X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fdoc-txt%2FNewStuff;h=9e2be8372108b895f13570b67a598dd0fb5d0bea;hb=e0cc6cda55782d98187cdc2d11b7c3352e75c7d4;hp=be8285b679dfee4be5b269a86fee738b44fb7112;hpb=54c90be16587ca315041c964e251f07fc2bcf0e9;p=exim.git diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index be8285b67..9e2be8372 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -6,7 +6,178 @@ 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 4.81 +Version 4.88 +------------ + + 1. The new perl_taintmode option allows to run the embedded perl + interpreter in taint mode. + + 2. New log_selector: dnssec, adds a "DS" tag to acceptance and delivery lines. + + 3. Speculative debugging, via a "kill" option to the "control=debug" ACL + modifier. + + 4. New expansion item ${sha3:} / ${sha3_:}. + N can be 224, 256 (default), 384, 512. + With GnuTLS 3.5.0 or later, only. + + 5. Facility for named queues: A commandline argument can specify + the queue name for a queue operation, and an ACL modifier can set + the queue to be used for a message. A $queue_name variable gives + visibility. + + 6. The CHUNKING ESMTP extension from RFC 3030. May give some slight + performance increase and network load decrease. Main config option + chunking_advertise_hosts, and smtp transport option hosts_try_chunking + for control. + + +Version 4.87 +------------ + + 1. The ACL conditions regex and mime_regex now capture substrings + into numeric variables $regex1 to 9, like the "match" expansion condition. + + 2. New $callout_address variable records the address used for a spam=, + malware= or verify= callout. + + 3. Transports now take a "max_parallel" option, to limit concurrency. + + 4. Expansion operators ${ipv6norm:} and ${ipv6denorm:}. + The latter expands to a 8-element colon-sep set of hex digits including + leading zeroes. A trailing ipv4-style dotted-decimal set is converted + to hex. Pure ipv4 addresses are converted to IPv4-mapped IPv6. + The former operator strips leading zeroes and collapses the longest + set of 0-groups to a double-colon. + + 5. New "-bP config" support, to dump the effective configuration. + + 6. New $dkim_key_length variable. + + 7. New base64d and base64 expansion items (the existing str2b64 being a + synonym of the latter). Add support in base64 for certificates. + + 8. New main configuration option "bounce_return_linesize_limit" to + avoid oversize bodies in bounces. The dafault value matches RFC + limits. + + 9. New $initial_cwd expansion variable. + + +Version 4.86 +------------ + + 1. Support for using the system standard CA bundle. + + 2. New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file + and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version. + + 3. New "malware=" support for Avast. + + 4. New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd. + + 5. Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners. + + 6. A commandline option to write a comment into the logfile. + + 7. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature enabled, the smtp transport can + be configured to make connections via socks5 proxies. + + 8. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, support is included for + the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses. + + 9. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_INTERNATIONAL, an expansion item for a commonly + used encoding of Maildir folder names. + +10. A logging option for slow DNS lookups. + +11. New ${env {}} expansion. + +12. A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates. + +13. Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS. + Patch originally by Wolfgang Breyha. + +14. Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the + same level as DNSSEC. + + +Version 4.85 +------------ + + 1. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_DANE feature enabled, Exim will follow the + DANE smtp draft to assess a secure chain of trust of the certificate + used to establish the TLS connection based on a TLSA record in the + domain of the sender. + + 2. The EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature has been renamed to EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT + and several new events have been created. The reason is because it has + been expanded beyond just firing events during the transport phase. Any + existing TPDA transport options will have to be rewritten to use a new + $event_name expansion variable in a condition. Refer to the + experimental-spec.txt for details and examples. + + 3. The EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES features is an enhancement to verify that + server certs used for TLS match the result of the MX lookup. It does + not use the same mechanism as DANE. + + +Version 4.84 +------------ + + +Version 4.83 +------------ + + 1. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_PROXY feature enabled, Exim can be + configured to expect an initial header from a proxy that will make the + actual external source IP:host be used in exim instead of the IP of the + proxy that is connecting to it. + + 2. New verify option header_names_ascii, which will check to make sure + there are no non-ASCII characters in header names. Exim itself handles + those non-ASCII characters, but downstream apps may not, so Exim can + detect and reject if those characters are present. + + 3. New expansion operator ${utf8clean:string} to replace malformed UTF8 + codepoints with valid ones. + + 4. New malware type "sock". Talks over a Unix or TCP socket, sending one + command line and matching a regex against the return data for trigger + and a second regex to extract malware_name. The mail spoolfile name can + be included in the command line. + + 5. The smtp transport now supports options "tls_verify_hosts" and + "tls_try_verify_hosts". If either is set the certificate verification + is split from the encryption operation. The default remains that a failed + verification cancels the encryption. + + 6. New SERVERS override of default ldap server list. In the ACLs, an ldap + lookup can now set a list of servers to use that is different from the + default list. + + 7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf + file when searching the queue. + + 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that. + + 9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections. + +10. New variables "tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert" and expansion item + "certextract" to extract fields from them. Hash operators md5 and sha1 + work over them for generating fingerprints, and a new sha256 operator + for them added. + +11. PRDR is now supported dy default. + +12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default. + +13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output + Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negociate + DSN features per RFC 3461. + + +Version 4.82 ------------ 1. New command-line option -bI:sieve will list all supported sieve extensions @@ -31,6 +202,141 @@ Version 4.81 Unless you really know what you are doing, leave it alone. + 4. If not built with DISABLE_DNSSEC, Exim now has the main option + dns_dnssec_ok; if set to 1 then Exim will initialise the resolver library + to send the DO flag to your recursive resolver. If you have a recursive + resolver, which can set the Authenticated Data (AD) flag in results, Exim + can now detect this. Exim does not perform validation itself, instead + relying upon a trusted path to the resolver. + + Current status: work-in-progress; $sender_host_dnssec variable added. + + 5. DSCP support for outbound connections: on a transport using the smtp driver, + set "dscp = ef", for instance, to cause the connections to have the relevant + DSCP (IPv4 TOS or IPv6 TCLASS) value in the header. + + Similarly for inbound connections, there is a new control modifier, dscp, + so "warn control = dscp/ef" in the connect ACL, or after authentication. + + Supported values depend upon system libraries. "exim -bI:dscp" to list the + ones Exim knows of. You can also set a raw number 0..0x3F. + + 6. The -G command-line flag is no longer ignored; it is now equivalent to an + ACL setting "control = suppress_local_fixups". The -L command-line flag + is now accepted and forces use of syslog, with the provided tag as the + process name. A few other flags used by Sendmail are now accepted and + ignored. + + 7. New cutthrough routing feature. Requested by a "control = cutthrough_delivery" + ACL modifier; works for single-recipient mails which are recieved on and + deliverable via SMTP. Using the connection made for a recipient verify, + if requested before the verify, or a new one made for the purpose while + the inbound connection is still active. The bulk of the mail item is copied + direct from the inbound socket to the outbound (as well as the spool file). + When the source notifies the end of data, the data acceptance by the destination + is negociated before the acceptance is sent to the source. If the destination + does not accept the mail item, for example due to content-scanning, the item + is not accepted from the source and therefore there is no need to generate + a bounce mail. This is of benefit when providing a secondary-MX service. + The downside is that delays are under the control of the ultimate destination + system not your own. + + The Recieved-by: header on items delivered by cutthrough is generated + early in reception rather than at the end; this will affect any timestamp + included. The log line showing delivery is recorded before that showing + reception; it uses a new ">>" tag instead of "=>". + + To support the feature, verify-callout connections can now use ESMTP and TLS. + The usual smtp transport options are honoured, plus a (new, default everything) + hosts_verify_avoid_tls. + + New variable families named tls_in_cipher, tls_out_cipher etc. are introduced + for specific access to the information for each connection. The old names + are present for now but deprecated. + + Not yet supported: IGNOREQUOTA, SIZE, PIPELINING. + + 8. New expansion operators ${listnamed:name} to get the content of a named list + and ${listcount:string} to count the items in a list. + + 9. New global option "gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11", defaults false. The GnuTLS + rewrite in 4.80 combines with GnuTLS 2.12.0 or later, to autoload PKCS11 + modules. For some situations this is desirable, but we expect admin in + those situations to know they want the feature. More commonly, it means + that GUI user modules get loaded and are broken by the setuid Exim being + unable to access files specified in environment variables and passed + through, thus breakage. So we explicitly inhibit the PKCS11 initialisation + unless this new option is set. + + Some older OS's with earlier versions of GnuTLS might not have pkcs11 ability, + so have also added a build option which can be used to build Exim with GnuTLS + but without trying to use any kind of PKCS11 support. Uncomment this in the + Local/Makefile: + + AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11=yes + +10. The "acl = name" condition on an ACL now supports optional arguments. + New expansion item "${acl {name}{arg}...}" and expansion condition + "acl {{name}{arg}...}" are added. In all cases up to nine arguments + can be used, appearing in $acl_arg1 to $acl_arg9 for the called ACL. + Variable $acl_narg contains the number of arguments. If the ACL sets + a "message =" value this becomes the result of the expansion item, + or the value of $value for the expansion condition. If the ACL returns + accept the expansion condition is true; if reject, false. A defer + return results in a forced fail. + +11. Routers and transports can now have multiple headers_add and headers_remove + option lines. The concatenated list is used. + +12. New ACL modifier "remove_header" can remove headers before message gets + handled by routers/transports. + +13. New dnsdb lookup pseudo-type "a+". A sequence of "a6" (if configured), + "aaaa" and "a" lookups is done and the full set of results returned. + +14. New expansion variable $headers_added with content from ACL add_header + modifier (but not yet added to message). + +15. New 8bitmime status logging option for received messages. Log field "M8S". + +16. New authenticated_sender logging option, adding to log field "A". + +17. New expansion variables $router_name and $transport_name. Useful + particularly for debug_print as -bt commandline option does not + require privilege whereas -d does. + +18. If built with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR, per-recipient data responses per a + proposed extension to SMTP from Eric Hall. + +19. The pipe transport has gained the force_command option, to allow + decorating commands from user .forward pipe aliases with prefix + wrappers, for instance. + +20. Callout connections can now AUTH; the same controls as normal delivery + connections apply. + +21. Support for DMARC, using opendmarc libs, can be enabled. It adds new + options: dmarc_forensic_sender, dmarc_history_file, and dmarc_tld_file. + It adds new expansion variables $dmarc_ar_header, $dmarc_status, + $dmarc_status_text, and $dmarc_used_domain. It adds a new acl modifier + dmarc_status. It adds new control flags dmarc_disable_verify and + dmarc_enable_forensic. + +22. Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id, which is the username + provided to the authentication method which failed. It is available + for use in subsequent ACL processing (typically quit or notquit ACLs). + +23. New ACL modifer "udpsend" can construct a UDP packet to send to a given + UDP host and port. + +24. New ${hexquote:..string..} expansion operator converts non-printable + characters in the string to \xNN form. + +25. Experimental TPDA (Transport Post Delivery Action) function added. + Patch provided by Axel Rau. + +26. Experimental Redis lookup added. Patch provided by Warren Baker. + Version 4.80 ------------ @@ -102,7 +408,7 @@ Version 4.80 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 + http://www.gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Priority-Strings.html SNI support has been added to Exim's GnuTLS integration too. @@ -278,13 +584,13 @@ Version 4.73 then henceforth you will have to maintain your own local patches to strip the safeties off. - 8. There is a new expansion operator, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL + 8. There is a new expansion condition, bool_lax{}. Where bool{} uses the ACL condition logic to determine truth/failure and will fail to expand many strings, bool_lax{} uses the router condition logic, where most strings do evaluate true. Note: bool{00} is false, bool_lax{00} is true. - 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests, + 9. Routers now support multiple "condition" tests. 10. There is now a runtime configuration option "tcp_wrappers_daemon_name". Setting this allows an admin to define which entry in the tcpwrappers