Re: OpenDKIM 2.10.0 status

From: Scott Kitterman <ietf-dkim_at_kitterman.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:40:53 -0400

On August 8, 2014 6:49:48 PM EDT, "Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk_at_blackops.org> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>The release of 2.10.0 is currently in limbo. I had planned to release
>a
>version that has some major changes in keeping up with industry
>developments, but most of the interesting ones (largely having to do
>with
>DMARC) have stalled. As a result, 2.10.0 is stalled.
>
>The current RELEASE_NOTES entry for it is below. The question I have
>for
>the dev community is: Should we go into beta as-is, or wait a while
>longer
>for the standards stuff to start moving again and then release based on
>
>those developments?
>
>Specifically, the IETF is about to spin up a DMARC working group. One
>of
>the possible outputs of that effort is a set of one or more extensions
>to
>DKIM that would try to solve the mailing list problem. The
>DKIM-Delegate
>proposal is one of several that were discussed. Those discussions are
>paused while the IETF goes through the motions of forming a working
>group.
>They will un-pause soon as the working group forms and gets organized;
>its
>creation was approved yesterday. So OpenDKIM can either continue
>holding
>until there's something relevant to code up and experiment with, or we
>can
>ship 2.10.0 soon and then spin up 2.11.0 or 3.0.0 (or something) when
>there's new work to do.
>
>The current RELEASE_NOTES for 2.10.0:
>
>2.10.0 2014/??/??
> Feature request #182: Remove "AddAllSignatureResults". All signature
> results will now be added via Authentication-Results header
> fields. Requested by Tomki Camp.
> Feature request #180: Rename "LDAPSoftStart" to "SoftStart" and apply
> it to SQL connections as well. Requested by Daniel Kauffman.
> Feature request #179: Add "IgnoreMalformedMail" option.
> Fix bug #177: Plug leaking "result" structures when OpenLDAP is in
> use. Problem reported by Quanah Gibson-Mount.
> Fix bug #183: Discontinue support for ADSP.
> Make "rrvs" and "smime" recognized Authentication-Results methods.
> Truncate configuration file lines at carriage return.
> Replace overlapping strlcpy() with memmove() in dkim_get_key_file().
> Reported by Daniel J. Luke.
> LIBOPENDKIM: Feature request #157: Add dkim_mail_parse_multi().
> Suggested by Alessandro Vesely.
> LIBOPENDKIM: Fix bug #208: If a signature fails to verify for either
> reason (header hash mismatched or body hash mismatched), set
> DKIM_SIGERROR_BADSIG so that Authentication-Results doesn't
> report a failure with "no signature error".
> LIBOPENDKIM: dkim_header() is now a lot more strict about the input
> it will accept (see RFC5322 Section 2.2).
> LIBOPENDKIM: Tighten relaxed modes to break on only DKIM-defined
> whitespace characters. Problem noted by Elizabeth Zwicky.
> CONTRIB: Fix bug #207: Clean up the "stats" directory.
> TOOLS: Feature request #178: Add "-F" flag to opendkim-genzone so
> records are created with the FQDN. Patch from Andreas Schulze.
> REPUTATION: Handle parameters safely in repute.php. Reported by
> Daniel Black.

Seems like a list worth doing a release for.

Maybe a point release for the bug fixes first and then on to a beta.

Scott K
Received on Sat Aug 09 2014 - 00:41:02 PST