Patch imported from bugzilla 1031. Axel Rau.

[users/jgh/exim.git] / doc / doc-txt / NewStuff

diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
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--- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ 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.
 
-Version 4.78
+Version 4.80
 ------------
 
  1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl".  Server-only (at present).
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Version 4.78
     "LOOKUP_LIBS" directly.  Similarly for handling the TLS library support
     without adjusting "TLS_INCLUDE" and "TLS_LIBS".
 
+    In addition, setting PCRE_CONFIG=yes will query the pcre-config tool to
+    find the headers and libraries for PCRE.
+
  4. New expansion variable $tls_bits.
 
  5. New lookup type, "dbmjz".  Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
@@ -42,6 +45,71 @@ Version 4.78
     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.
+
+ 8. The existing "accept_8bitmime" option now defaults to true.  This means
+    that Exim is deliberately not strictly RFC compliant.  We're following
+    Dan Bernstein's advice in http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html by default.
+    Those who disagree, or know that they are talking to mail servers that,
+    even today, are not 8-bit clean, need to turn off this option.
+
+ 9. Exim can now be started with -bw (with an optional timeout, given as
+    -bw<timespec>).  With this, stdin at startup is a socket that is
+    already listening for connections.  This has a more modern name of
+    "socket activation", but forcing the activated socket to fd 0.  We're
+    interested in adding more support for modern variants.
+
+10. ${eval } now uses 64-bit values on supporting platforms.  A new "G" suffix
+    for numbers indicates multiplication by 1024^3.
+
+11. The GnuTLS support has been revamped; the three options gnutls_require_kx,
+    gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols are no longer supported.
+    tls_require_ciphers is now parsed by gnutls_priority_init(3) as a priority
+    string, documentation for which is at:
+    http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html
+
+    SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too.
+
+    For sufficiently recent GnuTLS libraries, ${randint:..} will now use
+    gnutls_rnd(), asking for GNUTLS_RND_NONCE level randomness.
+
+12. With OpenSSL, if built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, a new option tls_ocsp_file
+    is now available.  If the contents of the file are valid, then Exim will
+    send that back in response to a TLS status request; this is OCSP Stapling.
+    Exim will not maintain the contents of the file in any way: administrators
+    are responsible for ensuring that it is up-to-date.
+
+    See "experimental-spec.txt" for more details.
+
+13. ${lookup dnsdb{ }} supports now SPF record types. They are handled
+    identically to TXT record lookups.
+
+14. New expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for higher-precision time.
+
+15. New global option tls_dh_max_bits, defaulting to current value of NSS
+    hard-coded limit of DH ephemeral bits, to fix interop problems caused by
+    GnuTLS 2.12 library recommending a bit count higher than NSS supports.
+
+16. tls_dhparam now used by both OpenSSL and GnuTLS, can be path or identifier.
+    Option can now be a path or an identifier for a standard prime.
+    If unset, we use the DH prime from section 2.2 of RFC 5114, "ike23".
+    Set to "historic" to get the old GnuTLS behaviour of auto-generated DH
+    primes.
+
+17. 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
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