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    <p>All,</p>
    <p>I'm pleased to announce the release of the long-awaited SASL
      2.1.27 which can be downloaded from here:<br>
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* HTTP:

    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz">https://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz</a>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz.sig">https://www.cyrusimap.org/releases/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz.sig</a>

* FTP:

    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz</a>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz.sig">ftp://ftp.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz.sig</a>

md5sum:

a33820c66e0622222c5aefafa1581083  cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz
b295313b9915be32b334f7e88f30dacd  cyrus-sasl-2.1.27.tar.gz.sig
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    <p>The (mostly) complete list of changes from 2.1.26 are these:</p>
    <ul class="simple">
      <li>Added support for OpenSSL 1.1</li>
      <li>Added support for lmdb (from Howard Chu)</li>
      <li>Lots of build fixes (from Ignacio Casal Quinteiro and others)</li>
      <li>Treat SCRAM and DIGEST-MD5 as more secure than PLAIN when
        selecting client mech</li>
      <li>DIGEST-MD5 plugin:
        <ul>
          <li>Fixed memory leaks</li>
          <li>Fixed a segfault when looking for non-existent reauth
            cache</li>
          <li>Prevent client from going from step 3 back to step 2</li>
          <li>Allow cmusaslsecretDIGEST-MD5 property to be disabled</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>GSSAPI plugin:
        <ul>
          <li>Added support for retrieving negotiated SSF</li>
          <li>Properly compute maxbufsize AFTER security layers have
            been set</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>SCRAM plugin:
        <ul>
          <li>Added support for SCRAM-SHA-256</li>
          <li>Allow SCRAM-* to be used by HTTP<br>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>LOGIN plugin:
        <ul>
          <li>Don’t prompt client for password until requested by server</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>NTLM plugin:
        <ul>
          <li>Fixed crash due to uninitialized HMAC context</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>saslauthd:
        <ul>
          <li>cache.c:
            <ul>
              <li>Don’t use cached credentials if timeout has expired</li>
              <li>Fixed debug logging output</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>ipc_doors.c:
            <ul>
              <li>Fixed potential DoS attack (from Oracle)</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>ipc_unix.c:
            <ul>
              <li>Prevent premature closing of socket</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>auth_rimap.c:
            <ul>
              <li>Added support LOGOUT command</li>
              <li>Added support for unsolicited CAPABILITY responses in
                LOGIN reply</li>
              <li>Properly detect end of responses (don’t needlessly
                wait)</li>
              <li>Properly handle backslash in passwords</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>auth_httpform:
            <ul>
              <li>Fix off-by-one error in string termination</li>
              <li>Added support for 204 success response</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>auth_krb5.c:
            <ul>
              <li>Added krb5_conv_krb4_instance option</li>
              <li>Added more verbose error logging</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Ken Murchison
Cyrus Development Team
FastMail US LLC</pre>
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