From: Richard Levitte Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 09:28:12 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Mention the concept of providers in NEWS.md and CHANGES.md X-Git-Tag: openssl-3.2.0-alpha1~3591 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8e7d941ade3a86e352d9c3d601f61c033dc6788b;p=thirdparty%2Fopenssl.git Mention the concept of providers in NEWS.md and CHANGES.md Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/16528) (cherry picked from commit 4c4ab4d7efdf8c9b49c9838742a0fcd7321d88ff) --- diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md index 0b3004d1a82..5ed84e657a0 100644 --- a/CHANGES.md +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -1397,6 +1397,23 @@ breaking changes, and mappings for the large list of deprecated functions. *Raja Ashok* + * Added a new concept for OpenSSL plugability: providers. This + functionality is designed to replace the ENGINE API and ENGINE + implementations, and to be much more dynamic, allowing provider + authors to introduce new algorithms among other things, as long as + there's an API that supports the algorithm type. + + With this concept comes a new core API for interaction between + libcrypto and provider implementations. Public libcrypto functions + that want to use providers do so through this core API. + + The main documentation for this core API is found in + doc/man7/provider.pod, doc/man7/provider-base.pod, and they in turn + refer to other manuals describing the API specific for supported + algorithm types (also called operations). + + *The OpenSSL team* + OpenSSL 1.1.1 ------------- diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 011f35a8493..5d836031c44 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ OpenSSL 3.0 * All of the low-level DH, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA and RSA public key functions have been deprecated. * SSL 3, TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and DTLS 1.0 only work at security level 0. + * Added providers, a new pluggability concept that will replace the + ENGINE API and ENGINE implementations. OpenSSL 1.1.1 -------------