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List:       exim-announce
Subject:    [Exim-Announce] Exim development - current planning
From:       Philip Hazel <ph10 () cus ! cam ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2001-05-16 8:31:22
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I thought people might like to know the current state of Exim
development and what I expect to happen next.

1. I have more or less completed the "final" Exim 3 release. It is "final"
   in the sense that I will not be adding any more functionality after
   this. This release is mostly a maintenance release, but it does have
   a couple of minor functional additions. However, because I have
   updated the documentation (mainly because there were some things left
   out of the 3.20 manual) the release number will be 3.30.

2. Next Wednesday I am going on vacation to California for 2.5 weeks,
   and it would not be a good idea to release something and then
   disappear, so I expect to release 3.30 fairly shortly after I get
   back, say around the middle of June.

3. Meanwhile, development of Exim 4 is going quite well. I have done
   some of the major revisions, such as merging directors and routers,
   replacing the policy options with ACLs, and abandoning all use of
   seteuid(). However, there is still a great deal of work to do, and
   then the documentation will need to be completely rewritten. My best
   estimate is that I may have alpha versions available for testing
   towards the end of the year, with a view to real release some time in
   the first quarter of 2002.

4. The latest date I have for the publication of my book is June 26.
   This should be in good time for us to have copies for the basic Exim
   course that I am running in Cambridge on July 24/25 (see previous
   announcement, or http://www-tus.csx.cam.ac.uk/courses/exim/).

Philip

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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