OpenSSL fixes and backwards compat break.

[exim.git] / doc / doc-txt / NewStuff

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@@ -13,10 +13,7 @@ Version 4.78
     This is a SASL interface, licensed under GPL, which can be found at
     http://www.gnu.org/software/gsasl/.
     This system does not provide sources of data for authentication, so
-    careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.  Note that
-    this can not yet be used as a drop-in replacement for Cyrus SASL, as
-    Exim is currently unable to construct strings with embedded NULs for
-    use as keys in lookups against sasldb2.
+    careful use needs to be made of the conditions in Exim.
 
  2. New authenticator driver, "heimdal_gssapi".  Server-only.
     A replacement for using cyrus_sasl with Heimdal, now that $KRB5_KTNAME
@@ -33,7 +30,17 @@ Version 4.78
 
  5. New lookup type, "dbmjz".  Key is an Exim list, the elements of which will
     be joined together with ASCII NUL characters to construct the key to pass
-    into the DBM library.
+    into the DBM library.  Can be used with gsasl to access sasldb2 files as
+    used by Cyrus SASL.
+
+ 6. OpenSSL now supports TLS1.1 and TLS1.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1.
+
+    Avoid release 1.0.1a if you can.  Note that the default value of
+    "openssl_options" is no longer "+dont_insert_empty_fragments", as that
+    increased susceptibility to attack.  This may still have interoperability
+    implications for very old clients (see version 4.31 change 37) but
+    administrators can choose to make the trade-off themselves and restore
+    compatibility at the cost of session security.
 
 
 Version 4.77