Provide a NewStuff description for 4.72.

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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.152 2007/06/22 14:38:58 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.163 2010/06/01 11:13:54 pdp Exp $

 
 New Features in Exim
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 New Features in Exim
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@@ -8,6 +8,71 @@ 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.
 
 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 4.72
+------------
+
+ 1. TWO SECURITY FIXES: one relating to mail-spools which are globally
+    writable, the other to locking of MBX folders (not mbox).
+
+ 2. MySQL stored procedures are now supported.
+
+ 3. The dkim_domain transport option is now a list, not a single string, and
+    messages will be signed for each element in the list (discarding
+    duplicates).
+
+ 4. The 4.70 release unexpectedly changed the behaviour of dnsdb TXT lookups
+    in the presence of multiple character strings within the RR. Prior to 4.70,
+    only the first string would be returned.  The dnsdb lookup now, by default,
+    preserves the pre-4.70 semantics, but also now takes an extended output
+    separator specification. The first output separator is used to join
+    multiple TXT records together; use a second separator character, followed
+    by a colon, to join the strings within a TXT record on that second
+    character, or use a semicolon to concatenate strings within a TXT record
+    with no separator.  Administrators are reminded that DNS provides no
+    ordering guarantees between multiple records in an RRset.  For example:
+
+      foo.example.  IN TXT "a" "b" "c"
+      foo.example.  IN TXT "d" "e" "f"
+
+      ${lookup dnsdb{>/ txt=foo.example}}   -> "a/d"
+      ${lookup dnsdb{>/; txt=foo.example}}  -> "def/abc"
+      ${lookup dnsdb{>/+: txt=foo.example}} -> "a+b+c/d+e+f"
+
+    Some character combinations are currently unsupported.
+
+Version 4.70 / 4.71
+-------------------
+
+ 1. Native DKIM support without an external library.
+
+ 2. Experimental DCC support via dccifd (contributed by Wolfgang Breyha).
+
+ 3. There is now a bool{} expansion condition which maps certain strings to
+    true/false condition values (most likely of use in conjuction with the
+    and{} expansion operator).
+
+ 4. The $spam_score, $spam_bar and $spam_report variables are now available
+    at delivery time.
+
+ 5. exim -bP now supports "macros", "macro_list" or "macro MACRO_NAME" as
+    options, provided that Exim is invoked by an admin_user.
+
+ 6. There is a new option gnutls_compat_mode, when linked against GnuTLS,
+    which increases compatibility with older clients at the cost of decreased
+    security.  Don't set this unless you need to support such clients.
+
+ 7. There is a new expansion operator, ${randint:...} which will produce a
+    "random" number less than the supplied integer.  This randomness is
+    not guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, but depending upon how
+    Exim was built may be better than the most naive schemes.
+
+ 8. Exim now explicitly ensures that SHA256 is available when linked against
+    OpenSSL.
+
+ 9. The transport_filter_timeout option now applies to SMTP transports too.
+
+

 Version 4.68
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 Version 4.68
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@@ -78,6 +143,84 @@ Version 4.68
     longest line that was received as part of the message, not counting the
     line termination character(s).
 
     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
+    +ignore_unknown and +include_unknown. These options should be used with
+    care, probably only in non-critical host lists such as whitelists.
+
+ 8. There's a new option called queue_only_load_latch, which defaults true.
+    If set false when queue_only_load is greater than zero, Exim re-evaluates
+    the load for each incoming message in an SMTP session. Otherwise, once one
+    message is queued, the remainder are also.
+
+ 9. There is a new ACL, specified by acl_smtp_notquit, which is run in most
+    cases when an SMTP session ends without sending QUIT. However, when Exim
+    itself is is bad trouble, such as being unable to write to its log files,
+    this ACL is not run, because it might try to do things (such as write to
+    log files) that make the situation even worse.
+
+    Like the QUIT ACL, this new ACL is provided to make it possible to gather
+    statistics. Whatever it returns (accept or deny) is immaterial. The "delay"
+    modifier is forbidden in this ACL.
+
+    When the NOTQUIT ACL is running, the variable $smtp_notquit_reason is set
+    to a string that indicates the reason for the termination of the SMTP
+    connection. The possible values are:
+
+      acl-drop                 Another ACL issued a "drop" command
+      bad-commands             Too many unknown or non-mail commands
+      command-timeout          Timeout while reading SMTP commands
+      connection-lost          The SMTP connection has been lost
+      data-timeout             Timeout while reading message data
+      local-scan-error         The local_scan() function crashed
+      local-scan-timeout       The local_scan() function timed out
+      signal-exit              SIGTERM or SIGINT
+      synchronization-error    SMTP synchronization error
+      tls-failed               TLS failed to start
+
+    In most cases when an SMTP connection is closed without having received
+    QUIT, Exim sends an SMTP response message before actually closing the
+    connection. With the exception of acl-drop, the default message can be
+    overridden by the "message" modifier in the NOTQUIT ACL. In the case of a
+    "drop" verb in another ACL, it is the message from the other ACL that is
+    used.
+
+10. For MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups, it is now possible to specify a list of
+    servers with individual queries. This is done by starting the query with
+    "servers=x:y:z;", where each item in the list may take one of two forms:
+
+    (1) If it is just a host name, the appropriate global option (mysql_servers
+        or pgsql_servers) is searched for a host of the same name, and the
+        remaining parameters (database, user, password) are taken from there.
+
+    (2) If it contains any slashes, it is taken as a complete parameter set.
+
+    The list of servers is used in exactly the same was as the global list.
+    Once a connection to a server has happened and a query has been
+    successfully executed, processing of the lookup ceases.
+
+    This feature is intended for use in master/slave situations where updates
+    are occurring, and one wants to update a master rather than a slave. If the
+    masters are in the list for reading, you might have:
+
+      mysql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw:master/db/name/pw
+
+    In an updating lookup, you could then write
+
+      ${lookup mysql{servers=master; UPDATE ...}
+
+    If, on the other hand, the master is not to be used for reading lookups:
+
+      pgsql_servers = slave1/db/name/pw:slave2/db/name/pw
+
+    you can still update the master by
+
+      ${lookup pgsql{servers=master/db/name/pw; UPDATE ...}
+
+11. The message_body_newlines option (default FALSE, for backwards
+    compatibility) can be used to control whether newlines are present in
+    $message_body and $message_body_end. If it is FALSE, they are replaced by
+    spaces.
+

 
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 Version 4.67
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