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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
8 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
9
10 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
11 o Support for DTLS 1.2
12 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
13 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
14 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
15 o TLS Brainpool support.
16 o ALPN support.
17 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
18
19 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
20
21 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
22
23 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
24
25 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
26 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
27 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
28 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
29 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
30 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
31 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
32 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
33
34 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
35
36 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
37 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
38 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
39 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
40
41 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
42
43 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
44 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
45 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
46 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
47 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
48 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
49 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
50 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
51 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
52
53 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
54
55 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
56 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
57 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
58 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
59 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
60
61 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
62
63 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
64 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
65 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
66
67 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
68
69 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
70 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
71 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
72 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
73
74 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
75
76 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
77
78 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
79
80 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
81 o Include the fips configuration module.
82 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
83 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
84 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
85
86 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
87
88 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
89 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
90
91 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
92
93 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
94 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
95 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
96
97 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
98
99 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
100 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
101 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
102
103 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
104
105 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
106 o SCTP support.
107 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
108 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
109 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
110 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
111 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
112 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
113 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
114 o SRP support.
115
116 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0j and OpenSSL 1.0.0k [5 Feb 2013]:
117
118 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
119 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
120
121 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0i and OpenSSL 1.0.0j [10 May 2012]:
122
123 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
124
125 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.0i [19 Apr 2012]:
126
127 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
128
129 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
130
131 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
132 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
133 o Various DTLS fixes.
134
135 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
136
137 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
138
139 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
140
141 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
142 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
143 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
144 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
145 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
146
147 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
148
149 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
150 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
151 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
152 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
153 o Various DTLS fixes.
154
155 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
156
157 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
158
159 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
160
161 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
162 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
163 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
164 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
165 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
166
167 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
168
169 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
170 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
171 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
172
173 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
174
175 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
176 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
177
178 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
179
180 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
181 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
182 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
183 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
184 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
185 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
186 o ASN1 printing support.
187 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
188 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
189 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
190 o New generalised public key API utilities.
191 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
192 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
193 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
194 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
195 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
196 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
197 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
198 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
199 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
200
201 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y [5 Feb 2013]:
202
203 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
204 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
205
206 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x [10 May 2012]:
207
208 o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
209
210 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w [23 Apr 2012]:
211
212 o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110)
213
214 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v [19 Apr 2012]:
215
216 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
217
218 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u [12 Mar 2012]:
219
220 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
221 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
222 o Various DTLS fixes.
223
224 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t [18 Jan 2012]:
225
226 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
227
228 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s [4 Jan 2012]:
229
230 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
231 o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109
232 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
233 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
234 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
235
236 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r [8 Feb 2011]:
237
238 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
239
240 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q [2 Dec 2010]:
241
242 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
243 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
244
245 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p [16 Nov 2010]:
246
247 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
248
249 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o [1 Jun 2010]:
250
251 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742.
252 o Various DTLS fixes.
253 o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added.
254 o Fix for no-rc4 compilation.
255 o Chil ENGINE unload workaround.
256
257 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
258
259 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
260 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
261
262 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
263
264 o Cipher definition fixes.
265 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
266 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
267 o SPKAC handling fixes.
268 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
269 o Compression memory leak fixed.
270 o Compression session resumption fixed.
271 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
272 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
273
274 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
275
276 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
277
278 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
279
280 o Fix various build issues.
281 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
282
283 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
284
285 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
286 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
287
288 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
289
290 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
291 o Various precautionary measures.
292 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
293 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
294
295 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
296
297 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
298 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
299
300 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
301
302 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
303 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization
304 for VC++ build.
305 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
306 selected at compile time.
307 o DTLS improvements.
308 o RFC4507bis support.
309 o TLS Extensions support.
310
311 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
312
313 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
314 o RFC3779 support.
315
316 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
317
318 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
319 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
320 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
321
322 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
323
324 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
325 o New cipher Camellia
326
327 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
328
329 o Cipher string fixes.
330 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
331 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
332 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
333 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
334 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
335 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
336
337 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
338
339 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
340 o Extended Windows CE support
341
342 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
343
344 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
345 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
346 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
347 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
348 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
349 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
350 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
351 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
352 configuration file.
353 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
354 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
355 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
356 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
357 Makefile.shared.
358 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
359 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
360 automatically from specifically given directories.
361 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
362 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
363 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
364 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
365 function and an argument.
366 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
367 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
368 Nehemiah processors.
369 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
370 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
371 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
372 constraints and name constraints.
373 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
374 configuration file.
375 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
376 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
377 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
378 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
379 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
380 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
381 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
382 o New BUF functions.
383 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
384 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
385 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
386 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing
387 OpenSSL.
388 o New control functions for the error stack.
389 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
390 processing.
391 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
392 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
393 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
394 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
395 affected functions.
396 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
397 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
398 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation
399 of X.509 path validation.
400 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
401 AMD64.
402 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
403 by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new
404 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
405 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
406 SHA-1.
407 o Added support for DTLS.
408 o New BIGNUM blinding.
409 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
410 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
411 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
412 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
413 o Added initial support for Win64.
414 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
415
416 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
417
418 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
419 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
420
421 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
422
423 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
424 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
425
426 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
427
428 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
429
430 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
431
432 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
433 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
434
435 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
436
437 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
438
439 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
440
441 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
442 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
443 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
444
445 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
446
447 o More compilation issues fixed.
448 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
449 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
450 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
451 o More constification.
452 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
453
454 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
455
456 o Several compilation issues fixed.
457 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
458 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
459 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
460 o Performance improvements.
461
462 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
463
464 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
465 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
466
467 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
468
469 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
470 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
471 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
472 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
473 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
474
475 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
476
477 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
478 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
479 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
480 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
481
482 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
483
484 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
485 Bleichbacher's attack
486 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
487 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
488 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
489 o Build: shared library support fixes.
490 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
491 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
492
493 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
494
495 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
496 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
497 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
498 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
499 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
500 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
501 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
502 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
503
504 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
505
506 o New library section OCSP.
507 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
508 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
509 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
510 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
511 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
512 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
513 a separate distribution.
514 o New elliptic curve library section.
515 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
516 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
517 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
518 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
519 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
520 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
521 o Support for pkg-config.
522 o Lots of new manuals.
523 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
524 functions.
525 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
526 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
527 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
528 future).
529 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
530 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
531 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
532 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
533 and help optimizers.
534 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
535 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
536 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
537 Processing, IBM 4758.
538 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
539 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
540 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
541 EGD style random sources at several locations.
542 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
543 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
544 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
545 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
546 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
547 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
548 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
549
550 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
551
552 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
553 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
554
555 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
556
557 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
558 Bleichbacher's attack
559 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
560 o Build: shared library support fixes.
561
562 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
563
564 o Important security related bugfixes.
565
566 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
567
568 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
569 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
570 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
571 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
572 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
573 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
574 o Fixes for length problems.
575 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
576 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
577 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
578 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
579
580 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
581
582 o Important building fixes on Unix.
583
584 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
585
586 o Various important bugfixes.
587
588 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
589
590 o Important security related bugfixes.
591 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
592
593 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
594
595 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
596 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
597
598 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
599
600 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
601 o BIGNUM library fixes.
602 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
603 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
604 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
605 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
606 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
607 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
608 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
609 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
610
611 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
612
613 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
614 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
615 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
616 attack.
617 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
618 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
619 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
620 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
621 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
622 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
623 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
624 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
625 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
626 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
627
628 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
629
630 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
631 environment variables when running as root.
632 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
633 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
634 calculated signature.
635 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
636 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
637 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
638 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
639 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
640 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
641 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
642 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
643 memory checking routines.
644 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
645 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
646 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
647 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
648 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
649 o More documentation.
650 o New function BN_rand_range().
651 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
652
653 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
654
655 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
656 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
657 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
658 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
659 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
660 o MD4 now included.
661 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
662 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
663 o Enhanced EVP interface.
664
665 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
666 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
667
668 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
669
670 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
671 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
672 o Support of Linux/IA64
673 o Assembler support for Mingw32
674 o New 'rand' application
675 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
676
677 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
678
679 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
680 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
681 o Automation of 'req' application
682 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
683 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
684 o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions
685 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
686 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
687 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
688 o Usable certificate chain verification
689 o Certificate purpose checking
690 o Certificate trust settings
691 o Support of authority information access extension
692 o Extensions in certificate requests
693 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
694 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
695 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
696 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
697 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
698 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
699 data
700 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
701 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
702 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
703 RSA functionality
704 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
705 via a per-thread stack
706 o PRNG robustness improved
707 o EGD support
708 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
709 o Faster DSA parameter generation
710 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
711 o Experimental MacOS support
712
713 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
714
715 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
716 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
717 form
718 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
719 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
720 o Avoid various memory leaks
721 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
722 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
723
724 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
725 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
726 o RSA OEAP related fixes
727 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
728 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
729 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
730 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
731 extension support
732 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
733 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
734 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
735 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
736 o Option to disable selected ciphers
737
738 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
739 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
740 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
741 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
742 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
743 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
744 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
745 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
746 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
747 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
748 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
749 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
750 o Overhauled Win32 builds
751 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
752 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
753 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
754 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
755 o Overhauled Perl interface
756 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
757 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
758 o Lots of bug fixes.
759
760 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
761 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
762 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
763 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
764 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
765 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
766 o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
767 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
768 o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
769 o Support for various new platforms
770