X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/ebc9d865f30116e3acef10e7c25b02bf5cd5cc2c..593cc78019ceb7c36b301536a06c114fc78926ad:/src/README.UPDATING?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/src/README.UPDATING b/src/README.UPDATING index 5d6bfda58..fc0298501 100644 --- a/src/README.UPDATING +++ b/src/README.UPDATING @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/src/README.UPDATING,v 1.14 2006/09/26 14:51:02 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/src/README.UPDATING,v 1.16 2007/06/20 14:19:23 ph10 Exp $ This document contains detailed information about incompatibilities that might be encountered when upgrading from one release of Exim to another. The @@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ The rest of this document contains information about changes in 4.xx releases that might affect a running system. +Exim version 4.68 +----------------- + +1. The internal implementation of the database keys that are used for ACL +ratelimiting has been tidied up. This means that an update to 4.68 might cause +Exim to "forget" previous rates that it had calculated, and reset them to zero. + + Exim version 4.64 ----------------- @@ -48,6 +56,20 @@ treated as the number zero. From release 4.64, such strings cause an error because a decimal number, possibly followed by K or M, is required (as has always been documented). +3. There has been a change to the GnuTLS support (ChangeLog/PH/20) to improve +Exim's performance. Unfortunately, this has the side effect of being slightly +non-upwards compatible for versions 4.50 and earlier. If you are upgrading from +one of these earlier versions and you use GnuTLS, you must remove the file +called gnutls-params in Exim's spool directory. If you don't do this, you will +see this error: + + TLS error on connection from ... (DH params import): Base64 decoding error. + +Removing the file causes Exim to recompute the relevant encryption parameters +and cache them in the new format that was introduced for release 4.51 (May +2005). If you are upgrading from release 4.51 or later, there should be no +problem. + Exim version 4.63 -----------------