Just realized that a section on editing a .pre file from UPGRADE is not also present in the COMPATIBILITY section of release notes. Along with a note from Bug 6293, this makes the diff below. Any considerations on rolling this in?
Mark Index: build/announcements/3.3.0-release.txt =================================================================== --- build/announcements/3.3.0-release.txt (revision 901007) +++ build/announcements/3.3.0-release.txt (working copy) @@ -99,6 +99,14 @@ - it may be worth mentioning that a rule DKIM_VERIFIED has been renamed to DKIM_VALID, to match its semantics; +- the DKIM plugin is now enabled by default for new installs if a perl + module Mail::DKIM is installed. However, SpamAssassin installation + will not overwrite existing .pre configuration files, so to use DKIM + and are upgrading from a previous release, a directive: + loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DKIM + will need to be uncommented in file "v312.pre", or added to some + other .pre file, such as local.pre; + - due to changes in some internal data structures (like Bug 6185, 6254), some third-party plugins may need to be updated. One such example is the ClamAVPlugin plugin - please find a fresh version on its wiki page. @@ -112,9 +120,13 @@ - support for versions of perl 5.6.* is being gradually revoked (may still work, but no promises and no support); -- preferred versions of perl are 5.8.8, 5.8.9, and 5.10.1 or later +- preferred versions of perl are 5.8.8, 5.8.9, and 5.10.1 or later; +- on FreeBSD, please avoid using multithreaded versions of perl older + than 5.10.0 due to small default main thread's stack size, which may + not suffice for some regular expression evaluations; + INSTALLING RULES Rules are normally installed by running a sa-update command. @@ -421,11 +433,18 @@ DKIM PLUGIN -- the plugin is now enabled by default; +- the DKIM plugin is now enabled by default for new installs if a perl + module Mail::DKIM is installed. However, SpamAssassin installation + will not overwrite existing .pre configuration files, so to use DKIM + and are upgrading from a previous release, a directive: + loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DKIM + will need to be uncommented in file "v312.pre", or added to some + other .pre file, such as local.pre; - absolute minimal version of Mail::DKIM is 0.31; support for ADSP requires Mail::DKIM 0.34; - a DNS test (and rule) for NXDOMAIN is operational since Mail::DKIM 0.36_5 + a DNS test (and rule) for NXDOMAIN is operational since Mail::DKIM 0.36_5, + so effectively the recommended version is Mail::DKIM 0.37 or later; - a perl module Digest::SHA is required if the DKIM plugin is enabled (if a perl module Digest::SHA is available, the module Digest::SHA1
