X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/4a6a987a85df3ff3706a930aa580b0d5d708c580..51fb80db26ea90194e91bfb4b9676715f1466dfc:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index c25e51ba0..59994448f 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -6,17 +6,14 @@ 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). This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/. This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so - careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim. Note that - this can not yet be used as a drop-in replacement for Cyrus SASL, as - Exim is currently unable to construct strings with embedded NULs for - use as keys in lookups against sasldb2. + careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim. 2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi". Server-only. A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME @@ -29,11 +26,79 @@ 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 be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass - into the DBM library. + into the DBM library. Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as + used by Cyrus SASL. + + 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1. + + Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can. Note that the default value of + "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that + increased susceptibility to attack. This may still have interoperability + implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but + 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). 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. Version 4.77