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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.106 2006/07/17 09:18:09 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.153 2007/06/26 09:23:34 ph10 Exp $
 
 New Features in Exim
 --------------------
 
-This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim,
-but have not yet made it into the main manual (which is most conveniently
-updated when there is a relatively large batch of changes). The doc/ChangeLog
-file contains a listing of all changes, including bug fixes.
+This file contains descriptions of new features that have been added to Exim.
+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 4.68
+------------
+
+ 1. The body_linecount and body_zerocount C variables are now exported in the
+    local_scan API.
+
+ 2. When a dnslists lookup succeeds, the key that was looked up is now placed
+    in $dnslist_matched. When the key is an IP address, it is not reversed in
+    this variable (though it is, of course, in the actual lookup). In simple
+    cases, for example:
+
+      deny dnslists = spamhaus.example
+
+    the key is also available in another variable (in this case,
+    $sender_host_address). In more complicated cases, however, this is not
+    true. For example, using a data lookup might generate a dnslists lookup
+    like this:
+
+      deny dnslists = spamhaus.example/<|192.168.1.2|192.168.6.7|...
+
+    If this condition succeeds, the value in $dnslist_matched might be
+    192.168.6.7 (for example).
+
+ 3. Authenticators now have a client_condition option. When Exim is running as
+    a client, it skips an authenticator whose client_condition expansion yields
+    "0", "no", or "false". This can be used, for example, to skip plain text
+    authenticators when the connection is not encrypted by a setting such as:
+
+      client_condition = ${if !eq{$tls_cipher}{}}
+
+    Note that the 4.67 documentation states that $tls_cipher contains the
+    cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it
+    contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for
+    $tls_peerdn.
+
+ 4. There is now a -Mvc <message-id> option, which outputs a copy of the
+    message to the standard output, in RFC 2822 format. The option can be used
+    only by an admin user.
+
+ 5. There is now a /noupdate option for the ratelimit ACL condition. It
+    computes the rate and checks the limit as normal, but it does not update
+    the saved data. This means that, in relevant ACLs, it is possible to lookup
+    the existence of a specified (or auto-generated) ratelimit key without
+    incrementing the ratelimit counter for that key.
+
+    In order for this to be useful, another ACL entry must set the rate
+    for the same key somewhere (otherwise it will always be zero).
+
+    Example:
+
+    acl_check_connect:
+      # Read the rate; if it doesn't exist or is below the maximum
+      # we update it below
+      deny ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / noupdate
+           log_message = RATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
+                         (max $sender_rate_limit)
+
+      [... some other logic and tests...]
+
+      warn ratelimit = 100 / 5m / strict / per_cmd
+           log_message = RATE UPDATE: $sender_rate / $sender_rate_period \
+                         (max $sender_rate_limit)
+           condition = ${if le{$sender_rate}{$sender_rate_limit}}
+
+      accept
+
+ 6. The variable $max_received_linelength contains the number of bytes in the
+    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.
+
+
+Version 4.67
+------------
+
+ 1. There is a new log selector called smtp_no_mail, which is not included in
+    the default setting. When it is set, a line is written to the main log
+    whenever an accepted SMTP connection terminates without having issued a
+    MAIL command.
+
+ 2. When an item in a dnslists list is followed by = and & and a list of IP
+    addresses, the behaviour was not clear when the lookup returned more than
+    one IP address. This has been solved by the addition of == and =& for "all"
+    rather than the default "any" matching.
+
+ 3. Up till now, the only control over which cipher suites GnuTLS uses has been
+    for the cipher algorithms. New options have been added to allow some of the
+    other parameters to be varied.
+
+ 4. There is a new compile-time option called ENABLE_DISABLE_FSYNC. When it is
+    set, Exim compiles a runtime option called disable_fsync.
+
+ 5. There is a new variable called $smtp_count_at_connection_start.
+
+ 6. There's a new control called no_pipelining.
+
+ 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
+    These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up.
+
+ 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens
+    after the connection to the server has been made.
+
+ 9. There is a new expansion operator ${rfc2047d: that decodes strings that
+    are encoded as per RFC 2047.
+
+10. There is a new log selector called "pid", which causes the current process
+    id to be added to every log line, in square brackets, immediately after the
+    time and date.
+
+11. Exim has been modified so that it flushes SMTP output before implementing
+    a delay in an ACL. It also flushes the output before performing a callout,
+    as this can take a substantial time. These behaviours can be disabled by
+    obeying control = no_delay_flush or control = no_callout_flush,
+    respectively, at some earlier stage of the connection.
+
+12. There are two new expansion conditions that iterate over a list. They are
+    called forany and forall.
+
+13. There's a new global option called dsn_from that can be used to vary the
+    contents of From: lines in bounces and other automatically generated
+    messages ("delivery status notifications" - hence the name of the option).
+
+14. The smtp transport has a new option called hosts_avoid_pipelining.
+
+15. By default, exigrep does case-insensitive matches. There is now a -I option
+    that makes it case-sensitive.
+
+16. A number of new features ("addresses", "map", "filter", and "reduce") have
+    been added to string expansions to make it easier to process lists of
+    items, typically addresses.
+
+17. There's a new ACL modifier called "continue". It does nothing of itself,
+    and processing of the ACL always continues with the next condition or
+    modifier. It is provided so that the side effects of expanding its argument
+    can be used.
+
+18. It is now possible to use newline and other control characters (those with
+    values less than 32, plus DEL) as separators in lists.
+
+19. The exigrep utility now has a -v option, which inverts the matching
+    condition.
+
+20. The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set to
+    "ignore".
+
+
+Version 4.66
+------------
+
+No new features were added to 4.66.
+
+
+Version 4.65
+------------
+
+No new features were added to 4.65.
+
+
+Version 4.64
+------------
+
+ 1. ACL variables can now be given arbitrary names, as long as they start with
+    "acl_c" or "acl_m" (for connection variables and message variables), are at
+    least six characters long, with the sixth character being either a digit or
+    an underscore.
+
+ 2. There is a new ACL modifier called log_reject_target. It makes it possible
+    to specify which logs are used for messages about ACL rejections.
+
+ 3. There is a new authenticator called "dovecot". This is an interface to the
+    authentication facility of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server, which can support a
+    number of authentication methods.
+
+ 4. The variable $message_headers_raw provides a concatenation of all the
+    messages's headers without any decoding. This is in contrast to
+    $message_headers, which does RFC2047 decoding on the header contents.
+
+ 5. In a DNS black list, if two domain names, comma-separated, are given, the
+    second is used first to do an initial check, making use of any IP value
+    restrictions that are set. If there is a match, the first domain is used,
+    without any IP value restrictions, to get the TXT record.
+
+ 6. All authenticators now have a server_condition option.
+
+ 7. There is a new command-line option called -Mset. It is useful only in
+    conjunction with -be (that is, when testing string expansions). It must be
+    followed by a message id; Exim loads the given message from its spool
+    before doing the expansions.
+
+ 8. Another similar new command-line option is called -bem. It operates like
+    -be except that it must be followed by the name of a file that contains a
+    message.
+
+ 9. When an address is delayed because of a 4xx response to a RCPT command, it
+    is now the combination of sender and recipient that is delayed in
+    subsequent queue runs until its retry time is reached.
+
+10. Unary negation and the bitwise logical operators and, or, xor, not, and
+    shift, have been added to the eval: and eval10: expansion items.
+
+11. The variables $interface_address and $interface_port have been renamed
+    as $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that they
+    relate to message reception rather than delivery. (The old names remain
+    available for compatibility.)
+
+12. The "message" modifier can now be used on "accept" and "discard" acl verbs
+    to vary the message that is sent when an SMTP command is accepted.
+
 
 Version 4.63
 ------------
 
 1. There is a new Boolean option called filter_prepend_home for the redirect
-   router. It defaults true, for backward compatibility. If a "save" command in
-   an Exim filter has a relative path for its argument, and $home is defined,
-   it is automatically prepended to the relative path. This action can now be
-   prevented by setting filter_prepend_home false.
+   router.
 
 2. There is a new acl, set by acl_not_smtp_start, which is run right at the
    start of receiving a non-SMTP message, before any of the message has been
-   read. (This is the analogue of the acl_smtp_predata ACL for SMTP input.) The
-   result of this ACL is ignored; it cannot be used to reject a message. If
-   you really need to, you could set a value in an ACL variable here and reject
-   based on that in the acl_not_smtp ACL. However, this ACL can be used to set
-   controls, and in particular, it can be used to set control=suppress_local_
-   fixups, which cannot be used in the acl_not_smtp ACL because by the time
-   that ACL is run, it is too late. When the acl_not_smtp_start ACL is run, the
-   sender and recipients are known, so the "senders" and "sender_domains"
-   conditions and $sender_address and $recipients variables can be used.
-   Variables such as $authenticated_ sender are also available. It is possible
-   to specify added header lines in this ACL.
+   read.
 
 3. When an SMTP error message is specified in a "message" modifier in an ACL,
    or in a :fail: or :defer: message in a redirect router, Exim now checks the
-   start of the message for an SMTP error code. This consists of three digits
-   followed by a space, optionally followed by an extended code of the form
-   n.n.n, also followed by a space. If this is the case and the very first
-   digit is the same as the default error code, the code from the message is
-   used instead. If the very first digit is incorrect, a panic error is logged,
-   and the default code is used. This is an incompatible change, but it is not
-   expected to affect many (if any) configurations. It is possible to suppress
-   the use of the supplied code in a redirect router by setting the
-   smtp_error_code option false. In this case, any SMTP code is quietly
-   ignored.
+   start of the message for an SMTP error code.
 
 4. There is a new parameter for LDAP lookups called "referrals", which takes
-   one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow". The latter stops
-   the LDAP library from trying to follow referrals issued by the LDAP server.
+   one of the settings "follow" (the default) or "nofollow".
+
+5. Version 20070721.2 of exipick now included, offering these new options:
+    --reverse
+        After all other sorting options have bee processed, reverse order
+        before displaying messages (-R is synonym).
+    --random
+        Randomize order of matching messages before displaying.
+    --size
+        Instead of displaying the matching messages, display the sum
+        of their sizes.
+    --sort <variable>[,<variable>...]
+        Before displaying matching messages, sort the messages according to
+        each messages value for each variable.
+    --not
+        Negate the value for every test (returns inverse output from the
+        same criteria without --not).
 
 
 Version 4.62