X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/a9622bc619b4929c873bb6929fcbdf1fd1f4ffec..a84340a052b1c1602a74676b8dcec8f0ebb6fdee:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index a3e3362a4..f668ae152 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list. Version 4.73 ------------ + NOTE: this version is not guaranteed backwards-compatible, please read the + items below carefully + 1. A new main configuration option, "openssl_options", is available if Exim is built with SSL support provided by OpenSSL. The option allows administrators to specify OpenSSL options to be used on connections; @@ -38,6 +41,8 @@ Version 4.73 av_scanner = clamd:192.0.2.3 1234:local + ClamAV's ExtendedDetectionInfo response format is now handled. + 4. There is now a -bmalware option, restricted to admin users. This option takes one parameter, a filename, and scans that file with Exim's malware-scanning framework. This is intended purely as a debugging aid @@ -92,6 +97,25 @@ Version 4.73 default value is set at build time using the TCP_WRAPPERS_DAEMON_NAME build option. +11. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The default value for system_filter_user is now + the Exim run-time user, instead of root. + +12. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is no longer optional and + is forced on. This is mitigated by the new build option + TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST which defines a list of configuration files which + are trusted; one per line. If a config file is owned by root and matches + a pathname in the list, then it may be invoked by the Exim build-time + user without Exim relinquishing root privileges. + +13. [POSSIBLE CONFIG BREAKAGE] The Exim user is no longer automatically + trusted to supply -D overrides on the command-line. Going + 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 + run-time user. The values of these macros are constrained to the regex + ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$ (which explicitly does allow for empty values). + Version 4.72 ------------