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author | Phil Pennock <phil+git@pennock-tech.com> | 2020-11-02 02:39:38 -0500 |
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committer | Heiko Schlittermann (HS12-RIPE) <hs@schlittermann.de> | 2021-05-27 21:30:33 +0200 |
commit | 5acbba8e07243f6c221171398d90a6c824724f45 (patch) | |
tree | 23dfe75e72ccb715a5a637ced4f0bf5ba70c485d | |
parent | 72ff77a3736576a7695f918baf37e5e8d0b48572 (diff) |
Start documenting the things we changed incompatibly.
(cherry picked from commit 8dad4da53bad2ed3b29fa6a3b9ef59bfec73dc0e)
(cherry picked from commit 125f0d4afbc858cf514c29326a3016c2d9d7bdc1)
-rw-r--r-- | src/README.UPDATING | 18 |
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diff --git a/src/README.UPDATING b/src/README.UPDATING index 708027f2c..72bc97021 100644 --- a/src/README.UPDATING +++ b/src/README.UPDATING @@ -26,6 +26,24 @@ The rest of this document contains information about changes in 4.xx releases that might affect a running system. +Exim version 4.95 +----------------- + +Various length limits have been applied to Exim's parsing of its command-line. +These are all set to be at least as long as any valid input, so we do not believe +that any real use-cases have been affected by this. + +The names of various drivers (authenticators, routers, transports, ...) have +always been limited to 64 characters, but before this release the names were +silently truncated, inviting problems. Now the length limit should be enforced. +If this affects you, then please rename to use shorter names. + +The default maximum number of recipients of a single email has changed from +"unlimited" (ie: as much as CPU and memory will allow, until something breaks +badly) to 50,000. You can raise or lower this as you see fit, but we strongly +caution against using zero/unlimited. + + Exim version 4.94 ----------------- |