Re: [exim] Exim 4.95-RC1 released

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Author: Odhiambo Washington
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To: Heiko Schlittermann, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.95-RC1 released
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:53 AM Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users <
exim-users@???> wrote:

> Hi *,
>
> Thank you for the feedback we got since RC0, especially to Andreas
> Metzler who helped discovering and testing stuff around dbbc1c20b.
>
> We just released the next release candidate. Commits since RC0 are:
>
>     * 03fc05ca1 - (HEAD -> master, tag: exim-4.95-RC1, origin/master,
> origin/HEAD) Docs: tidy variables lists (5 days ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * 27d03dca1 - DKIM: fix build with older GnuTLS (5 days ago) <Jeremy
> Harris>
>     * dbbc1c20b - TLS: fix tls_verify_certificates handling of "system" (5
> days ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * 1c18b2f73 - Testsuite: output chnges resulting (5 days ago) <Jeremy
> Harris>
>     * 25f3b885d - typo (7 days ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * 651acf8b3 - Docs: enhance SPF description (7 days ago) <Andreas
> Metzler>
>     * 32451e8a6 - Docs: remove extraneous file copy (8 days ago) <Jeremy
> Harris>
>     * f9d167e05 - typo (10 days ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * 9138b6973 - ALPN: not supported under LibreSSL (10 days ago) <Jeremy
> Harris>
>     * 32c45e838 - Fix no-TLS bulid (10 days ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * d083e3f2a - ALPN: feature macro (10 days ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * b634f8eaf - typo (10 days ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * dbad58950 - typo (10 days ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * c4b408623 - TLS: ALPN options (10 days ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * f7ea5ba10 - Remove the must-helo check from the example config given
> that there is now a default-set option and hard code (2f8e0a5f6b) (11 days
> ago) <Jeremy Harris>
>     * c968a17cc - NewStuff typo (12 days ago) <Heiko Schlittermann
> (HS12-RIPE)>
>     * 26916dc75 - Docs: Clarify $acl_verify_message lifetime (12 days ago)
> <Jeremy Harris>
>     * 1f76af318 - Docs: fix formatting (2 weeks ago) <Jeremy Harris>

>
> As usual we ask *you* to do as much testing as possible and provide us
> feedback. This covers build issues with unusual libraries, runtime
> issues in unusual environments and any other kind of things that should
> be fixed.
>
> The Exim 4.95-RC1 is available
>
> - as tarball:        https://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/test
> - directly from Git: https://git.exim.org
>                      tag exim-4.95-RC1

>
> The tarball checksums are signed using the same GPG key as I used to
> sign this message (Key-ID: D0BFD6B9ECA5694A6F149DCEAF4CC676A6B6C142),
> as the tag and tagged commit are.
>
> This is the last chance for new features, as starting with RC2 (planned
> around Aug 5th) we won't add any new features to the upcoming release.
> If you have anything that should make it into the official release, and
> is mature enough to be included in this phase, please contact us.
>
> For changes since the previous stable version, please see the RC0
> announcement:
> https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20210715.212328.6bec444b.en.html
>
> @David Restall, @Thomas Noll: I'm not sure if we'll manage to fix the
> source of the compiler warnings for this release, but we'll try.
>
>     Best regards from Dresden/Germany
>     Viele Grüße aus Dresden
>     Heiko Schlittermann
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On FreeBSD 13-RELEASE (clang version 11.0.1 -f that matters), I had to
back out of RC0 to 4.94.2 because my paniclog was filled with several lines
of:

*2021-07-24 18:16:23 SIGSEGV (maybe attempt to write to immutable memory)*

I have just installed RC1 and will report if anything strange happens.


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