-$Cambridge: exim/src/README.UPDATING,v 1.17 2009/10/16 07:35:42 tom Exp $
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This document contains detailed information about incompatibilities that might
be encountered when upgrading from one release of Exim to another. The
information is in reverse order of release numbers. Mostly these are relatively
The rest of this document contains information about changes in 4.xx releases
that might affect a running system.
+
+Exim version 4.77
+-----------------
+
+ * GnuTLS will now attempt to use TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.1 before TLS 1.0 and SSL3,
+ if supported by your GnuTLS library. Use the existing
+ "gnutls_require_protocols" option to downgrade this if that will be a
+ problem. Prior to this release, supported values were "TLS1" and "SSL3",
+ so you should be able to update configuration prior to update.
+
+ * The match_<type>{string1}{string2} expansion conditions no longer subject
+ string2 to string expansion, unless Exim was built with the new
+ "EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS" option. Too many people have inadvertently created
+ insecure configurations that way. If you need the functionality and turn on
+ that build option, please let the developers know, and know why, so we can
+ try to provide a safer mechanism for you.
+
+
+Exim version 4.74
+-----------------
+
+ * The integrated support for dynamically loadable lookup modules has an ABI
+ change from the modules supported by some OS vendors through an unofficial
+ patch. Don't try to mix & match.
+
+ * Some parts of the build system are now beginning to assume that the host
+ environment is POSIX. If you're building on a system where POSIX tools are
+ not the default, you might have an easier time if you switch to the POSIX
+ tools. Feel free to report non-POSIX issues as a request for a feature
+ enhancement, but if the POSIX variants are available then the fix will
+ probably just involve some coercion. See the README instructions for
+ building on such hosts.
+
+
+Exim version 4.73
+-----------------
+
+ * The Exim run-time user can no longer be root; this was always
+ strongly discouraged, but is now prohibited both at build and
+ run-time. If you need Exim to run routinely as root, you'll need to
+ patch the source and accept the risk. Here be dragons.
+
+ * Exim will no longer accept a configuration file owned by the Exim
+ run-time user, unless that account is explicitly the value in
+ CONFIGURE_OWNER, which we discourage. Exim now checks to ensure that
+ files are not writable by other accounts.
+
+ * The ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY build option is no longer optional and is forced
+ on; the Exim user can, by default, no longer use -C/-D and retain privilege.
+ Two new build options mitigate this.
+
+ * TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST defines a file containing a whitelist of config
+ files that are trusted to be selected by the Exim user; one per line.
+ This is the recommended approach going forward.
+
+ * WHITELIST_D_MACROS defines a colon-separated list of macro names which
+ the Exim run-time user may safely pass without dropping privileges.
+ Because changes to this involve a recompile, this is not the recommended
+ approach but may ease transition. The values of the macros, when
+ overridden, are constrained to match this regex: ^[A-Za-z0-9_/.-]*$
+
+ * The system_filter_user option now defaults to the Exim run-time user,
+ rather than root. You can still set it explicitly to root and this
+ can be done with prior versions too, letting you roll versions
+ without needing to change this configuration option.
+
+ * ClamAV must be at least version 0.95 unless WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM is
+ defined at build time.
+
+
Exim version 4.70
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