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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 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.1 [under development]
9
10 o
11 o Add a STORE module (OSSL_STORE)
12 o Claim the namespaces OSSL and OPENSSL, represented as symbol prefixes
13
14 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0f and OpenSSL 1.1.0g [2 Nov 2017]
15
16 o bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3736)
17 o Malformed X.509 IPAddressFamily could cause OOB read (CVE-2017-3735)
18
19 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0e and OpenSSL 1.1.0f [25 May 2017]
20
21 o config now recognises 64-bit mingw and chooses mingw64 instead of mingw
22
23 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0d and OpenSSL 1.1.0e [16 Feb 2017]
24
25 o Encrypt-Then-Mac renegotiation crash (CVE-2017-3733)
26
27 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0c and OpenSSL 1.1.0d [26 Jan 2017]
28
29 o Truncated packet could crash via OOB read (CVE-2017-3731)
30 o Bad (EC)DHE parameters cause a client crash (CVE-2017-3730)
31 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2017-3732)
32
33 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0b and OpenSSL 1.1.0c [10 Nov 2016]
34
35 o ChaCha20/Poly1305 heap-buffer-overflow (CVE-2016-7054)
36 o CMS Null dereference (CVE-2016-7053)
37 o Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results (CVE-2016-7055)
38
39 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0a and OpenSSL 1.1.0b [26 Sep 2016]
40
41 o Fix Use After Free for large message sizes (CVE-2016-6309)
42
43 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.1.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.0a [22 Sep 2016]
44
45 o OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
46 o SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
47 o Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header()
48 (CVE-2016-6307)
49 o Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment()
50 (CVE-2016-6308)
51
52 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2h and OpenSSL 1.1.0 [25 Aug 2016]
53
54 o Copyright text was shrunk to a boilerplate that points to the license
55 o "shared" builds are now the default when possible
56 o Added support for "pipelining"
57 o Added the AFALG engine
58 o New threading API implemented
59 o Support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305 added to libcrypto and libssl
60 o Support for extended master secret
61 o CCM ciphersuites
62 o Reworked test suite, now based on perl, Test::Harness and Test::More
63 o *Most* libcrypto and libssl public structures were made opaque,
64 including:
65 BIGNUM and associated types, EC_KEY and EC_KEY_METHOD,
66 DH and DH_METHOD, DSA and DSA_METHOD, RSA and RSA_METHOD,
67 BIO and BIO_METHOD, EVP_MD_CTX, EVP_MD, EVP_CIPHER_CTX,
68 EVP_CIPHER, EVP_PKEY and associated types, HMAC_CTX,
69 X509, X509_CRL, X509_OBJECT, X509_STORE_CTX, X509_STORE,
70 X509_LOOKUP, X509_LOOKUP_METHOD
71 o libssl internal structures made opaque
72 o SSLv2 support removed
73 o Kerberos ciphersuite support removed
74 o RC4 removed from DEFAULT ciphersuites in libssl
75 o 40 and 56 bit cipher support removed from libssl
76 o All public header files moved to include/openssl, no more symlinking
77 o SSL/TLS state machine, version negotiation and record layer rewritten
78 o EC revision: now operations use new EC_KEY_METHOD.
79 o Support for OCB mode added to libcrypto
80 o Support for asynchronous crypto operations added to libcrypto and libssl
81 o Deprecated interfaces can now be disabled at build time either
82 relative to the latest release via the "no-deprecated" Configure
83 argument, or via the "--api=1.1.0|1.0.0|0.9.8" option.
84 o Application software can be compiled with -DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=version
85 to ensure that features deprecated in that version are not exposed.
86 o Support for RFC6698/RFC7671 DANE TLSA peer authentication
87 o Change of Configure to use --prefix as the main installation
88 directory location rather than --openssldir. The latter becomes
89 the directory for certs, private key and openssl.cnf exclusively.
90 o Reworked BIO networking library, with full support for IPv6.
91 o New "unified" build system
92 o New security levels
93 o Support for scrypt algorithm
94 o Support for X25519
95 o Extended SSL_CONF support using configuration files
96 o KDF algorithm support. Implement TLS PRF as a KDF.
97 o Support for Certificate Transparency
98 o HKDF support.
99
100 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2g and OpenSSL 1.0.2h [3 May 2016]
101
102 o Prevent padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
103 o Fix EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
104 o Fix EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
105 o Prevent ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)
106 o EBCDIC overread (CVE-2016-2176)
107 o Modify behavior of ALPN to invoke callback after SNI/servername
108 callback, such that updates to the SSL_CTX affect ALPN.
109 o Remove LOW from the DEFAULT cipher list. This removes singles DES from
110 the default.
111 o Only remove the SSLv2 methods with the no-ssl2-method option.
112
113 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2f and OpenSSL 1.0.2g [1 Mar 2016]
114
115 o Disable weak ciphers in SSLv3 and up in default builds of OpenSSL.
116 o Disable SSLv2 default build, default negotiation and weak ciphers
117 (CVE-2016-0800)
118 o Fix a double-free in DSA code (CVE-2016-0705)
119 o Disable SRP fake user seed to address a server memory leak
120 (CVE-2016-0798)
121 o Fix BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn NULL pointer deref/heap corruption
122 (CVE-2016-0797)
123 o Fix memory issues in BIO_*printf functions (CVE-2016-0799)
124 o Fix side channel attack on modular exponentiation (CVE-2016-0702)
125
126 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2e and OpenSSL 1.0.2f [28 Jan 2016]
127
128 o DH small subgroups (CVE-2016-0701)
129 o SSLv2 doesn't block disabled ciphers (CVE-2015-3197)
130
131 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2d and OpenSSL 1.0.2e [3 Dec 2015]
132
133 o BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64 (CVE-2015-3193)
134 o Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter (CVE-2015-3194)
135 o X509_ATTRIBUTE memory leak (CVE-2015-3195)
136 o Rewrite EVP_DecodeUpdate (base64 decoding) to fix several bugs
137 o In DSA_generate_parameters_ex, if the provided seed is too short,
138 return an error
139
140 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2c and OpenSSL 1.0.2d [9 Jul 2015]
141
142 o Alternate chains certificate forgery (CVE-2015-1793)
143 o Race condition handling PSK identify hint (CVE-2015-3196)
144
145 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2b and OpenSSL 1.0.2c [12 Jun 2015]
146
147 o Fix HMAC ABI incompatibility
148
149 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2a and OpenSSL 1.0.2b [11 Jun 2015]
150
151 o Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788)
152 o Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time (CVE-2015-1789)
153 o PKCS7 crash with missing EnvelopedContent (CVE-2015-1790)
154 o CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function (CVE-2015-1792)
155 o Race condition handling NewSessionTicket (CVE-2015-1791)
156
157 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2a [19 Mar 2015]
158
159 o OpenSSL 1.0.2 ClientHello sigalgs DoS fix (CVE-2015-0291)
160 o Multiblock corrupted pointer fix (CVE-2015-0290)
161 o Segmentation fault in DTLSv1_listen fix (CVE-2015-0207)
162 o Segmentation fault in ASN1_TYPE_cmp fix (CVE-2015-0286)
163 o Segmentation fault for invalid PSS parameters fix (CVE-2015-0208)
164 o ASN.1 structure reuse memory corruption fix (CVE-2015-0287)
165 o PKCS7 NULL pointer dereferences fix (CVE-2015-0289)
166 o DoS via reachable assert in SSLv2 servers fix (CVE-2015-0293)
167 o Empty CKE with client auth and DHE fix (CVE-2015-1787)
168 o Handshake with unseeded PRNG fix (CVE-2015-0285)
169 o Use After Free following d2i_ECPrivatekey error fix (CVE-2015-0209)
170 o X509_to_X509_REQ NULL pointer deref fix (CVE-2015-0288)
171 o Removed the export ciphers from the DEFAULT ciphers
172
173 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1l and OpenSSL 1.0.2 [22 Jan 2015]:
174
175 o Suite B support for TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2
176 o Support for DTLS 1.2
177 o TLS automatic EC curve selection.
178 o API to set TLS supported signature algorithms and curves
179 o SSL_CONF configuration API.
180 o TLS Brainpool support.
181 o ALPN support.
182 o CMS support for RSA-PSS, RSA-OAEP, ECDH and X9.42 DH.
183
184 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1k and OpenSSL 1.0.1l [15 Jan 2015]
185
186 o Build fixes for the Windows and OpenVMS platforms
187
188 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1j and OpenSSL 1.0.1k [8 Jan 2015]
189
190 o Fix for CVE-2014-3571
191 o Fix for CVE-2015-0206
192 o Fix for CVE-2014-3569
193 o Fix for CVE-2014-3572
194 o Fix for CVE-2015-0204
195 o Fix for CVE-2015-0205
196 o Fix for CVE-2014-8275
197 o Fix for CVE-2014-3570
198
199 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1i and OpenSSL 1.0.1j [15 Oct 2014]
200
201 o Fix for CVE-2014-3513
202 o Fix for CVE-2014-3567
203 o Mitigation for CVE-2014-3566 (SSL protocol vulnerability)
204 o Fix for CVE-2014-3568
205
206 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1h and OpenSSL 1.0.1i [6 Aug 2014]
207
208 o Fix for CVE-2014-3512
209 o Fix for CVE-2014-3511
210 o Fix for CVE-2014-3510
211 o Fix for CVE-2014-3507
212 o Fix for CVE-2014-3506
213 o Fix for CVE-2014-3505
214 o Fix for CVE-2014-3509
215 o Fix for CVE-2014-5139
216 o Fix for CVE-2014-3508
217
218 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1g and OpenSSL 1.0.1h [5 Jun 2014]
219
220 o Fix for CVE-2014-0224
221 o Fix for CVE-2014-0221
222 o Fix for CVE-2014-0198
223 o Fix for CVE-2014-0195
224 o Fix for CVE-2014-3470
225 o Fix for CVE-2010-5298
226
227 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1f and OpenSSL 1.0.1g [7 Apr 2014]
228
229 o Fix for CVE-2014-0160
230 o Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
231 o Fix for CVE-2014-0076
232
233 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1e and OpenSSL 1.0.1f [6 Jan 2014]
234
235 o Don't include gmt_unix_time in TLS server and client random values
236 o Fix for TLS record tampering bug CVE-2013-4353
237 o Fix for TLS version checking bug CVE-2013-6449
238 o Fix for DTLS retransmission bug CVE-2013-6450
239
240 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1d and OpenSSL 1.0.1e [11 Feb 2013]:
241
242 o Corrected fix for CVE-2013-0169
243
244 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1c and OpenSSL 1.0.1d [4 Feb 2013]:
245
246 o Fix renegotiation in TLS 1.1, 1.2 by using the correct TLS version.
247 o Include the fips configuration module.
248 o Fix OCSP bad key DoS attack CVE-2013-0166
249 o Fix for SSL/TLS/DTLS CBC plaintext recovery attack CVE-2013-0169
250 o Fix for TLS AESNI record handling flaw CVE-2012-2686
251
252 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1b and OpenSSL 1.0.1c [10 May 2012]:
253
254 o Fix TLS/DTLS record length checking bug CVE-2012-2333
255 o Don't attempt to use non-FIPS composite ciphers in FIPS mode.
256
257 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1a and OpenSSL 1.0.1b [26 Apr 2012]:
258
259 o Fix compilation error on non-x86 platforms.
260 o Make FIPS capable OpenSSL ciphers work in non-FIPS mode.
261 o Fix SSL_OP_NO_TLSv1_1 clash with SSL_OP_ALL in OpenSSL 1.0.0
262
263 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.1 and OpenSSL 1.0.1a [19 Apr 2012]:
264
265 o Fix for ASN1 overflow bug CVE-2012-2110
266 o Workarounds for some servers that hang on long client hellos.
267 o Fix SEGV in AES code.
268
269 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0h and OpenSSL 1.0.1 [14 Mar 2012]:
270
271 o TLS/DTLS heartbeat support.
272 o SCTP support.
273 o RFC 5705 TLS key material exporter.
274 o RFC 5764 DTLS-SRTP negotiation.
275 o Next Protocol Negotiation.
276 o PSS signatures in certificates, requests and CRLs.
277 o Support for password based recipient info for CMS.
278 o Support TLS v1.2 and TLS v1.1.
279 o Preliminary FIPS capability for unvalidated 2.0 FIPS module.
280 o SRP support.
281
282 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0g and OpenSSL 1.0.0h [12 Mar 2012]:
283
284 o Fix for CMS/PKCS#7 MMA CVE-2012-0884
285 o Corrected fix for CVE-2011-4619
286 o Various DTLS fixes.
287
288 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0f and OpenSSL 1.0.0g [18 Jan 2012]:
289
290 o Fix for DTLS DoS issue CVE-2012-0050
291
292 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0e and OpenSSL 1.0.0f [4 Jan 2012]:
293
294 o Fix for DTLS plaintext recovery attack CVE-2011-4108
295 o Clear block padding bytes of SSL 3.0 records CVE-2011-4576
296 o Only allow one SGC handshake restart for SSL/TLS CVE-2011-4619
297 o Check parameters are not NULL in GOST ENGINE CVE-2012-0027
298 o Check for malformed RFC3779 data CVE-2011-4577
299
300 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0d and OpenSSL 1.0.0e [6 Sep 2011]:
301
302 o Fix for CRL vulnerability issue CVE-2011-3207
303 o Fix for ECDH crashes CVE-2011-3210
304 o Protection against EC timing attacks.
305 o Support ECDH ciphersuites for certificates using SHA2 algorithms.
306 o Various DTLS fixes.
307
308 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0c and OpenSSL 1.0.0d [8 Feb 2011]:
309
310 o Fix for security issue CVE-2011-0014
311
312 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0b and OpenSSL 1.0.0c [2 Dec 2010]:
313
314 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-4180
315 o Fix for CVE-2010-4252
316 o Fix mishandling of absent EC point format extension.
317 o Fix various platform compilation issues.
318 o Corrected fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
319
320 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0a and OpenSSL 1.0.0b [16 Nov 2010]:
321
322 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-3864.
323 o Fix for CVE-2010-2939
324 o Fix WIN32 build system for GOST ENGINE.
325
326 Major changes between OpenSSL 1.0.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.0a [1 Jun 2010]:
327
328 o Fix for security issue CVE-2010-1633.
329 o GOST MAC and CFB fixes.
330
331 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8n and OpenSSL 1.0.0 [29 Mar 2010]:
332
333 o RFC3280 path validation: sufficient to process PKITS tests.
334 o Integrated support for PVK files and keyblobs.
335 o Change default private key format to PKCS#8.
336 o CMS support: able to process all examples in RFC4134
337 o Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
338 o Multiple signer and signer add support for PKCS#7 and CMS.
339 o ASN1 printing support.
340 o Whirlpool hash algorithm added.
341 o RFC3161 time stamp support.
342 o New generalised public key API supporting ENGINE based algorithms.
343 o New generalised public key API utilities.
344 o New ENGINE supporting GOST algorithms.
345 o SSL/TLS GOST ciphersuite support.
346 o PKCS#7 and CMS GOST support.
347 o RFC4279 PSK ciphersuite support.
348 o Supported points format extension for ECC ciphersuites.
349 o ecdsa-with-SHA224/256/384/512 signature types.
350 o dsa-with-SHA224 and dsa-with-SHA256 signature types.
351 o Opaque PRF Input TLS extension support.
352 o Updated time routines to avoid OS limitations.
353
354 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8m and OpenSSL 0.9.8n [24 Mar 2010]:
355
356 o CFB cipher definition fixes.
357 o Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
358
359 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8l and OpenSSL 0.9.8m [25 Feb 2010]:
360
361 o Cipher definition fixes.
362 o Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
363 o Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
364 o SPKAC handling fixes.
365 o Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
366 o Compression memory leak fixed.
367 o Compression session resumption fixed.
368 o Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
369 o Many fixes to DTLS handling.
370
371 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 0.9.8l [5 Nov 2009]:
372
373 o Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.
374
375 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8j and OpenSSL 0.9.8k [25 Mar 2009]:
376
377 o Fix various build issues.
378 o Fix security issues (CVE-2009-0590, CVE-2009-0591, CVE-2009-0789)
379
380 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8i and OpenSSL 0.9.8j [7 Jan 2009]:
381
382 o Fix security issue (CVE-2008-5077)
383 o Merge FIPS 140-2 branch code.
384
385 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8g and OpenSSL 0.9.8h [28 May 2008]:
386
387 o CryptoAPI ENGINE support.
388 o Various precautionary measures.
389 o Fix for bugs affecting certificate request creation.
390 o Support for local machine keyset attribute in PKCS#12 files.
391
392 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g [19 Oct 2007]:
393
394 o Backport of CMS functionality to 0.9.8.
395 o Fixes for bugs introduced with 0.9.8f.
396
397 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8e and OpenSSL 0.9.8f [11 Oct 2007]:
398
399 o Add gcc 4.2 support.
400 o Add support for AES and SSE2 assembly language optimization
401 for VC++ build.
402 o Support for RFC4507bis and server name extensions if explicitly
403 selected at compile time.
404 o DTLS improvements.
405 o RFC4507bis support.
406 o TLS Extensions support.
407
408 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8d and OpenSSL 0.9.8e [23 Feb 2007]:
409
410 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
411 o RFC3779 support.
412
413 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8c and OpenSSL 0.9.8d [28 Sep 2006]:
414
415 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
416 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
417 o Changes to ciphersuite selection algorithm
418
419 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8b and OpenSSL 0.9.8c [5 Sep 2006]:
420
421 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
422 o New cipher Camellia
423
424 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8a and OpenSSL 0.9.8b [4 May 2006]:
425
426 o Cipher string fixes.
427 o Fixes for VC++ 2005.
428 o Updated ECC cipher suite support.
429 o New functions EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new() and EVP_CIPHER_CTX_free().
430 o Zlib compression usage fixes.
431 o Built in dynamic engine compilation support on Win32.
432 o Fixes auto dynamic engine loading in Win32.
433
434 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.8 and OpenSSL 0.9.8a [11 Oct 2005]:
435
436 o Fix potential SSL 2.0 rollback, CVE-2005-2969
437 o Extended Windows CE support
438
439 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.8 [5 Jul 2005]:
440
441 o Major work on the BIGNUM library for higher efficiency and to
442 make operations more streamlined and less contradictory. This
443 is the result of a major audit of the BIGNUM library.
444 o Addition of BIGNUM functions for fields GF(2^m) and NIST
445 curves, to support the Elliptic Crypto functions.
446 o Major work on Elliptic Crypto; ECDH and ECDSA added, including
447 the use through EVP, X509 and ENGINE.
448 o New ASN.1 mini-compiler that's usable through the OpenSSL
449 configuration file.
450 o Added support for ASN.1 indefinite length constructed encoding.
451 o New PKCS#12 'medium level' API to manipulate PKCS#12 files.
452 o Complete rework of shared library construction and linking
453 programs with shared or static libraries, through a separate
454 Makefile.shared.
455 o Rework of the passing of parameters from one Makefile to another.
456 o Changed ENGINE framework to load dynamic engine modules
457 automatically from specifically given directories.
458 o New structure and ASN.1 functions for CertificatePair.
459 o Changed the ZLIB compression method to be stateful.
460 o Changed the key-generation and primality testing "progress"
461 mechanism to take a structure that contains the ticker
462 function and an argument.
463 o New engine module: GMP (performs private key exponentiation).
464 o New engine module: VIA PadLOck ACE extension in VIA C3
465 Nehemiah processors.
466 o Added support for IPv6 addresses in certificate extensions.
467 See RFC 1884, section 2.2.
468 o Added support for certificate policy mappings, policy
469 constraints and name constraints.
470 o Added support for multi-valued AVAs in the OpenSSL
471 configuration file.
472 o Added support for multiple certificates with the same subject
473 in the 'openssl ca' index file.
474 o Make it possible to create self-signed certificates using
475 'openssl ca -selfsign'.
476 o Make it possible to generate a serial number file with
477 'openssl ca -create_serial'.
478 o New binary search functions with extended functionality.
479 o New BUF functions.
480 o New STORE structure and library to provide an interface to all
481 sorts of data repositories. Supports storage of public and
482 private keys, certificates, CRLs, numbers and arbitrary blobs.
483 This library is unfortunately unfinished and unused within
484 OpenSSL.
485 o New control functions for the error stack.
486 o Changed the PKCS#7 library to support one-pass S/MIME
487 processing.
488 o Added the possibility to compile without old deprecated
489 functionality with the OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED macro or the
490 'no-deprecated' argument to the config and Configure scripts.
491 o Constification of all ASN.1 conversion functions, and other
492 affected functions.
493 o Improved platform support for PowerPC.
494 o New FIPS 180-2 algorithms (SHA-224, -256, -384 and -512).
495 o New X509_VERIFY_PARAM structure to support parameterisation
496 of X.509 path validation.
497 o Major overhaul of RC4 performance on Intel P4, IA-64 and
498 AMD64.
499 o Changed the Configure script to have some algorithms disabled
500 by default. Those can be explicitly enabled with the new
501 argument form 'enable-xxx'.
502 o Change the default digest in 'openssl' commands from MD5 to
503 SHA-1.
504 o Added support for DTLS.
505 o New BIGNUM blinding.
506 o Added support for the RSA-PSS encryption scheme
507 o Added support for the RSA X.931 padding.
508 o Added support for BSD sockets on NetWare.
509 o Added support for files larger than 2GB.
510 o Added initial support for Win64.
511 o Added alternate pkg-config files.
512
513 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7l and OpenSSL 0.9.7m [23 Feb 2007]:
514
515 o FIPS 1.1.1 module linking.
516 o Various ciphersuite selection fixes.
517
518 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7k and OpenSSL 0.9.7l [28 Sep 2006]:
519
520 o Introduce limits to prevent malicious key DoS (CVE-2006-2940)
521 o Fix security issues (CVE-2006-2937, CVE-2006-3737, CVE-2006-4343)
522
523 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7j and OpenSSL 0.9.7k [5 Sep 2006]:
524
525 o Fix Daniel Bleichenbacher forged signature attack, CVE-2006-4339
526
527 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7i and OpenSSL 0.9.7j [4 May 2006]:
528
529 o Visual C++ 2005 fixes.
530 o Update Windows build system for FIPS.
531
532 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7h and OpenSSL 0.9.7i [14 Oct 2005]:
533
534 o Give EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE it's old value, except for a FIPS build.
535
536 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7g and OpenSSL 0.9.7h [11 Oct 2005]:
537
538 o Fix SSL 2.0 Rollback, CVE-2005-2969
539 o Allow use of fixed-length exponent on DSA signing
540 o Default fixed-window RSA, DSA, DH private-key operations
541
542 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7f and OpenSSL 0.9.7g [11 Apr 2005]:
543
544 o More compilation issues fixed.
545 o Adaptation to more modern Kerberos API.
546 o Enhanced or corrected configuration for Solaris64, Mingw and Cygwin.
547 o Enhanced x86_64 assembler BIGNUM module.
548 o More constification.
549 o Added processing of proxy certificates (RFC 3820).
550
551 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7e and OpenSSL 0.9.7f [22 Mar 2005]:
552
553 o Several compilation issues fixed.
554 o Many memory allocation failure checks added.
555 o Improved comparison of X509 Name type.
556 o Mandatory basic checks on certificates.
557 o Performance improvements.
558
559 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7d and OpenSSL 0.9.7e [25 Oct 2004]:
560
561 o Fix race condition in CRL checking code.
562 o Fixes to PKCS#7 (S/MIME) code.
563
564 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7c and OpenSSL 0.9.7d [17 Mar 2004]:
565
566 o Security: Fix Kerberos ciphersuite SSL/TLS handshaking bug
567 o Security: Fix null-pointer assignment in do_change_cipher_spec()
568 o Allow multiple active certificates with same subject in CA index
569 o Multiple X509 verification fixes
570 o Speed up HMAC and other operations
571
572 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7b and OpenSSL 0.9.7c [30 Sep 2003]:
573
574 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
575 o New -ignore_err option to OCSP utility.
576 o Various interop and bug fixes in S/MIME code.
577 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
578
579 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7a and OpenSSL 0.9.7b [10 Apr 2003]:
580
581 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
582 Bleichbacher's attack
583 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
584 o Configuration: Irix fixes, AIX fixes, better mingw support.
585 o Support for new platforms: linux-ia64-ecc.
586 o Build: shared library support fixes.
587 o ASN.1: treat domainComponent correctly.
588 o Documentation: fixes and additions.
589
590 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.7 and OpenSSL 0.9.7a [19 Feb 2003]:
591
592 o Security: Important security related bugfixes.
593 o Enhanced compatibility with MIT Kerberos.
594 o Can be built without the ENGINE framework.
595 o IA32 assembler enhancements.
596 o Support for new platforms: FreeBSD/IA64 and FreeBSD/Sparc64.
597 o Configuration: the no-err option now works properly.
598 o SSL/TLS: now handles manual certificate chain building.
599 o SSL/TLS: certain session ID malfunctions corrected.
600
601 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.7 [30 Dec 2002]:
602
603 o New library section OCSP.
604 o Complete rewrite of ASN1 code.
605 o CRL checking in verify code and openssl utility.
606 o Extension copying in 'ca' utility.
607 o Flexible display options in 'ca' utility.
608 o Provisional support for international characters with UTF8.
609 o Support for external crypto devices ('engine') is no longer
610 a separate distribution.
611 o New elliptic curve library section.
612 o New AES (Rijndael) library section.
613 o Support for new platforms: Windows CE, Tandem OSS, A/UX, AIX 64-bit,
614 Linux x86_64, Linux 64-bit on Sparc v9
615 o Extended support for some platforms: VxWorks
616 o Enhanced support for shared libraries.
617 o Now only builds PIC code when shared library support is requested.
618 o Support for pkg-config.
619 o Lots of new manuals.
620 o Makes symbolic links to or copies of manuals to cover all described
621 functions.
622 o Change DES API to clean up the namespace (some applications link also
623 against libdes providing similar functions having the same name).
624 Provide macros for backward compatibility (will be removed in the
625 future).
626 o Unify handling of cryptographic algorithms (software and engine)
627 to be available via EVP routines for asymmetric and symmetric ciphers.
628 o NCONF: new configuration handling routines.
629 o Change API to use more 'const' modifiers to improve error checking
630 and help optimizers.
631 o Finally remove references to RSAref.
632 o Reworked parts of the BIGNUM code.
633 o Support for new engines: Broadcom ubsec, Accelerated Encryption
634 Processing, IBM 4758.
635 o A few new engines added in the demos area.
636 o Extended and corrected OID (object identifier) table.
637 o PRNG: query at more locations for a random device, automatic query for
638 EGD style random sources at several locations.
639 o SSL/TLS: allow optional cipher choice according to server's preference.
640 o SSL/TLS: allow server to explicitly set new session ids.
641 o SSL/TLS: support Kerberos cipher suites (RFC2712).
642 Only supports MIT Kerberos for now.
643 o SSL/TLS: allow more precise control of renegotiations and sessions.
644 o SSL/TLS: add callback to retrieve SSL/TLS messages.
645 o SSL/TLS: support AES cipher suites (RFC3268).
646
647 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6j and OpenSSL 0.9.6k [30 Sep 2003]:
648
649 o Security: fix various ASN1 parsing bugs.
650 o SSL/TLS protocol fix for unrequested client certificates.
651
652 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6i and OpenSSL 0.9.6j [10 Apr 2003]:
653
654 o Security: counter the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa extension of
655 Bleichbacher's attack
656 o Security: make RSA blinding default.
657 o Build: shared library support fixes.
658
659 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6h and OpenSSL 0.9.6i [19 Feb 2003]:
660
661 o Important security related bugfixes.
662
663 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6g and OpenSSL 0.9.6h [5 Dec 2002]:
664
665 o New configuration targets for Tandem OSS and A/UX.
666 o New OIDs for Microsoft attributes.
667 o Better handling of SSL session caching.
668 o Better comparison of distinguished names.
669 o Better handling of shared libraries in a mixed GNU/non-GNU environment.
670 o Support assembler code with Borland C.
671 o Fixes for length problems.
672 o Fixes for uninitialised variables.
673 o Fixes for memory leaks, some unusual crashes and some race conditions.
674 o Fixes for smaller building problems.
675 o Updates of manuals, FAQ and other instructive documents.
676
677 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6f and OpenSSL 0.9.6g [9 Aug 2002]:
678
679 o Important building fixes on Unix.
680
681 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6e and OpenSSL 0.9.6f [8 Aug 2002]:
682
683 o Various important bugfixes.
684
685 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6d and OpenSSL 0.9.6e [30 Jul 2002]:
686
687 o Important security related bugfixes.
688 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
689
690 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6c and OpenSSL 0.9.6d [9 May 2002]:
691
692 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
693 o Fix DH parameter generation for 'non-standard' generators.
694
695 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6b and OpenSSL 0.9.6c [21 Dec 2001]:
696
697 o Various SSL/TLS library bugfixes.
698 o BIGNUM library fixes.
699 o RSA OAEP and random number generation fixes.
700 o Object identifiers corrected and added.
701 o Add assembler BN routines for IA64.
702 o Add support for OS/390 Unix, UnixWare with gcc, OpenUNIX 8,
703 MIPS Linux; shared library support for Irix, HP-UX.
704 o Add crypto accelerator support for AEP, Baltimore SureWare,
705 Broadcom and Cryptographic Appliance's keyserver
706 [in 0.9.6c-engine release].
707
708 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6a and OpenSSL 0.9.6b [9 Jul 2001]:
709
710 o Security fix: PRNG improvements.
711 o Security fix: RSA OAEP check.
712 o Security fix: Reinsert and fix countermeasure to Bleichbacher's
713 attack.
714 o MIPS bug fix in BIGNUM.
715 o Bug fix in "openssl enc".
716 o Bug fix in X.509 printing routine.
717 o Bug fix in DSA verification routine and DSA S/MIME verification.
718 o Bug fix to make PRNG thread-safe.
719 o Bug fix in RAND_file_name().
720 o Bug fix in compatibility mode trust settings.
721 o Bug fix in blowfish EVP.
722 o Increase default size for BIO buffering filter.
723 o Compatibility fixes in some scripts.
724
725 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.6 and OpenSSL 0.9.6a [5 Apr 2001]:
726
727 o Security fix: change behavior of OpenSSL to avoid using
728 environment variables when running as root.
729 o Security fix: check the result of RSA-CRT to reduce the
730 possibility of deducing the private key from an incorrectly
731 calculated signature.
732 o Security fix: prevent Bleichenbacher's DSA attack.
733 o Security fix: Zero the premaster secret after deriving the
734 master secret in DH ciphersuites.
735 o Reimplement SSL_peek(), which had various problems.
736 o Compatibility fix: the function des_encrypt() renamed to
737 des_encrypt1() to avoid clashes with some Unixen libc.
738 o Bug fixes for Win32, HP/UX and Irix.
739 o Bug fixes in BIGNUM, SSL, PKCS#7, PKCS#12, X.509, CONF and
740 memory checking routines.
741 o Bug fixes for RSA operations in threaded environments.
742 o Bug fixes in misc. openssl applications.
743 o Remove a few potential memory leaks.
744 o Add tighter checks of BIGNUM routines.
745 o Shared library support has been reworked for generality.
746 o More documentation.
747 o New function BN_rand_range().
748 o Add "-rand" option to openssl s_client and s_server.
749
750 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5a and OpenSSL 0.9.6 [10 Oct 2000]:
751
752 o Some documentation for BIO and SSL libraries.
753 o Enhanced chain verification using key identifiers.
754 o New sign and verify options to 'dgst' application.
755 o Support for DER and PEM encoded messages in 'smime' application.
756 o New 'rsautl' application, low level RSA utility.
757 o MD4 now included.
758 o Bugfix for SSL rollback padding check.
759 o Support for external crypto devices [1].
760 o Enhanced EVP interface.
761
762 [1] The support for external crypto devices is currently a separate
763 distribution. See the file README.ENGINE.
764
765 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.5 and OpenSSL 0.9.5a [1 Apr 2000]:
766
767 o Bug fixes for Win32, SuSE Linux, NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD 2.2.8
768 o Shared library support for HPUX and Solaris-gcc
769 o Support of Linux/IA64
770 o Assembler support for Mingw32
771 o New 'rand' application
772 o New way to check for existence of algorithms from scripts
773
774 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.4 and OpenSSL 0.9.5 [25 May 2000]:
775
776 o S/MIME support in new 'smime' command
777 o Documentation for the OpenSSL command line application
778 o Automation of 'req' application
779 o Fixes to make s_client, s_server work under Windows
780 o Support for multiple fieldnames in SPKACs
781 o New SPKAC command line utility and associated library functions
782 o Options to allow passwords to be obtained from various sources
783 o New public key PEM format and options to handle it
784 o Many other fixes and enhancements to command line utilities
785 o Usable certificate chain verification
786 o Certificate purpose checking
787 o Certificate trust settings
788 o Support of authority information access extension
789 o Extensions in certificate requests
790 o Simplified X509 name and attribute routines
791 o Initial (incomplete) support for international character sets
792 o New DH_METHOD, DSA_METHOD and enhanced RSA_METHOD
793 o Read only memory BIOs and simplified creation function
794 o TLS/SSL protocol bugfixes: Accept TLS 'client hello' in SSL 3.0
795 record; allow fragmentation and interleaving of handshake and other
796 data
797 o TLS/SSL code now "tolerates" MS SGC
798 o Work around for Netscape client certificate hang bug
799 o RSA_NULL option that removes RSA patent code but keeps other
800 RSA functionality
801 o Memory leak detection now allows applications to add extra information
802 via a per-thread stack
803 o PRNG robustness improved
804 o EGD support
805 o BIGNUM library bug fixes
806 o Faster DSA parameter generation
807 o Enhanced support for Alpha Linux
808 o Experimental MacOS support
809
810 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.4 [9 Aug 1999]:
811
812 o Transparent support for PKCS#8 format private keys: these are used
813 by several software packages and are more secure than the standard
814 form
815 o PKCS#5 v2.0 implementation
816 o Password callbacks have a new void * argument for application data
817 o Avoid various memory leaks
818 o New pipe-like BIO that allows using the SSL library when actual I/O
819 must be handled by the application (BIO pair)
820
821 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.2b and OpenSSL 0.9.3 [24 May 1999]:
822 o Lots of enhancements and cleanups to the Configuration mechanism
823 o RSA OEAP related fixes
824 o Added `openssl ca -revoke' option for revoking a certificate
825 o Source cleanups: const correctness, type-safe stacks and ASN.1 SETs
826 o Source tree cleanups: removed lots of obsolete files
827 o Thawte SXNet, certificate policies and CRL distribution points
828 extension support
829 o Preliminary (experimental) S/MIME support
830 o Support for ASN.1 UTF8String and VisibleString
831 o Full integration of PKCS#12 code
832 o Sparc assembler bignum implementation, optimized hash functions
833 o Option to disable selected ciphers
834
835 Major changes between OpenSSL 0.9.1c and OpenSSL 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]:
836 o Fixed a security hole related to session resumption
837 o Fixed RSA encryption routines for the p < q case
838 o "ALL" in cipher lists now means "everything except NULL ciphers"
839 o Support for Triple-DES CBCM cipher
840 o Support of Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) for RSA
841 o First support for new TLSv1 ciphers
842 o Added a few new BIOs (syslog BIO, reliable BIO)
843 o Extended support for DSA certificate/keys.
844 o Extended support for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)
845 o Initial support for X.509v3 extensions
846 o Extended support for compression inside the SSL record layer
847 o Overhauled Win32 builds
848 o Cleanups and fixes to the Big Number (BN) library
849 o Support for ASN.1 GeneralizedTime
850 o Splitted ASN.1 SETs from SEQUENCEs
851 o ASN1 and PEM support for Netscape Certificate Sequences
852 o Overhauled Perl interface
853 o Lots of source tree cleanups.
854 o Lots of memory leak fixes.
855 o Lots of bug fixes.
856
857 Major changes between SSLeay 0.9.0b and OpenSSL 0.9.1c [23 Dec 1998]:
858 o Integration of the popular NO_RSA/NO_DSA patches
859 o Initial support for compression inside the SSL record layer
860 o Added BIO proxy and filtering functionality
861 o Extended Big Number (BN) library
862 o Added RIPE MD160 message digest
863 o Added support for RC2/64bit cipher
864 o Extended ASN.1 parser routines
865 o Adjustments of the source tree for CVS
866 o Support for various new platforms
867