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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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8e8a8a5f 8 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3:
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9 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
10 o RSA OEAP related fixes
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11 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
12 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
13 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
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14 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
15 extension support
16 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
17 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
18 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
2cf9fcda 19 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
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d343d272 21 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b:
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22 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
23 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
24 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
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25 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
26 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
27 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
28 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
29 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
03e20a1a 30 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
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31 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
32 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
33 o Overhauled Win32 builds
34 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
35 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
36 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
37 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
38 o Overhauled Perl interface
39 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
40 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
41 o Lots of bug fixes.
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43 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c:
44 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
45 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
46 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
47 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
48 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
49 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
50 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
51 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
52 o Support for various new platforms
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