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2 | NEWS | |
3 | ==== | |
4 | ||
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 | ||
53ce5647 | 8 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8zb and OpenSSL 0.9.8zc [under development]: |
4ff07f4c | 9 | |
53ce5647 MC |
10 | o Fix for CVE-2014-3513 |
11 | o Fix for CVE-2014-3567 | |
12 | o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability) | |
13 | o Fix for CVE-2014-3568 | |
4ff07f4c | 14 | |
1c5f396d | 15 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8za and OpenSSL 0.9.8zb [6 Aug 2014]: |
4a1190be | 16 | |
9fcaaef3 MC |
17 | o Fix for CVE-2014-3510 |
18 | o Fix for CVE-2014-3507 | |
19 | o Fix for CVE-2014-3506 | |
20 | o Fix for CVE-2014-3505 | |
21 | o Fix for CVE-2014-3508 | |
4a1190be | 22 | |
60268907 | 23 | Known issues in OpenSSL 0.9.8za: |
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24 | |
25 | o Compilation failure of s3_pkt.c on some platforms due to missing | |
26 | <limits.h> include. Fixed in 0.9.8zb-dev. | |
27 | o FIPS capable link failure with missing symbol BN_consttime_swap. | |
28 | Fixed in 0.9.8zb-dev. Workaround is to compile with no-ec: the EC | |
90aef443 | 29 | algorithms are not FIPS approved in OpenSSL 0.9.8 anyway. |
810d2c7f | 30 | |
047ec5d1 | 31 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8y and OpenSSL 0.9.8za [5 Jun 2014]: |
79f57768 | 32 | |
bb598893 DSH |
33 | o Fix for CVE-2014-0224 |
34 | o Fix for CVE-2014-0221 | |
35 | o Fix for CVE-2014-0195 | |
36 | o Fix for CVE-2014-3470 | |
79f57768 | 37 | o Fix for CVE-2014-0076 |
bb598893 | 38 | o Fix for CVE-2010-5298 |
79f57768 DSH |
39 | o Fix to TLS alert handling. |
40 | ||
42682160 | 41 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8x and OpenSSL 0.9.8y [5 Feb 2013]: |
32619893 | 42 | |
031cbecf | 43 | o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169 |
32619893 DSH |
44 | o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166 |
45 | ||
42682160 | 46 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8w and OpenSSL 0.9.8x [10 May 2012]: |
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47 | |
48 | o Fix DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333 | |
49 | ||
42682160 | 50 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8v and OpenSSL 0.9.8w [23 Apr 2012]: |
391ac370 DSH |
51 | |
52 | o Fix for CVE-2012-2131 (corrected fix for 0.9.8 and CVE-2012-2110) | |
53 | ||
42682160 | 54 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8u and OpenSSL 0.9.8v [19 Apr 2012]: |
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55 | |
56 | o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110 | |
57 | ||
42682160 | 58 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8t and OpenSSL 0.9.8u [12 Mar 2012]: |
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59 | |
60 | o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884 | |
61 | o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619 | |
62 | o Various DTLS fixes. | |
63 | ||
42682160 | 64 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8s and OpenSSL 0.9.8t [18 Jan 2012]: |
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65 | |
66 | o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050 | |
67 | ||
42682160 | 68 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8r and OpenSSL 0.9.8s [4 Jan 2012]: |
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69 | |
70 | o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108 | |
71 | o Fix policy check double free error CVE-2011-4109 | |
72 | o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576 | |
73 | o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619 | |
74 | o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577 | |
75 | ||
42682160 | 76 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSL 0.9.8r [8 Feb 2011]: |
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77 | |
78 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014 | |
79 | ||
42682160 | 80 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 0.9.8q [2 Dec 2010]: |
1948f9e0 | 81 | |
7890b562 | 82 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180 |
1948f9e0 | 83 | o Fix for CVE-2010-4252 |
1948f9e0 | 84 | |
42682160 | 85 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8o and OpenSSL 0.9.8p [16 Nov 2010]: |
2ae47ddb DSH |
86 | |
87 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864. | |
88 | ||
42682160 | 89 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 0.9.8o [1 Jun 2010]: |
3416d119 | 90 | |
22872a53 | 91 | o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-0742. |
3416d119 DSH |
92 | o Various DTLS fixes. |
93 | o Recognise SHA2 certificates if only SSL algorithms added. | |
94 | o Fix for no-rc4 compilation. | |
95 | o Chil ENGINE unload workaround. | |
96 | ||
42682160 | 97 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]: |
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98 | |
99 | o CFB cipher definition fixes. | |
100 | o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433. | |
101 | ||
42682160 | 102 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]: |
8b8a2928 | 103 | |
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104 | o Cipher definition fixes. |
105 | o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions. | |
8b8a2928 DSH |
106 | o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables. |
107 | o SPKAC handling fixes. | |
68be98d1 | 108 | o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension. |
8b8a2928 DSH |
109 | o Compression memory leak fixed. |
110 | o Compression session resumption fixed. | |
111 | o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes. | |
112 | o Many fixes to DTLS handling. | |
113 | ||
42682160 | 114 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]: |
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115 | |
116 | o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation. | |
117 | ||
42682160 | 118 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]: |
e10051ef DSH |
119 | |
120 | o Fix various build issues. | |
121 | o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789) | |
122 | ||
42682160 | 123 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]: |
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124 | |
125 | o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077) | |
126 | o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code. | |
127 | ||
42682160 | 128 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]: |
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129 | |
130 | o CryptoAPI ENGINE support. | |
131 | o Various precautionary measures. | |
132 | o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation. | |
133 | o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files. | |
134 | ||
42682160 | 135 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]: |
32f1f622 | 136 | |
b7e7aa00 | 137 | o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8. |
32f1f622 LJ |
138 | o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f. |
139 | ||
42682160 | 140 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]: |
29c0866b | 141 | |
272f9f3d | 142 | o Add gcc 4.2 support. |
29c0866b DSH |
143 | o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly lanugauge optimization |
144 | for VC++ build. | |
145 | o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly | |
146 | selected at compile time. | |
dd002667 BL |
147 | o DTLS improvements. |
148 | o RFC4507bis support. | |
149 | o TLS Extensions support. | |
29c0866b | 150 | |
42682160 | 151 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]: |
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152 | |
153 | o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. | |
154 | o RFC3779 support. | |
155 | ||
42682160 | 156 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]: |
951dfbb1 MC |
157 | |
158 | o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) | |
159 | o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) | |
160 | o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm | |
161 | ||
42682160 | 162 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]: |
df20b6e7 MC |
163 | |
164 | o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 | |
165 | o New cipher Camellia | |
166 | ||
42682160 | 167 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]: |
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168 | |
169 | o Cipher string fixes. | |
170 | o Fixes for VC++ 2005. | |
171 | o Updated ECC cipher suite support. | |
172 | o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free(). | |
173 | o Zlib compression usage fixes. | |
174 | o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32. | |
175 | o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32. | |
176 | ||
42682160 | 177 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]: |
64932f9e | 178 | |
df20b6e7 | 179 | o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969 |
64932f9e MC |
180 | o Extended Windows CE support |
181 | ||
42682160 | 182 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]: |
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183 | |
184 | o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to | |
185 | make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This | |
186 | is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library. | |
187 | o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST | |
188 | curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions. | |
189 | o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including | |
190 | the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE. | |
191 | o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL | |
192 | configuration file. | |
193 | o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding. | |
194 | o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files. | |
195 | o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking | |
196 | programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate | |
197 | Makefile.shared. | |
1d01c9d4 | 198 | o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another. |
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199 | o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules |
200 | automatically from specifically given directories. | |
201 | o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair. | |
202 | o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful. | |
203 | o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress" | |
204 | mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker | |
205 | function and an argument. | |
206 | o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation). | |
207 | o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3 | |
208 | Nehemiah processors. | |
209 | o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions. | |
210 | See RFC 1884, section 2.2. | |
211 | o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy | |
212 | constraints and name constraints. | |
213 | o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL | |
214 | configuration file. | |
215 | o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject | |
216 | in the 'openssl ca' index file. | |
217 | o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using | |
218 | 'openssl ca -selfsign'. | |
219 | o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with | |
220 | 'openssl ca -create_serial'. | |
221 | o New binary search functions with extended functionality. | |
222 | o New BUF functions. | |
223 | o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all | |
224 | sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and | |
225 | private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs. | |
226 | This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused withing | |
227 | OpenSSL. | |
228 | o New control functions for the error stack. | |
229 | o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME | |
230 | processing. | |
231 | o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated | |
232 | functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the | |
233 | 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts. | |
234 | o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other | |
235 | affected functions. | |
236 | o Improved platform support for PowerPC. | |
237 | o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512). | |
238 | o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parametrisation | |
239 | of X.509 path validation. | |
240 | o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and | |
241 | AMD64. | |
242 | o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled | |
243 | by default. Those can be explicitely enabled with the new | |
244 | argument form 'enable-xxx'. | |
245 | o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to | |
246 | SHA-1. | |
b2d27e37 | 247 | o Added support for DTLS. |
e0ee5ea9 | 248 | o New BIGNUM blinding. |
b257c152 RL |
249 | o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme |
250 | o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding. | |
b2d27e37 RL |
251 | o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare. |
252 | o Added support for files larger than 2GB. | |
1d01c9d4 RL |
253 | o Added initial support for Win64. |
254 | o Added alternate pkg-config files. | |
e0ee5ea9 | 255 | |
42682160 | 256 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]: |
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257 | |
258 | o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking. | |
259 | o Various ciphersuite selection fixes. | |
260 | ||
42682160 | 261 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]: |
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262 | |
263 | o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940) | |
264 | o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343) | |
265 | ||
42682160 | 266 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]: |
df20b6e7 MC |
267 | |
268 | o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339 | |
269 | ||
42682160 | 270 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]: |
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271 | |
272 | o Visual C++ 2005 fixes. | |
273 | o Update Windows build system for FIPS. | |
274 | ||
42682160 | 275 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]: |
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276 | |
277 | o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build. | |
278 | ||
42682160 | 279 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]: |
df22f59f | 280 | |
df20b6e7 | 281 | o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969 |
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282 | o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing |
283 | o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations | |
284 | ||
42682160 | 285 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]: |
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286 | |
287 | o More compilation issues fixed. | |
288 | o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API. | |
289 | o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin. | |
290 | o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module. | |
291 | o More constification. | |
292 | o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820). | |
293 | ||
42682160 | 294 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]: |
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295 | |
296 | o Several compilation issues fixed. | |
297 | o Many memory allocation failure checks added. | |
298 | o Improved comparison of X509 Name type. | |
299 | o Mandatory basic checks on certificates. | |
300 | o Performance improvements. | |
301 | ||
42682160 | 302 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]: |
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303 | |
304 | o Fix race condition in CRL checking code. | |
305 | o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code. | |
306 | ||
42682160 | 307 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]: |
03386677 DSH |
308 | |
309 | o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug | |
310 | o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec() | |
311 | o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index | |
312 | o Multiple X509 verification fixes | |
313 | o Speed up HMAC and other operations | |
314 | ||
42682160 | 315 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]: |
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316 | |
317 | o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. | |
318 | o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility. | |
319 | o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code. | |
320 | o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. | |
321 | ||
42682160 | 322 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]: |
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323 | |
324 | o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of | |
325 | Bleichbacher's attack | |
326 | o Security: make RSA blinding default. | |
327 | o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support. | |
328 | o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc. | |
329 | o Build: shared library support fixes. | |
330 | o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly. | |
331 | o Documentation: fixes and additions. | |
332 | ||
42682160 | 333 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]: |
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334 | |
335 | o Security: Important security related bugfixes. | |
336 | o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos. | |
337 | o Can be built without the ENGINE framework. | |
338 | o IA32 assembler enhancements. | |
339 | o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64. | |
340 | o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly. | |
341 | o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building. | |
342 | o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected. | |
343 | ||
42682160 | 344 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]: |
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345 | |
346 | o New library section OCSP. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
347 | o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code. |
348 | o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility. | |
349 | o Extension copying in 'ca' utility. | |
350 | o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility. | |
351 | o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8. | |
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352 | o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer |
353 | a separate distribution. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
354 | o New elliptic curve library section. |
355 | o New AES (Rijndael) library section. | |
1fc73fef | 356 | o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit, |
29902449 | 357 | Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9 |
9801fb61 RL |
358 | o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks |
359 | o Enhanced support for shared libraries. | |
29902449 | 360 | o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested. |
9801fb61 RL |
361 | o Support for pkg-config. |
362 | o Lots of new manuals. | |
29902449 DSH |
363 | o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described |
364 | functions. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
365 | o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also |
366 | against libdes providing similar functions having the same name). | |
367 | Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the | |
368 | future). | |
ece0bdf1 BM |
369 | o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine) |
370 | to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers. | |
e4fb4977 LJ |
371 | o NCONF: new configuration handling routines. |
372 | o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking | |
373 | and help optimizers. | |
374 | o Finally remove references to RSAref. | |
375 | o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code. | |
376 | o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption | |
377 | Processing, IBM 4758. | |
9801fb61 | 378 | o A few new engines added in the demos area. |
e1f7ea25 | 379 | o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table. |
e4fb4977 LJ |
380 | o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for |
381 | EGD style random sources at several locations. | |
382 | o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference. | |
383 | o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids. | |
384 | o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712). | |
1fc73fef | 385 | Only supports MIT Kerberos for now. |
e4fb4977 LJ |
386 | o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions. |
387 | o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages. | |
ea4f109c | 388 | o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268). |
e4fb4977 | 389 | |
42682160 | 390 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]: |
29902449 DSH |
391 | |
392 | o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs. | |
393 | o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates. | |
394 | ||
42682160 | 395 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]: |
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396 | |
397 | o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of | |
398 | Bleichbacher's attack | |
399 | o Security: make RSA blinding default. | |
400 | o Build: shared library support fixes. | |
401 | ||
42682160 | 402 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]: |
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403 | |
404 | o Important security related bugfixes. | |
405 | ||
42682160 | 406 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]: |
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407 | |
408 | o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX. | |
409 | o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes. | |
410 | o Better handling of SSL session caching. | |
411 | o Better comparison of distinguished names. | |
412 | o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment. | |
413 | o Support assembler code with Borland C. | |
414 | o Fixes for length problems. | |
415 | o Fixes for uninitialised variables. | |
416 | o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions. | |
417 | o Fixes for smaller building problems. | |
418 | o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents. | |
419 | ||
42682160 | 420 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]: |
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421 | |
422 | o Important building fixes on Unix. | |
423 | ||
42682160 | 424 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]: |
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425 | |
426 | o Various important bugfixes. | |
427 | ||
42682160 | 428 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]: |
b218af2b LJ |
429 | |
430 | o Important security related bugfixes. | |
431 | o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. | |
432 | ||
42682160 | 433 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]: |
e4fb4977 LJ |
434 | |
435 | o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. | |
436 | o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators. | |
4dec4f64 | 437 | |
42682160 | 438 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]: |
ae52ec98 BM |
439 | |
440 | o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes. | |
441 | o BIGNUM library fixes. | |
ef5f6a08 RL |
442 | o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes. |
443 | o Object identifiers corrected and added. | |
444 | o Add assembler BN routines for IA64. | |
445 | o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8, | |
446 | MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX. | |
a3790c0d | 447 | o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare, |
ef5f6a08 RL |
448 | Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver |
449 | [in 0.9.6c-engine release]. | |
ae52ec98 | 450 | |
42682160 | 451 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]: |
4dec4f64 BM |
452 | |
453 | o Security fix: PRNG improvements. | |
454 | o Security fix: RSA OAEP check. | |
455 | o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's | |
456 | attack. | |
457 | o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM. | |
458 | o Bug fix in "openssl enc". | |
459 | o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine. | |
460 | o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification. | |
461 | o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe. | |
462 | o Bug fix in RAND_file_name(). | |
463 | o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings. | |
464 | o Bug fix in blowfish EVP. | |
465 | o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter. | |
466 | o Compatibility fixes in some scripts. | |
83f25717 | 467 | |
42682160 | 468 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]: |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
469 | |
470 | o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using | |
471 | environment variables when running as root. | |
472 | o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the | |
473 | possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly | |
474 | calculated signature. | |
475 | o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack. | |
476 | o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the | |
477 | master secret in DH ciphersuites. | |
4fea8145 | 478 | o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems. |
307bf4da RL |
479 | o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to |
480 | des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc. | |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
481 | o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix. |
482 | o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and | |
483 | memory checking routines. | |
5012158a | 484 | o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments. |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
485 | o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications. |
486 | o Remove a few potential memory leaks. | |
487 | o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines. | |
488 | o Shared library support has been reworked for generality. | |
489 | o More documentation. | |
4fea8145 | 490 | o New function BN_rand_range(). |
7cdd2aa1 RL |
491 | o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server. |
492 | ||
42682160 | 493 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]: |
4e87e05b DSH |
494 | |
495 | o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries. | |
496 | o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers. | |
497 | o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application. | |
498 | o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application. | |
499 | o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility. | |
b38d84d8 BM |
500 | o MD4 now included. |
501 | o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check. | |
4dec4f64 | 502 | o Support for external crypto devices [1]. |
fda05b21 | 503 | o Enhanced EVP interface. |
b22bda21 | 504 | |
4dec4f64 BM |
505 | [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate |
506 | distribution. See the file README.ENGINE. | |
507 | ||
42682160 | 508 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]: |
35a79ecb | 509 | |
b7a81df4 | 510 | o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8 |
35a79ecb RL |
511 | o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc |
512 | o Support of Linux/IA64 | |
b7a81df4 | 513 | o Assembler support for Mingw32 |
35a79ecb RL |
514 | o New 'rand' application |
515 | o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts | |
516 | ||
42682160 | 517 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]: |
0c235249 | 518 | |
90644dd7 | 519 | o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command |
0c235249 | 520 | o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application |
90644dd7 DSH |
521 | o Automation of 'req' application |
522 | o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows | |
523 | o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs | |
524 | o New SPKAC command line utilty and associated library functions | |
ae1bb4e5 | 525 | o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources |
90644dd7 DSH |
526 | o New public key PEM format and options to handle it |
527 | o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities | |
528 | o Usable certificate chain verification | |
529 | o Certificate purpose checking | |
530 | o Certificate trust settings | |
531 | o Support of authority information access extension | |
532 | o Extensions in certificate requests | |
533 | o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines | |
ae1bb4e5 | 534 | o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets |
90644dd7 DSH |
535 | o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD |
536 | o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function | |
8bd5b794 BM |
537 | o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0 |
538 | record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other | |
539 | data | |
90644dd7 | 540 | o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC |
8bd5b794 | 541 | o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug |
90644dd7 DSH |
542 | o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other |
543 | RSA functionality | |
07e6dbde BM |
544 | o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information |
545 | via a per-thread stack | |
546 | o PRNG robustness improved | |
4d524e10 | 547 | o EGD support |
6d9ca500 | 548 | o BIGNUM library bug fixes |
4d524e10 | 549 | o Faster DSA parameter generation |
74235cc9 UM |
550 | o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux |
551 | o Experimental MacOS support | |
0c235249 | 552 | |
42682160 | 553 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]: |
ed7f60fb DSH |
554 | |
555 | o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used | |
c97cbcb3 BM |
556 | by several software packages and are more secure than the standard |
557 | form | |
558 | o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation | |
559 | o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data | |
560 | o Avoid various memory leaks | |
561 | o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O | |
562 | must be handled by the application (BIO pair) | |
ed7f60fb | 563 | |
42682160 | 564 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]: |
9de649ff UM |
565 | o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism |
566 | o RSA OEAP related fixes | |
8e8a8a5f RE |
567 | o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate |
568 | o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs | |
569 | o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files | |
703126f0 | 570 | o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points |
a03dd7a6 | 571 | extension support |
703126f0 DSH |
572 | o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support |
573 | o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString | |
574 | o Full integration of PKCS#12 code | |
2cf9fcda | 575 | o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions |
b0759f87 | 576 | o Option to disable selected ciphers |
8e8a8a5f | 577 | |
42682160 | 578 | Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]: |
738769ff RE |
579 | o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption |
580 | o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case | |
581 | o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers" | |
3b52c2e7 RE |
582 | o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher |
583 | o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA | |
584 | o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers | |
585 | o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO) | |
586 | o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys. | |
03e20a1a | 587 | o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) |
3b52c2e7 RE |
588 | o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions |
589 | o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
590 | o Overhauled Win32 builds | |
591 | o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library | |
592 | o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime | |
593 | o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs | |
594 | o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences | |
595 | o Overhauled Perl interface | |
596 | o Lots of source tree cleanups. | |
597 | o Lots of memory leak fixes. | |
598 | o Lots of bug fixes. | |
599 | ||
42682160 | 600 | Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]: |
3b52c2e7 RE |
601 | o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches |
602 | o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer | |
603 | o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality | |
604 | o Extended Big Number (BN) library | |
605 | o Added RIPE MD160 message digest | |
606 | o Addeed support for RC2/64bit cipher | |
607 | o Extended ASN.1 parser routines | |
608 | o Adjustations of the source tree for CVS | |
609 | o Support for various new platforms | |
610 |