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5 This file gives a brief overview of the major changes between each OpenSSL
6 release. For more details please read the CHANGES file.
7
d4da1bb5 8 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development]
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10 o
11
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12 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
13
14 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
15
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16 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
17
18 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
19 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
20 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
21
22 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
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24 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
25 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
26 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
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28 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
29
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30 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
31
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32 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
33
34 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
35 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
36 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
37 (CVE-2016-6307)
38 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
39 (CVE-2016-6308)
40
156e34f2 41 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
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b6cff313 43 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
ce942199 44 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
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45 o Added support for "pipelining"
46 o Added the AFALG engine
4a4e250c 47 o New threading API implemented
7c314196 48 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
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49 o Support for extended master secret
50 o CCM ciphersuites
6f9a3c37 51 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
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52 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
53 including:
54 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
55 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
56 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
57 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
58 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
59 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
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60 o libssl internal structures made opaque
61 o SSLv2 support removed
62 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
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63 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
64 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
6f9a3c37 65 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
7c314196 66 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
5e030525 67 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
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68 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
69 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
98186eb4 70 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
46e64f6e 71 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
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72 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
73 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
46e64f6e 74 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
59fd40d4 75 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
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76 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
77 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
78 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
0f45c26f 79 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
907d2c2f 80 o New "unified" build system
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81 o New security levels
82 o Support for scrypt algorithm
83 o Support for X25519
84 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
85 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
eb64a6c6 86 o Support for Certificate Transparency
8a0333c9 87 o HKDF support.
5fa30720 88
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89 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
90
91 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
92 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
93 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
94 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
95 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
96 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
97 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
98 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
99 the default.
100 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
101
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102 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
103
104 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
105 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
106 (CVE-2016-0800)
107 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
108 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
109 (CVE-2016-0798)
110 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
111 (CVE-2016-0797)
112 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
113 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
114
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115 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
116
117 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
118 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
119
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120 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
121
122 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
123 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
124 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
125 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
126 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
127 return an error
128
129 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
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130
131 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
5fa30720 132 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
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133
134 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
135
136 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
137
138 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
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139
140 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
141 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
142 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
143 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
144 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
145
146 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
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148 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
149 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
150 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
151 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
152 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
153 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
154 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
155 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
156 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
157 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
158 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
159 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
160 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
161
162 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
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164 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
165 o Support for DTLS 1.2
166 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
167 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
168 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
169 o TLS Brainpool support.
170 o ALPN support.
171 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
172
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173 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
174
175 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
176
177 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
178
179 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
180 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
181 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
182 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
183 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
184 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
185 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
186 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
187
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188 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
189
190 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
191 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
192 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
193 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
194
195 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
196
197 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
198 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
199 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
200 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
201 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
202 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
203 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
204 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
205 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
206
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207 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
208
209 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
210 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
367eab2f 211 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
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212 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
213 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
214 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
215
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216 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
217
218 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
219 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
220 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
221
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222 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
223
224 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
225 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
226 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
227 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
228
57d7ee3a 229 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
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231 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
232
57d7ee3a 233 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
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235 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
236 o Include the fips configuration module.
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237 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
238 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
239 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
5818a07a 240
57d7ee3a 241 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
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242
243 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
244 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
245
57d7ee3a 246 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
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247
248 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
249 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
250 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
251
57d7ee3a 252 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
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254 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
255 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
256 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
257
57d7ee3a 258 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
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260 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
261 o SCTP support.
262 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
263 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
264 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
265 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
266 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
267 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
268 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
269 o SRP support.
270
57d7ee3a 271 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
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273 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
274 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
275 o Various DTLS fixes.
276
57d7ee3a 277 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
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279 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
280
57d7ee3a 281 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
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283 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
284 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
285 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
286 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
287 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
288
57d7ee3a 289 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
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291 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
292 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
293 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
294 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
295 o Various DTLS fixes.
296
57d7ee3a 297 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
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299 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
300
57d7ee3a 301 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
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303 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
304 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
305 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
306 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
307 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
308
57d7ee3a 309 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
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311 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
312 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
313 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
314
57d7ee3a 315 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
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3cbb15ee 317 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
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318 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
319
57d7ee3a 320 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
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322 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
323 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
324 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
ef236ec3 325 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
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326 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
327 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
328 o ASN1 printing support.
329 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
330 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
331 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
332 o New generalised public key API utilities.
333 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
334 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
335 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
336 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
337 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
338 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
339 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
340 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
14023fe3 341 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
4e74239d 342
57d7ee3a 343 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
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345 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
346 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
347
57d7ee3a 348 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
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350 o Cipher definition fixes.
351 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
352 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
353 o SPKAC handling fixes.
354 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
355 o Compression memory leak fixed.
356 o Compression session resumption fixed.
357 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
358 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
359
57d7ee3a 360 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
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362 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
363
57d7ee3a 364 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
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366 o Fix various build issues.
367 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
368
57d7ee3a 369 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
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370
371 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
372 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
373
57d7ee3a 374 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
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376 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
377 o Various precautionary measures.
378 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
379 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
380
57d7ee3a 381 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
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7f1c086b 383 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
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384 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
385
57d7ee3a 386 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
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388 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
df7421cc 389 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
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390 for VC++ build.
391 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
392 selected at compile time.
393 o DTLS improvements.
394 o RFC4507bis support.
395 o TLS Extensions support.
396
57d7ee3a 397 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
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399 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
400 o RFC3779 support.
401
57d7ee3a 402 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
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404 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
405 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
406 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
407
57d7ee3a 408 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
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410 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
411 o New cipher Camellia
412
57d7ee3a 413 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
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415 o Cipher string fixes.
416 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
417 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
418 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
419 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
420 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
421 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
422
57d7ee3a 423 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
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b79aa05e 425 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
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426 o Extended Windows CE support
427
57d7ee3a 428 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
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430 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
431 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
432 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
433 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
434 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
435 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
436 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
437 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
438 configuration file.
439 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
440 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
441 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
442 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
443 Makefile.shared.
c8310124 444 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
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445 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
446 automatically from specifically given directories.
447 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
448 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
449 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
450 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
451 function and an argument.
452 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
453 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
454 Nehemiah processors.
455 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
456 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
457 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
458 constraints and name constraints.
459 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
460 configuration file.
461 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
462 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
463 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
464 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
465 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
466 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
467 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
468 o New BUF functions.
469 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
470 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
471 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
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473 OpenSSL.
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474 o New control functions for the error stack.
475 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
476 processing.
477 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
478 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
479 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
480 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
481 affected functions.
482 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
483 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
484 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
485 of X.509 path validation.
486 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
487 AMD64.
488 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
f430ba31 489 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
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490 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
491 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
492 SHA-1.
613e7d2a 493 o Added support for DTLS.
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494 o New BIGNUM blinding.
495 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
496 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
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497 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
498 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
499 o Added initial support for Win64.
500 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
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57d7ee3a 502 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
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504 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
505 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
506
57d7ee3a 507 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
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509 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
510 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
511
57d7ee3a 512 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
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514 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
515
57d7ee3a 516 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
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518 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
519 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
520
57d7ee3a 521 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
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523 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
524
57d7ee3a 525 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
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527 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
528 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
529 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
530
57d7ee3a 531 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
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533 o More compilation issues fixed.
534 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
535 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
536 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
537 o More constification.
538 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
539
57d7ee3a 540 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
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542 o Several compilation issues fixed.
543 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
544 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
545 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
546 o Performance improvements.
547
57d7ee3a 548 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
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550 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
551 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
552
57d7ee3a 553 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
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555 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
556 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
557 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
558 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
559 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
560
57d7ee3a 561 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
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563 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
564 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
565 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
566 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
567
57d7ee3a 568 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
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570 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
571 Bleichbacher's attack
572 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
573 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
574 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
575 o Build: shared library support fixes.
576 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
577 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
578
57d7ee3a 579 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
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581 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
582 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
583 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
584 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
585 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
586 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
587 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
588 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
589
57d7ee3a 590 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
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592 o New library section OCSP.
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593 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
594 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
595 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
596 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
597 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
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599 a separate distribution.
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600 o New elliptic curve library section.
601 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
1fc73fef 602 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
29902449 603 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
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604 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
605 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
29902449 606 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
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607 o Support for pkg-config.
608 o Lots of new manuals.
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610 functions.
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611 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
612 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
613 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
614 future).
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615 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
616 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
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617 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
618 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
619 and help optimizers.
620 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
621 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
622 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
623 Processing, IBM 4758.
9801fb61 624 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
e1f7ea25 625 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
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626 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
627 EGD style random sources at several locations.
628 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
629 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
630 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
1fc73fef 631 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
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632 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
633 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
ea4f109c 634 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
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57d7ee3a 636 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
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638 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
639 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
640
57d7ee3a 641 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
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643 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
644 Bleichbacher's attack
645 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
646 o Build: shared library support fixes.
647
57d7ee3a 648 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
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650 o Important security related bugfixes.
651
57d7ee3a 652 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
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654 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
655 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
656 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
657 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
658 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
659 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
660 o Fixes for length problems.
661 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
662 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
663 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
664 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
665
57d7ee3a 666 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
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668 o Important building fixes on Unix.
669
57d7ee3a 670 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
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672 o Various important bugfixes.
673
57d7ee3a 674 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
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676 o Important security related bugfixes.
677 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
678
57d7ee3a 679 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
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681 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
682 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
4dec4f64 683
57d7ee3a 684 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
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686 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
687 o BIGNUM library fixes.
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688 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
689 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
690 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
691 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
692 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
a3790c0d 693 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
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694 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
695 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
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57d7ee3a 697 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
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699 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
700 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
701 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
702 attack.
703 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
704 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
705 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
706 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
707 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
708 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
709 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
710 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
711 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
712 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
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57d7ee3a 714 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
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716 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
717 environment variables when running as root.
718 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
719 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
720 calculated signature.
721 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
722 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
723 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
4fea8145 724 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
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725 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
726 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
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727 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
728 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
729 memory checking routines.
5012158a 730 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
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732 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
733 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
734 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
735 o More documentation.
4fea8145 736 o New function BN_rand_range().
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738
57d7ee3a 739 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
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741 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
742 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
743 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
744 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
745 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
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747 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
4dec4f64 748 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
fda05b21 749 o Enhanced EVP interface.
b22bda21 750
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752 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
753
57d7ee3a 754 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
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b7a81df4 756 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
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757 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
758 o Support of Linux/IA64
b7a81df4 759 o Assembler support for Mingw32
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760 o New 'rand' application
761 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
762
57d7ee3a 763 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
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90644dd7 765 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
0c235249 766 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
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767 o Automation of 'req' application
768 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
769 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
770 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
ae1bb4e5 771 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
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772 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
773 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
774 o Usable certificate chain verification
775 o Certificate purpose checking
776 o Certificate trust settings
777 o Support of authority information access extension
778 o Extensions in certificate requests
779 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
ae1bb4e5 780 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
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781 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
782 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
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783 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
784 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
785 data
90644dd7 786 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
8bd5b794 787 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
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788 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
789 RSA functionality
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790 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
791 via a per-thread stack
792 o PRNG robustness improved
4d524e10 793 o EGD support
6d9ca500 794 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
4d524e10 795 o Faster DSA parameter generation
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797 o Experimental MacOS support
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57d7ee3a 799 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
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801 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
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803 form
804 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
805 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
806 o Avoid various memory leaks
807 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
808 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
ed7f60fb 809
57d7ee3a 810 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
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812 o RSA OEAP related fixes
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814 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
815 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
703126f0 816 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
a03dd7a6 817 extension support
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819 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
820 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
2cf9fcda 821 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
b0759f87 822 o Option to disable selected ciphers
8e8a8a5f 823
57d7ee3a 824 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
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826 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
827 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
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828 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
829 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
830 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
831 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
832 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
03e20a1a 833 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
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835 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
836 o Overhauled Win32 builds
837 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
838 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
839 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
840 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
841 o Overhauled Perl interface
842 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
843 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
844 o Lots of bug fixes.
845
57d7ee3a 846 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
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848 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
849 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
850 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
851 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
852 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
853 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
854 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
855 o Support for various new platforms
856