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 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4:
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  10       o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
  11         by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
  12         form
  13       o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
  14       o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
  15       o Avoid various memory leaks
  16       o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
  17         must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
  18
  19   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3:
  20       o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
  21       o RSA OEAP related fixes
  22       o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
  23       o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
  24       o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
  25       o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
  26         extension support
  27       o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
  28       o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
  29       o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
  30       o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
  31       o Option to disable selected ciphers
  32
  33   Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b:
  34       o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
  35       o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
  36       o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
  37       o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
  38       o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
  39       o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
  40       o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
  41       o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
  42       o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
  43       o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
  44       o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
  45       o Overhauled Win32 builds
  46       o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
  47       o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
  48       o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
  49       o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
  50       o Overhauled Perl interface
  51       o Lots of source tree cleanups.
  52       o Lots of memory leak fixes.
  53       o Lots of bug fixes.
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  55   Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c:
  56       o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
  57       o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
  58       o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
  59       o Extended Big Number (BN) library
  60       o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
  61       o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher
  62       o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
  63       o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS
  64       o Support for various new platforms
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