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2 | NEWS | |
3 | ==== | |
4 | ||
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 | ||
5818a07a DSH |
8 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d: |
9 | ||
10 | o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version. | |
11 | o Include the fips configuration module. | |
12 | ||
13 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c: | |
14 | ||
15 | o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 | |
16 | o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode. | |
17 | ||
a9e6c091 DSH |
18 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b: |
19 | ||
20 | o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms. | |
21 | o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode. | |
22 | o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0 | |
23 | ||
579d5534 DSH |
24 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a: |
25 | ||
26 | o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 | |
27 | o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos. | |
28 | o Fix SEGV in AES code. | |
29 | ||
61ad8262 DSH |
30 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1: |
31 | ||
32 | o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support. | |
33 | o SCTP support. | |
34 | o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter. | |
35 | o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation. | |
36 | o Next Protocol Negotiation. | |
37 | o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs. | |
38 | o Support for password based recipient info for CMS. | |
39 | o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1. | |
40 | o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module. | |
41 | o SRP support. | |
42 | ||
579d5534 DSH |
43 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.0i: |
44 | ||
45 | o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 | |
46 | ||
13747c6f DSH |
47 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h: |
48 | ||
49 | o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 | |
50 | o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 | |
51 | o Various DTLS fixes. | |
52 | ||
53 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g: | |
54 | ||
55 | o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 | |
56 | ||
57 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f: | |
58 | ||
59 | o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 | |
60 | o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 | |
61 | o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 | |
62 | o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027 | |
63 | o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 | |
64 | ||
65 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e: | |
66 | ||
67 | o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207 | |
68 | o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210 | |
69 | o Protection against EC timing attacks. | |
70 | o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms. | |
71 | o Various DTLS fixes. | |
72 | ||
9770924f BM |
73 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d: |
74 | ||
75 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 | |
76 | ||
88f2a4cf BM |
77 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c: |
78 | ||
79 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 | |
80 | o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 | |
81 | o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension. | |
82 | o Fix various platform compilation issues. | |
83 | o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. | |
84 | ||
732d31be DSH |
85 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b: |
86 | ||
87 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. | |
88 | o Fix for CVE-2010-2939 | |
89 | o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE. | |
90 | ||
417a24db DSH |
91 | Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a: |
92 | ||
3cbb15ee | 93 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633. |
417a24db DSH |
94 | o GOST MAC and CFB fixes. |
95 | ||
9bda7458 | 96 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0: |
4e74239d DSH |
97 | |
98 | o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests. | |
99 | o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs. | |
100 | o Change default private key format to PKCS#8. | |
ef236ec3 | 101 | o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134 |
4e74239d DSH |
102 | o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS. |
103 | o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS. | |
104 | o ASN1 printing support. | |
105 | o Whirlpool hash algorithm added. | |
106 | o RFC3161 time stamp support. | |
107 | o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms. | |
108 | o New generalised public key API utilities. | |
109 | o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms. | |
110 | o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support. | |
111 | o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support. | |
112 | o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support. | |
113 | o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites. | |
114 | o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types. | |
115 | o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types. | |
116 | o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support. | |
14023fe3 | 117 | o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations. |
4e74239d | 118 | |
579d5534 DSH |
119 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w: |
120 | ||
121 | o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110) | |
122 | ||
123 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v: | |
124 | ||
125 | o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 | |
126 | ||
13747c6f DSH |
127 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u: |
128 | ||
129 | o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 | |
130 | o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 | |
131 | o Various DTLS fixes. | |
132 | ||
133 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t: | |
134 | ||
135 | o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 | |
136 | ||
137 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s: | |
138 | ||
139 | o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 | |
140 | o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109 | |
141 | o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 | |
142 | o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 | |
143 | o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 | |
144 | ||
9770924f BM |
145 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r: |
146 | ||
147 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 | |
148 | ||
cea73f9d BM |
149 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q: |
150 | ||
151 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 | |
152 | o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 | |
153 | ||
154 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p: | |
155 | ||
156 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. | |
157 | ||
417a24db DSH |
158 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o: |
159 | ||
3cbb15ee | 160 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742. |
417a24db DSH |
161 | o Various DTLS fixes. |
162 | o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added. | |
163 | o Fix for no-rc4 compilation. | |
164 | o Chil ENGINE unload workaround. | |
165 | ||
166 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n: | |
167 | ||
168 | o CFB cipher definition fixes. | |
169 | o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. | |
170 | ||
5814d829 DSH |
171 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m: |
172 | ||
173 | o Cipher definition fixes. | |
174 | o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. | |
175 | o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. | |
176 | o SPKAC handling fixes. | |
177 | o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. | |
178 | o Compression memory leak fixed. | |
179 | o Compression session resumption fixed. | |
180 | o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. | |
181 | o Many fixes to DTLS handling. | |
182 | ||
183 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l: | |
184 | ||
185 | o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. | |
186 | ||
7f1c086b DSH |
187 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k: |
188 | ||
189 | o Fix various build issues. | |
190 | o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) | |
191 | ||
192 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j: | |
193 | ||
194 | o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) | |
195 | o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. | |
196 | ||
197 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h: | |
198 | ||
199 | o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. | |
200 | o Various precautionary measures. | |
201 | o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. | |
202 | o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. | |
203 | ||
11d01d37 LJ |
204 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g: |
205 | ||
7f1c086b | 206 | o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. |
11d01d37 LJ |
207 | o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. |
208 | ||
1948c7e6 BL |
209 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f: |
210 | ||
211 | o Add gcc 4.2 support. | |
212 | o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization | |
213 | for VC++ build. | |
214 | o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly | |
215 | selected at compile time. | |
216 | o DTLS improvements. | |
217 | o RFC4507bis support. | |
218 | o TLS Extensions support. | |
219 | ||
ac63b837 DSH |
220 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e: |
221 | ||
222 | o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. | |
223 | o RFC3779 support. | |
224 | ||
61118caa BM |
225 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d: |
226 | ||
227 | o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) | |
228 | o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) | |
229 | o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm | |
230 | ||
613e7d2a BM |
231 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c: |
232 | ||
233 | o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 | |
234 | o New cipher Camellia | |
235 | ||
236 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b: | |
237 | ||
238 | o Cipher string fixes. | |
239 | o Fixes for VC++ 2005. | |
240 | o Updated ECC cipher suite support. | |
241 | o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). | |
242 | o Zlib compression usage fixes. | |
243 | o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. | |
244 | o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. | |
245 | ||
72dce768 BM |
246 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a: |
247 | ||
b79aa05e | 248 | o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 |
72dce768 BM |
249 | o Extended Windows CE support |
250 | ||
7017605d RL |
251 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8: |
252 | ||
253 | o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to | |
254 | make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This | |
255 | is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. | |
256 | o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST | |
257 | curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. | |
258 | o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including | |
259 | the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. | |
260 | o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL | |
261 | configuration file. | |
262 | o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. | |
263 | o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. | |
264 | o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking | |
265 | programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate | |
266 | Makefile.shared. | |
c8310124 | 267 | o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. |
7017605d RL |
268 | o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules |
269 | automatically from specifically given directories. | |
270 | o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. | |
271 | o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. | |
272 | o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" | |
273 | mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker | |
274 | function and an argument. | |
275 | o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). | |
276 | o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 | |
277 | Nehemiah processors. | |
278 | o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. | |
279 | See RFC 1884, section 2.2. | |
280 | o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy | |
281 | constraints and name constraints. | |
282 | o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL | |
283 | configuration file. | |
284 | o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject | |
285 | in the 'openssl ca' index file. | |
286 | o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using | |
287 | 'openssl ca -selfsign'. | |
288 | o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with | |
289 | 'openssl ca -create_serial'. | |
290 | o New binary search functions with extended functionality. | |
291 | o New BUF functions. | |
292 | o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all | |
293 | sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and | |
294 | private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. | |
295 | This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing | |
296 | OpenSSL. | |
297 | o New control functions for the error stack. | |
298 | o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME | |
299 | processing. | |
300 | o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated | |
301 | functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the | |
302 | 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. | |
303 | o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other | |
304 | affected functions. | |
305 | o Improved platform support for PowerPC. | |
306 | o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). | |
307 | o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation | |
308 | of X.509 path validation. | |
309 | o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and | |
310 | AMD64. | |
311 | o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled | |
312 | by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new | |
313 | argument form 'enable-xxx'. | |
314 | o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to | |
315 | SHA-1. | |
613e7d2a | 316 | o Added support for DTLS. |
7017605d RL |
317 | o New BIGNUM blinding. |
318 | o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme | |
319 | o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. | |
c8310124 RL |
320 | o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. |
321 | o Added support for files larger than 2GB. | |
322 | o Added initial support for Win64. | |
323 | o Added alternate pkg-config files. | |
7017605d | 324 | |
ac63b837 DSH |
325 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m: |
326 | ||
327 | o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. | |
328 | o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. | |
329 | ||
61118caa BM |
330 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l: |
331 | ||
332 | o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) | |
333 | o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) | |
334 | ||
613e7d2a BM |
335 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k: |
336 | ||
337 | o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 | |
338 | ||
339 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j: | |
340 | ||
341 | o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. | |
342 | o Update Windows build system for FIPS. | |
343 | ||
344 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i: | |
345 | ||
346 | o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. | |
347 | ||
348 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h: | |
349 | ||
350 | o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 | |
351 | o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing | |
352 | o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations | |
353 | ||
36521f01 RL |
354 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g: |
355 | ||
356 | o More compilation issues fixed. | |
357 | o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. | |
358 | o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. | |
359 | o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. | |
360 | o More constification. | |
361 | o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). | |
362 | ||
363 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f: | |
364 | ||
365 | o Several compilation issues fixed. | |
366 | o Many memory allocation failure checks added. | |
367 | o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. | |
368 | o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. | |
369 | o Performance improvements. | |
370 | ||
03386677 DSH |
371 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e: |
372 | ||
373 | o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. | |
374 | o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. | |
375 | ||
376 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d: | |
377 | ||
378 | o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug | |
379 | o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() | |
380 | o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index | |
381 | o Multiple X509 verification fixes | |
382 | o Speed up HMAC and other operations | |
383 | ||
29902449 DSH |
384 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c: |
385 | ||
386 | o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. | |
387 | o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. | |
388 | o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. | |
389 | o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. | |
390 | ||
1774e22d RL |
391 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b: |
392 | ||
393 | o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of | |
394 | Bleichbacher's attack | |
395 | o Security: make RSA blinding default. | |
396 | o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. | |
397 | o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. | |
398 | o Build: shared library support fixes. | |
399 | o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. | |
400 | o Documentation: fixes and additions. | |
401 | ||
d8cbc935 RL |
402 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a: |
403 | ||
404 | o Security: Important security related bugfixes. | |
405 | o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. | |
406 | o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. | |
407 | o IA32 assembler enhancements. | |
408 | o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. | |
409 | o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. | |
410 | o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. | |
411 | o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. | |
412 | ||
3ba25ee8 | 413 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7: |
83f25717 RL |
414 | |
415 | o New library section OCSP. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
416 | o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. |
417 | o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. | |
418 | o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. | |
419 | o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. | |
420 | o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. | |
4dec4f64 BM |
421 | o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer |
422 | a separate distribution. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
423 | o New elliptic curve library section. |
424 | o New AES (Rijndael) library section. | |
1fc73fef | 425 | o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, |
29902449 | 426 | Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 |
9801fb61 RL |
427 | o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks |
428 | o Enhanced support for shared libraries. | |
29902449 | 429 | o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. |
9801fb61 RL |
430 | o Support for pkg-config. |
431 | o Lots of new manuals. | |
29902449 DSH |
432 | o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described |
433 | functions. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
434 | o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also |
435 | against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). | |
436 | Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the | |
437 | future). | |
ece0bdf1 BM |
438 | o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) |
439 | to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
440 | o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. |
441 | o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking | |
442 | and help optimizers. | |
443 | o Finally remove references to RSAref. | |
444 | o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. | |
445 | o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption | |
446 | Processing, IBM 4758. | |
9801fb61 | 447 | o A few new engines added in the demos area. |
e1f7ea25 | 448 | o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. |
e4fb4977 LJ |
449 | o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for |
450 | EGD style random sources at several locations. | |
451 | o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. | |
452 | o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. | |
453 | o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). | |
1fc73fef | 454 | Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. |
e4fb4977 LJ |
455 | o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. |
456 | o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. | |
ea4f109c | 457 | o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). |
e4fb4977 | 458 | |
29902449 DSH |
459 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k: |
460 | ||
461 | o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. | |
462 | o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. | |
463 | ||
138f970e RL |
464 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j: |
465 | ||
466 | o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of | |
467 | Bleichbacher's attack | |
468 | o Security: make RSA blinding default. | |
469 | o Build: shared library support fixes. | |
470 | ||
d8cbc935 RL |
471 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i: |
472 | ||
473 | o Important security related bugfixes. | |
474 | ||
9801fb61 RL |
475 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h: |
476 | ||
477 | o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. | |
478 | o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. | |
479 | o Better handling of SSL session caching. | |
480 | o Better comparison of distinguished names. | |
481 | o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. | |
482 | o Support assembler code with Borland C. | |
483 | o Fixes for length problems. | |
484 | o Fixes for uninitialised variables. | |
485 | o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. | |
486 | o Fixes for smaller building problems. | |
487 | o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. | |
488 | ||
36969082 RL |
489 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g: |
490 | ||
491 | o Important building fixes on Unix. | |
492 | ||
fbe792f0 RL |
493 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f: |
494 | ||
495 | o Various important bugfixes. | |
496 | ||
b218af2b LJ |
497 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e: |
498 | ||
499 | o Important security related bugfixes. | |
500 | o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. | |
501 | ||
151457ab | 502 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d: |
e4fb4977 LJ |
503 | |
504 | o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. | |
505 | o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. | |
4dec4f64 | 506 | |
151457ab | 507 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c: |
ae52ec98 BM |
508 | |
509 | o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. | |
510 | o BIGNUM library fixes. | |
ef5f6a08 RL |
511 | o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. |
512 | o Object identifiers corrected and added. | |
513 | o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. | |
514 | o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, | |
515 | MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. | |
a3790c0d | 516 | o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, |
ef5f6a08 RL |
517 | Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver |
518 | [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. | |
ae52ec98 | 519 | |
151457ab | 520 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b: |
4dec4f64 BM |
521 | |
522 | o Security fix: PRNG improvements. | |
523 | o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. | |
524 | o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's | |
525 | attack. | |
526 | o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. | |
527 | o Bug fix in "openssl enc". | |
528 | o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. | |
529 | o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. | |
530 | o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. | |
531 | o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). | |
532 | o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. | |
533 | o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. | |
534 | o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. | |
535 | o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. | |
83f25717 | 536 | |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
537 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a: |
538 | ||
539 | o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using | |
540 | environment variables when running as root. | |
541 | o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the | |
542 | possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly | |
543 | calculated signature. | |
544 | o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. | |
545 | o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the | |
546 | master secret in DH ciphersuites. | |
4fea8145 | 547 | o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. |
307bf4da RL |
548 | o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to |
549 | des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. | |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
550 | o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. |
551 | o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and | |
552 | memory checking routines. | |
5012158a | 553 | o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
554 | o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. |
555 | o Remove a few potential memory leaks. | |
556 | o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. | |
557 | o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. | |
558 | o More documentation. | |
4fea8145 | 559 | o New function BN_rand_range(). |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
560 | o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. |
561 | ||
4e87e05b DSH |
562 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: |
563 | ||
564 | o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. | |
565 | o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. | |
566 | o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. | |
567 | o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. | |
568 | o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. | |
b38d84d8 BM |
569 | o MD4 now included. |
570 | o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. | |
4dec4f64 | 571 | o Support for external crypto devices [1]. |
fda05b21 | 572 | o Enhanced EVP interface. |
b22bda21 | 573 | |
4dec4f64 BM |
574 | [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate |
575 | distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. | |
576 | ||
35a79ecb RL |
577 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: |
578 | ||
b7a81df4 | 579 | o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 |
35a79ecb RL |
580 | o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc |
581 | o Support of Linux/IA64 | |
b7a81df4 | 582 | o Assembler support for Mingw32 |
35a79ecb RL |
583 | o New 'rand' application |
584 | o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts | |
585 | ||
0c235249 UM |
586 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: |
587 | ||
90644dd7 | 588 | o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command |
0c235249 | 589 | o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application |
90644dd7 DSH |
590 | o Automation of 'req' application |
591 | o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows | |
592 | o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs | |
593 | o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions | |
ae1bb4e5 | 594 | o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources |
90644dd7 DSH |
595 | o New public key PEM format and options to handle it |
596 | o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities | |
597 | o Usable certificate chain verification | |
598 | o Certificate purpose checking | |
599 | o Certificate trust settings | |
600 | o Support of authority information access extension | |
601 | o Extensions in certificate requests | |
602 | o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines | |
ae1bb4e5 | 603 | o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets |
90644dd7 DSH |
604 | o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD |
605 | o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function | |
8bd5b794 BM |
606 | o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 |
607 | record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other | |
608 | data | |
90644dd7 | 609 | o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC |
8bd5b794 | 610 | o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug |
90644dd7 DSH |
611 | o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other |
612 | RSA functionality | |
07e6dbde BM |
613 | o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information |
614 | via a per-thread stack | |
615 | o PRNG robustness improved | |
4d524e10 | 616 | o EGD support |
6d9ca500 | 617 | o BIGNUM library bug fixes |
4d524e10 | 618 | o Faster DSA parameter generation |
74235cc9 UM |
619 | o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux |
620 | o Experimental MacOS support | |
0c235249 | 621 | |
ed7f60fb DSH |
622 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4: |
623 | ||
624 | o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used | |
c97cbcb3 BM |
625 | by several software packages and are more secure than the standard |
626 | form | |
627 | o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation | |
628 | o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data | |
629 | o Avoid various memory leaks | |
630 | o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O | |
631 | must be handled by the application (BIO pair) | |
ed7f60fb | 632 | |
8e8a8a5f | 633 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: |
9de649ff UM |
634 | o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism |
635 | o RSA OEAP related fixes | |
8e8a8a5f RE |
636 | o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate |
637 | o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs | |
638 | o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files | |
703126f0 | 639 | o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points |
a03dd7a6 | 640 | extension support |
703126f0 DSH |
641 | o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support |
642 | o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString | |
643 | o Full integration of PKCS#12 code | |
2cf9fcda | 644 | o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions |
b0759f87 | 645 | o Option to disable selected ciphers |
8e8a8a5f | 646 | |
d343d272 | 647 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: |
738769ff RE |
648 | o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption |
649 | o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case | |
650 | o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" | |
3b52c2e7 RE |
651 | o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher |
652 | o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA | |
653 | o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers | |
654 | o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) | |
655 | o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. | |
03e20a1a | 656 | o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) |
3b52c2e7 RE |
657 | o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions |
658 | o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
659 | o Overhauled Win32 builds | |
660 | o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library | |
661 | o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime | |
662 | o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs | |
663 | o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences | |
664 | o Overhauled Perl interface | |
665 | o Lots of source tree cleanups. | |
666 | o Lots of memory leak fixes. | |
667 | o Lots of bug fixes. | |
668 | ||
669 | Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c: | |
670 | o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches | |
671 | o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
672 | o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality | |
673 | o Extended Big Number (BN) library | |
674 | o Added RIPE MD160 message digest | |
675 | o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher | |
676 | o Extended ASN.1 parser routines | |
677 | o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS | |
678 | o Support for various new platforms | |
679 |