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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 12:06:34 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 12:06:34 +0000 |
commit | 5e61585d76ae77fd5e9e96ebabb57afa4d74880d (patch) | |
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Adding upstream version 3.5.24.upstream/3.5.24upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES-3.1 b/RELEASE_NOTES-3.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa2fbf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES-3.1 @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ +This is the Postfix 3.1 (stable) release. + +The stable Postfix release is called postfix-3.1.x where 3=major +release number, 1=minor release number, x=patchlevel. The stable +release never changes except for patches that address bugs or +emergencies. Patches change the patchlevel and the release date. + +New features are developed in snapshot releases. These are called +postfix-3.2-yyyymmdd where yyyymmdd is the release date (yyyy=year, +mm=month, dd=day). Patches are never issued for snapshot releases; +instead, a new snapshot is released. + +The mail_release_date configuration parameter (format: yyyymmdd) +specifies the release date of a stable release or snapshot release. + +If you upgrade from Postfix 2.11 or earlier, read RELEASE_NOTES-3.0 +before proceeding. + +Major changes - address verification safety +------------------------------------------- + +[Feature 20151227] The new address_verify_pending_request_limit +parameter introduces a safety limit for the number of address +verification probes in the active queue. The default limit is 1/4 +of the active queue maximum size. The queue manager enforces the +limit by tempfailing probe messages that exceed the limit. This +design avoids dependencies on global counters that get out of sync +after a process or system crash. + +Tempfailing verify requests is not as bad as one might think. The +Postfix verify cache proactively updates active addresses weeks +before they expire. The address_verify_pending_request_limit affects +only unknown addresses, and inactive addresses that have expired +from the address verify cache (by default, after 31 days). + +Major changes - json support +---------------------------- + +[Feature 20151129] Machine-readable, JSON-formatted queue listing +with "postqueue -j" (no "mailq" equivalent). The output is a stream +of JSON objects, one per queue file. To simplify parsing, each +JSON object is formatted as one text line followed by one newline +character. See the postqueue(1) manpage for a detailed description +of the output format. + +Major changes - milter support +------------------------------ + +[Feature 20150523] The milter_macro_defaults feature provides an +optional list of macro name=value pairs. These specify default +values for Milter macros when no value is available from the SMTP +session context. + +For example, with "milter_macro_defaults = auth_type=TLS", the +Postfix SMTP server will send an auth_type of "TLS" to a Milter, +unless the remote client authenticates with SASL. + +This feature was originally implemented for a submission service +that may authenticate clients with a TLS certificate, without having +to make changes to the code that implements TLS support. + +Major changes - output rate control +----------------------------------- + +[Feature 20150710] Destination-independent delivery rate delay + +Support to enforce a destination-independent delay between email +deliveries. The following example inserts 20 seconds of delay +between all deliveries with the SMTP transport, limiting the delivery +rate to at most three messages per minute. + +/etc/postfix/main.cf: + smtp_transport_rate_delay = 20s + +For details, see the description of default_transport_rate_delay +and transport_transport_rate_delay in the postconf(5) manpage. + +Major changes - postscreen dnsbl +-------------------------------- + +[Feature 20150710] postscreen support for the TTL of DNSBL and DNSWL +lookup results + +Historically, the default setting "postscreen_dnsbl_ttl = 1h" assumes +that a "not found" result from a DNSBL server will be valid for one +hour. This may have been adequate five years ago when postscreen +was first implemented, but nowadays, that one hour can result in +missed opportunities to block new spambots. + +To address this, postscreen now respects the TTL of DNSBL "not +found" replies, as well as the TTL of DNSWL replies (both "found" +and "not found"). The TTL for a "not found" reply is determined +according to RFC 2308 (the TTL of an SOA record in the reply). + +Support for DNSBL or DNSWL reply TTL values is controlled by two +configuration parameters: + +postscreen_dnsbl_min_ttl (default: 60 seconds). + + This parameter specifies a minimum for the amount of time that + a DNSBL or DNSWL result will be cached in the postscreen_cache_map. + This prevents an excessive number of postscreen cache updates + when a DNSBL or DNSWL server specifies a very small reply TTL. + +postscreen_dnsbl_max_ttl (default: $postscreen_dnsbl_ttl or 1 hour) + + This parameter specifies a maximum for the amount of time that + a DNSBL or DNSWL result will be cached in the postscreen_cache_map. + This prevents cache pollution when a DNSBL or DNSWL server + specifies a very large reply TTL. + +The postscreen_dnsbl_ttl parameter is now obsolete, and has become +the default value for the new postscreen_dnsbl_max_ttl parameter. + +Major changes - sasl auth safety +-------------------------------- + +[Feature 20151031] New "smtpd_client_auth_rate_limit" feature, to +enforce an optional rate limit on AUTH commands per SMTP client IP +address. Similar to other smtpd_client_*_rate_limit features, this +enforces a limit on the number of requests per $anvil_rate_time_unit. + +Major changes - smtpd policy +---------------------------- + +[Feature 20150913] New SMTPD policy service attribute "policy_context", +with a corresponding "smtpd_policy_service_policy_context" configuration +parameter. Originally, this was implemented to share the same SMTPD +policy service endpoint among multiple check_policy_service clients. + +Major changes - tls +------------------- + +[Feature 20160207] A new "postfix tls" command to quickly enable +opportunistic TLS in the Postfix SMTP client or server, and to +manage SMTP server keys and certificates, including certificate +signing requests and TLSA DNS records for DANE. See the postfix-tls(1) +manpage for a detailed description. + +[Feature 20160103] The Postfix SMTP client by default enables DANE +policies when an MX host has a (DNSSEC) secure TLSA DNS record, +even if the MX DNS record was obtained with insecure lookups. The +existence of a secure TLSA record implies that the host wants to +talk TLS and not plaintext. For details see the +smtp_tls_dane_insecure_mx_policy configuration parameter. + +[Incompat 20150721] As of the middle of 2015, all supported Postfix +releases no longer enable "export" grade ciphers for opportunistic +TLS, and no longer use the deprecated SSLv2 and SSLv3 protocols for +mandatory or opportunistic TLS. + +These changes are very unlikely to cause problems with server-to-server +communication over the Internet, but they may result in interoperability +problems with ancient client or server implementations on internal +networks. To address this problem, you can revert the changes with: + +Postfix SMTP client settings: + + lmtp_tls_ciphers = export + smtp_tls_ciphers = export + lmtp_tls_protocols = !SSLv2 + smtp_tls_protocols = !SSLv2 + lmtp_tls_mandatory_protocols = !SSLv2 + smtp_tls_mandatory_protocols = !SSLv2 + +Postfix SMTP server settings: + + smtpd_tls_ciphers = export + smtpd_tls_protocols = + smtpd_tls_mandatory_protocols = !SSLv2 + +These settings, if put in main.cf, affect all Postfix SMTP client +or server communication, which may be undesirable. To be more +selective, use "-o name=value" parameter overrides on specific +services in master.cf. Execute the command "postfix reload" to make +the changes effective. + +[Incompat 20150719] The default Diffie-Hellman non-export prime was +updated from 1024 to 2048 bits, because SMTP clients are starting +to reject TLS handshakes with primes smaller than 2048 bits. + +Historically, this prime size is not negotiable, and each site needs +to determine which prime size works best for the majority of its +clients. See FORWARD_SECRECY_README for some hints in the quick-start +section. + |