X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/da3ad30dcfbb4770835c2b7e165bb719f76cfc16..f9850c6c4851862a66f6ce58bb9ac19ddac7895c:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 0aee33cec..4b9142238 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 4.78 +Version 4.80 ------------ 1. New authenticator driver, "gsasl". Server-only (at present). @@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ 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 @@ -42,6 +45,71 @@ Version 4.78 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. + +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 ------------