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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 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6: |
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10 | o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. | |
11 | o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. | |
12 | o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. | |
13 | o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. | |
14 | o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. | |
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16 | ||
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17 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a: |
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b7a81df4 | 19 | o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 |
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20 | o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc |
21 | o Support of Linux/IA64 | |
b7a81df4 | 22 | o Assembler support for Mingw32 |
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23 | o New 'rand' application |
24 | o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts | |
25 | ||
0c235249 UM |
26 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5: |
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90644dd7 | 28 | o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command |
0c235249 | 29 | o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application |
90644dd7 DSH |
30 | o Automation of 'req' application |
31 | o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows | |
32 | o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs | |
33 | o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions | |
ae1bb4e5 | 34 | o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources |
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35 | o New public key PEM format and options to handle it |
36 | o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities | |
37 | o Usable certificate chain verification | |
38 | o Certificate purpose checking | |
39 | o Certificate trust settings | |
40 | o Support of authority information access extension | |
41 | o Extensions in certificate requests | |
42 | o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines | |
ae1bb4e5 | 43 | o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets |
90644dd7 DSH |
44 | o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD |
45 | o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function | |
8bd5b794 BM |
46 | o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 |
47 | record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other | |
48 | data | |
90644dd7 | 49 | o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC |
8bd5b794 | 50 | o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug |
90644dd7 DSH |
51 | o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other |
52 | RSA functionality | |
07e6dbde BM |
53 | o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information |
54 | via a per-thread stack | |
55 | o PRNG robustness improved | |
4d524e10 | 56 | o EGD support |
6d9ca500 | 57 | o BIGNUM library bug fixes |
4d524e10 | 58 | o Faster DSA parameter generation |
74235cc9 UM |
59 | o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux |
60 | o Experimental MacOS support | |
0c235249 | 61 | |
ed7f60fb DSH |
62 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4: |
63 | ||
64 | o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used | |
c97cbcb3 BM |
65 | by several software packages and are more secure than the standard |
66 | form | |
67 | o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation | |
68 | o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data | |
69 | o Avoid various memory leaks | |
70 | o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O | |
71 | must be handled by the application (BIO pair) | |
ed7f60fb | 72 | |
8e8a8a5f | 73 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3: |
9de649ff UM |
74 | o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism |
75 | o RSA OEAP related fixes | |
8e8a8a5f RE |
76 | o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate |
77 | o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs | |
78 | o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files | |
703126f0 | 79 | o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points |
a03dd7a6 | 80 | extension support |
703126f0 DSH |
81 | o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support |
82 | o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString | |
83 | o Full integration of PKCS#12 code | |
2cf9fcda | 84 | o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions |
b0759f87 | 85 | o Option to disable selected ciphers |
8e8a8a5f | 86 | |
d343d272 | 87 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b: |
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88 | o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption |
89 | o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case | |
90 | o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" | |
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91 | o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher |
92 | o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA | |
93 | o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers | |
94 | o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) | |
95 | o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. | |
03e20a1a | 96 | o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) |
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97 | o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions |
98 | o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
99 | o Overhauled Win32 builds | |
100 | o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library | |
101 | o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime | |
102 | o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs | |
103 | o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences | |
104 | o Overhauled Perl interface | |
105 | o Lots of source tree cleanups. | |
106 | o Lots of memory leak fixes. | |
107 | o Lots of bug fixes. | |
108 | ||
109 | Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c: | |
110 | o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches | |
111 | o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
112 | o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality | |
113 | o Extended Big Number (BN) library | |
114 | o Added RIPE MD160 message digest | |
115 | o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher | |
116 | o Extended ASN.1 parser routines | |
117 | o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS | |
118 | o Support for various new platforms | |
119 |