[exim] Exim 4.54 (minor fixes) released

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Author: Philip Hazel
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Subject: [exim] Exim 4.54 (minor fixes) released
I have just put Exim release 4.54 on the primary ftp site:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.54.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.54.tar.bz2

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This release contains a small number of fixes.

As usual, all changes are in the doc/ChangeLog. See also the README.UPDATING
file for changes that might impact on some installations. The number of changes
is so small that it is possible to quote the ChangeLog in full here:

PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
      set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
      It now does.


PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
      the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.


PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.

PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
      header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
      Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
      non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
      anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)


TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
      errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
      now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
      but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
      or /domain=).


PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
      testing suite.


PLEASE NOTE change TF/01 if you are using the /name= option of "control =
submission". Make sure your configuration has it last.

The manual has NOT been updated for this release. However, the versions of
spec.txt and filter.txt and the exim.8 man page that are included in the doc
directory have been generated via the new mechanism that uses DocBook XML as an
intermediate standard format. The contents of these files should be unchanged
from 4.50, but the layout and formatting is different. Please report any typos
or formatting problems.
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The primary ftp server is in Cambridge, England. There is a list of mirrors in:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Mirrors

The distribution files are signed with Philip Hazel's GPG key, which is
available on the ftp site and on a number of keyservers. The signature files
are in the same directory as the tarbundles. The MD5 hash codes for the
distribution files are:

07632e59a1ba0e9c409d0c2ea5f58816 exim-4.54.tar.gz
f3cdf5292f4bbb1ee2de42d4338b3b9f exim-4.54.tar.bz2

The distribution contains an ASCII copy of the 4.50 manual and other documents.
Other formats of the documentation are also available:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-html-4.50.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-pdf-4.50.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-postscript-4.50.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-texinfo-4.50.tar.gz

The .bz2 versions of these tarbundles are also available.

The HTML documentation contains the FAQ and configuration samples. These are
also available separately in HTML or txt format from the ftp site:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/FAQ-html.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/FAQ.txt.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/config.samples.tar.gz

The ChangeLog for this, and several previous releases, is included in the
distribution. Individual change log files are also available on the ftp site,
the current one being:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.54
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.54.gz

Documentation for new features that have not yet been included in the manual is
available in the NewStuff file in the distribution. Individual NewStuff files
are also available on the ftp site, the current one being:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/NewStuff-4.54
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/NewStuff-4.54.gz

Enjoy.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.