X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/525239c16e35d7bf893e0e2232f4c4c4a7c75447..29a16b31f0962c7972d666c90e65d5b1b6b003bb:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 3c5c4913b..e349fc855 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -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 4.81 +Version 4.82 ------------ 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions @@ -32,10 +32,11 @@ Version 4.81 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone. 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option - dns_use_dnssec; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library + dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim - can now detect this. + can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead + relying upon a trusted path to the resolver. Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added. @@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ Version 4.81 early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>". - + To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS. The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything) hosts_verify_avoid_tls. @@ -87,10 +88,52 @@ Version 4.81 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list. - 9. New expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...} to call an ACL. The argument can - be accessed by the ACL in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9. $acl_narg will be the - number of arguments. The expansion result is set by a "message =" modifier - and an "accept" return from the ACL. + 9. New global option "gnutls_enable_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS + rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11 + modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in + those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means + that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being + unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed + through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation + unless this new option is set. + +10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments. + New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition + "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments + can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL. + Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets + a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item, + or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns + accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer + return results in a forced fail. + +11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove + option lines. The concatenated list is used. + +12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets + handled by routers/transports. + +13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured), + "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned. + +14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header + modifier (but not yet added to messsage). + +15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S". + +16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A". + +17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful + particularly for debug_print as -bt commandline option does not + require privilege whereas -d does. + +18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a + proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall. + +19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow + decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix + wrappers, for instance. + Version 4.80 ------------ @@ -338,13 +381,13 @@ Version 4.73 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip the safeties off. - 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL + 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings do evaluate true. Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true. - 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests, + 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests. 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name". Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers