X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/1670ef10063d7708eb736a482d1ad25b9c59521d..890a51804b8c893990ce44ef0d2d722c42f2a4fa:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 3a3ad5de5..d22d4e582 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.176 2010/06/14 18:51:10 pdp Exp $ - New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -8,6 +6,58 @@ 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 4.77 +------------ + + 1. New options for the ratelimit ACL condition: /count= and /unique=. + The /noupdate option has been replaced by a /readonly option. + + 2. The SMTP transport's protocol option may now be set to "smtps", to + use SSL-on-connect outbound. + + 3. New variable $av_failed, set true if the AV scanner deferred; ie, when + there is a problem talking to the AV scanner, or the AV scanner running. + + 4. New expansion conditions, "inlist" and "inlisti", which take simple lists + and check if the search item is a member of the list. This does not + support named lists, but does subject the list part to string expansion. + + 5. Unless the new EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS build option is set when Exim was + built, Exim no longer performs string expansion on the second string of + the match_* expansion conditions: "match_address", "match_domain", + "match_ip" & "match_local_part". Named lists can still be used. + + +Version 4.76 +------------ + + 1. The global option "dns_use_edns0" may be set to coerce EDNS0 usage on + or off in the resolver library. + + +Version 4.75 +------------ + + 1. In addition to the existing LDAP and LDAP/SSL ("ldaps") support, there + is now LDAP/TLS support, given sufficiently modern OpenLDAP client + libraries. The following global options have been added in support of + this: ldap_ca_cert_dir, ldap_ca_cert_file, ldap_cert_file, ldap_cert_key, + ldap_cipher_suite, ldap_require_cert, ldap_start_tls. + + 2. The pipe transport now takes a boolean option, "freeze_signal", default + false. When true, if the external delivery command exits on a signal then + Exim will freeze the message in the queue, instead of generating a bounce. + + 3. Log filenames may now use %M as an escape, instead of %D (still available). + The %M pattern expands to yyyymm, providing month-level resolution. + + 4. The $message_linecount variable is now updated for the maildir_tag option, + in the same way as $message_size, to reflect the real number of lines, + including any header additions or removals from transport. + + 5. When contacting a pool of SpamAssassin servers configured in spamd_address, + Exim now selects entries randomly, to better scale in a cluster setup. + Version 4.74 ------------ @@ -41,7 +91,7 @@ Version 4.73 2. A new pipe transport option, "permit_coredumps", may help with problem diagnosis in some scenarios. Note that Exim is typically installed as a setuid binary, which on most OSes will inhibit coredumps by default, - so that safety mechanism would have to be overriden for this option to + so that safety mechanism would have to be overridden for this option to be able to take effect. 3. ClamAV 0.95 is now required for ClamAV support in Exim, unless @@ -127,7 +177,7 @@ Version 4.73 forward, we recommend using TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST with shim configs that include the main config. As a transition mechanism, we are temporarily providing a work-around: the new build option WHITELIST_D_MACROS provides - a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overriden by the Exim + a colon-separated list of macro names which may be overridden by the Exim run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values).