X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/9ee44efbe7474892e931cd517195cb690e765ab6..91576cec55217a67f4adaffe95460c291b7a13bf:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 432bbd220..be8285b67 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -6,7 +6,33 @@ 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 4.81 +------------ + + 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions + of this Exim build on standard output, one per line. + ManageSieve (RFC 5804) providers managing scripts for use by Exim should + query this to establish the correct list to include in the protocol's + SIEVE capability line. + + 2. If the -n option is combined with the -bP option, then the name of an + emitted option is not output, only the value (if visible to you). + For instance, "exim -n -bP pid_file_path" should just emit a pathname + followed by a newline, and no other text. + + 3. When built with SUPPORT_TLS and USE_GNUTLS, the SMTP transport driver now + has a "tls_dh_min_bits" option, to set the minimum acceptable number of + bits in the Diffie-Hellman prime offered by a server (in DH ciphersuites) + acceptable for security. (Option accepted but ignored if using OpenSSL). + Defaults to 1024, the old value. May be lowered only to 512, or raised as + far as you like. Raising this may hinder TLS interoperability with other + sites and is not currently recommended. Lowering this will permit you to + establish a TLS session which is not as secure as you might like. + + Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone. + + +Version 4.80 ------------ 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present). @@ -26,6 +52,9 @@ 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 @@ -54,8 +83,6 @@ Version 4.78 A new log_selector, +tls_sni, has been added, to log received SNI values for Exim as a server. - Currently OpenSSL only. - 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. @@ -68,6 +95,47 @@ Version 4.78 "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 ------------