a.
+
+ "openssl_options" gains "no_tlsv1_1", "no_tlsv1_2" and "no_compression".
+
+ COMPATIBILITY WARNING: The default value of "openssl_options" is no longer
+ "+dont_insert_empty_fragments". We default to "+no_sslv2".
+ That old default was grandfathered in from before openssl_options became a
+ configuration option.
+ Empty fragments are inserted by default through TLS1.0, to partially defend
+ against certain attacks; TLS1.1+ change the protocol so that this is not
+ needed. The DIEF SSL option was required for some old releases of mail
+ clients which did not gracefully handle the empty fragments, and was
+ initially set in Exim release 4.31 (see ChangeLog, item 37).
+
+ If you still have affected mail-clients, and you see SSL protocol failures
+ with this release of Exim, set:
+ openssl_options = +dont_insert_empty_fragments
+ in the main section of your Exim configuration file. You're trading off
+ security for compatibility. Exim is now defaulting to higher security and
+ rewarding more modern clients.
+
+ If the option tls_dhparams is set and the parameters loaded from the file
+ have a bit-count greater than the new option tls_dh_max_bits, then the file
+ will now be ignored. If this affects you, raise the tls_dh_max_bits limit.
+ We suspect that most folks are using dated defaults and will not be affected.
+
+ * Ldap lookups returning multi-valued attributes now separate the attributes
+ with only a comma, not a comma-space sequence. Also, an actual comma within
+ a returned attribute is doubled. This makes it possible to parse the
+ attribute as a comma-separated list. Note the distinction from multiple
+ attributes being returned, where each one is a name=value pair.
+
+ If you are currently splitting the results from LDAP upon a comma, then you
+ should check carefully to see if adjustments are needed.
+
+ This change lets cautious folks distinguish "comma used as separator for
+ joining values" from "comma inside the data".
+
+ * accept_8bitmime now defaults on, which is not RFC compliant but is better
+ suited to today's Internet. See http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html for a
+ sane rationale. Those who wish to be strictly RFC compliant, or know that
+ they need to talk to servers that are not 8-bit-clean, now need to take
+ explicit configuration action to default this option off. This is not a
+ new option, you can safely force it off before upgrading, to decouple
+ configuration changes from the binary upgrade while remaining RFC compliant.
+
+ * The GnuTLS support has been mostly rewritten, to use APIs which don't cause
+ deprecation warnings in GnuTLS 2.12.x. As part of this, these three options
+ are no longer supported:
+
+ gnutls_require_kx
+ gnutls_require_mac
+ gnutls_require_protocols
+
+ Their functionality is entirely subsumed into tls_require_ciphers. In turn,
+ tls_require_ciphers is no longer an Exim list and is not parsed by Exim, but
+ is instead given to gnutls_priority_init(3), which expects a priority string;
+ this behaviour is much closer to the OpenSSL behaviour. See:
+
+ http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
+
+ for fuller documentation of the strings parsed. The three gnutls_require_*
+ options are still parsed by Exim and, for this release, silently ignored.
+ A future release will add warnings, before a later still release removes
+ parsing entirely and the presence of the options will be a configuration
+ error.
+
+ Note that by default, GnuTLS will not accept RSA-MD5 signatures in chains.
+ A tls_require_ciphers value of NORMAL:%VERIFY_ALLOW_SIGN_RSA_MD5 may
+ re-enable support, but this is not supported by the Exim maintainers.
+ Our test suite no longer includes MD5-based certificates.
+
+ This rewrite means that Exim will continue to build against GnuTLS in the
+ future, brings Exim closer to other GnuTLS applications and lets us add
+ support for SNI and other features more readily. We regret that it wasn't
+ feasible to retain the three dropped options.
+
+ * If built with TLS support, then Exim will now validate the value of
+ the main section tls_require_ciphers option at start-up. Before, this
+ would cause a STARTTLS 4xx failure, now it causes a failure to start.
+ Running with a broken configuration which causes failures that may only
+ be left in the logs has been traded off for something more visible. This
+ change makes an existing problem more prominent, but we do not believe
+ anyone would deliberately be running with an invalid tls_require_ciphers
+ option.
+
+ This also means that library linkage issues caused by conflicts of some
+ kind might take out the main daemon, not just the delivery or receiving
+ process. Conceivably some folks might prefer to continue delivering
+ mail plaintext when their binary is broken in this way, if there is a
+ server that is a candidate to receive such mails that does not advertise
+ STARTTLS. Note that Exim is typically a setuid root binary and given
+ broken linkage problems that cause segfaults, we feel it is safer to
+ fail completely. (The check is not done as root, to ensure that problems
+ here are not made worse by the check).
+
+ * The "tls_dhparam" option has been updated, so that it can now specify a
+ path or an identifier for a standard DH prime from one of a few RFCs.
+ The default for OpenSSL is no longer to not use DH but instead to use
+ one of these standard primes. The default for GnuTLS is no longer to use
+ a file in the spool directory, but to use that same standard prime.
+ The option is now used by GnuTLS too. If it points to a path, then
+ GnuTLS will use that path, instead of a file in the spool directory;
+ GnuTLS will attempt to create it if it does not exist.
+
+ To preserve the previous behaviour of generating files in the spool
+ directory, set "tls_dhparam = historic". Since prior releases of Exim
+ ignored tls_dhparam when using GnuTLS, this can safely be done before
+ the upgrade.
+
+
+
+Exim version 4.77
+-----------------
+
+ * GnuTLS will now attempt to use TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.1 before TLS 1.0 and SSL3,
+ if supported by your GnuTLS library. Use the existing
+ "gnutls_require_protocols" option to downgrade this if that will be a
+ problem. Prior to this release, supported values were "TLS1" and "SSL3",
+ so you should be able to update configuration prior to update.
+
+ [nb: gnutls_require_protocols removed in Exim 4.80, instead use
+ tls_require_ciphers to provide a priority string; see notes above]
+
+ * The match_<type>{string1}{string2} expansion conditions no longer subject
+ string2 to string expansion, unless Exim was built with the new
+ "EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS" option. Too many people have inadvertently created
+ insecure configurations that way. If you need the functionality and turn on
+ that build option, please let the developers know, and know why, so we can
+ try to provide a safer mechanism for you.
+
+ The match{}{} expansion condition (for regular expressions) is NOT affected.
+ For match_<type>{s1}{s2}, all list functionality is unchanged. The only
+ change is that a '$' appearing in s2 will not trigger expansion, but instead
+ will be treated as a literal $ sign; the effect is very similar to having
+ wrapped s2 with \N...\N. If s2 contains a named list and the list definition
+ uses $expansions then those _will_ be processed as normal. It is only the
+ point at which s2 is read where expansion is inhibited.
+
+ If you are trying to test if two email addresses are equal, use eqi{s1}{s2}.
+ If you are testing if the address in s1 occurs in the list of items given
+ in s2, either use the new inlisti{s1}{s2} condition (added in 4.77) or use
+ the pre-existing forany{s2}{eqi{$item}{s1}} condition.
+
Exim version 4.74
-----------------
* Exim will no longer accept a configuration file owned by the Exim
run-time user, unless that account is explicitly the value in
CONFIGURE_OWNER, which we discourage. Exim now checks to ensure that
- files are not writable by other accounts.
+ files are not writeable by other accounts.
* The ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY build option is no longer optional and is forced
on; the Exim user can, by default, no longer use -C/-D and retain privilege.
-----------------
1. Experimental Yahoo! Domainkeys support has been dropped in this release.
-It has been superceded by a native implementation of its successor DKIM.
+It has been superseded by a native implementation of its successor DKIM.
2. Up to version 4.69, Exim came with an embedded version of the PCRE library.
As of 4.70, this is no longer the case. To compile Exim, you will need PCRE
-installed. Most OS distributions have ready-made library and develoment
+installed. Most OS distributions have ready-made library and development
packages.
3. Version 4.23 saves the contents of the ACL variables with the message, so
that they can be used later. If one of these variables contains a newline,
there will be a newline character in the spool that will not be interpreted
- correctely by a previous version of Exim. (Exim ignores keyed spool file
+ correctly by a previous version of Exim. (Exim ignores keyed spool file
items that it doesn't understand - precisely for this kind of problem - but
it expects them all to be on one line.)
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