NEWS

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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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   8   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3:
   9       o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
  10       o RSA OEAP related fixes
  11       o Support for PKCS#5 v2.0 ASN1 PBES2 structures
  12       o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
  13       o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
  14       o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
  15       o Support for Thawte SXNet extensions
  16       o Full integration of PKCS#12 support
  17
  18   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b:
  19       o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
  20       o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
  21       o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
  22       o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
  23       o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
  24       o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
  25       o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
  26       o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
  27       o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
  28       o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
  29       o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
  30       o Overhauled Win32 builds
  31       o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
  32       o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
  33       o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
  34       o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
  35       o Overhauled Perl interface
  36       o Lots of source tree cleanups.
  37       o Lots of memory leak fixes.
  38       o Lots of bug fixes.
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  40   Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c:
  41       o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
  42       o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
  43       o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
  44       o Extended Big Number (BN) library
  45       o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
  46       o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
  47       o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
  48       o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
  49       o Support for various new platforms
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