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2 | NEWS | |
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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. | |
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3ba25ee8 | 8 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7: |
83f25717 RL |
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10 | o New library section OCSP. | |
3ba25ee8 | 11 | o Complete haul-over of the ASN.1 library section. |
83f25717 | 12 | |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
13 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a: |
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15 | o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using | |
16 | environment variables when running as root. | |
17 | o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the | |
18 | possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly | |
19 | calculated signature. | |
20 | o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. | |
21 | o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the | |
22 | master secret in DH ciphersuites. | |
4fea8145 | 23 | o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. |
307bf4da RL |
24 | o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to |
25 | des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. | |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
26 | o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. |
27 | o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and | |
28 | memory checking routines. | |
29 | o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded enviroments. | |
30 | o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. | |
31 | o Remove a few potential memory leaks. | |
32 | o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. | |
33 | o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. | |
34 | o More documentation. | |
4fea8145 | 35 | o New function BN_rand_range(). |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
36 | o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. |
37 | ||
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38 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: |
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40 | o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. | |
41 | o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. | |
42 | o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. | |
43 | o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. | |
44 | o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. | |
b38d84d8 BM |
45 | o MD4 now included. |
46 | o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. | |
3ba25ee8 | 47 | o Support for external crypto devices. |
fda05b21 | 48 | o Enhanced EVP interface. |
b22bda21 | 49 | |
35a79ecb RL |
50 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: |
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b7a81df4 | 52 | o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 |
35a79ecb RL |
53 | o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc |
54 | o Support of Linux/IA64 | |
b7a81df4 | 55 | o Assembler support for Mingw32 |
35a79ecb RL |
56 | o New 'rand' application |
57 | o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts | |
58 | ||
0c235249 UM |
59 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: |
60 | ||
90644dd7 | 61 | o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command |
0c235249 | 62 | o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application |
90644dd7 DSH |
63 | o Automation of 'req' application |
64 | o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows | |
65 | o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs | |
66 | o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions | |
ae1bb4e5 | 67 | o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources |
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68 | o New public key PEM format and options to handle it |
69 | o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities | |
70 | o Usable certificate chain verification | |
71 | o Certificate purpose checking | |
72 | o Certificate trust settings | |
73 | o Support of authority information access extension | |
74 | o Extensions in certificate requests | |
75 | o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines | |
ae1bb4e5 | 76 | o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets |
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77 | o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD |
78 | o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function | |
8bd5b794 BM |
79 | o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 |
80 | record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other | |
81 | data | |
90644dd7 | 82 | o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC |
8bd5b794 | 83 | o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug |
90644dd7 DSH |
84 | o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other |
85 | RSA functionality | |
07e6dbde BM |
86 | o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information |
87 | via a per-thread stack | |
88 | o PRNG robustness improved | |
4d524e10 | 89 | o EGD support |
6d9ca500 | 90 | o BIGNUM library bug fixes |
4d524e10 | 91 | o Faster DSA parameter generation |
74235cc9 UM |
92 | o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux |
93 | o Experimental MacOS support | |
0c235249 | 94 | |
ed7f60fb DSH |
95 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4: |
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97 | o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used | |
c97cbcb3 BM |
98 | by several software packages and are more secure than the standard |
99 | form | |
100 | o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation | |
101 | o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data | |
102 | o Avoid various memory leaks | |
103 | o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O | |
104 | must be handled by the application (BIO pair) | |
ed7f60fb | 105 | |
8e8a8a5f | 106 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: |
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107 | o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism |
108 | o RSA OEAP related fixes | |
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109 | o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate |
110 | o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs | |
111 | o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files | |
703126f0 | 112 | o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points |
a03dd7a6 | 113 | extension support |
703126f0 DSH |
114 | o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support |
115 | o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString | |
116 | o Full integration of PKCS#12 code | |
2cf9fcda | 117 | o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions |
b0759f87 | 118 | o Option to disable selected ciphers |
8e8a8a5f | 119 | |
d343d272 | 120 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: |
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121 | o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption |
122 | o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case | |
123 | o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" | |
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124 | o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher |
125 | o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA | |
126 | o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers | |
127 | o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) | |
128 | o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. | |
03e20a1a | 129 | o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) |
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130 | o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions |
131 | o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
132 | o Overhauled Win32 builds | |
133 | o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library | |
134 | o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime | |
135 | o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs | |
136 | o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences | |
137 | o Overhauled Perl interface | |
138 | o Lots of source tree cleanups. | |
139 | o Lots of memory leak fixes. | |
140 | o Lots of bug fixes. | |
141 | ||
142 | Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c: | |
143 | o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches | |
144 | o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
145 | o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality | |
146 | o Extended Big Number (BN) library | |
147 | o Added RIPE MD160 message digest | |
148 | o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher | |
149 | o Extended ASN.1 parser routines | |
150 | o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS | |
151 | o Support for various new platforms | |
152 |